June 15, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups
Via email from hate group leader Monica Cole: One Million Moms is diligent in warning our supporters of inappropriate content our children and grandchildren could be exposed to in today’s media. Recently, popular YouTuber Ms. Rachel, a former preschool teacher with over ten million subscribers to her channel, openly supported Pride Month online. I personally no longer have young children …
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June 15, 2024 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
The Hill reports: Lara Trump, the co-Chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC) and former President Trump’s daughter-in-law, promised Friday to prosecute anyone who cheats in an election, threatening “we will track you down.” “This year is the year we do it,” Lara Trump said at Turning Point USA’s Detroit convention. “We are also sending a loud and clear message …
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June 15, 2024 Covidiots, Crackpots
The Daily Beast reports: In order to get on the ballot in President Joe Biden’s home state, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned to a group whose leaders include Trump supporters and election deniers, one of whom claims he was in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. Despite Delaware’s measly three electoral votes, the third-party candidate desperately needs to get on …
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June 15, 2024 News, Politics
The New York Times reports: There will be no opening statements. President Biden and former President Donald J. Trump will each have two minutes to answer questions — followed by one-minute rebuttals and responses to the rebuttals. Red lights visible to the candidates will flash when they have five seconds left, and turn solid red when time has expired. And …
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June 15, 2024 Mass Shootings, Trump Lies
The Washington Post reports: Less than six years ago, then-President Donald Trump took on the influential gun lobby after the deadliest massacre in modern U.S. history. He announced that he had told the National Rifle Association that “bump stocks are gone,” arguing they “turn legal weapons into illegal machine guns.” On Friday, Trump’s campaign to return to the White House …
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June 15, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
“It’s credible, isn’t it, that our founders were that young and they gave us this gift of this country. They were taking on the strongest military in the world and those colonists went and picked up their personal hunting rifles and their muskets and decided to go fight for freedom. If they can do that, we can do what have …
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June 15, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
The New Republic reports: There are endless possibilities for the creative uses of artificial intelligence—but recreating the voice of a civil rights icon for your own political benefit is definitely not one of them. Republican congressional candidate Anthony Hudson did just that, releasing possibly the most distasteful, cringe-worthy political ad of 2024 to date by using A.I. to resurrect Martin …
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June 15, 2024 Extremists, Nazis
Mediaite reports: Nick Fuentes, who is known for denying the Holocaust, has been a longtime critic of the young conservative organization due to its pro-Israel stance. On Friday, he crashed the Turning Point’s People Convention in Detroit, Michigan, with an entourage of supporters and cameras. Footage posted on social media shows security informing Fuentes that he is not allowed to …
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June 15, 2024 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Associated Press reports: Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday that the House will go to court to enforce the subpoena against Attorney General Merrick Garland for access to President Joe Biden’s special counsel audio interview, hours after the Justice Department refused to prosecute Republicans’ contempt of Congress charge. “It is sadly predictable that the Biden Administration’s Justice Department will not …
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June 14, 2024 JMG Community, Open Thread
Billboard Magazine reports: Broadway’s biggest night, the Tony Awards, is almost here. It all gets underway Sunday, June 16, at 6:30 p.m. PT/3:30 p.m. PT with The Tony Awards: Act One, co-hosted by Julianne Hough and Utkarsh Ambudkar. That 90-minute pre-show, where many of the technical awards are presented, streams on Pluto TV (click on the “ET” channel). Immediately following, …
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