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Days after a group of people dressed in clothing reminiscent of Nazi brownshirts drove a rented box truck displaying hateful messages down Santa Monica Boulevard in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, a watchdog group is speaking out against the incident and says it has identified the hate group and two of its members.

According to StopAntisemitism, an organization that works to expose people and groups that engage in antisemitic behavior, the group responsible for Saturdays incident is the Goyim Defense League.

The organization also named two people who were captured on video participating in the hateful rally: Jon Minadeo II and Robert Frank Wilson.

We are horrified that innocent bystanders in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood, Jewish and otherwise, were subjected to such vile and atrocious hate, Liora Rez, executive director of StopAntisemitism, told The Times on Monday. When white supremacists like the Goyim Defense League are allowed to spread this type of vile bigotry without any pushback, then it normalizes Jew hatred and sends the message that this is tolerable.

Neither Beverly Hills police nor the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department, which responded to the incident, have identified the group or any participants.

StopAntisemitism said it identified the two men based off of physical appearance.

The group also said the antisemitic messaging on the truck has been noted in prior incidents involving the hate group, including in March when Wilson was seen driving in San Diego in a similar truck.

The GDL has also been responsible for passing around antisemitic fliers as well as hanging signs with hate-filled rhetoric on freeway overpasses, StopAntisemitism said.

Sheriffs Sgt. Joana Warren told The Times on Sunday that investigators identified the trucks license plate and were working to identify who rented it.

A Sheriffs Department spokesperson told The Times on Monday that the incident remains under investigation and said she couldnt share any more information.

The Goyim Defense League is a loose network of individuals connected by their virulent antisemitism, according to the Anti-Defamation League. The group includes five or six primary organizers/public figures, dozens of supporters and thousands of online followers.

It was responsible for at least 74 antisemitic propaganda incidents in 2021, the Anti-Defamation League said.

According to an account of Saturdays incident by StopAntisemitism, the truck was parked in the driveway of the Beverly Hilton hotel, where Minadeo, Wilson and two other members of the hate group dressed in clothing resembling that of the brownshirts in Nazi Germany were seen parading and shouting The Nazis are coming and here comes Jew boy ... were going to make you go extinct.

Another video captures an encounter between the group and a law enforcement officer, StopAntisemitism said. A member of the hate group says Holocaust denial ... 6 million, thats an exaggeration.

The person then thanks the officer, calling him a good goy, StopAntisemitism said.

The truck bore hate-filled messages such as Ann Coulter was right about Jews and Resisting the Great Replacement = Greatest Threat?

The so-called great replacement conspiracy theory is a racist philosophy espoused by white nationalists.

FBI statistics show that Jews continue to be the most targeted minority in the U.S. and that antisemitic crimes are on the rise, Rez said.

Yet, Jews are often overlooked when discussing issues of civil rights and social justice because they are categorized as a model class minority and are inaccurately portrayed as a privileged group, she said. Hateful individuals, both among fringe groups but also in the mainstream, then use this perception as an excuse to attack Jews.

The privileged perception of Jewish people leads to antisemitism not drawing the same level of attention as discrimination against other groups, Rez said, adding that her organization is working to ensure that antisemitism is given equal attention and combatted with the same level of fervor.

The lack of fear that white supremacists have should be frightening to everyone, she said.

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UPDATE: The Baton Rouge Police Department says that at least three to four juveniles have been arrested for a separate crime but are being investigated for potentially being connected to the armed robberies in the Garden District.

The police want residents to stay vigilant and alert to any suspicious activity.

ORIGINAL STORY: BATON ROUGE, La. (BRPROUD) Residents in the Garden District are looking over their shoulders after a string of robberies.

I couldnt believe it was only two houses down and across the street from me, said Kristen Macmurdo, a Garden District resident.

Marty Johnson says she saw shocking videos on her Nextdoor app. She says one of her neighbors was robbed and then beaten. She saw others being robbed at gunpoint.

I never thought we would experience this in this neighborhood, said Johnson. Its personal when you cant even leave your house and get into your car safely.

The Baton Rouge Police Department says the suspects are believed to be young Black males carrying weapons. They may be driving a white or a maroon car. Neighbors say several cars have been stolen.

