Tag: Far Right

Trump Seems Totally Chill With His Campaign Funding Pro-Nazi Content

Janice Schakowsky (IL) David Schweikert (AZ) Greg Steube (FL) Eric Swalwell (CA) Norma Torres (CA) Juan Vargas (CA) Nydia Velazquez (NY) Nikema Williams (GA) The bill stipulates that ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, must sell TikTok to an American company within six months. Otherwise, TikTok will be banned from U.S. app stores. A company associated […]

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Trump Campaign Ads Are Helping Fund Pro-Nazi Content Creators

Janice Schakowsky (IL) David Schweikert (AZ) Greg Steube (FL) Eric Swalwell (CA) Norma Torres (CA) Juan Vargas (CA) Nydia Velazquez (NY) Nikema Williams (GA) The bill stipulates that ByteDance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, must sell TikTok to an American company within six months. Otherwise, TikTok will be banned from U.S. app stores. A company associated […]

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It’s Official: Abraham Lincoln’s Political Party Died Today

“We have no time to waste,” the 41-year-old Trump said on Real America’s Voice earlier this week. “We have to ensure that every single penny of every dollar donated goes to causes that people care about. That’s part of the reason that I think I’m such a great fit for this: There’s no one more […]

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MAGA Is Now Losing Its Mind Over a Doritos Boycott, Because of Course

O’Connor rose to superstardom for her dynamic, imposing voice, which she wielded to attack oppressive systems like sexism, racism, and war. But the former Christian singer threw all of her commercial success away in order to draw attention to circulating rumors of rampant child abuse within the Catholic Church (which, years later, would prove to […]

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Man Who Showed Father’s Decapitated Head in a YouTube Video Charged With Terrorism

The Pennsylvania man who decapitated his father and displayed his head in a YouTube video in which he called for violence against government workers has been charged with terrorism.  After allegedly killing his father, Justin Mohn, 32, filmed a 14-minute video in which he displayed the head in a bag and called for people to […]

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Twitter Files’ Matt Taibbi Says Elon Musk Sent Him Unhinged Messages

“When I interpose—cause I’m not a Nikki fan, and I’m not a Pelosi fan. And when I purposely interpose names, they said, ‘He didn’t know Pelosi from Nikki. From Tricky Nikki. Tricky Nikki. He didn’t know.’ I interposed,” he added, seemingly forgetting the definition of the word “interpose,” which per Merriam-Webster means to put oneself […]

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The GOP Has Impeached Alejandro Mayorkas and the Far Right Loves It

Alejandro Mayorkas, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), during a news conference while visiting the US-Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas, US, on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. (Kaylee Greenlee Beal/Bloomberg via Getty Images) Proponents of the racist “great replacement” theory are gloating after the GOP-led House of Representatives narrowly voted to impeach […]

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The Far Right Is Spreading Misinformation Claiming the Lakewood Church Shooter Was Trans

Chaya Raichik, creator of the TikTok account LibsOfTiktok, speaks during a news conference outside the US Capitol in Washington, DC, US, on Thursday, March 23, 2023. (Anna Rose Layden/Bloomberg via Getty Images) The far-right is desperate to make “trans terrorism” a thing. So desperate, in fact, that it’s willing to push out incorrect or false […]

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Moms for Liberty Completely Collapses in Former Strongholds

“I was embarrassed for our conference, for our party because we can do better than we did last night,” said Texas Representative Lance Gooden. “When you are handed the keys to the, you know, to the kingdom, as it were, then when you have the majority, there is an expectation that you will be able […]

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Yep—Tucker Carlson Is in Russia for Exactly the Reason You Think

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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Of Course Tucker Carlson Is in Russia to Interview Putin

The bribes pose just another monetary loss for an essential housing system that has been woefully underfunded for decades. According to a 2018 NYCHA assessment, federal capital funding has met only a fraction of capital needs since 2006. In the agency’s 2017 physical needs assessment, a five-year financial trajectory for improvements, NYCHA determined that it’s […]

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Why Is Tucker Carlson in Moscow, and Why Right Now?

Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions last year, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. He finally partially relented in December when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward, with the exception of those for four-star generals. He subsequently dropped those remaining 11 holds, and the Senate promptly confirmed them […]

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Tucker Carlson and Putin Aren’t Exactly Denying the Interview Rumors

Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions last year, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. He finally partially relented in December when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward, with the exception of those for four-star generals. He subsequently dropped those remaining 11 holds, and the Senate promptly confirmed them […]

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Why Is Tucker Carlson in Russia? It’s Probably Not for the Borscht

Tuberville single-handedly blocked more than 450 military promotions last year, throwing the entire U.S. military into disarray. He finally partially relented in December when he agreed to allow most of those promotions to go forward, with the exception of those for four-star generals. He subsequently dropped those remaining 11 holds, and the Senate promptly confirmed them […]

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Florida’s Unhinged War on Books Enters “Goblin Butts Are Sexual” Territory

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]

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Florida’s War on Books Enters “Goblin Butts Are Sexual” Territory

Targeting Carroll specifically is what ultimately landed Trump in legal trouble, Kaplan explained. In her deposition, Carroll alleged she had also been assaulted by television executive Les Moonves in Los Angeles in the mid-1990s. In 2018, multiple other women accused Moonves of sexual assault. He stepped down as CEO of CBS and denied all of […]

