Kanye West Storms Out of Interview After Tim Pool Lightly Defends Jews
YouTubeKanye West’s first extended sit-down interview since his meeting with former President Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week lasted about 20 minutes.The artist now known as Ye stormed out of a sit down with the reactionary social-media performer Tim Pool, after the host lightly pushed back on Ye’s meandering, paranoid and yet largely uninterrupted antisemitic rant that opened the show.During that 20-minute stretch, West offered a sprawling, aggrieved commentary railing against those he bel
news.yahoo.comMarjorie Taylor Greene hires Milo Yiannopoulos — a 37-year-old 'ex-gay' former Breitbart editor once disinvited from CPAC for 'condoning pedophilia' — as an intern
Once a leading figure on the "alt-right," Yiannopoulos came out as "ex-gay" after making comments seen as defending pedophilia in 2017.
news.yahoo.comPost Hill Press goes on with book by officer in Taylor raid
The publisher of memoir by a Louisville police officer who fired at Breonna Taylor after being shot during the deadly raid on Taylor’s apartment says it will release the book even though its distributor, Simon & Schuster, announced it would “not be involved.”.
Simon & Schuster drops book by Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., asks questions during a Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee hearing to discuss election security and the 2020 election process on Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. In a statement Thursday, Simon & Schuster announced that “After witnessing the disturbing, deadly insurrection that took place on Wednesday in Washington, D.C, Simon & Schuster has decided to cancel publication of Senator Josh Hawley’s forthcoming book, ‘The Tyranny of Big Tech.' Simon & Schuster quickly issued another statement: “We are confident that we are acting fully within our contractual rights” to cancel the book. Simon & Schuster has had numerous clashes with Trump and his supporters over the last few years. A Simon & Schuster spokesman declined comment on whether the publisher would be interested in a new Trump book.
Trump books will continue after Trump leaves office
NEW YORK – One of publishing's most thriving genres of the past four years, books about President Donald Trump, is not going to end when he leaves office. In 2021 and beyond, look for waves of releases about the Trump administration and about the president's loss to Democratic candidate Joe Biden. “But there are tens of millions of Americans who look to the Trump presidency as an important time and are fans of his administration. Center Street, a Hachette Book Group imprint, has published Donald Trump Jr., Newt Gingrich and Judge Jeanine Pirro among others. Any publisher signing with Trump or a top administration official might face the anger not just of Trump critics among the general public, but from within the industry.
Laura Loomer wins GOP primary to challenge Rep. Lois Frankel
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. A far-right social media provocateur whose hate speech got her banned from social media won her Republican primary on Tuesday and will challenge Democratic Rep. Lois Frankel for Congress in November. Laura Loomer also won praise from President Donald Trump early Wednesday, who tweeted that she has a great chance." Loomer received 43% in a six-candidate Republican field, garnering 14,500 votes. Frankel, running against a political newcomer, received 75,000 votes, or 86% in the Democratic primary, which had 87,000 votes cast. Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Medium, PayPal, Venmo, GoFundMe, Uber and Lyft have banned her, but her messages get out through tweets by supporters and other workarounds, the Palm Beach Post reported.
Impact of Twitter suspension controversy
Twitter took action against one of its most controversial users - a Breitbart News editor named Milo Yiannopoulos - after he launched a series of attacks against comedian and actress Leslie Jones. Jones went public with the graphic tweets - many of them racist and sexist - earlier this week. Dan Ackerman, senior editor at CNET joins "CBS This Morning: Saturday" to weigh in on whether this could be a turning point for Twitter and other social media in policing controversial comments.
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