An SPLC Data Lab investigation of anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-immigrant content on The Babylon Bee and its sister site, Not the Bee, has uncovered multiple controversial businesses formerly run by owner Seth Dillon, along with the identities of 14 pseudonymous Not the Bee writers, despite the website’s efforts to keep information secure.
The shooting of an armed antigovernment activist during an Oregon wildlife refuge takeover was justified, a state investigation concluded. But the same investigation raised questions whether the FBI’s elite Hostage Rescue Team may have fired a weapon during the deadly traffic stop.
Last November, Sen. Ted Cruz made some waves when he and two other presidential candidates—Mike Huckabee and Bobby Jindal—addressed an event in Iowa in support of “religious liberty.” The event was sponsored by extreme anti-LGBT radio host Kevin Swanson, of the anti-LGBT hate group Generations with Vision.
Last weekend, the anti-LGBT hate group Liberty Counsel held its annual conference, The Awakening, to provide a platform for anti-LGBT and anti-Muslim voices.But the event was much more than that –– at times, it seemed a call to battle. “The war wages. We cannot stand idly by,” the Counsel said in promotional materials. And true to form, the panel of speakers formed an angry chorus.
Jeffrey Lord's bizarre assertion on CNN in defense of Donald Trump is just the latest iteration of up-is-down historical balderdash from conservatives.
A county prosecutor in Montana says he will defer prosecution of a Michigan man arrested a year ago after making threats on Twitter to kill Jews and school children – once boasting of hopes to exceed the number killed at Sandy Hook in 2012.
Trump and the new American authoritarianism; High court reverses Alabama on LGBT adoption; Hate crimes charges in L.A. attack; and more.
An antigovernment extremist in Montana who used his webcast to advocate murdering public officials and other violence will spend six years in federal prison.
Hate crime charges are pending against a man accused of desecrating a Sikh temple in the city of Spokane Valley, Wash., apparently in the mistaken belief he was damaging a mosque and sending a message to ISIS.
Trump says ‘hate groups are not for me’; SNL spoofs the Donald’s far-right supporters; Ammon Bundy complains about prison life; and more.
Corvallis firebombing was retaliation after arrest of congregant for plotting to set off truck bomb at Portland Christmas-tree lighting.
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