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The New York Post reports: Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dished out wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories this week during a press event at an Upper East Side restaurant, claiming the bug was a genetically engineered bioweapon that may have been “ethnically targeted” to spare Ashkenazi Jews and Chinese people. “COVID-19. There is an argument that it is ethnically …

Yahoo Sports reports: Pro Football Hall of Famer and NBC analyst Tony Dungy apologized on Saturday after he posted a tweet this week pushing a debunked conspiracy theory about transgender and nonbinary children. Dungy replied to a tweet by pushing a widely debunked conspiracy theory that claimed school districts in the United States were “putting litter boxes in school bathrooms …

The Hill reports: Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) today urged the Biden administration to ensure protections for U.S. athletes competing in the 2022 Winter Olympics, warning about China potentially trying to collect athletes’ DNA, among other concerns. The senator detailed his concerns in a letter to President Biden that requested more information on how the U.S. will prepare for next year’s …

“Tiger Woods! That was an attempted assassination. They wanna lie to you and I that Tiger Woods was intoxicated and he was driving too – that’s a lie. Okay? “So there was no break or cement ravine in the place where Tiger almost lost his life. Well, the deep state wanted to take him out. Why? A week before his …

Media Matters has the transcript: I have seen the video, I think that there’s a lot of compelling arguments there for some voter irregularities. And the whole point has been, I can’t tell whether or not there’s been enough to would have swung the election the other way. I don’t know whether there is criminal activity, but there is enough …

Mediaite reports: Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett tweeted on Friday afternoon that after sending a “highly critical” column about Democratic nominee Joe Biden, his internet service cut out. He called the incident “odd, if not curious,” and reassured his followers that he drove to a nearby store to safely dispatch the piece. Jarett, a reliable supporter of President Donald …

The Hill reports: Democratic Louisiana House candidate Rob Anderson is fundraising off of opponent Rep. Clay Higgins’s (R) Friday claim that his wife has “the gift of premonition” and woke up this week crying over a dream of a dystopian future. Higgins tweeted Friday that his wife dreamed that “Federal squads were in our home seizing guns, knives, ‘unauthorized foods’ …

TMZ reports: A milestone day on QAnon’s absurd conspiracy theory-filled calendar is about to be washed away like the BS it is — because, no … JFK Jr. is NOT coming back to rally with President Trump. John F. Kennedy’s deceased son — John F. Kennedy Jr. — is trending this weekend … all to point out just how kooky …

Hemant Mehta reports at The Friendly Atheist: Over the summer, Sid Roth, the host of a show called It’s Supernatural, praised Jesus TWICE for allegedly fixing his backed-up toilet. Yesterday, he managed to outdo himself. During an episode all about why his viewers should support Donald Trump, his entire panel decided to speak in tongues and say… I don’t know. …

Salon reports: Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., on Thursday told a virtual town hall audience that he believed the 200,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S. had been inflated in order to “encourage people to use social distancing.” “When the final accounting is done,” the actual COVID-19 death count will be lower, Tillis claimed. The response echoes a false conspiracy …

The Charleston Post & Courier reports: For many, it seemed the logical and proper thing to do: extend for two months a policy requiring people to wear face masks in certain public places. But others opposed Mount Pleasant’s mask ordinance, arguing that people were wearing masks anyway, that expert opinion on their effectiveness in limiting COVID contagion is questionable, and …

The Hill reports: Trump was asked during his briefing about his tweet congratulating Majorie Taylor Greene on her primary victory, and specifically whether he agreed with her views on QAnon, which posits that Trump will expose and arrest a “deep state” cabal of Democrats and elites who control the government and run sex trafficking rings. “She did very well in …

Axios reports: Republican senators on Tuesday largely avoided discussing President Trump’s tweet alleging without evidence that a 75-year-old Buffalo protester, who was seriously injured after being shoved by police, is an “antifa provocateur.” Our thought bubble: It’s the classic dodging mechanism, which we’ve grown accustomed to during the Trump presidency. Whenever senators and Trump advisers don’t want to weigh in …

“The other thing is, it hasn’t been written about, occurred. Bob Mueller went into that meeting with Rod Rosenstein, and it was just the three of them in the Oval Office, and Bob Mueller had a telephone with him, a cell phone. He left that cell phone in the Oval Office after the meeting, and it is now believed by …

Politico reports: West Virginia GOP Senate hopeful Don Blankenship is amping up his racial attacks on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a new ad declaring, “Swamp captain Mitch McConnell has created millions of jobs for China people.” “While doing so, Mitch has gotten rich,” Blankenship adds. “In fact, his China family has given him tens of millions of dollars.” …

The Moscow Times reports: A Russian senator has warned of the slippery slope that legislators risked taking by passing a law against animal cruelty. The Federation Council struck down a bill on Tuesday that sought to ban cruelty against animals used in the training of hunting dogs and birds. “We treat many western fads with humor, including political correctness, the …

NBC News reports: Fossil fuels can help prevent sexual assault, Energy Secretary Rick Perry said Thursday. Perry described his belief at an energy policy event in Washington hosted by Axios and NBC News, while talking about how bringing power to African villages would save lives. “But also from the standpoint of sexual assault, when the lights are on, when you …

According to David Barton, only God-hating devil worshipers retire. And then God promptly (well, within a few years) smites the fuck out of them.