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‘Erotica the Drag Queen’: Meet the Biden campaign staffer helping with comms strategy in key state

‘Erotica the Drag Queen’: Meet the Biden campaign staffer helping with comms strategy in key state

FIRST ON FOX: A Democrat staffer, who recently announced on social media that he has joined the Biden-Harris campaign as a deputy press secretary, works as a “drag queen” on weekends, according to his social media bio and social media posts reviewed by Fox News Digital Eric Lipka, who most recently worked in Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s, D-Mass., office before joining the Biden campaign, said he was “thrilled to share” that he has “joined the Biden-Harris campaign as deputy press secretary for Pennsylvania!” in a X post on Wednesday. The post, which is now private, racked up hundreds of thousands of views over the last few days with several replies congratulating him, while others mocked him for joining the Biden campaign’s “sinking ship” and pointed out his bio that reads, “on weekends: drag queen.” The popular Libs of TikTok social media account amplified Lipka’s draq queen gig with a follow-up post that has garnered 1.5 million views over the last few days.  WHITE HOUSE PROMOTES BIDEN OFFICIAL WHO COMPARED POLICE TO SLAVE PATROLS, WANTS TO ABOLISH ICE Lipka, who goes by the drag queen names “Erotica,” “Erica Lipka,” and “Erotica the Drag Queen” on social media, has several social media accounts on X, Facebook, and Instagram, but most of them were private as of Friday and then all of them were locked down shortly after Fox News Digital reached out to the Biden campaign for comment on Saturday afternoon.  However, a Fox News Digital review found Lipka’s name tagged in dozens of public Facebook posts dating back to 2021 when he was still a college student at Georgetown University. The public Facebook posts were often promotions for upcoming drag brunches, drag shows, and other events featuring drag queens, including Lipka. Earlier this year, he performed at Hampden Sydney College, a private Virginia liberal arts school for men, for their Unity Alliance Lavender Ball, an event that featured several drag queens. Another post from April 2024 lists Lipka as one of the drag queens participating in an “Elevate your brunch” drag event the following month. In January 2024, Lipka was listed as one of the drag queens participating in an event called “Saint Saturday” in Richmond, Virginia. Dozens of other posts over the last few years show him participating in drag shows in Reheboth Beach, multiple Maryland venues, Connecticut, and various LGBTQ-friendly venues across Washington, D.C. In an April 2023 Facebook post, Lipka is listed on a promotion flyer for an event called “Looney’s Pub presents Brunch Tunes” in College Park, Maryland. NEW WHITE HOUSE DIGITAL STAFFER CHEERED SOCIAL MEDIA BAN ON TRUMP: ‘WHAT TOOK THEM SO LONG?’ “The girls that drag together, [eggplant emoji] bottoms down together,” drag queen Nubia Love-Jackson said in a 2022 Facebook post accompanied by a photo of Jackson and Lipka. Lipka replied, “babyyyyy u already know.”  The Biden campaign defended Lipka in response to a Fox News Digital inquiry about him participating in drag shows, saying they were “proud” to have him on their team. “We’re proud to have a team of 200 talented Pennsylvania staffers, including Eric, highlighting Trump’s record killing 275,000 jobs across the commonwealth and his discriminatory and extreme Project 2025 agenda to make life worse for our families,” said Jack Doyle, the Pennsylvania communications director for the Biden campaign. Lipka’s Instagram, which is now private, also showed him tagged in multiple photos promoting events featuring drag queens in Washington, D.C. and Connecticut, many of which were also public on Facebook. One of Lipka’s posts shows him and ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season 15 winner Sasha Colby last year at a DC venue with the caption, “When 2 worlds collide: staffing the boss to meet [Sasha Colby].” Lipka described the encounter in detail on his Linkedin profile from when he served as a “communications intern” for Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., and brought his “perspective as a gay latino” to the office. He noted that one of the projects that he helped spearhead to build Garcia’s “brand” and “name I.D” was connecting his office with ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ season 15 winner Sasha Colby for a “meet-and-greet at a D.C. LGBTQ+ venue.” “We then pushed this to our LGBTQ+ lists, which went viral in that community,” Lipka continued. Lipka’s private X and Instagram accounts, which are under the “Erotica” drag name, have thousands of followers combined. The X bio says “woman from the neck up” and the Instagram bio says “DC’s twirling twunk,” which is a term used among the “LGBTQ community to describe males (typically gay) with the face of a twink (boyish-looking, pretty) but the body of a hunk (muscular, jocky),” according to Urban Dictionary. The Biden campaign hire comes amid the Biden White House facing backlash for a couple recent controversial hires. Tyler Cherry, who previously worked for the Department of the Interior, was promoted to the White House last month as a deputy press secretary. Cherry, however, faced backlash for several unearthed tweets, including comparing police to slave patrols and one 2014 anti-Israel post that went viral because it echoed a lot of the rhetoric currently heard on college campuses. He also came under fire for deleting thousands of his tweets after Fox News Digital reporting. Another recent controversial hire was Andy Volosky, who joined the White House digital team earlier this month to serve as the new deputy director of platforms. Fox News Digital revealed that he celebrated social media companies “finally, mercifully” banning President Trump on their platforms and asked “What took them so long?” in a 2021 blog post days before President Biden took office. The Biden White House previously defended both hires, saying in two separate statements that they were “proud” to have them on their team.

