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ZDNet reports: A new mobile app described as the “Yelp for conservatives” is leaking user records and business reviews, according to a French security researcher. According to Baptiste Robert, a French security researcher who goes online under the pseudonym of Elliot Anderson (the name of the main character from the Mr. Robot TV show about hackers), the 63red Safe app …

Reuters reports: A Kentucky teenager sued CNN on Wednesday for defamation, saying the cable network falsely conveyed to viewers that he was the “face of an unruly hate mob” confronting a Native American activist at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington in January. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann in federal court in Kentucky, …

Via press release: Today Rep. Eric Swalwell (CA-15), Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) reintroduced the Journalist Protection Act to make a federal crime of certain attacks on those reporting the news. This reintroduction is happening during Sunshine Week, when we recognize the importance of access to information. A free press is critical in helping to shine …

Newsweek reports: Senior advisor for President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign Katrina Pierson rejected criticism about a lack of black staffers in the West Wing by asking critics how many African-Americans Abraham Lincoln had in his administration. Pierson, unable to name one black staffer in Trump’s West Wing, claimed she had been offered Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ press secretary role but turned …

The Daily Beast reports: Trump supporters who want to grab dinner but are terrified of getting punched by an antifascist “antifa” activist can pull up the app, “63red Safe,” and find a list of Trump-friendly businesses—or at least ones that don’t discriminate against conservatives. 63red Safe works like a conservative Yelp. Instead of reviewing the lighting and ambience, though, the …

The Hill reports: HBO host Bill Maher confronted CPAC head Matt Schlapp on Friday about Fox News’s coverage of President Trump, saying the network is “basically running our government.” “This is unprecedented, the fact that Sean Hannity does a show every night praising Trump, and then after the show Sean Hannity and Trump talk,” Maher said. “Now, if Obama was …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Friday signed bibles for people affected by a string of deadly storms that ripped through Alabama. The president made the gesture while visiting a Baptist church in Opelika, Ala., that is serving as a disaster-relief center. Local volunteer Ada Ingram told reporters that Trump signed several hats and bibles, including one for a 12-year-old …

CNBC reports: Two websites used by President Donald Trump’s longtime friend Roger Stone to raise funds for his defense against criminal charges lodged by special counsel Robert Mueller and in civil cases have been deleted. At least one of those deletions apparently occurred after CNBC reported Sunday that the Republican operative might have violated the terms of his judicial gag …

Fox News personalities Zircon and Burlap yesterday called for literally imprisoning the lawmakers involved in the burgeoning new probe into Trump’s White House and personal businesses.  Last year, after having lied under oath about being paid to attend Trump rallies, they made similarly deranged claims, including that “millions of thousands” of Americans are “being killed by illegal immigrants” and that …

“We the people will now be subject to what will be the biggest, most gruesome display of modern-day McCarthyism, which is just the widest fishing expedition, all in an effort to destroy the president and anybody who supports him. Because the bottom line is all they care about is getting their power back so they can institute socialism right here …

Politico reports: Roger Stone is under fire for possible violations of his court-imposed gag order after a weekend social media post suggested he’d been “framed” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and ahead of the imminent re-release of a book he co-wrote that explores the “myth of Russian collusion.” The longtime Donald Trump associate remains under a Feb. 21 order …

Talking Points Memo reports: Conservative pundit and former White House official Sebastian Gorka is no longer a paid contributor at Fox News, the network has confirmed. Gorka made headlines last week for his comments at the Conservative Political Action Conference, when he claimed that Democrats’ Green New Deal was a guise to “take away your hamburgers.” “They want to take …

CNBC reports: Roger Stone on Sunday suggested he has been “framed” by special counsel Robert Mueller in an Instagram post that appeared to run afoul of a judge’s barely week-old gag order barring President Donald Trump’s longtime friend from criticizing the prosecutors in the criminal case against him. Stone deleted the only image in that multi-image post that included “Who …

Bloomberg reports: Roger Stone has more explaining to do. In a brief court order Friday, the judge overseeing Stone’s criminal case asked lawyers for the longtime adviser to President Donald Trump why she wasn’t told about the “imminent general release” of a book Stone appears to be involved with. Just eight days ago, U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson reprimanded …

From an “Editor’s Note” posted this afternoon: A Washington Post article first posted online on Jan. 19 reported on a Jan. 18 incident at the Lincoln Memorial. Subsequent reporting, a student’s statement and additional video allow for a more complete assessment of what occurred, either contradicting or failing to confirm accounts provided in that story — including that Native American …

“It’s common sense to me that conservatives need to start invading culture, because we are the party that believes first and foremost in God. And in case you guys forgot, it was our belief in God and Judeo-Christian values that inspired culture in the first place. Florence [Italy] is arguably one of the most beautiful cities in the world. “It’s …

Talking Points Memo reports:  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of President Donald Trump’s most stalwart allies, creatively dismissed Michael Cohen’s evidence that Trump signed reimbursement checks for Stormy Daniels’ hush money payments from his personal account, saying that “people don’t write checks if they think they’re involved in a crime.” Sen. Lindsey Graham on copy of Trump check and Stormy …

“Cohen told Congress this week that he had a kind of road to Damascus experience. He was personally and morally offended by what his boss said in two occasions. First, after the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, that was the summer of 2017, and later when he watched Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, about a year …

The Daily Beast reports: According to Nielsen, CNN averaged 588,000 viewers aged 25-54 (a key demographic for advertisers) during the Cohen hearings, which lasted from 10 a.m. until 5:15 p.m. ET. MSNBC came in second in the 25-54 demographic, pulling an average of 452,000 viewers, while Fox News finished last with an average of 388,000. MSNBC finished first in overall …

Mediaite reports: The Atlantic‘s Edward-Isaac Dovere reports that President Donald Trump spoke to Gaetz this week while he was still in Vietnam for his denuclearization summit with Kim Jong Un. Trump used this phone call to vent over Cohen’s congressional testimony against him, and according to Dovere, Gaetz said “I was happy to do it” when the president brought up …