Extremists

Politico reports: Far-right activist Laura Loomer has chosen her next target in her campaign against those she sees as disloyal to President Donald Trump: Col. Earl Matthews, Trump’s nominee to be the Pentagon’s top lawyer. Loomer, in a series of X posts on Tuesday and Wednesday, alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was at risk of being “subverted and …

Politico reports: Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday. The department’s determination could result in hundreds of payouts from the federal government intended to cover the cost of repairing about $3 million in damage …

“Megyn [Kelly] is correct about about her fundamental observation that men are generally not attracted to ambitious career-driven women. Now it doesn’t necessarily mean that men will not marry those kinds of women. And I’m not saying that wives should never have jobs. In many households, both parents work out of financial necessity. I understand that. “There are also many …

The Daily Beast reports: Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon went in on far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer Monday, saying she was right out of the horror movie Poltergeist. On Monday’s episode of The Chuck ToddCast, host Chuck Todd asked Bacon what he thought of the recent firing of top aides after Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Loomer Wednesday. “Sometimes, I look at …

From my December 2024 report: Republican Randy Fine has filed a bill in the Florida Senate to ban local governments, public schools and state universities from displaying flags promoting a “fictional” Palestine, “pro-violence” Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights and other “woke” topics. “Supporters of Muslim terror, child mutilators, and groomers have no right to taxpayer sponsorship of their repugnant messages,” …

“First of all, great point, Mark. It’s is a budgetary issue. As a scholar of the Constitution, you know well that the district courts are not mentioned in the Constitution. Congress has the authority to break the inferior courts, they have the authority to fund or not fund these courts. So yes, Congress has to step up here. But we …

The Meidas Touch reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a personal message on her Twitter account asking her followers to send her son Derek beer money for his birthday. Greene linked to her son’s Venmo account and wrote: “It’s my baby boy’s birthday!! He’s 22!! I love him so much! ❤️ Buy him a beer!” The tweet was deleted shortly …

Axios reports: Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials. The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping new tariffs backed by Navarro, cost Musk nearly $18 billion just on his Tesla stock. Friday morning, a user on Musk’s social media platform X …

“Every single allegation against Russell Brand concerns events that took place twenty years ago or more. None of them existed while he was a famous actor or comedian. All of them emerged once he became a highly visible dissident on politics and Covid. Brand has been forthright about his behavior as a young man, but the idea he was a …

The Florida Phoenix reports: The Florida Supreme Court has rejected former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s attempt to reinstate his $50 million defamation claim against Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson over comments linking Flynn to Vladimir Putin and the QAnon conspiracy theory. “We’re not surprised, given the vast legal weaknesses of this trolling lawfare on their part,” Wilson told the Phoenix …

The Washington Post reports: The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials. Like others in …

“The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison. It is the same ‘playbook’ that was used against me by a group of Lunatics and Losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa …

“I wanna get into the specifics of exactly what President Trump is issuing as far as reciprocal tariffs and tariffs across the board. But understand, you are seeing a historic reorganization of the global and the American economy, and it’s gonna come as a shell shock. And there will be market volatility. There will be turbulence. It’s basically like taking …

Axios reports: Several members of President Trump’s embattled National Security Council have been fired, a U.S. official and a second source familiar told Axios on Thursday. The firings come a day after conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer visited the Oval Office and pressed Trump to fire specific NSC staffers. Axios has not confirmed whether the firings were directly linked to that …

The New York Times reports: Laura Loomer, the far-right activist and promoter of conspiracy theories, met on Wednesday with President Trump in the Oval Office, where she pressed for him to fire National Security Council staff members whom she deemed disloyal to him, according to seven people with knowledge of the events. Mr. Trump may act on some of Ms. …

“They have the temerity to say that every single invader that Joe Biden let in should get their own individual judicial trial before they are deported. One at a time, each one gets a one million-dollar trial in front of a communist judge to decide whether or not we can send them home. How about hell no? How about we …

Politico Europe reports: The extremist youth group affiliated with the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) dissolved itself on Monday to avert a possible ban that might have damaged the party as it tries to broaden its appeal among German voters. The “Young Alternative,” as the AfD-affiliated youth organization is known, has been classified as a right-wing extremist group by Germany’s …

The Associated Press reports: The recent firings of career Justice Department lawyers by the White House is a sign of President Donald Trump’s tightening grip over the law enforcement agency known for its long tradition of political independence. Adam Schleifer, who was part of the corporate & securities fraud strike force at the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles, received …

Politico Europe reports: Elon Musk has lambasted the French court verdict that blocked Marine Le Pen from a 2027 presidential run after the far-right figurehead was found guilty of embezzlement. “When the radical left can’t win via democratic vote, they abuse the legal system to jail their opponents,” Musk said Monday. “This is their standard playbook throughout the world.” Musk …

Mediaite reports: White nationalist pundit Stew Peters is no stranger to offensive commentary, but on a recent episode of his eponymous podcast, he openly called for the deportation of all Jews from the United States — even going so far as to echo Nazi rhetoric by calling it a “final solution.” He’s also had a number of prominent Republicans as …