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A condom that changes color for STDs, far right demands the removal of Pride flags, Jack Falahee gained some perspective over summer

Basically everyone is stopping sales of merchandise with the Confederate battle flag on it. Sears, Kmart, Walmart, Amazon, etsy, eBay, and Newegg (do computer cases and hard drives come with confederate flag symbols?) have all said they're in the process of removing all merchandise with the flag.

And oddly, as this came up in the comments yesterday, we come to the Dukes of Hazard. Warner Brothers got into it a few years ago when the movie came out, and they planned to have the General Lee without the flag. Fan pressure forced them to reconsider and put the flag back on the car, which meant putting it on a lot of merchandise. At this point, only one license exists to sell GenePride flagral Lee merchandise, and that's for model cars with one company, and Warner says they're pulling the license. Now the only remaining question is how long it takes CMT and Amazon, which show the original series, to change the key art for promoting it, which feature the car and the flag. At this point, nobody is discussing digitally removing the flag from the reruns.

But you knew this was coming - Breitbart and Bryan Fischer are calling for the removal of the Pride flag from all public buildings because its a symbol of persecution of Christians. It's enough to make me put up a flag pole on my porch and fly one just to see how my little dead end street in West Virginia reacts.

Channing Tatum was not a fan of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. “I f—ing hate that movie.” When it was offered to him, it sounded like a great deal to a young actor without much on his resume. “I was pushed into doing that movie … they give you the contract and they say, ‘Three-picture deal, here you go.’ And as a young — you’re Channing Tatumthinking, ‘Oh my god, that sounds amazing. I’m doing that!' The script wasn’t any good … I watched it every morning, like, growing up, and I didn’t want to do something that I thought was 1. bad, and 2. I didn’t know if I wanted to be G.I. Joe.”

California Attorney General Kamala Harris has gotten the state Supreme Court to strike the Sodomite Suppression Act from the ballot before signature gathering could begin. The proposal would have allowed for the random killing of gays on the streets of California.

A group of 13 and 14-year-old students in London have invented a condom that fluoresces when it comes into contact with the bacteria that cause most STDs. Obviously, it won't work for HIV, but it's still a pretty nifty invention. It changes to a different color depending on which STD it encounters. "The students said it may glow green for chlamydia, yellow for herpes, purple for human papillomavirus, or blue for syphilis."

Diddy's rep is saying media reports of his client assaulting the assistant coach of his son's football team are inaccurate, and that Diddy only acted in defense of himself and his son. But before posting bond, Diddy was transferred from university custody to L.A. County Sheriff's and the charges were upgraded to "three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of making terrorist threats and one count of battery." Can we just pause with the "terrorist threats" for a minute - did he threaten to blow up the stadium or something? What could he have said that qualifies for that charge in the real world? Are we overusing the word "terrorist?"

Mike Huckabee says that when he's elected president (I need an eyeroll emoji if I'm going to get through this election), he'll block all federal recognition of marriage equality. "Until the Mike HuckabeeCongress of the United States puts on my desk a bill that basically defies the laws of nature and nature’s God and defies the longstanding tradition of marriage, the federal government will not recognize same-sex marriage because there is no law that requires it and that would be true for the military and it would be true for all federal institutions. If the Congress decides that they want to pass enabling legislation, they could put it on my desk and I would veto it, and they can attempt to override it. That’s the process. If liberals were subjected to a conservative court that forced them to tithe their income to scripture or forced them to go to church or forced them to believe something that they don’t want to believe, they would say, ‘We can’t do that, that would go against our conscience.’ And I would say, ‘You are exactly right and we can’t have such a ruling.'" \ \ And the right calls President Obama a dictator.

The Texas Attorney General doesn't know how, but he plans to fight any Supreme Court ruling for marriage equality that comes down. “It’s very difficult for us to say what’s going to happen given the fact that we don’t know what the result is and we don’t know how that opinion is going to be written. Obviously we have a constitution that protects the definition of Jussie Smollettmarriage, and we’ll do everything we can.” You're a lawyer, dude. Fighting the Supreme Court is probably covered in Day One at law school.

Jussie Smollett says that there have been a lot of fan encounters that told him what an impact Jamal was having on families with LGBT kids across the country. "There was a father that came up to me, an older black guy and he told me that his son was able to come out to him because they watched Empire together and the world kept spinning – because it does. It’s just been so many things, and if I talked about it any more I would start crying. It’s so amazing to be able to do what you love and maybe change minds by simply doing what you love and simply being who you are. If that’s not fulfilling, then I don’t know what the fuck is."

Pastor Rick Scaborough says that he will set himself on fire if the Supreme Court rules for marriage equality. I've got the marshmallows, who's bringing the graham crackers? Make sure they're Honey Maid.

