Extremists

The New York Times reports: The Proud Boys no longer have control over their own name. Under a ruling by a Washington judge on Monday, the infamous far-right group was stripped of control over the trademark “Proud Boys” and was barred from selling any merchandise with either its name or its symbols without the consent of a Black church in …

NBC News reports: The founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group was convicted Monday of conspiring with his former girlfriend to plan an attack on Maryland’s power grid in furtherance of their shared racist beliefs. Brandon Russell, 29, encouraged Sarah Beth Clendaniel to carry out a series of “sniper attacks” on electrical substations around Baltimore that could have caused significant damage …

The American Prospect reports: Elon Musk and his personal DOGE lackeys are attempting to take direct control of several government agencies, most worryingly the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, which operates the financial pipelines that disburse more than $5 trillion in government payments every year. The potential consequences should a bunch of arrogant Silicon Valley “move fast and break things” …

“Here comes the Mexican president. Now a reminder that the Mexican president, fresh off of her being triggered by the Gulf of America name change. ALX, do we have that clip? I really wanna play that one because that was really, really fun. If we can load that up, please. “So she’s fresh off of a hysterical menopausal meltdown over …

Politico reports: The new House subcommittee designed to complement the work of Elon Musk has named its first target: the nonprofit news media. The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s “Delivering on Government Efficiency” Subcommittee — or DOGE, mimicking its Musk-run analogue, the Department of Government Efficiency — is asking the leaders of PBS and NPR to testify next month. …

Politico Europe reports: The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, Alice Weidel, ignited a fresh wave of controversy following remarks during a Sunday appearance on German public broadcaster ARD, claiming the Holocaust is used as a cudgel against her party. “I find it quite disturbing when the Holocaust is politically instrumentalized,” Weidel said, adding that remembrance should …

“I grade on a political curve. If you’re from a deep blue state, I grade it differently than if you’re from Louisiana or from South Dakota or from Mississippi. You can make an argument that Bobby Kennedy will actually increase people’s trust in our public health authorities. “Honestly, if Bobby Kennedy comes out after lots of scientific trials and says …

The Daily Beast reports: Disgraced MAGA politician Mark Robinson has dropped his lawsuit against CNN for exposing his twisted online life and costing him his bid to be North Carolina’s governor. The Black Republican announced the move Friday as he said he was quitting the political arena for good. The former GOP lieutenant governor had sued the media giant in …

“Clearly, Kash Patel is lying. He absolutely does know who I am and he’s very familiar on a lot of different levels. I’m not going to get into that because this guy is going through his Senate confirmation hearing. So I’m not going to get into too many personal specifics at this point, but that’s just flagrantly false, what he …

“Myself and over 1,600 other J6ers showed up that day for Trump because he asked us to be there, and as a point in our country, I’m hoping that that was one of the reasons that the rest of America woke up and saw the corruption and destruction that was happening to our country. “As hard as it’s been, as …

“Now, usually you expect that in a confirmation hearing that the worst thing that can happen is the — is that the nominee says something disqualifying. “But in this case, the senator said something disqualifying. Because let me be extremely clear about this — if you need psychiatric drugs in order to function, then you are not fit to serve …

Mediaite reports: Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) grilled Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, about some of his past associations with “extremist figures,” one of whom Patel claimed not to be familiar with despite eight different appearances on his podcast. “Mr. Patel, you frequently associated with and sometimes praised extremist figures with well-documented histories of racism, anti-Semitism, …

Rolling Stone reports: The Anglican Catholic Church (ACC) has defrocked Father Calvin Robinson after the priest went viral for mimicking a recent gesture by Elon Musk that really, really looked like a Nazi salute. In a statement released Wednesday, the leadership of the ACC wrote that “were made aware of a post made on X showing the end of a …

“The people that I’m about 50 feet away from are necessarily too happy that the War Room now has me being obviously a voice, not just in terms of asking questions, but I think sort of observing the mainstream press corps. When you just look behind me, you can see how far we’ve come, so thank you from the bottom …

“The girlboss feminism routine isn’t just cringy. It also directly undermines our argument. The Citadel was a male-only space forced by law to admit females in the name of diversity and inclusion. That is the exact argument trans-identifying males use to invade female spaces. Nancy Mace was literally a beneficiary of a DEI program. It’s a ridiculous and tone deaf …

Peter Montgomery reports at Right Wing Watch: Stewart Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy for orchestrating a plot to attack the U.S. Capitol to keep President Donald Trump in power after losing the 2020 election, was on stage at Trump’s rally in Las Vegas this weekend. Rhodes appeared in news photos among people standing behind Trump as the president …

“I think that is just very important is that people take pride in Germany, and being German. This is very important. It’s okay to be proud to be German. This is a very important principle and it’s good to be proud of German culture and values and not to lose that in some sort of multiculturalism that dilutes everything. “I …

CNN reports: The Senate narrowly voted to confirm embattled Pete Hegseth as secretary of the Department of Defense, in a major win for President Donald Trump and his new administration. Vice President JD Vance cast the 51-50 tie-breaking vote after former GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine joined Democrats to …

CBS News reports: The Senate is poised to hold a vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of defense, late Friday evening. Hegseth lost the support of two Senate Republicans during that Thursday vote. Those two Republicans, Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski, are once again expected to cast votes against Hegseth during a …

“Lisa Murkowski’s state in Alaska. They have something called rank choice voting there, which is this deeply confusing model of voting that is intended to actually sabotage Republican and populist candidates by mudding the water. “Lisa Murkowski is a nepo baby. She’s probably IQ of 50. She’s a vengeful witch. She’s a nasty person like most low IQ people are. …