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Illinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald’s

The Kane County State’s Attorney’s office is considering hate crime charges, after a woman from Carpentersville, Illinois, says a group of strangers attacked her at a McDonald’s because she’s a lesbian. (…) Kady Grass suffered a broken nose, a hemorrhage on her eye, and PTSD after the attack at a McDonald’s in Carpentersville last week. “I genuinely think that their plan was to kill me, and that they didn’t care if they ended my life that day,” Grass said. Police arrested 19-year-old John Kammrad and a 17-year-old boy, and they both face several charges, including aggravated battery. Grass has said she went to the McDonald’s in Carpentersville with her 13-year-old cousin after his choir concert. A group of strangers started harassing her and using anti-gay slurs as she left the restroom. When she walked away, she said they followed. She told the strangers she is a lesbian and flicked her wrist at them. “How it started was because I’m a lesbian — just because I walked into the woman’s bathroom, and I looked the way I look,” Grass said. Police said two people attacked her. Grass said she lost consciousness during the attack. “I don’t remember them stomping on my head at all,” she said. Police said they have arrested John Kammrad, 19, and a 17-year-old boy, on several charges — including aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. The Kane County State’s Attorney’s office initially declined to issue hate crime charges, but on Wednesday said they are working with police to determine if hate crime charges are appropriate.

via cbsnews: Illinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald’s

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50 Trump crypto dinner invitees hold tokens linked to alt-right symbols and racist language

Fifty of the $TRUMP memecoin dinner invitees hold crypto assets named for Pepe the Frog, which is known as an alt-right symbol, as well as swastikas, a racial slur and references to anti-semitic ideology, according to an analysis by CREW, adding to concerns raised by the dinner, which represents a naked attempt by President Donald Trump to profit from his office. The dinner, promoted on the $TRUMP website as “[t]he most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World,” is scheduled to take place on May 22 at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia. The top 220 time-weighted holders of $TRUMP between April 23 and May 12 have won invitations to the event, pending background checks, and the top 25 of those will be granted additional access through an “exclusive reception” with the president before the dinner and a “VIP tour,” reportedly taking place at the White House. $TRUMP is hosted on Solana, one of several blockchains that allow users to mint and name their own coins. These highly volatile tokens, which tend to depreciate in value, often generate trader interest by referencing popular memes and cultural events. Many of the wallets ranked on the Trump leaderboard hold dozens of these so-called memecoins. The most wallets on the list, 45 in all, held assets named for Pepe the Frog as of May 12—the day winners were finalized—but holdings may have changed since they were analyzed

via citizensforethic: 50 Trump crypto dinner invitees hold tokens linked to alt-right symbols and racist language

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#Moldova extradites ‘#CommanderButcher’ neo-Nazi to US for planning mass #killings of #NewYork Jews – #terror

A neo-Nazi known as “Commander Butcher” is extradited from Moldova to the US for planning mass casualty attacks against Jewish New Yorkers. Michail Chkhikvishvili, a 21-year-old Georgian national, was arrested in July 2024 and charged with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence. Chkhikvishvili is a leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international, violent extremist group, the US Department of Justice says. Chkhikvishvili promotes neo-Nazi white supremacist ideology and instructed others to commit violence for ethnic cleansing, including an undercover FBI agent, leading to his arrest. Chkhikvishvili instructed the agent to use arson, explosives, poison and beatings against “low race targets,” including Jews. One of his schemes involved having an assailant dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poisoned candy to racial minorities. Earlier this year, Chkhikvishvili told the undercover agent to poison Jewish schools and Jewish children in Brooklyn. He sent the agent step-by-step instructions about creating poisons and gases.

via timesofisrael: Moldova extradites ‘Commander Butcher’ neo-Nazi to US for planning mass killings of New York Jews

