Extremists

The Hill reports: Five leaders of the Proud Boys convicted of spearheading the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack are accusing the government and FBI employees of violating their constitutional rights, according to a lawsuit filed Friday. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, seeks $100 million in restitution and comes after President Trump pardoned nearly all Jan. 6 defendants …

The Associated Press reports: Law enforcement discovered a cache of weaponry and armor, including a machine gun and grenade launchers, along with Nazi paraphernalia during a raid of a home in Washington state, authorities said Tuesday. Derek Sanders, the elected sheriff of Thurston County, said in a Facebook post that the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Division asked his office for …

“This is really interesting because the last time Laura Loomer, at least the last known time, I should say, that she was here at the White House, there were significant events that came after. One is she came to talk to President Donald Trump personally and essentially told him, urged him, really, to fire a number of people she deemed …

CNN reports: The far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) is leaving the Netherlands’ government over its policy for asylum-seekers, its leader Geert Wilders said on Tuesday, toppling the governing coalition. “I signed up for the strictest asylum policy, not for the downfall of the Netherlands,” Wilders told reporters Tuesday morning. “And our responsibility for this cabinet therefore ends here.” Wilders’ decision …

“If no one informed Trump then the White House has to condemn this immediately and pull all support and tell Lindsey Graham to come home or we are going to put you under arrest when you come home. You’re stirring it up. Lindsey Graham’s over there saying: ‘Hey, forget Trump. I got the House and the Senate. We’re going to …

The Huffington Post reports: Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith expressed his terror over upcoming Pride Month, a month dedicated to recognizing the LGBTQ+ community, in a frantic social media post Friday. “PRIDE MONTH ALERT: The Rainbow Beast Is Coming For Your Kids!” the post from Beckwith said. “WARNING: Corporate America and government institutions are launching their annual siege on childhood …

The New York Times reports: President Trump on Thursday nominated Paul Ingrassia, a former far-right podcast host now serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, to a new key role: head of the Office of Special Counsel, an independent corruption-fighting agency that safeguards federal whistle-blowers and enforces some ethics laws. Before working for Mr. Trump, …

CNN reports: Floyd Brown, a far-right political activist with a history of anti-gay rhetoric and promoting conspiracy theories about former President Barack Obama, said he was fired from a senior leadership role he briefly held at the Kennedy Center — just hours after CNN reached out with questions about his past statements. Brown’s past statements include calling homosexuality “a punishment” …

“In the story, which is online, it will soon be printed in the print copy, I am quoted by saying, Charlie, every time he sees President Trump, reminds him to, quote, crush these universities with every power that he has. That is true. That is not fake news. In fact, yesterday, when I was with President Trump — I mean, …

Media Matters reports: A guest on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast argued that if the Supreme Court doesn’t limit the federal judiciary’s power to issue nationwide injunctions, then President Donald Trump must suspend the writ of habeas corpus to accelerate his mass deportation plans. Rogan O’Handley — a conservative commentator who goes by the moniker DC Draino …

ABC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday pushed for Karol Nawrocki to be president of Poland while speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Warsaw, decrying his opponent as a “train wreck.” It is an extraordinary move for a sitting member of the U.S. Cabinet to advocate for a political candidate in a foreign country. Noem …

The New York Times reports: Erik Prince, a private military contractor and prominent supporter of President Trump, is working with Haiti’s government to conduct lethal operations against gangs that are terrorizing the nation and threatening to take over its capital. Mr. Prince, the founder of Blackwater Worldwide, signed a contract to take on the criminal groups that have been killing …

Sky News reports: Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate have been charged with rape and other offences in the UK. Andrew Tate, 38, face 10 charges, including rape, actual bodily harm, human trafficking, and controlling prostitution for gain, relating to three women. His brother Tristan Tate, 36, faces 11 charges relating to one woman – including rape, actual bodily …

Politico reports: In his first full week as the Justice Department’s pardon attorney, Ed Martin personally reviewed a pardon application for Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. Peter Ticktin, a lawyer and former classmate of President Donald Trump’s at New York Military Academy, hand delivered a collection of 11 pardon applications to Martin at the Justice Department on Thursday, including one …

The Seattle Times reports: In the days after a chaotic confrontation between police and protesters at a conservative Christian rally on Capitol Hill, several groups have questioned why the demonstration was held at Cal Anderson Park and how the city could have better prepared. The rally, advocating “freedom from same sex attraction” and ”the sacrality of biological gender,” was permitted …

Axios reports: In a tense meeting last week, top Trump aide Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem demanded that immigration agents seek to arrest 3,000 people a day, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. The new target is triple the number of daily arrests that agents were making in the early days of Trump’s term — …

The Washington Post reports: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tuesday that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency — the latest in the Trump administration’s attacks on scientific institutions. “We’re probably going to stop publishing in the Lancet, New …

The Kansas City Star reports: Scores of masked white nationalists descended on Kansas City Saturday, holding a rally outside the National WWI Museum and Memorial and marching downtown carrying flags and chanting. Police said the event, carried out by the Patriot Front, did not result in any arrests. The Patriot Front is a white nationalist “and avowedly fascist nationwide organization” …

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. Justice Department’s new pardon attorney said he is going to take a “hard look” at two men who are serving long prison terms for leading a conspiracy to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. “On the pardon front, we can’t leave these guys behind,” Ed Martin Jr. said this week. “In my opinion these are …

ABC News reports: The alleged leader of a neo-Nazi cult based overseas has been extradited to the United States and accused of “multiple senseless killings” around the world, including the shooting at Antioch High School in Nashville earlier this year that left one student dead and another injured, according to the Justice Department. Michail Chkhikvishvili, a Georgian national arrested in …