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october 16, 2018
It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James A. Baldwin
David Cross: “At least 25% of America has always been ignorant, racist, xenophobic and backwards, people prone to demagoguery. That’s not a surprise,” he says. “The surprise is that there’s this loud, brash, arrogant narcissist giving these people a voice and making them feel proud.”
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Mark Twain: “How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be ‘American’ before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries? It is really too easy a disguise for our shortcomings to dress them up as a form of patriotism!”
thomas jefferson called them "rubbish" people
ben franklin called them "waste" People
trump calls them "suckers"
white trash's america
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
...white Americans have lived in a country where the celerity with which they mask their racism matters as much as the color of their skin. One might look forward, unhappily, to white conservatives disassociating themselves from this massacre by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white trash"—meaning, in effect, that they've profited enough from their racism that they can afford to dress it up better; or look forward to white liberals disassociating themselves by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white conservative" hypocrites—meaning, in effect, that they've profited enough from their racism that they can afford to dress it up better still; or to white leftists disassociating themselves by claiming, in effect, that they're not "white liberal" hypocrites.
Why Are White Racists Always Called “White Trash"?
By Frank Guan
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Headlines: ignorance, racism, and stupidity america's trinity
of the bottom 70%
the people who make-up the shithole
(sources: raw story, politicus usa, daily kos)
*Nevada mom surprised to find people angry about son’s Hitler Halloween costume
"He needed a last-minute costume."
*Tennessee city official blames hacker for Facebook post praising business excluding black customers
City of Lakeland commissioner Clark Plunk this week blamed a hacker for a Facebook post written on his account in which he praised a Memphis business for excluding black customers.
*Arkansas sheriff’s office forcing inmates to wear Nike shirts in mugshots to mock Colin Kaepernick: activist
*house nigger: Kanye West says he wants to ‘abolish’ amendment that repealed slavery in pro-Trump tweet
Kanye West wants to lose the Constitutional Amendment that outlawed slavery. In a bizarre Sunday tweet aboard his private jet, the rapper called for abolishing the 13th Amendment.
*Sarah Palin's troubled son again arrested for abusing a woman and fighting with cops
*Texas school administrator suspended indefinitely for profane Twitter rant against Michael Avenatti
Butch Groves is the “Head of Upper School” at Oakridge School in Arlington. He reportedly sent direct messages on Twitter early Monday.
*Not The Onion: Roy Moore urges Republicans to ignore Kavanaugh’s sexual assault allegation
*WATCH: Couple hits young mother with their car then hurl racist abuse at her
*Disturbing video shows father-son duo gun down their neighbor during dispute over trash
*New creationist theme park claims dinosaurs were actually 900-year-old lizards that ‘never stopped growing’ A new creationist theme park in Lenox, Alabama is run by a Baptist preacher who believes that dinosaurs only grew so large because they were lizards who lived for 900 years and never stopped growing.
*‘You can’t count on a black quarterback’: Texas educator sorry for racist post that he thought was private
A superintendent for a Texas school district apologized this week after realized he had publicly posted a racist message on Facebook
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Georgia Woman Says She’d ‘Be Up All Night’ If She Didn’t Report Black Man She Spotted Babysitting White Children
By Tanasia Kenney - atlanta black star
October 16, 2018
Days after a Georgia man says a woman reported him to police after spotting him with two white children, authorities have released the 911 call the stranger made revealing her flimsy justification for dialing the cops.
Corey Lewis, who is Black, said he first noticed the woman as he was leaving a Walmart in metro Atlanta with a 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy he was babysitting that day. Lewis, 27, said the woman approached them in the parking lot and asked if the children were OK.
“Why wouldn’t they be OK?” Lewis replied before the woman drove off.
Moments later, the woman returned and asked to speak to the children to prove they were in safe hands. When Lewis refused, he says the woman followed them from the Walmart parking lot, to the gas station all the way to Lewis’ home where he was met by a Cobb County police officer.
“I’m being followed and harassed,” he tells the officer in video from the incident. “She followed me all the way home. She won’t pull up though … Got these little kids scared.”
Local station WSB-TV on Sunday obtained the call the unidentified woman made explaining why she called police in the first place.
“I see this Black gentleman with these two little white kids, so I just had a funny feeling,” the woman told emergency dispatchers. It was this same “feeling” she said prompted her to approach the children in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Ga.
She continued: “I rode around again and I said, ‘Let me see the little girl,’ and he goes, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘Well, let me just see the little girl and just see that she knows you.'”
Despite advice from the dispatcher discouraging the woman from following Lewis, she does so anyway.
“He just got gas and now he’s pulling away. Should I follow him?” she asks the dispatcher.
“No, ma’am. I recommend not following him,” the dispatcher replies.
Once Lewis and the children arrive at his house, a Cobb County officer arrives. The matter was eventually resolved after the officer questioned the siblings, Nicholas and Addison, and determined they were indeed OK. He then called in to check in with their parents, Dana Mango and David Parker.
The unnamed caller knew it was possible her suspicions might be unfounded, but said she’d feel guilty if she stood by and did nothing.
“If I’m wrong, that’s great, I’m thrilled,” the woman told the dispatcher. “But if I’m not, you know, then these kids are OK … it could be nothing, but I’m not sure and I figured, let me call up. And again, if I didn’t do this, I’d be up all night.”
Lewis, who run his own youth mentoring program, said the incident left him feeling as if his character was being “assassinated.”
Corey Lewis, who is Black, said he first noticed the woman as he was leaving a Walmart in metro Atlanta with a 10-year-old girl and 6-year-old boy he was babysitting that day. Lewis, 27, said the woman approached them in the parking lot and asked if the children were OK.
“Why wouldn’t they be OK?” Lewis replied before the woman drove off.
Moments later, the woman returned and asked to speak to the children to prove they were in safe hands. When Lewis refused, he says the woman followed them from the Walmart parking lot, to the gas station all the way to Lewis’ home where he was met by a Cobb County police officer.
“I’m being followed and harassed,” he tells the officer in video from the incident. “She followed me all the way home. She won’t pull up though … Got these little kids scared.”
Local station WSB-TV on Sunday obtained the call the unidentified woman made explaining why she called police in the first place.
“I see this Black gentleman with these two little white kids, so I just had a funny feeling,” the woman told emergency dispatchers. It was this same “feeling” she said prompted her to approach the children in the parking lot of a Walmart in Marietta, Ga.
She continued: “I rode around again and I said, ‘Let me see the little girl,’ and he goes, ‘No,’ and I said, ‘Well, let me just see the little girl and just see that she knows you.'”
Despite advice from the dispatcher discouraging the woman from following Lewis, she does so anyway.
“He just got gas and now he’s pulling away. Should I follow him?” she asks the dispatcher.
“No, ma’am. I recommend not following him,” the dispatcher replies.
Once Lewis and the children arrive at his house, a Cobb County officer arrives. The matter was eventually resolved after the officer questioned the siblings, Nicholas and Addison, and determined they were indeed OK. He then called in to check in with their parents, Dana Mango and David Parker.
The unnamed caller knew it was possible her suspicions might be unfounded, but said she’d feel guilty if she stood by and did nothing.
“If I’m wrong, that’s great, I’m thrilled,” the woman told the dispatcher. “But if I’m not, you know, then these kids are OK … it could be nothing, but I’m not sure and I figured, let me call up. And again, if I didn’t do this, I’d be up all night.”
Lewis, who run his own youth mentoring program, said the incident left him feeling as if his character was being “assassinated.”
they are just stupid!!!
American fascists explain how ‘ironic racism’ acted as a gateway to extremist hate
Tana Ganeva - raw story
12 OCT 2018 AT 12:20 ET
Red-pilling, a reference to the 1990s film “The Matrix,” has been co-opted by fascist groups to describe the process of “awakening” to white nationalist beliefs.
The blog Bellingcat collected a series of stories from seventy-five people who hold fascist beliefs.
Many chalk up their conversion to fascism to the election of Donald Trump, Bellingcat notes.
Interestingly, the forums are so heavily dominated by men that some users wonder if women can even be “red-pilled.”
“The vast majority of fascist activists are male,” Bellingcat points out.
“Some of these men even doubt that women can be red-pilled. The few users who identify themselves as female tend to be quite extreme in their beliefs.”
Many were converted online.
“Thirty-nine of the 75 fascist activists we studied credit the Internet with their red-pilling,” Bellingcat notes.
Many came to embrace fascist beliefs after initially only absorbing “ironic” anti-Semitism, sexism or racism.
Importantly, Bellingcat observes that the process is complex and can’t be boiled down to any individual factors.
“Human beings are not simple creatures, and so no person’s journey to such an extremist belief system can be boiled down to just “YouTube did it” or “4chan did it.” Millions of people have been exposed to ironic racism and /pol/ without going on to don a swastika armband,” they note.
“Radicalization is a process, and the goal of this study is to reveal several of the factors that can act to prime and nudge a young mind from laughing at Holocaust jokes to truly believing that Hitler did nothing wrong.”
The blog Bellingcat collected a series of stories from seventy-five people who hold fascist beliefs.
Many chalk up their conversion to fascism to the election of Donald Trump, Bellingcat notes.
Interestingly, the forums are so heavily dominated by men that some users wonder if women can even be “red-pilled.”
“The vast majority of fascist activists are male,” Bellingcat points out.
“Some of these men even doubt that women can be red-pilled. The few users who identify themselves as female tend to be quite extreme in their beliefs.”
Many were converted online.
“Thirty-nine of the 75 fascist activists we studied credit the Internet with their red-pilling,” Bellingcat notes.
Many came to embrace fascist beliefs after initially only absorbing “ironic” anti-Semitism, sexism or racism.
Importantly, Bellingcat observes that the process is complex and can’t be boiled down to any individual factors.
“Human beings are not simple creatures, and so no person’s journey to such an extremist belief system can be boiled down to just “YouTube did it” or “4chan did it.” Millions of people have been exposed to ironic racism and /pol/ without going on to don a swastika armband,” they note.
“Radicalization is a process, and the goal of this study is to reveal several of the factors that can act to prime and nudge a young mind from laughing at Holocaust jokes to truly believing that Hitler did nothing wrong.”
Racist man flies into berserk rage after seeing black Denny’s worker — then things get really ugly
Travis Gettys - raw story
11 OCT 2018 AT 13:40 ET
Rory French (KIRO)
A Washington man attacked a black kitchen worker on sight at a Denny’s restaurant — and then fought with police officers trying to arrest him.
The black cook said he went to a corner of the restaurant to take his break, and a customer — later identified as Rory French — immediately began using racial slurs against him, reported The News Tribune.
The employee went back to the kitchen to get away from the angry man, who continued taunting the cook.
“You are going down, I am going to kill you,” French allegedly said — punctuating each threat with a racial slur.
Another customer stepped up to stop the 41-year-old French, who punched the man three times before other customers wrangled him by the straps on his overalls, the newspaper reported.
Customers held French by his overalls until Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrived, and the good Samaritan returned to his chicken-fried steak breakfast.
A deputy tried to distract French so he would turn around to be handcuffed.
“Hey, what’s that?” the deputy said, pointing out a window behind French.
“That’s a nigger,” French said, without turning around.
Deputies moved to arrest French, who then raised his fist.
“He still wasn’t cooperative and assaulted one of our officers — and the fight was on,” said detective Ed Troyer.
Deputies took the Graham man to the ground, but French continued to resist their efforts to put him in neck hold.
The struggle continued until a deputy kneed French in the shoulder, and they were able to place him in handcuffs.
French, who has prior convictions for assault, was charged with a hate crime, malicious harassment, assault and resisting arrest.
“He was actually going after somebody because of their race,” Troyer said, “but then it became a fight with anybody and anything.”
The black cook said he went to a corner of the restaurant to take his break, and a customer — later identified as Rory French — immediately began using racial slurs against him, reported The News Tribune.
The employee went back to the kitchen to get away from the angry man, who continued taunting the cook.
“You are going down, I am going to kill you,” French allegedly said — punctuating each threat with a racial slur.
Another customer stepped up to stop the 41-year-old French, who punched the man three times before other customers wrangled him by the straps on his overalls, the newspaper reported.
Customers held French by his overalls until Pierce County sheriff’s deputies arrived, and the good Samaritan returned to his chicken-fried steak breakfast.
A deputy tried to distract French so he would turn around to be handcuffed.
“Hey, what’s that?” the deputy said, pointing out a window behind French.
“That’s a nigger,” French said, without turning around.
Deputies moved to arrest French, who then raised his fist.
“He still wasn’t cooperative and assaulted one of our officers — and the fight was on,” said detective Ed Troyer.
Deputies took the Graham man to the ground, but French continued to resist their efforts to put him in neck hold.
The struggle continued until a deputy kneed French in the shoulder, and they were able to place him in handcuffs.
French, who has prior convictions for assault, was charged with a hate crime, malicious harassment, assault and resisting arrest.
“He was actually going after somebody because of their race,” Troyer said, “but then it became a fight with anybody and anything.”
Shotgun-wielding white man opens fire on black teen for asking for directions
Martin Cizmar - raw story
10 OCT 2018 AT 12:26 ET
A white man in suburban Detroit is on trial for allegedly shooting at a black teen who came to his porch for directions, reports Fox 2 Detroit.
Homeowner Jeffrey Zeigler is on trial for shooting at Brennan Walker on the porch of his Rochester Hills’ home.
On Tuesday, prosecutors showed surveillance video of Zeigler, a retired fireman, firing on the teen after he walked onto the porch and tried to knock on the door. The teen then runs away as Ziegler runs into frame and fires.
On the stand Tuesday a police officer testified that he asked Zeigler why he fired on the teen and got a chilling answer.
“I said sir, can you point out to me where he charged your door, at what point was he a threat?” said the officer said. “Mr. Ziegler at this point is just sitting there and I said you took aim at him. You know sir, can you respect what I do and just admit that you aimed your weapon at this young man. He took a big drink of water, he looked at me and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim.'”
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Homeowner Jeffrey Zeigler is on trial for shooting at Brennan Walker on the porch of his Rochester Hills’ home.
On Tuesday, prosecutors showed surveillance video of Zeigler, a retired fireman, firing on the teen after he walked onto the porch and tried to knock on the door. The teen then runs away as Ziegler runs into frame and fires.
On the stand Tuesday a police officer testified that he asked Zeigler why he fired on the teen and got a chilling answer.
“I said sir, can you point out to me where he charged your door, at what point was he a threat?” said the officer said. “Mr. Ziegler at this point is just sitting there and I said you took aim at him. You know sir, can you respect what I do and just admit that you aimed your weapon at this young man. He took a big drink of water, he looked at me and he said, ‘I’m tired of being a victim.'”
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White woman calls the cops on black Georgia man for babysitting two white kids
Brad Reed - raw story
09 OCT 2018 AT 13:31 ET
Georgia resident Corey Lewis is crying foul after a white woman first stalked him and then called the police on him because she feared for the safety of the two white children he happened to be babysitting.
Local news station CBS 46 reports that Lewis was in the parking lot of a local Walmart going on an errand with the two children he was babysitting when a white woman approached him and started questioning him about the children’s safety.
The woman then asked Lewis if she could talk to the children to make sure they were okay — and he refused, as he didn’t see why he should let a complete stranger talk to the children whose safety he was supposed to be guarding.
The woman then followed Lewis in her car all the way to the street where he lived before calling the police to report him.
An officer showed up on the scene and talked to the two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, who confirmed that Lewis had not kidnapped them. The police then called the children’s parents, who expressed disbelief that someone had told the cops to investigate their babysitter.
The mother of the two children, Dana Mango, told CBS 46 that she is stunned that anyone would call the police on Lewis.
“I said are you saying that because there’s an African American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned and he said I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,” Mango said.
Local news station CBS 46 reports that Lewis was in the parking lot of a local Walmart going on an errand with the two children he was babysitting when a white woman approached him and started questioning him about the children’s safety.
The woman then asked Lewis if she could talk to the children to make sure they were okay — and he refused, as he didn’t see why he should let a complete stranger talk to the children whose safety he was supposed to be guarding.
The woman then followed Lewis in her car all the way to the street where he lived before calling the police to report him.
An officer showed up on the scene and talked to the two children, a 10-year-old girl and a 6-year-old boy, who confirmed that Lewis had not kidnapped them. The police then called the children’s parents, who expressed disbelief that someone had told the cops to investigate their babysitter.
