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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 Washington Post reports: Individual prosecutors involved in the classified documents case against former president Donald Trump are facing substantial harassment and threats online and elsewhere, according to extremism experts and a government official familiar with the matter. At the same time, two officials said, federal agencies have not observed a general increase in threats against law enforcement in the …

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 …

NBC News reports: Last week, a local Indiana chapter of Moms for Liberty attracted attention for quoting Adolf Hitler in its newsletter. After the local paper reported the story, the group added additional “context” but kept the quote. Eventually, after facing even more scrutiny, the organization removed the quote and apologized in a statement posted to its Facebook group. That, …

From the Justice Department: A Michigan man has been arrested on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges, including assaulting a law enforcement officer, for his actions 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 convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related …

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 …

Mediaite reports: Ron DeSantis’ Republican presidential campaign posted a deranged ad on Friday that attacked former President Donald Trump and Pride Month using clips from American Psycho and The Wolf of Wall Street. “To wrap up ‘Pride Month,’ let’s hear from the politician who did more than any other Republican to celebrate it…” tweeted the DeSantis War Room, attached to …

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, …

CBS News reports: A man with materials to make explosives and an active Jan. 6-related warrant was arrested by law enforcement in former President Barack Obama’s Washington, D.C., neighborhood, multiple sources briefed on the matter tell CBS News. Multiple sources identified the suspect as 37-year-old Taylor Taranto, of Seattle, Washington. Secret Service spotted the man within blocks of the Obama’s …

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 …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) released a tweet on Sunday stating that she believes someone is spying on her through a television after it “turned on by itself.” “Last night in my DC residence, the television turned on by itself and the screen showed someone’s laptop trying to connect to the TV,” the GOP firebrand wrote in a …

“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 …

“Do you get your best in life, do you get excellence, if you care about things that don’t matter? This person tragically passes away – the CEO of OceanGate – and he says that he was choosing and selecting his personnel based on not wanting to have fifty-year-old white guys. Then you could make the argument, albeit rather cruel and …

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 …

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 …