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Via press release: As one of his final actions in office, President Barack Obama has commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, a transgender former soldier who was convicted in 2013 of leaking classified information regarding United States national security. Log Cabin Republicans has always condemned Manning’s actions, and consistently stood against efforts by the left to elevate Manning as a …

CNN reports: A speech by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos’ at UC Davis was over before it even started Friday after protests erupted, forcing sponsors to cancel the event. Thirty minutes before the Breitbart tech editor was scheduled to speak, the UC Davis College Republicans canceled the controversial talk after consulting with the university’s police department and student affairs officials. Former …

From the Seattle Stranger: Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its platform after the Breitbart editor spearheaded a racist harassment campaign against black Saturday Night Live actor Leslie Jones, but at least one tech company is continuing to make money off of Yiannopoulos’s racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, and anti-trans vitriol. That tech company is GoFundMe, the sunny, do-gooder crowdfunding site with a …

Yesterday’s news that Simon & Schuster has given notorious troll Milo Yiannopoulos a $250,000 book advance spawned widespread criticism of the publisher, with the Chicago Review Of Books denouncing “this disgusting validation of hate” with a vow to boycott covering any of their titles released in 2017. As it turns out, even the literal Nazis at the Daily Stormer are …

The International Business Times reports: A tweet from conservative media icon Matt Drudge’s verified Twitter account Thursday night appeared to accuse the government of interfering with his website, DrudgeReport.com, just hours after the Barack Obama administration announced new sanctions against Russia over election hacking. “Is the US government attacking DRUDGE REPORT? Biggest DDoS since site’s inception. VERY suspicious routing [and …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Milo Yiannopoulos has parlayed his ban from Twitter — and some controversial appearances on college campuses and cable TV shows — into a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Hollywood Reporter learned on Thursday. “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the …

Yesterday we learned that Trump’s neo-Nazi fans are ripping each others’ weaves out over whether Hitler salutes should be allowed at their inauguration “DeploraBall” celebration. Because that would be bad for their image! Reportedly banned from the event is one of its founders, nutjob Twitter personality Baked “Gas The Jews” Alaska, who is ever so pissed that homocon Milo will …

Back in October, homocon Peter Thiel donated $1.25 million to Trump’s campaign. That investment may pay off 1000-fold. The Intercept reports: Palantir Technologies, the data mining company co-founded by billionaire and Trump transition advisor Peter Thiel, will likely assist the Trump Administration in its efforts to track and collect intelligence on immigrants, according to a review of public records by …

Last night a Jeopardy! contestant hit the Daily Double in the “Leaning Conservative” category. Pundit S.E. Cupp appeared with the answer: “Although I’m politically conservative, I support same-sex marriage as part of a group of Republicans dating from 1977 & named for this structure.” As you’ll see, the contestant delivered an incorrect question, perhaps because the Log Cabin Republicans have …

As protesters violently brawled with open Nazis outside today’s white supremacist event in Washington DC, lesbian reality star Tila Tequila was inside merrily giving the Nazi salute for the cameras. Tequila (real name Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen), a Vietnamese immigrant, is infamously anti-Semitic and has written blog articles and social media posts with titles such as “Why I Sympathize With …

From Yale University’s The Politic: The Log Cabin Republicans (LCR) has long fought anti-LGBTQ legislation like “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and advocated for LGBTQ inclusion within the GOP. And although the Supreme Court upheld the right to same-sex marriage under Obergefell v. Hodges, many Republican politicians have threatened to overturn the decision. But Gregory T. Angelo, president of the Log …

The Huffington Post UK reports: Milo Yiannopoulos, the self-styled poster child of the ‘alt-right’ movement, has gone down like a bucket of cold sick after a tense televised encounter with Channel 4 News’s Cathy Newman where he claimed the wage gap and university rape culture is “not real”. The Breitbart News senior editor brought his right-wing schtick to the broadcaster …

Yesterday the Family Research Council joined a growing call to boycott Pepsi over false claims that the company’s CEO has denounced Donald Trump and his supporters. The story has largely been fueled by homocon blogger Jim Hoft. Fortune reports: PepsiCo is the the latest major corporation targeted by online boycotts as a result of election comments. But in this case, …

Back in 2012, homocon Richard Grenell spent about ten minutes on the Romney team until anti-LGBT hate groups hounded him out of the job. We’re guessing he won’t get that same treatment this time around. The Chicago Tribune reports: His nascent administration already under attack, President-elect Donald Trump was considering Monday whether to inject new diversity into the GOP by …

Homocon blogger Matt Drudge used the above image tonight to illustrate a tabloid’s story about phone call made today from Vladimir Putin to Donald Trump. From Britain’s Mirror: President-elect Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin have vowed to tackle ISIS together after holding breakthrough talks on the telephone. Less than a week after the billionaire’s election, the Kremlin said …

From homocon Joseph Murray’s column published today by The Hill: Frankly, the protestors are sore losers, most of whom should honor their Canadian pledge. If Trump had lost and the “deplorables” were protesting Hillary in the streets do we really think the protests would be viewed the same way the media? My bet is a protest against a President-elect Clinton …

In the video below you’ll note that he also takes a shot at Hillary. ABC News reports: An Illinois congressman who resigned amid scrutiny of lavish spending — including a “Downton Abbey”-style redecorating of his Capitol Hill office — was charged Thursday in a wide-ranging federal indictment that alleges he schemed to profit personally from his government job. The 52-page …

Unbelievable. Via press release from Log Cabin Republicans president Gregory T. Angelo: It’s been a whirlwind couple of days, but I didn’t want to wait another minute to share this important news: For the past three weeks, I’ve been in regular communication with the Trump Transition Team, the group tasked with organizing personnel and policy for our president-elect. While Log …

The Chicago Tribune reports: An attorney for former Peoria Congressman Aaron Schock said a federal indictment against his client is expected Thursday. Schock, 35, resigned from Congress on March 31, 2015, amid a federal criminal probe into how he spent campaign dollars and his $1 million-plus annual office budget. On the same day, he was served with a subpoena outside …

Homocon candidates Clay Cope and Sheriff Paul Babeu both lost their bids for the US House yesterday. From the Hartford Courant: After nearly three hours of startlingly close results, Republican Clay Cope late Tuesday night conceded the 5th Congressional District race to Democratic incumbent Elizabeth Esty. The 5th District was by far the tightest Congressional race in the state, with …