The mother of the two children, Dana Mango, told CBS 46 that she is stunned that anyone would call the police on Lewis.
“I said are you saying that because there’s an African American male driving my two white kids, that he was stopped and pulled over and questioned and he said I’m sorry ma’am that’s exactly what I’m saying,” Mango said.
Neo-Nazi Couple Accused of Killing Man to Claim Squatter's Rights to His Home
Jeremy and Lorena Shaw are accused of a bizarre plot to murder a retiree and take over the man’s house so no one would notice.
Kelly Weill
daily beast
10.05.18 4:55 AM ET
A couple accused of murdering a man to take over his home were arrested wearing the victim’s distinctive clothing, after police caught them draining his bank account into their neo-Nazi roofing company’s PayPal account.
Jeremy Shaw, 39, allegedly scouted local homes in the hopes of killing the occupants and claiming squatter’s rights. Prosecutors say he found his target with Steven Morphis, a recently retired 67-year-old who lived alone. After he allegedly murdered Morphis with a flashlight, Shaw and his wife conspired to take over Morphis’ life, transferring the deed from his house and even wearing his clothes, authorities allege.
Shaw and his wife, Lorena, 37, had been planning the assault all month, according to a probable cause statement from authorities. The couple had researched “adverse possession,” a process by which, if a person lives on a property long enough, they can become the legitimate owners.
The couple allegedly drove around rural Washington looking for the perfect house: hidden from the street on a large plot of land, with a paid-off mortgage and, most important, only one occupant.“After doing research over the preceding months, Jeremy had selected Morphis’ property as the most attractive option, even taking Lorena on multiple ‘scouting’ drives past the residence,” according to the probable cause statement. On Sept. 6, the couple drew up a warranty deed that would transfer the property from Morphis’ name to theirs.
Breaking and entering wasn’t a problem for Shaw. Over a long criminal history, he’d previously been convicted of burglary, vehicle theft, various counts of robbery, forgery, and firearm violations.
Morphis was a Star Trek memorabilia collector. He had recently retired from a career at Boeing, and was settling into a quiet life in his rural home, his sister told investigators. One of his few regular visitors was a contractor who did yard work on the property.
“Morphis lived alone and not particularly active socially, such that the arrival of the contractor was usually occasion for a warm greeting and conversation,” the probable cause document reads.
But when the contractor visited the house on Sept. 20, he found it silent. Then he found the empty, grave-shaped pit dug in the backyard. His search for Morphis led him to a shed, where he found Morphis’ body wrapped in a tarp and bound with zip-ties.
“His head had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and his throat was slashed,” an autopsy found. “Each of these impacts caused many fractures of Morphis’ skull. Each one of these blows, independently, would have been fatal.”
But Morphis’ belongings took on a life of their own. The following day, police found his car more than 30 miles away, completely destroyed with fire and gasoline. His bank account continued to make transactions the day after he was discovered dead. On Sept. 21, someone used card reader to move $4,000 from his bank account to a PayPal account for “Aryan Enterprises.”
Aryan Enterprises is Shaw’s inexplicably Nazi-referencing roofing company, according to the probable cause statement. The business unofficially went by “Experienced Roofers,” according to Washington Department of Revenue records. Shaw lists the more polite business name on his Facebook profile, where he also describes himself as “Aryan.”
Morphis’ phone also disappeared from his home after the murder. Police traced the device to Shaw’s home on September 21, where they found Shaw wearing Morphis’ Boeing jacket. Morphis’ Star Trek collectibles and wallet were also inside the Shaw home, alongside Shaw’s own Nazi paraphernalia, meth, credit card readers, and fake ID printers, authorities allege.
Lorena told police that two days earlier, Shaw had knocked on Morphis’ door. When the senior citizen answered, Shaw “pepper-sprayed him and ‘bashed’ him over the head,” according to the probable cause document.
The couple has been charged with burglary, arson, theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, while Shaw faces an additional murder count and Lorena faces a rendering criminal assistance count.
On Monday, prosecutors moved to increase his bail from $1 million to $2.5 million.
“The requested amount takes into account the chillingly cold-blooded manner in which the brutal murder of Steven Morphis, a complete stranger to Jeremy Shaw, was methodically planned for weeks and then carried out, for simple greed,” prosecutors wrote.
Jeremy Shaw, 39, allegedly scouted local homes in the hopes of killing the occupants and claiming squatter’s rights. Prosecutors say he found his target with Steven Morphis, a recently retired 67-year-old who lived alone. After he allegedly murdered Morphis with a flashlight, Shaw and his wife conspired to take over Morphis’ life, transferring the deed from his house and even wearing his clothes, authorities allege.
Shaw and his wife, Lorena, 37, had been planning the assault all month, according to a probable cause statement from authorities. The couple had researched “adverse possession,” a process by which, if a person lives on a property long enough, they can become the legitimate owners.
The couple allegedly drove around rural Washington looking for the perfect house: hidden from the street on a large plot of land, with a paid-off mortgage and, most important, only one occupant.“After doing research over the preceding months, Jeremy had selected Morphis’ property as the most attractive option, even taking Lorena on multiple ‘scouting’ drives past the residence,” according to the probable cause statement. On Sept. 6, the couple drew up a warranty deed that would transfer the property from Morphis’ name to theirs.
Breaking and entering wasn’t a problem for Shaw. Over a long criminal history, he’d previously been convicted of burglary, vehicle theft, various counts of robbery, forgery, and firearm violations.
Morphis was a Star Trek memorabilia collector. He had recently retired from a career at Boeing, and was settling into a quiet life in his rural home, his sister told investigators. One of his few regular visitors was a contractor who did yard work on the property.
“Morphis lived alone and not particularly active socially, such that the arrival of the contractor was usually occasion for a warm greeting and conversation,” the probable cause document reads.
But when the contractor visited the house on Sept. 20, he found it silent. Then he found the empty, grave-shaped pit dug in the backyard. His search for Morphis led him to a shed, where he found Morphis’ body wrapped in a tarp and bound with zip-ties.
“His head had been bludgeoned repeatedly, and his throat was slashed,” an autopsy found. “Each of these impacts caused many fractures of Morphis’ skull. Each one of these blows, independently, would have been fatal.”
But Morphis’ belongings took on a life of their own. The following day, police found his car more than 30 miles away, completely destroyed with fire and gasoline. His bank account continued to make transactions the day after he was discovered dead. On Sept. 21, someone used card reader to move $4,000 from his bank account to a PayPal account for “Aryan Enterprises.”
Aryan Enterprises is Shaw’s inexplicably Nazi-referencing roofing company, according to the probable cause statement. The business unofficially went by “Experienced Roofers,” according to Washington Department of Revenue records. Shaw lists the more polite business name on his Facebook profile, where he also describes himself as “Aryan.”
Morphis’ phone also disappeared from his home after the murder. Police traced the device to Shaw’s home on September 21, where they found Shaw wearing Morphis’ Boeing jacket. Morphis’ Star Trek collectibles and wallet were also inside the Shaw home, alongside Shaw’s own Nazi paraphernalia, meth, credit card readers, and fake ID printers, authorities allege.
Lorena told police that two days earlier, Shaw had knocked on Morphis’ door. When the senior citizen answered, Shaw “pepper-sprayed him and ‘bashed’ him over the head,” according to the probable cause document.
The couple has been charged with burglary, arson, theft, and conspiracy to commit theft, while Shaw faces an additional murder count and Lorena faces a rendering criminal assistance count.
On Monday, prosecutors moved to increase his bail from $1 million to $2.5 million.
“The requested amount takes into account the chillingly cold-blooded manner in which the brutal murder of Steven Morphis, a complete stranger to Jeremy Shaw, was methodically planned for weeks and then carried out, for simple greed,” prosecutors wrote.
Neo-Nazi activist behind racist robocalls linked to threats of Idaho newspaper
Sandpoint Reader is target of new calls describing publisher as ‘cancer’ that ‘needs to be burned out’
Jason Wilson in Portland, Oregon
the guardian
Fri 28 Sep 2018 06.00 EDT
Scott D Rhodes, left, being questioned by Sandpoint police. Photograph: Sandpoint Police department
A neo-Nazi activist who sent out hostile and abusive robocalls aimed at top politicians and others has been linked to threats to the publisher of a small local newspaper that first exposed his activities.
Scott Rhodes, who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, was first identified by the Sandpoint Reader and linked with a campaign that targeted high-profile political races across the US and even murder victims with racist and antisemitic robocalls.
In recent days threatening robocalls and letters have been sent to the publishers of the Reader, an alternative newspaper, people linked to it and residents in the small rural town.
The robocall described journalist Ben Olson, the publisher of the Reader, as “a cancer on wholesome north Idaho”, adding that “cancer needs to be burned out”.
When Rhodes was asked about the call by the Guardian via email, he sent a link to a YouTube video that reproduced the robocall audio, and featured video of a large stack of copies of the Sandpoint Reader being set on fire.
That video has since been removed by YouTube. The hundreds of newspapers burned in the video represent a significant slice of the Reader’s print run, which Olson says is 5,000 a week.
The robocall was also embedded in an email sent to many residents, which read “Attached is a 56-second audio mp3 file of a public service alert”, and contained photographs of Olson.
One of those who received the call, retired journalist Jay Shelledy, said “it was very close to being, if not in fact, a physical threat”.
Olson said he received dozens of text messages and calls in the hours following the robocall from people who had received it on Thursday night. He also said the community had rallied around the newspaper, and he had received a spike in donations to help keep it running.
On Monday this week, Olson’s business partner Chris Bessler also received a letter containing more threats.
The unsigned letter’s content resembled the robocall. It said that Olson and Bessler would each be “named publicly” and “privately to the right people”, and threatened to contact advertisers if Olson was not dismissed as editor.
Then on Tuesday night, yet another robocall to Sandpoint residents called the newspaper “hate mail” and “mind poison”, and advised recipients that “when you see The Reader, take a stack and throw it in the trash”.
The Reader unmasked Rhodes last December, after the neo-Nazi activist left racist propaganda at local high schools. They also revealed that he had carried out similar activities in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rhodes makes a virulently racist video podcast called The Road to Power. He has been associated with similar robocalls in Idaho and at least five other states.
In May, Rhodes’s robocalls in California targeted Senator Dianne Feinstein, referring to her as a “traitorous Jew”, and urging listeners to relocate to north Idaho “where very white is very right”. August robocalls in Iowa targeted at the Hispanic community featured an impersonation of murdered woman Mollie Tibbetts. Another in Florida in September featured a racist impersonation of gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum. In 2017, Rhodes’s robocalls targeted elected officials in Virginia.
Rhodes has also been associated with robocalls closer to his base in north Idaho. Calls in June defended an official in Spokane, Washington, who was accused of making racist remarks on Facebook. And in 2015, antisemitic robocalls attacked Sandpoint mayor, Shelby Rognstad, who was also later targeted in hateful print propaganda that Rhodes distributed. These calls came not long after Rhodes moved to Sandpoint.
Early last month, another robocall to Sandpoint residents promoted a visit by neo-Nazi and former California GOP senate candidate, Patrick Little. Little became notorious for openly antisemitic messaging in his campaign, and claims to have launched a blimp featuring the slogan “Jews Rape Kids” over San Francisco Bay.
In the August robocall, Little said: “I’ll be arriving shortly to make Sandpoint one of my new regional capitals throughout the country.”
On the social network Gab, which is favored by the far right for its self-described “free speech” stance, Little has been promoting a national tour, in which he claims to have stopped in Sandpoint. Little’s antisemitic posts led Microsoft to threaten to kick Gab off its hosting service in August.
The voice on Thursday’s Sandpoint robocall resembles Little’s, and was identified as such by Olson.
Little did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email, Rhodes said that while “your assumption that by emailing to this address you are doing so to a specific person is incorrect … emails from this address can be accepted as representing the video podcast” – a podcast which only he has ever appeared on.In reference to the robocalls, Rhodes did not directly claim responsibility, but accused Olson of using the paper to “threaten and coerce”, adding that “clearly people felt it was time for him to be called out for it and that his advertisers now be held accountable for financing his terrorism”.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper recently estimated that Rhodes may have made up to 10,000 robocalls nationally. Citing Rhodes’s campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center described robocalls as a “new method of delivering hate”.
Scott Rhodes, who lives in Sandpoint, Idaho, was first identified by the Sandpoint Reader and linked with a campaign that targeted high-profile political races across the US and even murder victims with racist and antisemitic robocalls.
In recent days threatening robocalls and letters have been sent to the publishers of the Reader, an alternative newspaper, people linked to it and residents in the small rural town.
The robocall described journalist Ben Olson, the publisher of the Reader, as “a cancer on wholesome north Idaho”, adding that “cancer needs to be burned out”.
When Rhodes was asked about the call by the Guardian via email, he sent a link to a YouTube video that reproduced the robocall audio, and featured video of a large stack of copies of the Sandpoint Reader being set on fire.
That video has since been removed by YouTube. The hundreds of newspapers burned in the video represent a significant slice of the Reader’s print run, which Olson says is 5,000 a week.
The robocall was also embedded in an email sent to many residents, which read “Attached is a 56-second audio mp3 file of a public service alert”, and contained photographs of Olson.
One of those who received the call, retired journalist Jay Shelledy, said “it was very close to being, if not in fact, a physical threat”.
Olson said he received dozens of text messages and calls in the hours following the robocall from people who had received it on Thursday night. He also said the community had rallied around the newspaper, and he had received a spike in donations to help keep it running.
On Monday this week, Olson’s business partner Chris Bessler also received a letter containing more threats.
The unsigned letter’s content resembled the robocall. It said that Olson and Bessler would each be “named publicly” and “privately to the right people”, and threatened to contact advertisers if Olson was not dismissed as editor.
Then on Tuesday night, yet another robocall to Sandpoint residents called the newspaper “hate mail” and “mind poison”, and advised recipients that “when you see The Reader, take a stack and throw it in the trash”.
The Reader unmasked Rhodes last December, after the neo-Nazi activist left racist propaganda at local high schools. They also revealed that he had carried out similar activities in Alexandria, Virginia.
Rhodes makes a virulently racist video podcast called The Road to Power. He has been associated with similar robocalls in Idaho and at least five other states.
In May, Rhodes’s robocalls in California targeted Senator Dianne Feinstein, referring to her as a “traitorous Jew”, and urging listeners to relocate to north Idaho “where very white is very right”. August robocalls in Iowa targeted at the Hispanic community featured an impersonation of murdered woman Mollie Tibbetts. Another in Florida in September featured a racist impersonation of gubernatorial candidate, Andrew Gillum. In 2017, Rhodes’s robocalls targeted elected officials in Virginia.
Rhodes has also been associated with robocalls closer to his base in north Idaho. Calls in June defended an official in Spokane, Washington, who was accused of making racist remarks on Facebook. And in 2015, antisemitic robocalls attacked Sandpoint mayor, Shelby Rognstad, who was also later targeted in hateful print propaganda that Rhodes distributed. These calls came not long after Rhodes moved to Sandpoint.
Early last month, another robocall to Sandpoint residents promoted a visit by neo-Nazi and former California GOP senate candidate, Patrick Little. Little became notorious for openly antisemitic messaging in his campaign, and claims to have launched a blimp featuring the slogan “Jews Rape Kids” over San Francisco Bay.
In the August robocall, Little said: “I’ll be arriving shortly to make Sandpoint one of my new regional capitals throughout the country.”
On the social network Gab, which is favored by the far right for its self-described “free speech” stance, Little has been promoting a national tour, in which he claims to have stopped in Sandpoint. Little’s antisemitic posts led Microsoft to threaten to kick Gab off its hosting service in August.
The voice on Thursday’s Sandpoint robocall resembles Little’s, and was identified as such by Olson.
Little did not respond to requests for comment.
In an email, Rhodes said that while “your assumption that by emailing to this address you are doing so to a specific person is incorrect … emails from this address can be accepted as representing the video podcast” – a podcast which only he has ever appeared on.In reference to the robocalls, Rhodes did not directly claim responsibility, but accused Olson of using the paper to “threaten and coerce”, adding that “clearly people felt it was time for him to be called out for it and that his advertisers now be held accountable for financing his terrorism”.
