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Television broadcast networks tend to slap a “far-right” label onto anything even remotely conservative, often referring to Republican members of Congress, fringe conspiracy theorists, and outright domestic terrorists with identical terminology for all three. Yet these same networks refuse even to acknowledge the existence of a “far-left,” — and in fact, since the 2022 midterms, they
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Ahead of Thursday’s House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring TikTok CEO Shou Chew, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC had their flagship morning news shows spouting off tales of possible despair and financial ruin from TikTok influencers the Chinese-owned social media app paid to fly to Washington to appear as props.
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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) drew the ire of Democrats, Republican internationalists, and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week when he said that the U.S. shouldn’t interfere in a “territorial dispute” between Ukraine and Russia and that the war wasn’t in the “vital interests” of the U.S. The backlash to DeSantis’s remarks was intense and made
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During a Thursday House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing featuring TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew, GOP Rep. Kat Cammack of Florida highlighted a video on the platform that she described as a “direct threat” to the members of the committee. But not long thereafter, the video had been removed from the platform. The video, which
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(Reminder: Every episode is now in the Unwoke section of our new podcast page. I’ll still be doing teaser blurb posts in Columns as reminders that new episodes are up.) Before anyone becomes unhinged about the this episode’s title, please remember that both Kevin and I voted for Trump and will gladly do so again. It’s just getting
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A billionaire heir to the Porsche automotive fortune has filed for divorce from his wife after her “dementia-like illness” made living with her difficult. Wolfgang Porsche, a 79-year-old executive of the German car company which bears his family’s name, has filed for divorce from his second wife, Claudia Porsche. Porsche and Claudia began dating in
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Students in separate incidents Wednesday in two states were accused of physically attacking teachers — one of whom, a woman in her 60s, was hospitalized. What happened in the first incident? Two teenage girls were accused of attacking a substitute teacher at Turning Point Academy, WSOC-TV reported, citing North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools. The 16- and
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According to a San Diego pastor, “Drag is holy.” You can’t make this up. The pastor says this in a video he took of himself dressed with rainbows adorning his religious wear. He confidently says, “Drag is holy. There has been an assault on the rights of drag performers in this country, and we must
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Gay dating app Grindr has threatened to out the names of every Republican legislator and party official with an account there if the GOP “doesn’t stop passing homophobic and transphobic laws,” and progressive Twitter has gone wild with approval. Youth Victory Fund founder Elijah Manley went one better and claimed that “I already know half
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Illinois mother, Brette Smith, filed a Title IX lawsuit after one of her Twitter posts went viral resulting in her and her 16-year-old daughter being “doxed” and “threatened.” The lawsuit attacks the child’s high school who enabled ample bullying and threats according to CatholicVote. Smith, a former Democrat posted the tweet back in September 2022
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Some students at an Australian high school are defending an art teacher who was arrested and charged over a wild brawl captured on video during which he punched an unruly student. The incident unfolded at the Maitland Grossman High School on Tuesday at about 2 p.m. Cellphone video showed the teacher, 62-year-old Michael Kable, throwing
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “war criminal” during an interview with Piers Morgan. The Sunshine State governor said he believes Putin has “grand ambitions” and is “hostile” toward America but lacks the “conventional capability to realize his ambitions.” DeSantis said that in the past, he and others have “overestimated”
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Once again, the first half of Wednesday’s White House press briefing featured National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby to serve as a crutch for incompetent White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre. Yet even during what WMAL radio talk show host Vince Coglianese referred to as “the grownup press briefing” there was at
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A far-left pundit was excoriated by transgender activists and allies after she dissented on a key point of the LGBTQ agenda. Ana Kasparian gained fame as a far-left co-host of the progressive “Young Turks” channel on YouTube, but she issued a tweet that was attacked by liberals as being far-right and bigoted. “I’m a woman.
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Eight Big Tech companies and one tech industry group all went radio silent when MRC Free Speech America asked whether communist Chinese government-tied TikTok should be banned in the U.S. MRC Free Speech America emailed leftist Big Tech giants Google, Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Instagram, Amazon and YouTube to ask for the companies’ opinions on
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Manufacturers of the made-in-China “Super Mini SN-02,” a knockoff of the early 1990s console Super Nintendo, may find themselves in civil litigation at some point over their seemingly obvious intellectual property theft. In the meantime, they’ve also been accused of inserting “racist” and “sexual” games into their catalog by a millennial parent who bought the
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A suburb of Denver, Colorado, has voted to cap the number of gas stations within the city limits to help “address” so-called climate change. However, some in the community, including one councilmember, admit the measure likely won’t help much. On Tuesday evening, the City Council of Louisville, about 20 miles northwest of Denver, voted unanimously
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Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) confronted Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel on Wednesday over the occurrences of myocarditis in young men who take the COVID-19 vaccine. While public health officials downplay the risk of young men ages 16-24 developing myocarditis, or inflation of the heart muscle, after receiving the COVID vaccine, the potential vaccine side effect has
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The tolerant left, ladies and gents.  Country singer Maren Morris performed during the four-hour “Love Rising” benefit concert on Monday in Nashville alongside other LGBTQ+ supporting artists to protest recent legislation aimed to prevent drag queens from performing in front of children. Morris announced she’d brought her toddler to see drag and told Tennessee to
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