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The Wall Street Journal reports: Dov Hikind, a prominent Jewish leader in Brooklyn, endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2020. After Mr. Trump’s recent dinner with two prominent promoters of anti-Semitic rhetoric, Mr. Hikind said he won’t support Mr. Trump again. “It is over, it is finished,” Mr. Hikind, whose 36-year run as a state lawmaker ended in 2018, said …

NBC News reports: A “general amnesty” has restored hundreds of accounts of right-wing activists and QAnon adherents, according to data reviewed by NBC News. The reinstatement of far-right accounts has coincided with a series of bans of left-wing accounts, leaving users unsure of how the company is now applying its rules. Patrick Casey, a white nationalist, and Andrew Anglin, a …

Jeanine Pirro: Here’s the bottom line. If you don’t like what someone’s saying, you don’t have the right to tell them they can’t close their mouth and they cannot speak. The United States Supreme Court in Brandenburg v Ohio – I go to the highest court in the land – says no matter how repulsive the speech is, America was …

The Daily Kos reports: In just a few minutes of listening to white supremacist and notorious Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes, anyone would begin to hear the echoed sentiments of Fox News and various members of the Republican Party. The same racist, xenophobic “great replacement” theory conspiracies, the same praise of fascism and white nationalism, and the same misogynistic and anti-LGBTQ …

The Washington Post reports: In February, Greene became the second GOP lawmaker in two years to appear at Fuentes’s America First Political Action Conference. Rep. Paul A. Gosar (R-Ariz.) had appeared the year before and drew condemnations, but that apparently didn’t dissuade Greene from doing the same a year later. When the situation again blew up, Greene was actually rather …

Axios reports: Former President Trump dined and conversed with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Tuesday night, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Trump’s direct engagement with a man labeled a “white supremacist” by the Justice Department, one week after declaring his 2024 candidacy, is likely to draw renewed outrage over the …

The Insider reports: Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, says he asked former President Donald Trump to be his running mate during the 2024 presidential race. “First time at Mar-a-Lago Rain and traffic,” Ye tweeted late Tuesday night. “Can’t believe I kept President Trump waiting And I had on jeans Yikes What you guys think his response was …

The Daily Beast reports: White nationalist Nicholas Fuentes was spotted at former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago golf club on Tuesday evening along with Kanye West, The Daily Beast has learned. The appearance at Trump’s resort follows West—now better known as Ye—enlisting the help of far-right activist Milo Yiannopoulos to serve as an adviser to his 2024 presidential campaign. A source …

The New York Post reports: An unhinged 22-year-old man has been arrested for making threats to Big Apple synagogues, sources said. The suspect, Christopher Brown, was collared at the Long Island Rail Road platform at Penn Station late Friday night, carrying weapons and a Nazi armband recovered in his bag, the sources added. The FBI/NYPD Joint Task force had been …

Vice News reports: A militant neo-Nazi group raided by Italian anti-terror police this week was ready to carry out violent attacks and had numerous transnational connections, including a member who claimed to have met with Donald Trump’s former adviser, Steve Bannon, according to media reports citing police. Italian police said they had arrested five members of a white supremacist terror …

Oregon Live reports: Just weeks after a Yamhill County judge ruled a controversial ban on the display of Pride flags in Newberg schools was unconstitutional, a masked person approached the home of school district employee, lit the employee’s Pride flag on fire and performed a Nazi salute. In a statement Tuesday, the Newberg School District referred to the flag-burning as …

The Washington Post reports: An emboldened cast of anonymous trolls spewed racist slurs and Nazi memes onto Twitter in the hours after billionaire industrialist Elon Musk took over the social network Thursday, raising fears of how his pledge of unrestricted free speech could fuel a new wave of online hate. “Elon now controls twitter. Unleash the racial slurs. K—S AND …

The Huffington Post reports: The Florida Republican Party paid thousands of dollars over the summer to a far-right activist who attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 and later charged at a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators with a Confederate flag. Christopher Monzon was paid more than $10,000 by the party between June and September, federal campaign finance …

Florida Politics reports: Threats from neo-Nazi groups prompted the cancellation of a drag queen story hour in Orlando. The LGBT+ Center Orlando announced it would nix the event, scheduled for Oct. 29, out of caution. “Due to several threats from hate groups aimed at The Center and to those participating in Drag Queen Story Hour, we have decided to cancel …

Media Matters has a roundup of reactions: Infowars celebrated West multiple times on October 9. Host Owen Shroyer said, “I did not hear one thing Kanye West said that was bigoted.” He later added that the backlash to his antisemitic remarks “only proves what he’s talking about is real.” White nationalist and Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes posted on Telegram, “​​Kanye …

CNN reports: Despite disavowing White nationalism last spring when one of its adherents endorsed him, a US House candidate in Washington subsequently gave a previously unreported interview in June to a Nazi sympathizer and White nationalist. While Republican Joe Kent touted his support for prominent far-right figures like Reps. Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Gosar and supported MAGA policies, he …

The New Jersey Advance reports: Timothy Hale-Cusanelli, the former Naval base employee and Army reservist from Monmouth County convicted of rioting in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was sentenced to four years in federal prison Thursday. Multiple reporters present at the sentencing in Washington, D.C. reported the sentence via Twitter. Prosecutors argued for 78 months, or 6 1/2 …

Law & Crime reports: A former Army Reservist with a history of spouting neo-Nazi rhetoric and imagery cannot get a new trial or an acquittal on charges related to his participation in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a federal judge ruled on Monday. In May, a federal jury convicted Timothy Hale-Cusanelli on a felony count of obstructing …

Law & Crime reports: A white supremacist former Army reservist who dressed up as Adolf Hitler before joining in the siege of the U.S. Capitol should spend six-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the “attack on the beating heart of democracy,” federal prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo. In May, a federal jury convicted Timothy Hale-Cusanelli on a …

Australia’s ABC News affiliate reports: Knowingly displaying Nazi flags or memorabilia bearing swastikas has been outlawed in New South Wales, with offenders facing up to a year’s jail time or a possible fine of over $100,000. The Crimes Amendment (Prohibition on display of Nazi symbols) Bill 2022 swiftly passed in the state’s upper house with unanimous support. It followed an …