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How Zionists lost Fox News (opens the original)
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Turning Point USA tour features influencer who thinks women shouldn’t have the right to vote (opens the original)
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Turning Point USA (TPUSA) announced a slate of speakers for its upcoming “Pick Up The Mic” tour, including Joshua Haymes, a.k.a. “Reformation Red Pill,” a self-professed Christian nationalist who believes women shouldn’t have the right to vote.Haymes has also described Adolph Hitler as being “misunderstood” and unfairl
AOC talking about freezing her eggs just exposed the whole “tradwife” phenomenon (opens the original)
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I’m so pleased to share the cover of my forthcoming book, GOOD GIRLS AND ALPHA MALES: HOW CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS TARGETING GEN Z. If you’re a reviewer, you can get an early copy now via NetGalley, and everyone can pre-order here. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hMxX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7a11db6c-805c-4375-9273-530d15a135
How Doug Wilson’s Christian nationalism gets repackaged as advice for teenage girls (opens the original)
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“You don’t think teenagers should be holding hands?”Alex Clark, a conservative health and wellness influencer, asked her guest, Rachel Jankovic, on her Turning Point USA-sponsored podcast Culture Apothecary.Subscribe now“I don’t think girls should be holding each other’s hands,” Jankovic said. <sp
Conservatives want you to stop going to therapy (opens the original)
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Right-wing media pundits used an article in the Wall Street Journal as an excuse to air out their belief that talk therapy is perhaps the greatest threat facing Western civilization.On July 21, the Journal reported on adult children cutting off
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