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The Daily Beast reports: Steve Bannon—the nativist American media personality who’s backed by a Chinese billionaire—hasn’t paid the lawyers who spent years defending him against an onslaught of criminal charges, according to three sources who spoke exclusively to The Daily Beast. With massive legal bills still outstanding, Bannon is now scrambling to find new attorneys, as he faces a looming …

Brian Brown writes today on behalf of his other hate group, the International Organization For The Family: Political junkies keep track of who the big donors are to various candidates and causes. The biggest are often referred to as “whales,” individuals and groups who donate so much money that their presence impacts every cause they touch, much like a whale …

Caleb Wampler writes for the far-right Charisma News: Tuesday, I received breaking news from my crusade director in Haiti. The news was disturbing and showed that God’s power cannot be overcome by even the most wicked darkness. In the months prior to the crusade, witches were going around into the very village I preached the gospel in just two weeks …

The Associated Press reports: A federal jury found Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes guilty on four counts of wire fraud charges, delivering a verdict on the long-running controversy over her role in the now defunct blood-testing technology startup. The jury found her not guilty on three counts and deadlocked on three counts. The jury of eight men and four women returned …

Metro Weekly reports: Jeffrey McCall, the founder of “ex-gay” group Freedom March, has confessed to having multiple hookups with men since last year. McCall claims to have lived as a gay male sex worker, and then as a transgender woman named Scarlett, before renouncing his sexuality and gender identity and founding Freedom March. But in a post last month on …

Salon reports: A plumbing repair at televangelist Joel Osteen’s megachurch in Houston reportedly led to the discovery of “bags and bags” of cash and checks in a bathroom wall. The discovery came several years after someone stole $600,000 in cash and checks from a safe at Osteen’s Lakewood Church, according to a report from KRPC Channel 2. The station suggested …

Religion News Service reports: In recent weeks, friends and supporters had been praying for his recovery from COVID, seeing it as a spiritual attack because of his advocacy against vaccines and push for alternate treatments. “There’s no doubt in my mind that this is a spiritual attack from the enemy,” Lamb’s son, Jonathan, said about his father’s COVID-19 illness on …

Breitbart reports: Former President Donald Trump’s forthcoming photo book will include the iconic photograph of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wagging her finger at him during a White House meeting, along with a handwritten caption from the former president, Breitbart News has learned exclusively. “She was screaming and shaking like a leaf,” Trump writes of Pelosi in the forthcoming book. “She’s …

Fox News has the transcript: I woke up to a pre-dawn raid. Banging on my door, I went to my door to answer the door and there were ten FBI agents with a battering ram, white blinding lights, they turned me around, handcuffed me and threw me against the hallway. I was partially clothed in front of my neighbors. They …

“Every signer of our Declaration of Independence, every one of them, were descendants of the tribes of Israel. You know what, I might was well be seated because it looks like I’m gonna preach these verses instead of reading. “Every single descendant who signed our Declaration were Israelites. Somebody say with with me, America was a church before she was …

Politico reports: Liberty University’s new president, Jerry Prevo, told a top university official this year that he wanted the large Christian school to become a more effective political player with the goal of helping to influence elections, according to a call recording shared with POLITICO. “Are they getting people elected? Which is one of our main goals,” Prevo told Sctt …

The Centre Times Daily reports: A controversial right-wing personality tied to hate speech against various groups is set to speak on Penn State’s campus next week, drawing widespread condemnation from both the student body and university leaders. Political commentator Milo Yiannopoulos — whom the Anti-Defamation League described as “a misogynistic, racist, xenophobic, transphobic troll” — will speak Nov. 3 at …

Jim Bakker: I’m gonna reiterate, I want you to when you order this – $1000 – to do it in faith. Sow that $1000 seed in faith, believing that this is part of your seed into the kingdom of God. You’re doing something for the kingdom of God. And God is going to – we’re sending out the – what …

Hemant Mehta has the transcript at The Friendly Atheist: I was going down from the mountain, just in awe — just in awe — of what had just happened to me. And the voice comes. He says, “My son. Go get our bike. Go get OUR bike! Not your bike. So it wasn’t just about me. He says, “Go get …

The New York Times reports: Dr. Joseph Mercola, 67, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., has long been a subject of criticism and government regulatory actions for his promotion of unproven or unapproved treatments. But most recently, he has become the chief spreader of coronavirus misinformation online, according to researchers. Over the last decade, Dr. Mercola has built a …

The Washington Post reports: Former president Donald Trump’s political PAC raised roughly $75 million in the first half of this year as he trumpeted the false notion that the 2020 election was stolen from him, but the group has not devoted funds to help finance the ongoing ballot review in Arizona or to push for similar endeavors in other states, …

From GOP Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt: “Today I’m pleased to announce that the Missouri Attorney General’s Office has obtained a consent judgment against Jim Bakker and Morningside Church Productions that results in $156,000 in restitution and strong safeguards to prevent the marketing of ‘silver solution’ as a cure or treatment for COVID and other medical issues,” said Attorney General …

“There is a medical mafia in this country. I’m suggesting the CCP agents in America struck at me because I am calling for Fauci to be arrested and interrogated. I mean this with all my heart. If the China Communist Party is not stopped, most Americans may be dead in the next five years. “Think about what I just said: …

“When I made my announcement, the first thing that happened — which will make you laugh, but it’s true — is dogs stopped barking at me. “This is going to sound so stupid, but this is just how I think that God reveals himself to us, right? This is just my experience of it. Dogs just didn’t like me at …

Collider reports: Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield are almost unrecognizable in the first look at The Eyes of Tammy Faye. The Zero Dark Thirty star is playing the famed televangelist in an upcoming biopic and People Magazine shared a first look at Chastain and Garfield as Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker. The movie was inspired by the documentary of the …