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White supremacist live-streamer arrested by FBI in Florida — his followers are scared they're next
March 02, 2021
On Tuesday, The Daily Beast reported that the FBI arrested a prominent white supremacist live-streamer in a dawn raid in Florida.
"FBI agents, working with Fort Lauderdale police and the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force, arrested Paul N. Miller, 32, on one charge of being a 'convicted felon in possession of a firearm,'" reported Will Sommer. "Miller's neighbors in Fort Lauderdale's Riverside neighborhood reported hearing flashbangs during the raid, which took place around 5 a.m. ET, local TV station NBC 6 reported. One neighbor described seeing law enforcement officers carrying out a box that appeared to have 'a shotgun on the front or an AK.'"
<p>"You could see the flash happening, so I went and looked outside and saw smoke coming down the street. I actually peeked my head out and talked to one of the guys with the night vision (headset) on. He was like 'it's safe now'," <a href="https://miami.cbslocal.com/2021/03/02/man-arrested-fbi-raid-fort-lauderdale-home/" target="_blank">said</a> local Chase Robinson. He was <a href="https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fort-lauderdale/fl-ne-fbi-fort-lauderdale-raid-20210302-xhf7uxyyabctxn4fjmtircluny-story.html" target="_blank">booked</a> into the Broward County Jail and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.</p><p>Miller amassed some 40,000 followers through the Telegram messaging app, which he used to make white supremacist broadcasts that included him "dressing up as characters like the Joker or Nintendo's Mario, then hurling racial abuse at strangers, including children, through the randomized chat app Omegle."</p><p>"Miller's Tuesday arrest sent shockwaves through internet extremist circles," said the report. "Miller had recently sold patches promoting his channel to his supporters, with his arrest raising fears among other extremists that the FBI could access his customer files and find out their own names and addresses. In messages captured by extremism researcher Hilary Sargent, Miller's supporters worried about the possibility that they could soon become FBI targets themselves."</p>
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On Tuesday, The Washington Post reported that the White House plans to withdraw Center for American Progress head Neera Tanden as the nominee for director of the Office of Management and Budget later this evening.
Tanden, whose nomination has been in limbo for days due to complaints from senators in both parties about her critical tweets about them on social media, is the first Biden Cabinet nominee to fail to be confirmed.
<p>White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain has previously <a href="https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/biden-to-put-tanden-in-another-post-should-her-nomination-fail-101614217512606.html" target="_blank">said</a> that the administration would put Tanden in another position that does not require Senate confirmation, although it is not clear what that position will be.</p><p>It is unclear who President Joe Biden will tap as budget director in place of Tanden, although the Congressional Black Caucus has <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-02/drama-for-biden-s-budget-nominee-shines-light-on-deputy-pick?utm_source=google&utm_medium=bd&cmpId=google" target="_blank">urged</a> him to pick Shalanda Young, a House staffer currently nominated to serve as the deputy director of the office.</p>
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Thanks to Trump Republican Darrell Issa might lose the seat in Congress that he just won back: columnist
March 02, 2021
After being on the wrong side of President Donald Trump, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) lost his seat to a Democrat in 2016, but he was able to get it back in 2020. One San Diego columnist thinks that it's probably a short-lived victory, thanks, in part, to Trump.
Writing Tuesday for the Times of San Diego, Raoul Lowery Contreras explained that Issa is the only Republican member of Congress south of Anaheim. Given that the Census triggers redistricting Issa out of his seat.
<p>"Instead it is in reapportionment, the every-decade requirement per the Constitution to draw legislative lines for congressional seats," wrote Contreras. "The problem this time for Issa is that the Trump administration royally screwed up the decennial U.S. Census. The official numbers for the new decade were due Dec. 31. But the <a href="https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2021/02/17/delayed-census-data-will-make-california-redistricting-unusually-challenging/" target="_blank">report isn't ready yet</a> because Trump nativists like Stephen Miller demanded the Census count the number of undocumented immigrants so they could be excluded from the final total."</p><p>That was obviously unconstitutional, he said, but the fact that Trump demanded it, his administration ultimately messed up the population counts for the states. </p><p>"Then there is the exodus of people from California that has shrunk the traditional annual growth rate to the lowest since 1900. States like Arizona and Texas have grown relative to California and will likely be allocated more congressional seats. That means that unless Congress enlarges the 435-member House, California will probably lose at least one congressional seat," wrote Contreras. <br/></p><p>Even with a non-partisan commission for redistricting, he doesn't have the seniority he once had, nor does he enjoy the benefits of being a pro-Trump party player after supporting Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) in 2016, Contreras said. </p><p>Read his full column at <a href="https://timesofsandiego.com/opinion/2021/03/02/darrell-issa-likely-to-lose-his-seat-to-reapportionment-thanks-to-trump/" target="_blank">the Times of San Diego</a>. </p>
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