CNN: Gab has been taken offline following revelations that the suspected Pittsburgh synagogue gunman used the social network to threaten Jews. A statement on the platform’s website Monday said it would be “inaccessible for a period of time” after several web hosting services declined its business. Gab said it has also been removed from app stores and refused service by payment … Read More
Max Boot: Fox And Right Wing Media Is Reponsible
Boy, I am old enough to remember when Max Boot was a staple of the right wing media, at least in print. Back in the aughts, he famously wrote this bizarre defense of the War in Iraq: Yes, folks. The fact that we had bad intelligence relating to WMDs is a GOOD (not a BAD) pretext for starting a war … Read More
The Squirrel Hill Massacre And The Abhorrent White House Response
WaPo: Conspiracy theories are flourishing in America, from the Oval Office to the fever swamps of the Internet. They include the viral notion that the liberal 88-year-old billionaire George Soros, a Hungarian American Holocaust survivor, is funding the migrant caravan slowly making its way from Central America in the direction of the United States. It’s not true, but it has … Read More
Breaking: Bomber of 12 Trump Critics In Custody
WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal authorities have detained a person in connection with the mail-bomb scare that widened to 12 suspicious packages, a Justice Department official said Friday. Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores said authorities planned to announce more information at a press conference. Earlier Friday, authorities said suspicious packages addressed to New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker and former National Intelligence … Read More
Breaking: Bombs Sent To Soros, Clinton, Obama and CNN
But the “unruly mobs” are on the left, according to Trump Soros received a pipe bomb in the mail yesterday. This morning, it was reported that Clinton and Obama received one too. Then, about an hour ago, CNN offices in the Time Warner Building of New York (in Columbus Circle) were evacuated because they also received a bomb. In fact, … Read More
“Unite The Right 2” Weekend
A lot of ink and video was spilled this weekend covering the Unite The Right 2 event in DC and Charlottesville, one year after all the Nazis went to Charlottesville to have their tiki torch march. This year was pretty pathetic, as about 18 alt-right Nazis showed up in Washington, heavily protected by police against the literally thousands who went … Read More
Fox Prime Time Not Even Trying To Hide Racism Now
Ingraham basically blamed brown people for ruining the country she once loved. Her remarks bear more than a passing resemblance to the notorious white supremacist “14 Words” slogan about how “we must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” But Former KKK Grandwizard David Duke liked it, so…. But Ingraham’s blatantly racist sentiment has been expressed … Read More
Outing The Nazis
Pro Publica and Frontline (the PBS show) are doing some great work outing members of the extremist right who take part in rallies. Good for them. Today, they report on the discovery of another scum: For months, ProPublica and FRONTLINE have been working to identify the white supremacists at the center of violent demonstrations across the country, including the infamous Unite the Right rally … Read More
Abhorrent Actor Dropped By Agency
Fox News reports: James Woods has been dropped by his talent agent, and received the announcement in an email sent during the Fourth of July holiday. The Oscar-nominated actor shared a screenshot of the email with the subject line “Well…” on his personal Twitter account. The agent, Ken Kaplan, said that he’d come to the decision to no longer represent the … Read More
The Kids Are Alright
We have never seen victims in the wake of a horrible mass shooting strike back at inert politicians, including the president. We surely have never seen children call their elders to task and plan a massive march https://t.co/SRupjSXcj4 — Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) February 19, 2018 Wednesday, February 14, Valentines Day, 2018. Nikolaus Cruz, a troubled possible deranged right-wing gun nut, … Read More
Twitter To Finally Enforce Ban On Hate Speech
itter began enforcing new policies to combat hate speech and abusive behavior on the platform Monday, leading to the suspension of several accounts associated with white nationalism. As part of its new approach, Twitter says it will now start banning accounts that affiliate with groups “that use or promote violence against civilians to further their causes.” The company says that government entities are … Read More
The Republican Machine and Fox’s pro-Trump Hosts Are Working Hard To Discredit Robert Mueller
Yesterday left no doubt: Fox News and Trump Republicans are willing to destroy America’s institutions as long as it keeps them in power. It starts with Fox News. It starts with Sean Hannity, who’s hearing that special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is “illegitimate and corrupt.” That it’s led by a “band of merry Trump-haters” who are trying to reverse the … Read More
News Stories You Don’t Hear
More like this please: JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A 69-year-old Jacksonville man has been arrested for allegedly planning a mass shooting at an Islamic Center on St. Johns Bluff Road, according to several law enforcement agencies. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, along with the FBI of Jacksonville, started investigating in October Bernandino Gawala Bolatete after a source tipped JSO. The source told police … Read More
Today Feels Like A Test
I don’t know. Everything really is awful. Matt Lauer, long-standing host of the Today Show, was abruptly fired last night, after execs at NBC received notice of a credible claim of sexual harassment. This #MeToo reckoning, as I’ve said before, but it really is disappointing to see otherwise good people go down. Perhaps even more disappointing is that the only … Read More
The U.S Civil War-Slash-Revolution Starts Tomorrow (the Antifa Apocalypse)
What? You didn’t know?: If you are inside the “alt-right” information bubble, you might be preparing yourself for a civil war to commence this Saturday. Since late September, the idea has been circulating on Facebook groups, subreddit message boards, Twitter, and leading conspiracy media outlets that on 4 November, anti-fascist groups will begin a violent insurrection. Some websites are telling their readers … Read More