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“What’s wrong with this? The headline makes it seem weird. RFK Junior once chainsawed off a whale’s head, took it home. I don’t know. It was a beached whale. It was already dead. “Whales are cool. And RFK Junior is a hunter and an outdoorsman. RFK Junior is into falconry. He hunts. There’s another story about him, like, tossing bear …

Media Matters has the transcript: I mean, the audacity of referring to [Telegram CEO] Pavel Durov as someone who is complicit in abetting pedophilia. That’s what they said. That’s what the French Secret Service, the French state would like us to believe under the authority of Emmanuel Macron, a human being, a child who was statutorily raped – back when …

NBC News reports: Home goods retailer Lowe’s is paring back its efforts to promote LGBTQ inclusion — the latest large company to respond to a growing cultural backlash led by conservatives targeting queer representation in public life. In an internal company memo being widely shared among media organizations, Lowe’s told employees it was ending its participation in surveys for the …

Wonkette reports: Trump Prophet Johnny Enlow has a new and very exciting announcement — a big time celebrity is going to endorse Donald Trump! And not just any celebrity, mind you. A dead celebrity! Or, we can assume, a celebrity who faked their own death and is coming out of hiding now just to give Trump a boost, because of …

The Lincoln Project is out with a new ad this morning that depicts a father and his young daughter pulled over in a traffic stop in an unnamed state. The reason for the stop is soon made clear when the cop grills the young woman, who nervously claims that they are traveling to visit her sister. The cop then reveals …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: In a move many conservatives and Christians find devastating, the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate are walking further away from their pro-life base. Former President Donald Trump posted Friday evening on Truth Social, “My Administration will be great for women and their reproductive rights.” The term “reproductive rights” is used to …

The Florida Phoenix reports: A Gov. Ron DeSantis-appointed member of the Broward County School Board who was rejected this week for election to the board will become a member of the Florida Board of Education instead. The governor’s press office announced the new appointment of Daniel Foganholi, director of legislative affairs for New Generations Children’s Ministry, on Friday. His campaign …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words “Books the state didn’t want you to read.” The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s Bixby school district has lots to show off for a fast-growing Tulsa suburb: a state-of-the-art new high school set to open by 2025, a new ninth grade gymnasium and plans for a $12 million upgrade to a football complex that already rivals that of many small colleges. But, what the district does not have as …

“Courage under fire. We’ve got two iconic photos now. President Trump, the arrest photo, the mug shot that I have, a T-shirt of that. And now you have the iconic fight, fight, fight. And that fist pump in the air, covered in blood. “The interesting thing about that, too, a lot of biblical prowess for it. Because in the Levitical …

Megachurch Pastor Mario Murillo writes: Joy? What Joy? Joy is the last thing they are about. Sooner or later—and I pray it is not later—everyone is going to know what a lie Kamala is. Like everyone who uses language to hide what they really mean, she resorted to high sounding words and exhausted idioms. Instead of a clear message, she …

Deadline Hollywood reports: Chick-Fil-A is moving aggressively into the entertainment space with plans to launch a slate of originals for its own streaming platform. Deadline understands that the fast-food firm has been working with a number of major production companies, including some of the studios, to create family-friendly shows, particularly in the unscripted space. It is also in talks to …

Via press release from hate group leader Monica Cole: Amazon offends conservative parents in one of its newest back-to-school commercials. One Million Moms has received many complaints regarding the “Amazon Back to School – Spend Less on your Kids with Michelle Buteau” ad. The company attempts to encourage parents to spend less on their kids, but the advertisement takes an …

“I can’t tell you how many MAGA people that I work with, really the hardcore, the most based, who are huge RFK Jr. fans. And they kind of were always kind of talking about it. But, remember, RFK Jr. went and interviewed for a job in 2016 at Trump Tower. “So, you know, their relationship goes back years. Some of …

The CBC reports: A Calgary pastor on trial for protesting at several library drag storytime events has been found guilty of criminal harassment and breaches of his bail conditions. Derek Reimer runs Mission 7, a street ministry. All of Reimer’s charges relate to protests of Reading With Royalty events hosted at Calgary Public Libraries. Reimer, 38, repeatedly referred to the …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Democratic delegates gave the warmest welcome of the evening to former First Lady Michelle Obama, who supported transgenderism for children and derided parental efforts to safeguard underage children from exposure to pornography — often LGBTQ porn — in graphic novels aimed at pre-teens and adolescents as “banning our books.” “Shutting down the Department …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Incumbent school board members in one of Florida’s largest swing counties appear to have held off a challenge from candidates backed by Gov. Ron DeSantis, according to preliminary results. Activists had hoped that three challengers endorsed by the local chapter of Moms for Liberty would win a conservative majority in Pinellas County, home to St. Petersburg …

Cultist Allie Beth Stuckey writes for the Christian Post: She is a cold, calculating, mean-spirited career politician. Her track record demonstrates this clearly. There’s no other way to say it: Kamala Harris is mean. And like any mean girl, she enjoys calling those she doesn’t like “weird.” That’s her moniker for Trump and Vance — beloved fathers who, unlike Harris, …

AlterNet reports: Christian nationalist and far-right activist Charlie Kirk is in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, and was “owned” by the president of the Young Democrats of Georgia, according to a reporter on the scene. Kirk promotes pro-Trump conspiracy theories and misinformation including about the 2020 election and COVID, and has been called “a racist commentator” by USA Today’s …

Mediaite reports: Candace Owens, once a prominent voice in black conservatism, ignited a firestorm of criticism from right-wing commentators and media personalities who condemned an antisemitic rant she aired on X. During a live broadcast on Sunday, titled The Truth About Zionism, Owens implied that Jews were responsible for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. She continued: “They shot …