Pooja Khedkar and the banality of a gamed system

Pooja Khedkar and the banality of a gamed system

Several news anchors are frothing at the mouth on the alleged incompetence of the UPSC in allowing her to commit the said fraud, so much so that the resignation submitted by the Chairman of the UPSC quite some time back is also being linked to this.

Trump tells Jesse Watters that he was not warned about gunman, despite reports

Trump tells Jesse Watters that he was not warned about gunman, despite reports

Fox News host Jesse Watters recently conducted a sit-down interview with former President Trump to discuss last week’s failed assassination attempt. The interview, which will premiere on “Jesse Watters Primetime” on Monday night at 8 p.m. ET, featured both Trump and his vice presidential candidate JD Vance. Vance currently serves as a U.S. Senator representing Ohio. The three men discussed the assassination attempt against the former president last week. Gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks shot at Trump from a roof in the middle of a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, wounding the presidential candidate on his right ear. Trump revealed during the interview that he was not warned about Crooks by the U.S. Secret Service. WATCH: THOUSANDS DESCEND ON MICHIGAN TOWN FOR FIRST TRUMP RALLY SINCE FAILED ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT “Mistakes were made,” Watters told Trump. “They were monitoring this guy for an hour beforehand. No one told you not to take the stage?” “Nobody mentioned it,” the former president replied. “Nobody said it was a problem.”  “[They] could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15, 20 minutes, 5 minutes.’ Nobody said…I think that was a mistake,” he added. Trump later questioned how Crooks could get on the roof in the first place. RNC DELEGATES, GUESTS MAKE PREDICTIONS ABOUT BIDEN’S POLITICAL FUTURE AMID REPORTS HE MIGHT EXIT 2024 RACE “How did somebody get on that roof?” Trump questioned. “And why wasn’t he reported, because people saw he was on that roof.” “When you have Trumpers screaming, the woman in the red shirt, ‘There’s a man on the roof,’ and other people, ‘There’s a man on the roof and who’s got a gun,’…that was quite a bit before I walked on the stage. And I would’ve thought someone would’ve done something about it,” Trump said. Trump, who appeared at the Republican National Convention with a large bandage on his ear, has reportedly recovered well from the injury. On Saturday, his former physician, Texas Congressman Ronny Jackson, released a detailed report about Trump’s health. “He will have further evaluations, including a comprehensive hearing exam, as needed. He will follow up with his primary care physician, as directed by the doctors that initially evaluated him,” he continued. “In summary, former President Trump is doing well, and he is recovering as expected from the gunshot wound sustained last Saturday afternoon.” “I am extremely thankful his life was spared. It is an absolute miracle he wasn’t killed,” Jackson added.

