Right-wing pundits and media personalities are pushing conspiracy theories about Justin Mohn, a Pennsylvania man who allegedly decapitated his father and then uploaded a rant to YouTube in which he pushed a slew of far-right talking points. In part, conservatives have run with the claim that the FBI was aware of Mohn months before the murder but didn’t take action, basing their arguments on an archived 4chan post from July 2023. An anonymous user apparently wrote online back in July of the suspect’s troubling behavior, adding, “Reported to the FBI just in case." Conservative media figures were also quick to try to shift the narrative away from the right-wing rhetoric Mohn espoused, which hews closely to common narratives in the conservative media ecosystem. They baselessly called the incident a “false flag” or other distraction part of a broader trend among right-wing media personnel of baselessly labeling mass tragedies as political “psyops,” or fake events suppos
(RNS) Doug Pagitt, a Minnesota pastor who runs the anti-Christian nationalism organization Vote Common Good, hopes to engage the anti-immigrant contingent and convince them it is migrants who are most in danger. 'We're just going to be around and try to humanize the situation,' he said.
We learned this week, via Jonathan Lemire and some Politico colleagues, that Joe Biden uses salty language about Donald Trump in private. He’s a “sick fuck” and a “fucking asshole.” During his Valley Forge speech commemorating the January 6 insurrection, the president almost let it slip in public: “At his rally, he jokes about an intruder, whipped up by the Big Trump Lie, taking a hammer to Paul Pelosi’s skull. And he thinks that’s funny. He laughed about it. What a sick …”The White House declin