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Man Decapitates His Father, Calls for Uprising Against “Biden Regime”

But in his statement Tuesday, Schwerin said Biden had not been involved, either as a public official or a private citizen, in Hunter’s business dealings, nor had he ever been asked to take action on Hunter’s behalf. Schwerin said that in his role as Hunter’s business partner, he never asked Biden to get involved with […]

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Mike Johnson’s Disturbing Ties to Slavery-Defending Christian Nationalists

Multiple legal experts brushed off Habba’s attempt to overturn the Carroll verdict. “This is a bogus motion by the Trump team. There’s nothing here,” CNN legal analyst Elie Honig said Monday night. “Every judge in that courthouse knows, socializes with, has worked with, sometimes maybe mentored, dozens, hundreds of attorneys in this city.” “I used […]

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How Russia Is Erasing All Traces of Its Queer People

This article originally appeared on VICE Netherlands. Olga (who asked to remain anonymous to protect her identity) is a 26-year-old chemical engineer from Russia and a trans woman. Last November, she fled her home country to the Netherlands and has since been staying at the Ter Apel asylum seekers’ centre in the north of the […]

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“Libs of TikTok” Creator Now Advising School Libraries After Fueling Bomb Threats to Schools

“And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.… They’ve only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. OK. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom,” he added. The former president provides an elaborate description of missile defense technology: Ding ding ding ding boom whoosh boom pic.twitter.com/PgWRVJh8xI — Acyn (@Acyn) January […]

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“Libs of TikTok” Creator Gets a Real Job: Advising School Libraries

“And they calmly walk to us, and ding, ding, ding, ding, ding, ding.… They’ve only got 17 seconds to figure this whole thing out. Boom. OK. Missile launch. Woosh. Boom,” he added. The former president provides an elaborate description of missile defense technology: Ding ding ding ding boom whoosh boom pic.twitter.com/PgWRVJh8xI — Acyn (@Acyn) January […]

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Far-Right Congressman Complains There Aren’t Enough White People Joining the Army

Rep. Paul Gosar, R-Ariz., attends the the House Oversight and Accountability Committee hearing titled “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.,” in Rayburn Building on Thursday, September 28, 2023. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Far-right congressman Paul Gosar is losing sleep over how few white people are enlisting […]

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Twitter Is Helping Push the Most Dangerous Conspiracy on the Epstein List Yet

South Africa asked the International Court of Justice in late December for an urgent order declaring that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly three-month assault on the Gaza Strip. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby criticized South Africa’s lawsuit on Wednesday as “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in […]

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Twitter Is Helping Push the Most Dangerous Epstein Conspiracy Theory Yet

South Africa asked the International Court of Justice in late December for an urgent order declaring that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly three-month assault on the Gaza Strip. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby criticized South Africa’s lawsuit on Wednesday as “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in […]

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Why the Hell Is the Far Right Suddenly Obsessed With Jimmy Kimmel?

South Africa asked the International Court of Justice in late December for an urgent order declaring that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly three-month assault on the Gaza Strip. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby criticized South Africa’s lawsuit on Wednesday as “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in […]

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The Far Right Has a Bonkers New Conspiracy Theory on Epstein and Jimmy Kimmel

South Africa asked the International Court of Justice in late December for an urgent order declaring that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in its nearly three-month assault on the Gaza Strip. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby criticized South Africa’s lawsuit on Wednesday as “meritless, counterproductive, and completely without any basis in […]

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The Far Right Is Growing Stronger—and Has a Plan for 2024

If Trump does regain power, the threat he poses is exponentially greater. Wilson says that even those who’ve cooled on him, thanks to his failure to make good on promises like “building the wall,” are excited by his threats of revenge. Trump has already vowed to crown himself dictator (but only on “day one”), take […]

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Harvard President Resigns Thanks to Far-Right Attacks the Media Gleefully Elevated

Some of the biggest purchases included members on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee scooping up health care stocks in 435 separate transactions, buying financial services stocks in 328 separate transactions, and technology stocks in 272 separate transactions. The House Armed Services Committee saw similar conflicts, with members scooping up health care stocks in 392 […]

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Harvard President Resigns Thanks to Far-Right Attacks Elevated by Media

Some of the biggest purchases included members on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee scooping up health care stocks in 435 separate transactions, buying financial services stocks in 328 separate transactions, and technology stocks in 272 separate transactions. The House Armed Services Committee saw similar conflicts, with members scooping up health care stocks in 392 […]

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Elon Musk Wants You to Pay to Go to His New University

It may be a supernova blast in the limelight for America’s disgraced mayor, whose star is quickly dying amid a flurry of legal charges that have all but bankrupted him. After this expensive trial, Giuliani will be one of 19 co-defendants in the Fulton County election interference case in which he stands accused of orchestrating […]

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The Extremist Far-Right Pastor Democrats Are Sharing a Stage With at March for Israel

Last month, Cohen testified in Trump’s $250 million New York bank fraud trial that Trump made up numbers and then told Cohen to artificially inflate the real estate mogul’s net worth, sometimes by as much as billions of dollars, in order to broker better deals with banks and insurance companies. “I was confused on how […]

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