At a hearing two days after the government dropped its charges against Baraka, the judge upbraided Stephen Demanovich, a federal prosecutor who had been assigned the case.
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Jonathan Blitzer,
New Yorker,
19 Jan. 2026
During cross-examination, he was upbraided for long answers that did not immediately answer the question he had been asked.
On social media, he was getting pilloried by Fuentes’s legions of fans, many of them alienated young conservatives who call themselves Groypers, in honor of an obese version of the Pepe the Frog meme.
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Jason Zengerle,
New Yorker,
24 Jan. 2026
As an 18-year-old, Bedard was pilloried for having a minus-44 rating.
Noem’s dissmissal comes after she was berated by lawmakers on Capitol Hill over a series of disastrous blunders by her department, including the killings of two American citizens by border patrol agents in Minneapolis and apparent attempts by DHS to stifle investigations into the shootings.
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Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
6 Mar. 2026
They were berated with demeaning and misogynistic names.
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