Extremists

“So, it’s just further evidence that the FBI withholds information about shooters, and they let them get away with their shootings because they truly wanna help the Democrats push gun control in election years. “Don’t you think it’s weird how every single time there’s an election in this country we always see a school shooting? I mean, why is that? …

Nashville’s NBC affiliate reports: The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the shooting that left the home of Greg Locke, pastor of Global Vision Bible Church in Mt. Juliet, riddled with damage. The sheriff’s office said gunfire erupted outside the home late Tuesday night. Locke said he returned home with his family and found his home had been shot at …

Reuters reports: Elon Musk’s social media platform X won on Wednesday an appeal to partially block a California law requiring social media companies to publish their policies for combating disinformation, harassment, hate speech and extremism. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco overturned a lower court judge’s decision declining to pause enforcement of …

“This is very scary stuff, and it seems that there is sort of an awakening happening where people are starting to recognize that something more sinister is going on. “And, of course, a recent example of that was just the Olympics. It does seem that they’re trying to almost now indoctrinate the entire world into their satanic faith. And it …

The Associated Press reports: Nicki Kämpf watched her daughter toddle across the sand in a Berlin playground and wondered whether she and her wife should move their 1 1/2-year-old west, after Alternative for Germany became the first far-right party to win a state election in post-World War II Germany. Kämpf, 29, and her wife discussed a backup plan as Sunday’s …

NBC News reports: Tucker Carlson, who ignites controversy with incendiary comments about race, immigration and LGBTQ rights, among other issues, is taking his show on the road next week for a 16-day cross-country tour that will feature a slate of Donald Trump loyalists and right-wing provocateurs. Among the guests scheduled to appear on stage with Carlson at various stops are …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s fireside chat at Moms for Liberty’s national summit Friday in Washington, DC, comes as women voters remain one of the presidential candidate’s most slippery and vital blocs of potential supporters. Moms for Liberty — co-founded in 2021 by Tiffany Justice and Tina Descovich — has championed the parental rights movement and policy changes seen in …

“Kamala Harris says her values haven’t changed. So your Marxist values haven’t changed? Your values when you were attorney general of California? “Kamala Harris screams as somebody who has unaddressed, lingering father issues. By the way, you know her father does not like her and wasn’t even at the convention? “Her father’s still alive, somebody should go find her father …

Raw Story reports: Right-wing influencer Steve Bannon has asked a federal judge to let him leave prison early to continue appealing his conviction for contempt of Congress. Bannon’s sentence had been on hold as he appealed the conviction, but a three-judge appeals court panel ruled against him in May and ordered him to begin serving the sentence, and his attorneys …

“How do we go on if women do not want to have children? And then — again, somebody pointed this out to me on TikTok — even in circumstances where the biological overrides and women are going, ‘You know what? Suddenly, I feel my biological clock ticking. I want to have a child.’ “They are social engineering women to want …

“I would support a full-scale military invasion of Mexico to destroy all the cartels. We could do it. What are they going to do about it? You know, it’s not like we haven’t given them time to figure out this problem. “Thousands of Americans are dying every single year. I think we’re more than justified to say, you know what, …

Media Matters has the transcript: I mean, the audacity of referring to [Telegram CEO] Pavel Durov as someone who is complicit in abetting pedophilia. That’s what they said. That’s what the French Secret Service, the French state would like us to believe under the authority of Emmanuel Macron, a human being, a child who was statutorily raped – back when …

NBC News reports: Home goods retailer Lowe’s is paring back its efforts to promote LGBTQ inclusion — the latest large company to respond to a growing cultural backlash led by conservatives targeting queer representation in public life. In an internal company memo being widely shared among media organizations, Lowe’s told employees it was ending its participation in surveys for the …

Via email from Gab CEO Andrew Torba: Over the weekend Pavel Durov the CEO of Telegram, a chat messaging app, was arrested. Durov’s detention at Bourget airport in France on August 24, 2024, marks a significant escalation in the ongoing battle between governments and tech platforms over content moderation and free speech. His arrest follows just weeks after one million …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s education board has revoked the license of a former teacher who drew national attention during surging book-ban efforts across the U.S. in 2022 when she covered part of her classroom bookshelf in red tape with the words “Books the state didn’t want you to read.” The decision Thursday went against a judge who had advised …

Via press release from far-right extremist Stephen Miller: Today, America First Legal (AFL), partnering with the States of Texas and Idaho, along with a coalition of fourteen state Attorneys General–Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming–filed an urgent lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Eastern District …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A Texas woman who served as the former general counsel for the Oath Keepers pleaded guilty Wednesday to telling militia members to destroy potentially incriminating messages after the Capitol riot. Kellye Sorelle, 43, of Junction, appeared before U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Wednesday to enter her plea of guilty to one felony count …

The Associated Press reports: Masked police officers in Romania have carried out fresh raids at the home of divisive internet influencer Andrew Tate, who is awaiting trial on charges of human trafficking, rape and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. Romania’s anti-organized crime agency DIICOT said it was searching four homes in the counties of Bucharest and nearby …

AlterNet reports: Christian nationalist and far-right activist Charlie Kirk is in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention, and was “owned” by the president of the Young Democrats of Georgia, according to a reporter on the scene. Kirk promotes pro-Trump conspiracy theories and misinformation including about the 2020 election and COVID, and has been called “a racist commentator” by USA Today’s …

Bloomberg News reports: Harley-Davidson Inc. dropped several diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives after weeks of sustained pressure from an anti-DEI crusader. The Milwaukee-based company on Monday said that it no longer has minority-owned supplier spending goals, will drop socially-motivated training for employees and make other changes to back away from diversity programs. Harley joins Tractor Supply Co., John Deere & …