Extremists

The Meidas Touch reports: Sony has sent a cease and desist letter to Missouri GOP Secretary of State candidate Valentina Gomez for using one of their songs in her homophobic campaign video. Gomez has been posting homophobic videos including one burning LGBTQ library books and others repeating “don’t be weak and gay.” In their cease and desist letter, David Przygoda, …

NBC News reports: A man whose family members were key architects of the American conservative movement was sentenced Friday to nearly four years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Federal prosecutors sought more than 11 years in prison for Brent Bozell IV, the son of Media Research Center founder Brent Bozell III …

ABC News reports: The man convicted of breaking into former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s home and attacking her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison. The Pelosis’ daughter, Christine Pelosi, appeared in court Friday and read victim impact statements from the family. David DePape was convicted in November 2023 for the Oct. …

The Hill reports: A House Oversight Committee hearing devolved into chaos Thursday night as Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) clashed after the firebrand Republican accused Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) of wearing “fake eyelashes.” The comment — which was made during a markup to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress — prompted nearly an …

The Daily Dot reports: A police investigation into Republican operative Ali Alexander is still ongoing, a spokesperson for the Johnstown Police Department in Colorado confirmed to the Daily Dot on Wednesday, and has now extended to Texas. The Daily Dot reported in April of last year that a case had been opened into allegations that Alexander used promises of advancement …

The Daily Beast reports: Marjorie Taylor Greene wasted no time in suggesting that the shooting of Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico Wednesday could be linked to his position on COVID vaccines. The MAGA lawmaker shared a post on X Wednesday which contained a video with English subtitles in which Fico purportedly rails against the treatment of those who opposed vaccination …

Media Matters has the transcript: The very fact that they supposedly have the authority to ban the governor of South Dakota from entering wide swaths of South Dakota is just ridiculous. I mean, it’s just — it’s a farce. OK? The whole thing. The whole Indian reservation thing is absurd. Like, can we just be — can we be done …

The New York Post reports: Missouri Republican secretary of state candidate Valentina Gomez shared a provocative campaign video of herself running through a historically LGBTQ+ neighborhood. “In America, you can be anything you want, so don’t be weak and gay,” Gomez says while jogging in a bulletproof vest. “Stay f–king hard.” The 24-year-old — who made headlines earlier this year …

The Washington Post reports: Republican Rep. Carol Miller won her party’s primary in West Virginia’s 1st Congressional District, defeating Derrick Evans, a former state lawmaker who served three months in prison after pleading guilty to a felony for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. While Evans apologized for his actions on Jan. 6 during his …

From the Justice Department: A Florida man was sentenced today to 42 months in federal prison for helping the perpetrators of the March 2022 firebombing of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Orange County construct a Molotov cocktail. Xavier Batten, 21, of Brooksville, Florida, was sentenced by United States District Judge Cormac J. Carney, who also ordered him to pay $1,000 …

The Daily Beast reports: The judge overseeing Steve Bannon’s case has given him until Thursday to respond to federal prosecutors who are pushing for the MAGA mastermind to finally begin his four-month prison sentence. In a new filing Tuesday, prosecutors wrote, “there is no longer a ‘substantial question of law that is likely to result in a reversal or an …

“Debbie Birx ought to be on trial to be hung by her bedazzled scarf. Charlatan, fraud, liar, quack, evildoer, but I repeat myself — who, of course, made sure to have Thanksgiving with her family during lockdowns while you couldn’t have it with yours. “You were 1,067 percent higher likely to die from the jab than — or suffer a …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence David DePape to 40 years in prison for attempting to kidnap House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi and “nearly killing” her husband Paul Pelosi when he struck him on the head with a hammer at the couple’s San Francisco home in 2022. DePape was found guilty last November …

“We are going to jail all criminals like you [Hillary Clinton] and your husband, the sexual predator. There’s going to be a great accounting, transparency, we’re going to go back to — this is what the House should be doing now. “You see how she’s nervous about it? She’s sitting there on the sofa, well maybe he won’t jail all …

“So white men don’t get to build airports anymore. The airports aren’t for them, neither are construction jobs. You have to wonder what, if anything, these politicians want white men to do. Like, what do you want them to do? “What are white men supposed to be doing now? Should they ever receive any funding from the government? Should they …

“Judge Cannon is, I think, proving right now she’s one of the most spectacular judges and fair judges on the — in the entire federal bench. But why is the burden — why is the burden put on her? Why didn’t we — and why — you heard Johnson today. He’s going, well, it looks like a criminal conspiracy. It’s …

Via press release from Christian Newswire: The Constitution Party, America’s distinguished third party, proudly announced the nomination of Randall Terry for President and Pastor Stephan Broden for Vice-President at their nomination convention held in Salt Lake City. Terry/Broden emerged victorious in a competitive field of 8 candidates, securing an impressive 54% of the vote, with the next closest candidate receiving …

The Arizona Mirror reports: A Glendale Republican lawmaker is no longer allowed to access legislative broadcast equipment after the Arizona Mirror reported on May 3 that he used the Senate’s broadcast studio to appear on a far-right talk show last week with a host who has declared Adolf Hitler a “hero.” On May 1, Sen. Anthony Kern appeared on ”The …

“There’s this ultra-viral clip of a morbidly obese anti-Israel protester facing a group of frat bros who are counter-protesting, and they were mocking her, mostly because she makes Lizzo look skinny. One of those protesters in a short clip is seen allegedly making King Kong-type noises at the woman. So I’m not even convinced that guy at the end is …

Law & Crime reports: Prosecutors told a federal judge that the son of a prominent conservative activist convicted of bashing open a Senate window, joining rioters who chased a police officer before making his way to Speaker of the House’s office and finally perching himself in a gallery where he turned the view of CSPAN camera away from fellow rioters …