Extremists Links: Far Right Celebrates Donald Trump's Return to White House
The far right right celebrated President Donald Trump's return to the White House.

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Trump’s Inauguration Is Ushering in a New Redemption Era of White Power Politics and Violence [Teen Vogue]
Emergency Powers Are About to Be Bent Beyond Recognition [The Atlantic]
From Brownshirts to Billionaires: The Second Trump Inauguration [Mother Jones]
Far-Right Extremists Globally Cheer Trump Inauguration [GPAHE]
Inauguration Draws Leaders From Europe’s Right [The New York Times]
Extremist groups at a pivot point as Trump returns to Washington [Atlanta Journal-Constitution]
Growing number of military veterans committing extremist crimes, research shows [Axios]
Role of US servicemen in acts of extremist violence under scrutiny [The Guardian]
The military is likely to end its anti-extremism efforts after four years of uncertain results [NPR]
White Nationalist Group Proud Boys March in DC to Celebrate Trump’s Inauguration [Truthout]
For the first time since Jan. 6, 2021, the Proud Boys march in DC [CBS News]
Elon Musk’s Inaugural Roman Salute Sparks Outrage, Far-Right Praise [HateWatch]
Musk’s straight-arm gesture embraced by right-wing extremists regardless of what he meant [Associated Press]
Right-Wing Extremists Are Abuzz Over Musk’s Straight-Arm Salute [Rolling Stone]
While Global Media Are Clear on Musk’s Nazi Salute US Media Engage in ‘Nazi-Washing’ [Religion Dispatches]
‘The gesture speaks for itself’: Germans respond to Musk’s apparent Nazi salute [The Guardian]
Capitol riot memories linger on the ground where Trump will take the oath of office [NBC News]
Trump issues 1,500 ‘unconditional’ pardons over January 6 Capitol attack [The Guardian]
Trump Grants Sweeping Clemency to All Jan. 6 Rioters [The New York Times]
Trump Pardons Seditionist Proud Boys Leader Among 1,500 Jan. 6 Defendants [Rolling Stone]
Bipartisan Majority Against Blanket January 6 Pardons [Statista]
'Rewarding Political Violence,' Felon Trump Pardons Jan. 6 Insurrectionists [Common Dreams]
After Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons, Some Fear It Will Spur More Violence [Time]
Trump's Pardons Will Encourage More Political Violence [The New York Times]
Trump Frees Thugs Who Beat Cops With Weapons on Jan. 6 [The Daily Beast]
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders are free. Who are they and what are their groups? [USA Today]
While leaders vie for pardons, Proud Boys struggle but movement remains strong [HateWatch]
‘I broke into the Capitol on Jan 6 – now I’ll be a VIP at Trump’s inauguration’ [The Telegraph]
Judges allow some Capitol riot defendants to return to DC for Trump's inauguration [Associated Press]
Judges hand down what could be the last punishments for the Jan. 6 riot before pardons from Trump [The Boston Globe]
US Capitol attack rioters had weapons, including firearms [Reuters]
A Capitol Rioter’s Son Is Terrified About His Father’s Release [Wired]
“Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander celebrates Trump's January 6 pardons: “I would storm the Capitol again for Donald Trump. I would start a militia for Donald Trump.” [MMFA]
‘Stop the Steal’ leader is filing motions to dismiss J6 charges — as acting U.S. attorney [Raw Story]
Ahead of Trump’s Inauguration, Neo-Nazi Active Clubs Demand Trump Follow Through on Promises of Mass Deportations [GPAHE]
‘A flood of disinformation’: rumors and lies abound amid Los Angeles wildfires [The Guardian]
For some LA water issues, misinformation spreads nearly as fast as the wildfires [NBC News]
LA's wildfires prompted a rash of fake images. Here's why [NPR]
White nationalist Nick Fuentes files motion to seal records in criminal case, citing safety concerns [Chicago Sun-Times]
Videos, posts from neo-Nazi group's internal chats reveal suspect's motives in antisemitic stunt [CBS News]
Aryan Brotherhood on trial: Prison gang leaders ordered 5 L.A. County murders, feds say [Los Angeles Times]
Orange County steps gingerly into new era of hate crime reporting [Orange County Register]
Man charged with uttering slur, knocking Black man unconscious outside Twin Cities bar [The Minnesota Star-Tribune]
Minnesota man charged with hate crime in Belle Plaine assault [NPR]
Jefferson City police investigate vandalism linked to white supremacist group [ABC News]
Historic Oviedo museum vandalized with racist graffiti ahead of MLK Day [NBC News]
Penn professor who invited white supremacist speaker, files lawsuit over university's reprimand [The Philadelphia Tribune]
UGA students hold anti-neo-Nazi demonstration following allegations about UGA staff member [The Red & Black]
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Senior leadership at the White House has started setting expectations — and they’re a bit more sober than past administrations.
White House legislative affairs staffers and others in external-facing roles have been strongly discouraged from drinking with members of Congress, according to two people granted anonymity to discuss internal White House decisions.
The new guidelines — a departure from past administrations, including DONALD TRUMP’s first term — were conveyed to staffers individually and verbally.
"We strongly urged everyone in the legislative affairs office and everyone who’s externally facing to be thoughtful about their alcohol use in public, and specifically with members,” one of the people said. “We strongly discouraged drinking with members.”
The Office of Legislative Affairs — the liaison between the White House and the Hill — is led by director JAMES BRAID and deputy directors JAY FIELDS; JEFFREY FREELAND, who covers the House; and PACE McMULLAN, who covers the Senate.
It was not immediately clear how many staffers in total the new guidelines would apply to or what prompted the policy.
“It’s a free country, but we represent the White House and the president and that’s best done sober,” the person said, reiterating that the White House still expects its staffers to be social, accessible and responsive.
“Is one drink a fireable offense? We’ll have to see what happens,” they said in an implicit acknowledgement of the reality that Washington is a town that runs on relationships formed during boozy social functions.
A White House spokesperson declined to comment.
The president is a non-drinker whose beverage of choice is a Diet Coke, which he imbibes freely. Trump also lost his brother FRED TRUMP JR. to alcoholism, a tragedy which Trump says became a driving force behind his first administration’s war on the opioid crisis.
“I don’t know that I would be working, devoting the kind of time and energy and even the money we are allocating to it … I don’t know that I’d be doing that had I not had the experience with Fred,” Trump told the Washington Post in 2019.
No such rule against drinking with members existed under former President JOE BIDEN, a former Biden administration official said.
And there wasn’t one during the president’s first term.
A former Trump White House staffer on the Office of Legislative Affairs team granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter recalled reminders about responsible drinking going out after “a few occasions where people had too much to drink,” but there was no formal policy.
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