Crackpots

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 …

The Huffington Post reports: Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker cast doubt on the theory of evolution in recent remarks, saying the fact that apes and humans coexist disproves accepted science. “At one time, science said man came from apes, did it not? If that is true, why are there still apes? Think about it,” Herschel said in an appearance at …

The New York Post reports: Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, challenged Russian President Vladimir Putin to “single combat” amid the war in Ukraine — prompting a Kremlin official to fire back at the Tesla boss, calling him a “weakling” and “little devil.” “I hereby challenge Vladimir Putin to single combat.” Musk tweeted early Monday morning, a term that refers …

The Associated Press reports: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted some of America’s most prominent evangelical leaders to raise a provocative question — asking if the world is now in the biblically prophesied “end of days” that might culminate with the apocalypse and the second coming of Christ. Megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, addressing his congregation at First Baptist Dallas, said …

The Cleveland Scene reports: The Bishop of the Cleveland Catholic Diocese, Edward Malesic, will say a few words and offer a prayer this weekend at a local pro-life convention headlined by toxic “ex-gay” far-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos. Its program features an array of Christian nationalists and conservative media commentators whose positions on immigration, communities of color, Islam and the LGBTQ …

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 Christian Post reports: Ed Young, the pastor of the multi-site Fellowship Church in Texas, said in a sermon Sunday there are levels of hierarchy in Heaven and warned Christians who do not use their spiritual gifts to serve God’s kingdom will not be elevated to a higher position when they die. “I think for too many Christians, we’re like, …

Law & Crime reports: A Texas man who got into a scuffle with police outside the Capitol building on Jan. 6 pleaded guilty to a felony. Nolan Cooke was 22 years old when he traveled to D.C. with his girlfriend and joined the mob of Donald Trump supporters lashing out over Joe Biden’s 2020 presidential win. Although Cooke never made …