Extremists

ABC News reports: The Connecticut Appellate Court on Friday affirmed a $965 million verdict from 2022 against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, determining there’s “sufficient evidence” to support the damages awarded to relatives of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre victims and an FBI agent. In its unanimous opinion, the court cited the “traumatic threats and harassment” the families endured “stemming …

The Chicago Tribune reports: Authorities have charged far-right streamer Nick Fuentes with battery after Fuentes allegedly assaulted a west suburban woman last month. Court records show that Fuentes, 26, was accused of having “knowingly made physical contact of an insulting nature” with Marla Rose, 57, also of Berwyn. Fuentes was fingerprinted Nov. 27 at the Berwyn Police Department, records show, …

“Grown men should not be taking bubble baths. They certainly should not be doing their work from home in a bubble bath. It’s so emblematic of the contempt that so many people in the swamp have for the people who pay their salaries. When Donald Trump is inaugurated on January 20th and that new golden age of America begins, he’s …

The Associated Press reports: The think tank behind Project 2025, the conservative blueprint linked to President-elect Donald Trump, is launching an effort to back Trump’s imperiled selection for secretary of defense in its latest attempt to wield influence in the incoming Republican administration. Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said Thursday that his group will spend $1 million to pressure senators …

Reuters reports: Target has failed to persuade a judge in Florida to dismiss a lawsuit that accused the retailer of deceiving shareholders after its sales of LGBTQ-themed merchandise for Pride Month sparked a backlash and a customer boycott. U.S. District Judge John Badalamenti in Fort Myers ruled that the plaintiffs had presented enough information for now to pursue claims that …

“Why is it that Republican senators are so excited and move fast to give Joe Biden his nominees, but Republican senators don’t wanna give Donald Trump his nominees? What is going on here? Well, we’re gonna keep on naming the names and tell you more about the folklore of Joni Ernst and Roger Wicker and Deb Fischer. “This is the …

“Many of the people who have been serving in prison – even the violent Jan. 6 defendants – they’ve been in prison, I think they’ve served their time. “None of them raped anyone. None of them murdered anyone. None of them committed horrific acts that illegal immigrants get let off for all the time in the country. “I think he …

USA Today reports: Pete Hegseth said Wednesday he won’t drink “a drop of alcohol” if confirmed by the Senate to lead the Pentagon as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary and vowed to fight through a tumultuous nomination process amid allegations of sexual assault and alcohol abuse. In an interview with Megyn Kelly on her SiriusXM show, Hegseth ‒ …

“Pete Hegseth is a great man. Pete Hegseth has honorably served his country. And Pete Hegseth right now is victim to a media smear job to try to destroy his character and try to remove him from the nomination for secretary of defense. “Now some people say, but Charlie, he doesn’t have the experience, you know, running a big organization. …

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“Donald Trump took a bullet to the head, and then four months later won in a landslide. He can pick anybody he wants to serve in his government and all I wanna hear is a cheery ‘aye, aye’ from the United States Senate. It’s advice and consent. We’ll take your advice, but you’re going to give us your consent. “We …

Salon reports: Hegseth — now on his third marriage — has claimed that he rediscovered Christ, saying “faith became real” to him in 2018. He became deeply involved with the Association of Classical Christian Schools (ACCS), moving to Tennessee to enroll his children in a branch of this fundamentalist organization. He also joined the associated denomination, the Communion of Reformed …

“I say that unless they end the implementation of the woke mind virus, and if they continue to live off the teats of government — through research grants, through participating in Title IV federal student loans and grants — then it’s perfectly appropriate, as the Vice President-elect said in his senatorial campaign, for the federal government to seize their endowments. …

Mother Jones reports: At the end of Trump’s first presidency, when he was a Pentagon official, he spread the bonkers idea that Italian military satellites had been employed to turn Trump votes to Joe Biden votes in the 2020 election. Moreover, Patel has been supportive of the most loony conspiracy theory in MAGA land: QAnon. In early 2022, when he …

The Washington Post reports: A former D.C. police lieutenant will face a federal trial Monday on charges that he improperly warned Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio of his pending arrest before the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, then lied to investigators about their interactions. Prosecutors say advance word from Shane Lamond, a 24-year department veteran, deepened anger among the …

The Meidas Touch reports: In an undated Fox News clip discovered by MeidasTouch, Trump’s Department of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth was openly hostile toward the United Nations. Hegseth called for scrapping the UN, labeling it a body that no longer serves U.S. interests: “Instead, we are funding the UN. We’re funding the WHO way more than China is, and what …

Politico reports: Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to pardon a vast swath of supporters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But his silence on the matter since winning the election has begun unsettling some fervent allies awaiting even the slightest signal from Trump about how he intends to turn his campaign rhetoric into reality. Federal judges overseeing …

The New York Times reports: The mother of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, wrote him an email in 2018 saying he had routinely mistreated women for years and displayed a lack of character. “On behalf of all the women (and I know it’s many) you have abused in some way, I say … get …

Reuters reports: Brazil’s former president Jair Bolsonaro is planning a political comeback, anticipating support from U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, which may include using economic sanctions against current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday. “Trump is back, and it’s a sign we’ll be back too,” Bolsonaro, who has been barred from running for office …

The Associated Press reports: The U.S. conservative political commentor Candace Owens was refused a visa to enter New Zealand for a speaking engagement because she had been banned from another country, immigration officials said Thursday. News of the ruling came weeks after neighboring Australia also rejected her visa request, citing remarks in which she denied Nazi medical experimentation on Jews …