#domestic-extremism

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US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
3 days ago

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem Debates Katilan Collins On CNN

Kristi Noem repeatedly declined to directly classify the Democratic Party as a domestic extremist organization.
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
4 days ago

White House press secretary suggests 'looking into transgender violence'

It's definitely something worth looking into and I think anyone who denies that at this point is being wilfully ignorant. The administration is taking it seriously, all causes of violence, and why these people would be driven to such evil and such hatred, and there's probably many answers to that question. The administration is focused on all of them. For individual cases, of course the FBI and the Department of Justice are leading those.
US politics
fromPinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news
1 week ago

Project 2025 creators urge FBI to brand 'trans extremists' a terror threat

The Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank, called on the government agency to add what it called "Transgender Ideology-Inspired Violent Extremism" to its list of domestic extremist groups in an effort to "detect, disrupt, and dismantle" groups it considered a threat. In its petition, the organisation cited the death of right-wing pundit Charlie Kirk as an example of what it is calling "TIVE extremism," despite there being no definitive evidence that Kirk's death was related to trans people or issues.
Right-wing politics
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Jimmy Kimmel: Republicans working very hard to capitalize' on Charlie Kirk's killing

On Monday night, Trump became the first US president to sue the New York Times, for defamation to the tune of $15bn. Where does he even come up with this? wondered Jimmy Kimmel on Tuesday evening. These are like numbers my children make up when they're talking about money. I thought he said the New York Times was failing, he added.
US politics
Law
fromAbove the Law
1 week ago

Morning Docket: 09.17.25 - Above the Law

Legal developments include a Utah death-penalty prosecution, objections to using JAG officers as immigration judges, DOJ removal of an extremist-violence report, and new judicial approaches to AI hallucinations.
fromemptywheel
3 months ago

Trump Chose to Hunt Law-Abiding Migrants Rather than Right Wing Terrorists Like Vance Boelter. - emptywheel

The degradation of the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships under Kristi Noem highlights how governmental efforts to combat domestic extremism under Trump have substantially diminished.
Right-wing politics
US news
fromThe Washington Post
4 months ago

Anti-government group threatens crucial weather radars, NOAA warns

An anti-government militia is threatening weather equipment, claiming it's a 'weather weapon' controlled by the military.
US politics
fromNew York Post
4 months ago

FBI 'butchered' 2017 congressional baseball shooting probe, downplayed anti-GOP motives of gunman, blistering report concludes

The FBI mishandled its investigation of the 2017 congressional baseball shooting, ignoring the shooter's anti-GOP motives despite critical evidence.
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