siehe auch: Georgian ‘neo-Nazi’ accused of plotting hate crimes in NYC. Michail Chkhikvishvili targeted American children, the government says, and planned to have followers dress up as Santa Claus and hand out poison-laced candy to racial minorities. A 21-year-old man from the eastern European nation of Georgia recruited fellow white supremacists to carry out violent attacks, including a plot to poison children in New York City by dressing as Santa Claus, prosecutors said Friday following his extradition from Moldova.  “The defendant is a neo-Nezi extremist leader who has spent years soliciting gruesome attacks from his followers,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Reich said at Michail Chkhikvishvili’s arraignment Friday morning.  Over a period of two years Chkhikvishvili, a leader of the international extremist group Maniac Murder Cult, also known as “MKY,” rallied those who share his ideologies to attack racial minorities, Jewish people, the LGBTQ community and journalists, according to a government detention memo.  A 17-year-old student acting on behalf of MKY and at least one other group killed one person and injured another before taking his own life at Antioch High School in Nashville, Tennessee, in January 2025, the memo says. The shooter’s manifesto mentioned Chkhikvishvili by name and included references to MKY founder Yegor Krasnov, whose name the shooter said he would write on his own gun.  Chkhikvishvili, who calls himself “The Butcher,” distributed a manifesto called the “Hater’s Handbook” to MKY members and others, claiming he has “murdered for the white race” and encouraging others to commit violence and “ethnic cleansing” — specifically in the United States — via school shootings, using children to carry out suicide bombings, committing mass terror attacks and using vehicles to target festivals, parades and streets full of pedestrians. (…) In Telegram messages between the two, Chkhikvishvili told Welker he was working for an Orthodox Jewish family caring for a now-deceased family member in a rehabilitation facility. Chkhikvishvili sent Welker photographs of the patient in his hospital bed, the sentencing memo says, and bragged, “I get paid to torture dying jew // I think I almost killed him today actually // If he dies soon that’s killstrike on me.”; Georgian Man Extradited To US To Face Charges Related To Neo-Nazi ‘Murder Cult’. A Georgian national and alleged leader of a neo-Nazi group has been extradited from Moldova to the United States to face charges that he recruited people to commit violent crimes against Jews and other ethnic minorities in New York City, the US Justice Department said. Michail Chkhikvishvili, who goes by several aliases, including Commander Butcher and Mishka, was arraigned in federal court in New York on May 23 on multiple felonies. Prosecutors described Chkhikvishvili as a white supremacist who plotted the mass killing of children and others in minority communities using poison, suicide bombs, firearms, arson fires, and vehicle explosions. The 21-year-old from Tbilisi who was arrested last July in Moldova pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Samuel Gregory, who requested his client receive a psychiatric evaluation and be placed on suicide watch while in custody. Gregory did not return a message seeking comment, according to the Associated Press. Chkhikvishvili, described by prosecutors as the leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, recruited people, including on the Telegram messaging app, to commit violent acts to promote the group’s ideologies, including planning and soliciting a mass casualty attack in New York City, the Justice Department said in a news release. The Maniac Murder Cult, which also goes by several aliases, including Cult of Killing and MKY, is described as an “international racially motivated violent extremist group” that prosecutors said “adheres to a neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and promotes violence against racial minorities, the Jewish community and other groups it deems ‘undesirables.’” Prosecutors said the group’s activities inspired multiple attacks and killings around the world, including a school shooting this year in Nashville, Tennessee, that left a 16-year-old student dead. (…) Chkhikvishvili distributed a manifesto titled the Hater’s Handbook to members of the group in which he said he had “murdered for the white race,” according to the Justice Department. The handbook encourages and instructs others to commit acts of mass violence and “ethnic cleansing.” After traveling to Brooklyn, New York, in June 2022, Chkhikvishvili provided detailed plans and materials such as bomb-making instructions to a prospective member of the group who was in fact an undercover FBI employee; Neo-Nazi death cult leader arrested over plot to poison Jewish children with Christmas candy. The leader of an eastern European neo-Nazi group has been extradited to the US from Moldova to face charges of soliciting hate crimes after allegedly instructing an undercover agent to distribute poisoned candy to Jewish children while dressed as Santa Claus. Michail Chkhikvishvili, 21, originally from Georgia, was arraigned Friday in Brooklyn federal court on multiple felonies including soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence. He pleaded not guilty through his attorney, Samuel Gregory, who requested psychiatric evaluation and suicide watch for his client. Prosecutors identified Chkhikvishvili, also known as “Commander Butcher,” as leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, an international extremist group promoting neo-Nazi accelerationist ideology and violence against racial minorities, Jewish communities and others deemed “undesirables.” The group’s solicitations, promoted through Telegram channels and a manifesto called the “Hater’s Handbook,” appear to have inspired multiple killings including a Nashville school shooting this year that killed a 16-year-old student, prosecutors said; Neo-Nazi cult leader who plotted NYC attack on minorities using Santa costume hauled to US for justice. The leader of the neo-Nazi “Maniac Murder Cult,” who plotted to attack New York City on New Year’s Eve using a goon dressed as Santa Claus, was hauled to the US to face charges — as the feds said his hateful screeds succeeded in radicalizing Americans into committing violence. Georgian national Michail “Commander Butcher” Chkhikvishvili, 21, inspired “multiple senseless killings” around the world, including the deadly Antioch High School shooting in January — where a radicalized ROTC cadet gunned down a 16-year-old teen girl in Nashville, according to a letter from the Justice Department Friday. Prosecutors said that the Nashville shooter, 17-year-old Solomon Henderson, had proclaimed in audio recordings before the attack that he was “taking action on behalf of MKY” and had explicitly mentioned Chkhikvishvili by name. The feds also said that Chkhikvishvili was connected to a Turkey knife attack where a crazed Turkish teen wearing Nazi paraphernalia livestreamed himself stabbing five outside a mosque in August 2024. Chkhikvishvili, who was arrested last year in Moldova, was extradited to the US on Thursday — and pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Friday in Brooklyn Federal court on multiple felony counts, including solicitation of hate crime. In a 22-page criminal complaint, prosecutors detailed Chkhikvishvili’s role as a leader and recruiter within the “Maniac Murder Cult,” a Russia and Ukraine-based neo-Nazi group that promotes violence against racial minorities, Jewish people and other so-called “undesirables.”; Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack in New York City Friday, May 23, 2025 Share For Immediate Release Office of Public Affairs Leader of White Supremacist Group ‘Maniac Murder Cult’ Recruited Others to Bomb and Poison the Jewish Community and Racial Minorities  Defendant Allegedly Planned Scheme to Distribute Poisoned Candy on New Year’s Eve Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the Eastern District of New York charging him with soliciting hate crimes and acts of mass violence in New York City. According to court documents, Chkhikvishvili is a leader of the Maniac Murder Cult, also known as Maniacs Murder Cult, Maniacs: Cult of Killing, MKY, MMC and MKU, an international racially-motivated violent extremist group. As alleged in the indictment, Chkhikvishvili recruited people to commit violent acts in furtherance of MKY’s ideologies, including planning and soliciting a mass casualty attack in New York City. “This case is a stark reminder of the kind of terrorism we face today: online networks plotting unspeakable acts of violence against children, families, and the Jewish community in pursuit of a depraved, extremist ideology,” said Attorney General Pamela Bondi. “The Department of Justice will not tolerate hate-fueled violence, and we will pursue those who threaten innocent lives wherever they may be.”

