Extremists

The Independent reports: El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele intends to double the size of the notorious mega-prison that’s currently holding U.S. deportees, according to a new report. Bukele told Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem last month that he plans to build out the El Salvador prison known as CECOT, which has been attacked by human rights groups as a “tropical gulag” …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Georgia town hall turned chaotic Tuesday night, with protesters arrested and tased by cops. At another point, a protester called Greene a “butch body bigot”—a reference to how Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett had used the phrase “bleach blonde bad-built butch body” toward her last year. Later a questioner wanted Greene to explain, …

Atlanta’s ABC affiliate reports: Less than five minutes after a town hall with Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene began, at least three people have been removed. Within moments of the Congresswoman’s town hall in Acworth beginning, a man was dragged out by at least four police officers. Shortly after, another protester calls out and Greene orders him out from the podium. …

404 Media reports: The notorious imageboard 4chan is down following what appears to be a major hack of its backend. The hackers claim to have exposed code for the site, the emails of moderators, and a list of mod communications. This happened, it seems, as part of a five year long, inter-image board beef between users of 4chan and Soyjak, …

“This is town hall strictly for my constituents. You need to understand this is not a place to protest. This isn’t a place to stand up and scream and yell. If you’re planning to act up, scream, and protest, you’re going to be thrown out, and that’s the way it goes. “We know how the Democrat Party is organizing and …

Mother Jones reports: Few media organizations have covered the rise of Bukele, as closely or fearlessly, as El Faro, founded in 1998 as the first digital newspaper in Latin America. In 2020, El Faro began publishing a blockbuster investigation that exposed secret negotiations between the Bukele administration and leaders of the MS-13 gang who were imprisoned in El Salvador. The …

The Associated Press reports: Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the constitution that allows the government to ban public events by LGBTQ+ communities. Legal scholars and critics call Monday’s decision another step toward authoritarianism as the populist government continues to restrict the rights of LGBTQ+ communities. The amendment passed along party lines, with 140 votes for and 21 against. …

ABC News reports: A Wisconsin teen allegedly killed his parents to “obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary” to kill President Donald Trump and overthrow the U.S. government, federal authorities said in court documents. Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested in March and charged with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse, according to Waukesha County …

Politico reports: Far-right activist Laura Loomer has chosen her next target in her campaign against those she sees as disloyal to President Donald Trump: Col. Earl Matthews, Trump’s nominee to be the Pentagon’s top lawyer. Loomer, in a series of X posts on Tuesday and Wednesday, alleged that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth was at risk of being “subverted and …

Politico reports: Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday. The department’s determination could result in hundreds of payouts from the federal government intended to cover the cost of repairing about $3 million in damage …

“Megyn [Kelly] is correct about about her fundamental observation that men are generally not attracted to ambitious career-driven women. Now it doesn’t necessarily mean that men will not marry those kinds of women. And I’m not saying that wives should never have jobs. In many households, both parents work out of financial necessity. I understand that. “There are also many …

The Daily Beast reports: Nebraska Rep. Don Bacon went in on far-right conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer Monday, saying she was right out of the horror movie Poltergeist. On Monday’s episode of The Chuck ToddCast, host Chuck Todd asked Bacon what he thought of the recent firing of top aides after Trump’s Oval Office meeting with Loomer Wednesday. “Sometimes, I look at …

From my December 2024 report: Republican Randy Fine has filed a bill in the Florida Senate to ban local governments, public schools and state universities from displaying flags promoting a “fictional” Palestine, “pro-violence” Black Lives Matter, LGBTQ rights and other “woke” topics. “Supporters of Muslim terror, child mutilators, and groomers have no right to taxpayer sponsorship of their repugnant messages,” …

“First of all, great point, Mark. It’s is a budgetary issue. As a scholar of the Constitution, you know well that the district courts are not mentioned in the Constitution. Congress has the authority to break the inferior courts, they have the authority to fund or not fund these courts. So yes, Congress has to step up here. But we …

The Meidas Touch reports: Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a personal message on her Twitter account asking her followers to send her son Derek beer money for his birthday. Greene linked to her son’s Venmo account and wrote: “It’s my baby boy’s birthday!! He’s 22!! I love him so much! ❤️ Buy him a beer!” The tweet was deleted shortly …

Axios reports: Elon Musk blasted top Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro overnight, calling out his education and lack of corporate credentials. The two-day rout in the stock market this week, after Trump announced sweeping new tariffs backed by Navarro, cost Musk nearly $18 billion just on his Tesla stock. Friday morning, a user on Musk’s social media platform X …

“Every single allegation against Russell Brand concerns events that took place twenty years ago or more. None of them existed while he was a famous actor or comedian. All of them emerged once he became a highly visible dissident on politics and Covid. Brand has been forthright about his behavior as a young man, but the idea he was a …

The Florida Phoenix reports: The Florida Supreme Court has rejected former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn’s attempt to reinstate his $50 million defamation claim against Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson over comments linking Flynn to Vladimir Putin and the QAnon conspiracy theory. “We’re not surprised, given the vast legal weaknesses of this trolling lawfare on their part,” Wilson told the Phoenix …

The Washington Post reports: The director of the National Security Agency, the powerful U.S. wiretapping and cyber espionage service, was fired Thursday, according to one former and two current U.S. officials. Gen. Timothy Haugh, who also heads U.S. Cyber Command, was let go along with his civilian deputy at the NSA, Wendy Noble, according to the officials. Like others in …

“The Witch Hunt against Marine Le Pen is another example of European Leftists using Lawfare to silence Free Speech, and censor their Political Opponent, this time going so far as to put that Opponent in prison. It is the same ‘playbook’ that was used against me by a group of Lunatics and Losers, like Norm Eisen, Andrew Weissmann, and Lisa …