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Jan 18 2022
News
Texas Synagogue Attack
“A British man who flew to the US, acquired a gun and took hostages at a Texas synagogue had a criminal record and an extensive history of mental health issues… Malik Faisal Akram, a 44-year-old from Blackburn, was killed after a tense 11-hour hostage standoff at the Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in the Dallas suburb of Colleyville on Saturday evening. All four hostages survived the siege
The Flip SideNov 27 2022
News
Amid Fallout From Mar-A-Lago Dinner, Trump Now Calls Ye A 'Seriously Troubled Man'
Just days after dining at Mar-a-Lago with Ye — the rapper previously known as Kanye West — and white supremacist political activist Nick Fuentes, Donald Trump is calling Ye a “seriously troubled man.”
It was Trump’s third attempt on Truth Social to backpedal from his hugely controversial meeting last Tuesday with Holocaust denier Fuentes and Ye, whose antisemitic messages (in which he
HuffPostMay 16 2022
Analysis
A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.
Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a history of antisemitic internet posts gunned down 11 worshipers, blaming Jews for allowing immigrant “invaders” into the United States.
The next year, another white man, angry over what he called “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” opened fire on shoppers at an El Paso Walmart, leaving 23 people dead, and later telling the police
New York Times (News)Dec 06 2022
News
WH Spokeswoman: Twitter Files Are a 'Distraction...Old News'; 'It's Not Healthy'
Was it "appropriate" for Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story ahead of the 2020 election?
A reporter asked that question at Monday's White House press briefing, three days after Twitter owner Elon Musk released information showing that Twitter executives decided to suppress the Hunter Biden story for supposedly violating its "hacked materials" policy. But the story, published
CNSNews.comDec 07 2022
Opinion
Trump Is Unraveling Before Our Eyes, but Will It Matter?
In the weeks immediately surrounding the midterm elections, Donald Trump called for the “termination” of constitutional rule, openly embraced the conspiratorial QAnon movement, pledged support for the Jan. 6 rioters and hosted, over dinner at Mar-a-Lago, the white supremacist Nicholas Fuentes and Ye (once known as Kanye West), both of whom are prominent antisemites.
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New York Times (Opinion)Oct 17 2022
News
Kanye West plans to acquire Parler
Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, plans to acquire Parler, a Twitter-like social media app that has become a haven for conservatives.
Why it matters: In a statement, Ye said he's buying the platform to ensure people with conservative opinions "have the right to freely express ourselves" online.
Earlier this month, Ye's Instagram and Twitter accounts were restricted in response to
AxiosDec 06 2022
News
Musk's 'Twitter Files,' revealing censorship of Hunter Biden laptop story, is a 'distraction, White House says
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Monday dismissed Elon Musk’s release of the so-called "Twitter Files" as a "distraction" at a time when she says the platform is facing a rise in hate speech.
The exchange came days after Musk, who acquired Twitter in late October, released bombshell revelations about what led the tech giant to suppress a New York Post story on Hunter
Fox BusinessDec 19 2022
Opinion
Welcome, Tentatively, to the Resistance
Welcome, tentatively, to the resistance.
It took half a dozen years, but large parts of the Republican establishment—elected Republicans, wealthy donors, the Murdoch media empire (Fox News, the Wall Street Journal editorial page, and the New York Post), and right-wing websites,radio-talk-show hosts, columnists, and commentators—have finally turned on Donald Trump. Some are more direct
The AtlanticNov 30 2022
Analysis
Trump’s dinner disaster sparks new rules for his campaign
Donald Trump is betting he can win his way back to the White House by reviving the outsider appeal that fueled his success in 2016.
But his dinner with a Holocaust-denying white nationalist and a rapper who has spewed antisemitic conspiracies is demonstrating the risks of that approach. It underscores the dangers of his limited campaign operation and leaves the former president subject
Associated PressDec 29 2022
Analysis
The best, worst, and just plain dumb of American politics in 2022
From the State of the Union to the midterm elections, Vox’s politics team has noted many political winners and losers throughout 2022.
With the year almost in the rearview, we want to take a moment to single out some of the most noteworthy achievements by current and aspiring public servants, and revisit some of their biggest flops and failures. Here are the best, worst, and weirdest
Vox