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NBC News reports: A military veteran who espoused antisemitic views was sentenced to four years in prison Monday on felony and misdemeanor charges stemming from the Capitol riot. Hatchet Speed of Vienna, Virginia, a former Navy reservist who had a “top secret” security clearance and worked for a defense contractor on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced in Washington, D.C., for …

CBS News reports: Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is asking for a sentence of time served, after he was convicted of seditious conspiracy for what prosecutors argued was a violent plan to ensure former President Donald Trump remained in the White House, though he had lost the 2020 presidential election. The Justice Department is seeking a 25-year prison sentence for …

The Daily Beast reports: The gunman who opened fire on an Allen, Texas shopping mall on Saturday, killing eight, appears to have posted neo-Nazi content on the social media site OK.ru, where his profile picture was a smiley face with a Hitler mustache. Some of the account’s most recent posts appear to foreshadow the mass killing. On April 16, it …

Media Matters reports: The Trump National Doral resort will host two antisemites who have promoted pro-Adolf Hitler propaganda and spread virulently antisemitic conspiracy theories. They will be speaking at an event in Miami alongside numerous Team Trump personalities, including Eric Trump, Lara Trump, and Devin Nunes. Trump Doral speaker Scott McKay, who has a streaming show on Rumble, who has …

Rolling Stone reports: The suspected mass shooter who killed at least eight people at an Allen, Texas mall on Saturday frequently posted pro-white supremacist and neo-Nazi materials on social media, according to an FBI bulletin reviewed by Rolling Stone. The FBI’s “review and triage of the subject’s social media accounts revealed hundreds of postings and images to include writings with …

The Washington Post reports: The gunman who opened fire on an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb Saturday, killing at least eight people, was a man in his early 30s who may have had white supremacist or neo-Nazi beliefs, people familiar with the investigation said Sunday. Mauricio Garcia, a local resident, had multiple weapons on him and in his nearby …

“The federal government must partner with states for mental hospitals and drug rehab centers for the good of our society. We must fund and support police officers and prosecutors must put criminals behind bars. “We need to study SSRI’s and other factors that cause mass shootings. Our nation is plagued with mental illness, drug addiction, homelessness, and out of control …

Politico reports: Two security guards loomed large before a gateway arch in front of the center entrance, which was festooned with the slogan “Woke Free Zone.” More guards and metal detectors were downstairs in the registration area. Once upon a time CPAC, which hosted its annual flagship event just outside Washington two months ago, was eager for media attention. But …

The Local Italy reports: An anti-vax campaigner on Friday assaulted Italy’s former premier Giuseppe Conte, who imposed strict restrictions at the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, his political party said. The Five Star Movement, the opposition party led by Conte, wrote on Facebook that Conte had been “attacked by an anti-vaxxer in Massa”, a small Tuscan city where he was …

The Washington Post reports: U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight of his followers to at least 10 years behind bars starting later this month, in the first punishments to be handed down to far-right extremist group members convicted of seditious conspiracy in …

The Birmingham News reports: Ted Nugent’s concert in Birmingham has been canceled amid a wave of controversy on social media. Nugent, 74, a hard rock veteran and political provocateur, was set to play on July 18 at Avondale Brewing Co. His appearance here, which was announced on Monday by promoter Red Mountain Entertainment, inspired intense reactions this week among concertgoers, …

The Associated Press reports: A Kentucky man with a long criminal record was sentenced Friday to a record-setting 14 years in prison for attacking police officers with pepper spray as he stormed the U.S. Capitol with his wife. Peter Schwartz’s prison sentence is the longest so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases. The judge who sentenced Schwartz also handed …

“The media is lying to us about president Trump. For eight years they lied and they slandered him and tried to destroy that man. They tried to get people to not vote for him. And when that still didn’t work, they realized that they had to unleash COVID in order to steal an election and to stop him because he …

“The fake news ecstatic today because Enrique Tarrio and several of his friends convicted, very serious charges. He faces decades in prison, potentially, and I think the whole damn thing is a sham and a shame. “Seditious conspiracy, obstructing official proceedings, no. Look, he wasn’t even there. I’ve seen the evidence. Granted, I did not sit through all of the …

The Daily Beast reports: Far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones fumed on his Thursday program over Canadian prankster Chris James duping him into believing that he was speaking with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson. “Hey, let me tell the little prankster Prank Stallone something,” Jones said, responding to the Wednesday prank call from James, which has yet to be published. …

The Daily Beast reports: Rapper Kanye West’s on-and-off political operation is back on, with right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at the helm once again five months after being ousted by his far-right rivals. West’s virulently anti-Semitic media tour last year generated headlines more for West’s dinner with white supremacist leader Nick Fuentes and Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago and his effusive praise …

NBC News reports: A jury has reached a partial verdict for at least some of the defendants in the five members of the far-right Proud Boys organization who are facing charges of seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly said from the bench Thursday. Enrique Tarrio, Joseph Biggs, …

The Washington Post reports: Brazilian police are investigating whether former president Jair Bolsonaro tried to deceive American authorities into believing, incorrectly, that he had been vaccinated against the coronavirus so he could enter the United States, authorities said Wednesday. Federal police conducted a search and seizure operation at Bolsonaro’s Brasília address early Wednesday and arrested several close associates, including a …

The New York Times reports: Federal prosecutors have charged a former F.B.I. agent with illegally entering the Capitol during the Jan. 6 riot and said he had called police officers Nazis as he encouraged a mob of Trump loyalists to kill them. The former agent, Jared L. Wise, was arrested on Monday and faces four misdemeanor counts, including disrupting the …

CNN reports: The FBI on Tuesday arrested a Florida man accused of setting off an “explosive device” in the US Capitol tunnel during the attack on January 6, 2021. In one of the most violent scenes of the Capitol riot, a line of police officers protected an entrance to the building against violent rioters who used poles, bats, fists, stolen …