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I read it was actually the Gonzaga team that he saw. What an idiot.Just dumb...
Fact check: Michigan GOP legislator posted about ‘illegal invaders’ at Detroit airport. It was Gonzaga’s March Madness team | CNN Politics
A Republican state representative in Michigan, Rep. Matt Maddock, claimed on social media on Wednesday night that he had photo evidence of “illegal invaders” arriving at Detroit Metro Airport.www.cnn.com
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Boise State University (BSU) professor and Claremont Institute scholar Scott Yenor was the hidden hand behind Action Idaho, a far-right online media platform that featured inflammatory rightwing commentary on politics in that state, documents obtained by the Guardian reveal.
The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D Klingenstein.
He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, Pedro Gonzalez, to lead the initiative. Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020. They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive fraternal Christian Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.
The Guardian contacted Scott Yenor with a detailed request for comment on this story. He only responded directly to one question, writing that “Pedro Gonzalez did not accept the offer” of employment. The remainder of the reply was personal abuse.……
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The documents, obtained through public records requests, also show that Yenor sought and received funding for the initiative from wealthy and influential donors like Claremont Institute board chair, Thomas D Klingenstein.
He also attempted to hire a rising conservative writer, Pedro Gonzalez, to lead the initiative. Gonzalez was later embroiled in a controversy about antisemitic remarks he made in online chats in 2019 and 2020. They also show him tapping a network of expertise that overlaps both with the Claremont Institute and the Society for American Civic Renewal (SACR), a secretive fraternal Christian Nationalist organization the Guardian has reported on extensively.
Yenor has not publicly disclosed his involvement in Action Idaho, and it has only been fleetingly mentioned in previous reporting on Talking Points Memo. The revelations could raise further questions about the potential conflicts between Yenor’s professorial position at a public university and his political activism.
The Guardian contacted Scott Yenor with a detailed request for comment on this story. He only responded directly to one question, writing that “Pedro Gonzalez did not accept the offer” of employment. The remainder of the reply was personal abuse.……
Revealed: Idaho professor behind extremist site that spread conspiracies
BSU’s Scott Yenor ran Action Idaho, which attacked the university, LGBTQ+ people and Republicans deemed not rightwing enough
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Claiming to be one of the very fine people at Charlottesville Trump was talking aboutENID, Okla. — The photo of Judd Blevins was unmistakable.
In it, Blevins, bearded and heavyset, held a tiki torch on the University of Virginia campus, on the eve of Unite the Right, a 2017 coming-together of the nation’s neo-Nazi and white supremacist groups.
Connie Vickers had found the photo online along with others showing Blevins marching alongside an angry mob — a crowd of men recorded throughout the night spitting and shouting “Jews will not replace us!” Vickers had it enlarged at a local print and copy shop.
On a January night in 2023, she and Nancy Presnall, best friends, retirees and rare Democrats in a deeply red Oklahoma county, brought it to a sparsely attended forum where Blevins, a candidate running to represent Ward 1 on Enid’s six-seat City Council, was making his case.
They had hoped to get a question in while Blevins was on stage, but settled for confronting him after.
Hearts pumping, Presnall and Vickers approached the 41-year-old former Marine. From a kitchen trash bag, Vickers pulled out the blown-up photo of Blevins and asked about his ties to white nationalists.
As his campaign manager whisked a red-faced Blevins away, Vickers and Presnall followed, yelling, “Answer the question, Judd!”
“He ran away from two little old ladies,” Presnall recalled.
Two weeks later, on Valentine’s Day, Blevins won his race, unseating the Republican incumbent, widely viewed as a devoted public servant, who died from cancer later that year. Voters seemed to appreciate Blevins’ bio: a veteran who’d served in Iraq and who’d worked a manual job in Tulsa before moving back to his hometown to take over his father’s roofing business. Blevins described himself as a man of God and extolled the city as a place where “traditional values” remained the norm.
The message resounded in Enid, a city nearly 100 miles north of Oklahoma City with just over 50,000 people. In 1980, more than 90% of the area's residents were white; now less than 3 in 4 are. Enid is both one of the country’s most quickly diversifying places and one of the most conservative, where residents describe the ever-present whirring of jets from nearby Vance Air Force Base as “the sound of freedom.”
It’s not clear how many voters knew about Blevins’ white nationalist ties. There was an article in the local paper, which Blevins labeled “a hit piece,” but beyond the confrontation with Vickers and Presnall, it just wasn’t talked about. Blevins wasn’t asked about it at campaign events or forums and his opponent never brought it up.