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What Are People Still Doing on X?

Imagine if your favorite neighborhood bar turned into a Nazi hangout. This has been a banner month for X. Last week, the social network’s built-in chatbot, Grok, became strangely obsessed with false claims about “white genocide” in South Africa—allegedly because someone made an “unauthorized modification” to its code at 3:15 in the morning. The week prior, Ye (formerly Kanye West) released a single called “Heil Hitler” on the platform. The chorus includes the line “Heil Hitler, they don’t understand the things I say on Twitter.” West has frequently posted anti-Semitic rants on the platform and, at one point back in February, said he identified as a Nazi. (Yesterday on X, West said he was “done with antisemitism,” though he has made such apologies before; in any case, the single has already been viewed tens of millions of times on X.) (…) Specifically, it validates that X has become a political weapon in his far-right activism. (To be clear, white farmers have been murdered in South Africa, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates, according to Reuters. But there is no indication of a genocide. In 2024, eight of the 26,232 murders nationwide were committed against farmers. Most murder victims there are Black.) This has been obvious to anyone using the site or paying attention to Musk’s managerial decisions. He’s reinstated thousands of banned accounts (QAnon supporters and conspiracy theorists, and at least one bona fide neo-Nazi), and the platform is engorged with low-rent outrage porn, bigoted memes, MAGA AI slop, and, well, a lot of people proudly using racial slurs, frequently to attack other people. The platform’s defenders would likely argue that X is an experiment in free-speech maximalism and that it is one of the only truly neutral zones on social media. Musk and his sycophants have constantly cited his takeover as an attempt to “solve free speech”; Joe Rogan has suggested that Musk has done just that. (This isn’t quite accurate, as X has complied with government takedown requests, temporarily suspended journalist accounts, amplified accounts that promote Musk’s worldview, and tried to censor words its owner doesn’t like: Last year, it briefly warned users who attempted to use the word cisgender in posts, after Musk said he considers it a “slur.”)

via theatlantic: What Are People Still Doing on X?

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Outrage as Trump’s Pentagon promotes staffer who pushed ‘neo-Nazi’ theories Matthew Chapman

The Department of Defense has promoted one of its most controversial communications staffers, Kingsley Wilson, to serve as the agency’s press secretary, Jewish Insider reported. “The Office of the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs is announcing that Kingsley Wilson will serve as Press Secretary for the Department of Defense,” top Pentagon adviser Sean Parnell announced on X. “Kingsley’s leadership has been integral to the DoD’s success & we look forward to her continued service to President Trump!” Wilson has come under fire in the past for virulently antisemitic comments, including conspiracy theories against a Jewish lynching victim whose cause helped found the Anti-Defamation League. (…) “It’s worse than you think,” wrote Rolling Stone’s Noah Shachtman, posting information on how Wilson not only pushed antisemitic conspiracy theories but also praised Confederate general Robert E. Lee and pushed the white nationalist “great replacement theory.” “Kingsley Wilson, a deputy press secretary at the DOD who has come under fire for promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories, has been promoted to serve as the department’s press secretary,” wrote the Republicans Against Trumpism account. “Wilson has also called Confederate General Robert E. Lee ‘one of the greatest Americans to ever live.'” “Kingsley Wilson is set to become the Press Secretary for the Department of Defense,” wrote NPR correspondent Tom Dreisbach. “The American Jewish Committee and other Jewish civil rights groups heavily criticized Wilson for posting ‘antisemitic conspiracy theories lifted right out of the neo-Nazi playbook.'”

