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Mediaite reports: Fox News host Jesse Watters introduced Republican councilman Ryan Webb as a lesbian “woman of color” during an interview on Monday. After saying it was time for Republicans to “have a little fun” with gender identity, Watters introduced Webb as a “straight, White councilman from Delaware County, Indiana who just announced he identifies as a woman, and not …

The New York Post reports: Megyn Kelly caused a stir on social media after she posted a photo of herself wearing a red MAGA-style baseball cap on Twitter over the weekend. The hat in question read “Make women female again” in all capital letters — a nod to the apparent culture war over gender and trans people. Kelly, who notoriously …

Mediaite reports: During an interview with Sky News Australia host Rita Panahi, Jenner predicted that Biden would lose the 2024 presidential election and “be gone” in “a year and a half from now.” Asked by Panahi what the country would like if Biden did get reelected, Jenner said, “I don’t even want to think about Joe Biden winning again.” “He’s …

CNBC reports: Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley said Wednesday that President Joe Biden, 80, will likely die within five years and that his supporters would have to count on Vice President Kamala Harris if he were to win re-election next year. “He announced that he’s running again in 2024, and I think that we can all be very clear and say with a …

“I think that absolutely is gonna be a major issue for discussion in this election. Listen, Joe Biden is 142 years old. In a very real sense, this election, the Democrats are suggesting Kamala Harris for president. You’re right there’s a real possibility if Biden were to win – and I don’t think he’s going to – but if he …

The Huffington Post reports: Twitter billionaire owner Elon Musk faced mockery after he boasted about paying from his own pocket for NBA superstar LeBron James, horror author Stephen King and “Star Trek” legend William Shatner to be verified on his social media platform. James, King and Shatner had all publicly rejected the idea of signing up for the website’s new …

Raw Story reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) blew up a hearing of the House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday when she called Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas a “liar” and blamed him for fentanyl deaths around the country — an outburst that violates House rules about impugning the character of a witness. The tirade forced Chairman Mark Green, a …

Breitbart reports: Caitlyn Jenner has launched a new PAC dedicated to confronting and stopping the “radical gender ideology” of the left. A movement the former Olympian says is being used by the left to “destroy families.” In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News last week, Jenner detailed how Fairness First PAC will “fight the radical gender ideology, put parental rights …

Yahoo News reports: The San Francisco district attorney blasted comments tweeted by Elon Musk after Cash App founder Bob Lee was stabbed to death in the street earlier this month. Lee, 43, was killed in the Rincon Hill neighborhood of San Francisco around 2:30 a.m. on April 4. A day later, Musk took to Twitter to lament how violent repeat …

Forbes reports: Twitter added a warning to NPR’s Twitter account on Tuesday, declaring it as “state-affiliated media,” a label that’s typically been reserved for foreign media outlets that represent the official views of the government, like Russia’s RT and China’s Xinhua. In fact, several people on Twitter pointed out that the social media company specifically said that news outlets like …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk has made his first big blue check takedown, and his target is one of the most esteemed newspapers in the world. Twitter previously announced that on Saturday, it would begin “winding down” its “legacy verified program” by removing badges they deemed “legacy verified checkmarks.” The New York Times, which has 54.9 million followers on the social …

The Hill reports: Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) offered to make President Biden a “soft food” lunch if he agrees to meet on the debt limit. “He is making the decision that he wants to put the economy in jeopardy. I don’t know what more I can do and how easy — I would bring lunch to the White House. I …

Bloomberg News reports: Rudy Giuliani and his lawyer appeared before a judge Tuesday to explain last-minute canceled depositions and delays turning over evidence in a defamation case brought by two Georgia election workers against former President Donald Trump’s longtime adviser. Asked about the canceled January deposition, Giuliani said he had a bad bout of flu that left him with a …

The Guardian reports: The White House rebuked the Republican former vice-president Mike Pence on Monday, for making jokes about US transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg, maternity leave and postpartum depression that it said were homophobic and offensive to women. “He should apologise to women and LGBTQ+ people,” said Joe Biden’s press secretary, Karine Jean-Pierre. Saying the secretary had taken “maternity leave” …

“Just like FTX, all the geniuses told you to buy SVB, even when it was on the brink of total collapse. What explains that? Surely something does, we don’t know really know at this point. Hopefully we will someday. “What we can say tonight is that SVB, like the scammers at FTX, had quite the public relations department. Yes, because …

“They don’t care about the people of Pennsylvania where Fetterman is supposed to be representing. They care about keeping a lid on this scandal. And that’s what this is. This is a giant scandal. “The Democrats basically crippled this man for power. They cheated him out of his recovery, missed every sign that he was struggling, ignored every sign, lied …

Mediaite reports: During the Wednesday edition of his podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, Cruz said for Democrats, the Ukraine war has become a virtue-signaling opportunity. “Democrats, they wear a Ukrainian flag. Zelensky has become, I think People Magazine is gonna name him the sexiest man alive. They’re in love with him,” Cruz said. “A Ukrainian flag has become like a …

Mediaite reports: Texas Senator and part-time podcaster Ted Cruz blasted President Joe Biden for his trip to Kyiv, Ukraine to see President Volodymyr Zelensky amid the Russian invasion. On the Wednesday edition of Verdict with Ted Cruz, the Republican suggested the air raid sirens heard during Biden’s tour of the city were fake. “The fact that neither Biden nor Zelensky …

“Look, you had Congresswoman Slotkin in tears. You had Governor Gretchen Whitmer in tears. Both of them completely emotional, off the rails going to a far-left progressive idea that somehow they and government must act to protect our kids. “First of all, the problem that I have is raising the bar and telling everybody that government, somehow, is going to …

Media Matters has the transcript: JESSE KELLY (GUEST): That’s what you see women like Chelsea Handler — feminists like Chelsea Handler — going with now. They’ve been lied to by their society forever, that you could be a “girl boss” and you can do anything a man can do — which everyone who’s ever seen a woman back up a …