Extremists

The Washington Post reports: Top officials in North Carolina and at the Federal Emergency Management Agency responding to Helene are being subjected to a flurry of antisemitic attacks, causing some of them to fear for their safety as they prepare for another hurricane to strike Florida. The attacks, which include wild claims that Jewish officials are conspiring to orchestrate the …

Raleigh’s CBS affiliate reports: For the second time in two weeks, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson missed a vote to concur with a Hurricane Helene-related request from Gov. Roy Cooper. Records show Robinson was again the only member of the Council of State who did not vote on concurring with the executive order, which Cooper issued Saturday. “When Hurricane Helene was …

The Guardian reports: A Marco Rubio-linked thinktank stoking fears about Haitian migrants in Pennsylvania has also produced a sequence of videos in recent months that promote conspiracy theories about LGBTQ+ people, human rights organizations and even the corporate consultancy McKinsey & Company. The editor hired to produce those videos also produces for the media organization founded by Mike Lindell. They …

Rolling Stone reports: Bands have dropped off the bill of a metal festival taking place later this month in Orlando after it was announced that Kyle Rittenhouse would appear as a special guest. The exodus from Shell Shock II — a charity fest raising money and awareness for veterans and first responders with PTSD — began earlier this week, starting …

PolitiFact reports: You know what they say: Beware of “breaking” news on X. It’s not always what it seems. “BREAKING: Pete Buttigieg reveals that he is HIV-positive” read an Oct. 1 X post that garnered millions of views. The self-proclaimed parody account @Breaking911OnX shared the claim. The account regularly posts unsubstantiated claims. For some, the joke is obvious, such as …

The Seattle Times reports: A Seattle doctor whose medical license was suspended after she participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was shot and killed after pointing a gun at two people delivering paperwork at her West Seattle home on Tuesday. A 40-year-old man whom police have not identified shot Tamara Towers Parry, 57, multiple times …

“Tim Walz looked like a sad little puppy, and JD Vance did so well against those three women. Besides that, all the questions were against JD, all of the narratives against JD — and JD, without a doubt, triumphantly won this debate. No question. “And as someone who is a friend of JD — I spoke to JD last night. …

First, a recap of my post from two weeks ago. INTO reports: After one of the busiest news days for right-wing scandals in a while yesterday, we learned something even more damning about an anti-gay “activist”, if not exactly surprising. Far-right weirdo Corey A. DeAngelis used to do gay p*rn. After DeAngelis posted on X talking about the danger of …

The Raleigh News & Observer reports: Support among Republicans for their party’s candidate for governor, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, has dropped by 20 percentage points, according to a new poll released Monday by East Carolina University. Among all voters polled, Democratic Attorney General Josh Stein now has a 17-point lead over Robinson. The ECU Center for Survey Research poll shows …

Courthouse News reports: The trial of Marine Le Pen, the figurehead of France’s right-wing National Rally party, began Monday over charges she and others embezzled several million euros of European Union funds. But experts argue that despite the severity of the charges, it’s unlikely the trial will leave a negative impression on Le Pen’s voters — in contrast, it might …

Semafor reports: Some of the subjects of Alex Jones’ darkest and wildest conspiracy theories could end up taking over his iconic, unhinged InfoWars brand in less than two months. The open auction has sparked some serious behind-the-scenes interest among liberal groups and some nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting misinformation, who see it as an opportunity to transform an infamous source …

Politico Europe reports: The far-right Freedom Party of Austria stormed to victory on Sunday, according to early projections, marking the first time since World War II that a party with fascist leanings has won a national election in the Alpine nation. The Freedom Party, which was founded by a group of Nazi veterans in the 1950s, led the field with …

NBC News reports: Politics in a central European country of just 10 million people might not seem consequential. But that’s not the case in Austria, where there’s a good chance its election Sunday will be won by a far-right, pro-Russia party that was founded by former Nazis. A win for the Freedom Party, or FPÖ, would not just have historical …

The Guardian reports: Argentina’s poverty rate has soared to almost 53% in the first six months of Javier Milei’s presidency, offering the first hard evidence of how the far-right libertarian’s tough austerity measures are hitting the population. The new poverty rate, reported by the government’s statistics agency on Thursday, is the highest level for two decades, when the country reeled …

NewsNation reports: North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson was treated for second-degree burns on a hand Friday night after suffering the injury at a campaign event in Mt. Airy. His campaign tells NewsNation that Robinson was discharged and will return to the campaign trail Saturday. Robinson was burned when he put his hand on a truck at the event, according …

“The Harris-Biden regime, they are stuffing foreigners in the reddest communities across the country, in small town red America, I think partially as revenge. I have no evidence of that, but it’s just gut instinct. “I’m not gonna get into what states can do to resist this yet because I wanna win the election and do this properly through the …

Media Matters reports: Embattled North Carolina gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson appeared on Trump ally Sebastian Gorka’s program, where he received glowing praise and support from the former White House adviser. Robinson told the MAGA host that while he’s giving “space” to the former president, “We’ve spoken to him, had great conversations with him.” The Trump campaign has repeatedly cited Gorka, …

Raw Story reports: A South Carolina restaurant owner who brought her then-teenage son — now a neo-Nazi leader — to Washington, D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021, has been charged with breaching the U.S. Capitol. Christina Praser-Fair, who runs the Cornwallis House Tea Company in Winnsboro, South Carolina, was arrested Thursday and charged with disorderly and disruptive conduct and other violations, …

Mediaite reports: During an appearance on Tucker Carlson’s cross-country tour, Roseanne Barr insisted that “they” — as always, it’s never quite clear who “they” are, but one assumes given the context she means Democrats — “eat babies,” and “love the taste of human flesh, and they drink human blood.” Perhaps sensing that her QAnon-adjacent takes would find skepticism in an …

The Huffington Post reports: Washington state GOP congressional candidate Joe Kent told supporters at a recent event that the Proud Boys — the all-male, far-right, neo-fascist organization whose leaders were convicted for seditious conspiracy after trying to violently overthrow the U.S. government on Jan. 6, 2021 — are really just a bunch of hooligans who scare progressive Democrats. “Look, the …