via rawstories: Outrage as Trump’s Pentagon promotes staffer who pushed ‘neo-Nazi’ theories Matthew Chapman

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#Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn – #terror

Coming changes at the state department follow pattern of moving resources away from programs that focus on preventing far-right violence Tess Owen Sat 24 May 2025 13.00 CEST Share US state department employees recently opened up their emails to find a PDF to their new “style guide”, which dictates what language and terminology they can and can’t use. According to this new updated guide, the term “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremism”– “REMVE” or “RMVE” – was now banned, except in situations where they were legally compelled to use it. While style guide updates in government agencies that tinker with acronyms between administrations are not unusual, the document did not yet propose an alternative term for the threat from the violent far right. Current and former state department officials told the Guardian that this was just one reason why they are concerned about how seriously the Trump administration will take the ongoing threat from white supremacists at home and abroad. Over the last six years, the state department caught up to European partners by recognizing the transnational threat posed by the radical far right – after decades of laser focus on jihadist terrorism. In January, one week before Donald Trump returned to the White House, the state department took action against the white supremacist collective Terrorgram, designating it as a foreign terrorist organization and linking it to a shooting at an LGBTQ+ bar in Slovakia, a knife attack at a mosque in Turkey and a planned attack on energy facilities in New Jersey. It was the third “racially or ethnically motivated violent extremist” group to ever face terrorist designation or sanctions from the state department. First was the Russian Imperial Movement in 2020, and later the neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance in 2024. In addition to the new ban on using language to refer to the threat of white supremacists, last month Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, unveiled a plan for huge cuts at the state department, which would result in the elimination of more than a hundred offices and about 700 jobs – including those whose portfolios include racially motivated violent extremism. Among the offices on the chopping block is the Office for Countering Violent Extremism, or “CVE”, which works on identifying root causes of radicalization and extremism to prevent terrorist attacks before they happen. CVE began looking at international white supremacist terrorism around 2019. Now, that threat accounts for about a third of their work. Rubio said in his announcement of the plan that the current state department was “beholden to a radical political ideology”. The coming changes at the state department follow a pattern of moving resources away from programs that work on the threat of the far right since Trump took office. In March, the FBI scaled back an office that was focused on domestic extremism. The FBI’s joint terrorism taskforces, which investigated domestic and international terrorist threats, were redirected to assist in the president’s immigration enforcement operations. Meanwhile, offices at the Department of Homeland Security, similar to the state department’s CVE, which worked on threat prevention, including from the far right, have also seen cuts and funding for grants has been terminated.

via guardian: Trump administration is minimizing white supremacist threat, officials warn

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#Brandenburg – Mutmaßlich rechtsextremer Angriff auf alternatives Hausprojekt in #Cottbus – #terror

Ein alternatives Hausprojekt in Cottbus ist mutmaßlich von einer Gruppe Rechtsextremisten angegriffen worden. Wie die Polizeidirektion Süd am Samstag mitteilte, sollen etwa fünf, teilweise vermummte Personen am späten Freitagabend Böller und Leuchtfackeln gezündet sowie verfassungsfeindliche Parolen gerufen haben. Zudem sei die Haustür und Fassade des Hauses beschädigt worden. Verletzt wurde niemand. Der Staatsschutz ermittelt gegen Unbekannt wegen Landfriedensbruch. Nach Darstellung des Hausprojektes “Zelle79” riefen die Täter unter anderem “Adolf Hitler Hooligans” und warfen pyrotechnische Fackeln in den Hinterhof und auf das Gebäude, wie der Evangelische Pressedienst (EPD) berichtet. Einer der Brandsätze habe einen lokalen Brand im Hinterhof ausgelöst, den Hausbewohner löschten. Die Polizei sei etwa 20 Minuten nach dem Angriff eingetroffen, heißt es in einer Pressemitteilung.   Ricarda Budke, Sprecherin der “Initiative Sichere Orte Südbrandenburg”, erklärte am Samstag: “Es handelt sich um einen gezielten Einschüchterungsversuch durch organisierte rechte Strukturen.” Der Vorfall reihe sich ein in eine wachsende Zahl rechter Angriffe in Südbrandenburg, unter anderem auf Jugendclubs in Spremberg und Senftenberg sowie auf das Kulturhaus Altdöbern.

via tagesschau: Brandenburg Mutmaßlich rechtsextremer Angriff auf alternatives Hausprojekt in Cottbus

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