Trump supporters face off with protesters outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Ore., Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. Ethan Swope / AP Benny Johnson, a pro-Trump social media personality from Florida, announced to his followers on X that he had arrived. “Yo, what’s up!” Johnson said Tuesday as he strolled into the airport. “We are on the …
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Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has in recent days trained his attention on getting people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters. Musk, the richest person in the world with a net worth of approximately $500bn, has repeatedly encouraged his 227 million …
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The Anti-Defamation League, one of the most prominent Jewish advocacy and anti-hate organizations in the US, removed over a thousand pages of extremism research from its site on Tuesday night following online backlash from rightwing influencers and Elon Musk. The ADL’s now-deleted “glossary of extremism” contained over a thousand entries that gave background information on groups and ideologies connected to …
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Donald Trump and JD Vance to be among tens of thousands at Charlie Kirk memorial Donald Trump, JD Vance and other senior US administration officials will attend a memorial service for murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk today as more than 100,000 people are expected to turn up. Doors for the service being held at the State Farm stadium in Glendale, …
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President Donald Trump is pushing to finalize a deal that would hand majority control of TikTok over to a consortium that includes two of his closest billionaire allies. On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that under the planned deal, 80% of the stake will be controlled by a group of American investors, while the remaining 20% will remain with …
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US attorney general Pam Bondi’s pledge that the Trump administration will “absolutely target” people who use “hate speech” in the wake of the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has prompted criticism of the idea from across the political spectrum, including from prominent conservatives. Bondi said on a podcast hosted by Katie Miller, the wife of the rightwing White House …
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The far-right political influencer Charlie Kirk, shot dead in an assassination at a university campus event last Wednesday, has proven as polarizing in death as he was in life. On the one hand are the MAGA faithful, mourning their preeminent youth-movement leader as a martyr. On the other are detractors who call Kirk’s ideology hateful and extreme, criticism that has …
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A rightwing conference recently saw theocratic Christian nationalists, far-right publishers and members of men-only secret societies speaking alongside the Missouri senator Eric Schmitt, the assistant attorney general for civil rights at Donald Trump’s Department of Justice and other senior Republican figures. The speaker list at the National Conservatism conference in Washington DC raises questions over what distinctions exist between the …
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Chris Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax, prepares to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange during morning trading on April 3, 2025. On Wednesday, Newsmax sued Fox, claiming it was illegally using its power to squash rival conservative networks. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images/Getty Images North America …
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