Extremists

The Daily Beast reports: Placebo guitarist and vocalist Brian Molki did not mince words when he told the crowd at a 2023 concert outside Turin what he thought of Italy’s far-right Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. “Pezzo di merda, fascista, razzista,” the British alternative rock star called out, earning a round of cheers from the locals. Meloni, none too pleased with …

Raw Story reports: Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and DOGE Chair Elon Musk demanded access to the gold stored at Fort Knox. Writing on Musk’s social media platform X, Lee said he was repeatedly denied access to the facility after Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) encouraged an audit of the nation’s gold stores. “As a U.S. senator, I’ve tried repeatedly to get …

First, this from the Washington Post: Long before Musk owned X, he used his personal account to name and shame individuals. In 2018, when journalist Erin Biba wrote that Musk attacked scientists and reporters, the billionaire quipped that he has “never attacked science. Definitely attacked misleading journalism like yours tho.” The single remark triggered a torrent of emails, tweets and …

Newsweek reports: The Trump administration has urged Romanian authorities to lift travel restrictions on influencer Andrew Tate and his brother, Tristan Tate, as they await trial on charges including human trafficking, sexual misconduct, and money laundering, according to a report by the Financial Times. The 37-year-old is currently under house arrest in Romania and is awaiting trial on human trafficking …

The Associated Press reports: Conservative activist Ed Martin, who echoed Donald Trump’s baseless claims of a stolen 2020 election and defended Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol rioters, was nominated by the president on Monday to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington on a permanent basis. Martin had been serving as U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia on an …

The Advance reports: Donald Trump critics were quick to point out Monday on social media how MAGA billionaire Elon Musk seemed to contradict himself with provocative posts on his site. For starters, Musk is angry with the longtime investigative news show “60 Minutes.” Also, Musk appeared to have thoughts on how Adolf Hitler gained power in Germany. “One of the …

MARGARET BRENNAN: “I want to ask you about what happened in Munich, Germany, at the Security Conference. Vice President Vance gave a speech, and he told U.S. allies that the threat he worries about the most is not Russia, it is not China. “He called it the ‘threat from within,’ and he lectured about what he described as censorship, mainly …

Bloomberg News reports: A quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and low-income areas against President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda has picked up some powerful new allies: US hospitals and conservative agitator Steve Bannon. Now the party’s biggest target threatens Trump’s agenda in a House where only a few Republican defectors could sink it. Bannon, a former Trump adviser who has emerged …

Prominent Christian nationalist Ben Zeisloft writes: The official X page for the United States Army rebuked efforts from a senior Army official who tried to covertly launch a DEI office. Libs of TikTok shared an image of a memo on Friday written by Lieutenant General Joseph Berger about the creation of an “Office of Professional and Organizational Development.” The new …

The Washington Post reports: JD Vance made his vice-presidential debut on the global security stage Friday in a scolding speech here, pressing Europe’s centrist leaders to move over to accommodate the rising anti-migration, nationalist voices they have at times sought to block from power. Vance also met with a far-right German leader whom the country’s centrist parties have long sought …

The Washington Post reports: Trump administration officials at the Pentagon invited a far-right activist, Jack Posobiec, to participate in Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s first trip overseas, triggering alarm among U.S. defense officials worried about the military being dragged into partisan warfare. News of Posobiec’s invitation circulated among U.S. officials in Washington and in Europe ahead of Hegseth’s visit this week …

The Hill reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced the nomination of Kash Patel. in a strict party-line vote, clearing the way for President Trump’s pick to lead the FBI to get a vote on the full Senate floor. The 12-10 vote will allow Patel to be considered by the Senate as early as next week. Patel advanced amid …

Courthouse News reports: An unnamed Jewish woman sued Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West on Tuesday for what she calls “a calculated campaign to threaten and psychologically torment Jewish people around him.” The plaintiff, named in the civil complaint as Jane Doe, says she worked as a marketing specialist for West, who has legally changed his name to Ye. He hired her …

Law & Crime reports: An accused Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly threatened lawmakers and showed up to Barack Obama‘s home in Washington, D.C., back in 2023 — toting guns, ammunition and supplies for an explosive device — wants his criminal charges for those incidents dropped, saying President Donald Trump‘s executive order pardoning Capitol attackers also covers “conduct related to” the …

NOTUS reports: Darren Beattie, the State Department’s acting undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs — a senior role that represents American foreign policy to the world — has repeatedly voiced support for mass sterilization of “low-IQ trash.” “Population control? If only!” he wrote in May 2024. “Higher quality humans are subsidizing the fertility of lower quality humans.” In 2023, Beattie …

“Already there are signs, most notably from JD Vance, that this administration recognizes that these judges are breaking the law and that their rulings may not be respected, which they shouldn’t be. “In particular, Vance wrote, quote, if a judge tried to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal. If a judge tried to …

NBC News reports: The website run by Kanye West, which had been selling shirts featuring a swastika, was offline Tuesday morning after the ecommerce platform it uses said the site had violated its rules. Shopify said in a statement to NBC News: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform. This merchant did not engage in authentic …

404 Media reports: The Wikimedia Foundation is building new tools that it hopes will help Wikipedia editors stay anonymous in part to avoid harassment and legal threats as Elon Musk and the Heritage Foundation ramp up their attacks on people who edit Wikipedia. Some of the tactics have been pioneered by Wikimedia in countries with authoritarian governments and where editing …

ABC News reports: Steve Bannon, the confidante of President Donald Trump, pleaded guilty Tuesday to defrauding New Yorkers who donated to “We Build the Wall,” an online fundraiser for Trump’s signature project during his first term, in exchange for a sentence without prison time. “The parties have worked out a plea agreement. Mr. Bannon will plead guilty to count 5 …

Mediaite reports: Kanye West made a Super Bowl ad on his phone to promote a website he’s currently using to sell t-shirts with swastikas on them. In the days before the Super Bowl, West — having recently returned to Twitter/X — posted a near-incessant stream of tweets praising Hitler and repeating anti-Semitic hate speech. The artist eventually deactivated his account …