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The American Library Association, a nonprofit organization that tracks efforts to ban books nationwide, released a list Monday detailing the 10 most challenged titles of 2023 — seven of which deal with LGBTQ themes, according to the group. Maia Kobabe’s “Gender Queer,” a graphic memoir that chronicles the author coming out as nonbinary, topped the list for the third year in a row. The other LGBTQ-themed titles on the list include George M. Johnson’s “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” Juno Dawson’s “This Book Is Gay” and Mike Curato’s “Flamer.” In recent years, school districts and state legislatures across the U.S. have...

NBC News, or, as Greg Gutfeld aptly calls the mainstream media outlet, “Nothing But Crap,” recently outdid even itself in promulgating misleading information. A weekend report strongly implied that Florida is a veritable hellhole from which residents are fleeing at a remarkable rate. The outlet claimed that “a perfect storm of soaring insurance costs, a hostile political environment, worsening traffic, and extreme weather” had caused people to abandon the Sunshine State in droves.And they based that claim on interviews with “more than a dozen recent transplants and longtime residents who left the state in the past two years.” More than...

NBC News is already planning to drop ex-RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel as a contributor following backlash from inside the network, reports claim. The former top Republican has responded by seeking legal representation after the sudden ousting, as reported by Puck News. It comes after the network's top political analyst Chuck Todd erupted into an on-air rant about McDaniel's hiring, particularly taking issue with her support for Donald Trump's false 2020 election fraud claims.

It wasn't enough for Mika Brzezinski to declare that Ronna McDaniel would never darken Morning Joe's doorway. On today's episode, Mika, on behalf of the show, called on NBC to fire McDaniel. Or as Mika couched it, "we hope NBC will reconsider its decision," to have hired former RNC chair McDaniel as a political commentator. MIKA: To be clear, we believe NBC News should seek out conservative Republican voices to provide balance in their election coverage. But it should be conservative Republicans, not a person who used her position of power to be an anti-democracy election denier. And we hope...

President Joe Biden lashed out at Robert Hur last week over one particular line in the special counsel's report on his handling of classified documents: that Biden "did not remember, even within several years, when his son Beau died." “How in the hell dare he raise that?” Biden told reporters in an impromptu White House press conference. “Frankly, when I was asked the question, I thought to myself, it wasn’t any of their damn business.” But Hur never asked that question, according to two people familiar with Hur’s five-hour interview with the president over two days last October. It was...

Do you think maybe NBC News has it out for Libs of TikTok founder Chaya Raichik? In January, they published a piece about Raichik's appointment to the Oklahoma State Department of Education Library Media Advisory Committee to keep porn out of schools. That doesn't sound so bad, but they described her as a "far-right influencer" whose X feed "is often laced with bigoted rhetoric." This is how NBC News' Matt Lavietes framed the story: A far-right influencer who was accused of instigating bomb threats last year against a school library in Tulsa has been named an adviser to a state...

Recently there has been an ever increasing drumbeat from the media for a narrative portraying that Donald Trump would be a dangerous dictator if he returned to the White House in 2025, despite not becoming one during his first term. Further undermining the media's "Trump as dictator" narrative was an NBC News article on Monday that presents plans by liberals both in and out of government to curtail "dictator" Trump's power by using the law to thwart him, and hyped a Collusion Hoax peddler as the standard-bearer for that effort.The FIVE writers NBC crammbed into the article, Peter Nicholas, Katherine...

This NBC News article is not an opinion piece so far as I can tell. Titled “5 twists that could upend Democrats’ best-laid plans for the 2024 election,” it’s intended to be a combination of prognostication and analysis, but the framing of the piece is clearly one-sided. It might as well be headlined ‘How Democrats Could Lose’ which sort of implies that Democrats aren’t supposed to lose. The natural order is for them to win. As a matter of setting up this concept, the article opens with what Democrats expect to happen:Recognizing the stakes, and appreciative of strong economic growth...

The Maine man accused of killing at least 18 people and injuring 13 others in the nation’s deadliest mass shooting so far this year was reportedly known to be a “gun fanatic” who neighbors knew to stay away from in the Lewiston community. The suspected shooter, Robert Card, a 40-year-old U.S. Army Reservist and petroleum specialist is being sought in a tense manhunt in connection with the Wednesday night massacres spread across a bowling alley and bar, according to authorities. (ED NOTE: HE’S DEAD, JIM) Local resident Liam Kent, who grew up near the Card family, claimed in an interview...

For more than two months, Revolver has worked to expose the true nature of the 2020 presidential election. Powerful forces in the national media, academia, intelligence services, and the courts are fighting to prevent America from holding an ordinary vote on November 3. Instead, they plan to pull off an Eastern Europe-style “color revolution,” where institutional forces are used to bring about the intended outcome regardless of what the law says or what the public wants, while giving the whole process a gloss of democratic legitimacy.Harassment, censorship, and intimidation of Trump supporters by any means necessary is a key element of...

