Rex Tillerson

Hate groups are confident Mike Pompeo will end programs that help LGBTQ people worldwide.

While the State Department under Rex Tillerson has been no friend to the LGBTQ community, advocates believe it is set to get even worse under Pompeo.

Tillerson has been replaced by someone even more pro-Trump.

As the Trump administration has shown time and again, popularity but a lack relevant experience is not a winning combination for a good leader.

“On Transgender Day of Remembrance, the United States honors the memory of the many transgender individuals who have lost their lives to acts of violence.”

“This president, and some of the people around him, pose a clear and present danger to this country.”

America has granted her asylum, but many more LGBT Chechens have been turned away and she wants to change that.

From AIDS to extremist groups like Boko Haram, the Trump administration is turning a blind eye to Africa.

The world leaders are said to have discussed election meddling, but not the abuses of gay and bi men in Chechnya.

Some of the most infamously anti-LGBT portions of our government are recognizing our rights under the nose of an unstable president who won’t.

The Trump administration looks ready to dismantle key protections in three major areas this week.

Trump and his administration have been continually undermining democratic values and human rights in his own country, so how will that play out worldwide?

From Colorado to Chechnya, Matt Baume’s got you covered with this week’s debrief.

Meanwhile, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

They came, they danced, they sang, they got yelled at by rich people as one fur-clad woman holding a glass of wine watched and smiled a devilish grin.

New neighbors of the president’s daughter say she has “truly ruined” their upper class D.C. neighborhood.

Is the centuries-long tradition of the free press dead? Dr. Warren J. Blumenfeld has suggestions for journalists who now feel boxed-out.

It also completely suspends the United States’ refugee program.

“Tillerson’s absence from the State Department’s annual human rights report release reinforces the message that the State Department might also be silent on repression, abuse, and exploitation.”

“Trump is a mentally ill puppet. Pence is the one who is hateful to his core.”