The Spokane Spokesman-Review newspaper recently estimated that Rhodes may have made up to 10,000 robocalls nationally. Citing Rhodes’s campaigns, the Southern Poverty Law Center described robocalls as a “new method of delivering hate”.
Texas Lawmaker Who Says Same-Sex Marriage Leads to Pedophilia Accused of Sending Unsolicited Photo of His Penis to a Grad Student
Schwertner is running for re-election this year.
By David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement - alternet
September 26, 2018, 7:04 AM GMT
Texas Republican State Senator Charles Schwertner is being accused of sending a graphic text message to a University of Texas grad student. That text included, allegedly, a photograph of his genitals and a message saying, "I just really want to fuck you."
Senator Schwertner, who is married and has three children, denies the allegation. University officials say they are considering banning him if the allegation proves to be true, the American-Statesman reports.
The conservative Republican met the student at a university on-campus event. She told him she was interested in working in the legislature. They exchanged messaged via LinkedIn before moving to text messaging.
But all of a sudden, "Schwertner abruptly wrote, 'I just really want to f—- you,' and sent her an image that appeared to be a picture of his genitals that was taken in the shower, according to a UT official who has seen the exchange and the photo. The image does not include his face, the official said."
The senator's office issued a statement saying he "categorically denies any knowledge of the accusations leveled against him and only became aware of this allegation when contacted by the media."
Schwertner is running for re-election this year. Voters will choose between him and Democrat Meg Walsh.
In 2014 Sen. Schwertner signed on to an amicus brief supporting the false claim that legal "recognition of same-sex marriage ‘could lead to the recognition of bigamy, incest, pedophilia, and group marriage,'” as HuffPost reported. Other signatories included Ken Paxton, now the state's Attorney General, and Dan Patrick, now the state's Lt. Governor. Patrick, a very powerful far right wing conservative, has endorsed Schwertner for re-election.
Senator Schwertner, who is married and has three children, denies the allegation. University officials say they are considering banning him if the allegation proves to be true, the American-Statesman reports.
The conservative Republican met the student at a university on-campus event. She told him she was interested in working in the legislature. They exchanged messaged via LinkedIn before moving to text messaging.
But all of a sudden, "Schwertner abruptly wrote, 'I just really want to f—- you,' and sent her an image that appeared to be a picture of his genitals that was taken in the shower, according to a UT official who has seen the exchange and the photo. The image does not include his face, the official said."
The senator's office issued a statement saying he "categorically denies any knowledge of the accusations leveled against him and only became aware of this allegation when contacted by the media."
Schwertner is running for re-election this year. Voters will choose between him and Democrat Meg Walsh.
In 2014 Sen. Schwertner signed on to an amicus brief supporting the false claim that legal "recognition of same-sex marriage ‘could lead to the recognition of bigamy, incest, pedophilia, and group marriage,'” as HuffPost reported. Other signatories included Ken Paxton, now the state's Attorney General, and Dan Patrick, now the state's Lt. Governor. Patrick, a very powerful far right wing conservative, has endorsed Schwertner for re-election.
White Man Tries To Thwart Black Women’s Photo Shoot by Claiming Sidewalk Is His Property
By Tanasia Kenney - atlanta black star
September 25, 2018
Forget BBQ Becky, Permit Patty and Pool Patrol Paul. There’s a new provocateur in town.
A man earned himself the nickname “Permit Model” this weekend after interrupting a group of Black women working on a photo shoot in Dallas.
Video of the incident, shared by Twitter user “Brother Tyrone X,” shows a white antagonist arguing with the women as they snap photos of their model. The man poses behind the women, making sure he’ll be featured in their glam shots. It’s unclear where the Twitter user obtained the video.
It’s unclear what transpired before the confrontation, but the man seemed eager to have the women stop photographing at the location, which appeared to be near a sidewalk in front of an ornate iron gate. He refused to leave them alone, despite the women’s threats to dial police.
“Guys, this is Permit Model,” the woman behind the camera says. “He’s blocking our model while we’re trying to shoot.”
At one point, the man claims the ladies are on his property.
“Can you go get your paperwork, sir? We don’t believe you,” says the camerawoman.
“I don’t care whether — you’re trespassing,” he responds.
Another woman off-camera chimes in, “This is my property, so I’m asking you to leave.”
Rather than leaving them to their business, “Permit Model” tells the ladies he’s “just going to be in your pictures,” to which one of the women responds, “That’s fine, it can be a group shot.”
The man smiles smugly as he poses behind the model, leaning against a tree.
Their confrontation heats up when the camerawoman mentions the case of Botham Jean, the Dallas man shot and killed by a white female police officer in his own apartment earlier this month after the officer claimed she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own.
“As you saying that just because I’m white,” the man asks, seemingly offended.
“I’m saying that just because you’re getting goofy,” the camerawoman replies before moving her photo shoot into the street.
The bizarre video garnered plenty of reactions from users who wanted to see “Permit Model” face consequences for the unnecessary harassment.
“It’s not this dude’s responsibility to be telling people where they can and can’t take pictures,” one man wrote. “You don’t need permission to photograph on private property that’s open to the public. That’s why people are allowed to take selfies in restaurants, ballparks, etc.”
“This is what you call white privilege,” another person wrote.
One critic said he couldn’t wait to hear the man’s apology, writing, “I’m pretty sure [it] is going to go something like anger get the best of me thought they were really trespassing just wanted to be in the photo bull**** he’s a racist and we know it.”
A man earned himself the nickname “Permit Model” this weekend after interrupting a group of Black women working on a photo shoot in Dallas.
Video of the incident, shared by Twitter user “Brother Tyrone X,” shows a white antagonist arguing with the women as they snap photos of their model. The man poses behind the women, making sure he’ll be featured in their glam shots. It’s unclear where the Twitter user obtained the video.
It’s unclear what transpired before the confrontation, but the man seemed eager to have the women stop photographing at the location, which appeared to be near a sidewalk in front of an ornate iron gate. He refused to leave them alone, despite the women’s threats to dial police.
“Guys, this is Permit Model,” the woman behind the camera says. “He’s blocking our model while we’re trying to shoot.”
At one point, the man claims the ladies are on his property.
“Can you go get your paperwork, sir? We don’t believe you,” says the camerawoman.
“I don’t care whether — you’re trespassing,” he responds.
Another woman off-camera chimes in, “This is my property, so I’m asking you to leave.”
Rather than leaving them to their business, “Permit Model” tells the ladies he’s “just going to be in your pictures,” to which one of the women responds, “That’s fine, it can be a group shot.”
The man smiles smugly as he poses behind the model, leaning against a tree.
Their confrontation heats up when the camerawoman mentions the case of Botham Jean, the Dallas man shot and killed by a white female police officer in his own apartment earlier this month after the officer claimed she mistook Jean’s apartment for her own.
“As you saying that just because I’m white,” the man asks, seemingly offended.
“I’m saying that just because you’re getting goofy,” the camerawoman replies before moving her photo shoot into the street.
The bizarre video garnered plenty of reactions from users who wanted to see “Permit Model” face consequences for the unnecessary harassment.
“It’s not this dude’s responsibility to be telling people where they can and can’t take pictures,” one man wrote. “You don’t need permission to photograph on private property that’s open to the public. That’s why people are allowed to take selfies in restaurants, ballparks, etc.”
“This is what you call white privilege,” another person wrote.
One critic said he couldn’t wait to hear the man’s apology, writing, “I’m pretty sure [it] is going to go something like anger get the best of me thought they were really trespassing just wanted to be in the photo bull**** he’s a racist and we know it.”
Matthew Heimbach Got a New Neo-Nazi Job
By Jared Holt | right wing watch
September 24, 2018 12:30 pm
Matthew Heimbach got a new job at a neo-Nazi organization with whom his now-defunct Traditionalist Worker Party organization shared an alliance before his group’s disintegration.
Heimbach was once the leader of one of America’s most high-profile neo-Nazi organizations, Traditionalist Worker Party, before a love triangle affair caused the organization to implode. Heimbach was arrested in March and recently took a plea deal after he violently attacked his spokesperson and father-in-law David “Matt” Parrott, who had confronted Heimbach about the affair Heimbach was having with Parott’s wife. After Parrott’s departure and Heimbach’s public humiliation, the Traditionalist Worker Party was absolutely devastated. Many within the white nationalist movement ridiculed Heimbach relentlessly, making him the subject of memes and even writing a fascist parody songabout his quandary.
After a summer in jail for disorderly conduct at a Trump rally in 2016, Heimbach reportedly resurfacedin Southeastern Tennessee, looking to re-engage with the white nationalist political scene in the area. After meeting with members of the local Democratic Party and reportedly telling officials that he wanted to “retake Southern Tennessee for traditional Democratic values,” Heimbach has returned to his roots within the white nationalist movement at the unabashed neo-Nazi organization National Socialist Movement.
National Socialist Movement and Traditionalist Worker Party previously acted in concert with the handful of neo-Confederate and white supremacist groups in the Aryan Nationalist Alliance (later rebranded as the Nationalist Front). In a press release circulated online yesterday by members of National Socialist Movement’s media team, Detroit National Socialist Movement commander Jeff Schoep announced that Heimbach had joined the organization as director of community outreach. This was further confirmed by announcements on the radio program produced by the National Socialist Movement, during which Heimbach appeared for an interview. From Schoep’s statement:
Uniting the best and brightest minds together under the NSM banner will bring about victory instead of disarray and infighting. Now is the time to show the enemies of our people the strength of a united front.
A new era of National Socialism has been unleashed upon the United States.
These are desperate times for our nation. It is time for all good men and women to come together to face off against the evil which has consumed our land.
Heimbach also penned a lengthy explanation regarding his decision to join National Socialist Movement that circulated alongside news of his new gig. In that essay, Heimbach wrote that “instead of dividing the movement with another faction” by creating a new white nationalist organization after the collapse of Traditionalist Worker Party, he felt “it makes far more sense to come together with my brothers and sisters to work to strengthen and improve an existing organization.” Heimbach said that he hopes to work with other members of the group to make the National Socialist Movement “the best White Nationalist organization in America.”
On a National Socialist Movement radio show yesterday, Heimbach expressed his excitement about working with the organization. One host joked that he felt “kind of Jewish” for working with Heimbach. Another host said he was happy to see Heimbach return to the movement.
In November, the National Socialist Movement plans to rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, to protest an alleged white “genocide” in South Africa—a myth debunked by numerous reputable sources—and stated in a press release that the group hopes to raise attention about the supposed “systematic murder of tens of thousands of White South African men, women, and children.” The release also says NSM will plead to Americans to “avoid our children facing the horrific reality of being a hated and despised minority that is steadily pushed towards extinction.”
Heimbach was once the leader of one of America’s most high-profile neo-Nazi organizations, Traditionalist Worker Party, before a love triangle affair caused the organization to implode. Heimbach was arrested in March and recently took a plea deal after he violently attacked his spokesperson and father-in-law David “Matt” Parrott, who had confronted Heimbach about the affair Heimbach was having with Parott’s wife. After Parrott’s departure and Heimbach’s public humiliation, the Traditionalist Worker Party was absolutely devastated. Many within the white nationalist movement ridiculed Heimbach relentlessly, making him the subject of memes and even writing a fascist parody songabout his quandary.
After a summer in jail for disorderly conduct at a Trump rally in 2016, Heimbach reportedly resurfacedin Southeastern Tennessee, looking to re-engage with the white nationalist political scene in the area. After meeting with members of the local Democratic Party and reportedly telling officials that he wanted to “retake Southern Tennessee for traditional Democratic values,” Heimbach has returned to his roots within the white nationalist movement at the unabashed neo-Nazi organization National Socialist Movement.
National Socialist Movement and Traditionalist Worker Party previously acted in concert with the handful of neo-Confederate and white supremacist groups in the Aryan Nationalist Alliance (later rebranded as the Nationalist Front). In a press release circulated online yesterday by members of National Socialist Movement’s media team, Detroit National Socialist Movement commander Jeff Schoep announced that Heimbach had joined the organization as director of community outreach. This was further confirmed by announcements on the radio program produced by the National Socialist Movement, during which Heimbach appeared for an interview. From Schoep’s statement:
Uniting the best and brightest minds together under the NSM banner will bring about victory instead of disarray and infighting. Now is the time to show the enemies of our people the strength of a united front.
A new era of National Socialism has been unleashed upon the United States.
These are desperate times for our nation. It is time for all good men and women to come together to face off against the evil which has consumed our land.
Heimbach also penned a lengthy explanation regarding his decision to join National Socialist Movement that circulated alongside news of his new gig. In that essay, Heimbach wrote that “instead of dividing the movement with another faction” by creating a new white nationalist organization after the collapse of Traditionalist Worker Party, he felt “it makes far more sense to come together with my brothers and sisters to work to strengthen and improve an existing organization.” Heimbach said that he hopes to work with other members of the group to make the National Socialist Movement “the best White Nationalist organization in America.”
On a National Socialist Movement radio show yesterday, Heimbach expressed his excitement about working with the organization. One host joked that he felt “kind of Jewish” for working with Heimbach. Another host said he was happy to see Heimbach return to the movement.
In November, the National Socialist Movement plans to rally in Little Rock, Arkansas, to protest an alleged white “genocide” in South Africa—a myth debunked by numerous reputable sources—and stated in a press release that the group hopes to raise attention about the supposed “systematic murder of tens of thousands of White South African men, women, and children.” The release also says NSM will plead to Americans to “avoid our children facing the horrific reality of being a hated and despised minority that is steadily pushed towards extinction.”
Here’s how a Texas militia planned to assault Islamic convention participants in Houston
"Those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence."
CASEY MICHEL - thinkprogress
SEP 23, 2018, 2:05 PM
Earlier this month, a group of a few dozen armed members of the Texas Patriot Network — an extreme right organization supposedly fighting for the “true heart of Texas” — decided to protest the Islamic Society of North America’s conference in downtown Houston.
The scraggly, unkempt group found themselves significantly outnumbered by counterprotesters, and spent most of the day calling for convention-goers to either leave Texas or convert to Christianity. While they were largely peaceful, one Texas Patriot Network, as the Houston Chronicle reported, sprinted past a police barrier to punch a counterprotester.
However, new leaked chat logs show just how much violence the Texas Patriot Network was preparing for — and whom they planned on targeting.
The logs, unearthed by left-wing blog It’s Going Down, reveal that Texas Patriot Network members — who were protesting alongside members of the Soldiers of Odin, a group founded by white supremacists — had planned to isolate and attack counter-protesters.
Communicating via Zello, one of the Texas Patriot Network members said that “those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence.”
The Texas Patriot Network members also discussed how to assault counter-protesters where police couldn’t see them. (Said one, “I’m just gonna have to play this out and see if I get lucky. It depends on where the police are gonna be.”) For good measure, the Texas Patriot Network members also laced their back-and-forths with plenty of bigotry along the way, describing the day’s festivities at the conference as full of “stupid little goatfucking music.”
“These leaked conversations, if authenticated, clearly indicate a coordinated plot by armed members of white supremacist and Islamophobic groups to harm innocent civilians,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “This potentially deadly plot must be investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the perpetrators brought to justice.”
As it is, the protest appeared largely a bust for the Texas Patriot Network, which was also joined by members of the so-called “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys group. Not only did counter-protesters significantly outnumber the Texas Patriot Network front, but no one from the convention even appeared that interested in the Texas Patriot Network in the first place.
The protest came about two years after Russian operatives convinced a handful of armed white supremacists in Houston to organize a similar rally. Ironically, the Texas Patriot Network page even featured a post from one of the fake Russian pages, called the “Heart of Texas.”
The Texas Patriot Network group hasn’t gained much state-wide or national attention, and appears to be a knock-off of better-known Texas-based far-right organizations — such as the This is Texas Freedom Force organization behind a massive armed rally in Houston last year.
Like other similar organizations, and despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, the Texas Patriot Network claims they are not white supremacists: “We ARE NOT racists We ARE NOT bigots We ARE NOT a hate group We ARE NOT militia We ARE NOT the silent majority any longer [sic]!”