Resident Christine Kooi says she witnessed people trying to leave the neighborhood after a robbery. She says crime often picks up in the summer, but never like this.

It was a white Toyota with a loose front bumper tearing down Cherokee Street towards Park. As the car got to Park, it stopped and a couple of guys jumped out and fiddled with the front bumper, she said.

Garden District Civic Association member Michael Helms says the board is working closely with BRPD. Helms says this neighborhood is in shock because they rarely see crime.

We are gathering information and passing it out to them (BRPD), said Helms. And then also reaching out to our community members, giving them somebody to talk to about their concerns.

Some long-time residents are calling on city-parish leaders to focus more on education and gun control in order to reduce crime.

I think we need a lot more strict requirements for anybody to have a weapon, said Ann Coulter, a Garden District resident.

Residents say they are hopeful police are doing their job. And in the meantime, they are taking it upon themselves to take an extra step to stay safe.

My husband and I went to dinner last night, the first thing we did when we got home was turn on our brights and look in the bushes because at this point, you know, we dont know, said Macmurdo.

Anyone having information on these robberies is urged to contact the Baton Rouge Police Department at 225-389-2000 or Crime Stoppers at 225-344-7867.

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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is predicting the end of Donald Trump's hegemony in the GOP, saying the former president "is done."

"Trump is done," Coulter, a onetime Trump booster turned critic, wrote in an email to The New York Times. "You guys should stop obsessing over him."

Coulter's comments came in an article published in the Times on Sunday about the mounting tensions between Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) amid speculation of a potential showdown for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

While DeSantis has so far sought to tamp down rumors that he's angling for a possible White House bid, his rise within the GOP and growing national profile have irked Trump, who sees the Florida governor as owing his political success to him.

Trump has privately griped about DeSantis's refusal to publicly commit to foregoing a 2024 run if the former president chooses to mount another bid for the White House.

But Trump has also begun to sharpen his stance on DeSantis publicly. In an interview with a South Florida radio host last month, Trump appeared to issue a challenge to the Florida governor, saying that he would beat DeSantis in a 2024 primary if he decided to run.

"If he wanted to run, that's OK with me," Trump said. "I think we'd win by a lot."

Trump also appeared to take a swipe at DeSantis during a recent interview with the conservative One America News Network in which he slammed politicians who won't say whether they received a COVID-19 booster shot as "gutless." DeSantis has repeatedly dodged questions about his booster status.

Coulter pounced on Trump over those comments in a tweet last week calling the former president a "liar and con man."

"EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis's booster status, and I can now reveal it," Coulter wrote. "He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up."

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Elon Musks mother, the model Maye Musk. Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images for The Hollywood Reporter

It used to be easy to find Manhattans media machers in the middle of the day. They gathered at the Four Seasons restaurant, the one that was designed by Philip Johnson well before opinions were revised against him and divvied up the known world of print and cable TV. There they would hire and fire and strike deals, and Keith Kelly would write it all up for the next days paper. (The matre d Julian Niccolini since disgraced seemed to know all.) This place is where the term power lunch is said to have originated; its what Jackie O. called the cathedral.

So it made sense that, a decade ago, the Hollywood Reporter would choose the space to throw its annual party for its New York issue, in which it would name the biggest big shots in New York media. People like Donald Trump and Jeff Zucker would attend. But by then, the Four Seasons was arguably in decline, and the Establishment media had its lunch eaten by the Internet. Seeking to spruce it up, its landlord, Aby Rosen, hired a new team to run it in 2016 and renamed it the Pool and the Grill (the Four Seasons took its name and relocated but didnt last too long).

Now the party is back, celebrating the most powerful people in media. Whatever that means these days. Piled high atop high-top tables were copies of the magazine, which names the 35 most powerful people. Its mostly a lineup of cable-news personalities and a few newspaper editors. The guest list cast a wider net to include Cindy Adams, Geraldo Rivera, and other power emeriti. The party was swell, but lets be real there are teenagers on TikTok who command more loyal eyeballs than anybody here. The only person on TV with any real power is Tucker Carlson, and he wasnt on the list or at the party.

