Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) dismissed on Thursday the fringe conspiracy theories that emerged in the wake of his wife's death last week. Massie recently announced the passing of his 51-year-old wife and high school sweetheart Rhonda, describing her as "the smartest kindest woman ever, my beautiful and wise queen forever." He did not state a cause of death. Rhonda Massie's passing quickly sparked a number of conspiracies to circulate on social media, including the standard right-wing blaming of the COVID vaccine, and a more sinister belief that her death was linked to her husband's appearance on Tucker Carlson's show weeks prior where he criticized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's influence on Congress.
Former President Donald Trump will meet with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Florida on Thursday, according to people familiar with the matter, less than a week after he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. read more
House Democrats met Tuesday to discuss President Joe Biden's candidacy, but one lawmaker wanted to know why the press has spent a second week on that story instead of looking at recently released Florida court documents in the Jeffrey Epstein case. read more
Far-right podcaster and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reportedly hosted a livestream on social media with "Assassinate Biden" in the title, causing the internet to erupt in calls for an investigation. Independent multimedia journalist David Leavitt flagged Jones' stream on X, which was formerly called Twitter. "Alex Jones is hosting A Twitter Spaces with the title 'Assassinate Biden,'" Leavitt wrote on Wednesday. Leavitt's biography identifies him as an award-winning multimedia journalist with bylines and CBS, AXS, Yahoo, and Examiner. Leavitt also tagged the U.S. Secret Service and X's safety group in the same post. "If you were to replace the word 'Biden' with 'Elon' how fast would your account be banned from Twitter?" Leavitt then asked.
The Whataburger app, which shows locations that are opened and closed, served as a power outage map to those in the greater Houston area. read more
Did you notice Biden never encouraged Putin to do whatever the hell he wanted?