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Nov 18, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
Right-wing commentator Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, previously argued against allowing women to serve in combat roles because, he suggested, their presence might “exacerbate” the crisis of sexual assault in the military. In 2015, under the administration of then-President Barack Obama, the Defense Department opened up all combat roles to women.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
In light of former President Donald Trump’s statement that he plans to nominate Fox News host Pete Hegseth to be his Department of Defense secretary, Media Matters is republishing reporting and research from 2020 on Hegseth’s anti-Muslim history.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
flipboard.com | Eric Hananoki
1 hour agoPresident-elect Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that Elon Musk will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, the acronym of which spells out DOGE, Musk’s favorite cryptocurrency. The CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Neuralink, and owner of X, will lead the department alongside biotech …
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
JESSE LEE PETERSON: I tell men not to marry women with — women who are educated because educated women do not make for good wives and mothers. Do you agree with that? WHITE: That educated women don't make for good wives? You mean, you mean in the traditional sense, like educated in school? PETERSON: Yes. WHITE: Yeah. Because, you know, if you go to the church, then that's a form of education as well. PETERSON: Right. You shouldn’t marry one of those either. WHITE: What, that was educated in the church?
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
nationalmemo.com | Eric Hananoki
Charlene Bollinger is a fringe commentator whose account endorsed threads praising Adolf Hitler and pushing claims about a “Jew World Order.” She recently said that she’s “part of” and “working with” former President Donald Trump’s transition team to help close friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During a November 1 interview on One America News’ Real America with Dan Ball, Bollinger said: “The transition team right now is being put together behind the scenes.
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Nov 3, 2024 | 
nationalmemo.com | Eric Hananoki
It released an October 24 video featuring Kennedy, who stated that “President Trump has promised to take bold action on our economy, on the border, and on restoring children’s health” and said, “I hope you’ll join me in supporting Donald Trump.”In addition to supporting Trump, CatholicVote also works to end IVF. It has a supposed explainer page on its website that criticizes IVF as unethical. It writes:At first glance, IVF seems innocuous – simply a procedure to help parents conceive a child.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
Charlene Bollinger is a fringe commentator whose account endorsed threads praising Adolf Hitler and pushing claims about a “Jew World Order.” She recently said that she’s “part of” and “working with” former President Donald Trump’s transition team to help close friend Robert F. Kennedy Jr. During a November 1 interview on One America News’ Real America with Dan Ball, Bollinger said: “The transition team right now is being put together behind the scenes.
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Nov 2, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
At first glance, IVF seems innocuous – simply a procedure to help parents conceive a child. However, the morality and ethics of the procedure begin before the embryos are created. To help stimulate egg production, women have to take various steps to increase the fertility of their eggs and facilitate ovulation.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki |John Knefel
Despite claiming to disavow Project 2025, the Trump campaign just announced it is sending Project 2025 authors Ben Carson and Peter Navarro across Pennsylvania as surrogates. Project 2025 is an extreme right-wing initiative that intends to provide policy and personnel to the next conservative administration. Its proposals include attacks on reproductive rights, , and .
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Oct 31, 2024 | 
mediamatters.org | Eric Hananoki
Key Trump ally Mike Flynn suggested to followers that Dominion Voting System machines should be destroyed like tea was during the Boston Tea Party. Flynn is a right-wing commentator and disgraced former national security adviser who spreads conspiracy theories and toxic rhetoric. He is also a close ally of Donald Trump — the former president said last year that Flynn would return to the White House if he wins in 2024.
