CHIEF PUPPETEER
Karen England is successfully teaching people how to remove books from school libraries, even outside of their school districts, starting with refusing to use the term “book ban.”
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GOOP FOR THE GOP
The Wellness Company has helped underwrite the online programming of Kari Lake, Laura Loomer, Naomi Wolf, and others. But critics say the Goop-like firm is a “prolific grift.”
NO RETURN POLICY
Michigan's Ottawa County made its Health Department boss an offer she couldn’t refuse to quit. Now, it appears the ultraconservative group thinks it may have overdone it.
HATE-FILLED
Researchers found that 98 percent of hateful posts flagged via X’s internal reporting system were still up after a week.
AN OFFER SHE CAN’T REFUSE
The offer is equivalent to roughly 30 years’ worth of Adeline Hambley’s salary as Ottawa County’s public health officer.
‘OBSCENE’
Teri Patrick, a school board applicant in West Des Moines, Iowa, was part of a group of parents who attempted to get criminal obscenity charges brought against the school district
SILENCE IS GOLDEN
Fred Khalilian allegedly offered his former bodyguard $400,000 to change his testimony in a bizarre murder-for-hire plot, according to new court documents.
‘DON’T CENSOR THE QUEEN’
An advisory board for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district told The Daily Beast while it was banning the Sarah J. Maas book from libraries it would still be available online.
SICK OF IT ALL
“You can't work here unless you’ve been fired by the establishment for believing in your patients first,” We The People’s co-owner Vic Mellor proudly told The Daily Beast.
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RACISM CLAIMS
In a lawsuit filed Friday, the singer said Diageo has “done all it can to retaliate” against him, including “blackballing” him from the spirits industry.