Who Is Paul Nehlen? Laura Ingraham Defends Paul Ryan's Wisconsin Primary Challenger Deemed Too Extreme for the Alt-right

Fox News host Laura Ingraham appeared to defend the white supremacist Paul Nehlen during her show on Thursday night in a segment with conservative activist Candace Owens during which the pair discussed social media bans of prominent right-wing figures.

Nehlen unsuccessfully challenged the then House Speaker Paul Ryan in a 2016 Wisconsin Republican primary and again in 2018 against Representative Bryan Steil before the party banned him for his extreme views.

The 50-year-old is banned from Twitter for racism, Facebook for spreading hate, and Gab, a network popular with the far-right, for doxxing another user. Doxxing is the compilation and then public release of an individual’s personal information to encourage harassment.

Nehlen wrote on Twitter before his permanent ban: “Poop, incest, and pedophilia. Why are those common themes repeated so often with Jews?”

https://www.newsweek.com/fox-news-laura-ingraham-paul-nehlen-candace-owens-1440374

The baby stayed in the desert. I myself stayed in darkness for a long time.



When the small body stopped forming and came out of me, I put it into a yogurt container and drove out to the desert. We placed it on the ground between a saguaro, an ocotillo, and a barrel cactus, and made a circle around the form with small stones. I intentionally left an opening to allow its spirit—if such a thing existed—to get out.

The blood had started at 5 a.m. I went to the bathroom and there it was, just like a period. Just like the end of a sentence. Only it hadn’t been a sentence, it had been a joy, and now, I was pretty certain, it was ending. I crawled back into bed. “I’m bleeding,” I told my partner.

We got pregnant easily, on the second try, in June. By August it was real. At the end of a cross-country drive from Pennsylvania, where we’d been visiting my parents, we took a pregnancy test in a South Dakota motel. We went to Mount Rushmore and looked at the white men’s heads, but all I could think about was the beautiful creature inside me. I already had a name picked out.

In September I went on a six-day backpacking trip in Yosemite with a friend. Because of the nausea, I couldn’t eat much of what we’d packed. But somehow we hiked at high altitudes and lounged aside glacial lakes. On an external hard drive somewhere there exists a digital photograph of me in an alpine meadow wearing shorts and a maroon t-shirt with my hand on my belly. I can still conjure the anticipatory bliss of that moment.

https://www.guernicamag.com/hello-blood-the-dance-of-miscarriage/

With more women in the presidential race than ever before, the Democratic National Committee is requiring that each 2020 Democratic presidential debate includes at least one female moderator, Refinery29 is exclusively reporting.

"The DNC is committed to an inclusive and fair debate process," DNC senior adviser Mary Beth Cahill told Refinery29. "That means that all 12 DNC sanctioned debates will feature a diverse group of moderators and panelists including women and people of color, ensuring that the conversations reflect the concerns of all Americans."

To our knowledge, this is the first time the DNC has made this type of rule. The majority of moderators in the 2008 and 2016 Democratic primaries were men, with some events moderated by a lone anchor, such as CNN's Anderson Cooper or Wolf Blitzer — although the 2016 cycle was more inclusive, with journalists such as Martha Raddatz and the late Gwen Ifill asking the candidates questions. Taking the additional step of a requirement will help ensure that a variety of perspectives and issues, such as child-care costs, paid family leave, and maternal mortality, are represented in the debates.

https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2019/05/234148/democratic-presidential-debate-info-2020-dnc-female-moderator?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=twitter_share

This August, the stars of last year’s sold-out Stand Up for Progress events will be joining us once again for a show in Traverse City. Details and tickets here:

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