Really, Taylor Kitsch has a great butt, as you can see in these NSFW stills from True Detective, in which he apparently gets head and enjoys group showers with other guys.

I can't believe that snicks didn't cover the fact that Dwayne Johnson is going to be starring in a movie adaptation of the 1980s video game Rampage. Basically you had to stop a giant gorilla, lizard or wolf from wreaking a city as they punch their way through skyscrapers.

According to Mike Huckabee, God has solved racism. "I keep hearing people saying we need more conversations about race. Actually we don’t need more conversations. What we need is conversions [to Jesus] because the reconciliations that changes people is not a racial reconciliation, it’s a spiritual reconciliation when people are reconciled to God. When I love God and I know that God created other people regardless of their color as much as he made me, I don’t have a problem with racism. It’s solved!" So what about the whole god creating gay people thing, Mike?

Meryl Streep has written a letter to Congress asking them to revive the Equal Rights Amendment, which has been languishing for forty years. "I am writing to ask you to stand up for equality — for your mother, your daughter, your sister, your wife or yourself — by actively supporting the Equal Rights Amendment." Why not just throw in sexual orientation and gender identity and kill the remaining birds with one stone?

Hitman 47 is a sort of sequel to Hitman, and has Zachary Quinto as a bad guy who wants to harness the DNA of the magical hitmen to create an army. Basically it's a standard action movie of today, but with Zachary Quinto.

Chip Kidd designs book covers, which is fairly interesting if you think about it. Here he wants to discuss the use of clarity and mystery in visual communication, by talking about some covers he's designed recently, along with some great advertising and branding successes he's seen. I know it sounds pretty dry, but I couldn't stop watching his explanation of visual clarity as part of mass communication. God, I just made it sound even duller. Trust me, it's good.

Fame or Shame is a short film about the Atlah World Missionary Church in Harlem, which has been putting up those disgusting graphic signs for a few years now. It interviews the pastor of the church, as well as a lesbian pastor nearby, along with members of the community who all seem to agree he has the right to say it, but they don't have to like it.

Because that was a little heavy and depressing, and also because it's Hump Day, why not enjoy two hot sweaty men wrestling to promote C-IN2's H-A-R-D underwear line. I've been meaning to order some of this line - there's something about the wide branded elastic bands that seems really sexy. Or it could just be that the guys that they use to model them are sexy. But the wide waistband thing really works visually for other brands, so I want some.

So...this is what they're filming for prison for Lucious for Empire

Nick sheds his shirt for a good cause

I don't know. Doesn't look like bad work if you can get it

.@NBCHannibal @BryanFuller to all the Torontonians who had to do things like this every day (Katie Brennan xxx) pic.twitter.com/VIafKvip6N

— Richard Armitage (@RCArmitage) June 22, 2015

Is there any male singing group in Britain that won't strip for Attitude? Why doesn't it work like that in America?

True to their word, the boys from @Collabro strip off in our new issue! Check 'em out: http://t.co/CWqE7wDKpc pic.twitter.com/p5Blb3llUB — Attitude (@AttitudeMag) June 23, 2015

Sorry, Sir Patrick, but you were right the first time. I won't eat bone-in chicken wings, and certainly not in public. Nobody needs to see that

Never saw the point of chicken wings - greasy fingers, not enough meat, too many bones -then...Pok Pok in Red Hook!!! pic.twitter.com/SkbWThZmzO

— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) June 23, 2015

Why don't I have a lemur to balance on my head while I work?

Working hard with Maurice pic.twitter.com/avU56S1dw0 — Dave Salmoni (@davesalmoni) June 23, 2015

I do this all the time

Have you ever opened a text and mentally respond but then forget to actually respond? #FelizMartes pic.twitter.com/4ANZqHH9pv

— Trevor Donovan (@TrevDon) June 23, 2015

So if guys like Andrew Keenan-Bolger look at other gay guys in the gym and feel physically worthless, what hope for the rest of us?

Working out at the same gym as Charlie Williams makes you feel like a Beanie Baby collection — worthless — Andrew Keenan-Bolger (@KeenanBlogger) June 23, 2015

Has Hollywood forgiven Gilbert already?

Spent the morning with the funny filthy @RealGilbert. Squint like him and this pic looks like @marcmaron and @POTUS. pic.twitter.com/ksTR8j6t5V

— josh groban (@joshgroban) June 23, 2015

And as a bonus, Liam's flat butt

http://t.co/YNmIKsTJAf EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS - Liam Hemsworth Flashes His Butt Cheeks After Surfing Outing #Fanuendo pic.twitter.com/605BU8g2k0 — Fanuendo (@Fanuendo) June 22, 2015

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