Morning Briefing: Man with Connections to Neo-Nazis Charged for Threats Targeting District Attorney
Morning Briefing: Man with Connections to Neo-Nazis Charged for Threats Targeting District Attorney
David Bloyed, who has connections to the White Supremacist neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League (GDL), was charged for allegedly threatening 'to lynch' a District Attorney in Tennessee.
Morning Briefing: David Bloyed, who has connections to the White Supremacist neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League (GDL), has been criminally charged for allegedly threatening “to lynch Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee, District Attorney David Funk in a series of posts on the social media platform Telegram.”
Freedom Vy, member of the far right violent extremist group Proud Boys, was sentenced for participating in the Capitol Riot, and the punishment “includes a 50-day term of incarceration, one year of probation, and an order to pay $500 restitution.”
The Nevada County Republican Party will reportedly “host an event featuring white nationalist Laura Loomer, according to the group’s website and social media posts.” and “Loomer herself confirmed that she will be a guest at the event during a recent episode of her Rumble show, Loomer Unleashed.”
Loomer, who recently traveled with Donald Trump, went on an “anti-Republican tirade after reportedly being banned from traveling with former President Donald Trump,” and has “unleashed on the Republican Party in an endless stream of posts.”
A bankruptcy judge ruled that assets of InfoWars, the media empire of far right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, will be “auctioned off to help pay families of the Sandy Hook mass shooting victims the defamation awards he owes them,” and will include the “website, social media accounts, broadcasting equipment, product trademarks and inventory owned by Free Speech Systems, Infowars’ parent company.”
Mark Fitzpatrick, the owner of Old State Saloon in Eagle, Idaho, reportedly “plans to once again celebrate ‘heterosexual awesomeness month’ in June 2025,” after Fitzpatrick was celebrated in right-wing media after he announced the promotional event in response to Pride Month.
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Celia Fernández writes that “in reality, MAGA Communists say they don’t fully agree with Trump’s political vision. But addressing the working class through him, they explain, is the only way to channel working-class militancy away from capitalism and towards a communist future. The result is a strange and marginal alliance that includes people who hate feminism, environmentalism and the LGBTQI+ movements. An underworld of anti-system agitators where portraits of Putin and Kim Jong-un are accompanied by memes and jokes that come from the anti-feminist depths of the internet and that call for the salvation of ‘the honor of men.’ Ultimately, MAGA Communism, Reid Ross notes, is ‘a far-right agenda placed in an anti-imperialist environment.’ But even its anti-imperialism is showing its true colors. Hinkle recently posted a photo on X with Aleksandr Dugin — Putin’s go-to thinker — praising his anti-imperialism. Two days later, Dugin appeared on Russian television and said his people are the most imperialist in the world. [El País]
Maya Oppenheim writes that “in recent years, the far right has ballooned in size and power around the world, with the so-called alt-right, white supremacist movements, xenophobic populism, anti-migrant groups, the Identitarian movement and incels all falling under this same noxious banner. But far-right sentiment has not just swelled at the grassroots, activist levels; it has also found new and reinvigorated power in the political sphere. In the twenty-first century, far-right parties in Western Europe have become increasingly, disturbingly popular. This has spanned from the growing popularity of far-right populist parties in France, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Finland and Greece. After all, French far-right leader Marine Le Pen won a historic 13.3 million votes – which amounts to just over 41 per cent of the total – in April 2022. Moreover, authoritarian demagogues have also gained power at the national level, winning elections and becoming world leaders – as we have seen in Brazil, Italy, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines and the US.” [openDemocracy]
Robert P. Jones writes that “the worldview of white Christian nationalism raises the stakes of political contests exponentially, transposing political opponents into existential enemies. Politics are no longer understood to be honest disagreements between fellow citizens but rather apocalyptic battles over good and evil, literally fought by agents of God against agents of Satan. From these illiberal assumptions, it easily follows that political rivals should not just be defeated in fair electoral contests; they should be jailed, exiled, or even killed. This racist ideology thankfully no longer rests comfortably in the psyches of most Americans. But it has, paradoxically, found a final refuge in the shambles of the party of Lincoln. More than any other discreet moment in the last half century, the 2024 election will present us with a choice that is much more than partisan. We will have an opportunity to choose between a regressive fantasy of America as a white Christian nation and an aspirational vision of America as a pluralistic democracy.” [Time]
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