Completely Horrible People

Mediaite reports: Daily Wire host Candace Owens fully embraced the far-right conspiracy theory that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man – going so far as to say she would stake her reputation on it. Owens, known for her bombastic and attention-grabbing claims, dedicated much of her Monday show to the topic, which she labeled “The BIGGEST Political Scandal …

The Huffington Post reports: A Texas judge has ordered Elon Musk to testify in a deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit that accuses the billionaire of falsely linking a Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. The tech billionaire and far-right sympathizer was hit with the lawsuit in October after he falsely accused 22-year-old Ben Brody of being a federal …

Business Insider reports: On Thursday, Google paused its chatbot Gemini’s image-generation feature, following backlash from some users who claimed the feature was “woke.” People on social media have said the AI consistently generated images of people of color in inaccurate historical contexts. That night, Musk wrote multiple posts on X slamming Google. The Tesla billionaire also went after Gemini’s product …

The Dallas Morning News reports: A Lewisville ISD staff member has been placed on administrative leave after a prominent right-wing social media account posted a video of him at school wearing a pink dress with matching boots and hat. Students have defended the Hebron High School educator with a petition noting he was dressed up for Spirit Day. District officials …

“As a longtime devotee of rap, becoming a rapper was the natural next step in my career trajectory. So, when [Canadian wrestler turned rapper] Tom MacDonald asked if I wanted to collaborate on a song, I leapt at the chance. This was the moment I spent 20 years of classical violin training preparing for. For those who don’t appreciate my …

Bloomberg News reports: Rudolph Giuliani, the former mayor of New York who led efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has filed for bankruptcy, swamped by legal bills stemming from his discredited campaign to keep Donald Trump in power. Giuliani filed papers seeking protection from creditors in New York, listing debts of as much as $500 million and assets of …

USA Today reports: Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., used the Heimlich maneuver to save fellow Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa from choking at a Senate luncheon on Thursday. Ernst’s office told the Des Moines Register, part of the USA TODAY Network, that Ernst was “doing well.” Paul, a medical doctor and an ophthalmologist, was quickly lauded by his Republican colleagues, …

Newsmax host, far-right podcaster, and serial plagiarist Benny Johnson: “Do you think that Eric Swalwell wears a tuck friendly swimsuit?” Sen. Ted Cruz: “He may be wearing one right now.” Johnson: “Only Fang Fang would know. And we are in Chinatown right now.” Cruz: “To be fair, in order to have a tuck friendly swimsuit, you have to have something …

USA Today report: Brookings, South Dakota. A university LGBTQ+ group is hit with a flood of hate mail, culminating in a bomb threat that terrifies students. San Lorenzo, California. A drag queen story hour is one of several Pride events across the country stormed by suspected members of the extremist street gang the Proud Boys. The men shout homophobic slurs …

The Washington Post reports: The White House on Sunday condemned a conservative social media activist for ridiculing an openly-gay Interior Department official on the site X, describing her posts as “cruel and unacceptable.” Chaya Raichik, who created the @libsoftiktok account on X, sparked a debate online this week after posting and reposting several times about Tyler Cherry, Interior’s principal deputy …

Mediaite reports: Ubiquitous billionaire Elon Musk mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky over the foreign leader’s requests for aid late Sunday night. On X, Musk posted a popular meme image of an agitated young man with veins bulging out of his forehead with Zelensky’s face photoshopped in and the caption, “When it’s been 5 minutes and you haven’t asked for a …

“As DOD’s highest-ranking trans official, this delusional man thinking he is a woman embodies and espouses the woke-ism that causes — that’s causing significant harm to our military readiness and troops’ morale. The military shouldn’t be focused on this woke agenda and combating climate change. With him at the helm of readiness, these misguided policy pursuits will continue to be …

Miss Kitara Revache is an accused puppy-stealer, alleged check fraudster, alleged scam pet charity founder, fake private school student, fake MBA holder, fake volleyball champion, fake double knee replacement patient, fake Broadway producer, fake Wall Street tycoon, fake Jew, fake son of a 9/11 victim, fake grandson of Holocaust refugees, fake employer of Pulse massacre victims, fake Hannah Montana cast …

The Associated Press reports: Republicans moved to sideline Zephyr further by canceling some meetings of the two committees on which she serves and moving the bills they were to hear to other committees, Democrats said. She spent the first day of her exile last week battling to use a bench in a statehouse hallway. Her key card to access Capitol …

The New York Post reports: Megyn Kelly caused a stir on social media after she posted a photo of herself wearing a red MAGA-style baseball cap on Twitter over the weekend. The hat in question read “Make women female again” in all capital letters — a nod to the apparent culture war over gender and trans people. Kelly, who notoriously …

First, a related report from GLAAD: GLAAD found 166 incidents of anti-LGBTQ protests and threats targeting drag events since early 2022, with a sharp uptick beginning in Pride season 2022 and continuing through the midterm election cycle. False rhetoric was deployed against performers in campaign ads for the 2022 midterm elections, and rhetoric escalated to violence including the firebombing of …

Breitbart reports: Caitlyn Jenner has launched a new PAC dedicated to confronting and stopping the “radical gender ideology” of the left. A movement the former Olympian says is being used by the left to “destroy families.” In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News last week, Jenner detailed how Fairness First PAC will “fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights …

Country/pop singer Maren Morris appeared at a fundraiser for Tennessee’s Love Rising on Monday night and said this from the stage: I brought my son here earlier today for soundcheck, and he’s turning three this week, and we got to go in the room where all the queens were getting ready and doing their makeup. And he freaked out when …

“I say this stuff because someone has to because it’s insane what’s actually going on. Right? Like when I said, ‘like, I don’t know, it’s sort of weird that Pennsylvania managed to elect a vegetable.’ “They criticize me as being ableist. I didn’t know what that was. But there’s always an ‘ist.’ I’m not discriminating against the disabled. “I’d love …

Colorado Newsline reports: Jenna Ellis, the Colorado attorney who represented former President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election, is under investigation by the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel. Ellis has been the target of formal complaints regarding what critics characterized as her professional misconduct connected to Trump’s effort to reverse the results of a free …