Extremists

The Daily Beast reports: MAGA trolls wasted no time spewing racist epithets online after a Mexican Navy sailing ship crashed into the Brooklyn Bridge, killing 2 crew members. “In an absolutely stunning modern metaphor a ship blaring Mexican music and flying a massive Mexican flag just got destroyed by the Brooklyn bridge,” wrote right-wing serial plagiarist and misinformation peddler Benny …

CBS News reports: Combat sport clubs have been used to boost recruitment for a white nationalist hate group, according to a report released by the legal advocacy organization Southern Poverty Law Center. The report tracks the efforts of the Patriot Front — one of the most visible groups in the white nationalist movement, formed following the deadly ‘Unite the Right’ …

“We’re all grateful for a bunch of the stuff that the Trump administration has done and the balls that they’ve carried down the field. But there’s a bunch that they’ve just absolutely fumbled and are totally blowing. “At a practical level, there’s evangelicals in the Trump administration and the environment they’re in is one that wants to say, ‘Hey, we’re …

The Associated Press reports: The man convicted of stabbing Salman Rushdie on a New York lecture stage in 2022, leaving the prizewinning author blind in one eye, was sentenced Friday to serve 25 years in prison. A jury found Hadi Matar, 27, guilty of attempted murder and assault in February. Rushdie did not return to court to the western New …

The Washington Post reports: Justice Department official Ed Martin, whose nomination to serve as U.S. attorney in D.C. stalled in the Senate, is under investigation by an ethics office that handles attorney discipline in Washington, D.C., he said in an office-wide goodbye email Wednesday. On his last day as interim U.S. attorney before heading to the Justice Department, Martin alerted …

ABC News reports: A Texas mother has been arrested and charged for allegedly buying ammunition and tactical gear for her son’s planned “mass targeted violence” at his middle school, officials said. Ashley Pardo, 33, was arrested on Monday and charged with aiding in commission of terrorism after she allegedly provided ammunition and tactical gear to her son, whose behavior demonstrated …

NPR reports: Paul Ingrassia, currently serving as the White House liaison to the Department of Homeland Security, has ties to multiple figures widely known for promoting antisemitism. In 2023, Ingrassia repeatedly praised the controversial “manosphere” influencer Andrew Tate and worked on his legal team. Romanian authorities have accused Tate of human trafficking. The top of Ingrassia’s Instagram page features a …

NBC News reports: The conservative activist named by President Donald Trump as the head of the Justice Department’s “Weaponization Working Group” said Tuesday he planned to “name” and “shame” individuals the department determines it is unable to charge with crimes, in what would amount to a major departure from longstanding Justice Department protocols. Ed Martin described himself at a press …

“This is a very easy one for my friend, Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. Very easy. They went after American patriots for peacefully walking into the United States Capitol building, nonviolently, while being invited, while doors were opened, and they stayed within the lanes, the little rope lines. “These are members of Congress that stormed into a federal ICE facility …

“I love President Trump.  I would take a bullet for him. But, I have to call a spade a spade. We cannot accept a $400 million ‘gift’ from jihadists in suits. “The Qataris fund the same Iranian proxies in Hamas and Hezbollah who have murdered US Service Members. The same proxies that have worked with the Mexican cartels to get jihadists across …

Mediaite reports: Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan Tate were permitted to leave Romania not long after Trump envoy Ric Grennell broached the case in discussions with Romanian officials. The MAGA influencer earned effusive and starstruck praise from top Trump adviser and attorney Alina Habba prior to his release. This week, a Tate-affiliated X/Twitter account posted a hype video in …

The Daily Beast reports: Roger Stone has called Arizona’s Democratic Senator Mark Kelly a traitor who deserves to die for questioning the president. Stone accused the Navy veteran, former astronaut, and current Democratic Senator of treason and called for his execution. The crime? Questioning Trump’s crypto connections. Last week, Kelly co-sponsored the End Crypto Corruption Act, a Senate bill that …

“Ed Martin has done an AMAZING job as interim U.S. Attorney, and will be moving to the Department of Justice as the new Director of the Weaponization Working Group, Associate Deputy Attorney General, and Pardon Attorney. In these highly important roles, Ed will make sure we finally investigate the Weaponization of our Government under the Biden Regime, and provide much …

“This is arguably Witch Craft. I want to know which one of President Trump’s geniuses chose a woman who literally talks to trees and spiritual mediums and who doesn’t even have an active medical license to be the US Surgeon General.  “I would call her a Witch Doctor, but she doesn’t even have a valid active medical license. So I’m …

The Associated Press reports: President Donald Trump said Thursday that he would pull the nomination of conservative activist Ed Martin Jr. to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital, after a key Republican senator said he could not support him for the job due to his defense of Jan. 6 rioters. “We have somebody else that will be …

Politico reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday offered lukewarm support for Ed Martin, his embattled pick for U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, whose nomination has been imperiled by opposition from at least one Republican senator. “That’s really up to the senators; if they feel that way, they have to vote the way they vote,” Trump told reporters at …

SEN. MADELEINE DEAN: “During your Senate confirmation hearings, you repeatedly denied having any involvement as a private citizen in the firing of FBI officials who engaged in the prosecution against January 6th insurrectionists, the violent rioters who beat and killed Capitol police officers and whom you referred to as political prisoners. Since then, multiple whistleblowers have come forward, and we …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump resolved to withdraw his nomination of former Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat to serve as his surgeon general on Wednesday after far-right activist Laura Loomer called for just that in a series of social media attacks earlier this week. The president purged much of his national security team last month after Loomer — who has …

“These US Senators fail to recognize that the rank and file of the people of North Carolina, the first time voters that we helped bring out at Turning Point Action of all of our campus events, Thom Tillis, they are not gonna show up for you. They just won’t. And it’s not that they’ll even vote for the Democrat. It’s …

“Look, I have literally been hired by Donald Trump four times. OK? Four times the president has hired me on different occasions to work for him, to do vetting and to do research. And for some reason, I am not working in the White House or working for the president of the United States despite his directives to his staff …