Skip to content
Search AI Powered

Latest Stories

GOP Lawmaker Apologizes After Claiming Schools Provide Litter Boxes for Kids Who 'Identify as Furries'

GOP Lawmaker Apologizes After Claiming Schools Provide Litter Boxes for Kids Who 'Identify as Furries'
jonnykip21/Twitter

Conservative hysteria over children supposedly being indoctrinated by lessons about human sexuality and gender have led to an array of bizarre claims, including homophobic lies that LGBTQ people are "grooming" students to be LGBTQ themselves.

That hysteria saw a crescendo recently when Nebraska State Senator Bruce Bostelman, a Republican, cited a debunked rumor that schools in Michigan are providing litter boxes to students who identify as dogs or cats.


Watch below.

He erroneously defined "furries" as "schoolchildren [who] dress up as animals, cats or dogs, during the school day."

Bostelman went on to say:

"They meow and they bark and they interact with their school, with their teachers in this fashion. And now schools are wanting to put litter boxes in the schools for these children to use. How is this sanitary? ... I even heard from one person here recently that a student identified as a cat and wanted a litter box and the school didn't provide the litter box, so the student went ahead and defecated on the floor. Really."

The State Senator lamented that children with American flags on their shirts are supposedly being kicked out of school while other students are permitted to dress as cats.

As you may have imagined, the anecdote isn't rooted in reality.

It appears Bostelman's claim originated, not in his state of Nebraska but in Michigan's Midland County, where a Facebook post accusing a district school of providing litter boxes for students went viral late last year. Midland Public Schools superintendent Michael E. Sharrow insisted that there was "no truth whatsoever to this false statement/accusation!”

After widespread derision, Bostelman issued an apology for promoting the lie, saying of the debunked claim:

“It was just something I felt that if this really was happening, we needed to address it and address it quickly."

Bostelman's furry fury over the imaginary policy still quickly became the subject of social media mockery.

His apology wasn't met with much sympathy either.

More conservative "fake news."

More from News

Screenshots of Justin Bieber being hounded by paparazzi
X17OnlineVideo

Fans Defend Justin Bieber After He Confronts Paparazzi For Constantly Hounding Him

Fans defended Justin Bieber after he berated the relentless paparazzi and accused them of only being concerned with turning a profit over valuing people's lives.

According to X17, the "Intentions" singer's retreat to Palm Springs, days before the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, was anything but relaxing as he clashed with the paparazzi for a third day in a row.

Keep ReadingShow less
RFK Jr.
Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images

RFK Jr. Slammed After Claiming HHS Will Discover The Cause Of 'Autism Epidemic' By September

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared that scientists would determine the cause of the "autism epidemic" by September, even though scientists haven't discovered a breakthrough despite decades of research.

In a cabinet meeting with Republican President Donald Trump on Thursday, RFK Jr. stated:

Keep ReadingShow less
J.D. Vance and Usha Vance listen to Susan Meyers during his Greenland visit
Jim Watson/Pool/AFP via Getty Images

Space Force Commander Fired Over Email Criticizing Vance's Greenland Comments

Vice President J.D. Vance and the wider Trump administration are facing criticism now that Colonel Susan Meyers was removed from her post as commander at Greenland's Pituffik Space Base after breaking with Vance in an email she wrote following his controversial visit to the island territory.

Greenland is an autonomous territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, alongside the Faroe Islands, the only other autonomous territory within the Kingdom. Citizens of both Greenland and the Faroe Islands are full citizens of Denmark. As one of the Overseas Countries and Territories of the European Union, Greenland’s citizens are also recognized as EU citizens.

Keep ReadingShow less
Karoline Leavitt and Scott Bessent
Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Karoline Leavitt Dragged After Making Mind-Numbing Claim About Trump's Tariffs Reversal

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is getting called out after she attempted to justify President Donald Trump's sudden reversal on his proposed tariffs, telling reporters that his actions make sense because he has a master plan to make the world bend the knee.

Trump declared a full 90-day suspension of all the “reciprocal” tariffs that took effect at midnight April 10—except for those on China—in a dramatic about-face from a president who had long championed his historically high tariff rates as permanent.

Keep ReadingShow less
religion signs
Noah Holm on Unsplash

People Explain What Stopped Them From Going To Church Anymore

There's been a perception of a bit of an exodus from religion for the last several decades. But humanity has gone from no organized religions to oppressive religious regimes to rebellion and back again over the last several millennia.

But is the 21st century when religion finally fails to bounce back?

Keep ReadingShow less