In the last couple of years, our screens have filled up with innumerable names and faces claiming to be able to make sense of the bizarro political situation we're in. Some are opposed to the current presidential administration, while others are helping to run it. But sometimes these pundits have pasts much more interesting and/or shadier than anything they're reporting. Take a look at how ...

5 Laura Ingraham Outed A Gay College Student Support Group

If you're not sure where you know Laura Ingraham from, here's a refresher: It might be from when she started a fight with a school shooting survivor, or when she likened child detention centers to "summer camps," or maybe when she called for the creation of a white ethnostate on her Fox News show The Ingraham Angle. So, nothing good. Below: The Ingraham Angle.

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But her history of terribleness goes back longer than you might think, extending into the 1980s and her time at Dartmouth College as editor in chief of The Dartmouth Review. In 1984, a reporter acting on Ingraham's orders infiltrated and recorded a meeting of the college's Gay Student Association (GSA), a group where gay students could discuss discrimination and activism, as well as experience what it's like to go ten minutes without being called a slur.

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That last part apparently didn't sit right with Ingraham, who called the GSA "cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites," so she published a transcript including the students' names, back in a time and place when it was more socially acceptable to be a communist spy than openly gay. Students who were out of the closet got death threats and "had their dorm doors urinated under," and thanks to Ingraham, that number increased significantly.

She expressed remorse for her actions in 1997, and for the fact that her stunts "undermined our political point" (the worst part, obvs). That's the power of hindsight. We can't wait for her editorial in 2030 about how the whole "celebrating baby jails" thing might have been a bit much.