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Jack Wheatley at MMFA:

Right-wing media figures are split on Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist streamer and Holocaust denier who has recently achieved growing influence in Republican politics and within the right-wing media landscape. Following a slew of appearances on right-wing and right-leaning online shows in 2025, Fuentes has continued to appear in such venues this year, earning millions of views via at least 25 appearances alongside at least 13 influencers. Some right-wing and right-leaning influencers and hosts have praised Fuentes this year, touting his rhetorical skills and “aura,” while others have criticized him and his commentary, calling him a “nutjob” and a “raging racist.”

Fuentes and his rhetoric are gaining popularity amid a fractured media environment

Fuentes is known for peddling extreme white nationalism, Holocaust denial, and misogyny. He has called Jewish people “money changers, bullshit artists, psychopaths, charlatans, grifters, manipulators” and stated that “Blacks need to be imprisoned for the most part.” Yet right-wing media figures and conservative lawmakers have increasingly adopted some of the extreme rhetoric and policy ideas Fuentes is known for.

Fuentes’ popularity online appeared to accelerate in 2025, when he appeared as a guest on numerous online shows viewed millions of times. Skipping over legacy right-wing media spaces like Fox News and Newsmax, he appeared instead on right-leaning online shows, including those hosted by Tucker Carlson, Patrick Bet-David, and Glenn Greenwald. Fuentes has also appeared with “manosphere” streamers including Adin Ross, Sneako, and the Nelk Boys, who offered him the chance to exchange friendly banter before their audiences of predominantly young men. According to Media Matters’ research, from June to December of 2025, Fuentes added nearly 450,000 followers on his Rumble channel, a roughly 300% increase from 150,000 followers to nearly 600,000. Amid these appearances and growth, Fuentes bragged that he had become “ubiquitous” on the right, celebrating “how the Overton window has been shattered” and “how far we’ve come in a year and a half … how similar to me they all sound.”

Fuentes’ appearances on right-wing and right-leaning online shows and streams have continued into 2026

This year, Fuentes has appeared at least 25 times on right-wing and right-leaning online shows and streams alongside at least 13 different influencers and media figures: Joel Webbon, Alex Jones, Tim Pool, Elijah Schaffer, Jake Shields, Steven Crowder, Dave Smith, Andrew Tate, Sneako, Clavicular, Myron Gaines, Keith Woods, and Bradley Martyn.

Jacob Ogles at The Advocate:

A friendly message created by a gay-straight alliance has angered anti-LGBTQ+ activists, who are now calling for Massachusetts educators to be fired. A Facebook message by conservative activist Lynne Turner takes issue with a bulletin board display at Dartmouth High School that reads “Have a Gay Summer” and is posted on rainbow-colored construction paper. “This is NOT ok. It needs to be removed and an apology needs to be made to the children and parents of Dartmouth kids,” Turner posted. “Schools are supposed to educate and prepare students for successful careers, as well as give them skills for life. DHS, pushing gay ideology on our youth is NOT your place!!!” The display also includes a pair of rainbow flags and images of historic LGBTQ leaders, including Harvey Milk and Marsha P. Johnson.

Turner said she contacted the school administration and superintendent’s office, and eventually spoke with principal Ryan O’Shea, who said the display was created by students in the Gay-Straight Alliance on campus. Turner said she considered the message “grooming.” “This message is NOT inclusive, it is suggesting their gay orientation for everyone, or for "gay" acts to occur over summer,” Turner posted. But O’Shea, according to Turner, said he doubts anyone walking by the display will want to become gay as a result. He said the display was created under the supervision of an adult educator but contained only positive messages. The Advocate has reached out to Dartmouth High and Dartmouth Public Schools for comment. After Turner posted the message online, it was shared by other anti-LGBTQ activists across the country, most notably by Libs of TikTok, a far-right account that has led online harassment campaigns against the families of slain ICE protesters Alex Pretti and Renee Good, doxxed gay educators, and attacked trans athletes participating in sports.

Right=wing anti-LGBTQ+ extremist killjoys such as Libs of TikTok rage over a “Have A Gay Summer” bulletin board piece at Dartmouth High School in Dartmouth, MA by their Gay-Straight Alliance. 🏳️‍🌈

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Greg Owen at LGBTQ Nation:

The Trump administration took the next step in its attack on gender-affirming care for trans youth on Wednesday, filing a lawsuit against the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), the leading global organization focused on transgender health and the primary developer of clinical guidelines for gender-affirming medicine. The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, follows an earlier Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigation of WPATH over the same claims in the lawsuit, which accuses the 46-year-old organization of defrauding parents for the financial benefit of health care professionals.

The FTC, which is not a medical regulator, brought the suit, joined by Republican attorneys general in Texas, Iowa, Nebraska, and Alaska. “Today, the FTC filed a lawsuit against WPATH alleging that the organization made false and unsubstantiated claims regarding the necessity, effectiveness and safety of puberty blockers, hormones and sex-change surgeries,” said FTC Chairman Andrew N. Ferguson in a statement announcing the filing.

WPATH “has provided the means for medical providers to make false and unsubstantiated claims to parents in order to sell pediatric medical transition services,” the FTC alleges.

Ken Paxton, a MAGA loyalist who was endorsed by President Donald Trump in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat, signed on to the suit in his role as that state’s attorney general. “Any group that illegally promotes irreversible, life-altering ‘transitioning’ procedures to kids as safe and necessary will face the full force of the law for harming children,” Paxton was quoted in the FTC announcement. “We will not allow WPATH or any other organization to illegally promote or perform dangerous ‘transitioning’ procedures on our kids that leave them with permanent trauma and lifelong health consequences.”

Among the complaint’s allegations, the FTC says WPATH deceptively promoted the benefits of “breast amputation” and “penis removal” for trans minors (even though such procedures are almost never performed on minors); failed to disclose the side effects “cross-sex” hormones for minors, including “pelvic pain, clitoral discomfort, vaginal pain, inability to orgasm, incontinence and erectile pain”; and blackmailed parents into the organization’s “profit” scheme by asking whether they “would rather have a live daughter or a dead son,” in the case of gender dysphoria diagnoses for boys. According to the FTC, parents in search of life-saving treatment for their children are dupes in a decades-long grift perpetrated by doctors associated with WPATH and the organization itself. Doctors’ characterization of gender-affirming care as “life-saving” is only a means of forcing insurance companies to pay for the treatments, thereby profiting health care professionals and WPATH, according to the suit.

The Trump Regime’s FTC, along with 4 far-right extremist GOP AGs, sues World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) by baselessly accusing the organization of “blackmailing” parents as part of the Regime’s war on gender-affirming care (and trans people more generally, esp. trans minors).

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We can argue about raising Bison for human consumption instead of cows on federal land all we want, but by all accounts we are missing like 25+ million bison because of their wholesale slaughter over the past few hundred years. They do serve an important ecological function.

So why berry producing bushes? Because we killed off bears.

Bears used to eat huge amounts of berries and fish, shit out the seeds, and spread berries around the US just like birds do. Except we killed like 99% of the bears, and we’re doing our best to exterminate the birds as well.

Who thinks of a bear as a creature that distributes seeds (and also technically fertilizer from eating hundreds of pounds of fish a year and then pooping farther inland).

Doggie is having the time of his life!!!🐶🥳🥰

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