There was Gayle King (on the list) and Savannah Guthrie (on the list) and Hoda Kotb (on) and Don Lemon (on). And the Semafor Smiths. (On, on.) Also Charlamagne tha God (on). He refused to talk to me, and his publicist swooped in, which didnt seem very powerful, much less godlike. We can send you a quote later, she promised. (Weak!) Stephanie Ruhle (not on the list) of MSNBC was there. Whats the most powerful thing she did today? Walked my daughter to school, she said.

Hey, look, its Tina Brown! She was not on the list, but she knew this place when media power meant something, and being a print warlord meant bottomless AmExes and subsidized housing.This is where Princess Diana wore her jade green Chanel suit to have lunch with Brown and Anna Wintour (on the list, not at the party) in the booth next to the one that belonged to Henry Kissinger. And isnt this where, over fish, Brown tried to convince David Remnick (on the list) to leave the Washington Post and come write for The New Yorker? This was where I wooed many a person to come join The New Yorker, as a matter of fact, she recalled while standing beside the book agent David Kuhn, who used to be one of her editors at the magazine. Who does she think is the actual most powerful person in media? Elon Musk. (Not on the list.)

Blowing into the room just beyond Brown was a blonde hurricane in the form of Candace Bushnell (not on the list) and Ann Coulter (not on the list), arriving separately but at the same time. Primary voters were hitting the polls in Pennsylvania, and so I asked Coulter: Isnt it so funny how all these people who sold their soul for Trump Dina Powell, Hope Hicks, Kellyanne Conway, Mike Pompeo are working to elect David McCormick, and yet Trump disses them all by stumping for McCormicks opponent instead? She chuckled and said, He just keeps running in front of the parade and pretends to be leading it. What Kathy Barnette said is 100 percent true, and every Republican should get it tattooed on his forearm, and that is, We didnt get MAGA from you, you got it from us. She had just flown in from Palm Beach, and shes all about Ron DeSantis. But its hard to get elected president if you dont seem fun to have a beer with see: Gore, Hillary, Romney and DeSantis seems like a miserable prick, I said. We dont think so in Florida, said Coulter, who actually has had a beer with him. Its the free state! He said go to the beach, go biking, no mask requirements. Thats kind of a fun thing while you people were having to pull out vaccine cards, and you still have to walk through airports with masks on in this insane state.

Who did Coulter think was the most powerful person in the room? The woman who gave birth to the most important man in the universe, she said, pointing toward Maye Musk, mother of Elon.

She was rocking Dior shoes and a Dior bag and was listening intently as Joanna Coles (not on the list; but she runs her own media power lunch, okay?) told her how much she loves owning a Tesla. This week, Maye became the oldest person to appear on the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit issues cover. (Shes 74; a decade ago, she was on the cover of New York Magazine, fake pregnant.) How has the reaction been? Funny enough, everybody is excited and loves it, she said with a laugh. I was looking to see if anybody would say old hag, but nobody has.

Is there anyone here who is more powerful than her son? Hes not in media, she deflected. Whats going to happen with his Twitter takeover? She shrugged. Isnt it interesting, though, how the media the people in this room hate on her son constantly in their coverage? People love him, she said, and the media, yes, if the fossil-fuel industry advertises, you have to hate him. Ooh, theres a drink for me! Someone handed her a margarita.

Maye Musk meets Ann Coulter. Photo: Shawn McCreesh

Fellow models Brooke Shields and Carol Alt prowled the room, while restaurateurs Drew Nieporent and Sean MacPherson stood by the bar (none were on the list). Also there was Michael, the nice matred from Michaels, also not listed. Just beside Samantha Barry, editor of Glamour (not on the list), was the writer Jay McInerney (not on the list). He sipped a Negroni and said he thinks Elon is fucking batshit and that hes lost his fucking mind if he thinks unedited discourse is the way to go. But, he added, I like his mom a lot.

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Im Art Kumbalek and man oh manischewitz what a world, aina? So listen, here we are past the middle of May already and Im too depressed to whip out an essay for yous this week. Im ready for fall. What with the high heat and stupidity hovering just past the springtime horizon, its all I can do to get up over by the Uptowner tavern/charm school, where I can take a good gander at my options and enjoy a nice cocktail. Come along if youd like, but you buy the first round.

Julius: I heard that the crowd outside the Fiserv Forum last Friday had a higher shooting percentage than the Bucks had inside the forum.

Little Jimmy Iodine: Really? Cripes, thats no way to win a championship.

