Extremists

Christian nationalist Charlie Kirk screams: New York Judge Paul Engelmayer just forbade all political appointees — including Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — from accessing Dept. of Treasury data, all based on Blueanon conspiracy theories!! Those theories couldn’t be challenged because the order was EX PARTE — meaning Trump’s lawyers weren’t warned, and couldn’t weigh in. Only Democrat Attorneys General were …

The Daily Mail reports: MAGA favorite Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene signaled she could have ambitions to run for higher office as President Donald Trump loyalists move to lock in control in Washington. Greene acknowledged she is thinking about challenging Democratic Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff who is up for reelection next year in the battleground state. She is also considering a …

Reuters reports: One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online. Gavin Kliger lists his job on LinkedIn as “Special Advisor to the Director” at the Office of Personnel Management, which has been spearheading Musk’s efforts to shrink the …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggested that The Wall Street Journal reporter responsible for uncovering a DOGE employee’s racist tweets should be fired on Friday. In a story published on Thursday, the Journal‘s Katherine Long revealed that a “key DOGE staff member who gained access to …

Forbes reports: One of the workers at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency most involved in the agency’s access to the Treasury Department’s payment system reportedly resigned Thursday after racist social media posts tied to him surfaced—the latest in the line of controversy and criticism surrounding DOGE. Marko Elez, one of the two primary DOGE emissaries embedded in the Treasury …

From the transcript of today’s exchange: HARRY DUNN: You’re damn right I’m upset. BRANDON FELLOWS: Yeah, well you should be. You should probably control your emotions. DUNN: You know what? You know what? I’m glad you’re recording. FELLOWS: Let’s take a breath. DUNN: No. You are a lot more tough now that you don’t got 10,000 of your thugs out …

“It’s been a great two weeks, Greg. Two weeks ago I was in prison and just last night I was in Mar-A-Lago at the president’s house. Last time I was on, I told you that I was gonna take some time, and I was going to really think about what I was going to do. “And I think my future …

Law & Crime reports: The far-right Proud Boys extremist group has lost control of its trademarked name, which has now been handed over to a historically Black church in Washington, D.C., that members of the group vandalized in 2020. The church is now entitled to the group’s interests in the Proud Boys trademark, and the group cannot sell or transfer …

The Hill reports: The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday advanced Tulsi Gabbard’s nomination to become the next director of national intelligence (DNI), putting her in position to get confirmed by the full chamber after key senators threw their support behind her. The 9-8 vote was along party lines. It puts Gabbard only days away from being considered on the Senate …

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 …