Homocons

Politico reports: One of George Santos’ biggest GOP critics is seeking to block expelled members like him from returning to the House floor and other Capitol hotspots open to former members. Rep. Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.) is slated to introduce a resolution that would amend the rules to “deny certain privileges” to former members who have been expelled from the House, …

The Albany Times Union reports: On Oct. 10, Alison Esposito, a former Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, announced she was running for Congress in New York’s 18th Congressional District against incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. Pat Ryan. But according to her most recently available campaign finance records, Esposito did not pay anyone on her campaign in the three months after launching …

From the far-right Catholic site LifeSiteNews: After an extended absence from public view, former First Lady Melania Trump is reportedly set to return to the campaign trail for her husband starting with a fundraiser for homosexual “conservative” group Log Cabin Republicans at her and husband Donald’s resort home of Mar-a-Lago. Log Cabin Republicans advocate for homosexual “marriage,” homosexual adoption – …

Politico reports: Melania Trump, who has been largely absent from the campaign trail during her husband’s presidential run, is back on the GOP fundraising circuit. The former first lady is set to hold her first major political event of the year — a fundraiser for the Log Cabin Republicans on April 20 at Mar-a-Lago. The April event is the launch …

The Independent reports: A senior Conservative MP has apologised after revealing his involvement in a Westminster honeytrap sexting scandal, which targeted a minister and fellow MPs. William Wragg had leaked colleagues’ numbers to a man he had met on the gay app Grindr, after becoming scared over sending intimate pictures of himself to the user. Speaking to The Times, he …

“We’ve always seen honesty with President Trump. One thing about that guy is that you know who he is. He is always going to be himself, he never adjusts the nature of what he’s going to say or do to trick people or to pander. He cares about – not just police officers and the firefighters – but the nature …

The Washington Post reports: Richard Grenell, a former diplomat and intelligence official in Donald Trump’s administration, arrived in Guatemala in January, days before the new president was to be sworn in — and threw his support behind a right-wing campaign to undermine the election. Grenell met with a hard-line group that sued to block the inauguration, which thanked him for …

The Daily Beast reports: George Santos is taking on yet another identity. On Friday, the deposed congressman, serial liar and alleged fraudster announced that he would run for Congress again not as a Republican, but as an independent. “I will take my Ultra MAGA/Trump supporting values to the ballot in November as an Independent,” Santos boasted. Earlier in March, Santos …

NBC News reports: The Republican National Committee said Tuesday that it will not be hiring conservative activist Scott Presler, who has a large online following and has helped spread a wide range of conspiracies, including about QAnon, in recent years. Presler was director for a group critical of Islam that organized “March Against Sharia” protests and helped plan “stop the …

The cultist site Florida’s Voice reports: Republican National Committee Cochair Lara Trump announced she will soon be contacting conservative activist Scott Presler to set up a “legal ballot harvesting division” with Presler playing a major role. The announcement comes just after the outage of old RNC leadership and as Presler has pleaded with the national party for months to allow …

Axios reports: The GEORGE rule, which stands for Getting Expelled Officially Revokes Guaranteed Entry, would revoke the lifetime floor privileges afforded to former House members if they were expelled. Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who introduced the proposal, told Axios: “George Santos disgraced Congress with his presence during the State of the Union.” House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) opposed expelling Santos …

ABC News reports: Disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos arrived in the House chamber on Thursday night about an hour before President Joe Biden’s speech was to begin and about three months after he became the first House member to be expelled in more than 20 years. He was seen seated on the GOP side near the aisle — his …

NBC News reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a Texas man they say tried to scam former Rep. George Santos as well as an actor, a musician and a professional athlete by falsely suggesting he could help get criminal charges dropped. Hector Medina, Jr., was arrested in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, on Wednesday, and faces charges in the Eastern …

City & State reports: “I’m working on a movie – a documentary – and also a reality TV show,” Santos told City & State. “So there’s just so many things that I’m working on now that I prefer to engage in instead of going into a messy primary to take on Tom Suozzi.” Of course, you have to take everything …

Religion News Service reports: Church Militant, the far-right Catholic media network, will cease operating at the end of April 2024, according to a press release issued Friday (March 1) by the law firm Todd & Weld LLP. The law firm announced that Church Militant, operated by St. Michael’s Media, had lost a defamation lawsuit to the Rev. Georges de Laire, …

The Meidas Touch reports: On Friday, Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and club hosted a gay wedding. Trump has hosted Log Cabin Republicans national events in the past at Mar-a-Lago which have drawn scorn from social conservative who want the GOP to push for bans on LGBTQ rights and marriage equality. The group announced the marriage of John Sullivan and Dan Medora. …

The Washington Post reports: In his 17 years as a self-appointed enforcer of what he viewed as traditional Catholicism, Michael Voris developed a go-to strategy for taking on his targets: accusing them of being gay. The head of far-right website Church Militant, Voris often claimed the Catholic church was secretly run by an “international gay-crime syndicate.” In a 2020 webcast, …

NBC News reports: Former Rep. George Santos filed a civil lawsuit against Jimmy Kimmel Saturday accusing the late-night television host of using fake names to request Cameo videos from the former lawmaker and then misusing them on his show. Santos sued Kimmel for copyright infringement, fraud, breach of contract, and unjust enrichment. He is seeking at least $750,000 in damages. …

The Georgia Recorder reports: A controversial bill dubbed Georgia’s version of “Don’t Say Gay” moved forward in a Senate committee Tuesday after three years of work and multiple failures to move, largely over Republican opposition to the inclusion of private schools. The bill passed committee on a 6-3 party line vote during a committee meeting in which proponents were given …

From the Justice Department: A Florida man was sentenced today on a felony charge related to his conduct during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Steven Miles, …