Michelangelo Signorile

Frédéric Martel, the author of the 2019 international bestseller, In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, told me over the weekend about the time he was invited to lunch by Steve Bannon, who asked him to come to Bannon’s palatial Paris hotel suite shortly after his book was published.

“I didn’t know why he asked me to come,” he said.

The meeting was arranged via one of Martel’s right-wing Catholic sources who was allied with Bannon. Martel, a journalist who covers the far right in Europe and is working on a new book focused on it, certainly had a professional interest in meeting Bannon....

Days after the brutal execution of 37-year-old Alex Pretti in Minneapolis, we still don’t know the identities of the masked ICE agents who shot him dead.

They fled the scene and are nowhere to be found. Trump’s Department of Homeland Security is shrouding their whereabouts in secrecy.

After much video analysis by legal experts and major news organizations, it became very clear, very quickly, that Pretti was pinned down by a group of agents and disarmed. Then, posing a threat to no one, he was executed, shot 10 times....

As I wrote this column, Donald Trump was speaking at the Davos Economic Summit. This event rightly has often been derided for pandering to elites and corporations while shallowly nodding to concerns about the environment, civil rights and economic inequality as the billionaires and world leaders fly in on their private jets.

But this year it was at the center of the fear and chaos over Trump’s war on NATO and Europe, his demand for a Nobel Peace Prize, and his desire to seize Greenland.

In his rambling speech, lying about his so-called accomplishments, Trump appeared to rule out using military force to take Greenland (after implying for days that he would seize it, as he put it, “the hard way” if he needed to do so). But, Trump said, he wants “immediate negotiations” to acquire Greenland because it is “undefended.” He’s made repeated false claims that it is being circled by Russian and Chinese ships....

It’s still early, as facts are coming in about the brutal killing on Wednesday of 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good, who was shot in the head by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, through the windshield of her car.

What we do know, as we all can see with our own eyes on the viral videos of the killing, is that Renee was shot in cold blood, unprovoked, not having put the ICE agent in any danger. This video analysis by the New York Times makes it clear.

We also know from reports that Renee, an American citizen originally from Colorado, was in a relationship with a woman who, in a gut-wrenching video, identified herself as her wife. In a video obtained by The Advocate:...

It’s wild how we’re watching Donald Trump losing his grip on MAGA as MAGA leaders, from Ben Shapiro and Erica Kirk to Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon, are tearing themselves apart. They’re riven by outlandish debates like allowing Nazis such as Nick Fuentes into the party, while events like Charlie Kirk’s assassination are enmeshed in divisive, bonkers conspiracies rather than being the predicted rallying moment.

It may seem pretty crazy. But it’s actually making things a lot clearer.

The rebellion against Trump and the leaders in Congress subservient to him over everything from the Epstein files to the extension of Obamacare tax credits underscores that the masses in MAGA are lashing out because they have not gotten what was promised to them. And for most of them, what they didn’t get was their end of the Big Grift: money....