A fresh NBC News poll has both the Trump and DeSantis campaigns energized -- but for different reasons. Trump allies are touting its GOP primary top line finding that the former president is still leading the 2024 Republican presidential field by a wide margin, currently garnering a 51 percent majority among an increasingly crowded field. Gov. Ron DeSantis remains in second place, nearly 30 percentage points behind Trump nationally, with nobody else cracking double digits. If nothing changes over the next half-year, particularly in the crucial early states, Trump could be on a glide path to the nomination. Indeed, if...

VIDEO Soon after Miguel Almaguer delivered his November 4 NBC News report about the arrival of police at the home of Paul Pelosi during his encounter with David DePape, his story was scrubbed from the NBC News website and Almaguer himself was suspended. Many have wondered what happened to Almaguer since then but he has emerged from his suspension in December to report on several weather stories. Those weather stories seem to be a metaphor for what has happened to Almaguer since there is so much snow in his reports that he appears to have been exiled to Siberia.We can...

Alex Seitz-Wald and Scott Wong at NBC News reported on Sunday that liberals are nThe problem for them is that Twitter has become so essential for them, especially if they are trying to be journalists, that it is impossible to quit. The result for them is the horrible feeling of being torn against the new (Gasp!) free speech policies on Twitter instituted by Musk while absolutely needing to use Twitter as you can read in "Why liberal Washington can’t quit Twitter."

Huh, now why do you think NBC would pull their own bombshell? You’d THINK if they had a bombshell like this, that Biden could have choosen between Brittney Griner and Paul Whelan, this would be a big story. But then again, if their main goal is to do the bidding of the Democratic Party, and by default, the Biden White House, we suppose the bombshell isn’t worth having to them. Which should be weird but sadly … it’s not. Take a look at this: NBC had a bombshell report that Russia offered America Brittney Griner OR Paul Whelan, citing a...

Officials in Otero County, New Mexico, voted to certify primary election results on Friday in compliance with a state Supreme Court order after refusing to do so, citing concerns about voting machines. In a 2-1 vote, the Republican-led commission certified the county's results from its June 7 primary. One of the commissioners, Vickie Marquardt, said she voted to certify over fears of criminal charges and possible jail time. “The New Mexico Supreme Court, the Democrat-controlled state legislature and the Democrat-controlled Secretary of State and the Attorney General will not allow us to withhold approval pending investigation. Instead, they are railroading...

While some Democrats are voicing concerns about President Joe Biden’s re-election prospects, Gov. Jared Polis, D-Colo., says President Joe Biden “has plenty of time to turn this around.” The New York Times reported this week that “dozens” of Democratic lawmakers and officials are frustrated with Biden as he faces low approval ratings, with some suggesting he should not run again. Asked about that report on Meet the Press NOW, Polis said Friday that Biden still has time to improve his standing. “I think he has every opportunity to turn this around,” Polis said of the president. “Maybe pull some new...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk correctly slammed NBC News for trying to bury the Hunter Biden laptop scandal. Phony fact-checker PolitiFact tapped into all levels of Pravda to pretend that wasn’t true. The Facebook fact-checker ran an idiotic May 4 “fact check” headlined: “Elon Musk’s false claim that NBC News covered up Hunter Biden laptop story.” Musk went after NBC News for having a conniption over his recently successful multibillion-dollar bid to purchase Twitter. Musk stated on Twitter May 2 that NBC was the “[s]ame org that covered up Hunter Biden laptop story, had Harvey Weinstein story early & killed it...

A man was killed inside a Southern California(Escondido) car wash after he got out of his vehicle and got pinned against machinery, authorities said Monday. The fatal accident unfolded late Friday at a self-service car wash in the 2100 block of East Valley Parkway in Escondido, which is about 35 miles north of downtown San Diego and 110 miles south of central Los Angeles, police said. That's where the unidentified man, 56, became "trapped between a 2014 Scion XB and a part of the car wash machinery," according to a police statement. "The preliminary investigation indicated that the man drove...

An NBC News segment highlighting the “ghost gun” market in the U.S. has earned a response from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Activists have been claiming the network may have broken the very laws they were trying to expose as too lenient. The March 17 report covered so-called “ghost gun” kits that offer firearm parts which can be built into guns, which don’t have serial numbers. The controversial part of the segment came when NBC News reporter Vaughn Hillyard bought a “ghost gun” kit outside of his home state and then gave it to others to build...

Most “either/or” questions are designed to make you choose, but sometimes the correct answer is “both.” When dealing with someone like President Joe Biden, it’s not always possible to know the answer to a simple question: is this man stupid, or is he just a liar? There is ample evidence of both, almost always, but the exact tilt of a scale and in which direction it points for the majority is not always clear. As such, you are sometimes left wondering which it is, but there is little doubt it is at least one and usually some combination of both....