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Formerly fringe figures of the Religious and Political Right met at the National Conservatism conference earlier this month in Washington, DC to bask in their success at mainstreaming their ideas…

Don’t do it. If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing and fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Don’t celebrate…

A shooting is never something to trivialize. Bullets rip through walls, through flesh, and through families. Even when they miss their mark, even when they spare life but not the body, they leave a…

Republican candidate for Texas’ 31st Congressional District Valentina Gomez wants to save America from Islam—with a flamethrower. A recent campaign ad posted on X shows the 26-year-old Colombian…

A shooter killed two children and injured 21 people —three adults in their 80s and 18 children between the ages of 6 and 15—at Annunciation Church in Minneapolis last week. The shots came through a…

Hello again from our current public health clusterfuck, in which COVID infections continue to rise domestically and globally while the FDA makes it harder and more confusing for Americans to get…

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing —particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and…

Adjudicated sexual abuser and aspirational tyrant Donald Trump announced twice this week that he is not a dictator, but if he were a dictator, lots of people would like that. These dual pronouncements…

Infamous marriage-inequality enthusiast and former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis made headlines again this month when she asked the Supreme Court to absolve her of the $360,000 in legal fees and…

DHS’s social media is at it again, and while I’m looking forward to more deep dives into DHS speechwriter Eric Lendrum’s personal life , it’s the posts themselves—on a verified government account…