- Lisa Kashinsky @ Politico: After WHCD shooting, Republicans blame Dems for political rhetoric
Republicans are returning to a playbook they leaned on in the aftermath of the assassination attempts against Donald Trump in 2024.
- Alex Griffing @ Mediaite: Former MAGA Influencer Says MAGA Response to WHCD Shooting Is ‘Fake’ And ‘Staged’
Ashley St. Clair, the former MAGA influencer and mother to a child with Elon Musk, claimed on Sunday that the messaging coming from MAGA world following the White House Correspondence Dinner is both “paid” and heavily coordinated.
- Sophia Tesfaye @ Salon: MAGA media gaslights on Charlottesville
The right seizes on indictment to claim white supremacy only exists due to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
- Mike Rothchild @ Talking Points Memo: What’s Really Underpinning the ‘Missing Scientists’ Conspiracy Theory
Believers that the scientists are being kidnapped or murdered by dark forces are sure they might be connected to something that changes the trajectory of humanity. Nobody quite knows what it is, because this is a conspiracy theory, after all. But it might be something to do with extra terrestrial life, plasma physics, free energy, exoplanets, a secret alien technology reverse engineered from the Roswell crash, or something nobody can even dream of. Or all of the above.
- Hemant Mehta @ Friendly Atheist: Indiana Lt. Gov. faces backlash after calling high school band kids “demonic”
Percussion students performed pieces from "Carmen" and "Boléro." Micah Beckwith claimed they were trashing "Christian Conservative families."
- Hope Pisoni and John Washington @ Uncloseted Media: Your License Plate Might Be Funding an Anti-LGBTQ Extremist Group
An Uncloseted Media and LOOKOUT investigation has found that more than $7 million of funds for specialty license plates have been funneled to groups notorious for their anti-LGBTQ policies.
