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Gripped by a pandemic, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis

Gripped by a pandemic, unemployment and outrage at the police, America plunges into crisis

The Washington Post reports: A global pandemic has now killed more than 100,000 Americans and left 40 million unemployed in its wake. Protests — some of them violent — have once again erupted in spots across the country over police killings of black Americans. President Trump, meanwhile, is waging a war against Twitter, attacking his political rivals, criticizing a voting practice he himself uses and suggesting that looters could be shot. America’s persistent political dysfunction and racial inequality were laid…

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Ohio white nationalist arrested for threatening to shoot up Jewish community center

Ohio white nationalist arrested for threatening to shoot up Jewish community center

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ABC News reports: An Ohio man has been arrested for making threats toward a local Jewish community center in New Middletown. James Reardon Jr., 20, has been charged with telecommunications harassment and aggravated menacing and is being held in the Mahoning County Jail on $250,000 bond with a court hearing planned for Monday morning. On Friday, the FBI Violent Crimes Task Force raided Reardon’s house and seized a cache of weapons and ammunition, including dozens of round of ammo, multiple…

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Echoes of al Qaeda: Neo-Nazi group, ‘The Base,’ training fellow white supremacists

Echoes of al Qaeda: Neo-Nazi group, ‘The Base,’ training fellow white supremacists

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Vice News reports: A neo-Nazi group focused on providing paramilitary-style training to far-right extremists has been conducting a massive recruitment drive and claims to have already conducted live-fire training with its members. The Base, which is connected to extreme-right groups the Atomwaffen Division and the Feuerkrieg Division, has been promoting its growth on social media with photos announcing its presence in major cities across North America, including New York, Los Angeles, and Seattle, and in Europe, South Africa, and Australia….

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This is what Latinos think everyone got wrong about El Paso

This is what Latinos think everyone got wrong about El Paso

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Adrian Carrasquillo writes: As a reporter, I’ve talked to immigration activists for the better part of a decade. They don’t often cry, at least not in front of me. But all day on Sunday, the day after the shooting in El Paso, hardened advocates became emotional while explaining what it’s like to live in the United States after a killer drove 10 hours to kill Mexicans, Latinos and immigrants. The next day I still felt restless after a conversation with…

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When women are the enemy: The intersection of misogyny and white supremacy

When women are the enemy: The intersection of misogyny and white supremacy

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ABC News reports: Many questions remain in the motivations of the man who allegedly committed a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, last weekend, leaving nine dead before responding officers shot him to death. But officials briefed on the investigation told ABC News the suspected shooter demonstrated a misogyny that was far more extreme than any of his political leanings. In that, he follows a bleak pattern among mass shooters. “There are red flags,” Jacquelyn Campbell of the Johns Hopkins University…

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Why racism is at the heart of America’s gun inaction

Why racism is at the heart of America’s gun inaction

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Jonathan Metzl says: So many aspects of American gun culture are really entwined with whiteness and white privilege. Carrying a gun in public has been coded as a white privilege. Advertisers have literally used words like “restoring your manly privilege” as a way of selling assault weapons to white men. In colonial America, landowners could carry guns, and they bestowed that right on to poor whites in order to quell uprisings from “Negroes” and Indians. John Brown’s raid was about…

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White supremacists look to remake the map of America

White supremacists look to remake the map of America

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Casey Michel reports: When Dylann Roof, the white supremacist terrorist behind the 2015 Charleston massacre, issued his manifesto, he did so with a specific vision of America in mind. To Roof’s mind, the United States was his country — a white man’s nation, worth reclaiming through horrid bloodshed, done in the name of racial supremacy. To Roof, white supremacists could still conquer their country, even if they made up only a fraction of the population. Ideas that white people in…

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Norway mosque attack suspect ‘inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings’

Norway mosque attack suspect ‘inspired by Christchurch and El Paso shootings’

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The Guardian reports: The suspected gunman in an attack on a mosque in Norway on Saturday was inspired by recent white extremist attacks in New Zealand and the US, online posts suggest. Police in Norway have so far only said the attack in Baerum, a town 20km from Oslo, the capital, will be investigated as a possible act of terrorism. In messages posted on the day of the attack, Philip Manshaus, a 21-year-old man who has been named by local…

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White supremacist terrorism: Attacks thwarted in Florida and Nevada

White supremacist terrorism: Attacks thwarted in Florida and Nevada

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ABC News reports: A Florida white supremacist has been arrested for threatening a shooting at a Walmart just days after 22 people were killed at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, in one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s modern history. Richard Clayton, 26, was arrested by Florida Department of Law Enforcement authorities on Friday in Winter Park after making an online threat last week, according to police. On Aug. 6, Clayton allegedly posted on Facebook, “3 more…

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