Crackpots

CBS News reports: In what has become a pattern of spreading vaccine misinformation, the Florida health department is telling older Floridians and others at highest risk from COVID-19 to avoid most booster shots, saying they are potentially dangerous. A prominent Florida doctor expressed dismay that medical leaders in the state, leery of angering Gov. Ron DeSantis, have been slow to …

The Daily Beast reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s brags to friends that star reporter Olivia Nuzzi had sent him intimate photos was what led the scandal to explode into the open, the Daily Beast can reveal. The 70-year-old scion’s boasts became known to the 31-year-old New York magazine correspondent’s boss—who confronted her over the photos. Nuzzi repeatedly denied an affair …

NBC News reports: The Supreme Court on Friday rejected Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein’s last-ditch request to be included on the ballot in Nevada, a key swing state. The court in a brief unsigned order left in place a decision by the Nevada Supreme Court that blocked Stein from appearing on the ballot over a dispute concerning whether the …

The Detroit Free Press reports: A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former independent candidate for president, to have his name removed from Michigan’s Nov. 5 ballot. According to evidence in the case, 90% of Michigan ballots have already been printed and it would cost at least a half million dollars to reprint …

“President Trump has many extraordinary gifts, and one of them is that he has very, very good instincts. And when he came out the first time, you remember, he was very against the lockdowns, publicly. He was for hydroxychloroquine. He was for alternative medicines. He was against the mass [vaccinations]. “But he was surrounded by bureaucrats and knowledgeable experts [makes …

CNN reports: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confirmed on Monday it is investigating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allegedly decapitating a dead whale carcass and transporting it home two decades ago. On Saturday, Kennedy said at a campaign event in Arizona he received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Services, an organization that falls underneath NOAA, informing him …

NBC News reports: Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Saturday he is being investigated for collecting a whale specimen. “I received a letter from the National Marine Fisheries Institute saying that they were investigating me for collecting a whale specimen 20 years ago,” Kennedy said during a campaign event for Trump in Glendale, Arizona, noting that he …

“Continuing to dump on Trump because of the ‘eating cats’ issue will create blowback on Nov. 5. Haitian voodoo is in fact real, and to dismiss the story out-of-hand rather than listen to the citizens of Springfield. Ohio confirms in the minds of many voters the stereotype of Democrats as smug elite jerks who think they’re too smart to listen …

“I think that Vice President Harris clearly won the debate in terms of her delivery, her polish, her organization, and her preparation. I think on substance, President Trump wins in terms of his governance, but he didn’t tell that story. In fact, the first question was an extraordinary lost opportunity because it was a question, which is, are Americans better …

The Christian Post reports: Former Fox News host Glenn Beck suggested during a conversation with Tucker Carlson in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday that his former employer is a source of spiritual evil from which he is glad to be free. During an hour-long discussion at the fourth stop in Carlson’s month-long national tour, Beck, who is Mormon and …

The Telegraph reports: Elon Musk is on track to quadruple his wealth and become the world’s first dollar trillionaire in just three years, new research suggests. The South African-born entrepreneur, 53, who owns companies ranging from Tesla to X, formerly known as Twitter, is already the richest person in the world. The SpaceX founder has a net worth of $251 …

Raleigh’s ABC affiliate reports: The North Carolina Supreme Court late on Monday upheld a lower-court ruling that Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s name must be taken off state ballots for the Nov. 5 presidential election. The intermediate-level Court of Appeals had issued an order last week granting Kennedy’s request to halt the mailing of ballots that included his name. The State …

Bloomberg Law reports: The Michigan Supreme Court said Monday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on the state’s November ballot as a third-party presidential candidate. The court, in a 5-2 order, presented what is likely the last word in what has amounted to more than a week of litigation between Kennedy, who withdrew from the race last month and …

The Christian Post reports: A barefoot Russell Brand knelt on the floor at the conclusion of an hour-long conversation with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson in Phoenix, Arizona, on Wednesday, and prayed against the “dark and demonic forces” in government and corporate America. The British actor also asked that the upcoming 2024 presidential election would provide an opportunity for …

CNN reports: The first ballots in the nation are scheduled to start going out Friday in North Carolina, but that could be delayed after a judge ordered a temporary pause on ballot distribution. The ruling came in response to a request from former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to remove his name from the ballot. North Carolina’s Democratic-controlled …

“Our polling was showing that if I stayed in the race, Vice President Harris would win, and I did not want that outcome. I don’t think that Vice President Harris is a worthy president of this country. “I think we need to have a president who can give an interview, who can articulate a vision, who can put together an …

The Detroit Free Press reports: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will remain on Michigan’s Nov. 5 ballot after a judge sided with Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who said it’s too late under state election law to have Kennedy’s name removed from the presidential ballot. Kennedy, 70, dropped his independent bid for president on Aug. 23 and endorsed former President Donald …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk engaged in one of his regular habits on The Platform Formerly Known as Twitter, amplifying a controversial tweet by commenting that it was “interesting” — this time a right-wing account that called for democracy to be replaced with a government system run by “high status males” and “aneurotypical people.” Unsurprisingly, Musk’s promotion of the tweet was …

Howard Kurtz: “Kennedy, who’s already admitted covering up, putting a dead bear in his car, now faces a tale once told by his daughter, Kik, about how he used a chainsaw to cut off the head of a dead whale and strapped it to the roof of his car. What is it with RFK and dead animals? Mitt Romney should …

Reuters reports: Sarah Palin on Wednesday won her bid for a new trial against the New York Times over an editorial that the former Alaska governor said was defamatory. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Palin can try again to prove that the Times should be liable for a 2017 editorial that incorrectly linked her to a mass …