Emil: Any of yous guys hear about Eddie Brzylicki? Age 68. Natural causes. Died. In his sleep.

Ray: Hey, put me down for one of those, what the fock.

Herbie: Yes sir, natural is the way to go in each and every way, I hear. Jeez louise, every other goddamn TV ad begs you to buy this or that cause its natural; so this or that has just got to be gosh darn good for you cause its natural, you bet. No artificial substitute, please, like cancer, hit by a bus, gunshot. Got to be natural.

Ernie: And I figure that dying in or during your sleep, of natural causes, is also a financially sound way to bid adieuto say aloha, all before a boatload of MRIs, PET scans, CAT scans, X-rays, chemotherapy, lying in a ho$pital bed puking sick for weeks, sends you to bankruptcy and the poor house from the bills from the crappy or nonexistent health insurance bullshit. Yeah, Ill take the focking natural croak in my sleepcuts costs, I figure. Ha! Take that, you focking HMOs.

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Little Jimmy Iodine: I wonder if the public will learn anything from some kind of government House Intelligence subcommittee hearings on UFOs that they got going now for the first time in 50 years.

Emil: You betcha. For starters, Id like to know if they had torture on the Star Trek Enterprise that we never learned about.

Ernie: You talk like a sausage, Emil. Of course they wouldve had to what-you-call torture at some point. Listen, youre on a five-year mission for the United Federation of Planets to explore strange, new worlds and every time you turn around, all youre getting is some-kind-of shit from space aliens whose only purpose in the universe is to fock you up; and not in a good way.

Julius: Sounds logical. I can imagine that while the Captain Quirk and that pointy-eared Nimrod whats-his-name are shoveling their dime-store philosophy in front of the cameras up on the bridge of the ship, deep in the bowels are a couple-three beefy redshirt uncredited crew members kicking the ever-loving crap out of some three-eyed squishy-headed piece-of-work from the planet Upyerz II, cause theyre trying to get this pus-bag to fess up to messing with one of those bullshit crystals focking Scotty was always whining about, aina?

Little Jimmy Iodine: Hey, Artie! Over here. Put a load on your keister.

Art: Hey gents. What do you hear, what do you know.

Emil: I hear there was torture on the Star Trek Enterprise.

Art: If the Geneva Convention covered acting, I suppose a William Shatner line-reading could be construed as ag- ainst the rule s.

Little Jimmy: He always did seem a little wooden, aina?

Ray: He was the only actor on that show who didnt go to make-up before a scene. They used varnish instead.

Ernie: I watched some old Star Trek movies last weekend cause its been a while, so what the fock. Remember Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan?

Herbie: Fockin-A. Thats the one where Ricardo Montalban with long hair looks like that Marjorie Taylor Greene with big knockers, aina?

Julius: No. I thought he looked more like the other Republican bitch-harpy, Ann Coulter, but with bigger knockers.

Ray: De ship! De ship! Yeah, TVs Mr. Roarke with the hair and a set of jugs, por favor, not my kind of fantasy. But Ill tell yous, if Trumpel-thinskin decides not to run for president and chief grifter again, maybe he can get cast as the bad guy in a Star Trek movie called The Wrath of Con.

Art: I never saw that Khan movie cause its like Groucho said, he never went to a picture where the leading mans tits were bigger than the leading ladys.

Ernie: Doesnt it always seem like the futures here before you know it and when it shows up, its like big focking deal?

Julius: You got a point, Ernie. There was that movie, 2001: Space something-or-another that was actually made in 1968. So what the fock, its 2022 now and we still havent stepped on another planet?

Emil: Youre full of a crap. I seem to recall that as a species weve been to the moon, have we not, Mr. Einstein?

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Ernie: Fock the moon. All those millions and millions of dollars spent so a couple, three flyboys could knock a golf ball around a place that looks just like the middle of Nevada but without all the gambling and legalized prostitution. Like I said: Big focking deal.

Little Jimmy: The future has always been hard to figure for mankind. Again, like Groucho said: Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.

Herbie: And dont forget, about mans yearning for knowledge of his place in the universe, Groucho said: Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark to read.

(Hey, its getting late and I know you got to go, but thanks for letting us bend your ear, cause Im Art Kumbalek and I told you so.)

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