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“He wears like sweatshirts and hoodies and shorts, and that’s his thing. So he would campaign in that — which is your prerogative, right? I mean, if that’s what you want to do. But to show up in the United States Senate with that and not have the decency to put on proper attire? “I think it’s disrespectful to the …

Lauren Boebert: We just had Kevin McCarthy, the Speaker of the House, announce an impeachment inquiry. We facing a government shutdown and trying to fund the federal government. We have a wide open southern border. We have Zelensky threatening to send refugees here. And what’s the top story? Lauren Boebert getting kicked out of this theater in Denver, Colorado. OAN …

The Daily Beast reports: After Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was forcibly ejected from a touring production of the Beetlejuice musical in Denver last weekend, a spokesperson confirmed that she was “guilty” of “singing along, laughing and enjoying herself,” but denied—as a number of reports claimed—that she’d been vaping in the theater. But surveillance footage from inside the theater, obtained Thursday …

The Denver Post reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert didn’t care if she ruined the musical “Beetlejuice” playing at the Buell Theatre for anyone else, and she certainly didn’t care if the pregnant woman sitting behind her had to breathe her second-hand smoke from a vape pen. The woman sitting directly behind Boebert shared her story with The Post on the condition …

The Denver Post reports: U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert was escorted out of a Sunday night performance of the “Beetlejuice” musical in downtown Denver, accused by venue officials of vaping, singing, recording and “causing a disturbance” during the performance. The report quotes one of the ushers: “They told me they would not leave. I told them that they need to leave …

CNN reports: A spokesperson for Gov. Ron DeSantis said Friday that there are no plans for the Republican to meet with President Joe Biden when he travels to Florida on Saturday, contradicting comments Biden made earlier in the day indicating they would. “We don’t have any plans for the Governor to meet with the President tomorrow,” DeSantis spokesperson Jeremy Redfern …

Media Matters has the transcript: STEVE DOOCY (CO-HOST): Here’s a video you are going to be talking about today. Climate protesters causing a miles-long traffic jam when they blocked the only road leading into the Burning Man festival and then this happened. DOOCY: Okay. She is not happy. Jimmy Failla, hosts Fox Across America on Fox News radio and Fox …

Mediaite reports: CNN’s Dana Bash had a fiery battle with Vivek Ramaswamy — pressing the Republican presidential candidate for calling Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-MA) one of the “modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.” “What I said is the grand wizards of the KKK would be proud of what they would hear her say,” Ramaswamy answered, “because there’s nothing more …

NPR reports: “I understand that late last night a member of the House majority thought it appropriate to curse at some of these young people,” Schumer said Thursday on the Senate floor. “I was shocked when I heard about it. I am further shocked at his refusal to apologize.” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., agreed with Schumer, adding “everybody …

The New York Times reports: Throughout the spring, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida and his advisers waved off his sagging poll numbers with the simple fact that he wasn’t yet an actual candidate for president. Two months in, however, his sputtering presidential campaign is still struggling to gain traction. One recent move that drew intense blowback, including from Republicans, was …

“When you are a citizen of the world, you always think about the world instead of the United States. Remember, this is a guy whose father has roots in Africa. This is a guy who spent a lot of his childhood in Southeast Asia and then spent a lot of time in Hawaii. Was that the last state to get …

“Do you get your best in life, do you get excellence, if you care about things that don’t matter? This person tragically passes away – the CEO of OceanGate – and he says that he was choosing and selecting his personnel based on not wanting to have fifty-year-old white guys. Then you could make the argument, albeit rather cruel and …

The Insider reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire owner of Twitter, has amped up his anti-transgender campaign and has rejected the use of specific terms on the platform that are important to transgender people. Musk has a tendency to make announcements about Twitter’s policies based on personal whims, but it’s unclear whether this is an official policy that will be upheld. …

Mediaite reports: Florida Governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis mocked Bud Light over the Dylan Mulvaney scandal while serving drinks to a group of veterans at VFW post in Sparks, Nevada. DeSantis was one of the leading critics of the company for going “woke” and encouraged right-wingers to drop the beer for good. “Just so you know, I’ll serve …

Mediaite reports: The official rapid response account for the Ron DeSantis presidential campaign released a new advertisement on Thursday suggesting that President Joe Biden is creepy with children. The video is a montage of Biden swearing in members of Congress during his years as vice president interacting with the friends and families of newly elected Senators. The DeSantis War Room …

Castanet reports: Two Kelowna moms are speaking out after their 9-year-old daughter was verbally assaulted at a track and field event on Thursday at Kelowna’s Apple Bowl. The mothers, who choose not to identify their daughter, say she was competing in a shot-put event when a grandfather of one of the other participants started yelling at her. “She went to …

Newsweek reports: A brewery in California announced on Monday that it was cutting ties with a professional fisherman after he expressed support for a new anti-gay law in Uganda. “We learned of Mr Dyer’s view this morning and immediately severed our relationship with him. We could not disagree more strenuously with Mr. Dyer’s view and the abomination that is going …

The Indianapolis Star reports: The city of Westfield deleted social media posts last week recognizing Pride Month on its Twitter account and Facebook page under the direction of Mayor Andy Cook. Cook said the city “should not engage in supporting a social agenda.” On Thursday, the start of Pride Month, Westfield posted a graphic on city social media accounts that …

Florida Politics reports: Ron DeSantis is campaigning for President in South Carolina Friday with a stump speech includes mocking Joe Biden for “stumbling around.” “So, you know, we saw the images yesterday of Biden stumbling around. And you know, honestly, you know, it’s a sad thing to see. You don’t want to see anyone do that,” DeSantis said. The Governor …

The Christian Post reports: Conservative Christian actor and author Kirk Cameron will be releasing his second children’s book, ahead of LGBT “pride month,” titled Pride Comes Before the Fall. The former star of the television sitcom “Growing Pains” gave a preview of the new book, which is slated for release on June 1, during an event at the Billy Graham …