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Playbook reports: “Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson does not have a bank account.” That was the lead of a Daily Beast story last week that cited financial disclosure forms in highlighting Johnson’s relatively modest finances — and speculating about Johnson’s financial well-being and whether he might be “ripe for influence buying.” The story prompted a host of …

Rolling Stone reports: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson admitted that he and his son monitored each other’s porn intake in a resurfaced clip from 2022. During a conversation on the “War on Technology” at Benton, Louisiana’s Cypress Baptist Church — unearthed by X user Receipt Maven last week — the Louisiana representative talked about how he installed “accountability software” …

“I’ve been labeled all kinds of stuff, but these people don’t know me. Look, my family – it’s no fun to be misquoted and maligned and mocked of course, but we know that comes with the job and we’re unfazed. I’m not even sure what the term [Christian nationalist] means. Look, there are entire industries built on taking down, tearing …

The Texas Tribune reports: For nearly four decades, Texas activist David Barton has barnstormed statehouses and pulpits across the nation, arguing that the separation between church and state is a myth and that America should be run as a Christian nation. Now, he’s closer to power than perhaps ever before. One day after little-known Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson of …

The Daily Mail reports: The ‘adopted’ black son of new House Speaker Mike Johnson has spoken out for the first time in an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com. Michael Tirrell James said he would ‘probably be in prison’ were it not for Johnson – after he appeared in a Los Angeles court Wednesday on charges of running an illegal cannabis business …

“I know it goes along with the territory here, but I will say it makes my very sad, it breaks my heart. Because I just wish that they knew this guy that I know. He is one of the most loving, kind, genuine people I know. He loves all people and would give you the shirt off his back. I …

“Maybe we’ll just have him over. If he could see what it’s like when I come home from work, and Chas is bringing the kids home from daycare or vice versa, and one of us is getting the mac and cheese ready and the other’s microwaving those freezer meatballs – which are a great cheat code if you’ve got a …

The New York Times reports: A divided House on Thursday passed a Republican-written bill that would tie $14.3 billion in military aid to Israel for its war with Hamas to domestic spending cuts, defying a veto threat from President Biden and bipartisan opposition in the Senate. Republicans pushed through the measure on a mostly party-line vote of 226 to 196, …

“It’s time for an honest conversation about homosexuality. There’s freedom to change if you want to. Our race, the size of our feet, the color of our eyes, these are things we’re born with and cannot change. But what these adult advocacy groups like the Gay Lesbian Straight Education Network are promoting is a type of behavior. Homosexual behavior is …

The Christian Post reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., revealed in a recent interview that his favorite part of the Bible is a psalm. “I love Psalm 37,” Johnson told The Daily Signal on Tuesday. “I would call that my life’s passage. The whole psalm. It’s great, and it’s so applicable to these times.” Johnson, a member of Cypress Baptist …

CNN reports: Speaker of the House Mike Johnson closely collaborated with a group in the mid-to-late 2000s that promoted “conversion therapy,” a discredited practice that asserted it could change the sexual orientation of gay and lesbian individuals. Prior to launching his political career, Johnson, a lawyer, gave legal advice to an organization called Exodus International and partnered with the group …

The Daily Beast reports: Newly elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) does not have a bank account. At least, that’s what Johnson reports on years of personal financial disclosures, which date back to 2016 and reveal a financial life that, in the context of his role as a congressman and now speaker, appears extraordinarily precarious. Over the course …

“You better sit down any candidate who says they’re going to run for legislature and say, ‘I want to know what your worldview is. I want to know what, to know what you think about the Christian heritage of this country. I want to know what you think about God’s design for society. Have you even thought about that?’ If …

Politico reports: Speaker Mike Johnson has tapped veteran Republican operative Raj Shah to build and oversee his communications operation, according to a person familiar with the move. Shah is expected to serve as Johnson’s deputy chief of staff for communications, where he will, among other things, help run messaging for House Republicans. Shah previously spent four years as senior vice …

“I’m not trying to establish Christianity as the national religion or something, that is not what this is about. If you believe in the bible’s commands and seek to follow those, it is impossible to a hateful person. Because the greatest command in the bible is that you love God with everything you have and that you love your neighbor …

“The words kind, joyful, humble, don’t often characterize politicians that I’ve encountered. They do for Mike Johnson. There’s chaos on the Hill. A lot needs to be done. But he had such calm in his demeanor. I really believe he thinks God is leading the way. This will all get figured out. And he is, I believe, here for an …

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Washington is bursting with varied reactions to House Republicans electing U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.) as speaker — ranging from “hooray!” to “who?” — but the strangest might be allegations that Speaker Johnson will turn America into a theocracy. “Welcome to the Republican Era of not even pretending they aren’t forcing their religion …

The Huffington Post reports: House Speaker Mike Johnson’s wife took down the website for her company, Onward Christian Counseling Services, a day after HuffPost pointed to documents on the site that compared homosexuality to bestiality and incest. HuffPost reported Friday that Kelly Johnson, the wife of the Louisiana Republican and newly elected speaker, is owner and CEO of Onward Christian …

“Speaker Johnson is saying, well, look, we might have to do just one more, just one more continuing resolution, we just got to do one more all the way through January 15th? Why is that? It’s obvious he doesn’t want to make people work through Christmas because he says, well, we need some breathing room. “No. No breathing room. Work …

The Insider reports: Kelly Johnson’s website listed a specialty in Temperament counseling, a specialty that she received training for from an organization founded in the 1980s by a Christian couple. The temperament-based approach breaks people down into five types: Melancholy, Choleric, Sanguine, Supine, and Phlegmatic. Richard and Phyllis Arno, who established a test to identify people’s temperament, founded the National …