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Far-right figure and former Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos, at least according to a new report, used a credit card connected with Marjorie Taylor Greene’s campaign to buy an internet domain for the artist formerly known as Kanye West’s latest presidential election effort. Yiannopoulos was then reportedly reimbursed for thousands of dollars above the actual […]
Fresh off being unceremoniously ousted by Fox News, Tucker Carlson is boasting about a resurgence. The right-wing pundit and amplifier of white nationalism said in a video tweeted on Tuesday, “Amazingly, as of tonight, there aren’t many platforms left that allow free speech. The last big one remaining in the world, the only one, is Twitter, […]
A veteran GOP attorney has devised a plan to give her party an edge in the 2024 election: make the voting process much more difficult. Longtime legal strategist Cleta Mitchell outlined the scheme Saturday during the Republican National Committee donor retreat in Nashville, where she presented a 50-slide PowerPoint titled, “A Level Playing Field for 2024.” The Washington Post obtained audio from the […]
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt has called for the resignations of multiple McCurtain County officials after the surfacing of audio alleging to include violent and racist comments, including from a local sheriff. Per a report from the Associated Press on Tuesday, Stitt said over the weekend that he was calling for McCurtain County Sheriff Kevin Clardy, […]
Florida governor Ron DeSantis has signed a bill on that bans abortions after six weeks and requires victims of incest and rape to provide proof for exception from the ban. The Republican governor signed the Heartbeat Protection Act into law on Thursday, as announced in a press release. The six-week abortion ban won’t go into effect until Florida’s Supreme […]
West Virginia Republicans have blocked a bill that would have prohibited child marriages. The state’s Senate Judiciary Committee narrowly rejected House Bill 3018 on a 9-8 vote Wednesday, exactly a week after it was passed by the West Virginia House of Delegates. Under WV’s current law, children as young as 16 can legally get married with parental consent. […]
After Walgreens announced on Friday that it will not distribute abortion medication at its locations in 20 states, California governor Gavin Newsom says the state won’t do business with the company. “California won’t be doing business with Walgreens—or any company that cowers to the extremists and puts women’s lives at risk,” Newsom tweeted on Monday. […]
A Republican Tennessee legislator faced backlash this week after he proposed to revive lynching-style hangings. Rep. Paul Sherrell (R-Sparta) made the proposal Tuesday during a Criminal Justice Committee meeting that addressed HB 1245—a bill that would allow death row inmates to be killed by firing squad. While expressing his support for the bill, Sherrell suggested an […]
A Georgia grand jury determined one or more witnesses may have lied under oath during an election-meddling probe involving Donald Trump. The revelation came Thursday, after Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney released portions of the much-anticipated jury report. The documents were published after a two-year investigation into Trump’s conduct following the 2020 presidential election, and […]
Trump’s single-term administration allegedly asked Twitter to censor outspoken critic Chrissy Teigen. According to New York magazine, the revelation came during a Wednesday congressional hearing about Twitter’s handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story. During her testimony, former Twitter employee Anika Collier Navaroli was pressed about an online dispute between then-President Donald Trump and Teigen. Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) pointed to […]