Israel says it struck Yemen’s Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks

Israel says it struck Yemen’s Hodeidah in response to Houthi attacks

The Israeli military has said it has conducted strikes against Yemen’s Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in response to attacks by the Houthi group. The air raids on Saturday were carried out a day after the Houthis claimed responsibility for a drone attack that killed one person in Tel Aviv and injured 10 others. Houthi-affiliated Al Masirah TV said the Israeli attack targeted oil storage facilities and a power plant in Hodeidah, igniting a fire. The news outlet cited health officials as saying the air raids resulted in casualties, including fatalities, without specifying a number. The Ministry of Health, which operates in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, said more than 80 people have suffered burns as a result of the Israeli strikes. But the Israeli military said it hit “military targets” in Yemen. The Israeli air strikes are the first known direct attack by Israel against the Houthis since the start of the war on Gaza. The assault comes amid growing fears of escalating violence across the Middle East. The Houthi Supreme Political Council promised to respond to Saturday’s attack. “This aggression will not pass without an effective response against the enemy,” it said in a statement. Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdelsalam said the “brutal Israeli aggression against Yemen” aims to “pressure Yemen to stop supporting Gaza, which is a dream that will not come true”. General Yahya Saree, the Houthi military spokesman, added later on Saturday that the group would not hesitate in attacking “vital targets” in Israel. Hamas was quick to condemn the Israeli assault. “The occupation state will undoubtedly be burned by the fire ignited in Hodeidah today, and the mounting Zionist crimes will change the entire equation,” Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the Palestinian group’s political bureau, said in a statement. Hezbollah voiced support for the Houthis and the Yemeni people after the attack, as well. “We think that this stupid step by the Zionist enemy is a sign of a new, dangerous phase in the confrontation at the level of the entire region,” the Lebanese group said in a statement. But Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant lauded the attack as a warning to Israel’s adversaries. “The fire that is currently burning in Hodeidah is seen across the Middle East and the significance is clear,” Gallant said. “The Houthis attacked us over 200 times. The first time that they harmed an Israeli citizen, we struck them. And we will do this in any place where it may be required.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the port struck by fighter jets was used as an entry point for the Houthis to receive Iranian weapons. Netanyahu added that the strike, some 1,800 km (1,120 miles) from Israel’s borders, was a reminder to enemies that there is no place that Israel could not reach. Yousef Mawry, a Yemeni journalist and political analyst, told Al Jazeera that he witnessed people in Sanaa rushing to get fuel after the attack amid fears of shortages, stressing that the Israeli strikes targeted “public facilities”. He said the attack would place the burden on civilians, leaving them without “access to basic necessities”, including propane gas and fuel. The Iran-allied Houthis, who present themselves as Yemen’s official armed forces, have been targeting shipping lanes in the Red Sea in a campaign that they say aims to pressure Israel to end its war on Gaza, which has killed more than 38,900 Palestinians. The Yemeni group has also launched ballistic missiles and drones at Israel, most of which have been intercepted. But early on Friday, an explosive-laden Houthi drone eluded Israeli air defences and struck a building in Tel Aviv in what was seen as a major security breach in Israel. Israeli officials had promised to respond. Gallant promised in a message to the Houthis on Friday that Israel “will settle the score” with anyone who harms its security. The United States and United Kingdom have been conducting air strikes in Yemen for months in response to the Houthis’ Red Sea assaults. But the military campaign has failed to stop the Yemeni group’s attacks. Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut said the latest developments will likely strain the Israeli military, which “is already stretched thin”, amid fears of an all-out regional war. Salhut noted that Israeli reservists are operating in both the northern and southern parts of the country as Israel fights Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. “If the air force is going to have to be additionally deployed to more parts of the Middle East like Yemen, it’s tough to say how exactly they’re going to manage that when they’re looking still to recruit more people for the army,” she said. “It’s a lot of pressure on the Israelis as yet another front has opened this morning.” Adblock test (Why?)