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My Experience With TikTok Taught Me How Conservatives Hijacked Social Media

Truth Must Return to the Internet or Modern Civilization Will Crumble READ ON SUBSTACK The Internet was once the salvation of pro-democracy liberals who held Enlightenment Values. While never perfect,…

Wayne Besen January 13, 2025

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Banning Social Media Algorithms Is Good for Society

Facebook Discards Fact Checkers So Right Wing Fiction Can Proliferate Donald Trump is indisputably the biggest dissembler in world history. In merely four years, The Washington Post found he lied…

Wayne Besen January 7, 2025

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Hitting the ‘Hope Pipe’ Is a Dangerous Gamble In The Trump Era

Genuine Hope will derive from doing what’s hard when it matters most, not walling off in a fantasy world of naïveté Slain San Francisco Supervisor and gay rights icon Harvey…

Wayne Besen December 18, 2024

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America is Already ‘Going Back’

Extremists Waste No Time Exploiting Trump’s Lie-Based Victory Didn’t conservatives always tell us that they stood for institutions, constitutional originalism and limited government? As America careens towards an era of…

Wayne Besen November 20, 2024

Opinion

Imagine Ted Cruz as a US Supreme Court Justice

Texas megachurch pastor Larry Huch prophesied in 2012 that Ted Cruz might be appointed to the Supreme Court. Stranger things have happened.

Admin User March 25, 2015

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Review: TLC’s ‘Ex-Gay’ Show Fails Because it is the Gayest Show on Earth

TLC's "My Husband isn't Gay" harms the failed "ex-gay" movement more than it helps it. These men were silly, cartoonish, and hard to take seriously

Wayne Besen January 9, 2015

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Porno Pete Ends 2014 Bemoaning Anti-Gay Losses, Writing Poetry

A very pathetic anti-gay activist refuses to look for a real job, so he continues to gay bash with embarrassing attempt at poetry

Admin User December 31, 2014

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Tony Perkins Likens Condemning Gays To Warning People Their Houses Are Fire

One of the strangest things about anti-gay hate groups and their constituents is that they are so convinced that they are right (without any evidence for that), and that their horror stories…

Admin User December 18, 2014

Opinion

Comcast Should Stop Broadcasting KGB Propaganda

Both left and right are being used for Putin’s power grab – with Comcast blithely broadcasting the Red Revolution.

Wayne Besen December 8, 2014

Opinion

‘Ex-Gay’ Christopher Doyle Asks HRC To Fund ‘Reparative Therapy’ For Accused Co-Founder, Victim

Chris Doyle, an admitted child sex abuser, unwisely throws stones from a glass house.

Admin User November 21, 2014