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New Zealand election weirdness, press freedom in Kansas, and CPAC takes stock

Today from the bunker: CPAC’s ‘team’ appears awfully busy, Qantas is all class (action), and the defiance to the last from a 98-year-old journalist in Kansas.

Crikey

Afternoon Update: no campaign condemned over ‘racist jokes’; kiss sparks outrage; and Qantas class action

Indigenous leaders call on anti-voice campaigners to stop using ‘racist jokes’ after comments made at CPAC conference

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Spain triumph at World Cup, population growth to slow, CPAC ‘comedian’ criticised

England fans left heartbroken, Australians having fewer children, conservative conference defends comedian who referred to traditional owners as ‘violent black men’

The Guardian - AU

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Premier defends Games compensation; Black Lives Matter rally in Sydney – as it happened

Indigenous voice central to Conservative Political Action Network Conference and final day of ALP conference

The Guardian - AU

Right-wing conference dumps US podcaster who interviewed an Australian neo-Nazi last week

Elijah Schaffer’s name was quietly removed from CPAC’s website after he hosted a neo-Nazi who argued against interracial marriage on his show.

Crikey

Conservative group LibertyWorks has not paid more than $172,000 it owes government over failed legal cases

LibertyWorks, chaired by Warren Mundine, has been issued multiple requests on costs after actions against foreign influence scheme and Covid restrictions, Senate estimates hears

The Guardian - AU

Cheap IPA (not the good kind), more Morrisonian shrugs and another defection at Fox

Snap up cheap IPA membership, ScoMo’s biography in absentia, and a Fox veteran turns on the Murdochs — plus plenty more from the Crikey bunker.

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The Big Break: Ben Terris on his portrait of Washington after Trump

The Washington Post reporter discusses his tale of pollsters, chancers, gamblers and more in a capital rocked to its core

The Guardian - US

Bio-tech mogul Vivek Ramaswamy thinks his anti-woke 2024 campaign can beat both DeSantis and Trump. Is he in over his head?

The 37-year-old anti-woke entrepreneur is a surprisingly skilled campaigner, but does he actually know what he’s talking about? Andrew Feinberg reports from a day on the campaign trail in New Hampshire

The Independent UK

Conservatives are bullying pro-LGBTQ+ companies, just in time for Pride Month

We’ve already seen a wave of hate campaigns against brands who support LGBTQ+ people in even the smallest of ways

The Guardian - US

Rightwing group takes aim at Target for offering Pride-themed merchandise

The retailer removed some apparel the CPAC group called ‘demonic paraphernalia’ amid death threats to designer

The Guardian - US

Rightwingers praise free speech at CPAC Hungary – then eject Guardian journalist

Kari Lake speaks at Budapest meeting of US Republicans and European allies aimed at cementing rightwing ties

The Guardian - US

Hungary’s far-right PM calls for Trump’s return: ‘Come back, Mr President’

Viktor Orbán, addressing European CPAC summit, attacks liberalism as a ‘virus’ and says his country is model for world

The Guardian - US

Hungary's Orban bemoans liberal 'virus' at CPAC conference

Hungary’s populist prime minister has likened liberalism to a “virus” in an opening speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in the Hungarian capital on Thursday

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The Guardian - US

‘Going against the grain’: is bipartisanship really possible in America?

A new documentary looks back on bipartisan criminal justice reform efforts championed by CNN anchor Van Jones during the Trump years

Los Angeles Times

How improperly obtained election system information is being shared in far-right circles

WASHINGTON — On the third day of the Conservative Political Action Conference in March, two men delivered on experts' biggest concerns about attempts to access election machines after the 2020 election.

The Independent UK

Conservative who called for ‘transgenderism’ to be eradicated played queer character in student film

Michael Knowles, who used his CPAC speech to call for the eradication of ‘transgenderism’ from public life, also reportedly appeared in drag in 2016

The Independent UK

DeSantis accused of changing pronunciation of his own name

‘I’ve called up and called him Deh-Santis for several years now. I don’t know what’s happening. This is a little strange, to be honest,’ Michael Binder said in 2018

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Salon

Extremism scholar alarmed by CPAC visit

China and transgender people are among the top "demons" MAGA diehards say are ruining the country

The Conversation

I went to CPAC to take MAGA supporters' pulse – China and transgender people are among the top 'demons' they say are ruining the country

In early March 2023, I mixed with the Make America Great Again faithful at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference – a popular meeting, often known as CPAC, for conservative activists and political figures.

Salon

Who's next? GOP eradication plan begins

America is sick with fascism

Salon

CPAC '23: Kari Lake declares war

Is Kari Lake for real or just a grifter? Plus: I totally agree with Steve Bannon about something important

The Guardian - US

Lauren Boebert will be a grandmother at 36. This is what conservatives want for us

This shouldn’t need to be said in 2023, but forcing teenagers to become parents isn’t good for the teenagers, the baby or society in general

Salon

Trump's revenge tour: Republicans beware

The former president vows to go on a tour of retribution. Who will he hit first?

The Independent UK

GOP aide who accused Matt Schlapp of sexual misconduct comes forward ahead of $9.4m case

CPAC chief has denied all allegations against him

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