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Early Addition: CPAC Organizer Says Alt-Right Is Actually A 'Left-Wing Fascist Group'


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Published Feb 23, 2017

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Published Feb 23, 2017

Modified Feb 23, 2017


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  • Today in the Upside Down: Dan Schneider, executive director of the American Conservative Union, argued at CPAC that the "alt-right" is a left-wing fascist group.
  • Today in kids yelling at politicians, a seven-year-old asked a Republican Senator not to take away PBS Kids to build a wall.
  • This White House terrorism adviser is an angry, thin-skinned creep.
  • A YouTube livestream of a giraffe giving birth in an upstate NY zoo was pulled after animal activists complained about "nudity and sexual content."
  • Tucker Carlson hates educated elites and definitely has a major chip on his shoulders.
  • Your sports highlight of the day is this guy making a leap and trying to take down the Confederate flag.
  • Keith Ellison thinks Trump is already impeachable.
  • The Russian foreign ministry has accused major Western media, including The New York Times, Bloomberg and NBC, of spreading false news about the country.
  • Former House Speaker John Boehner says that of course Republicans won't repeal-and-replace Obamacare, that was just "happy talk."
  • An undocumented immigrant diagnosed with a brain tumor while in ICE custody was returned to a detention center from a Texas hospital.
  • All the glorious Bob's Burgers songs are being released on an album.
  • The NY Times will debut its first-ever ad during this Sunday's Oscars ceremony, but you can see it here first.
  • And finally, a very good boy goes shopping for treats:

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Ben Yakas was born and raised in New York, and has worked for Gothamist for over a decade, and WNYC for four years, covering literally everything. He has hung out with Dan Smith (who will teach you guitar), but still has yet to have a guitar lesson with him.

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