Extremists

The Arizona Daily Independent reports: Across the state, Arizona Republican leaders are condemning a false advertisement issued by a group calling itself College Republicans United announcing the noted anti-Semite Nick Fuentes as their guest speaker for an upcoming event. The Maricopa County Republican Committee (MCRC) tweeted, “NEVER AUTHORIZED | NEVER SPONSORED | NEVER PROMOTED: The #MCRC never authorized, sponsored, or …

The New Republic reports: A national convention of college Republicans is excitedly welcoming vicious antisemite and racist Nick Fuentes as a headliner. The event is being hosted later this month by College Republicans United, a group that, according to its website, has been committed to “spreading America First across college campuses since January 2018.” Among its “values” are planks like …

CNN reports: A New York judge has ordered Steve Bannon to pay his former attorneys nearly $500,000 in unpaid legal fees for work on various legal matters, including his fight against a subpoena by the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, US Capitol attack. The law firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP sued Bannon in February alleging he failed …

Politico Europe reports: Georgia’s annual LGBT+ Pride event was evacuated by the police on Saturday after hundreds of counter-protesters stormed the site. In a statement, organisers of the festival in the capital of Tbilisi announced that they had been forced to shut down the annual festivities after the authorities failed to maintain the perimeter. “Today’s developments indicate that today’s planned …

The Associated Press reports: A Florida man prosecutors say is affiliated with the Proud Boys extremist group was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as they tried to defend the U.S. Capitol against supporters of President Donald Trump on Jan. 6, 2021. Barry Ramey, an aircraft mechanic who was convicted of …

The El Paso Times reports: The white supremacist who fatally shot 23 people at an El Paso Walmart will remain behind bars for the rest of his life after being sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. Patrick Crusius, 24, was sentenced Friday morning to life in prison on each of 90 federal charges he pleaded guilty to earlier this year …

Vice News reports: The leader of a QAnon cult who convinced thousands of people that former president John F. Kennedy and his son JFK, Jr. are still alive has died, VICE News can exclusively report. Michael Protzman, 60, died last Friday in the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota a week after an accident at the Meadow Valley Motocross track in …

Media Matters has the transcript: DeSantis is being pilloried, not just by the libs, but by the squishes on the right for an ad that people are saying is homophobic. We’re not gonna tolerate this rainbow pride stuff anymore. I think it’s a great ad. One, because it’s funny. It’s a self-aware ad. I don’t think anybody really believes that …

The Associated Press reports: A judge on Friday awarded more than $1 million to a Black church in downtown Washington, D.C., that sued the far-right Proud Boys for tearing down and burning a Black Lives Matter banner during a 2020 protest. Superior Court Associated Judge Neal A. Kravitz also barred the extremist group and its leaders from coming near the …

Newsweek reports: Protesters on Friday lined the streets of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as former President Donald Trump arrived to speak at a conference hosted by the conservative group Moms for Liberty. Videos shared to Twitter by freelance journalist Oliya Scootercaster show swarms of protesters holding signs and chanting “Lock him up” as the former president’s motorcade drove up to the political …

From the Justice Department: A Michigan man was indicted for conspiring with others and allegedly defacing Temple Jacob – a Jewish synagogue in Hancock, Michigan. According to the court documents, Nathan Weeden, 23, of Houghton, and co-conspirators Richard Tobin, of New Jersey, and Yousef Barasneh, of Wisconsin defaced Temple Jacob with swastikas and symbols associated with The Base, a multi-state, …

The Daily Dot reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) is a simple woman who likes simple things: conspiracy theories, seeing herself on camera, and Crossfit—not necessarily in that order. In April, Greene launched a podcast that couples her passions for conspiracies and self-promotion. A photo it recently posted is turning heads because it seeems to invokes the Capitol riot, a …

“My counter-proposal is that we ban that evil Pride flag from every public space forever. We could do it. We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces – Nazi flags, hammer and sickle flags. Would not be that hard at all. And you might say, that’s extreme. But is it more extreme than turning Pride day into Pride week …

From the far-right Moonie Times: Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene said Monday they will send a measure to the House Appropriations panel that defunds the salary of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Director Steve Dettelbach. They announced the move at a field hearing in Mr. Gaetz’s Florida where witnesses spoke about what they said were ATF’s …

“You know our policy, if the entire media is in alignment on something, then there’s probably something hidden. What if all of this is actually a ploy to keep people from visiting the Titanic wreckage? But if that’s the goal, why? Maybe because if people explore the Titanic too much, they would discover that it wasn’t an iceberg that sank …

NBC News reports: Former President Trump spoke on Thursday at a fundraiser on behalf of people charged in the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol — even as he faces scrutiny from national and state prosecutors for his own actions surrounding the attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win. “I’m going to make a …

ABC News reports: Infowars host Owen Shroyer, who promoted baseless claims of 2020 election fraud on the far-right internet platform, pleaded guilty on Friday to joining the mob of Donald Trump supporters who rioted at the U.S. Capitol. Shroyer, who didn’t enter the Capitol but led rioters in chants near the top of the building’s steps, pleaded guilty to a …

The Indianapolis Star reports: The Hamilton County chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national organization recently listed as an “extremist group” by a civil rights watchdog, apologized Thursday morning after it launched a newsletter called “The Parent Brigade” Wednesday that featured a quote from Adolf Hitler on its front cover. The quote in the newsletter drew condemnation on social media …

The Arizona Mirror reports: Jacob Angeli Chansley, who rose to prominence as the self-described “QAnon Shaman” and became, for many, the face of the Jan. 6 insurrection, is trying to get his sentence overturned and says he never renounced QAnon or felt duped by Donald Trump. At the same time, he’s trying to make money on his newfound fame. Chansley, …

An update about the rioter who tased Michael Fanone: Daniel Rodriguez gave a lengthy statement before his sentencing Wednesday. He spoke in great detail about his childhood and his single mother’s struggle to provide for him, but expressed little remorse. He mentioned Fanone only once. “I hope Officer Fanone will be OK one day,” he said. “It sounds like he’s …