But a white nationalist campaigning for office is one thing; his election is another. And Blevins’ win didn’t sit well with many in Enid. It marked the beginning of a fight to expel Blevins from the City Council — a fight for the very soul of Enid that would unite a coalition of its most progressive residents, divide its conservatives and show the power of community organizing.
Over the next year, grandmothers would be branded antifa radicals, local organizers would be accused of attempted murder, and a national white power movement would stake its claim on the City Council. And for a growing number of state and local governments confronting extremism in their ranks, the outcome of that fight — Blevins’ recall election on April 2 — will serve either as a model or a warning.............
A small city in Oklahoma elected a white nationalist. Will it be able to vote him out?
Judd Blevins, a city commissioner in Enid, Oklahoma, marched in the 2017 white nationalist Unite the Right rally. Now he faces a recall vote.www.nbcnews.com
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Voters in the north-west Oklahoma city of Enid are being asked to decide whether a councilmember who attended the deadly white supremacist rallyin Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 should be removed from his post.
Iraq war veteran Judd Blevins, 42, was elected to Enid’s city council to be the commissioner of its first ward last year. He soon faced an effort by the Enid social justice committee, which claimed Blevins “embraces the same Nazi ideology [the US] defeated almost 80 years ago” during the second world war.
Accusations against Blevins levelled by the group are not limited to his attendance in Charlottesville, where neo-Nazi groups protested the removal of a Confederate monument in a demonstration that led to the murder of a counterprotester.
He also has been linked to chatroom posts planning the march, and posted hate group propaganda and recruited members to Identity Evropa, a white-supremacist group that has been disbanded.
In addition to the murder of counterprotester Heather Heyer, the Charlottesville rally was marked by a state police helicopter crash that killed two.
Blevins’ election to office came after a local newspaper, the Enid News & Eagle, ran a story about his ties to white nationalism.
“Our initial desire was for either Judd Blevins to address these questions and denounce any sense of neo-Nazism or white supremacy or for Enid’s leadership to step up and get those answers and demand those answers,” the committee’s James Neal said in a petition to remove Blevins.
He added: “Neither of those things have occurred, and we are left to take it to the voters, to the people, to address the issue.”
In his response, Blevins said: “Regrettably, this fringe group has chosen to continue a smear campaign against me.” He maintained that the effort to remove him would be an added cost to taxpayers.….
Blevins acknowledged in recent days that he participated in the Charlottesville rally, where white nationalists held a tiki torch-light parade across the University of Virginia campus chanting “Jews will not replace us” and said he had been connected to Identity Evropa.
But he repeated that he is “opposed to all forms of racial hate and racial discrimination”.….
Politician who attended Charlottesville white-supremacist rally faces recall
Pushback against Oklahoma’s Judd Blevins transcending partisanship, says organizer: ‘It’s a Nazi and not-Nazi thing’
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Far-right conspiracy theorists have existed in the Republican Party for generations, but in the past, they weren't as prominent as they are now.
The late National Review founder William B. Buckley famously shunned the far-right John Birch Society during the 1960s and 1970s, making it abundantly clear that he thought they were terrible for the conservative movement. In contrast, The Bulwark is one of the few right-wing publications that, in 2024, is openly, unapologetically critical of former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement — and The Bulwark's Never Trump conservatives don't hesitate to call out conspiracy theorists like Infowars' Alex Jones.
Conspiracy theorists can do a lot of damage, especially when people who buy into them resort to violence, threats or intimidation.
In an article published by the New York Times on March 31, journalist/author Elizabeth Williamson describes efforts to make conspiracy theorists pay a price financially and legally for the problems they cause.
The examples Williamson describes range from Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss suing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to the Sandy Hook families suing Jones.
"Payouts have been particularly large for defamation cases against the right," Williamson explains. "In January, the lawyer Roberta Kaplan defeated former President Donald J. Trump in court when a jury ordered him to pay $83 million for defaming her client, E. Jean Carroll, a writer he sexually abused. Last year, lawyers from the firm Susman Godfrey secured a $787.5 million settlement for Dominion Voting Systems from Fox News, one of the biggest ever in a defamation case, after Fox aired bogus theories falsely linking the company to election fraud."
Williamson adds, "In late 2022, Sandy Hook families defamed by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won a total of nearly $1.5 billion from juries in Texas and Connecticut, though Mr. Jones has yet to pay them anything.".............
