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Remember last year when White House advisor Steve Bannon declared that he was ever so proud to have turned Breitbart into a “platform for the alt-right”? Apparently he said that in an alt-universe. Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch:  This morning, Dan Schneider of the American Conservative Union, which organizes CPAC, delivered a speech titled “The Alt Right Ain’t …

According to Sam Kriss at Vice UK, the big dark secret that Milo Yiannopoulos doesn’t want the world know isn’t that he’s casually accepting of sex between minors and adults. Nope, it’s something much more damaging to his image. Kriss writes: Milo’s secret is that he’s one of the most boring people on the planet. He spends every waking second …

NBC New York reports: The Anti-Defamation League’s national headquarters in New York received a bomb threat Wednesday, and the group says it is working with authorities to determine if it is connected to the rash of threats targeting Jewish community centers across the country in recent months. The bomb threat to the Third Avenue office was anonymous, according to ADL …

Today’s likely topics: Bomb threats at Jewish community centers. Deportation orders. The transgender students order. NBC News reports: White House spokesman Sean Spicer will likely face another day of questions about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement plans at his daily press briefing Wednesday afternoon. The Department of Homeland Security issued memos on Tuesday about how to enforce the immigration executive …

After two days of burying stories about the unfolding Milo scandal by blocking them from site searches, Breitbart has finally posted a report. Oh, but something is missing here. They write: Milo Yiannopoulos announced at a Tuesday New York City press conference his decision to resign as Breitbart Tech editor. “Breitbart News has stood by me when others caved,” said …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump, during a joint news conference Wednesday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, bragged about his electoral college victory in the 2016 election when asked a question about an increase in anti-Semitic incidents since Trump’s political rise. “I just want to say that we are very honored by the victory that we had, 306 electoral college …

From the Southern Poverty Law Center: Propelled by the Trump campaign and a new focus on the ‘alt-right,’ the Daily Stormer is now the top hate site in America. The celebrations at The Daily Stormer began early on Nov. 9, just hours after the presidential election was called for Donald Trump. And Andrew Anglin, the neo-Nazi who started the website …

Little Green Footballs reports: Many people have now joined the effort to inform major companies about the racist and misogynist nature of Breitbart “News” and urge them not to advertise at this “alt-right” hate site, and this ad hoc campaign is getting serious results. The number of companies that have now pulled their ads from Breitbart is at 400. That’s …

“The Alt Right and yours truly have become something like household names. We’ve been denounced by Hillary Clinton. We’re even too hot for Donald Trump. I’ve been on the front page of the New York Times more than I can remember. Hundreds of international journalists attend our press conferences. We’ve been parodied on Saturday Night Live and the L.A. Times …

Via Raw Story: Since the election, Colbert noted that there has been a lot of scrutiny on the alt-right news blog Breitbart, or as Colbert joked Breitbart.white. “Critics say the site is a hotbed of racist, sexist and anti-semitic views while supporters say exactly the same thing,” Colbert joked. After a lot of backlash, Kellogg’s announced they’d be pulling their …

The Associated Press reports: Richard Spencer, an alt-right leader who convened the weekend gathering sponsored by his National Policy Institute, told the Associated Press he was “disappointed” in Trump’s comments. But Spencer said he understands “where he’s coming from politically and practically,” adding that he will “wait and see” how the real estate mogul’s administration takes shape. Still, Spencer argued …

Buzzfeed reports: Tila Tequila’s Twitter account was suspended on Monday, capping off the social media star’s long and bizarre embrace of hate speech and Nazism. Twitter confirmed to BuzzFeed News that it had taken down Tequila’s account. Though the social network did not elaborate on the process by which it decided to deactivate the account, Tequila’s tweets have in the …

As protesters violently brawled with open Nazis outside today’s white supremacist event in Washington DC, lesbian reality star Tila Tequila was inside merrily giving the Nazi salute for the cameras. Tequila (real name Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen), a Vietnamese immigrant, is infamously anti-Semitic and has written blog articles and social media posts with titles such as “Why I Sympathize With …

Politico reports: On Friday Breitbart News appeared before the Standing Committee of the Senate Press Gallery in order to secure permanent Capitol Hill credentials. But while the act may seem mundane, the process may help shed light on the inner workings of the right-wing news site, whose chairman, Stephen Bannon, is now chief strategist to President-elect Donald Trump. Within the …

CNN reports: Nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said Tuesday that the alt-right movement is “truly terrifying,” adding that while leading Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon gave a voice to white nationalists. “He has given a voice and power to that group of people,” Beck told Anderson Cooper on “AC360.” “You don’t empower people like that. You just don’t. It’s not …

Via press release from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi: “After winning the presidency but losing the popular vote, President-elect Trump must try to bring Americans together – not continue to fan the flames of division and bigotry. Bringing Steve Bannon into the White House is an alarming signal that President-elect Trump remains committed to the hateful and divisive vision that …

Via Raw Story: Apparently, it’s “divisive” to point out Steve Bannon has ties to white supremacists. But according to Donald Trump’s communication director Jason Miller said on CNN that it isn’t divisive to appoint someone with ties to white supremacists to the White House. Miller attempted to parrot the new message from the Trump transition, claiming that he’s beyond attacking …

Via Politico: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said efforts to pin anti-Semitic and sexist headlines from Breitbart news to Steve Bannon, the site’s former executive and incoming White House chief strategist, are “baloney.” In fact, Gingrich said during a Monday morning interview on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” the controversy stirred up by Bannon’s appointment to such a high-level White …

The Guardian reports: The Democratic senator for Minnesota, Al Franken, has accused Donald Trump of launching an antisemitic TV advertisement along the lines of the fake Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Franken, who is Jewish, said he immediately was struck by what he called “a German shepherd whistle, a dog whistle” in a new two-minute advert from the Trump …

Via Mediaite: Things got feisty on CNN’s New Day when Chris Cuomo and Donald Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway faced off on Thursday in a heated interview. As they talked about Trump steadying himself during a campaign rally last night, Cuomo asked Conway about why the mogul has such a hard time controlling his mouth before he runs into trouble. …