Crackpots

The Daily Beast reports: Elon Musk said late Saturday that he is giving “serious thought” to creating a new social media platform. His comments, made on Twitter, came after the Tesla CEO sparked speculation with a Twitter thread taking aim at the social media giant. “Free speech is essential to a functioning democracy. Do you believe Twitter rigorously adheres to …

Law & Crime reports: The corporeal form of the Pennsylvania pizzeria owner who allegedly fought her way into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 will remain behind bars, despite her sovereign citizen-inspired arguments that she is “not a person,” a federal judge ruled. Pauline Bauer, 54, allegedly demanded that D.C. police “bring Nancy Pelosi out here now” because she and …

“There is a time and a season for everything and if this season is one where I need a more official platform to have then, yeah, I’m going to throw my hat in the ring because we need people that have cojones. “We need people like Donald Trump who has nothing to lose, like me. We’ve got nothing to lose …

CNN reports: Members of the House Select Committee investigating January 6 are discussing whether to call Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, to come before the panel, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. While some members have raised the possibility of inviting Thomas to voluntarily appear before the committee or even compelling her testimony by …

“America’s biggest corporations are being held hostage by the woke because they are cowards. They are absolute cowards. “When Disney decides they’ll let themselves be taken over by the LGBTQIA plus minus divided-by sign little carrot thingy, little squiggly that goes above letters in Spanish group, when they decide they’re going to let themselves be re-normalized by radical trans activists …

“God chose me for a reason. I didn’t lose. I won. Now you’ve just gone and made me more dangerous. I went into the lion’s den and those hyenas thought they were gonna eat me up, but guess what? They fed me, they fed me good. “I now know your strategies. I know what you think. I know what you’re …

Reuters reports: Sarah Palin called on the judge who oversaw her unsuccessful defamation case against the New York Times to disqualify himself, and said his series of errors tainted the outcome and required a new trial. In a late Tuesday night filing in federal court in Manhattan, lawyers for the former Republican vice presidential candidate and Alaska governor said U.S. …

Vice News reports: QAnon figure Michael Protzman’s predictions have torn families apart, leading husbands to divorce wives and children to disown parents. Followers have also been left destitute after donating all their money to the group. Protzman has claimed that a coming “global reset” will wipe out all their debts. The latest conspiracy the group has clung to is that …

The Guardian reports: The rapper Kid Rock said Donald Trump once asked him for advice about US policy on Islamic State and North Korea. He also said he and Trump were once “looking at maps. I’m like, you know, like, ‘Am I supposed to be in on this shit?’ Like I make dirty records sometimes. I do.” “‘What do you …

The Independent reports: Sarah Palin has said she is considering a congressional run to fill the seat vacated last week by representative Don Young. Appearing on Newsmax TV’s The Balance, Ms Palin said she would be “humbled and honored” to fill Young’s seat. “In a heartbeat, I would,” she said, responding to host Eric Bolling’s question about announcing a run. …

The Daily Mail reports: Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) got into a confrontation with employees of a Montana airport which grew so heated that law enforcement had to get involved, a new video showed on Sunday. Cruz was spotted at Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport shortly after noon on Sunday, apparently irritated by missing his flight, according to the Reddit user who …

The Associated Press reports: An elected official from New Mexico heads to trial Monday with a judge — not a jury — set to decide if he is guilty of charges that he illegally entered the U.S. Capitol grounds on the day a pro-Trump mob disrupted the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Griffin, a former rodeo rider and …

“I’ve been a prophetic dreamer so I had spent a lot of 2019 and 20 having a lot of political dreams that I was in office. And because our youngest son Ezekiel is a seer I went and got him and I said, ‘Hey, can you look around and see what you’re seeing?’ “Because I just really, I get a …

Slate reports: Traffic continued to be disrupted on Saturday in the Washington, D.C. area as a convoy of trucks continued their protests against pandemic restrictions around the nation’s capital. But over the weekend, the convoy appears to at least temporarily have been brought to a crawl by a single slow-moving cyclist. Another video posted on Twitter shows a driver going …

Variety reports: Kanye West has been barred from performing at the Grammy Awards due to his “concerning online behavior,” a rep for the artist confirms to Variety. Reps for the Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys, did not immediately respond to Variety‘s requests for comment on the claim early Saturday. West’s rep cited a report in the Blast posted late …

Law & Crime reports: Three of pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s former law partners sued him in federal court on Thursday, claiming that they received a physical threats after he smeared them as “deep state” extortionists on his more than 800,000-follower strong Telegram account. Those ex-partners, Nicole Wade, Jonathan Grunberg, and Taylor Wilson, have been embroiled in litigation with Wood in …

Newsweek reports: A social media personality has gone viral with an over-the-top performance of a rap song calling for the assassination of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Alex Stein, of Dallas, Texas, can be seen rapping in front of a televised North Texas city council meeting. The songs’ lyrics include, “Put a bullet in Putin’s brain,” and “Vladimir Putin needs to …

“We have the firepower to wipe out every Russia city – just one Trident submarine – and of course we aren’t using it and have no intention of using it. “But why doesn’t somebody in the administration call Putin’s bluff? He’s bluffing! And every time he says, ‘Well, if you do that, we’re going to escalate.’ “Oh no you’re not, …

Media Matters has the transcript: CANDACE OWENS (HOST): Wow, “genocidal colonization” is interesting. Again, going back to my point about people being stupid, you know – he’s not trying to commit a genocide of the Ukrainians. That obviously makes no sense because there’s very – there is no difference, ethnically, between Ukrainians and Russians, obviously. Ukraine wasn’t a thing until …

The Associated Press reports: A major Boise hospital went on lockdown Tuesday after far-right activist Ammon Bundy urged supporters to go the facility in protest of a child protection case involving one of his family friends. Boise Medical Center went on lockdown and began diverting incoming patients at about 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday. “Safety is our top priority,” the hospital …