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Marjorie Taylor Greene—accused of affair with tantric love guru—says Christian conservative women aren’t chaste enough for her taste

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Christian conservatives outraged as man who toppled ‘Satanic’ statue in Iowa charged with hate crime

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‘Simply to prove a point’: Manager says he fired all of his vaccinated employees in viral TikTok

Lauren Pefferle, a staff member at an Oregon elementary school, wore blackface to protest a vaccine mandate.

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