It’s Thursday Threatcon, your intelligence briefing on right wing activity. Below are the best reports, investigations, exposées, and debunkery of the wingnutosphere this week. Due to the passing of Richard Kiel, our Threatcon Color-Code is DENTAL STEEL
- An important new tactic for climate activists emerges: Massachusetts District Attorney Sam Sutter reduced charges against two women for an act of civil disobedience, recognizing their ‘necessity defense’ that climate change is a public danger
- If you added up all the money taken through robbery, burglary, and theft in Kentucky, it would be less than the amount the state’s workers lose to wage theft
- Georgia state senator Fran Millar has vowed to stop the scourge of black people voting on Sunday
- Hilarious conspiracy-theorist Katie Pavlich is accusing Planned Parenthood of hating on birth control
- AT&T and Verizon both think that your internet is fast enough already
- North Carolina Republican Robert Pittenger thinks it’s not easy enough to fire gay people
- Benny Johnson, the BuzzFeed editor who was recently fired for plagiarism, has already been hired by the National Review
- Duck Dynasty patriarch and 1980s throwback Phil Robertson still thinks that AIDS is God’s punishment for gay people
- Your US RDA of outrage porn: neurosurgeon and token black conservative leader Ben Carson calls evolution, which is one of the most-proven theories in science, “an absurd myth”
- National Review Online wins the award for most disgusting attack on Wendy Davis’s abortions
- That homophobic ‘World Congress of Families‘ event in Russia this week is producing a rift among American right wing haters: a few are leery of being seen cheering for Vladimir Putin, while others are more in love with their hate than their country. Participants include our old friend Austin Ruse, who will presumably explain himself to Breitbart.com readers when he gets back
- You need to know more about the history of nativist politics in America
- ‘Sovereign citizen’ Randall David Due was convicted last week on seven counts of filing false liens and conspiracy to file them. He was an associate of Donna Kozak, who was convicted of “paper terrorism” earlier this year
- The West African Ebola pandemic is growing fast, so of course House Republicans have gutted President Obama’s funding request
- Rush Limbaugh’s brother has a new book about Jesus and the dirty liberals who hate him
- Why does The Economist love slavery so much?
- It’s not just your impression: American police really do shoot black people more often than white people
- Have you seen Senator Ted Cruz (R-Dominionism) get booed off the stage at a conference for Middle Eastern Christians yet? If not, you really should:
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- Loraine, Ohio police arrested a ‘sovereign citizen’ last week after they found him stopped in a crosswalk without a legible license plate
- 64 year-old ‘sovereign citizen’ Bernard Goodno was also arrested by Alaska state troopers this week for driving without a valid license and failure to stop. He has six misdemeanor convictions for similar offenses in the last 17 years
- The Maryland judge who ordered his bailiff to use a stun device on a ‘sovereign citizen’ who was disrupting his courtroom has been banned from hearing cases and may very well lose his robe and gavel
- We were one of the first sites to report that ‘sovereign citizens’ have risen to the top of law enforcement agencies’ terrorist concerns. Now we can report that firefighters are beginning to train for possible problems:
Firefighter Threat of Sovereign Citizens FOUO by Prophet of Doom