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The late National Review founder William B. Buckley famously shunned the far-right John Birch Society during the 1960s and 1970s, making it abundantly clear that he thought they were terrible for the conservative movement. In contrast, The Bulwark is one of the few right-wing publications that, in 2024, is openly, unapologetically critical of former President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement — and The Bulwark's Never Trump conservatives don't hesitate to call out conspiracy theorists like Infowars' Alex Jones.
Conspiracy theorists can do a lot of damage, especially when people who buy into them resort to violence, threats or intimidation.
In an article published by the New York Times on March 31, journalist/author Elizabeth Williamson describes efforts to make conspiracy theorists pay a price financially and legally for the problems they cause.
The examples Williamson describes range from Georgia election workers Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss suing former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani to the Sandy Hook families suing Jones.
"Payouts have been particularly large for defamation cases against the right," Williamson explains. "In January, the lawyer Roberta Kaplan defeated former President Donald J. Trump in court when a jury ordered him to pay $83 million for defaming her client, E. Jean Carroll, a writer he sexually abused. Last year, lawyers from the firm Susman Godfrey secured a $787.5 million settlement for Dominion Voting Systems from Fox News, one of the biggest ever in a defamation case, after Fox aired bogus theories falsely linking the company to election fraud."
Williamson adds, "In late 2022, Sandy Hook families defamed by the conspiracy theorist Alex Jones won a total of nearly $1.5 billion from juries in Texas and Connecticut, though Mr. Jones has yet to pay them anything.".............
'I've always despised bullies': Meet the attorneys bringing conspiracy theorists to justice
Far-right conspiracy theorists have existed in the Republican Party for generations, but in the past, they weren't as prominent as they are now. The late National Review founder William B. Buckley famously shunned the far-right John Birch Society during the 1960s and 1970s, making it abundantly...
www.alternet.orgFrom Pizzagate to the 2020 Election: Forcing Liars to Pay or Apologize
Michael J. Gottlieb is part of a cadre of lawyers deploying defamation, one of the oldest areas of the law, against a tide of political disinformation.
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You don’t need to click the video that Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) posted to X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday to be misinformed. The text accompanying the video summarized its premise — “Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.” — and that, by itself, is false.
But the video goes further, including exaggerations and debunked allegations to cast the past few years as unusually harrowing and dangerous ones for Americans. This is an ad, after all, one promoting Mace’s reelection to Congress before South Carolina’s Republican primary. And ads are meant to sell something, not necessarily to accurately inform people.
Which Mace’s doesn’t. Consider what she says about crime:
It is an ongoing frustration that reliable data about crime are compiled only belatedly. We looked at this in September 2022, as right-wing outlets like Fox News were gearing up their coverage of crime before the midterm elections. Fox and its allies insisted that crime was surging, often pointing to anecdotal incidents or cherry-picked numbers from specific cities.
The reality, revealed only once the FBI released its national estimate more than a year later, was that violent crime and homicide rates were lower in 2022 than in 2020, the last year of Donald Trump’s presidency. The property crime rate was about the same as in 2020, even after rising from 2021 to 2022.
The violent crime rate and property crime rates in 2022 were lower than every year of Donald Trump’s presidency. Only homicides increased, an increase that started during the year the coronavirus pandemic emerged. Partial data from 2023 indicates that violent crime (and homicide) continued to drop last year...........
But this isn’t what Mace is claiming. In fact, it’s a good demonstration of how all of this works. She doesn’t need to make a specific claim about crime any more than Fox News did in September 2022. She just needs to wave her hand and declare that Biden is overseeing a surge in crime and she can rely on the baseline set by Fox News and other right-wing outlets for her target audience — Republican voters and donors — to get agitated. Introducing nuance allows her and her allies to cherry-pick ways they can argue that their vibes are valid.
Consider what Mace says next in the video:
This, again, is just Mace amplifying right-wing rhetoric. Trump and Fox News are pushing this politically potent idea. The video snippet included in Mace’s video showing a man displaying his middle finger to reporters — a snippet plucked from Fox News with on-screen text reading “MIGRANT IN NYPD ATTACK GIVES MIDDLE FINGER” — doesn’t show what she suggests. That incident that unfolded in Times Square was in heavy rotation on Fox earlier this year, offered up in the way Mace described it. But the dispute between police and the immigrants turned physical when an officer reacted to an insult one man had made. As for the guy with the middle finger? He wasn’t there at all. The district attorney exonerated him after his arrest.
