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 turkey I’m smoking to delicious perfection at this very moment, our Threatcon Color-Code is BROWN GRAVY
- Need help surviving those Thanksgiving family arguments? Vox.com has you covered
- Here’s the bad news for Republicans in the midterm voting data
- Breitbart.com is no longer trying to pretend their hatred for President Obama isn’t about race
- Remember those ‘death panels’ supposedly hiding in Obamacare? The real ones are called insurance companies
- Now that they’ve just about lost the marriage equality fight, evangelical and Catholic culture warriors may finally be quitting politics
- The most amazing thing about gay-bashers like Kirk Cameron is how deaf they are to the fact they sound like assholes
- If you haven’t read federal judge Carlton Reeves’s decision overturning Mississippi’s anti-marriage equality law, Paul Gordon at People For the American Way has the details
- We’ve told you about Rob Riley’s dark money gambling money connections before, and it turns out that they go even deeper than we knew
- Write it down: Michael Brown died 148 feet from Officer Wilson’s car
- Officer Darren Wilson kept quiet for a long time; now that he’s told his story, it’s literally unbelievable to observers and experts
- America’s top cop killers aren’t young black men who “bulk up” against bullets, but mostly white ‘sovereign citizens’
- Consonant to the previous point, federal agents arrested two New Black Panther Party members last Friday, one of whom is a ‘sovereign citizen’ of the Moorish Temple
- Don Terry of the Southern Poverty Law Center tracked white supremacists’ reactions to the Ferguson verdict, and they’re as awful as you imagine
- Despite a massive corporate image campaign, Black Friday tomorrow will see the biggest Walmart strikes ever because the Waltons could easily raise wages if they wanted to
- Tea Party leader and nativist Minuteman organizer Steve Eichler claims that he’s working with military officers to overthrow Obama
- A pseudonymous crank and probable ‘sovereign citizen’ is demanding all records compiled at the Snohomish County, WA sheriff’s office since 1776
- White supremacist writer James Kirkpatrick says nativists must form a third political party if Republicans fail to impeach Obama
- How will the GOP make their next wave of billionaire tax cuts look less like a massive giveaway to the nation’s richest corporations? By fudging the numbers, of course
- Media Matters For America founder David Brock is playing Democratic kingmaker
- Every progressive reform since the abolition of slavery has been denounced as ‘socialism.’ Perversely, conservative overuse is making the word more popular than ever in America
- How can young black men avoid being shot dead by police? By calling on their inner slave, of course
- Yes, ‘green loans’ are unprofitable. They’re supposed to be
- Idiocracy advances: the Texas State Board of Education has approved almost all those ridiculous textbooks that will teach our kids how Moses invented capitalism and democracy from the back of a dinosaur
- Right wing media was completely wrong about the effects of ‘stop-and-frisk’ policies
- Skeptical Science has a free debunking handbook available online
- Big Stone County, MN GOP Chairman Jack Whitley thinks Muslims should convert to Christianity or else leave the country
- This account of the rise and fall of Mark Masters’ Talk Radio Network makes very interesting reading
- Out of 553 graves in a cemetery outside of Boise used by families that practice ‘faith healing,’ 144 are the last resting places of children — and the GOP legislature can’t bring themselves to do anything about it
- Sen. Rand Paul’s comments last Friday comparing President Obama’s executive orders on immigration to the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII have drawn a withering riposte from Rep. Mark Takano (D-CA)
- The problem with the Duggars’ show 19 Kids and Counting isn’t that Jim Bob and Michelle are homophobic, it’s the way TLC conceals their extremism and mysogyny
