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If it seems like there are more hate crimes now than ever, that’s because it’s true. New data released by the FBI Tuesday indicates a 17 percent increase in hate crimes reported—and that’s just for 2017. Tellingly, nearly 60 percent of those hate...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 11:30 AM PST
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Samuel Moyn, professor of law and history at Yale has an must-read opinion piece in the NY Times today:
The Alt-Right’s Favorite Meme Is 100 Years Old
‘Cultural Marxism’ might sound postmodern but it’s got a long, toxic history.
If you...
by xaxnar
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on Tue Nov 13, 2018 at 05:33 AM PST
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It is little more than a week now since everything changed for our America’s Jewish people. The worst anti-semitic hate crime in our country’s history occurred Saturday before last. A gunman massacred eleven people who were worshiping in the Tree of...
by Sara R
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on Wed Nov 07, 2018 at 04:06 PM PST
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Republicans have, by complete coincidence, come up with the same image for ads about Democratic candidates who happen to be Jewish in races large and small across the country.
No. It’s not exactly that image. But it’s something remarkable...
by Mark Sumner
55 comments
on Tue Nov 06, 2018 at 11:05 AM PST
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Ann Coulter is a conservative, and she is a liar — but I repeat myself. However, she is a sophisticated liar. Unlike Trump, who says whatever he wants, safe in the knowledge his base will never fact-check anything, Coulter strives for credibility by...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 02:24 PM PST
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Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King’s 2016 margin of victory was more than 20 points, but in the middle of a tough election year for Republicans and new attention to King’s white supremacist leanings, recent polls say he’s facing a tight race. So King is...
by Laura Clawson
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on Mon Nov 05, 2018 at 09:34 AM PST
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At BuzzFeed , Emily Tamkin probes how billionaire George Soros became the subject of conservative anger, then anti-Semitic conspiracy theories. He has long been hated by would-be autocrats who ...
by Hunter
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on Sun Nov 04, 2018 at 07:30 PM PST
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Nearly a week after the deadliest attack ever committed against the Jewish-American community rocked Pittsburgh and the entire nation, the New York Police Department has arrested the man believed responsible for creating hateful graffiti and setting...
by Jessica Sutherland
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 11:28 AM PDT
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Conservatives love to be scared. And Trump loves to scare them. Rational Americans look at a caravan of desperate, hungry, thirsty, dirty vagabonds and see a people yearning to be free. But Trump paints them as terrorists, gang-bangers and drug dealers...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sat Nov 03, 2018 at 05:27 PM PDT
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Donald Trump has priorities. Sure, 11 people were murdered because they were Jewish, following hard on the heels of more than a dozen politically motivated mail bombs, but what about Republican election chances?
“Now, we did have two maniacs stop...
by Laura Clawson
31 comments
on Fri Nov 02, 2018 at 07:23 AM PDT
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Jewish doctor treats Pittsburgh shooter: 'My job isn't to judge him...my job is to take care of him' When 46-year-old Robert Bowers rushed into the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue and killed 11 people, wounding six others—including four police officers—he was taken into custody badly hurt. Authorities brought him to Allegheny General Hospital,...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 11:07 AM PDT
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After the shooting in the church in Charleston, South Carolina, I wanted to post an article about gun control, but I was too angry to write coherently until several days passed. Then when I was finally able to use my anger wisely, I wrote advocating...
by Stephen Dreyfus
52 comments
on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 10:16 AM PDT
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Gab is an “alternative” social media site that promises unfettered “free speech,” and while it says that calls to violence are prohibited, the site has been filled with the kind of hate speech that seems to have fueled (and was posted by) suspected...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 09:03 AM PDT
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There are issues Americans are really concerned about: health care, education, dealing with the strains of caring for both children and the elderly in a society that seems to honor neither. Climate change is literally battering down American homes. The...
by Mark Sumner
125 comments
on Thu Nov 01, 2018 at 08:10 AM PDT
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Only days after white supremacist spouting anti-Semitic conspiracy theories murdered 11 Jewish Americans in their synagogue, Donald Trump returned today to stoking the same anti-Semitic conspiracy, hypothesizing that he "wouldn't be surprised" to learn...
by Hunter
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 03:17 PM PDT
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Finally, after a decade and a half of just letting Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King spew racism and meet with Nazis, the press is putting a little pressure on the rabid little bigot. And with their fortunes looking dicey in next week’s election, Republicans...
by Blue Tuesday
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 01:35 PM PDT
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Donald Trump’s degrading of the position of the President of the United States is summed up in the words of a former Associate Supreme Court Justice. Potter Stewart said in response to the pornography case of Jacobellis v. Ohio, "I know it when I see...
by ReasonaBill
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 11:46 AM PDT
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This only took (checks notes) 15 YEARS to happen.
Yep, Rep. Steve "Canteloupe Calves" King (R-IA) has finally been so hateful that even Republicans notice it, in this case Rep. Steve Stivers who’s the head of the National Republican Congressional...
by Joan McCarter
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 10:53 AM PDT
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Follow me on Twitter at @MattBors and check out the comics magazine I’ve launched at The Nib.
by Matt Bors
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on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 10:06 AM PDT
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Well, this is awkward. It turns out that the not-Jewish “rabbi” that Vice President Mike Pence invited onstage to pray for the victims of the synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh—who invoked “Jesus the Savior”—isn’t even a fake rabbi. He’s a fake, fake...
by Barbara Morrill
223 comments
on Wed Oct 31, 2018 at 09:04 AM PDT
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