Homocons

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, …

Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: Kellogg’s Raisin Bran Crunch commercial includes a double entendre that is inappropriate and unnecessary. Foul language or the implication of it is not needed in this or any commercial, but that is obviously what Kellogg intended with their play on words. The ad praises Charles (the character later referred to as Big …

The right wing American Spectator reports: Scott Presler’s name has been floated as a successor to McDaniel for years, particularly after the GOP’s inability to materialize a red wave in the 2022 midterm elections. This week, Trump mega fan Laura Loomer claimed that McDaniel “may” announce her resignation at the Winter Meeting, which starts today. The replies again pressed RNC …

Mediaite reports: In an interview on Inside Politics Sunday, CNN anchor Manu Raju asked Santos about the possibility he will take a plea deal on the 13-count federal indictment he’s facing. “You’ve been in talks over a possible plea agreement and the federal indictment you’re facing,” Raju said. “Do you expect you will reach a plea deal that will keep …

The New York Daily News reports: Ousted Republican Rep. George Santos said Tuesday he misses being in Congress — but not so much that he feels compelled to vote in the special election for his replacement. “Sure. I miss it. Of course I do. I worked really hard to get there,” Santos told reporters as he walked out of a …

Courthouse News reports: Calls to ban Germany’s strengthening far-right party, the Alternative für Deutschland, on grounds it’s a threat to democracy are growing after some of its members took part in an event where plans were discussed about deporting masses of “foreigners,” including citizens deemed not to have adequately “assimilated” into German culture. The event was headlined by Martin Sellner, …

First, a reminder about the head of the Log Cabin Republicans’ Colorado chapter, who earlier this month launched a bid for the US House: In a series of Facebook posts over the past month, Valdamar Archuleta, executive director of the Colorado Log Cabin Republicans, blames people his organization purports to represent for “increasing violence towards the LGBT community.” Just a …