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Donald Trump’s Total Meltdown on Time’s Cover

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The Oct. 24 issue of TIME may look a little familiar to some readers. In order to capture the latest twists in Donald Trump’s campaign and the rising anger within the Republican party leadership about their standard bearer’s behavior, we asked artist Edel Rodriguez to reprise his illustration of Donald Trump which appeared on the Aug. 22 issue of TIME—this time with just one small twist.

TIME covers Battle of the Bathroom

Coming out this Friday is an amazing piece on the bathroom battle from TIME.

Washington Bureau Chief Michael Scherer gets into the heart of this battle and why the Obama administration took action

From their press release

Scherer writes: “In a divided country, the social battle lines have been drawn once again in our most private of public places. State legislatures have been besieged, and school committees have split. Pastors have become politicized in the pulpit, and the gay-rights lobby has abandoned its past hesitancy to embrace the transgender cause. Courtrooms are filling with legal motions that are certain to end up at the Supreme Court. The fight—­political and legal, personal and ­collective—is just getting going…. Like all great political battles, this one is distinguished by the decision on both sides to commit loudly and completely, to elevate the issue and to force it on the American public…. The 2016 battle over bathrooms is, after all, about far more than public ­facilities—it’s about gender roles, social change, federalism, physical danger, political polarization and, most strikingly, a breakdown in the ability of anyone in this country to speak across our divides, or appeal to common humanity.”

Please check it out, it's going to something that you have to read again.

This TIME cover though...

Sierra Mannie talks about her TIME "Dear White Gays" Op-ed on CNN

Beyonce and Jason Collins lands covers for Time 100 Most Influential People in the World

TIME magazine reveals their 11th annual “Time 100 Most Influential People in the World” with Beyonce landing the main cover and Jason Collins getting one of the inside covers.

President Obama is TIME's Person of the Year

From the managing editor, Rick Stengel:

He was a citizen by choice, not birth — he had decided to come here. Such a thing had never existed before. In many ways, Barack Obama is the 21st century version of this new American. But he’s more than just a political figure; he’s a cultural one. He is the first President to embrace gay marriage and to offer work permits to many young undocumented immigrants. There has been much talk of the coalition of the ascendant — young people, minorities, Hispanics, college-educated women — and in winning re-election, Obama showed that these fast-growing groups are not only the future but also the present. About 40% of millennials — the largest generational cohort in U.S. history, bigger even than the baby boomers — are nonwhite. If his win in 2008 was extraordinary, then 2012 is confirmation that demographic change is here to stay.

Jim Jones on DADT and John Aravosis' (over) Reaction

National Security Adviser Jim Jones believes the time has to be right for DADT. I (I'm a minority) believes he is right.

John Aravosis overreacts as usual.

"What could Jones have said? How about, there’s a new analysis from a Department of Defense-related publication that…the ban can be lifted without hurting morale and cohesion. Or how about saying that the President just wrote to Senator Reid, agreeing to work together to lift the ban? Nope. None of that. All we got was another reason why the president may never be able to keep his promise. The Obama administration is doing next to nothing - and perhaps nothing altogether - to move the ball forward on repealing DADT. This isn't the kind of policy you just wake up one morning and say "ah, today is the day to lift the ban.”

Okay, then stop thinking it's that easy, John.

This will take time, my God, John I don't get you at all!


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Big Man On Campus

Obama is Time's Person of the Year!