Extremists

The New York Times reports: A truck driver who assaulted a police officer with a flagpole at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced on Monday to 52 months in federal prison. The attack by the driver, Peter Stager, produced one of the most disturbing images to emerge from the Capitol attack. Mr. Stager, 44, of Conway, Ark., was …

“I know what you’re thinking, we’ve got to get Joe Biden out of the way so we can run against Kammy. Oh my goodness, is she beatable. It’s like Black Hillary on steroids. Is she Black? I guess she says she’s Caribbean or whatever. She would be a lot easier to beat than Joe Biden. Joe Biden is a bumbling …

Variety reports: Over the weekend, moviegoers turned out in force for Greta Gerwig’s neon-coated fantasy comedy “Barbie,” which smashed expectations with $155 million to land the biggest debut of the year. At the international box office, the film added $182 million for a stunning global tally of $337 million. Audiences and critics dug the film, which landed an “A” CinemaScore …

The Idaho Statesman reports: A jury deliberated for a little over an hour Thursday before convicting five Patriot Front members for conspiring to disrupt a Pride celebration last June in downtown Coeur d’Alene. Devin Center, James J. Johnson, Forrest Rankin, Robert Whitted and Derek Smith stood in suits behind their attorneys and showed no emotion after a clerk read the …

The Hill reports: Hunter Biden’s lawyer filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) Friday, requesting that an ethics watchdog “immediately” initiate a review of Greene’s conduct after she showed sexually explicit photos of Biden at a congressional hearing this week. In a letter to the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE), Biden attorney Abbe David Lowell slammed Greene’s …

The Messenger reports: A federal judge on Thursday denied the “QAnon Shaman” Jacob Angeli Chansley’s request to reverse his guilty plea in regards to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Chansley pleaded guilty in 2021 to obstructing an official government proceeding during the attack on the Capitol. Chansley, who has the nickname of “QAnon Shaman” and gained notoriety after a …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) tore in the Republican leadership of the House Oversight Committee during a hearing on Wednesday, arguing that the GOP-led investigations have still produced “zero evidence” of wrongdoing by the Bidens, but have now resulted in the display of “dick pics” before Congress. Garcia was referring to controversial Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) showing various …

NBC News reports: A Jan. 6 rioter who was armed with a concealed weapon as he led a mob that overran police on the steps of the Capitol was sentenced to seven years in federal prison on Wednesday. Christopher Alberts, a Maryland Donald Trump supporter was found guilty on nine charges in April after he testified that “instinct took over” …

Courthouse News reports: A court in Romania’s capital on Tuesday ruled to extend by another 30 days the house arrest of Andrew Tate, the divisive social media influencer who is charged with rape, human trafficking and forming a criminal gang to sexually exploit women. The decision at the Bucharest Tribunal comes a month after prosecutors formally indicted the 36-year-old social …

NBC News reports: A man who carried a tiki torch during the racist “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 has now been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Tyler Bradley Dykes, a former Marine who served several months in prison after a state grand jury charged him in connection with the …

Mediaite reports: Neo-Nazi commentator Nick Fuentes let loose a hateful diatribe declaring “war” against Jewish people while appearing at an America First Foundation rally on Sunday. An edited version of Fuentes’ remarks made it on to Twitter, and it included some of the more inflammatory remarks he made. “We’re in a holy war, and I will tell you this: Because …

CNBC reports: Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson’s new Twitter show has landed one of its first advertisers. Carlson agreed to a seven-figure advertising deal with Public Square, a shopping app that promotes itself as being the “starting point” for conservatives to battle environmental, social and governance policies. Carlson has become even more outspokenly conservative on Twitter than he was …

The Washington Post reports: A Jan. 6 defendant who had been arrested with guns and ammunition in his van near former president Barack Obama’s house faces two felony weapons charges in addition to the misdemeanor and trespassing counts brought against him last month, court records show. Taylor Taranto, a defendant in the riot at the U.S. Capitol, was charged with …

The Washington Post reports: On Thursday, Twitter announced that it would begin sharing ad revenue with content creators on its platform for the first time. But the offer won’t apply to all creators. The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile far-right influencers who tweeted before the announcement how much they’ve earned as part of the program. Ian Miles Cheong, Benny …

The Washington Post reports: On Jan. 6, 2021, Alan Hostetter and Russell Taylor were shoulder to shoulder in the battle they had predicted would come if the 2020 presidential election results unseating President Donald Trump were not discarded. Under a photograph of the men taken during the riot and posted on Instagram, Hostetter wrote: “We are just getting started.” Hostetter …

CBS News reports: The Justice Department plans to appeal the 18-year-prison sentence handed down for Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, in the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol, as well as those of other Oath Keepers, because the terms were not as long as what prosecutors had sought, according to court papers filed Wednesday. …

Media Matters has the transcript: Science is mostly fake. And not that scientism or the politicization of science or whatever other squishy language the more centrist, kind of, people want to grant. But the whole endeavor, the whole endeavor of the scientific revolution, the premise of which is that reality is fundamentally physical, that is flawed. It’s not true. The …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: A federal judge sentenced a North Carolina man to more than three years in prison Tuesday for assaulting police with a flagpole on Jan. 6. U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said 22-year-old Matthew Beddingfield’s relatively young age compared to other Capitol riot defendants and mental health issues submitted in a sealed sentencing memo were mitigating …

The Independent reports: Tucker Carlson has once again invited criticism for uploading a two-and-a-half-hour long interview with rape and sex trafficking accused Andrew Tate on Twitter. The former Fox News host, who now uploads a new series he calls Tucker on Twitter, sat down with the controversial social media influencer, who was arrested and charged with rape, human trafficking and …

CBS News reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) said Tuesday she has not been told that she was kicked out of the hard-line conservative House Freedom Caucus, while brushing off the significance of the apparent vote to boot her from the group. “I’m not really concerned about it,” Greene said, adding that most of what she has learned has been …