Extremists

The Daily Beast reports: Kanye West’s account on X, aka Elon Musk’s newly-rebranded Twitter, was reinstated on Saturday months after the rapper was suspended for violating company policy with an antisemitic post. While West, who goes by Ye, won’t be able to monetize his account, X brought back his profile after “receiving reassurance that he wouldn’t use the platform to …

The Bangor News reports: A prominent neo-Nazi who last year moved to Penobscot County with hopes of building a white ethno-state has been banned from Planet Fitness in Bangor. Christopher Pohlhaus, the leader of the neo-Nazi group “Blood Tribe” who has been spotted waving a swastika flag and wearing a swastika necklace at LGBTQ+ events, was banned from Planet Fitness’ …

“We are in a matriarchy. And this is why they accuse me of being an internalized misogynist because I’m able to think through and acknowledge the flaws of what happens in society when women get power. “And if you wanna know what happens, look around you. Women fall for emotional arguments the entire time. “They show us a commercial, it’s …

ABC News reports: President Joe Biden’s administration plans to try to force private insurance companies to offer the same coverage for mental health services as they do for physical health services, improving upon a well-known hole in America’s health care system, according to the White House. The new policy is part of a broader push by Biden to improve mental …

From the Justice Department: A Florida couple pleaded guilty today to felony and misdemeanor charges related to their actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election. Jamie …

“People woke up, man. They know now it’s poison. They know it’s a fraud, and more are waking up all the time. So we’re saving lives together! And I hope LeBron James does the right thing now. Elon Musk came out and said he thinks it’s the shot. He thinks LeBron James is from the shot. ‘Elon Musk suggests 18-year-old …

Axios reports: House Democrats are preparing a resolution to censure Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.) after his office linked to a website that has posted Holocaust denial content, Axios has learned. The resolution targets Gosar for “using taxpayer money to spread resources to pro[-Hitler], Holocaust denialism.” This Sunday’s edition of Gosar’s weekly newsletter, This Week with Gosar, included a link to …

The Washington Examiner reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke on the House floor Tuesday, renewing impeachment articles for President Joe Biden and pushing to clear the record of twice-impeached former President Donald Trump. Greene has sponsored multiple articles of impeachment against Biden since he entered the White House in January 2021, and in her newest calls, she cites information …

The Washington Post reports: House Democrats are preparing to file a censure resolution targeting a Republican lawmaker for the second week in a row, this time against far-right Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Freshman Rep. Becca Balint (D-Vt.) is expected to introduce the censure this afternoon, which would condemn Greene for fanning “the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, …

The Daily Beast reports: Anti-government agitator Ammon Bundy must pay an Idaho hospital more than $50 million for defaming it and targeting it with protests while it cared for an associate’s grandson—who was taken into protective custody after child welfare officials determined he was malnourished. In March of last year, Bundy was arrested for trespassing outside of St. Luke’s Meridian …

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 …