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A former Proud Boys leader faces decades behind bars for his role in the U.S. Capitol riots. According to the Associated Press, Enrique Tarrio was convicted Thursday of co-orchestrating a plot to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election results. Prosecutors say the Florida man and members of his far-right extremist group had exchanged a series of […]
A bill has been reintroduced into the House of Representatives that challenges the standardized five-day/40-hour workweek. California Representative Mark Takano’s bill proposes making a four-day workweek a federal law. The mandate would create “a significant change which will increase the happiness of humankind,” per CNBC. In June 2021, the UK ran a trial bringing the four-day workweek to the forefront. […]
Richard Barnett, who will forever be known as the guy who was photographed putting his foot on former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s desk during the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, was found guilty on eight counts Monday. According to the New York Times, Barnett will be sentenced on May 3, where he faces up to 47 years in […]
A Virginia man was sentenced to five months in prison on Monday after pleading guilty to four misdemeanor counts last year in connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. According to WUSA, Antionne Brodnax, who goes by the rap name Bugzie the Don, took a photo of himself smoking a blunt while sitting atop an SUV seemingly […]
The founder of the Hawaii chapter of Proud Boys and another person were sentenced to four years in prison for their involvement in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. According to a news release from the Department of Justice, Nicholas Ochs, a 36-year-old Proud Boys leader from Honolulu, and Nicholas DeCarlo, a 32-year-old from Fort Worth, Texas, were sentenced […]
The man alleged to have broken into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home and assaulted her husband was potentially planning to stage similar attacks targeting others, sources claim in a new report. Monday, CBS News cited police sources as stating that the suspect in question, David Wayne DePape, had a list of potential future […]
Fresh off signing FN Meka, Capitol Records has cut ties with the virtual rapper following criticism about the A.I. project. “CMG has severed ties with the FN Meka project, effective immediately,” Capitol Music Group said in a statement provided to Complex. “We offer our deepest apologies to the Black community for our insensitivity in signing this […]
Virtual rapper FN Meka, who already has over 10 million followers on TikTok, has signed with Capitol Records and dropped a new single to celebrate. After making waves online with a series of independently-released singles and hyper-online visuals, FN Meka has teamed up with gaming influencer Cody “Clix” Conrod and Gunna for “Florida Water.” Produced […]
Guy Reffitt was sentenced on Monday to just over seven years in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, NBC News reports. Reffitt was found guilty in March on all five charges, including transport of a firearm in support of civil disorder and obstruction of an official proceeding. He was the first person […]
Donald Trump supporter Mark Ponder has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for assaulting police at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. As NBC News reports, Ponder was given a 63 month sentence in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan on Wednesday, tying him for the longest sentencing connected to the Capitol […]
