Extremists

NBC News reports: A jury has reached a partial verdict for at least some of the defendants in the five members of the far-right Proud Boys organization who are facing charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said from the bench Thursday. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, …

The SPLC’s Hatewatch reports: At CPAC Hungary this week, Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona and Rep. Barry Moore of Alabama will speak alongside a global collection of radical-right figures, including the leader of an Austrian political party founded by Nazi SS officers. The Austrian political party founded by Nazi SS officers, Austrian Freedom Party, or FPÖ, will send to CPAC …

The Washington Post reports: Brazilian police are investigating whether former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to deceive American authorities into believing, incorrectly, that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could enter the United States, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police conducted a search and seizure operation at Bolsonaro’s Brasília address early Wednesday and arrested several close associates, including a …

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he had called police officers Nazis as he encouraged a mob of Trump loyalists to kill them. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the …

CNN reports: The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Florida man accused of setting off an “explosive device” in the US Capitol tunnel during the attack on January 6, 2021. In one of the most violent scenes of the Capitol riot, a line of police officers protected an entrance to the building against violent rioters who used poles, bats, fists, stolen …

The CBC reports: Calgary pastor Artur Pawlowski is guilty of mischief for encouraging truckers to continue blocking the Canada-U.S. border crossing during a 2022 protest that lasted more than two weeks, a Lethbridge judge has ruled. “Mr. Pawlowski intended to incite the audience to continue the blockade — intended to incite protesters to commit mischief,” said Justice Gordon Krinke in …

From the Justice Department: Jackie Rahm Little, aka Joel Arthur Tueting, has been arrested and charged in a federal criminal complaint with arson following fires at two Minneapolis mosques, announced U.S. Attorney Andrew M. Luger. Little was apprehended and arrested last night in Mankato by the Blue Earth County Sheriff’s Office and taken into federal custody today by FBI and …

Media Matters has the transcript: MICHAEL KNOWLES (HOST): We need to be less touchy over the book ban thing. Every society throughout all of history has banned books. All sorts of political communities have banned certain books. Book banning is something that happens in the Gospels — in the Acts of the Apostles, rather. It’s in the New Testament. And …

Courthouse News reports: Massachusetts, famed for its Puritans, witch trials and scarlet letters, braced for the world’s largest-ever gathering of Satanists this weekend, but the feared pagan hordes turned out to be campy misfits seeking fun and community — far more “Rocky Horror” than “The Exorcist.” Sponsored by the Satanic Temple, which boasts that it’s the only satanic organization officially …

The Daily Beast reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene is disgusted that websites like Pornhub exist, and even more horrified that Hunter Biden may have used them. Raw Story reports that the Republican from Georgia shared her newfound knowledge of the adult film landscape in a keynote address at the Putnam County Lincoln Reagan Dinner on Sunday. “There is a website–you may …

From the website of the host brewery: Kaleidoscope Youth Center (KYC) and Land-Grant Brewing Company are back for the 2nd Annual Land-Grant Drag Brunch on Saturday, April 29th, benefiting KYC and LGBTQIA+ youth in our community! Hosted by Anisa Love and Virginia West, this is a FREE admission event, but this year we are introducing very limited VIP seating where …

NBC News reports: A California man who used stolen police pepper spray against officers battling a mob during the Jan. 6 attack was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday, prosecutors said. Jeffrey Scott Brown, 56, was sentenced to 54 months in prison, or 4½ years, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said in a statement. Brown, of Santa Ana, …

NBC News reports: Former President Donald Trump embraced a Jan. 6 defendant at a diner during a campaign stop Thursday night, calling the woman, who served prison time for her actions during the Capitol attack and wants former Vice President Mike Pence executed for treason, “terrific.” Larson-Olson said she believes that the members of Congress who voted to certify Biden’s …

Rolling Stone reports: America First Legal, the legal activist group founded by former Trump advisor Stephen Miller, filed a complaint on Wednesday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Mars Inc, the maker of M&Ms. The pro-Trump nonprofit alleges Mars’ efforts to increase diversity and representation of minorities within its workforce constitutes discrimination and a violation of the 1964 …

Bloomberg News reports: Hungary’s president pardoned a far-right figure convicted of terrorism hours before meeting Pope Francis in Budapest, a decision that risks damaging the optics of the pontiff’s visit with a highly charged domestic issue. The pardon, issued late Thursday by President Katalin Novak, came on the eve of the Pope’s three-day visit. Novak will welcome the Pope to …

The Daily Beast reports: A bullhorn-wielding Pennsylvania woman breached the U.S. Capitol with her husband on Jan. 6, took selfies in Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s office, then kicked a cop in the groin on her way out, according to a federal complaint unsealed Thursday. Jeanette Mangia, 44, and Joseph Pastucci, 49, were arrested by FBI agents in New Cumberland on …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas lawmakers on Wednesday voted against a bill that would prohibit public school employees from using corporal punishment on students. House Bill 772 received a 58-86 vote in the lower chamber. Rep. Alma Allen, a Houston Democrat and former public school educator, has carried a bill to eliminate the controversial practice in each biennial session for …

The Huffington Post reports: During the House Oversight and Accountability Subcommittee on Select Coronavirus Crisis hearing Wednesday, the Republican congresswoman decided to grill Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, about her credentials. “Are you a medical doctor?” Greene asked, followed by, “Are you a mother?” Weingarten admitted she was not a doctor and was “a mother by …

San Diego’s Inewsource reports: Former San Diego County resident Robert Wilson, a known neo-Nazi, was arrested Tuesday by Polish authorities on suspicion of projecting an antisemitic message on the Anne Frank House, according to experts who monitor extremist activity around the globe. The Amsterdam police said a 41-year-old suspect was arrested in Poland after an investigation into the incident in …

Los Angeles’s ABC affiliate reports: A man climbed the KTLA tower in Hollywood Tuesday evening and was perched on a digital billboard, holding a sign and playing a guitar for several hours. Reports began coming in of a man climbing the 162-foot TV station tower at Sunset Boulevard and Bronson Avenue near Van Ness Avenue late in the afternoon. At …