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American actress and comedian (born 1952)
ABC removed Roseanne Barr from the 2018 revival after she posted a tweet that likened Valerie Jarrett, a former Obama adviser, to an ape; the network called the remark “abhorrent, repugnant and incons...
No firm release date has been announced for the Roseanne Barr project that Randy Quaid says he will star in; reporting in July 2025 describes the project in development and quotes Barr and Quaid but d...
Roseanne Barr’s widely reported racist tweet about Valerie Jarrett read, in the form most outlets reproduce, “Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes had a baby = vj,” a post published in May 2018 tha...
Public figures and organizations across the right-wing media ecosystem, some politicians, and foreign state media have amplified QAnon themes: researchers and reporting name former national-security a...
Early promoters of QAnon included a mix of fringe moderators, conservative influencers and sympathetic public figures who amplified Q’s posts from late 2017 onward; Reuters and Wikipedia trace early a...
Roseanne Barr’s widely reported, deleted 2018 tweet about former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett read in its commonly reproduced form: Multiple contemporary and retrospective accounts show that Barr pos...
The core, well-documented response from the Roseanne cast to Roseanne Barr’s 2018 racist tweet was immediate condemnation and distancing; key cast members described the comments as inconsistent with t...
Primary, original event programs and speaker rosters for Turning Point USA (TPUSA) conferences in 2023–2024 are most reliably found on TPUSA’s own event and archive pages, affiliated sites like Turnin...
Roseanne Barr posted a tweet that compared former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett to the and , a message that immediate reporting and network statements characterize as racist and which triggered ABC’s can...
ABC spun Roseanne into The Conners after Roseanne Barr was fired in May 2018; producers and several original cast members moved forward without Barr to preserve the show’s characters and audience, and...
Roseanne Barr’s 2018 racist tweet led ABC to cancel the revived Roseanne within hours and to retool the cast into The Conners without her, a move widely reported at the time and repeated in later summ...
ABC canceled the Roseanne reboot on May 29, 2018 after star and co-creator Roseanne Barr posted a tweet that compared former Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett to the “Planet of the Apes” and referenced th...
Roseanne Barr’s May 29, 2018 tweet about Valerie Jarrett was widely reported in the exact phrasing: , a message that was deleted shortly after posting and triggered immediate condemnation and the swif...
Valerie Jarrett publicly framed Roseanne Barr’s May 2018 tweet comparing her to an ape as a , expressing concern for people who experience such abuse without robust support systems and thanking execut...