Completely Horrible People

Roll Call reports: More than a dozen people were arrested Thursday for protesting Republicans’ push to ban transgender women from using women’s bathrooms in the House. The activists gathered outside of Speaker Mike Johnson’s personal office in the Cannon Building around noon, demonstrating both in the corridor and the women’s restroom across the hall. “Speaker Johnson, Nancy Mace, our bodies …

The New Republic reports: Representative Nancy Mace’s latest attention grab has gifted the world something it never asked for: bathroom-themed merch. The South Carolina Republican has spent the majority of her week advancing a bill with the aim of banning one person from using toilets on Capitol Hill: Representative-elect Sarah McBride, the first openly transgender person to be elected to …

Yahoo News reports: A prominent transgender-rights activist disrupted a talk involving Republican congresswoman Nancy Mace in Washington, DC, on November 21, after Mace complained about criticism she received over her strongly anti-trans positions. Sitting in the audience was Evan Greer, who is the director of Fight For The Future, a nonprofit that advocates for freedoms online, and a transgender activist. …

Mediaite has the transcript: LIZ LANDERS: I just want to add that the congresswoman elect does identify as a woman. I will be referring to her in that way–. REP. NANCY MACE: She’s not a woman! It’s a MAN! She was born a man! She’s a man! She is biologically a male. That is science. You guys on the left …

Popular Information reports: Nancy Mace (R-SC) used to reject this kind of politics. “I strongly support LGBTQ rights and equality,” Mace said in a March 2021 interview with the Washington Examiner. “No one should be discriminated against.” Mace added that she believed “religious liberty, the First Amendment, gay rights, and transgender equality can all coexist.” Mace added that she had …

NOTUS reports: Some Republicans are officially moving to give Rep.-elect Sarah McBride an unwelcome arrival to the House. Rep. Nancy Mace introduced a resolution to ban trangender women from using the women’s restroom in the Capitol and any of the House office buildings. The South Carolina Republican told reporters that she was specifically introducing the bill because of McBride — …

Business Insider reports: Elon Musk channeled hundreds of thousands of dollars to a Texas PAC he primarily funds to try to unseat a Texas prosecutor earlier this year, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with his involvement, as well as FCC filings and corporate documents. The Tesla CEO used Save Austin Now, a self-described “nonpartisan citizen’s group dedicated …

Rolling Stone reports: The exact weight of Swift’s endorsement in the national race is hard to immediately measure, but it was an emphatic statement from an influential superstar with an army of energized fans. And it seems that at least one major Trump supporter, the always-thirsty Elon Musk, thought he could weave viral magic by responding to her with an …

The Daily Beast reports: Right wing bomb-thrower Ann Coulter took aim at Tim Walz’s 17-year-old neurodiverse son, Gus, for crying while his father spoke at the DNC on Wednesday night. Gus stood up and began pointing at his father as he spoke last night, appearing to shout “that’s my dad” as he sobbed through his words. The moment was latched …

Yahoo News reports: Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung rushed to defend J.D. Vance for bizarrely storming Air Force 2 to unsuccessfully confront Kamala Harris Wednesday evening with an unsavory comment regarding the smell of the plane. “Make sure AF2 is deep cleaned because Lord only knows what @KamalaHarris and her team have done on there,” Cheung wrote on X. “The …

Mediaite reports: The coarsening of political rhetoric took another turn for the worse Monday morning after billionaire cartoon-caricature Elon Musk shot back at California Governor Gavin Newsom with a “deez nuts” reference because…that’s the way we live now, fellow Americans (sigh.) Critics of Musk’s video noted that it was illegal to falsely portray a politician saying things they didn’t actually …

The Associated Press reports: Billionaire Elon Musk says he’s moving the headquarters of SpaceX and social media company X to Texas from California. Musk posted on X Tuesday that he plans on moving SpaceX from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas. X will move to Austin from San Francisco. He called a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Gavin Newsom …

The New York Post reports: Billionaire Elon Musk threatened legal action Thursday against an alliance that includes some of the world’s biggest companies over an “advertising boycott racket” that has contributed to a revenue crunch at his social media platform X. Musk, who bought the company formerly known as Twitter for $44 billion in 2022, made the claim in response …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) pushed the baseless claim that President Joe Biden has suffered “rapid physical and cognitive decline” because of vaccines. The claim follows Boebert’s pattern of vehement opposition to the Biden administration’s handling of the Covid pandemic. On Thursday, Boebert took to X to post images of the 81-year-old president receiving the COVID-19 vaccine and cryptically …

“She’s been exposed as a power-hungry aspirant herself to political power. She is on the cover of Vogue magazine right now. Why? Because she wants to promote herself. She tweeted out a photo of herself sitting in the president’s chair not long ago when he was preparing for the G7 meeting… hanging over the back of his chair. She’s not …

Mediaite reports: Daily Wire host Candace Owens fully embraced the far-right conspiracy theory that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man – going so far as to say she would stake her reputation on it. Owens, known for her bombastic and attention-grabbing claims, dedicated much of her Monday show to the topic, which she labeled “The BIGGEST Political Scandal …

The Huffington Post reports: A Texas judge has ordered Elon Musk to testify in a deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit that accuses the billionaire of falsely linking a Jewish man to a neo-Nazi brawl. The tech billionaire and far-right sympathizer was hit with the lawsuit in October after he falsely accused 22-year-old Ben Brody of being a federal …

Business Insider reports: On Thursday, Google paused its chatbot Gemini’s image-generation feature, following backlash from some users who claimed the feature was “woke.” People on social media have said the AI consistently generated images of people of color in inaccurate historical contexts. That night, Musk wrote multiple posts on X slamming Google. The Tesla billionaire also went after Gemini’s product …

The Dallas Morning News reports: A Lewisville ISD staff member has been placed on administrative leave after a prominent right-wing social media account posted a video of him at school wearing a pink dress with matching boots and hat. Students have defended the Hebron High School educator with a petition noting he was dressed up for Spirit Day. District officials …

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