Extremists

The Riverside Press-Enterprise reports: The first such local event since 2009, the festival featured live music, entertainment, dancing, panel discussions, information on the history of the LGBTQ community and a youth program. The festival lasted most of the day at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. It was organized by Riverside LGBTQ+ Pride. Word of plans to hold the festival drew opposition …

CNBC reports: The Republican Party nominee for Michigan secretary of state, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump, several years ago threatened to kill herself and her two daughters in response to her husband’s request for a divorce, her now-ex-husband alleged in a court filing published Friday. The allegations against Kristina Karamo, which she denied in a statement …

Rolling Stone reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) spewed right-wing lies and hatred at Saturday night’s Trump Rally. The congresswoman not only told the gathered crowd that former President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, she also indulged in anti-trans fake news about kids using litter boxes in school. “There’s a school in Texas where a student identified [as] a …

NBC News reports: Internet hosting and security services provider Cloudflare said Saturday that it would block Kiwi Farms, a website associated with harassment campaigns against transgender people. The announcement puts the future of the fringe internet forum in doubt, though some of its members had already anticipated that Cloudflare could act and began to explore other options. When attempting to …

The Independent reports: Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene said outside the rally where Donald Trump is expected to take the stage in a few hours that President Joe Biden’s speech this week was a “dog whistle for violence” against MAGA Republicans such as herself. During his speech on Wednesday, the president did call out MAGA Republicans, but did not incite …

Law & Crime reports: A QAnon adherent from Illinois seen on video shoving National Guardsmen at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has pleaded guilty to a felony. Mathew Capsel, 29, admitted Friday that he pushed against members of the National Guard who had been called in to D.C. to support the effort to control the riotous crowd of Donald …

Axios reports: A year and a half after it was removed from Google’s Play Store, Parler, a Twitter alternative that attracts conservatives, has returned to the showcase for Android apps. Google removed Parler following the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, which was incited by misinformation and violent speech online. Beginning Friday, Parler will be available for download in Google’s Play Store, …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) tweeted a short video Thursday night after President Joe Biden’s speech with an actor portraying the president as Adolf Hitler, complete with the infamous mustache and what sounded like audio from one of the Nazi dictator’s speeches. Greene posted multiple tweets Thursday night attacking Biden for the speech, including two that directly called …

Law & Crime reports: Proud Boys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio’s attorney asked a federal judge permission to withdraw from a civil lawsuit seeking to hold his client liable for the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Currently facing prosecution for seditious conspiracy, Tarrio faces serious criminal and civil exposure over his alleged actions on Jan. 6, 2021. His attorney …

NBC News reports: An ex-NYPD officer convicted of attacking police at the Capitol on Jan. 6 says he in part blames his actions on “flashbacks” from his past years working as a cop in the Bronx. Thomas Webster, 56, was found guilty in May after a jury didn’t buy his story that he was acting in self-defense and attempting to …

From the Justice Department: A New Jersey man pleaded guilty today to two felony charges for assaulting law enforcement officers with a dangerous weapon – pepper spray – causing bodily injury to the officers during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress …

Mediaite has the transcript: So I met with them a number of times, but I met with and I’m financially supporting people that are incredible. And they were in my office actually two days ago. That’s very much on my mind. It’s a disgrace what they’ve done to them, what they’ve done to these people. It’s disgraceful. And and mostly …

The Washington Post reports: An attorney for the Oath Keepers who was with the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, outside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was arrested Thursday in Texas on charges related to the attack on Congress, federal prosecutors announced. Kellye SoRelle, 43, was arrested in Junction, Tex., and is scheduled to make an initial appearance Thursday afternoon before …

Gizmodo reports: Truth Social, the Twitter-like social platform for the ultra-right and Trump sycophants, has a QAnon problem. Researchers with media watchdog group NewsGuard reported Monday that there were 88 users with more than 10,000 followers regularly posting QAnon nonsense. More than half of those accounts were “verified,” similar to Twitter’s own verification system. More than that, former President Donald …

NBC News reports: A former D.C. bartender and Proud Boy who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was sentenced to 55 months in federal prison on Monday. Joshua Pruitt, 40, pleaded guilty in June to obstruction of an official proceeding after he was caught on video joining a mob pursuing police officers and smashing a sign inside the U.S. …

Reuters reports: Thousands of religious and right-wing opponents of a European gay Pride event to be hosted by Belgrade protested through the Serbian capital on Sunday, even though the government has said it would scrap or delay the Pride event. Belgrade is due to host the EuroPride march on Sept. 17, an event staged in a different European city each …

From the far-right site American Greatness: A lawyer for several of the January 6 political prisoners says his clients are being “tortured” by a system of “anarcho-tyranny” that considers them to be a “subhuman, sub-constitutional class of people.” In an interview this week, Joseph D. McBride said he is building a case to sue the federal government for millions of …

Law & Crime reports: A former Air Force sergeant and anti-government militia member was sentenced to life in prison for the second of two murders he committed against law enforcement employees in 2020. Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded guilty in June of this year to nine counts over the incident that led to the murder of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. …

Reuters reports: Conservative attorney L. Lin Wood said he had been subpoenaed to appear before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “The devil is after me today!!!” Wood said in a statement shared on Telegram late on Friday. “The Fulton County DA attacks me as …

The Washington Post reports: In the nearly three weeks since the FBI searched former president Donald Trump’s Florida home to recover classified documents, the National Archives and Records Administration has become the target of a rash of threats and vitriol, according to people familiar with the situation. Civil servants tasked by law with preserving and securing the U.S. government’s records …