Things We Saw Today: Man Kicked Out of a Bar for Wearing a MAGA Hat Tried to Claim Trump Is His Religion

A man was thrown out of a New York City bar recently for refusing to remove his “Make America Great Again” hat. The guy decided to sue for discrimination, but political beliefs aren’t upheld as a basis in this kind of case, so the man claimed that Trump was his religion. Specifically, that he was “paying tribute to the victims of 9/11,” and that Trump is somehow part of the “spiritual belief” associated with that. The judge wasn’t having it and found in favor of the bar.

And for every Twitter troll (and my lord, there are a lot) feigning disgust, shouting “*COUGH* *SCOFF* So I have to make a cake for people that violate my religious beliefs but this guy can’t even wear a hat,” the rest of us non-assholes answer: Yes. That’s exactly right. (via Twitter)

• Netflix is producing a short-form documentary series about Buzzfeed reporters. The first episode of Follow This is about the ASMR phenomenon, and the first trailer is out now. (via YouTube)
• Patton Oswalt was on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, originally to talk about another project, but ended up discussing the incredible work his late wife Michelle McNamara did in contributing to the discovery of the identity of the Golden State Killer. Careful, there are a lot of feelings in this clip. (via Nerdist)
• Two women have accused Tom Brokaw of sexual harassment, dating back to the ’90s. (via Jezebel)
• Stranger Things is back in production and they want to make sure you know about it.

• Awesome cosmetics company Bésame has a line of Infinity War-inspired cosmetics. These aren’t even colors that I would wear and I don’t care at all. I need this. (via Bésame)
• Just when you think Paul Ryan can’t get any more despicable, he goes and does something like, say, fire the House chaplain for basically praying that the poor don’t get screwed over by the GOP tax bill. Republicans, for their part, have rejected an investigation into that firing. (VIA HUFFPOST)
• On a brighter note, YAY!

Have a great Infinity War weekend, Mary Suevians!

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Vivian Kane (she/her) is the Senior News Editor at The Mary Sue, where she's been writing about politics and entertainment (and all the ways in which the two overlap) since the dark days of late 2016. Born in San Francisco and radicalized in Los Angeles, she now lives in Kansas City, Missouri, where she gets to put her MFA to use covering the local theatre scene. She is the co-owner of The Pitch, Kansas City’s alt news and culture magazine, alongside her husband, Brock Wilbur, with whom she also shares many cats.

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