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It just occurred to me that someone may have told Ron that gas stoves were a kitchen table issue.
 
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James O’Keefe ‘Outright Cruel’ to Project Veritas Employees, Internal Memo Alleges

Employees allege O’Keefe wasted money on his theater dreams, berated staff, and even took a sandwich from a pregnant woman.
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The undercover video operation run by right-wing operative James O’Keefe is in turmoil, wracked by unhappy donors and O’Keefe’s “outright cruel” behavior towards his staff, according to an internal memo signed by a third of its employees.

Working for O’Keefe at Project Veritas can mean being “publicly humiliated” by him in what amounts to “public crucifixions,” and even being required to take lie detector tests, his unhappy employees write in the memo.

“I would describe Project Veritas’ current environment with this saying: ‘The beatings will continue until morale improves,’” one disgruntled staffer wrote in the memo.

On Monday, Project Veritas staffers presented the nonprofit’s board with the document covering his behavior, saying they were “troubled and frustrated” by O’Keefe’s management style. Later that day, the board voted to reinstate two executives O’Keefe had fired a week earlier, while O’Keefe went on paid leave.
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Right-Wing Pundits Ben Shapiro And Steven Crowder Clash Over $50 Million Media Deal
Far-right YouTuber Steven Crowder has accused conservative media outlets like The Daily Wire of conspiring with tech companies to censor conservative views after the company offered Crowder a $50 million deal that would cut his compensation if his social media channels were demonetized or boycotted, which Crowder called a “slave contract.”
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Slave contract???

It's not like he's been made to pick cotton all day for hardly anything. But then when the Southern Confederacy requisitioned one slaveowner's grain during the Civil War, that slaveowner said that he got too little for that, and that it was like "branding on my forehead: SLAVE".

It is also contrary to what right-wingers like to say about capitalism, that there is no such thing as capitalist exploitation and that workers ought to quietly and meekly accept whatever terms that business leaders and managements offer, since one can always love it or leave it.

The Daily Wire’s CEO Jeremy Boreing confirmed in a YouTube video Thursday details of Crowder’s job offer, claiming the YouTuber misrepresented the contract that would have awarded Crowder $50 million over four years.

Boreing chalked up the contract stipulations to running a profitable media business, and said Crowder seems to think he deserves to be paid “millions and millions and millions of dollars,” whether his show drives revenue to The Daily Wire or not.
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I agree.

Far-right media personalities criticized Crowder, including The Daily Wire cofounder Ben Shapiro, who said it was “rather nasty” to attack friends over his “misinterpretation of a document that offers you $50 million.”

Matt Walsh, who hosts a show on The Daily Wire, said the suggestion that the company’s pundits are “somehow muzzled or controlled is blatantly absurd,” while Candace Owens said, “It was a total bitch move.”
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I enjoyed watching that.

Crowder defended himself in a YouTube video Thursday, saying his comments were “not about the money” and that he encouraged The Daily Wire to change their business model to not rely so much on advertiser revenue.
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Like how?
 
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News Corporation is cutting its staff by 5% globally, including in Australia, after its news media division recorded a second-quarter earnings decline of 47%. The decision inevitably reopens questions about the future of the company’s newspapers, particularly once Rupert Murdoch is gone.
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Please, shrivel up and die!

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News Corp’s job cuts cast a shadow over the future of its newspapers

News Corporation is cutting its staff by 5% globally, including in Australia, after its news media division recorded a second-quarter earnings decline of 47%. The decision inevitably reopens questions about the future of the company’s newspapers, particularly once Rupert Murdoch is gone.The...
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Cheerful Charlie said:
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News Corporation is cutting its staff by 5% globally, including in Australia, after its news media division recorded a second-quarter earnings decline of 47%. The decision inevitably reopens questions about the future of the company’s newspapers, particularly once Rupert Murdoch is gone.
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Please, shrivel up and die!