In a video from the convention, the Texas Patriot Network’s Doc Greene said they were simply there to spread the Christian faith, and to discuss the “power” of the American Constitution. “We’re gonna be down here today sharing the love of our lord, Jesus Christ…and talking about why the Constitution is wonderful and very near to the Holy Scriptures in power,” Greene said. (Greene would later complain about the meager turnout, saying that the “only thing that we’re a little unhappy about right now is we only have about 15 patriots down here.”)
Still, the leaked chats reveal a far darker component of the Texas Patriot Network’s aims — as does a quick glimpse through its Facebook page, which is full of posts from far-right conspiracy sites, posts from Texas secessionists, and claims that Houston is “becoming the slums full of radicals.”
The page also reveals just how sidelined the group appears to be, even within far-right militia circles in Texas. One post earlier this month complained about “trash-talking” the group has received from the more prominent This is Texas Freedom Force. They referred to the head of This is Texas Freedom Force as a “Narcissistic Coward and Bullshit Artist.” It remains to be seen what kind of terms they may have used in other chats that haven’t yet been leaked.
The scraggly, unkempt group found themselves significantly outnumbered by counterprotesters, and spent most of the day calling for convention-goers to either leave Texas or convert to Christianity. While they were largely peaceful, one Texas Patriot Network, as the Houston Chronicle reported, sprinted past a police barrier to punch a counterprotester.
However, new leaked chat logs show just how much violence the Texas Patriot Network was preparing for — and whom they planned on targeting.
The logs, unearthed by left-wing blog It’s Going Down, reveal that Texas Patriot Network members — who were protesting alongside members of the Soldiers of Odin, a group founded by white supremacists — had planned to isolate and attack counter-protesters.
Communicating via Zello, one of the Texas Patriot Network members said that “those motherfuckers are dead meat when they come out of that damn fence.”
The Texas Patriot Network members also discussed how to assault counter-protesters where police couldn’t see them. (Said one, “I’m just gonna have to play this out and see if I get lucky. It depends on where the police are gonna be.”) For good measure, the Texas Patriot Network members also laced their back-and-forths with plenty of bigotry along the way, describing the day’s festivities at the conference as full of “stupid little goatfucking music.”
“These leaked conversations, if authenticated, clearly indicate a coordinated plot by armed members of white supremacist and Islamophobic groups to harm innocent civilians,” CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said in a statement. “This potentially deadly plot must be investigated by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies and the perpetrators brought to justice.”
As it is, the protest appeared largely a bust for the Texas Patriot Network, which was also joined by members of the so-called “Western chauvinist” Proud Boys group. Not only did counter-protesters significantly outnumber the Texas Patriot Network front, but no one from the convention even appeared that interested in the Texas Patriot Network in the first place.
The protest came about two years after Russian operatives convinced a handful of armed white supremacists in Houston to organize a similar rally. Ironically, the Texas Patriot Network page even featured a post from one of the fake Russian pages, called the “Heart of Texas.”
The Texas Patriot Network group hasn’t gained much state-wide or national attention, and appears to be a knock-off of better-known Texas-based far-right organizations — such as the This is Texas Freedom Force organization behind a massive armed rally in Houston last year.
Like other similar organizations, and despite plenty of evidence to the contrary, the Texas Patriot Network claims they are not white supremacists: “We ARE NOT racists We ARE NOT bigots We ARE NOT a hate group We ARE NOT militia We ARE NOT the silent majority any longer [sic]!”
In a video from the convention, the Texas Patriot Network’s Doc Greene said they were simply there to spread the Christian faith, and to discuss the “power” of the American Constitution. “We’re gonna be down here today sharing the love of our lord, Jesus Christ…and talking about why the Constitution is wonderful and very near to the Holy Scriptures in power,” Greene said. (Greene would later complain about the meager turnout, saying that the “only thing that we’re a little unhappy about right now is we only have about 15 patriots down here.”)
Still, the leaked chats reveal a far darker component of the Texas Patriot Network’s aims — as does a quick glimpse through its Facebook page, which is full of posts from far-right conspiracy sites, posts from Texas secessionists, and claims that Houston is “becoming the slums full of radicals.”
The page also reveals just how sidelined the group appears to be, even within far-right militia circles in Texas. One post earlier this month complained about “trash-talking” the group has received from the more prominent This is Texas Freedom Force. They referred to the head of This is Texas Freedom Force as a “Narcissistic Coward and Bullshit Artist.” It remains to be seen what kind of terms they may have used in other chats that haven’t yet been leaked.
Ole Miss ex-chancellor faces backlash for complaining black women in tight dresses will lower property values
Travis Gettys - raw story
20 SEP 2018 AT 13:12 ET
The namesake of the Ole Miss journalism school has been called out for racist overtone in a Facebook post about dozens of arrests following a football game.
Ed Meek, namesake for the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media, posted a photo of two black women wearing skimpy dresses to complain about rowdiness after Saturday’s game that resulted in 40 arrests, reported The Daily Mississippian.
“I hesitated until now to publish these pictures but I think it important that our community see what the camera is seeing at 2 a.m. after a ballgame,” Meek posted Wednesday on his Facebook account. “I hear there were 180 police working the weekend but of all the pictures late night, the fights and scenes, I have seen no police presence. Chief of Police Joey East is quoted in the Mississippian as saying police made 40 arrest [sic] and that there were fights in most venues.”
“Enough, Oxford and Ole Miss leaders, get on top of this before it is too late,” Meek continued. “A 3 percent decline in enrollment is nothing compared to what we will see if this continues… and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue. We all share in the responsibility to protect the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally.”
The university’s longtime assistant vice chancellor for public relations and marketing later deleted the post, after widespread condemnation by students and Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.
“While we all want to ensure a safe, family-friendly environment at the University and in Oxford, I must condemn the tone and content of Ed Meek’s post from earlier today,” Vitter said. “The photos in his post suggest an unjustified racial overtone that is highly offensive. Ed, I urge you to withdraw your comment and apologize to anyone offended.”
Students wondered why Meek had singled out two black women for their attire.
“I’m confused… on Ole Miss game days, every other white female is dressed like this – especially if they are going out afterwards,” said student Twanna Gordon Phillips. “So by you posting these two black girls and the assumption you are making, (it) only makes you sound racist.”
Police said all the arrests were for public intoxication, although five were also charged with simple assault.
“Everybody had issues (Saturday) night. Every club, I think, had fights in it — it wasn’t just one area,” said police chief Joey East.
OPD made 40 arrests for public intoxication throughout the weekend, five of which were accompanied by simple assault charges.
The journalism school’s administrators called the post “highly offensive,” and said Meek’s comments did not represent their values or views.
An online petition was launched seeking to remove Meek’s name from the journalism school, and the former administrator apologized for his comments.
“I apologize to those offended by my post,” Meek said. “My intent was to point out we have a problem in The Grove and on the Oxford Square.”
Ed Meek, namesake for the University of Mississippi’s Meek School of Journalism and New Media, posted a photo of two black women wearing skimpy dresses to complain about rowdiness after Saturday’s game that resulted in 40 arrests, reported The Daily Mississippian.
“I hesitated until now to publish these pictures but I think it important that our community see what the camera is seeing at 2 a.m. after a ballgame,” Meek posted Wednesday on his Facebook account. “I hear there were 180 police working the weekend but of all the pictures late night, the fights and scenes, I have seen no police presence. Chief of Police Joey East is quoted in the Mississippian as saying police made 40 arrest [sic] and that there were fights in most venues.”
“Enough, Oxford and Ole Miss leaders, get on top of this before it is too late,” Meek continued. “A 3 percent decline in enrollment is nothing compared to what we will see if this continues… and real estate values will plummet as will tax revenue. We all share in the responsibility to protect the values we hold dear that have made Oxford and Ole Miss known nationally.”
The university’s longtime assistant vice chancellor for public relations and marketing later deleted the post, after widespread condemnation by students and Chancellor Jeffrey Vitter.
“While we all want to ensure a safe, family-friendly environment at the University and in Oxford, I must condemn the tone and content of Ed Meek’s post from earlier today,” Vitter said. “The photos in his post suggest an unjustified racial overtone that is highly offensive. Ed, I urge you to withdraw your comment and apologize to anyone offended.”
Students wondered why Meek had singled out two black women for their attire.
“I’m confused… on Ole Miss game days, every other white female is dressed like this – especially if they are going out afterwards,” said student Twanna Gordon Phillips. “So by you posting these two black girls and the assumption you are making, (it) only makes you sound racist.”
Police said all the arrests were for public intoxication, although five were also charged with simple assault.
“Everybody had issues (Saturday) night. Every club, I think, had fights in it — it wasn’t just one area,” said police chief Joey East.
OPD made 40 arrests for public intoxication throughout the weekend, five of which were accompanied by simple assault charges.
The journalism school’s administrators called the post “highly offensive,” and said Meek’s comments did not represent their values or views.
An online petition was launched seeking to remove Meek’s name from the journalism school, and the former administrator apologized for his comments.
“I apologize to those offended by my post,” Meek said. “My intent was to point out we have a problem in The Grove and on the Oxford Square.”
Shortey an avid Trump supporter!!!
Republican Trump booster used Craigslist ads, obscene photos and fake names for child sex trafficking: unsealed court records
Sarah K. Burris - raw story
16 SEP 2018 AT 23:45 ET
Former Oklahoma state Sen. Ralph Shortey will be sentence Monday for a case in which he pleaded guilty to child sex trafficking and the records in the case have now been unsealed.
According to News9, the documents reveal Shortey placed Craiglist sex ads, took obscene motel photos and used fake names to traffick underage boys.
In 2017, Shortey was filmed by the body camera of a Moore, Oklahoma police officer doing a “wellness check” after a call came in about a boy in a Super Eight Motel. It was there Shortey was found with the teen.
“I’m sorry, you guys are just freaking me out a little bit,” Shortey said to the officer.
“Yeah, that’s kind of what we do,” the officer can be heard saying on the video. The officers didn’t know at the time that Shortey was an elected official and at first didn’t believe it was his real name. The officer can be heard saying that the boy is 17 years old. Shortey then claimed he “didn’t know.”
The records show 14 ads were posted by Shortey on Craigslist identifying him as “…a married guy looking for a boy…” and requests, “…younger the better…”
Several of the Craigslist ads ask for correspondence and photos. The 17-year-old victim in the motel room exchanged nude photos.
Shortey identified himself as “Brian Tilley,” one of two fake names investigators said he used online.
The court documents reveal photos of stains in an unmade hotel bed, though the 17-year-old victim said that they probably weren’t from his interaction with Shortey.
Shortey was an avid Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign and served as the campaign’s state chairman in the Oklahoma GOP primaries, which Trump won.
“I am proud and honored to have been tapped as Chairman of the campaign for Oklahoma,” Shortey wrote on his Facebook Sept. 2015, according to The Lost Ogle.
“We are very excited for the opportunity to have Mr. Trump here,” he said announcing a rally for Trump at the Oklahoma State Fair.
According to News9, the documents reveal Shortey placed Craiglist sex ads, took obscene motel photos and used fake names to traffick underage boys.
In 2017, Shortey was filmed by the body camera of a Moore, Oklahoma police officer doing a “wellness check” after a call came in about a boy in a Super Eight Motel. It was there Shortey was found with the teen.
“I’m sorry, you guys are just freaking me out a little bit,” Shortey said to the officer.
“Yeah, that’s kind of what we do,” the officer can be heard saying on the video. The officers didn’t know at the time that Shortey was an elected official and at first didn’t believe it was his real name. The officer can be heard saying that the boy is 17 years old. Shortey then claimed he “didn’t know.”
The records show 14 ads were posted by Shortey on Craigslist identifying him as “…a married guy looking for a boy…” and requests, “…younger the better…”
Several of the Craigslist ads ask for correspondence and photos. The 17-year-old victim in the motel room exchanged nude photos.
Shortey identified himself as “Brian Tilley,” one of two fake names investigators said he used online.
The court documents reveal photos of stains in an unmade hotel bed, though the 17-year-old victim said that they probably weren’t from his interaction with Shortey.
Shortey was an avid Trump supporter during the 2016 campaign and served as the campaign’s state chairman in the Oklahoma GOP primaries, which Trump won.
“I am proud and honored to have been tapped as Chairman of the campaign for Oklahoma,” Shortey wrote on his Facebook Sept. 2015, according to The Lost Ogle.
“We are very excited for the opportunity to have Mr. Trump here,” he said announcing a rally for Trump at the Oklahoma State Fair.
Minneapolis microbrewery begs for $700K in donations to move out of ‘dangerous’ neighborhood after gentrification plan fails
Martin Cizmar - raw story
12 SEP 2018 AT 14:06 ET
A microbrewery in Minneapolis is seeking donations to move it’s brewery out of a “dangerous” downtown location after its hopes of helping gentrify the neighborhood failed, reports the Minneapolis Star.
Boom Island Brewing, which has been around for seven years making mostly Belgian-inspired ales, is asking customers to donate $500,000 to $700,000 to help it find a more suitable location.
According to the Star, owner Kevin Welch moved into the overwhelmingly white city’s most diverse neighborhood where he “hoped to be part of West Broadway’s transformation.”
Instead of a “transformation,” though, Welch and his employees have witnessed violence and seen customer’s cars damaged. They complain that “biker gangs started peddling drugs in the alley” outside.
The last straw was a fatal shooting of a black man who is unnamed in the Star story, Steven F. Fields. Fields was a hotel employee who was smoking a cigarette when he was murdered.
Boom Island taproom manager Jim Barnard worried that it could have been him who was shot since he had left the area only 90 minutes before.
“It would have been a complete innocent bystander just walking out,” said Kevin Welch. “At some point, you have to look out for the safety of your employees.”
Welch said that he and his wife “believe in the neighborhood and wanted to make the most out of it” but that he is now scared.
“I’m scared to walk out to my own car,” he said.
Welch told City Pages that he wants to be moved out by the end of the year, even though statistics show the neighborhood is actually getting safer.
“How much worse can it get when you leave on Friday night, and there’s bullets flying around?” asks Kevin Welch, owner and head brewer at nearby Boom Island Brewing Co. “The motivation is extremely dire for us to get the heck out of the area.”
Boom Island Brewing, which has been around for seven years making mostly Belgian-inspired ales, is asking customers to donate $500,000 to $700,000 to help it find a more suitable location.
According to the Star, owner Kevin Welch moved into the overwhelmingly white city’s most diverse neighborhood where he “hoped to be part of West Broadway’s transformation.”
Instead of a “transformation,” though, Welch and his employees have witnessed violence and seen customer’s cars damaged. They complain that “biker gangs started peddling drugs in the alley” outside.
The last straw was a fatal shooting of a black man who is unnamed in the Star story, Steven F. Fields. Fields was a hotel employee who was smoking a cigarette when he was murdered.
Boom Island taproom manager Jim Barnard worried that it could have been him who was shot since he had left the area only 90 minutes before.
“It would have been a complete innocent bystander just walking out,” said Kevin Welch. “At some point, you have to look out for the safety of your employees.”
Welch said that he and his wife “believe in the neighborhood and wanted to make the most out of it” but that he is now scared.
“I’m scared to walk out to my own car,” he said.
Welch told City Pages that he wants to be moved out by the end of the year, even though statistics show the neighborhood is actually getting safer.
“How much worse can it get when you leave on Friday night, and there’s bullets flying around?” asks Kevin Welch, owner and head brewer at nearby Boom Island Brewing Co. “The motivation is extremely dire for us to get the heck out of the area.”
the "best people"!!!
'Jail juvenile offenders until middle age', Trump health secretary argued in 1991 memo
Alex Azar rejected notion that juvenile who committed a crime was ‘salvageable human’
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington
the guardian
Mon 10 Sep 2018 08.40 EDT
Donald Trump’s health secretary, who defended the administration’s child separation policy as “charity”, once argued in a private paper that repeat juvenile offenders cannot be rehabilitated and ought to be jailed until they reach middle age, according to a memo obtained by the Guardian.
A 1991 legal memo written by Alex Azar, a former drug industry executive who is now secretary of health and human services (HHS), rejected the notion that a juvenile who committed a crime was a “salvageable human” who could be treated rather than punished.
Instead, the memo, written for a senior attorney at a private law practice, outlined the legal rationale for a criminal justice policy that favoured reducing and deterring crime via mass incarceration.
