Apr 19, 2022

The “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account run by Chaya Raichik focuses on framing LGBTQ+ TikTok users are child predators and groomers, and on some occasions, people posted on the account lose their jobs from their appearance on the account. Now, the Right is throwing a fit over Raichik being exposed by Taylor Lorenz, even though the account has influenced public policy and has been promoted by popular right-wing pundits like Glenn Greenwald and Joe Rogan.
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The Young Turks: April 19, 2022

Washington Post journalist Taylor Lorenz has been catching a lot of flack online for exposing the person behind the popular right-wing Twitter account “Libs of TikTok”. The account focuses on framing LGBTQ+ TikTok users are child predators and groomers and the page’s owner, Chaya Raichik, even made an anonymous appearance on Tucker Carlson’s show after it was suspended on Twitter just weeks ago.
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The “Libs of TikTok” Twitter account run by Chaya Raichik focuses on framing LGBTQ+ TikTok users are child predators and groomers, and on some occasions, people posted on the account lose their jobs from their appearance on the account. Now, the Right is throwing a fit over Raichik being exposed by Taylor Lorenz, even though the account has influenced public policy and has been promoted by popular right-wing pundits like Glenn Greenwald and Joe Rogan.
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The Israeli military has just announced that it struck a weapons manufacturing site in the Gaza Strip today. The attack is reportedly in response to a missile strike that was intercepted by the IDF allegedly launched by Hamas, the militant political organization leading Palestine’s battle against Israel’s oppression.
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In a surprising turn of events, former President Donald Trump is now calling for a diplomatic and peaceful end to Russia’s war against Ukraine, saying that if a solution isn’t reached soon, there won’t be anything worth saving. While Trump is finally walking back his wishy-washy stance on the war, he does still believe that Vladimir Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if he was still in office.
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The Fox & Friends show gave some surprising pushback on Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s migrant bus plan, where he would send volunteering migrants on a bus ride to Washington DC in hopes of drawing lawmakers’ attention to the ‘immigration crisis’ along the Southern Border. However, host Rachel Campos-Duffey doesn’t think they measure goes far enough in having a real impact, instead suggesting that Abbott send the illegal immigrants to wealthy neighborhoods across the country, especially where Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama live.
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President Joe Biden has allegedly told former President Barack Obama that he plans to run for reelection in 2024. The Hill and other sources report that Biden thinks he’s the Democrats’ best hope to beat Trump in 2024. Yikes.
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Big Pharma shill Rep. Kurt Schrader touted his work in Congress in lowering prescription drug prices in a campaign ad even though he is accepting Big Pharma donations to keep his reelection campaign afloat as well as actively fighting fellow Democrats in lowering drug prices. Schrader flat out lied to his constituents in the ad by saying that he’s fighting to get “big money out of politics” while paying for the ad with Big Pharma donation money.
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A fabricated Reddit post purportedly from a parent of a transgender child who has been sneaking their child’s gender-affirming pills into the child’s food has triggered a ton of internet conservatives who think that it’s a real story. We can’t make this up.
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Some of Donald Trump’s supporters are looking to rebrand the MAGA movement into something more authoritarian, calling it “Dark MAGA”. The group wants Trump to be more ruthless when confronting his political opponents in 2024 and are even adopting a more dystopian and aggressive aesthetic style to market the campaign.
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Former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly was recorded losing his mind at Jet Blue airline workers after his flight to Turks and Caicos was delayed for multiple hours. O’Reilly allegedly threatened violence against a worker and even threatened to get him fired.
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Rep. Ilhan Omar shared her take on a viral video showing a Christian worship group breaking out for a prayer song in the middle of their flight. Omar wondered if the passengers and the media would have a different reaction if a muslim worship group held a prayer session while on a plane, which we all know the answer to that question.
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