Right-wing action group Project Veritas filed a lawsuit Wednesday against its founder, James O’Keefe, alleging he bullied staff, and violated his employment agreement by establishing a rival organization while still on Project Veritas’ payroll. “Being known as the founder of an organization does not entitle that person to run amok …
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The special counsel investigating Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the 2020 election has subpoenaed members of the former president’s White House staff believed to be involved in the firing of the administration’s top election security expert, The New York Times reported on Wednesday. Trump fired former Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security …
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Fresh off a siege against Target for the crime of releasing a Pride collection, far-right influencers have been roving the digital countryside looking for the subject of their next meltdown and have landed on a surprising choice: fast food chain Chick-fil-A. Why are conservative accounts attempting to gin up outrage …
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During an April town hall in Iowa, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley declared her intent to “outlaw all foreign lobbying whatsoever.” “Ban all foreign lobbying,” she wrote on Twitter shortly after. But behind the scenes, Haley had given herself a hall pass when it comes to accepting campaign donations …
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Donald Trump just needs a few names. In recent months, the former president has asked close advisers, including at least one of his personal attorneys, if “we know” all the names of senior FBI agents and Justice Department personnel who have worked on the federal probes into him. That’s according …
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Donald Trump said at multiple points during his presidency that he wished to usurp the 14th Amendment and end birthright citizenship. As the former president looks to retake office in 2024, he has now made it an official campaign promise to bar the children of undocumented immigrants from receiving citizenship …
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At least eight drones hit apartment buildings and residential areas in Moscow as the spring offensive in the war between Ukraine and Russia is heating up. Russian President Vladimir Putin blamed the attacks on Ukraine and downplayed their significance, telling a reporter that he was “not so much worried about …
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Happy Pride Month? This year, it’s more like Happy Wake the Fuck Up Month. Over the last few years, a lot of white, cisgender gay men like me have gotten pretty complacent. Sure, the Right was attacking trans folks and denying that systemic racism exists, but we seemed safe with …
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The QAnon Shaman is free —and unapologetically looking to make bank off his insurrection experience. Jacob Chansley, also known as Jake Angeli or the “QAnon Shaman,” was released from federal prison on Thursday, May 25 after raiding the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The 35-year-old pleaded guilty to the …
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It’s Memorial Day weekend, when ostensibly the U.S. puts aside its differences and unites to pay respect to military members who died while serving the country. This weekend, however, a segment of the right wing are freaking out about the impeachment of one of its own, who has demonstrably given …
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