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Man who faked being a Navy SEAL charged for hurling racial slurs and pointing gun at Black homeowner

A white Miami man who pleaded guilty to hurling racial slurs at a Black homeowner and pointing a gun at him has been sentenced to probation and will have to submit himself to mental-health counseling and substance abuse treatment. He also must stay away from the victim and cease his habit of pretending to be in the military or a policeman, the Miami Herald reports.

According to The Herald, Joseph Fucheck, 60, had posed as a former police SWAT leader and Navy SEAL, and wore a bogus military uniform and fake medals of valor. The criminal charge against him was enhanced under Florida’s “hate-crime” law, which makes the crime punishable by 15 years in prison.

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'We need to catch these people': FBI asked to investigate far-right Patriot Front over a year ago

According to a report from Rolling Stones' Asawin Suebsaeng and Adam Rawnsley, the FBI was encouraged to track the activities of the far-right domestic terrorism group Patriot Front in Idaho over a year ago in documents that were just released.

The report notes that police in Idaho worked hand in hand with FBI officials dating back to, at least, August 2021 as their acts of vandalism began to accelerate and Coeur d’Alene Mayor Steve Widmyer raised the red flag.

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Jan. 6 hearing secrecy due to ‘massive security threats’ related to Marjorie Taylor Greene: WaPo reporter

A former White House staffer will testify before a House select committee hearing that was not announced until the day before for security reasons that may be related to one of the Republican lawmakers she implicated in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to Donald Trump's former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, will testify Tuesday before the panel about efforts to overturn the former president's election loss, but her previous testimony -- which was recorded on video and shown in previous hearings -- about a specific GOP lawmaker necessitated the secrecy, Washington Post reporter Jacqueline Alemany told MSNBC's "Morning Joe."

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QAnon’s ‘Q’ returns after long absence: ‘It had to be done this way’

The mysterious person behind the absurd QAnon conspiracy theory is back.

"The anonymous message board user known as 'Q,' whose cryptic announcements spawned the fascist pro-Trump QAnon conspiracy theory, has returned to posting after a nearly two-year hiatus," The Daily Beast reported. "On Friday night, someone with access to Q’s login credentials posted on 8kun, the anarchic internet community where Q last posted in December 2020."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls overturning of Roe v. Wade a 'blessing': report

Marjorie Taylor Greene gave statements outside of the Supreme Court minutes after the ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade was handed down. Amidst shouts of "You are a traitor," and "Lock her up," from a steadily gathering mass of protestors, Greene fired back that she viewed the ruling to ban abortion as "a blessing," according to The Hill.

This article originally appeared at Salon.

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Trump repeatedly told people in private that reversing Roe would be 'bad for Republicans': report

Despite the fact that he helped facilitate today's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court that overturned Roe v. Wade, former President Donald Trump has said privately reversing the landmark ruling wouldn't be a good thing for the Republican Party, The New York Times reports.

After a draft of the coming decision was leaked in May, Trump reportedly told people repeatedly that he believes it will be “bad for Republicans.”

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Marjorie Taylor Greene snaps at Jamie Raskin as he grills her over downplaying the Jan. 6 attack

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) clashed during a House Rules committee hearing on Friday.

While questioning Greene, Raskin asked her if she thinks it's constitutional for states to ban private militias, to which she replied that since the federal government "isn't protecting our border," they shouldn't be banned.

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Conservatives melt down after Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy blasts 'insane' abortion ruling

Dave Portnoy, the founder of the Barstool Sports digital media empire, has been hailed as a rising star in the conservative world. But Portnoy stirred up anger on Friday after releasing a video in which he blasted the Supreme Court for overturning Roe v. Wade.

“To me, this is just pure insanity,” Portnoy said in the video, which he posted to Twitter. “We are going backwards in time. We are literally going backwards in time.”

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'God made the decision': Trump deflects credit for ruling to overturn abortion rights

Donald Trump praised the U.S. Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v. Wade but declined to claim credit during an interview with Fox News.

"God made the decision," Trump told Fox News.

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Jamie Raskin mocks Marjorie Taylor Greene to her face at tense hearing: 'Sounds like you want to arm' fetuses

Rep. Jamie Raskin (R-MD) on Friday mocked Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to her face after she went on a mini-tirade about legalized abortion.

During a discussion at the House Rules Committee that was initially about the Second Amendment in the United States, Greene said that more Americans should want to take up arms because it would deter mass shooters from entering into schools.

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Exclusive: Lawmakers join protest outside Supreme Court over abortion ruling

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Throngs of protesters, including some Democratic lawmakers, marched on the U.S. Supreme Court after the right-wing majority struck down abortion rights.

The justices ruled 6-3 in Dobbs v. Jackson to overturn the landmark 1973 ruling on Roe v. Wade, and protesters chanting "we won't go back" walked to the barriers that have been placed around the court.

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Anti-abortion activist dodges CNN host's question about whether women who get abortions deserve punishment

An anti-abortion activist was asked by CNN's Erica Hill whether she favored punishing women who get abortions on Friday, and she twice dodged the question.

During a discussion about the United States Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe V. Wade, Hill asked Mary Szoch of the Family Research Council about the measures she was prepared to take to enforce bans against abortion in the United States.

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Watch: Legal analyst warns the Supreme Court has just unleashed ‘legal chaos’

Speaking on CNN this Friday, legal analyst Steve Vladek addressed the questions about both the immediate and long term implications of the Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, determining that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion.

The conservative-dominated court overturned the landmark 1973 abortion decision that enshrined a woman's right to an abortion, saying that individual states can now permit or restrict the procedure themselves.

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