Homocons

The New York Daily News reports: A staff member for U.S. Rep. George Santos has been indicted on charges he impersonated an aide to powerful House speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise funds for the oft-lying Santos — and took a 15 % commission for his trouble. Samuel Miele was charged Wednesday in Brooklyn Federal Court with aggravated identity theft and …

First, a reminder from December 2022: Brandon Straka filed a defamation suit against MSNBC, Chris Hayes, and Ari Melber today and stated this is just the “first in a strategic string of lawsuits” he will be filing against various media outlets and individuals for egregiously malicious and untruthful reporting about the details of his misdemeanor charge related to the 8 …

The Daily Beast reports: An Oregon jury cleared two Portland activists of all civil liability on Tuesday after right-wing provocateur Andy Ngô accused them of physically attacking him while he was undercover at a 2021 rally. Ngô was unmasked and beaten at the demonstration with “fists and weapons” by “antifa” decked out in all black outfits, he said at the …

Newsweek reports: An armed Neo-Nazi group protested a Pride in the Park event in Watertown, Wisconsin, on Saturday afternoon that featured a drag story time and drag shows. Video journalist Oliya Scootercaster took to Twitter on Saturday to document the protest and wrote, “BLOOD TRIBE group marching in Watertown Wisconsin protesting Pride in the park.” In her videos, one Neo-Nazi …

The New York Times reports: About a year before George Santos was elected to Congress, he and three other men approached a loyal campaign donor with a potentially lucrative opportunity. A wealthy Polish citizen wanted to buy cryptocurrency, they said, but for reasons unclear, his fortune was frozen in a bank account. They asked the donor, a wealthy investor in …

The Daily Beast reports: Dan Wootton, a former star reporter at Rupert Murdoch’s Sun newspaper, has been accused of creating bogus online identities to trick and bribe men into sending him sexually compromising images. Byline News first reported Wootton had targeted media colleagues, friends, and members of the public for more than a decade, posing as a fictitious celebrity agent …

Politico reports: Naysa Woomer, former communications director for besieged New York Congressman George Santos, spoke for the first time with POLITICO’s Daniel Lippman about what it was like to work for the fact-challenged freshman. First, there was the time she said he almost burned the place down — literally. Early one morning in April, Woomer discovered that Santos, who liked …

Bloomberg News reports: George Santos, the embattled Republican congressman charged with federal fraud, won permission from a judge to dine, shop and to attend meetings and events in a broader area outside the US capital. US Magistrate Judge Anne Shields late on Wednesday agreed to modify the current restrictions imposed upon the lawmaker in his $500,000 bond. Santos was required …

The Miami Herald reports: Fabian Basabe had a bone to pick. At an event at the Standard Spa in Miami Beach, he had been seated next to people unfamiliar to him — prompting the former reality TV star and socialite who would later become a Republican state representative to send a scathing email to hotel employees. “Please don’t ever sit …

CBS News reports: GOP Rep. George Santos, who was indicted on federal charges in May, has asked the federal magistrate judge overseeing his case to ease his pretrial travel restrictions and allow him to move within a 30-mile radius of the District of Columbia. Santos’ lawyer told U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields in a letter Wednesday that the embattled congressman …

The Daily Beast reports: After The Daily Beast reported that a bumper crop of new maximum donors to Rep. George Santos (R-NY) appeared to have links to indicted Chinese right-wing financier Guo Wengui, new evidence suggests those ties are even stronger than anyone could have guessed. On Monday, the Hark Herald Press, an independent investigative outlet that scrutinizes Chinese political …

The New York Times reports: House Democrats plan to unveil a resolution on Monday to formally censure Representative George Santos of New York for blatantly lying to voters about his life story, teeing up a fresh attempt to reprimand the freshman Republican. The new measure faces long odds of passing the Republican-led House. But Democrats believe forcing a vote will …

Florida Politics reports: A formal sexual harassment complaint against Rep. Fabián Basabe has now been filed with the House. Two male staffers, Nicolas Frevola and Jacob Cutbirth, detailed many of the accusations already described in a lawsuit filed against Basabe in Leon County. Those include accusations the Miami Beach Republican told both men he wanted to have anal sex with …

“They come for me, I go right back for them because I think for far too long they’ve gotten away with going along to get along. So no, it’s not going to stay that way anymore. “I’m gonna call them out. You want to call me a liar. I’ll call you a sellout. I mean Mitt Romney, the man goes …

Founder Jim Hoft writes at Gateway Pundit: Within hours of its launch Twitter threatened to sue Zuckerberg and Meta. Twitter on Thursday issued a cease & desist letter to Meta over the new social media app ‘Threads.’ Elon Musk threatened to sue Meta over its new “Twitter killer,” Threads, a text-based app that resembles Twitter. Twitter accused Meta of hiring …

“The opening lines of that ad that his campaign retweeted have President Trump addressing the nation after the Pulse nightclub shooting. I don’t know how addressing a national tragedy just miles from DeSantis’ then-congressional district is ‘injecting gender ideology.’ “Look, it’s very clear, and we’re seeing it from across the conservative spectrum. Everyone agrees that this ad was misdirected, it …

The Miami Herald reports: Two former staffers for Florida Rep. Fabian Basabe filed a lawsuit Thursday detailing allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by the freshman Republican lawmaker. The lawsuit says Basabe made repeated lewd sexual comments and advances toward a legislative aide and an intern, slapped the aide’s butt without his consent while they attended an elementary school …

First, a reminder from Media Matters back in February: Before the group’s founder Jaimee Michell rode the recent surge in anti-LGBTQ rhetoric to guest spots on Fox News and right-wing podcasts, she and her fellow GAG chair David Leatherwood were pro-Trump operatives employed by right-wing communications firms representing other conservative figures who have attempted to capitalize off of the anti-LGBTQ …

The Hill reports: Some LGBTQ Republicans, responding to Friday’s video, said in interviews with The Hill that they would no longer support DeSantis as the GOP nominee in 2024. “It’s like he’s going mask off,” said Brad Polumbo, a Michigan-based libertarian journalist. “The cat’s out of the bag.” “This was the final nail in the coffin,” said former New Hampshire …

“Rank and file gays and lesbians, regular gays and lesbians across this country, they’ve had it. There’s at least four out of ten, or I would almost argue five out of ten are supporting Republicans and Trump. They’ve just have had it with this left who are not able to sit and listen. They’ve lost their mission.” – Former Trump …