Azar is closely linked personally and ideologically to Brett Kavanaugh, the Trump administration’s nominee to the supreme court. The two men were among the first young prosecutors hired by Kenneth Starr when he became independent counsel and investigated the Clinton administration. In a tweet following Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court, Azar said the judge had been a “close friend for 30 years”.
Azar has recently come under scrutiny because HHS has been charged with overseeing the supervision of more than 2,000 children separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The separation policy was designed to deter illegal crossings into the US.
Azar has defended the policy. In a July interview on CNN, he said the care of immigrant children represented “one of the great acts of American generosity and charity”. He also said the children were being cared for in federal facilities by “well-meaning, altruistic individuals” and were happy and loved in a “compassionate environment”.
The policy of separating parents from their children has ended but it is unclear how hundreds of children who remain in US custody will be reunitedwith their families.
The 1991 memo on criminal justice policy, which explores the legal rationale for mass incarceration, was written when Azar was a fresh graduate of Yale Law School, working as a summer associate for Richard Willard, a Reagan administration lawyer and attorney at Steptoe & Johnson.
Willard is listed as a contributor to the rightwing Federalist Society, which helped choose Kavanaugh as a nominee, and is a leading conservative voice on legal matters. According to one person who has followed Azar’s career, the young graduate’s work for Willard was seen as a way to develop his conservative credentials.
In the memo, Azar wrote that he had collected evidence to “undergird” Willard’s thesis, which the two had discussed.
Willard favoured incarceration as a deterrent to criminal behaviour, “locking up” repeat juvenile offenders until they were in their 30s – an age when the memo said individuals were no longer prone to commit acts of violent crime. The memo supported the growth of privately run prisons to handle overcrowding. Azar also made the assertion that young black men committed the vast majority of violent crimes, citing as evidence the frequency of their arrest.
The analysis did not critically analyse whether there was racial bias in policing and did not address the moral implications of decades-long jail sentences for juveniles.
“Special juvenile courts were created in late 19th century with [the] idea that [a] juvenile was a salvageable human who needed treatment rather than punishment in criminal court,” Azar wrote, citing a report. “We see today that that is not the case.”
Caitlin Oakely, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the memo did not necessarily reflect Azar’s current view on criminal justice matters. But she declined to comment on what that view was.
“Doing research at the instruction of a senior partner during a brief summer associateship 27 years ago says nothing about Secretary Azar’s personal opinions or views,” she said. “This is a ridiculous insinuation even by the standards of the Guardian. He was a summer associate; he was tasked with research for someone else’s project for someone else’s purposes.”
Legal and criminal justice experts who analysed the memo for the Guardian said it in some ways reflected conservative views about criminal justice in the early 1990s, when crime in America was at its peak.
“It’s fairly clear that Azar was given a thesis in quest for a basis and then tasked with backfilling that thesis with any factual support he could muster,” said Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law. The thesis favoured over-enforcement, hyper-policing of communities of colour, and mass incarceration to bolster privatisation.
“With the benefit of hindsight since 1991, we all know this approach has proven to be an unmitigated disaster,” Kassem said. “The profit incentive that has come with privatisation has driven mass incarceration in black and other communities of colour to epidemic proportions, with all sorts of social, economic, and political consequences, including disenfranchisement.”
Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the thesis presented by Azar reflected a time when policymakers had lost faith in rehabilitation and believed incarceration was the only solution to crime.
“Unfortunately those views are still held by a few people,” he said. “And the attorney general, and some of the president’s policy advisers, happen to be among them.”
A 1991 legal memo written by Alex Azar, a former drug industry executive who is now secretary of health and human services (HHS), rejected the notion that a juvenile who committed a crime was a “salvageable human” who could be treated rather than punished.
Instead, the memo, written for a senior attorney at a private law practice, outlined the legal rationale for a criminal justice policy that favoured reducing and deterring crime via mass incarceration.
Azar is closely linked personally and ideologically to Brett Kavanaugh, the Trump administration’s nominee to the supreme court. The two men were among the first young prosecutors hired by Kenneth Starr when he became independent counsel and investigated the Clinton administration. In a tweet following Kavanaugh’s nomination to the high court, Azar said the judge had been a “close friend for 30 years”.
Azar has recently come under scrutiny because HHS has been charged with overseeing the supervision of more than 2,000 children separated from their parents as part of the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The separation policy was designed to deter illegal crossings into the US.
Azar has defended the policy. In a July interview on CNN, he said the care of immigrant children represented “one of the great acts of American generosity and charity”. He also said the children were being cared for in federal facilities by “well-meaning, altruistic individuals” and were happy and loved in a “compassionate environment”.
The policy of separating parents from their children has ended but it is unclear how hundreds of children who remain in US custody will be reunitedwith their families.
The 1991 memo on criminal justice policy, which explores the legal rationale for mass incarceration, was written when Azar was a fresh graduate of Yale Law School, working as a summer associate for Richard Willard, a Reagan administration lawyer and attorney at Steptoe & Johnson.
Willard is listed as a contributor to the rightwing Federalist Society, which helped choose Kavanaugh as a nominee, and is a leading conservative voice on legal matters. According to one person who has followed Azar’s career, the young graduate’s work for Willard was seen as a way to develop his conservative credentials.
In the memo, Azar wrote that he had collected evidence to “undergird” Willard’s thesis, which the two had discussed.
Willard favoured incarceration as a deterrent to criminal behaviour, “locking up” repeat juvenile offenders until they were in their 30s – an age when the memo said individuals were no longer prone to commit acts of violent crime. The memo supported the growth of privately run prisons to handle overcrowding. Azar also made the assertion that young black men committed the vast majority of violent crimes, citing as evidence the frequency of their arrest.
The analysis did not critically analyse whether there was racial bias in policing and did not address the moral implications of decades-long jail sentences for juveniles.
“Special juvenile courts were created in late 19th century with [the] idea that [a] juvenile was a salvageable human who needed treatment rather than punishment in criminal court,” Azar wrote, citing a report. “We see today that that is not the case.”
Caitlin Oakely, a spokeswoman for HHS, said the memo did not necessarily reflect Azar’s current view on criminal justice matters. But she declined to comment on what that view was.
“Doing research at the instruction of a senior partner during a brief summer associateship 27 years ago says nothing about Secretary Azar’s personal opinions or views,” she said. “This is a ridiculous insinuation even by the standards of the Guardian. He was a summer associate; he was tasked with research for someone else’s project for someone else’s purposes.”
Legal and criminal justice experts who analysed the memo for the Guardian said it in some ways reflected conservative views about criminal justice in the early 1990s, when crime in America was at its peak.
“It’s fairly clear that Azar was given a thesis in quest for a basis and then tasked with backfilling that thesis with any factual support he could muster,” said Ramzi Kassem, a professor at CUNY School of Law. The thesis favoured over-enforcement, hyper-policing of communities of colour, and mass incarceration to bolster privatisation.
“With the benefit of hindsight since 1991, we all know this approach has proven to be an unmitigated disaster,” Kassem said. “The profit incentive that has come with privatisation has driven mass incarceration in black and other communities of colour to epidemic proportions, with all sorts of social, economic, and political consequences, including disenfranchisement.”
Ames Grawert, senior counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, said the thesis presented by Azar reflected a time when policymakers had lost faith in rehabilitation and believed incarceration was the only solution to crime.
“Unfortunately those views are still held by a few people,” he said. “And the attorney general, and some of the president’s policy advisers, happen to be among them.”
EXCLUSIVE: Clarence Thomas’ Wife Hired Ex-TPUSA Staffer Known For Saying ‘I Hate Blacks’
by Caleb Ecarma | meeia ite
Sep 6th, 2018, 12:57 pm
Conservative activist Chrystal Clanton, who was forced to leave the right-wing student group Turning Point USA last year after her racist comments were revealed, was hired by the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Mediaite has learned.
Clanton’s racist comments were made known publicly after the New Yorker obtained screenshots of text messages in which she wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Clanton served as TPUSA’s second-in-command — just below the group’s founder Charlie Kirk — for five years, before she left late last year after the nonprofit was made aware of the text messages and learned that they would be used in a story, according to multiple sources who spoke to Mediaite.
Shortly after she left TPUSA, Clanton was hired by Ginni Thomas — the wife of the only black Supreme Court Justice currently serving on the bench — to assist with her right-wing media ventures.
Clanton, Ginni Thomas, and Clarence Thomas were contacted for comment on this story, but they did not immediately respond.
“A True Honor to have videoed Donald Trump, Jr. — a real class act — today at the Trump Hotel for my next video interview coming at Daily Caller this weekend!” Ginni Thomas posted on Facebook in January. “Hat Tip to Crystal Clanton (who makes every day better and more fun!) for snapping some pictures too of our interviewee, and Sean Moody, our videographer!”
Ginni Thomas’ interview — which Clanton aided in the production of — occurred just over a month after Clanton’s racist comments were made public in the pages of the New Yorker.
Since then, Clanton has traveled to numerous events with Ginni Thomas.
According to several sources with direct knowledge, the ex-TPUSA staffer attended this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference with the Supreme Court justice’s wife. Additionally, Thomas and Clanton went to Dallas, Texas in June and paid a visit to TPUSA’s Young Women Leadership conference where the two posed for photos with activists and TPUSA staffers, as well as advocated for the ultra-conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be the next Speaker of the House.
Ginni Thomas currently serves on TPUSA’s advisory board and spoke at the nonprofit’s Women’s Summit in 2017.
Clanton “always idolized Ginni,” one source told Mediaite. She flaunts her relationship with the Thomases to conservative friends as a way to prove that the New Yorker‘s publication of her racist text messages did not ruin her career, other sources said. In July, Clanton shared a photo on Instagram of herself, Thomas, and Ginni Thomas having a “great weekend” together.
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Clanton’s anti-black comments, however, are not the extent of her controversial remarks.
Numerous sources who worked with Clanton detailed how she would exchange racist remarks regularly with other TPUSA staffers — including Alana Mastrangelo, who currently works for the group, and Timox Prax, who was allegedly forced out of TPUSA this year over “bigoted” remarks — using Snapchat.
One such message reviewed by Mediaite features a photo of a man who appears to be Arab and a caption written by Clanton that reads, “Just thinking about ways to do another 9/11.” (The source who provided Mediaite with the image requested it not be published to protect their anonymity.)
To keep up with their “Snapstreaks” — a feature in the app that counts how many consecutive days two users have used the app to communicate with each other — Clanton, Prax, Mastrangelo, and others would often send similar anti-Muslim messages that included remarks like “a bacon a day keeps the Islams away” and “Ramadan bombathon,” as well as taking pictures of their heads wrapped in towels to mock head coverings commonly worn by Arabs, according to sources who received the messages.
Clanton, Prax, and Mastrangelo were all contacted for comment on this story, but they did not respond to multiple requests.
During her time at TPUSA, Clanton was known as Charlie Kirk’s “enforcer,” per one source. Another person that worked with her joked that Clanton was “the person who made the trains run on time,” a reference to the common myth about fascist dictator Benito Mussolini using harsh policies to ensure efficiency in his country.
This meant that Clanton was in charge of “literally everything” — the conferences, the field work, and even TPUSA’s human resources department. She ran the show without much help from Kirk, who sources say is often preoccupied with boosting his own personal brand by appearing on Fox News and pursuing other opportunities in conservative media. Clanton’s work for TPUSA earned her high praise in Kirk’s 2016 book, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, in which he calls her “the best hire we ever could have made.”
“[Clanton is] integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer,” Kirk wrote. “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”
Other evidence of racism within TPUSA includes a HuffPost report on dozens of bigoted tweets posted by former and current staffers and a Mediaite report that revealed how TPUSA ignored its own black list to allow an alt-right activist who marched in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally to attend their Student Action Summit last year.
As for Ginni Thomas, she has long worked in conservative media. Going back to 2009, she advocated on behalf of the Tea Party movement by forming Liberty Central, an organization designed to fight the “hard-left agenda” supposedly pushed by then-President Barack Obama. Ginni Thomas went on to create the lobbying firm Liberty Consulting where she continued supporting the ultra conservative wing of the GOP. Since her Tea Party days, she has spoken at numerous conservative events and conferences, as well as penned columns and created videos for the Daily Caller, the right-wing website founded by Tucker Carlson. Per a Daily Beast report, Ginni Thomas responded to the Trump travel ban debacle by contacting a right-wing email list in an attempt at creating a “grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items.”
Most recently, Ginni Thomas’ social media presence — with which Clanton assists — has taken a hard-right turn.
As reported by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern — who has extensively covered Ginni Thomas’ antics — the justice’s wife mocked Parkland shooting survivors David Hogg and Emma González in Facebook posts that mirrored right-wing memes about the two young activists.
Clanton’s racist comments were made known publicly after the New Yorker obtained screenshots of text messages in which she wrote, “I HATE BLACK PEOPLE. Like fuck them all . . . I hate blacks. End of story.”
Clanton served as TPUSA’s second-in-command — just below the group’s founder Charlie Kirk — for five years, before she left late last year after the nonprofit was made aware of the text messages and learned that they would be used in a story, according to multiple sources who spoke to Mediaite.
Shortly after she left TPUSA, Clanton was hired by Ginni Thomas — the wife of the only black Supreme Court Justice currently serving on the bench — to assist with her right-wing media ventures.
Clanton, Ginni Thomas, and Clarence Thomas were contacted for comment on this story, but they did not immediately respond.
“A True Honor to have videoed Donald Trump, Jr. — a real class act — today at the Trump Hotel for my next video interview coming at Daily Caller this weekend!” Ginni Thomas posted on Facebook in January. “Hat Tip to Crystal Clanton (who makes every day better and more fun!) for snapping some pictures too of our interviewee, and Sean Moody, our videographer!”
Ginni Thomas’ interview — which Clanton aided in the production of — occurred just over a month after Clanton’s racist comments were made public in the pages of the New Yorker.
Since then, Clanton has traveled to numerous events with Ginni Thomas.
According to several sources with direct knowledge, the ex-TPUSA staffer attended this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference with the Supreme Court justice’s wife. Additionally, Thomas and Clanton went to Dallas, Texas in June and paid a visit to TPUSA’s Young Women Leadership conference where the two posed for photos with activists and TPUSA staffers, as well as advocated for the ultra-conservative Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) to be the next Speaker of the House.
Ginni Thomas currently serves on TPUSA’s advisory board and spoke at the nonprofit’s Women’s Summit in 2017.
Clanton “always idolized Ginni,” one source told Mediaite. She flaunts her relationship with the Thomases to conservative friends as a way to prove that the New Yorker‘s publication of her racist text messages did not ruin her career, other sources said. In July, Clanton shared a photo on Instagram of herself, Thomas, and Ginni Thomas having a “great weekend” together.
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Clanton’s anti-black comments, however, are not the extent of her controversial remarks.
Numerous sources who worked with Clanton detailed how she would exchange racist remarks regularly with other TPUSA staffers — including Alana Mastrangelo, who currently works for the group, and Timox Prax, who was allegedly forced out of TPUSA this year over “bigoted” remarks — using Snapchat.
One such message reviewed by Mediaite features a photo of a man who appears to be Arab and a caption written by Clanton that reads, “Just thinking about ways to do another 9/11.” (The source who provided Mediaite with the image requested it not be published to protect their anonymity.)
To keep up with their “Snapstreaks” — a feature in the app that counts how many consecutive days two users have used the app to communicate with each other — Clanton, Prax, Mastrangelo, and others would often send similar anti-Muslim messages that included remarks like “a bacon a day keeps the Islams away” and “Ramadan bombathon,” as well as taking pictures of their heads wrapped in towels to mock head coverings commonly worn by Arabs, according to sources who received the messages.
Clanton, Prax, and Mastrangelo were all contacted for comment on this story, but they did not respond to multiple requests.
During her time at TPUSA, Clanton was known as Charlie Kirk’s “enforcer,” per one source. Another person that worked with her joked that Clanton was “the person who made the trains run on time,” a reference to the common myth about fascist dictator Benito Mussolini using harsh policies to ensure efficiency in his country.
This meant that Clanton was in charge of “literally everything” — the conferences, the field work, and even TPUSA’s human resources department. She ran the show without much help from Kirk, who sources say is often preoccupied with boosting his own personal brand by appearing on Fox News and pursuing other opportunities in conservative media. Clanton’s work for TPUSA earned her high praise in Kirk’s 2016 book, Time for a Turning Point: Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations, in which he calls her “the best hire we ever could have made.”
