Fox was sentenced to 16yrs in #prison on conspiracy to #kidnap & #conspiracy to possess #weapons of mass destruction [#WMD] charges, while Croft was sentenced to 19yrs on the same 2 charges as Fox, plus a 3rd charge of knowingly possessing an unregistered destructive device.
Fox & Croft were 2 of the defendants federal prosecutors successfully #convicted after a pair of trials in 2022—initially, a jury acquitted Brandon Caserta & Daniel Harris, whom the govt also alleged plotted to #kidnap #GretchenWhitmer, & were hung on Fox & Croft. But at a second trial later that year, jurors in west #Michigan returned #guilty verdicts for the latter 2.
#Trump's comments come 6 days after the #DOJ's new #pardon attorney, disgraced #DC #USattorney, under investigation by the #DCBar & #Jan6 advocate, #EdMartin Jr., said on a podcast he would take a "hard look" at pardoning the men he called "victims just like January 6," when Trump supporters attacked the US Capitol while Congress met to certify the Nov 2020 election results.
“I will take a look at it. It’s been brought to my attention,” #Trump said to reporters in the Oval Office. “I did watch the trial. It looked to me like somewhat of a railroad job.”
Trump said he thought the men convicted in the case, which occurred before the 2020 election, “were drinking” & “said stupid things.”
That is NOT AT ALL WHAT HAPPENED.
It was an elaborate plot.
@ProPublica It appears the only differences between the far right (for individual absolutes) and far left (for state absolutes), is the preference of a hand. The language of hands, is an intentional distortion ground on spurious opposites as opposed to real opposition; of fascist cults to democratic rights. Simply put rights versus cults. Or civil rights versus fascist cults. Their interests are diametrically opposed, as cults are ground on the inequality and injustice of interests, while rights ground the equality and justice of interests. #FarRight #FarLeft #CivilRights #FascistCults
The New Dark Age; #Trump's #War on #Knowledge
By destroying knowledge #Trumpists seek to make the #US more amenable to their #political #domination, & prevent meaningful #democratic #checks on their behavior
Their victory would do more than that. It would annihilate some of the most effective systems for aggregating, accumulating, & applying human knowledge that ever existed
Without those, it could find itself plunged into a new Dark Age
The “Invasion” Invention: The #FarRight’s Long #Legal Battle to Make #Immigrants the Enemy
The #Trump administration is using the claim that immigrants have “invaded” the country to justify possibly suspending #HabeasCorpus, part of the constitutional right to #DueProcess. A faction of the far right has been building this case for years.
#immigration #law #AlienEnemiesAct
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-administration-immigration-invasion-rhetoric-courts
Experts debunk Farage claim that scrapping #NetZero would save £40bn a year
#ReformUK leader claimed abandoning #climate-friendly policies would help fund his party’s commitments to ending 2-child benefit cap & bringing back Winter Fuel Payment for #OAPs
But his promises have been put under scrutiny, with Treasury civil servant saying the UK Government was spending “nothing on [the] scale” claimed by #Farage.
The Mask Slips; #Farage takes aim at #UK abortion policies
We have been warning you about this man & his links to American anti-abortion campaigners
Now the mask is slipping about what he would do.
https://www.thenational.scot/news/25195254.nigel-farage-brands-abortion-24-weeks-utterly-ludicrous/
The police officer quoted makes a good point. I also understand why the police quickly identified the arrested man (a Liverpudlian) and later confirmed that he had been charged with driving while under the influence of drugs. Given the riots that have been at least encouraged by misinformation on identity.
But this could come back to bite.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrbJ_PQw8e4
#BillBurr Goes OFF on Idiotic Americans CelebratingTrump's Tyrannical #ICE Raids
#AbolishICE #DueProcess #STOPAbductionsandRemovals #FascistUSA
#TimWalz #HabeasCorpus #RuleOfLaw
#farright #extrêmedroite #ClassWar #AntiEmpathyFarRight #BillionairesSUCK
*gasp*
You mean to tell me all those 'Free Speech Heroes' crying about being held to account for their words, oh sorry 'cancel culture', actually just wanted to silence everyone else?
This is such a surprise to me, who could have seen this coming? /s
Gen Z Reform voters who are sympathetic to Corbyn. Or, the jouissance of Nigel Farage
Usual caveats about vox pops apply but it’s really interesting if the sympathy of these Gen Z Reform voters to Corbyn is illustrative of a wider trend:
https://youtu.be/QVm8bcAEA2c?si=7mYfuFbRfXMZYaQf&t=599
I’ve been thinking recently about the jouissance of Nigel Farage. The example which stuck with me of this was his entrance to the Tory party conference in 2023, captured by Owen Jones below. He exudes cheerfulness and bonhomie, even with a hostile interviewer, against a backdrop of a Conservative collapse 
https://youtu.be/fAwcZK_Y6ro?si=4AEbP14Qp2NjQy4n&t=638
I don’t think we should underestimate how powerful this sense of enjoyment can be with young men suffering from what a growing TikTok conspiracy theory calls “the 2020 effect”: the emptying of colour of the world, the loss of vibrancy and life, since the pandemic for a generation who arguably were hardest hit by lockdown measures while being least at risk from infection. The TikTok phenomenon suggests a networked recovery of jouissance amongst young men, consolidating it seems around a radical right able and willing to mobilise them rather than an eviscerated centre-left which has no idea what to do with the power it has won by defenestrating the radical left.
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/the-2020-effect-feat-mike-rothschild-premium-e291-sample
Trump is ‘remarkably like’ 1930s far-right fascists, billionaire investor warns https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/27/ray-dalio-trump-policies-book-dictator #Trumpadministration #Farright(US) #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Business #USnews #Books
Ex-Reform councillor disliked having to watch what she says
Ms Edmunds also said she no longer has to “watch what I say” and so called for the jailed far right activist Tommy Robinson to be freed from jail, describing him as a “political prisoner”.
#Reform council abolishes flood committee in flood-prone area
#Lincolnshire #council has #abolished its #flooding committee on #ReformUK’s first day in charge.
That is despite Lincolnshire suffering some of the worst flooding in its history in both 2023 and 2024, with 900 homes affected, as well as further flooding in January this year.
https://informuk.org/reform-council-abolishes-flood-committee-in-flood-prone-area/
Reform’s phony war on #woke
#ReformUK wants to scrap anything with even a hint of ‘woke’ about it. Now that they run 10 councils, they have their opportunity.
There’s just one problem: they keep targeting schemes that just don’t exist – at least not outside the imagination of the /RightWing press.
Here are three times #Reform went to war with non-existent policies …
#Lancashire County #Council, one of 10 councils now run by Reform since 2025 local elections, appointed all-male cabinet
It's first time the council has had a cabinet that includes no #women
#ReformUK could have chosen any of their 9 Reform women #councillors
Reform UK’s new council leader Atkinson said (yes, this is a real quote)
“I’m sure that some of the ladies of the group will be useful in the future.”
https://informuk.org/reform-appoints-all-male-cabinet-in-lancashire/
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