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CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 riot issued a new round of subpoenas on Monday to five of former President Donald Trump’s allies directly involved in planning “Stop the Steal” rallies, including longtime Republican operative Roger Stone and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. The latest batch of subpoenas indicates the committee continues to focus, in part, on …

“You know, I learned about this 20 minutes before I went on air. And quite frankly, I’ve got all this incredible news that needs to be covered, and I just — I really think that what’s happening to me and to Infowars. “I mean, I know it’s a symptom of the disease of globalism and the disease of corruption and …

The New York Times reports: A superior court in Connecticut granted a sweeping victory to the parents of eight people killed in a 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., suing the far-right broadcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and his Infowars media outlet for defamation. The judge in Connecticut ruled on Monday that because Mr. …

The Huffington Post reports: Infowars conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has lost his third lawsuit brought by a parent of a child who died in the Sandy Hook school shooting, one day after he lost two other Sandy Hook cases. In a court filing unsealed Friday, Judge Maya Guerra Gamble issued her ruling for default judgment against Jones in the defamation …

The Huffington Post reports: Infowars host Alex Jones has lost two of several lawsuits filed against him by relatives of Sandy Hook victims after he routinely failed to comply with requests to produce documents related to his involvement in spreading lies about the deadly shooting. Judge Maya Guerra Gamble on Monday issued her ruling for default judgments against Jones in …

Media Matters has the transcript: ALEX JONES (HOST): CNN snaps their fingers. [CNN President] Jeff Zucker snaps his fingers, and Trump clicks his heels and hops up there at attention and says, “How high do you want me to jump, boss?” Here’s Trump in Alabama yesterday. [CLIP BEGINS] DONALD TRUMP (FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT): I believe totally in your freedoms, I …

The Bay Area Reporter reports: The office of the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus is closed “out of an abundance of caution” after members started receiving a barrage of negative messages, including death threats, in response to a mischaracterization of a song the group posted to YouTube, its executive director said Thursday. Chris Verdugo, a gay man who is the …

Media Matters has the transcript: The dominos start falling, you’re going to have Nuremberg trials, I mean — there’s going to be people getting hung. Because that’s what happens when you launch a bio-attack, is you get marched up there and they pull a switch and a trapdoor opens up and you fall about two feet and — that’s what …

Media Matters reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has debuted a new COVID-19 conspiracy theory that claims global powers planned and executed the worldwide pandemic with the ultimate goal of releasing a vaccine that gives much of the earth’s population severe brain damage. Videos promoting this conspiracy theory have racked up more than 5 million views since April 3 at …

Talking Points Memo reports: In a video clip that, according to Alex Jones’ website, has been viewed more than 1.5 million times, the far-right host and other members of his crew are seen standing in front of an SUV carrying several children and their mothers, stopping the vehicle from moving while alleging that the children were being trafficked. In reality, …

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear an appeal by Infowars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who was fighting a Connecticut court sanction in a defamation lawsuit brought by relatives of some of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Jones was penalized in 2019 by a trial court judge for …

From the YouTube description: Well-known conspiracy theorist and far-right radio show host Alex Jones visited Yale on Monday to film a video about senior society Skull and Bones. Jones believes that Bones was founded by the CIA and is responsible for the Great Recession. He got into arguments with several students about his views. As you’ll see, the students heckled …

CNN reports: Police in Washington, DC, are investigating an allegation that conspiracy theorist Alex Jones threatened to push a pro-Trump political organizer off of an event stage in December, according to people familiar with the incident. The allegation was filed with DC police by Kylie Jane Kremer, executive director of the organization Women for America First, a group that helped …

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports: Before multimillionaire conspiracy theorist Alex Jones riled up Donald Trump’s fans with lies about a stolen election, he privately expressed revulsion over the 45th president, a video leaked to Hatewatch reveals. “It’s the truth and I’m just going to say it. That I wish I never would have fucking met Trump,” Jones said on camera in …

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department and FBI are investigating whether high-profile right-wing figures — including Roger Stone and Alex Jones — may have played a role in the Jan. 6 Capitol breach as part of a broader look into the mind-set of those who committed violence and their apparent paths to radicalization, according to people familiar with the …

Media Matters has the transcript: I’ve been doing this so long, I just know what they’re going to do now. I just know. I mean, ask, how do you know? It’s called wisdom. It’s called knowledge. But as much knowledge as I have, I deferred my responsibility in my brain on the 6th, and I went and let Trump and …

The Austin Statesman reports: The Texas Supreme Court on Friday rejected, without comment, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ attempt to toss out four defamation lawsuits by parents of children killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. The parents sued in Travis County, where Jones and his InfoWars website are based, arguing that they were defamed and suffered emotional distress after InfoWars …

Media Matters has the transcript: It’s the modern Reichstag 2.0, but it didn’t go off like they wanted last Wednesday, so now they want the really big event. And they have the FBI call us and say, “Yeah, we want you to come in for questioning about running the attack on the Capitol.” Because now the official story is it …

Media Matters has the transcript: Ladies and gentlemen, when I tell you this, it’s not to brag about my connection to this embattled president because that in the modern world is a millstone around my neck. It’s to understand what happens. No one would book the Ellipse. No one would book the other areas. No one would pay for it. …

Newsweek reports: Conspiracy theorist and internet personality Alex Jones told a crowd of pro-Trump protesters in Washington, D.C. on Saturday that President-elect Joe Biden “will be removed one way or another,” while addressing the protesters from a stage. Jones also seemingly suggested that Biden is actually an undead entity. “We will never back down to the Satanic pedophile, globalist New …