Mace then turns to the border:
It is not “okay,” of course. One of the ways we know that fentanyl is being smuggled into the country is that so much of it is stopped at the border — because it is not okay. Much of that smuggling, incidentally, is done by U.S. citizens who are better able to get into the country. Nearly all of the seizures occur at border checkpoints.............
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Those 5 guys are reasons not to get insurance there.
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I don't even know who they are, but thanks for the heads up...
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Me either and probably better off not knowingI don't even know who they are, but thanks for the heads up...
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not such good ratings . https://www.bbb.org/us/tx/richardso...mpanies/america-first-insurance-0875-90115120
so the healthcare part is this Our unique Christian Health Share Programs act as an alternative to traditional Major Medical Plans, Health Insurance and ObamaCare (ACA).
so if your not christian enough no go sexual problems no go. pre existing conditions your stuck. another scam but the biggest scammer of all. I almost feel sorry for all the gullible people that fell for this
Interesting that going to the link you provided says America First Insurance but when I clicked on reviews it was reviews for Liberty Mutual. Which makes one wonder what the flock America First Insurance really is.
The so-called Pastor Greg Locke was the first clue for me. Trumphumping “pastor”.
Here’s a link on David Harris, Jr.
David J. Harris Jr. Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements
Biography of David J. Harris Jr.. Find fees and other booking information for David J. Harris Jr. speaking engagements and appearances at live and virtual events.
www.allamericanspeakers.comAnother azzhat.
The other three are just as loony.
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probably because they are really part of a 'WOKE" insurance company.
And people will fall for it hookline and sinker, because lets face it, that crowd isn't too smart...
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It's just not insurance. These people....err...nut jobs are trying to build a parallel economy based on hate. One where when they hate, the market won't punish them for it.
Coincidentally, these are the same people who complain about how minority students etched out a section of the university library for them to study and hang out.
Coincidentally, these are the same people who complain about how minority students etched out a section of the university library for them to study and hang out.
Loons. The lack of understanding as to how the world is interconnected through large corporations is blatantly obvious. Yes, they can go find some land and build some fences and farm it. Beyond that? Hospital, medical providers, equipment manufacturers, energy suppliers (wind is too woke), security, law enforcement, assistance for natural disasters and on and on are predicated on government and corporations.
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I'll pass and will just take your word for it.The so-called Pastor Greg Locke was the first clue for me. Trumphumping “pastor”.
Here’s a link on David Harris, Jr.
David J. Harris Jr. Biography | Booking Info for Speaking Engagements
Biography of David J. Harris Jr.. Find fees and other booking information for David J. Harris Jr. speaking engagements and appearances at live and virtual events.
Another azzhat.
The other three are just as loony.
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Wasn't sure where to put this
But I've said before the real fun will happen in 2044
That's when according to the Census Bureau white will no longer be the majority
I do wonder if these changes will speed up the 2044 date though
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The Biden administration last week announced a major change in how Americans will be able to identify themselves on the 2030 census and other federal forms. With the update, there will be two new options available under the “race” category: “Middle Eastern or North African” (“MENA”) and “Hispanic or Latino.” It’s a change that’s a long time coming as millions of Americans have felt unrepresented in the previous choices.
It’s also a shift that is sure to prompt backlash among right-wing agitators, specifically white supremacists, as the changes are likely to result in a surface-level drop in the number of Americans who are counted as “white” in comparison to previous years. Even as the revision paints a more accurate picture of the country, it’s also the sort of thing conspiracy theorists and loyalists of former President Donald Trump tend to grasp onto as proof of a so-called plot against white America...........
But I've said before the real fun will happen in 2044
That's when according to the Census Bureau white will no longer be the majority
I do wonder if these changes will speed up the 2044 date though
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The Biden administration last week announced a major change in how Americans will be able to identify themselves on the 2030 census and other federal forms. With the update, there will be two new options available under the “race” category: “Middle Eastern or North African” (“MENA”) and “Hispanic or Latino.” It’s a change that’s a long time coming as millions of Americans have felt unrepresented in the previous choices.
It’s also a shift that is sure to prompt backlash among right-wing agitators, specifically white supremacists, as the changes are likely to result in a surface-level drop in the number of Americans who are counted as “white” in comparison to previous years. Even as the revision paints a more accurate picture of the country, it’s also the sort of thing conspiracy theorists and loyalists of former President Donald Trump tend to grasp onto as proof of a so-called plot against white America...........
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