David Neiwert
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False Reports By Fox News Promote Terror Against Children's Hospitals
He then invited right-wing propagandist Chris Rufo—progenitor of the phony “critical race trheory” hysteria—onto his show to explore the claims further. Rufo falsely claimed that Lurie Children’s Hospital in Chicago was promoting “‘trans-friendly’ sex toys for children,” citing a resource document d... → Read More
False Reports By Fox News Promote Terror Against Children's Hospitals
The barrage is based on a vicious mischaracterization of “gender-affirming care,” which is the practice all of these hospitals use. As Scientific American recently explained, the term describes a range of medical care from simple recognition of transgender children’s needs and rights to providing ho... → Read More
False Reports By Fox News Promote Terror Against Children's Hospitals
Right-wing media figures have been putting on a master class in stochastic terrorism in the past month, targeting children’s hospitals with conspiracy theories claiming they are “maiming” and “mutilating” young people by providing them with gender-affirming care → Read More
Extremist Sheriffs Double Down On Embrace Of Big Lie As Midterm Approaches
It’s a testament to the cult power of Donald Trump’s Big Lie that an elected lawman who himself now faces investigation for tampering with voting machines will not only refuse to apologize, but proceed to double down. Another law enforcement official subscribing → Read More
Extremist Sheriffs Double Down On Embrace Of Big Lie As Midterm Approaches
Dar Leaf, the sheriff of Michigan’s Barry County, has played a leading role in the unfolding saga. It recently emerged that not only does Leaf insist that his dubious “investigations” of election outcomes in his county—based almost entirely on a fraudulent Dinesh D’Souza pseudodocumentary—are legiti... → Read More
Extremist Sheriffs Double Down On Embrace Of Big Lie As Midterm Approaches
Last month, the current Democratic attorney general, Dana Nesso, filed a petition for a special prosecutor to handle that investigation since it involves her likely Republican opponent in the fall election. The petition indicated that state police investigators believed that DePerno was “one of the ... → Read More
Extremist Sheriffs Double Down On Embrace Of Big Lie As Midterm Approaches
His claims made little sense in Barry County, where Trump won by a nearly 2-to-1 margin. Rutland Charter Township clerk Ruth Hawthorne observed tartly: “They seem to think there was some kind of microchip in our tabulators that was throwing votes to Biden. But Trump won Barry County. He won by 65 pe... → Read More
Behind Fascist 'Warrior' Facade, Patriot Front Is Just Another Grift
The man atop Patriot Front’s pyramid is Thomas Rousseau, the 24-year-old Texas man who founded Patriot Front in 2017 out of the ashes of the neo-Nazi group Vanguard America, under whose banner he had marched in Charlottesville on Aug. 12, 2017, alongside James Alex Fields, the man who later that day... → Read More
Behind Fascist 'Warrior' Facade, Patriot Front Is Just Another Grift
The “actions” included a number of criminal acts of vandalism, such as defacing memorials, statues, and murals in highly public places. These included a memorial to George Floyd in New York City, as well as other works of public art that provoked their ire, such as a mural supporting Black Lives Mat... → Read More
Behind Fascist 'Warrior' Facade, Patriot Front Is Just Another Grift
On top of all these demands, Rousseau charges his followers a premium for the same Patriot Front propaganda material that he then requires them to spread, according to Southern Poverty Law Center researcher Jeff Tischauser. Network directors are required to push members to buy new flyers and then sp... → Read More
Behind Fascist 'Warrior' Facade, Patriot Front Is Just Another Grift
One of the constants of the world of right-wing extremists is that their leaders all find ways to turn their authoritarian activism into a moneymaking operation that wrings funds out of their gullible followers. Even if these leaders buy their own bullshit—and most of them do—they → Read More
Trump's 'Truth Social' Meltdown Exposes Link To QAnon Cult
For most of his misbegotten tenure in the Oval Office, Donald Trump danced a three-step tango with right-wing extremists: Apparently embracing them, then stepping back with official (and unconvincing) disavowal, then swinging them back into his arms. → Read More
Trump's 'Truth Social' Meltdown Exposes Link To QAnon Cult
For most of his misbegotten tenure in the Oval Office, Donald Trump danced a three-step tango with right-wing extremists: Apparently embracing them, then stepping back with official (and unconvincing) disavowal, then swinging them back into his arms. → Read More
Trump's 'Truth Social' Meltdown Exposes Link To QAnon Cult
For most of his misbegotten tenure in the Oval Office, Donald Trump danced a three-step tango with right-wing extremists: Apparently embracing them, then stepping back with official (and unconvincing) disavowal, then swinging them back into his arms. → Read More
Trump's 'Truth Social' Meltdown Exposes Link To QAnon Cult
For most of his misbegotten tenure in the Oval Office, Donald Trump danced a three-step tango with right-wing extremists: Apparently embracing them, then stepping back with official (and unconvincing) disavowal, then swinging them back into his arms. → Read More
FBI Arrests 'B-Squad' Militia Who Led January 6 Attack On Capitol Tunnels
The arrests this week of five Florida militiamen who called themselves the “B Squad” for their violent actions on Jan. 6, 2021, at the U.S. Capitol serve as a helpful reminder that the Justice Department is still in the process of bringing the insurrectionists who attacked American democracy → Read More
FBI Arrests 'B-Squad' Militia Who Led January 6 Attack On Capitol Tunnels
The men arrived in Washington fully prepared for combat. As a Department of Justice press release explains:Cole wore a tactical vest. Preller wore a tactical vest with a chemical irritant spray attached to the front, as well as large goggles and a green helmet with the word “monster” on the back. He... → Read More
Gunman Who Died Attacking FBI To Defend Trump Derided As 'Crisis Actor'
"There has been a lot of commentary about the FBI this week questioning our work and motives," Wray said. "Much of it is from critics and pundits on the outside who don't know what we know and don't see what we see. What I know—and what I see—is an organization made up of men and women who are commi... → Read More
Gunman Who Died Attacking FBI To Defend Trump Derided As 'Crisis Actor'
The conversations at The Donald varied little in their conspiracist self-assurance that they were able to pierce the media veil:Only one, and he was apprehended eh?How convenient. It's either a false flag, or one if the "boohoo- nobody's doing nothing" commenters from this website, playing right int... → Read More
That day, Shiffer posted a declaration of sorts at Truth Social:
People, this is it. I hope a call to arms comes from someone better qualified, but if not, this is your call to arms from me. Leave work tomorrow as soon as the gun shop/Army-Navy store/pawn shop opens, get whatever you need to be ready for combat. We must not tolerate this one. They have been condi... → Read More