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Justine Lindsay made NFL history last week after she earned her spot on the TopCats. Lindsay announced on Instagram that she made the Carolina Panthers’ cheerleading squad for next season, which makes her the first openly transgender cheerleader in NFL history. Lindsay actually came out to her teammates and most of the people in her life when she published that post. “I was so scared,” Lindsay told BuzzFeed News about sending that post to Instagram. “There’s just some things you… Source link

WASHINGTON — Karine Jean-Pierre will make history by becoming the first Black woman, and first openly LGBTQ person, to hold the job of White House press secretary, President Biden announced on Thursday afternoon. “Jill and I have known and respected Karine a long time and she will be a strong voice speaking for me and this Administration,” the president said in a statement. Jean-Pierre will replace Jen Psaki, who was originally expected to serve for only the first year of Biden’s term…. Source link

Bloomberg Trader Arrested as WallStreetBets Phenomenon Finds Echo in Japan (Bloomberg) — A retail investor buys shares in a small company, touts his position on social media and inspires a horde of followers to do the same. The stock price goes to the moon — before crashing back to earth.It’s an all-too-familiar tale to anyone watching the market in 2021, but this wasn’t GameStop Corp. It wasn’t even in America. And it happened in 2018.It was in the Japanese city of Osaka, where a day… Source link

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Google and Microsoft are at knives drawn. Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology companies wield over American life, the California-based search engine giant and Washington-based software firm are wrestling to throw each other under the bus. Tensions between Microsoft Corp and Alphabet-owned Google have been simmering for a while but the rivalry has become unusually public in recent days as executives from… Source link