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The Hill reports: The head of conservative outlet One America News Network (OANN) said Thursday that the organization will file an amicus brief in support of the White House as it faces a lawsuit from CNN over the revocation of reporter Jim Acosta’s press pass. OANN CEO Robert Herring wrote on Twitter that the organization backs the White House’s decision …

The Stupidest Man On The Internet™ writes: The Gateway Pundit announces — LIVE ELECTION NIGHT COVERAGE with host STEPHEN K. BANNON brought to you by Citizens of the american republic a C-4 non-profit dedicated to Economic nationalism and maximizing citizenship value. The Gateway Pundit is thrilled to announce Stephen K. Bannon will host coverage of election night 2018. Guests through …

Just posted by the Stupidest Man On The Internet, Jim Hoft: During today’s press conference Jacob and Jack released the name of the woman who claimed she was raped by Robert Mueller in a New York hotel room in 2010. We want to interview the accuser before we post more on the allegations. She is a public figure but did …

Splinter reports: Jacob Wohl, who insisted his “default is not to believe women,” stammered through much of the conference, spending more time complaining about people making fun of him online than he did actually presenting a credible case for the allegations he was supposed to be announcing. Nevertheless, Jack Burkman – whose fly happened to be down during this extremely …

Currently pinned to the top of the homocon fake news site: **EDITORS NOTE** Jim Hoft is NOT responsible for the posting of the original story reporting the accusations against Mueller. That was authored by Jacob Wohl himself. Under most circumstances we allow our writers, based all over the world, to post their stories directly to the website. After Mr. Hoft …

Posted today by the homocon fake news site Gateway Pundit: The woman accusing Mueller of rape was slated to detail her encounter with the special counsel at a press conference Burkman and Wohl are hosting in Arlington, Virginia Thursday at noon. However, upon arriving in Washington, DC she panicked and boarded a flight to another location. Below is a photo …

Vanity Fair reports: The Gateway Pundit — after first taking down the post referring to the claims regarding Mueller, and issuing an editor’s note promising to look into the allegations against Wohl—is now standing behind its writer. Editor Jim Hoft is now on board with Wohl’s hoax theory. On Wednesday, he shared Wohl’s post hyping the Thursday press conference, and …

The homocon fake news site Gateway Pundit tonight deleted their typically bombastic post from earlier today, which had been headlined this way: **EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS** : Special Counsel and Former FBI Director Robert Mueller Accused of Rape By ‘Very Credible Witness ‘ —MUCH MORE TO COME #BelieveAllWomen. In that post’s place, under its original URL, is this message: Earlier today we …

NBC News reports: While investigating the possibility of a hoax, the Hill Reporter‘s Ed Krassenstein, who was one of the reporters contacted, said he received threats, including a text message reading, “You’re in over your head…. Drop this” which included his and another editor’s home addresses. Krassenstein and other journalists also pointed to Jacob Wohl, a disgraced hedge fund manager …

“He’s not a white supremacist. That throws me off. Either he is a Native American or a Filipino because we don’t know that. But that he’s not a cracker like McVeigh, this is the part that throws me off. No blonde, blue eyed guy they couldn’t find? How’d they get this guy? This is the part that throws me off, …

“Republicans just don’t do this kind of thing. Even though every event, like mass shootings, remember, every mass shooting there is, the Democrats in the media try to make everybody think right off the bat that some tea partier did it, or some talk radio fan did it, or some Fox News viewer did it. Turns out, it’s never, ever …

CNBC reports: Facebook on Thursday announced the removal of 559 Pages and 251 accounts that it says broke the company’s rules against spam and “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” The company said it chose to disclose the removal of these accounts and pages due to the “timing ahead of the U.S. midterm elections.” Facebook said many of the Pages in question were …

Remember all the times Alex Jones screamed about gay wedding cakes? Apparently businesses don’t have the right to turn you away because of who you are if you happen to be Alex Jones. Right-wing conspiracy theorist Alex Jones hit PayPal with a federal lawsuit Monday, claiming bias against conservative views guided its decision to block his company from earning money …

CNN reports: The Washington Times on Monday issued a lengthy retraction and apology for an editorial it published in March about Aaron Rich, the brother of the slain Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich whose unsolved murder became the basis for conspiracy theories on the far-right. “The Column included statements about Aaron Rich, the brother of former Democratic National Committee …

“I’m the globalist lethal injection and I’m ready to die. So let’s just be clear, I’ve already won. This is all gravy from this point on. So I’m already in the system, I’ve already won and they thought it was a joke and now they just took their death dose. Really, I’m going to kill the New World Order. They’re …

“Once you get communism there’s no more welfare, there’s no more nothing. You get to live in a hovel and you get to have no running water and you get to have secret police knock your teeth out if you don’t show up for the mandatory work brigades and then you work about 65 hours a week on average and …

Slate reports: The bizarre QAnon conspiracy theory that has captured the imagination (and apparel budget) of some reality-challenged Trump supporters is starting to lose its footing. On Wednesday afternoon, Reddit shut down /r/greatawakening, the main subreddit used by Q followers to piece together clues, or “breadcrumbs,” left by the strange internet prophet they follow. At the time the board was …

“Latest Hurricane Florence update: New reports from NOAA aircraft show sharks have been lifted into the hurricane. So those of you in the target path in North Carolina, South Carolina: In addition to the pig manure, in addition to the slop, in addition to the floods, in addition to the cars rolling around on the waters in front of your …

“Alex Jones and Infowars, they’ve now been banned from Twitter as well. And by the way, what does that achieve? Getting somebody kicked off Twitter, what does that achieve for you, other than bragging points? You’re going to put it in your bio, ‘Got somebody kicked off Twitter’? I mean, what purpose does that achieve? Suppression is still suppression, and …

TechCrunch reports: Another domino has fallen in Alex Jones’ media empire. Apple confirmed with TechCrunch this that it’s pulled the controversial conspiracy theorist/provocateur from the App Store this week, banning the Infowars app over violations to its “objectionable content” rules. Slightly more specifically, the host was determined to have violated the TOS around “defamatory, discriminatory, or mean-spirited content, including references …