Extremists

Via press release from hate group leader Tony Perkins: Some people have to-do lists. President-elect Donald Trump has an undo list. And thanks to Secretary of State John Kerry, most of it is already meticulously outlined in a new memo. The report couldn’t have come at a better time for conservatives, who have spent the last few weeks pointing out …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Religious Right activists David and Jason Benham were the guests again today on Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program, where David declared that marriage equality is a satanic attack on God that is a consequence of society having been taken over by those with a “darkened heart” and a “depraved mind.” “We’ve …

From the website of the Knights Of The Ku Klux Klan: When Donald Trump named Betsy DeVos as his pick for heading the Department of Education opponents of school choice, school vouchers, charter school, and parental control warned that could mean the end of public education as we know it. Those who voted for Trump see her choice as his …

From the Seattle Stranger: Twitter banned Milo Yiannopoulos from its platform after the Breitbart editor spearheaded a racist harassment campaign against black Saturday Night Live actor Leslie Jones, but at least one tech company is continuing to make money off of Yiannopoulos’s racist, sexist, anti-Muslim, and anti-trans vitriol. That tech company is GoFundMe, the sunny, do-gooder crowdfunding site with a …

Ann Coulter today spawned celebration from Twitter’s Nazis by simply posting the number 14. The number is well-known internet shorthand for the “Fourteen Words” – a slogan coined by white supremacist David Lane and inspired by a paragraph from Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, which is currently a best-seller in Germany after copyright protections expired last year. Lane’s fourteen words: “We …

Vanity Fair reports: Book publishing company Simon & Schuster caused a stir earlier this week when it was reported they’d struck a deal with “alt-right” provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, whose anti-immigration, anti-Islam writing for Breitbart News has made him something of a cult figure within the resurgent white nationalist movement. (The Donald Trump supporter is perhaps best known for getting himself …

Little Green Footballs reports: Many people have now joined the effort to inform major companies about the racist and misogynist nature of Breitbart “News” and urge them not to advertise at this “alt-right” hate site, and this ad hoc campaign is getting serious results. The number of companies that have now pulled their ads from Breitbart is at 400. That’s …

Yesterday’s news that Simon & Schuster has given notorious troll Milo Yiannopoulos a $250,000 book advance spawned widespread criticism of the publisher, with the Chicago Review Of Books denouncing “this disgusting validation of hate” with a vow to boycott covering any of their titles released in 2017. As it turns out, even the literal Nazis at the Daily Stormer are …

Donald Trump’s de facto publicists at fake news outlet Breitbart are screaming about President Obama’s sanctions on Russia. They write: President Obama issued an executive order on Thursday sanctioning Russian intelligence officials, individuals, and organizations based on as-yet unproven accusations that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by hacking the emails of Democratic Party officials. This action comes as the …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Milo Yiannopoulos has parlayed his ban from Twitter — and some controversial appearances on college campuses and cable TV shows — into a $250,000 book deal with Threshold Editions, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, The Hollywood Reporter learned on Thursday. “They said banning me from Twitter would finish me off. Just as I predicted, the …

“The Alt Right and yours truly have become something like household names. We’ve been denounced by Hillary Clinton. We’re even too hot for Donald Trump. I’ve been on the front page of the New York Times more than I can remember. Hundreds of international journalists attend our press conferences. We’ve been parodied on Saturday Night Live and the L.A. Times …

Yesterday we learned that Trump’s neo-Nazi fans are ripping each others’ weaves out over whether Hitler salutes should be allowed at their inauguration “DeploraBall” celebration. Because that would be bad for their image! Reportedly banned from the event is one of its founders, nutjob Twitter personality Baked “Gas The Jews” Alaska, who is ever so pissed that homocon Milo will …

He’s just asking! Brian Tashman reports at Right Wing Watch: Radio conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reacted to the death of Carrie Fisher today by wondering if the late actress was actually murdered by people trying to make money off of her recently released book. Jones, who said that he was only speculating, compared Fisher’s passing to the death of Joan …

Raw Story reports: It didn’t take long for the racist Trump fans organizing the “Deploraball” inauguration party to turn on each other. A major fight has broken out among Trump’s white nationalist fans over whether they should celebrate Trump’s pending inauguration by showering him with Nazi salutes. Alt-right leader Mike Cernovich, who is organizing the Deploraball, started a massive fight …

Law News reports: The neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer, is advertising an “armed protest” in the city of Whitefish, Montana “against Jews, Jewish businesses and everyone who supports either.” The event is being organized by the site’s publisher Andrew Anglin as a result of ongoing controversy involving white nationalist Richard Spencer, and his mother who lives in Whitefish. The announcement, …

Last week they demanded to know who has been working on climate change and gender equality. And now this. Via Reuters: U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team has asked two Cabinet departments for the names of government officials working on programs to counter violent extremism, according to a document seen by Reuters and U.S. officials. The requests to the State …

Notorious racist Carl Paladino was the Trump campaign chair for New York state. The Buffalo News reports: When Artvoice asked Buffalo developer and School Board member Carl Paladino what he wanted to see happen in 2017, he didn’t filter his responses — and the controversial, crude answers are causing a firestorm. In the alternative weekly newspaper’s survey, which asked 42 …

Trump’s surrogates aren’t even pretending anymore. The Southern Poverty Law Center reports: Ann Coulter, an infamous far-right attack dog who has spent years attacking the left, was at the Christmas party of a racist anti-immigration group earlier this month — the second such event she has attended since September. On Dec. 9, Coulter made her way to the party hosted …

Bloomberg reports: After a campaign season unprecedented in its divisiveness and a transition unparalleled in controversial appointees, Steve Bannon’s selection as chief strategist for President-elect Donald Trump still manages to stand out. Bannon, 63, is an architect of Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton. He’s also a key player in America’s burgeoning ultra-right—sometimes genially labeled “alt-right” but more specifically everything from …

Law Newz reports: Roger Stone apparently really wants to see Hillary Clinton “frogged marched” out of her Chappaqua, NY residence and into the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan to await criminal charges of some sort. In fact, Stone is reportedly now formally petitioning the incoming Trump administration to empanel a grand jury to investigate possible criminal charges against the former …