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News Corp’s job cuts cast a shadow over the future of its newspapers

News Corporation is cutting its staff by 5% globally, including in Australia, after its news media division recorded a second-quarter earnings decline of 47%. The decision inevitably reopens questions about the future of the company’s newspapers, particularly once Rupert Murdoch is gone.The...
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I regularly pass the Murarrie printing works where the Courier Mail and other News Ltd papers were printed until recently. It's deserted and up for lease or sale, as all News Ltd papers sold in Queensland are now printed in NSW.

Printed newspapers are almost completely dead in Australia anyway. The only people who still read them are Murdoch's target demographic of angry conservative old men, and even they are now easier to reach via cable TV.
 
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Anti-LGBTQ Tennessee Lt. Gov. McNally Comments On Racy Instagram Pics of Young Gay Male

UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Lt. Governor Randy Mcnally has issued a statement blaming us for calling out his hypocrisy - but, importantly, not denying he's the one who made these comments, not claiming he was hacked, and not blaming an underling. You can watch our interview with Franklyn, the man in the p
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Tennessee is currently leading the nation in anti-LGBTQ hate, with 26 anti-lgbtq bills moving through the legislature. Last week Governor Lee made national news for quickly signing a cruel trans youth health care ban, and the nation’s first drag show felony bill, which threatens to lock up drag performers.

What made the bill even more absurd was the revelation that Governor Lee himself had dressed in drag, on a school campus, in front of minors, back in 1977.

Drag for me, felony for thee.

Lee’s hypocrisy made him a laughingstock, even getting him sent up on Saturday Night Live.

Well hang onto your hats, folks, because it turns out Lee isn’t the only huge hypocrite at the highest levels of Tennessee’s government.

Enter Lt. Gov. Randy McNally, who it turns out has been openly leaving heart emojis and other encouraging comments under very racy pics on the instagram page of a young gay male aspiring performer named Franklyn McClur, who grew up in Knoxville – McNally is from Oak Ridge, but represents parts of Knoxville, where he lives with his wife Janice. They have 2 adult daughters. Mcnally is Roman Catholic.

We were alerted to the pics by an anonymous twitter user who came across them – someone who knew of Franklyn and was entertained by his page. They sent us screen shots and told us where to find them. We were in disbelief.

Sure enough, there they were – and still are, at this writing: Visit Franklyn’s page here under the moniker “@FranklynSuperstar”

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McNally repeatedly used his VERIFIED account to post underneath some of Franklyn’s raciest pictures. McNally is apparently very big on heart and flame emojis.
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UPDATE TO THIS STORY: Lt. Governor Randy Mcnally has issued a statement blaming us for calling out his hypocrisy – but, importantly, not denying he’s the one who made these comments, not claiming he was hacked, and not blaming an underling. You can watch our interview with Franklyn, the man in the pics, here. Or listen to the PODCAST.
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I've mentioned that my wife is out in South Dakota working on some charity for the Lakota Tribe on the reservation. Her contact there who runs the charity mentioned that in South Dakota where there are tons of Native American reservations, it's illegal to teach the history of native Americans in the public schools, even those that are on the reservations.

The despicable behavior of Republicans is just overwhelming
 
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Texas teacher fired over Anne Frank graphic novel. The complaint? Sexual content

Administrators fired a middle school teacher in Texas after she assigned her students a version of Anne Frank’s diary that includes sexuality.
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In 2018, a graphic novel version of the diary began to revive similar criticisms from parents. A school district in Florida banned it in April, following a campaign by the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a grassroots organization designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as an extremist group. Texas' Keller Independent School District removed it last year, too.

'Fight this battle piece by piece':'Fight this battle piece by piece': How angry moms are shaping culture wars and the 2024 race

Data from the American Library Association shows book-banning challenges across the country hit a two-decade high last year. Texas banned more books than any other state between July 2021 and June 2022, according to PEN America.
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Trump saving us from Obama and WW2.

 
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