“[Clanton is] integral to the success of Turning Point while effectively serving as its chief operating officer,” Kirk wrote. “Turning Point needs more Crystals; so does America.”
Other evidence of racism within TPUSA includes a HuffPost report on dozens of bigoted tweets posted by former and current staffers and a Mediaite report that revealed how TPUSA ignored its own black list to allow an alt-right activist who marched in the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally to attend their Student Action Summit last year.
As for Ginni Thomas, she has long worked in conservative media. Going back to 2009, she advocated on behalf of the Tea Party movement by forming Liberty Central, an organization designed to fight the “hard-left agenda” supposedly pushed by then-President Barack Obama. Ginni Thomas went on to create the lobbying firm Liberty Consulting where she continued supporting the ultra conservative wing of the GOP. Since her Tea Party days, she has spoken at numerous conservative events and conferences, as well as penned columns and created videos for the Daily Caller, the right-wing website founded by Tucker Carlson. Per a Daily Beast report, Ginni Thomas responded to the Trump travel ban debacle by contacting a right-wing email list in an attempt at creating a “grassroots army for pro-Trump daily action items.”
Most recently, Ginni Thomas’ social media presence — with which Clanton assists — has taken a hard-right turn.
As reported by Slate’s Mark Joseph Stern — who has extensively covered Ginni Thomas’ antics — the justice’s wife mocked Parkland shooting survivors David Hogg and Emma González in Facebook posts that mirrored right-wing memes about the two young activists.
'Jewtropolis': antisemitic hack hits map used by Snapchat and Citi Bike
Users of some services saw New York relabelled in a hack this week as digital maps become the latest battleground for abuse
Sam Wolfson
the guardian
Fri 31 Aug 2018 07.00 EDT
New York as it appeared on the Weather Channel website Thursday morning. Photograph: The Weather Channel
On Thursday morning, some users of the maps functionality on Snapchatwere shocked to see New York labelled “Jewtropolis”. Users of the bike-rental scheme Citi Bike, the real estate website StreetEasy and the Weather Channel website saw the same thing.
No one at any of those companies appears to be responsible. Instead the blame lies with Mapbox, a third-party company that provides maps for online brands. Mapbox relies partly on user-provided data, and while there are supposed to be checks in place to prevent abuse of the system, it seems a prankster had managed to get through them and give New York a new antisemitic moniker, albeit one that was changed within an hour once moderators had spotted it.
In a statement, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said the defacement was “deeply offensive”. Mapbox called it “malicious hate speech” and a “disgusting attack” and said they were reviewing how it could have happened. Yet this is far from the first shot to be fired in the war of the maps apps.
You could be forgiven for thinking that online maps are one of the least controversial parts of the internet. Yes, social media may be rife with abuse, bullying and fake news, but apps like Google Maps and Waze appear to be objective, useful services.
On the internet, though, things are never be that simple. Although services like Google and Mapbox use a wide range of data sources including Ordnance Survey maps, information from federal and local governments and location data, they also rely in part on submissions from the public – and that’s where trouble can begin brewing.
Some of these hacks are relatively harmless. After some senators suggested renaming the Russell Office Building in the Senate after John McCain earlier this week, an enthusiastic well-wisher managed to rename the building on Google Maps before any official decision had been made, changing the block to the “McCain Senate Office Building”. Google Maps has since reversed the change.
But most of the hacks are a lot more pernicious. During Barack Obama’s presidency, for example, there were times when searching for the racist terms “nigger house” or “nigger king”, when focused on Washington DC, would immediately show you information for the White House.
People also hack maps features as a means of protest. Serbian Crown, a Washington DC restaurant which served controversial meats including lion and alligator, suddenly found one weekend that business had dropped off, with the owner estimating a 75% reduction in customers. This continued for months, and the restaurant had to lay off staff and make cutbacks. Eventually they realised that their opening hours had been changed on Google, so it appeared the restaurant was closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. By the time they were able to get it changed it was too late and the restaurant was forced to close. The owner later tried unsuccessfully to sue Google.
There are thousands of other fake businesses, faulty information and jokes on maps services, some a form of political protest, but most are just personal in-jokes. But because the algorithm Google and others use to populate maps are a mystery, it’s often difficult to get things changed when mistakes are spotted.
On at least one occasion, though, Google was extremely quick to make changes. In 2015, an area of woodland in Pakistan briefly displayed the logo of Google’s Android software urinating on the Apple logo. Once discovered, Google decided not to keep the design as an emblem of their market dominance in the maps arena, and the image was quickly removed.
No one at any of those companies appears to be responsible. Instead the blame lies with Mapbox, a third-party company that provides maps for online brands. Mapbox relies partly on user-provided data, and while there are supposed to be checks in place to prevent abuse of the system, it seems a prankster had managed to get through them and give New York a new antisemitic moniker, albeit one that was changed within an hour once moderators had spotted it.
In a statement, Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, said the defacement was “deeply offensive”. Mapbox called it “malicious hate speech” and a “disgusting attack” and said they were reviewing how it could have happened. Yet this is far from the first shot to be fired in the war of the maps apps.
You could be forgiven for thinking that online maps are one of the least controversial parts of the internet. Yes, social media may be rife with abuse, bullying and fake news, but apps like Google Maps and Waze appear to be objective, useful services.
On the internet, though, things are never be that simple. Although services like Google and Mapbox use a wide range of data sources including Ordnance Survey maps, information from federal and local governments and location data, they also rely in part on submissions from the public – and that’s where trouble can begin brewing.
Some of these hacks are relatively harmless. After some senators suggested renaming the Russell Office Building in the Senate after John McCain earlier this week, an enthusiastic well-wisher managed to rename the building on Google Maps before any official decision had been made, changing the block to the “McCain Senate Office Building”. Google Maps has since reversed the change.
But most of the hacks are a lot more pernicious. During Barack Obama’s presidency, for example, there were times when searching for the racist terms “nigger house” or “nigger king”, when focused on Washington DC, would immediately show you information for the White House.
People also hack maps features as a means of protest. Serbian Crown, a Washington DC restaurant which served controversial meats including lion and alligator, suddenly found one weekend that business had dropped off, with the owner estimating a 75% reduction in customers. This continued for months, and the restaurant had to lay off staff and make cutbacks. Eventually they realised that their opening hours had been changed on Google, so it appeared the restaurant was closed on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. By the time they were able to get it changed it was too late and the restaurant was forced to close. The owner later tried unsuccessfully to sue Google.
There are thousands of other fake businesses, faulty information and jokes on maps services, some a form of political protest, but most are just personal in-jokes. But because the algorithm Google and others use to populate maps are a mystery, it’s often difficult to get things changed when mistakes are spotted.
On at least one occasion, though, Google was extremely quick to make changes. In 2015, an area of woodland in Pakistan briefly displayed the logo of Google’s Android software urinating on the Apple logo. Once discovered, Google decided not to keep the design as an emblem of their market dominance in the maps arena, and the image was quickly removed.
how many of them can spell "russia"???
KKK invites Trump supporters to speak after ‘I’d Rather Be Russian Than Democrat’ shirts go viral
David Edwards - raw story
28 AUG 2018 AT 13:03 ET
Richard Birchfield and Tim Alicie pose with "I'd Rather Be Russian Than Democrat" shirts in viral photo (Cleaveland.com)
Two supporters of Pr*sident Donald Trump were invited to speak at a Ku Klux Klan event after they wore pro-Russia shirts to one of the president’s rallies.
Earlier this month a Cleveland.com photo of Richard Birchfield and Tim Alicie posing with their “I’d Rather Be Russian Than Democrat” shirts went viral.
This week, the two men told Cleveland.com that they were not “traitors” as many have claimed, and that they are “addicted” to Fox News.
Both men said that they had avoided most of the negative comments about their shirts because they have flip phones and don’t use the internet.
According to Birchfield and Alicie, not everyone was critical of their shirts. In fact, they received an invitation to speak at a Columbus meeting of the KKK. But the men turned down the offer.
“I surely don’t agree with any of their views,” Alicie said.
But Alicie wasn’t bothered by having support from the KKK.
“For the most part, they’re probably not a hell of a lot different than anybody else,” he opined. “But I can’t help it that they got a twisted mind the way they think about certain things.”
“We’re not traitors by any means. And we’re not Russian spies or cult leaders,” Alicie told the paper, adding that they had embraced being called “Russian hillbillies.”
Read the entire column at Cleveland.com.
Earlier this month a Cleveland.com photo of Richard Birchfield and Tim Alicie posing with their “I’d Rather Be Russian Than Democrat” shirts went viral.
This week, the two men told Cleveland.com that they were not “traitors” as many have claimed, and that they are “addicted” to Fox News.
Both men said that they had avoided most of the negative comments about their shirts because they have flip phones and don’t use the internet.
According to Birchfield and Alicie, not everyone was critical of their shirts. In fact, they received an invitation to speak at a Columbus meeting of the KKK. But the men turned down the offer.
“I surely don’t agree with any of their views,” Alicie said.
But Alicie wasn’t bothered by having support from the KKK.
“For the most part, they’re probably not a hell of a lot different than anybody else,” he opined. “But I can’t help it that they got a twisted mind the way they think about certain things.”
“We’re not traitors by any means. And we’re not Russian spies or cult leaders,” Alicie told the paper, adding that they had embraced being called “Russian hillbillies.”
Read the entire column at Cleveland.com.
an educated fool!!!
Oklahoma Republican running for top education office caught promoting typo-laden conspiracy theory Clintons caused 9-11
Sarah K. Burris - raw story
27 AUG 2018 AT 17:21 ET
Oklahoma Republican Linda Murphy is in a runoff race for State Superintendent for Public Instruction, a state-wide office that navigates education. Unfortunately for Murphy, a fake Twitter account has raised the profile of the candidate’s existing tweets that promote conspiracy theories and homophobia.
Oklahoma voters shared screen captures of a now-suspended Twitter account @LindaVMurphy, claiming to be the same as the candidate. It replied to Fox News hosts saying liberals should be given a noose and other inflammatory rhetoric. According to Murphy, however, that account had nothing to do with her and was faked.
“I did NOT ever have that account,” Murphy said in an email to Raw Story. “That was made up by someone….. I don’t know who. Some horrible tweets were sent out by some claiming it was me. My name is Linda D. Murphy (Dianne is my middle name)”
While Murphy called what the fake Twitter account said “horrible tweets,” it prompted a closer examination of the tweets on Murphy’s existing campaign account @LindaMurphyOKED.
In wake of the Supreme Court striking down bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional in 2015, Murphy retweeted a meme that featured rainbow-lit buildings worldwide. The caption read: “A limp-wristed gospel makes a limp-wristed culture.”
In another tweet from Nov. 2015, Murphy appears to blame the Clintons for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Towers.
In a blog post for Rebooting Liberty, a site that is now defunct, Murphy appeared to write an op-ed titled “The Oklahoma City bombing and a Muslim terrorist refugee,” according to the Way-back Machine.
“Refugees are set to flood into the United States from muslim [sic] countries which are being over run [sic] by ISIS, causing legitimate concerns that among those people will be muslims [sic] who are trained and ready to become terrorists,” Murphy wrote.
The Oklahoma City Bombing was conducted by Timothy McVeigh, a white American who did not identify as Muslim. McVeigh indicated the bombing had to do with the overreach of the federal government. No Muslim was ever involved with the Oklahoma City bombing.
When the story was tweeted by self-described “Constitutional conservative” Jared Day, he put in all capital letters that the Clintons caused 9-11 with a link to her op-ed. Murphy retweeted it with the comment, “Yes, While he was president.”
President George W. Bush had been in office for just shy of nine months when the U.S. was attacked. The administration was warned extensivly.
“What??? Not on my account. I’ve never tweeted that. If it is there it was hacked,” Murphy told Raw Story when asked for comment about the LGBT tweet and the Clinton conspiracy theory. As of 5 p.m. EST, the tweets were still visible on Murphy’s official account linked from her campaign website.
It is unknown if the blog post at Rebooting Liberty was also hacked and replaced. It is also unclear if the piece was spell-checked or edited prior to being posted, but the candidate to head the state’s top education post didn’t capitalize Muslim and didn’t know overrun was one word.
The runoff election in Oklahoma is Tuesday. Oklahoma is ranked 48th in the nation for education quality and got a D+ rating for spending on education.
Oklahoma voters shared screen captures of a now-suspended Twitter account @LindaVMurphy, claiming to be the same as the candidate. It replied to Fox News hosts saying liberals should be given a noose and other inflammatory rhetoric. According to Murphy, however, that account had nothing to do with her and was faked.
“I did NOT ever have that account,” Murphy said in an email to Raw Story. “That was made up by someone….. I don’t know who. Some horrible tweets were sent out by some claiming it was me. My name is Linda D. Murphy (Dianne is my middle name)”
While Murphy called what the fake Twitter account said “horrible tweets,” it prompted a closer examination of the tweets on Murphy’s existing campaign account @LindaMurphyOKED.
In wake of the Supreme Court striking down bans on same-sex marriage as unconstitutional in 2015, Murphy retweeted a meme that featured rainbow-lit buildings worldwide. The caption read: “A limp-wristed gospel makes a limp-wristed culture.”
In another tweet from Nov. 2015, Murphy appears to blame the Clintons for the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Towers.
In a blog post for Rebooting Liberty, a site that is now defunct, Murphy appeared to write an op-ed titled “The Oklahoma City bombing and a Muslim terrorist refugee,” according to the Way-back Machine.
“Refugees are set to flood into the United States from muslim [sic] countries which are being over run [sic] by ISIS, causing legitimate concerns that among those people will be muslims [sic] who are trained and ready to become terrorists,” Murphy wrote.
The Oklahoma City Bombing was conducted by Timothy McVeigh, a white American who did not identify as Muslim. McVeigh indicated the bombing had to do with the overreach of the federal government. No Muslim was ever involved with the Oklahoma City bombing.
When the story was tweeted by self-described “Constitutional conservative” Jared Day, he put in all capital letters that the Clintons caused 9-11 with a link to her op-ed. Murphy retweeted it with the comment, “Yes, While he was president.”
President George W. Bush had been in office for just shy of nine months when the U.S. was attacked. The administration was warned extensivly.
“What??? Not on my account. I’ve never tweeted that. If it is there it was hacked,” Murphy told Raw Story when asked for comment about the LGBT tweet and the Clinton conspiracy theory. As of 5 p.m. EST, the tweets were still visible on Murphy’s official account linked from her campaign website.
It is unknown if the blog post at Rebooting Liberty was also hacked and replaced. It is also unclear if the piece was spell-checked or edited prior to being posted, but the candidate to head the state’s top education post didn’t capitalize Muslim and didn’t know overrun was one word.
The runoff election in Oklahoma is Tuesday. Oklahoma is ranked 48th in the nation for education quality and got a D+ rating for spending on education.
Trump-loving school bus driver mocks students’ names: ‘It’s like their parents were smoking crack’
Travis Gettys - raw story
24 AUG 2018 AT 08:44 ET
A West Virginia school bus driver who backs President Donald Trump complained that he was unable to learn some children’s names — and he slurred their parents as drug users.
Paul Cochran and his fellow school bus driver and friend Paul Black were profiled by the Washington Post, where they explained their divergent political views.
Both men voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but their politics have split.
The 54-year-old Cochran grew up in a Democratic family but has mostly voted Republican, and he has backed Trump from the start of his campaign.
“I didn’t say Uncle Donny was perfect,” Cochran told his friend during a good-natured political debate. “He’s a businessman. But I know for a fact that when I lay my head down tonight, I’ll feel safer.”
Cochran and the 60-year-old Black have watched opioids and gun violence ravage their community in Charleston, and both men slip cash, snacks and personal hygiene products to kids who ride their buses.
“Dollar General is your best friend,” Cochran said.
But he admits the changing demographics of Charleston can be confusing, and he struggled to recall the names of two young girls who got into a fight on his bus after the white student called her black classmate a “pill head” and then a “gorilla head.”
“You can’t learn these kids’ names,” Cochran said. “Bay-yan-zhay, Ta-mar-zhay, Du-mar-zhay. It’s like their parents were smoking crack and looked on the back of a pack of food and named them. You know what I mean? You can’t learn them.”
