Morning Briefing: Neo-Nazi Pleads Guilty to Charges From Nashville Attack
Ryan Scott McCann, a member of the Goyim Defense League (GDL), the antisemetic neo-Nazi White Supremacist group, has 'pleaded guilty to the assault of a former Nashville bartender.'
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Morning Briefing: Ryan Scott McCann, a member of the Goyim Defense League (GDL), the antisemetic neo-Nazi White Supremacist group, was “indicted by a Davidson County grand jury last month on assault and civil rights intimidation charges,” and reportedly “pleaded guilty to the assault of a former Nashville bartender hours before he was due in court to face the charges.”
In Wakulla County, Tennessee, local law enforcement reportedly found a “cache of firearms, Nazi flags, and methamphetamine,” which resulted in the “arrest of four people with alleged ties to drug trafficking and gang activity.”
In Akron, Ohio, masked White Supremacists on an overpass hung a banner reading “Deport the Jews, No Wars for Israel,” and the two individuals were reportedly shouting and “throwing Nazi salutes.”
In Chicago, Illinois, Philip Dominguez has been arrested by local law enforcement and charged for allegedly “spraying antisemitic and anti-immigrant graffiti in the city's Little Village neighborhood,” and Dominguez has been connected to at least three incidents in which has alleged “spray painted the words "ICE RULES" and/or a swastika on the outside of buildings.”
The New York state appeals court ruled that “several social media companies should not be held liable for helping an avowed white supremacist who killed 10 Black people in 2022 at a Buffalo, New York grocery store,” which reversed lower court ruling and stating that social media companies “were entitled to immunity under a federal law that protects online platforms from liability over user content.”
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Patrick Jack writes that the Student Action Summit “organized by youth activist organization Turning Point USA (TPUSA), the three-day annual conference is billed as the premier event for conservative college students to debate ideas, network and hear from top Republicans. They include Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr. and, of course, Charlie Kirk, who founded the movement as an 18-year-old college dropout. More than 5,000 people attended this year’s event in Florida, held July 11–13, and Times Higher Education was there to learn what matters to college conservatives today, what issues are dividing this branch of the MAGA movement, and whether this youthful “red wave” can reshape U.S. electoral politics… Kirk’s fingerprints are all over the summit. Owing to the slightly chaotic nature of the schedule, he is often timetabled to appear in two places at the same time—particularly tricky given that, as the podcaster Dan Nunn puts it, ‘Charlie can’t even walk around: he’s like a rock star.’” [Times Higher Education]
Kate Burns writes that “with authorities across Canada’s East Coast, Quebec, and Ontario having denied or revoked permits for each of Sean Feucht’s six tour stops, the first leg of NAR-aligned Christian supremacist’s ‘Revive in 25’ tour is now complete. Feucht and his team kissed the asphalt as they crossed the border back into America in the early hours of Monday morning. While media have largely focused on the cancelled concerts and free speech debates, most have missed the bigger picture as to how Feucht’s Canadian tour ‘disasters’ fit neatly into his—and the broader Christian Right’s—well-worn playbook. Whether planned or not, legitimate community pushback against Feucht’s documented history of anti-LGBTQ+ bigotry and Christian nationalist messaging was transformed into a lucrative and aggrandizing persecution narrative that positions him as Christianity’s embattled champion against the secular world.” [Religion Dispatches]
Brandy Zadrozny writes that Stuart Burns is originally from Georgia and “spent the last three decades in Florida, Texas and Washington, D.C., with his longest tenure, from 1995 to 2008, as legislative director and deputy chief of staff to former Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had wanted Weldon as CDC director, but that nomination was pulled over his anti-vaccine views. But because an adviser position doesn’t require Senate confirmation, Kennedy got Weldon’s number two. Burns is not a doctor or a scientist. An HHS spokesperson declined to be quoted on the record but defended Burns’ management of vaccine projects for the agency. The spokesperson said that Burns had worked on health policy as a legislative aide for congressional Republicans. Burns did not respond to MSNBC’s requests for comment.” [NBC News]
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