Extremists

Politico reports: Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney, Ed Martin, is coming for the capital’s weed, too — and threatening to upend a tacit agreement where federal prosecutors have respected DC’s local marijuana laws. The opening salvo came via a letter from Martin to a D.C. medical-marijuana vendor. “Your dispensary appears to be operating in violation of federal law,” he wrote, “and …

MARCO RUBIO: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy—it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD—which took second in the recent election—but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes. Germany should reverse course.” GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY: “This is democracy. This decision is …

Talking Points Memo reports: Close allies of President Trump are asking a judge to give the White House control over much of the federal court system. In a little-noticed lawsuit filed last week, the America First Legal Foundation sued Chief Justice John Roberts and the head of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts. The case ostensibly proceeds as a FOIA …

The Washington Post reports: Attorneys said at a court hearing Friday that they’ve reached a settlement in principle for the U.S. government to pay the family of Ashli Babbitt, a supporter of President Donald Trump who was fatally shot by police on Jan. 6, 2021, as she raised herself into the opening of a broken glass door panel deep inside …

Mother Jones reports: Steve Deace, the host of an eponymous show on the rightwing platform Blaze Media, has built a brand around his brash and provocative personality. Deace has entertained his 52,000 YouTube viewers and 274,000 X followers by calling for violence against drag queens and LGBTQ people and ranting that the Democratic party is controlled by Satan. Those comments …

The Washington Post reports: Germany’s domestic intelligence agency on Friday designated the far-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD, as an “extremist endeavor,” a move that lowers hurdles for the spy agency in conducting certain kinds of surveillance on the party, the second-largest in Germany’s parliament. AfD party leaders Alice Weidel and Tino Chrupalla called the upgraded classification a “severe …

Axios reports: President Trump’s top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, is garnering buzz inside the White House as a top candidate to be the next national security adviser, five sources familiar with the situation tell Axios. Miller — the deputy chief of staff and the brain behind Trump’s controversial immigration crackdown — is one of the president’s longest-serving and most-trusted aide. …

CNN reports: As controversies pile up around President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee met behind closed doors this week to discuss concerns about Ed Martin’s nomination and whether senators should take the extraordinary step of holding a hearing on it. The senators-only meeting on Tuesday came as Republicans …

“How blessed we all are that the leader sitting in the Oval Office today is President Donald Trump and not President Kamala Harris. What a travesty and a tragedy that would have been. It would have the end of America. Radical regulation, choking off American energy, sending our supply chains to foreign countries, taxing our economy to death, pushing this …

“Islam is the religion of rape, incest and pedophilia where they bow down to a stupid rock and a false prophet. I will never let sharia law take over Texas.” – US House candidate Valentina Gomez, after charging the podium on the steps of the Texas Capitol during Texas Muslim Capitol Day. In the replies to her gloating post, fellow …

“Obama is an anti-American radical and I’m actually sure he’s a Muslim, he certainly isn’t a Christian. He’s a pretend Christian in the same way he’s a pretend American. It really is disgraceful. He’s inviting the terrorists to behead more Americans when he should be attacking them with our military. His whole agenda in office has been to defeat America, …

NBC News reports: Ed Martin, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia on a permanent basis, dodged questions about his views on Jan. 6 and his prior criticism of Republican politicians in written answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of his confirmation process. Martin, a longtime conservative activist …

The Hill reports: Top White House aide Stephen Miller told Fox News anchor John Roberts that the network should fire its polling team during a live interview on Tuesday. Roberts asked Miller point blank: “A lot of people think he’s spending too much time on tariffs and not enough time on the economy and lowering prices. What do you say?” …

“Feminism is just leftism in a skirt. Civil rights are just leftism in blackface. That’s all it is. You know, every single movement in America that that attempts to deal with the problem is immediately taken over by the left and put to the service a bigger government. “That doesn’t mean that the problem doesn’t exist. It means we’re using …

The Washington Post reports: Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin apologized this week for praising a pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendant who supported Nazi ideology and photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler, saying he didn’t know about the man’s extremist statements. But in videos and podcasts, Martin has defended the man since at least 2023, calling him a …

STAT News reports: Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, one of the world’s leading medical journals, has received a similar inquiry as well. The New England Journal of Medicine’s editor in chief, Eric Rubin, received a letter from the interim U.S. attorney for …

The Free Press reports: Ed Martin, the firebrand Republican activist whom President Donald Trump picked to be the top prosecutor in D.C., has a new target: Wikipedia. Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington and Trump’s permanent selection to serve in that role, sent a letter on Thursday afternoon to the Wikimedia Foundation that alleged it “is engaging in a …

Law & Crime reports: Right-wing scammers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are facing a $5 million lawsuit by a Washington, D.C., elementary school teacher over an alleged plot to cast him as a pedophile in a video sting in the style of “To Catch a Predator,” a reality TV series in which men arriving at a house to have sex …

“Pete Buttigieg is the the most presentable, slick representative of the sexual revolution. And yet, the most polished and attractive representative of the sexual revolution is horrifying. This is horrifying to speak of babies this way. “Why does Pete Buttigieg need to either order a baby through IVF or adopt a baby? Because he refuses to get married and make a …

TMZ reports: Kanye West is firing off more than just disturbing, antisemitic rants online these days. The rapper is also making a racket with his SUPER LOUD casting calls, and offending neighbors with a prominent racist hate symbol, in Los Angeles, TMZ has learned. Kanye plastered L.A.’s Larchmont neighborhood with an “urgent” advertisement seeking “AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES” for his “hooligan …