It’s not just children with black-sounding names, however. Cochran recognized a former colleague from his 19 years as a bus driver while watching Trump’s rally this week in West Virginia.
“See her beside that black guy?” Cochran asked Black. “I just can’t remember her name.”
Paul Cochran and his fellow school bus driver and friend Paul Black were profiled by the Washington Post, where they explained their divergent political views.
Both men voted for Barack Obama in 2008, but their politics have split.
The 54-year-old Cochran grew up in a Democratic family but has mostly voted Republican, and he has backed Trump from the start of his campaign.
“I didn’t say Uncle Donny was perfect,” Cochran told his friend during a good-natured political debate. “He’s a businessman. But I know for a fact that when I lay my head down tonight, I’ll feel safer.”
Cochran and the 60-year-old Black have watched opioids and gun violence ravage their community in Charleston, and both men slip cash, snacks and personal hygiene products to kids who ride their buses.
“Dollar General is your best friend,” Cochran said.
But he admits the changing demographics of Charleston can be confusing, and he struggled to recall the names of two young girls who got into a fight on his bus after the white student called her black classmate a “pill head” and then a “gorilla head.”
“You can’t learn these kids’ names,” Cochran said. “Bay-yan-zhay, Ta-mar-zhay, Du-mar-zhay. It’s like their parents were smoking crack and looked on the back of a pack of food and named them. You know what I mean? You can’t learn them.”
It’s not just children with black-sounding names, however. Cochran recognized a former colleague from his 19 years as a bus driver while watching Trump’s rally this week in West Virginia.
“See her beside that black guy?” Cochran asked Black. “I just can’t remember her name.”
'It's Witchcraft That's Trying to Take America Back Over': Alabama Pastor Goes on Insane Rant in Defense of Trump
Pastor John Kilpatrick has an interesting theory about why Trump is having a bad week.
By Matthew Chapman / AlterNet
August 22, 2018, 12:51 PM GMT
The federal investigations into President Donald Trump and his associates have been described by Trump, and those loyal to him, as a "witch hunt."
But one pastor in Alabama is entertaining exactly the opposite: he believes that Trump's problems are the result of witchcraft.
According to AL.com, Pastor John Kilpatrick of Church of His Presence led his congregation in a prayer to protect Trump from the witches who are secretly working to take him down.
"When Elijah faced Jezebel, he was facing witchcraft ... What’s happening right now in America, is witchcraft’s trying to take this country over. It’s witchcraft that’s trying to take America back over." he said.
He added, "I am not being political, but I don’t see how President Trump bears up under it. He is as strong as I've ever seen a man be. But here’s what the Holy Spirit said to me last night and what He said for me to tell you. He said, ‘Tell the church that so far, Trump has been dealing with Ahab. But Jezebel’s fixing to step out from the shadows.’ That’s what the Lord said to me."
"Witchcraft was in full control and witchcraft was what knocked Elijah out of his position, took him out of power," Kilpatrick continued. "Oh my God. I heard the Lord say there’s going to be an attempt to take him out of power. Let’s stand and pray right now."
A Pentecostal minister whose denomination is known for faith healing and speaking in tongues, Kilpatrick claimed in an interview with AL.com to be a registered independent but a Trump voter. He also attempted without great success to clarify his position, saying "It’s not a witch after him, it’s a spirit of witchcraft trying to muzzle him."
This sort of rhetoric is common among a certain fringe element of extremist Trump supporters. Lou Engle, a member of the pro-Trump dominionist "POTUS Shield" network, has been praying for God to eliminate liberal judges and said that people protesting Trump's move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy are "cursing" senators with "brazen witchcraft."
But one pastor in Alabama is entertaining exactly the opposite: he believes that Trump's problems are the result of witchcraft.
According to AL.com, Pastor John Kilpatrick of Church of His Presence led his congregation in a prayer to protect Trump from the witches who are secretly working to take him down.
"When Elijah faced Jezebel, he was facing witchcraft ... What’s happening right now in America, is witchcraft’s trying to take this country over. It’s witchcraft that’s trying to take America back over." he said.
He added, "I am not being political, but I don’t see how President Trump bears up under it. He is as strong as I've ever seen a man be. But here’s what the Holy Spirit said to me last night and what He said for me to tell you. He said, ‘Tell the church that so far, Trump has been dealing with Ahab. But Jezebel’s fixing to step out from the shadows.’ That’s what the Lord said to me."
"Witchcraft was in full control and witchcraft was what knocked Elijah out of his position, took him out of power," Kilpatrick continued. "Oh my God. I heard the Lord say there’s going to be an attempt to take him out of power. Let’s stand and pray right now."
A Pentecostal minister whose denomination is known for faith healing and speaking in tongues, Kilpatrick claimed in an interview with AL.com to be a registered independent but a Trump voter. He also attempted without great success to clarify his position, saying "It’s not a witch after him, it’s a spirit of witchcraft trying to muzzle him."
This sort of rhetoric is common among a certain fringe element of extremist Trump supporters. Lou Engle, a member of the pro-Trump dominionist "POTUS Shield" network, has been praying for God to eliminate liberal judges and said that people protesting Trump's move to fill the Supreme Court vacancy are "cursing" senators with "brazen witchcraft."
New Jersey school board candidate called Black people ‘animals’ and ‘useless wastes of life’
Richard Jankowski made all the Facebook posts public, so anyone could read them.
ADRIENNE MAHSA VARKIANI - thinkprogress
AUG 19, 2018, 10:47 AM
(PHOTO CREDIT: RICK JANKOWSKI FOR MONROE BOE/FACEBOOK)
A New Jersey school board candidate often made racist comments on Facebook, calling Black people “animals” and “useless wastes of life.” He also frequently made homophobic and transphobic comments, mocked people with disabilities, and disparaged those calling for criminal justice reform.
Richard Jankowski, a 51-year-old candidate in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, made the comments on Facebook from 2013 to 2016, according to a report from the New Jersey Globe. Jankowski’s posts were all public, meaning anyone could see them.
“Glad the legal system finally got it right,” Jankowski wrote in July 2013, a day after George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges for killing Travyon Martin, a Black unarmed teenager.
Jankowski added that he hopes the NFL suspends all the players who tweeted about the verdict. “Call me a racist if you want but I’m a realist… YOU are the racists and the problems with this country, if you don’t like being profiled, start being productive members of society or get the hell out of this country.”
A year later, he criticized the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white cop shot and killed Michael Brown, another unarmed Black teenager. At the time, the militarized police response to the Ferguson protests unsettled people across the country. Jankowski, however, was more interested in the instances of looting, calling the protesters “animals.”
“Hats off to the residents of Ferguson, Missouri … once again you animals showed your stupidity and ignorance by looting and burning businesses in your own town because a shoplifting kid who assaulted a cop was shot … act like a law abiding citizen and this crap never happens!,” he wrote in August 2014.
Four days later, he wrote again, “You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me. … Get a f—— job and contribute you useless wastes of life instead of constantly committing crimes and protesting when you get what you deserve.”
During the protests in April 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland — after 25-year-old Freddie Gray died in the back of a police car — Jankowski said it was “time to start firing bullets into these fucking monkeys and send them to their grave.”
Six candidates are vying for three open seats on the Board of Education in Monroe Township. About a quarter of the district’s population is non-white, according to U.S. Census data. That number increases to 33 percent for the local high school, according to an analysis from U.S. News and World Report.
Jankowski also criticized Caitlyn Jenner, Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, the LGBTQ community, former President Barack Obama, criminal justice reform, Cher, and LeBron James.
“GAY BLACK MAN KILLS 2 STRAIGHT WHITE REPORTERS,” read one post with the image of the Pride flag behind it. “TIME TO BAN THIS FLAG.” The image did not link to an actual article and was originally posted on Facebook by the blog Right Wing News.
“I’m going to make sure with my base, that they know about this gentleman who’s running for school board,” Gloucester NAACP President Loretta Winters told the Globe. “He should not – he should not – represent anyone. He refers to people as animals, he shouldn’t even be representing animals.”
“You can’t refer to black folks or anybody as monkeys or animals,” she told the Washington Post on Saturday. “And to say that ‘we need to get our guns out, and be shooting them,’ to me that’s almost a terroristic threat against any people of color.”
Winters said that Jankowski called to apologize and say that he was dropping out of the race. She told the Post she accepted the apology but added that she believed it only happened because “he got exposed.”
Jankowski’s personal Facebook page and the public one for his campaign have both either been set to private or deactivated.
Richard Jankowski, a 51-year-old candidate in Monroe Township, Gloucester County, made the comments on Facebook from 2013 to 2016, according to a report from the New Jersey Globe. Jankowski’s posts were all public, meaning anyone could see them.
“Glad the legal system finally got it right,” Jankowski wrote in July 2013, a day after George Zimmerman was acquitted of all charges for killing Travyon Martin, a Black unarmed teenager.
Jankowski added that he hopes the NFL suspends all the players who tweeted about the verdict. “Call me a racist if you want but I’m a realist… YOU are the racists and the problems with this country, if you don’t like being profiled, start being productive members of society or get the hell out of this country.”
A year later, he criticized the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, after a white cop shot and killed Michael Brown, another unarmed Black teenager. At the time, the militarized police response to the Ferguson protests unsettled people across the country. Jankowski, however, was more interested in the instances of looting, calling the protesters “animals.”
“Hats off to the residents of Ferguson, Missouri … once again you animals showed your stupidity and ignorance by looting and burning businesses in your own town because a shoplifting kid who assaulted a cop was shot … act like a law abiding citizen and this crap never happens!,” he wrote in August 2014.
Four days later, he wrote again, “You are not Americans, you are animals who disgust me. … Get a f—— job and contribute you useless wastes of life instead of constantly committing crimes and protesting when you get what you deserve.”
During the protests in April 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland — after 25-year-old Freddie Gray died in the back of a police car — Jankowski said it was “time to start firing bullets into these fucking monkeys and send them to their grave.”
Six candidates are vying for three open seats on the Board of Education in Monroe Township. About a quarter of the district’s population is non-white, according to U.S. Census data. That number increases to 33 percent for the local high school, according to an analysis from U.S. News and World Report.
Jankowski also criticized Caitlyn Jenner, Eagles safety Malcolm Jenkins, the LGBTQ community, former President Barack Obama, criminal justice reform, Cher, and LeBron James.
“GAY BLACK MAN KILLS 2 STRAIGHT WHITE REPORTERS,” read one post with the image of the Pride flag behind it. “TIME TO BAN THIS FLAG.” The image did not link to an actual article and was originally posted on Facebook by the blog Right Wing News.
“I’m going to make sure with my base, that they know about this gentleman who’s running for school board,” Gloucester NAACP President Loretta Winters told the Globe. “He should not – he should not – represent anyone. He refers to people as animals, he shouldn’t even be representing animals.”
“You can’t refer to black folks or anybody as monkeys or animals,” she told the Washington Post on Saturday. “And to say that ‘we need to get our guns out, and be shooting them,’ to me that’s almost a terroristic threat against any people of color.”
Winters said that Jankowski called to apologize and say that he was dropping out of the race. She told the Post she accepted the apology but added that she believed it only happened because “he got exposed.”
Jankowski’s personal Facebook page and the public one for his campaign have both either been set to private or deactivated.
Louisiana Sheriff Fired from Department After Affiliation with ‘Proud Boys’ Hate Group
By Tia Berger - atlanta black star
August 17, 2018
A Plaquemines Parish sheriff deputy was terminated after photos showed his connection with the organization “Proud Boys”.
Deputy Brian Green has been officially fired from the police force after internal affairs’ investigation proved he was guilty of violating their social media policy. The officer’s termination is effective immediately, The Times-Picayune reported.
“The Proud Boys” is considered a hate group of “western chauvinists” who have “anti-white guilt” and “anti-political correctness” views. They also believe in the “veneration of the housewife.” Members of the association claimed to be far from any “alt-right” group, but the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the white organization as anti-muslim and anti-women.
Plaquemines Parish stated in their policy that employees may not enlist in social media activity which “negatively affects the public perception of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.” Law enforcement is also prohibited from engaging in speech “that would reasonably be considered reckless or irresponsible.”
“Green’s affiliation and promotion of the organization known as the Proud Boys in uniform inevitably affected the public trust bestowed upon him and questioned the values of the PPSO,” said police.
The “PB” was created by the founder of Vice Magazine Gavin McInnes. He claimed the group rejects white nationalist labels, but members were seen participating in the 2017 violent Charlottesville, Va rally of “Unite The Right”.
A Facebook account under the former deputy’s name has a photo with the words “The West is The Best” as his profile picture. Green also posted a video of himself saying, “I’m Brian Green and I’m a proud western chauvinist who refuses to apologize for creating the modern world.” The video is reportedly the first step in being accepted into the group. The video has been removed.
The Louisiana department stated, “The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s office does not support the organization or its ideals, and law enforcement in general has an obligation to treat all people equally, fairly and impartially.”
The statement continued, “Green’s decision to utilize the PPSO uniform to promote the views of the Proud Boys, whose values are contradictory to the values and the vision of the PPSO will not be tolerated.”
Green was the deputy sheriff of Plaquemines Parish for five years.
Deputy Brian Green has been officially fired from the police force after internal affairs’ investigation proved he was guilty of violating their social media policy. The officer’s termination is effective immediately, The Times-Picayune reported.
“The Proud Boys” is considered a hate group of “western chauvinists” who have “anti-white guilt” and “anti-political correctness” views. They also believe in the “veneration of the housewife.” Members of the association claimed to be far from any “alt-right” group, but the Southern Poverty Law Center describes the white organization as anti-muslim and anti-women.
Plaquemines Parish stated in their policy that employees may not enlist in social media activity which “negatively affects the public perception of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s Office.” Law enforcement is also prohibited from engaging in speech “that would reasonably be considered reckless or irresponsible.”
“Green’s affiliation and promotion of the organization known as the Proud Boys in uniform inevitably affected the public trust bestowed upon him and questioned the values of the PPSO,” said police.
The “PB” was created by the founder of Vice Magazine Gavin McInnes. He claimed the group rejects white nationalist labels, but members were seen participating in the 2017 violent Charlottesville, Va rally of “Unite The Right”.
A Facebook account under the former deputy’s name has a photo with the words “The West is The Best” as his profile picture. Green also posted a video of himself saying, “I’m Brian Green and I’m a proud western chauvinist who refuses to apologize for creating the modern world.” The video is reportedly the first step in being accepted into the group. The video has been removed.
The Louisiana department stated, “The Plaquemines Parish Sheriff’s office does not support the organization or its ideals, and law enforcement in general has an obligation to treat all people equally, fairly and impartially.”
The statement continued, “Green’s decision to utilize the PPSO uniform to promote the views of the Proud Boys, whose values are contradictory to the values and the vision of the PPSO will not be tolerated.”
Green was the deputy sheriff of Plaquemines Parish for five years.
Mississippi city parks service accused of covering up child sex crimes involving an employee
Noor Al-Sibai - raw story
16 AUG 2018 AT 21:10 ET
The Hernando, Mississippi Parks Service has been accused of covering up child sex crimes involving an employee after a former staffer was arrested for attempts to entice minors.
Memphis’ Local 24 news reported that several Hernando City Parks and Recreation supervisors have been suspended after the arrest of former parks employee James Michael Richardson.
Hernando police said they got a tip that Richardson had been sending inappropriate text messages to at least two children in attempts to get them to have sex with him.
“There were text messages, sexting and texting pictures,” Hernando Police Capt. Kyle Hodge told Memphis’ WREG. “The conversation as a whole was that he victimized these juveniles.”
Richardson was with the parks department for more than a decade and reportedly knew the children for two years prior to when he began sending them explicit messages.
In the wake of the former employee’s arrest, Local 24 learned that a number of supervisors were under investigation “for their alleged cover-up of incidents involving children.”
Capt. Hodge didn’t provide the names of the people under investigation, but said he believes there are more victims.
“There will be additional charges. We’re pretty confident in that,” he told Local 24. “And even in outside jurisdictions there will probably be some charges.”
Richardson was released on a $55,000 bond.
Memphis’ Local 24 news reported that several Hernando City Parks and Recreation supervisors have been suspended after the arrest of former parks employee James Michael Richardson.
