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June 2023[edit]
   | 38 |  
Same-sex marriage now legal in Nepal |
| 18 |  Biden has announced he'll invoke another law, the Higher Education Act, to bypass the right-wing Supreme Court majority decision on his last student loan relief plan in order to get the policy passed. |
| 12 | The Supreme Court has also struck down Biden's student loan relief plan, which was one of his campaign promises. |
| 12 | The Supreme Court is gonna take on the case of whether people accused of domestic violence can own guns. |
| -1 |
The Supreme Court has ruled that businesses can refuse to create expressive content for queer people if it goes against the religious beliefs of the business. The fact that the woman who started this case actually made up the people who supposedly asked her to design a website for their same-sex wedding didn't actually matter. |
| 27 |  A Brazil court has blocked Bolsonaro from running for office until 2030. |
| 5 |  Dating app Tinder has swiped left on Russia and told it to f**k-off, as the service is quitting the country. Tinder's parent company Match.com has cited the need to "protect human rights". |
| 18 |   
Tennessee and Kentucky courts both rule their states' gender-affirming care bans are unconstitutional. This is the sixth court case ruling gender-affirming care bans are unconstitutional now. |
| 19 |  Former GOP Speaker of the Ohio state House, Larry Householder, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for overseeing a $60 million bribery scheme and using a "dirty tricks" campaign to sabotage opposition to his bills, in the largest corruption scandal in Ohio history. |
| 12 | Putin has arrested Russian Gen. Sergei Surovikin, who led the campaign in Ukraine from Oct. 2022 to Jan. 2023 and previously led combat operations in Syria. Surovikin was allegedly aware of Prigozhin's plans to revolt but took no action. |
| 19 | Just in time to make its approval drop a little bit more, SCOTUS decides to gut affirmative actions in college admissions |
| 28 | Supreme Court approval rating drops to all-time low. |
| 40 | The Supreme Court has voted by 6-3 to reject the Republican-supported "independent state legislature theory", meaning that state courts can still act as safeguards against legislative efforts to limit voting rights or overturn election results. The opinion should significantly limit Republican efforts to sabotage the integrity of the 2024 election. |
| 42 |  The Wagner Group, a notorious mercenary group, has "declared war" in a mutiny against the Russian Ministry of Defense after alleging that they killed Wagner fighters. They also claimed their 25,000-strong forces have entered Russia and will "destroy EVERYTHING in our way. ... We are moving forward, going to the end." Update: Prigozhin changes his mind, decides no civil war for today. |
| 29 |  AfD leader compares Ukraine with Nazi Germany. It's not clear if that means they're supporting Ukraine though. |
| 44 | 
Arkansas judge declares 311 statements of fact while ruling that the state's gender-affirming care for youth ban is unconstitutional. |
| 62 |  Andrew Tate has been indicted on charges of rape, human trafficking, and establishing a criminal gang. |
| 41 | 
Estonia officially becomes the first ex-Soviet country to legalise same-sex marriage. |
| 47 | 
A Trump-appointed judge blocks parts of Indiana's gender-affirming care for youth ban, citing an "irreparable harm" that would be caused to trans children if it passed. (Second source) |
| 10 | Twitter blocks promotion of Democrat's campaign video due to ‘abortion advocacy’. |
| 70 |  Japan raises the age of consent from 13 to 16, changes the definition of rape from "forcible sexual intercourse" to "non-consensual sexual intercourse", outlaws the secret filming of sexual acts and bans "photo voyeurism" (such as upskirting). |
| 24 |  José Rubén Zamora, one of Guatemala's most prominent investigative journalists, has been sentenced to 6 years in prison on dubious money-laundering charges after having exposed extensive government corruption. The conviction was widely condemned internationally, and Zamora's newspaper had to shut down. |
| 33 | The Southern Baptist Convention voted overwhelmingly to expel a California megachurch and another congregation for ordaining women as pastors and then amended the Southern Baptist constitution to state the Convention "affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder." An earlier version of the document, from 1963, did not exclude women from being pastors. |
| 46 |  Romanian prosecutors have upped the charges against Andrew Tate from human trafficking to the more serious ‘human trafficking in continued form’, meaning he is liable to up to ten years in prison. |
| 54 |  The Bible is banned in a Utah school district after complaint that it is "sex-ridden". This occurs as a result of "a 2022 state law requiring districts to include parents in decisions over what constitutes 'sensitive material.'" The law has been used to withhold other books from schools. |
