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Wayne Besen
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Truth Wins Out 🏳️‍🌈
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https://waynebesen.substack.com

Center Against Religious Extremism, Twocare.org

Author: Lies with a Straight Face: Exposing the Cranks and Cons Inside the ‘Ex-Gay’ Industry

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“Unless the continent’s centrist governments change course, the far right can make Europe its own. After that, all bets are off. A Europe given over to far-right ideologues and beholden to a nativist America could bear its own horrors.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/o...
Opinion | They Were Supposed to Save Europe. Instead, They’re Condemning It to Horrors.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
GOP women like @NancyMace and @RepStefanik are SHOCKED that former @ADFLegal lawyer @MikeJohnson doesn’t respect women. I guess they didn’t read Project 2025. If they don’t want to be “help meets”, they should join the Democratic Party.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:19 PM
George Will: “Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seems to be a war criminal. Without a war. An interesting achievement.”

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Opinion | A sickening moral slum of an administration
Regarding Venezuela, Ukraine and much more, Trump and his acolytes are worse than simply incompetent.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Don’t tell us that Trump isn’t on the side of Russia. According to a German defense official, lately communication with his counterparts in Washington had been “cut off, really cut off.”

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
The New German War Machine
After World War II, Germany embraced pacifism as a form of atonement. Now the country is arming itself again.
www.theatlantic.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Sleepy Joe? What about Dozing Donald?
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Trump calls Minnesota’s Somali Community “garbage”. Talk about projection…

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Trump calls Minnesota’s Somali community ‘garbage’
President Donald Trump on Dec. 2 accused Somali migrants of having “ripped off” Minnesota and used dehumanizing language to attack the community.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
The 1792 Exchange is a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking and bullying public companies into abandoning fair employment practices. They seek to replace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with (CDE), Conformity, Discrimination and Exclusion.

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Project 2025-1792 Exchange - Truth Wins Out
1792 Exchange
truthwinsout.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:37 PM
The 1792 Exchange is a non-profit organization dedicated to tracking and bullying public companies into abandoning fair employment practices. They seek to replace Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) with (CDE), Conformity, Discrimination and Exclusion.

truthwinsout.org/project-2025...
Project 2025-1792 Exchange - Truth Wins Out
1792 Exchange
truthwinsout.org
December 2, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Trump and his underlings are lining their pockets and grifting. Meanwhile, the U.S. is cutting grants for long term science and research. MAGA sells out their own kids’ futures—while pretending to be “pro-family”.

https://ow.ly/VnRA50XAAh0
The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine
A quiet policy change means the government is making fewer bets on long-term science.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Pete Hegseth is having the military cut ties with the Scouts, labeling them “detrimental to national security.” The War Secretary doesn’t believe the Scouts are “manly” enough. He believes masculinity is murdering people on boats and being a supine, groveling “Yes Man”. Pathetic.

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Hegseth reportedly plans to cut support to US scouts group for being ‘genderless’
Scouting America decries accusations by defense secretary that the organization is attacking ‘boy-friendly spaces’
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December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
When someone says, “I am a Christian Nationalist”, what they are really saying is that they are neither legitimate Christians nor real Americans.

Americans let people choose their own beliefs—not use force to have the state choose for them.
December 1, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Has there ever been more vile movement than MAGA? It’s a criminal enterprise comprised of liars, con artists, and grifters—plus the deluded fools who serve as their apologists. Here are the two top headlines today, underscoring my point.
November 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
They carried out what local leaders say is a classic right-wing provocateur ploy – goad locals into a confrontation, then claim victimhood.

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Rightwing influencers spin anti-Muslim rage in Michigan for social media reach
In Dearborn, provocateurs have held anti-Islam rallies, attempted to burn the Qur’an and rile residents for clickbait
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:08 AM
“It appears Secretary Rubio is attempting to shut down the Afghan Special Immigrant Visa program in direct violation of federal law and standing court orders,” Shawn VanDiver, the head of AfghanEvac, a group that tries to resettle Afghans in the United States..

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/u...
Trump Pauses All Asylum Applications and Halts Visas for Afghans
www.nytimes.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:22 AM
President Donald Trump is largely responsible for the shooting of two members of the National Guard in Washington, DC. He was repeatedly warned that deployment put their lives at risk—and he arrogantly did so anyway.

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Trump is Responsible for National Guard Shootings in DC
He was Explicitly Warned and Still Sent the Guard into Harm’s Way
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump’s sabotage of Ukraine is also the deliberate undermining of America. It is the biggest betrayal of our country since Benedict Arnold. Trump is a Russian tool—and his allegedly pro-America movement cheers as he appeases and surrenders to Putin.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/w...
Trump Cut Europe Out of Ukraine Talks. Here’s How Europe Pushed Back.
www.nytimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 PM
There is no such thing as a Christian Nationalist. Just arrogant fascists who want to take away our personal right to choose our beliefs—and have Big Government choose them for us.

Real Americans say, HELL NO.
November 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
One thing we aren’t thankful for on Thanksgiving is Trotsky Trump, Vladimir Vance, Marx Rubio and Steve Stalin Witkoff selling out Ukraine. 🇺🇦

Why do these traitors always put Russia First? They do so at the expense of America’s national security and global stability.
November 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
JD Vance flops in failed Trump “weave” imitation, delivering bizarre riff badmouthing turkey 🦃. @VP will never be president. The charisma deficit is real.

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Vance riffs in pre-Thanksgiving address: ‘Turkey doesn't actually taste that good'
YouTube video by NBC10 Boston
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November 27, 2025 at 2:09 PM
An Aug. 12, memo from D.C. National Guard commanders said that the mission ”presents an opportunity for criminals, violent extremists, issue motivated groups and lone actors to advance their interests.”

Yet, Trump deployed, anyway. Trump directly put the Guard in harms way.
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Americans want to know why “Stalin Steve” Witkoff keeps doing Putin’s bidding at America’s expense.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
Why Does Steve Witkoff Keep Taking Russia’s Side?
Trump’s envoy isn’t promoting peace. His interventions are helping Vladimir Putin.
www.theatlantic.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Today, Donald Trump gave a middle finger to the LGBTQ community and others. His deplorable cancellation of World AIDS Day commemoration was unconscionable and unforgivable. This action was fueled by raw bigotry and fealty to his Project 2025 masters.

FIGHT.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h...
Trump Administration Will No Longer Commemorate World AIDS Day
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Ever since @mtgreenee was called a traitor by Trump, the MAGA universe has devolved into an ass kissing festival. It’s a sycophantic loyalty contest with North Korean vibes. Visit their toady influencers to see the Circus of Suck-Ups.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Trump is likely a Russian asset, possibly an agent and most definitely Putin’s useful idiot. His latest extortion “peace plan” with Ukraine proves it beyond a shadow of a doubt.
November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM