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So this happened yesterday: Dave Rubin, a conservative author, writer and host of The Rubin Report on YouTube tweeted he’d like to be taken off AOC’s e-mail list and got a snarky response from the congresswoman in return. “Hi @AOC, not sure who you bought my email from, but I assure you I didn’t sign up for your mailing list. …

The Daily Beast reports: Donald Trump fans have been fuming for weeks at conservative mega-aggregator Matt Drudge, alleging that his Drudge Report has backed Democrats’ impeachment push and ignored GOP arguments in favor of the president. And now, as a measure of their dissatisfaction, would-be internet media moguls are looking to make it big by creating Drudge Report clones and, …

The Daily Dot reports: Milo Yiannopoulos appears to have sold his website dangerous.com amid reported financial troubles for the far-right provocateur. A grammatically incorrect message on the site Sunday states that “Dangerous.com has been sold and is no longer associated with it’s previous owner.” The former Breitbart writer does not appear to have publicly commented on the alleged sale thus …

From the EventBrite invitation: Carl DeMaio for Congress- Help us flip the House Red again! Join Log Cabin Republicans New York chapter and other Empire state groups support Carl DeMaio in being the first openly Gay Republican elected to congress! Host committee: Ashton Theodore Randle, Charles Moran, Torrey Shearer, Thomas Weirich, Benjamin Franco, Andrew Agnello. To join the committee RSVP …

The Hill reports: Matt Drudge declared that the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination is “Elizabeth Warren’s nomination to lose” in a rare commentary late Wednesday on Twitter to his more than 500,000 followers. The tweet from the reclusive Drudge also includes a photo of a Monday Warren rally in NYC’s Washington Square Park that drew an estimated 20,000 people. President Trump …

Jared Holt reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing persona non grata Milo Yiannopoulos announced that he has adopted a “fursona” as a snow leopard and that he purchased tickets to a furry convention; in response, organizers rescinded his event registration. Yiannopoulos posted an email screenshot to one of the few platforms he has left—his Telegram messaging channel—on Saturday and claimed …

Recode reports: Federal investigators are probing the conduct and practices of Mithril Capital, a venture capital firm co-founded by Peter Thiel, Recode has learned. US officials — including the FBI — have in recent months questioned some people close to Mithril regarding concerns of possible financial misconduct at the firm, according to people familiar with the matter who insisted on …

USA Today reports: Congrats are in order for Fox News contributor Guy Benson, who married his love Adam Wise in a Napa Valley ceremony Saturday. Benson, who hosts Fox News Radio’s “The Guy Benson Show,” told People that he and Wise first met in 2015 after Benson appeared on Fox News for what he called “the most terrifying television appearance …

Mother Jones reports: The campaign of North Carolina Republican congressional candidate Dan Bishop has associated with a far-right activist with a history of bigoted rhetoric who has defended the Proud Boys, a controversial neo-fascist outfit. Bishop, a state senator who authored North Carolina’s anti-transgender “bathroom bill,” is competing in Tuesday’s special election in the state’s 9th district. The activist, Brian …

Vice News reports: Silicon Valley appears to have blown up Milo Yiannopoulos’s business model. The disgraced right-wing troll is complaining that the major social media companies have effectively cut off his alt-right audience — and crushed his ability to make a decent living. The former Breitbart tech writer shared the complaints on Telegram, a messaging app where some alt-right allies …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Six months after striking a rare deal with prosecutors, former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock on Wednesday was officially cleared of criminal charges alleging he used his campaign funds as a private piggy bank. Completing what’s known as a deferred prosecution, federal prosecutors in Chicago dropped all charges against Schock after he completed a probationary period where …

The Hill reports: Chasten Buttigieg, the husband of 2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg, fired back at a White House aide who argued Vice President Pence couldn’t be “anti-gay” because he was having lunch with the openly gay leader of Ireland. As governor of Indiana, Pence signed a religious freedom law that was criticized as a pathway to legal anti-LGBTQ discrimination. …

NBC News reports: The executive director of the Log Cabin Republicans is the latest official to resign from the conservative LGBTQ group after it recently endorsed President Donald Trump for re-election. Less than a year after after she became the first woman to lead the group, Jerri Ann Henry, a lesbian activist who fought for the legalization of same-sex marriage …

The Daily Beast reports: The conservative op-ed website Quillette announced Monday night that controversial right-wing writer Andy Ngo is leaving his job as an editor at the site, an announcement that comes on the same day that a Portland newspaper published a story revealing that Ngo witnessed a far-right group planning violence but never reported it. Ngo, a photographer who …

“Jennifer is a friend and up until 24 hours ago she was a fellow board member with me on the national board. But like so many disaffected Republicans who have not been comfortable with President Trump and with his record, I look at the question of, ‘Is America is better off now than it was four years ago and is …

Mediaite reports: Jennifer Horn, the Log Cabin Republican board member who resigned in protest over their endorsement of Trump, spoke out against the president with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, saying: “He will divide and damage and destroy this country in any manner he thinks he need to advance his own political power.” Horn, a two-time Republican Congressional candidate from New Hampshire …

The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson today asked Trump if he’s OK with his administration’s recent steps to make it easier to discriminate against LGBT workers.  His response: “Well, you know, I just got an award, or an endorsement yesterday from the exact group. You saw that? They gave me the endorsement yesterday. I’ve done very well with that community and some …

The Washington Post reports: Jennifer Horn was pushed right up to a line she swore she would never cross. Her GOP organization, where she sat on the board for several years, had just endorsed President Trump for reelection, something she says she would never do herself. Faced with the thought of having to explain that decision to her children in …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: In a turnabout from 2016, the National Log Cabin Republicans has endorsed Trump for re-election, asserting he “met his commitments” to LGBT people. Robert Kabel and Jill Holman — who both are gay and serve as chair and vice chair of Log Cabin, respectively — announced the endorsement Thursday in an op-ed for …

Metro Weekly reports: LGBTQ people in San Antonio are boycotting a gay bar after its Trump-supporting owner announced his bid for Congress. Mauro Garza, owner of Pegasus nightclub in San Antonio, will seek the Republican nomination in Congressional District 20 — after previously failing to get elected in a different district in 2018. Garza, who is gay, a member of …