| -8 |  NHS England announces it will stop prescribing puberty blockers to children. |
| -26 |  "The Arizona Supreme Court has ruled that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints can refuse to answer questions or turn over documents under a state law that exempts religious officials from having to report child sex abuse if they learn of the crime during a confessional setting." |
| 28 |  
Man in British Columbia accuses 9-year-old (cis) girl competing in shot-put of being trans because she has short hair. The family were harassed throughout the event and the girl was "inconsolably crying during this whole event and continued once it was over and we were leaving". |
| 34 | Trump has been arrested again. He pleads not guilty to charges in classified documents case. |
| 33 |  Ukraine counter-offensive begins |
| 9 | Woman sentenced to two years in prison under a 162-year-old law in England for taking abortion pills beyond the legal limit. She had broken the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act. |
| 28 |  After six weeks, the €49/month public transport pass, the Deutschlandticket has been considered a massive success, with a total of 10 million subscriptions. Already France is planning a similar scheme and Germany would like to link up so that both schemes would work together. |
| 18 |  Radio New Zealand has suspended a member of staff and initiated an investigation after several Reuters newswires were altered to include pro-Russian sentiment in news stories on RNZ's website and Twitter feeds relating to the war in Ukraine. |
| 42 |  Silvio "Il Cavaliere" Berlusconi has died, aged 86 |
| 17 |  Former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has been arrested amid an ongoing investigation into the SNP’s finances. Update: After 7 hours in custody, Sturgeon is released without charge pending further investigation. |
| 21 | Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber, has died in federal prison at the age of 81. |
| 36 | Boris Johnson resigns as an MP with immediate effect, accusing a Parliamentary Committee of attempting to push him out of Parliament over Partygate. |
| 57 | Donald Trump has reportedly been indicted in the special counsel’s classified documents probe, marking the first time a former president has faced federal charges. Update: Per the unsealed indictment, the indictment includes 37 counts spread over seven charges, including conspiracy to obstruct justice, willful retention of national defense information, and multiple concealment charges. |
| 13 | Lloyds Banking Group has taken over the Telegraph and the Spectator from its owners the Barclay family, after defaulting on the company's loans to the tune of nearly £1 billion. The bank is now planning to sell it off. |
| 28 | Axios has scooped the news that Fox News is suing Tucker Carlson for breach of contract, after the former anchor has launched his show on Twitter. |
| 52 | Pat Robertson of The 700 Club has died at the age of 93. |
| 14 | In Ukraine, the Kakhovka Dam has been breached, causing heavy flooding through Kherson and prompting mass evacuations. Both Russia and Ukraine blame each other. Who could have really been the culprit, hmm? Such a mystery. |
| 18 |
The Human Rights Campaign has declared a National State of Emergency for queer people in the U.S. |
| 26 | 
A federal judge has blocked Florida's trans healthcare for youth ban. |
| 38 | The Southern Poverty Law Center designates Moms for “Liberty” as an extremist group. |
| 38 | Brazil's Lula lays out plan to halt Amazon deforestation, make country "global reference" on climate. |
| 15 | Press Acquisitions, the owner of the Telegraph Media Group which owns the Telegraph and the Spectator, is in financial difficulties and may be forced into administration [bankruptcy]. |
| 41 | A French parliamentary inquiry finds that the National Rally party served as a mouthpiece for the Kremlin. The inquiry was initiated by the National Rally itself in an attempt to clear its name. |
| 28 |   City authorities in the Swiss capital of Bern have voted to expand the trial of cannabis legalization, to do test controlled sales of cocaine. |
| -53 |  India cuts periodic table and evolution from school textbooks. |
| 15 | Kevin McCarthy and Joe Biden have struck a deal on raising the debt ceiling. McCarthy, facing a failing mutiny, wants to sell the deal to conservatives. In doing so, he's decided to... argue the deal forces children to work? It does not do that, unless he meant adult children, which he probably did. He also suggested that they have no "worth or value" unless they work. |
| 30 | Chick-fil-A is accused of "going woke" by conservatives after promoting a DEI chief. He's been at the company since 2007 and in a DEI position since 2020. Nevertheless, the company faces a proposed boycott. Another casus belli is resurfaced video of the company's chairman shining a black man's shoes. |