Hernando police said they got a tip that Richardson had been sending inappropriate text messages to at least two children in attempts to get them to have sex with him.
“There were text messages, sexting and texting pictures,” Hernando Police Capt. Kyle Hodge told Memphis’ WREG. “The conversation as a whole was that he victimized these juveniles.”
Richardson was with the parks department for more than a decade and reportedly knew the children for two years prior to when he began sending them explicit messages.
In the wake of the former employee’s arrest, Local 24 learned that a number of supervisors were under investigation “for their alleged cover-up of incidents involving children.”
Capt. Hodge didn’t provide the names of the people under investigation, but said he believes there are more victims.
“There will be additional charges. We’re pretty confident in that,” he told Local 24. “And even in outside jurisdictions there will probably be some charges.”
Richardson was released on a $55,000 bond.
Franklin Graham Says Chelsea Clinton’s Views on Abortion Are Like Hitler’s Views on ‘Killing the Jews’
Despite excusing Donald Trump's affair, Franklin Graham blasted then-President Clinton for the Monica Lewinski affair.
By David Badash / The New Civil Rights Movement - alternet
August 16, 2018, 3:42 AM GMT
Franklin Graham is out with a new attack, this time on Chelsea Clinton.
Graham, a pro-Trump far right wing Christian evangelist and the son of the late Billy Graham, tweeted out an article about Clinton's remarks at an event protesting Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, is expected to be a vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal.
In the article, at the far right wing Breitbart website, Clinton makes the argument that the legalization of abortion allowed many women to enter the workforce, adding trillions of dollars to the economy since "Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973."
Legalized abortion has allowed women to work and grow their careers, and start families if and when they want, and when they are financially able.
Graham, however, unleashed an astonishing rebuke, likening Clinton's views in support of the right to choose to Hitler's views on "killing the Jews."
.@ChelseaClinton, daughter of former President @BillClinton & @HillaryClinton, claims that legalizing abortion added trillions of dollars to the economy. What a lie. Hitler probably also claimed that killing the Jews would be good for their economy. 1/3 https://t.co/q381oYx7nP
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) August 15, 2018Graham has targeted the Clinton family. Even though he excuses Donald Trump's affairs he blasted then-President Clinton for the Monica Lewinski affair.
He's also explained his defense of Trump over Clinton by saying, "These alleged affairs, they're alleged with Trump, didn't happen while he was in office."
Graham, a pro-Trump far right wing Christian evangelist and the son of the late Billy Graham, tweeted out an article about Clinton's remarks at an event protesting Brett Kavanaugh, President Trump's nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court. Kavanaugh, if confirmed, is expected to be a vote to overturn Roe v. Wade, which made abortion legal.
In the article, at the far right wing Breitbart website, Clinton makes the argument that the legalization of abortion allowed many women to enter the workforce, adding trillions of dollars to the economy since "Roe became the law of the land in January of 1973."
Legalized abortion has allowed women to work and grow their careers, and start families if and when they want, and when they are financially able.
Graham, however, unleashed an astonishing rebuke, likening Clinton's views in support of the right to choose to Hitler's views on "killing the Jews."
.@ChelseaClinton, daughter of former President @BillClinton & @HillaryClinton, claims that legalizing abortion added trillions of dollars to the economy. What a lie. Hitler probably also claimed that killing the Jews would be good for their economy. 1/3 https://t.co/q381oYx7nP
— Franklin Graham (@Franklin_Graham) August 15, 2018Graham has targeted the Clinton family. Even though he excuses Donald Trump's affairs he blasted then-President Clinton for the Monica Lewinski affair.
He's also explained his defense of Trump over Clinton by saying, "These alleged affairs, they're alleged with Trump, didn't happen while he was in office."
This Oklahoma school is closed because parents threatened one of its transgender students
Parents in a community Facebook group referred to the 12-year-old as "maggot," "thing," and "it."
ZACK FORD - thinkprogress
AUG 14, 2018, 1:53 PM
A group of parents planned a silent rally outside an Oklahoma school Tuesday morning on a behalf of a transgender 12-year-old who has been subjected to threats of violence.
The school is closed through Wednesday in response to those threats.
The student, identified simply as “Maddie” to protect her identity, has identified as a girl at school for over two years now, but has typically used the staff bathroom to avoid being harassed. However, when she arrived at the newly-reopened middle school building this year, she was reportedly unable to find the staff bathroom and used the girls’ room instead.
Maddie’s mother, Brandy Rose, later clarified to CBS affiliate KXII that Maddie had only used the girls’ room “one single time.”
A parent in the district subsequently found out about that bathroom visit and posted threatening comments in a private Facebook group called “Achille ISD Parent Group,” referring to Maddie in transphobic terms.
“The transgender is already using the girls bathroom,” Jamie Crenshaw wrote before misgendering Maddie several times. “We have been told how the school has gone above and beyond to make sure he [sic] has his [sic] own restroom yet he [sic] is still using the girls.”
Other members of the group piled on with similarly transphobic language. “How old is this thing?” one user asked.
“This thing !!!! I love it,” another person replied. “Got a name 4 it now. Perfect name.”
“This is terrible !!” one user wrote. “Y’all have great kids and a lil half baked maggot is causing them probs. We feel 4 y’all.”
The comments quickly turned to threats of violence. “If he [sic] wants to be a female make him [sic] female,” one user wrote. “A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.”
“Just tell the kids to kick ass in the bathroom and it won’t want come back!!” another suggested.
Another person encouraged a specific student to “whip his [sic] ass until he [sic] quits coming to school.”
Many of the responses seemingly come from individuals who do not have students enrolled in the school and who may not even live in the district.
Nevertheless, the threats triggered alarm bells for school officials. According to Achille superintendent Rick Beene, the school was closed this week after the comments were discovered. The small town has no permit process for demonstrations, and officials weren’t sure who might show up at the school to protest.
“The thought was, for law enforcement, that you can have an opposing group that might be here and that could lead to problems, so law enforcement asked me if we could shut down until Wednesday so they didn’t have to worry about those 360 kids in addition to what they were already having to deal with,” he said.
Beene said he remains committed to a school where “everyone should receive a safe and free education.”
According to Maddie’s mother, Brandy Rose, her daughter has gone from being upbeat and positive to being afraid for her life.
“She’s an awesome kid,” Rose said. “To see any fear in her, I can’t explain how bad that hurts me for them to hurt her.”
Rose has also taken out a protective order against one of the parents who threatened Maddie in the Facebook group.
Nevertheless, the threats triggered alarm bells for school officials. According to Achille superintendent Rick Beene, the school was closed this week after the comments were discovered. The small town has no permit process for demonstrations, and officials weren’t sure who might show up at the school to protest.
Several groups across the state have since shown support for the 12-year-old. The Oklahoma City-based LGBTQ group “Free Mom Hugs” and the Oklahoma City chapter of PFLAG have both sent letters advocating on behalf of Maddie. Both groups also offered to provide education to the school and community, and PFLAG specifically called on the school community to “show that they stand by their stated values by actively and publicly supporting and protecting this family.”
Oklahoma state law does not currently guard transgender people against discrimination, and the Trump administration withdrew guidance last February protecting trans students under federal law. The Department of Education has also made it clear it will not process any complaints from transgender students experiencing discrimination in schools.
Though Beene says he knows of no specific reports of Maddie being bullied, Rose’s comments suggest the seventh grader’s mental health is clearly caught in the crossfire. A pair of studies published last year found a connection between anti-trans victimization and the startling high rates of depression and suicidal thinking among transgender youth.
Tuesday morning’s demonstration in support of Maddie will be completely silent. Its organizers think the visible but solemn display is the best way for their message to reach the people who threatened her family.
The school is closed through Wednesday in response to those threats.
The student, identified simply as “Maddie” to protect her identity, has identified as a girl at school for over two years now, but has typically used the staff bathroom to avoid being harassed. However, when she arrived at the newly-reopened middle school building this year, she was reportedly unable to find the staff bathroom and used the girls’ room instead.
Maddie’s mother, Brandy Rose, later clarified to CBS affiliate KXII that Maddie had only used the girls’ room “one single time.”
A parent in the district subsequently found out about that bathroom visit and posted threatening comments in a private Facebook group called “Achille ISD Parent Group,” referring to Maddie in transphobic terms.
“The transgender is already using the girls bathroom,” Jamie Crenshaw wrote before misgendering Maddie several times. “We have been told how the school has gone above and beyond to make sure he [sic] has his [sic] own restroom yet he [sic] is still using the girls.”
Other members of the group piled on with similarly transphobic language. “How old is this thing?” one user asked.
“This thing !!!! I love it,” another person replied. “Got a name 4 it now. Perfect name.”
“This is terrible !!” one user wrote. “Y’all have great kids and a lil half baked maggot is causing them probs. We feel 4 y’all.”
The comments quickly turned to threats of violence. “If he [sic] wants to be a female make him [sic] female,” one user wrote. “A good sharp knife will do the job really quick.”
“Just tell the kids to kick ass in the bathroom and it won’t want come back!!” another suggested.
Another person encouraged a specific student to “whip his [sic] ass until he [sic] quits coming to school.”
Many of the responses seemingly come from individuals who do not have students enrolled in the school and who may not even live in the district.
Nevertheless, the threats triggered alarm bells for school officials. According to Achille superintendent Rick Beene, the school was closed this week after the comments were discovered. The small town has no permit process for demonstrations, and officials weren’t sure who might show up at the school to protest.
“The thought was, for law enforcement, that you can have an opposing group that might be here and that could lead to problems, so law enforcement asked me if we could shut down until Wednesday so they didn’t have to worry about those 360 kids in addition to what they were already having to deal with,” he said.
Beene said he remains committed to a school where “everyone should receive a safe and free education.”
According to Maddie’s mother, Brandy Rose, her daughter has gone from being upbeat and positive to being afraid for her life.
“She’s an awesome kid,” Rose said. “To see any fear in her, I can’t explain how bad that hurts me for them to hurt her.”
Rose has also taken out a protective order against one of the parents who threatened Maddie in the Facebook group.
Nevertheless, the threats triggered alarm bells for school officials. According to Achille superintendent Rick Beene, the school was closed this week after the comments were discovered. The small town has no permit process for demonstrations, and officials weren’t sure who might show up at the school to protest.
Several groups across the state have since shown support for the 12-year-old. The Oklahoma City-based LGBTQ group “Free Mom Hugs” and the Oklahoma City chapter of PFLAG have both sent letters advocating on behalf of Maddie. Both groups also offered to provide education to the school and community, and PFLAG specifically called on the school community to “show that they stand by their stated values by actively and publicly supporting and protecting this family.”
Oklahoma state law does not currently guard transgender people against discrimination, and the Trump administration withdrew guidance last February protecting trans students under federal law. The Department of Education has also made it clear it will not process any complaints from transgender students experiencing discrimination in schools.
Though Beene says he knows of no specific reports of Maddie being bullied, Rose’s comments suggest the seventh grader’s mental health is clearly caught in the crossfire. A pair of studies published last year found a connection between anti-trans victimization and the startling high rates of depression and suicidal thinking among transgender youth.
Tuesday morning’s demonstration in support of Maddie will be completely silent. Its organizers think the visible but solemn display is the best way for their message to reach the people who threatened her family.
'They're Not Welcome in Here': Shocking Video Shows Aquarium Gift Shop Employee Who Ordered Young Black Girls from Store
The employee has been suspended.
By Chris Sosa / AlterNet
August 13, 2018, 8:23 AM GMT
A shocking video showing a Jenkinson's Aquarium gift shop employee telling an adult chaperone that a group of young black girls weren't "welcome" has led to the employee's suspension after the girls' group leader posted the video to social media.
The employee reportedly threw the young girls out of the gift shop due to a lack of chaperone. When they returned with a chaperone, they were ordered out of the store again when the employee didn't believe the chaperone was real.
Kianna Williams, 13, said that the employee "threatened to get security" after the girls returned with their 32-year-old chaperone, despite the fact other young girls were in the shop without apparent chaperones.
"We strive to provide all of our customers with an enjoyable experience and we clearly missed the mark this time," Jenkinson's marketing director Toby Wolf said in a written statement. "We sincerely apologize to the girls from the camp group for the way they felt upon leaving. We have been in contact with the group leader and will continue to work with her to make amends."
The girls want the employee to apologize for her "embarrassing" behavior towards them, specifically to the younger girls.(VIDEO)
The employee reportedly threw the young girls out of the gift shop due to a lack of chaperone. When they returned with a chaperone, they were ordered out of the store again when the employee didn't believe the chaperone was real.
Kianna Williams, 13, said that the employee "threatened to get security" after the girls returned with their 32-year-old chaperone, despite the fact other young girls were in the shop without apparent chaperones.
"We strive to provide all of our customers with an enjoyable experience and we clearly missed the mark this time," Jenkinson's marketing director Toby Wolf said in a written statement. "We sincerely apologize to the girls from the camp group for the way they felt upon leaving. We have been in contact with the group leader and will continue to work with her to make amends."
The girls want the employee to apologize for her "embarrassing" behavior towards them, specifically to the younger girls.(VIDEO)
QANON: MAN ARRESTED FOR THREATENING TO KILL TRUMP WAS A BELIEVER: REPORT
BY KASHMIRA GANDER - newsweek
ON 8/11/18 AT 8:37 AM
Jeffrey Gardner Boyd, the man charged with allegedly threatening to kill President Donald Trump and members of his family, repeatedly spoke about the QAnon conspiracy theory prior to his arrest according to a report.
Pennsylvania State Police arrested the 55 year old from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 31 in Berwick, Columbia County. Officers discovered a loaded handgun and ammunition in his truck, ABC16 reported. He was charged with four counts of making terrorist threats with intent to terrorize another, according to court documents seen by Tulsa World, after he allegedly threatened to kill the President, as well as his daughter Ivanka, son Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Boyd, who is being held on a $1 million bail, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Days before Trump addressed a rally in Pennsylvania in early August, Boyd allegedly drove from Tulsa, uninvited, to meet a woman he spoke to on Twitter, Tulsa World reported citing Pennsylvania State Police.
He was convinced unknown agents were holding the woman, identified only as Kate, who tweets about QAnon, hostage, according to The Daily Beast.
Believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory claim an individual with the highest level of security clearance in the U.S. government shares top-secret information on message boards like 4Chan and 8Chan. It’s devotees are convinced members of the U.S. elite, including the CIA, Hollywood stars and high ranking Democrats, work together to scheme against Trump.
The woman, who identifies as a Trump supporter, told police she was “shocked” when Boyd arrived at her driveway on July 30 after the pair spoke on Twitter. She had not supplied him with her address, she said.
The next day, they dined at the Hog’s Hollow Saloon near Briar Creek. Its owner told ABC 16 Boyd appeared confused and manic in the parking lot.
He allegedly told the woman he heard voices telling him to kill President Trump and his family, and was convinced the CIA was performing tests on him.
The woman who asked to be identified only as Kate told The Daily Beast she warned him not to attack the President.
“I’ve been had by the f’ing Deep State and CIA,” Boyd reportedly wrote in one message to Kate seen by The Daily Beast, and also frequently used other QAnon vocabulary such “breadcrumbs”: the apparent clues the user feeds followers about what they portray as the nature of the U.S. government.
Kate also told The Daily Beast Boyd claimed during lunch that Donald Trump Jr. and Kushner headed MKULTRA, a defunct mind-control project run by the CIA, and described himself as being on a mission.
Pennsylvania State Police arrested the 55 year old from Tulsa, Oklahoma, on July 31 in Berwick, Columbia County. Officers discovered a loaded handgun and ammunition in his truck, ABC16 reported. He was charged with four counts of making terrorist threats with intent to terrorize another, according to court documents seen by Tulsa World, after he allegedly threatened to kill the President, as well as his daughter Ivanka, son Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner. Boyd, who is being held on a $1 million bail, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Days before Trump addressed a rally in Pennsylvania in early August, Boyd allegedly drove from Tulsa, uninvited, to meet a woman he spoke to on Twitter, Tulsa World reported citing Pennsylvania State Police.
He was convinced unknown agents were holding the woman, identified only as Kate, who tweets about QAnon, hostage, according to The Daily Beast.
Believers of the QAnon conspiracy theory claim an individual with the highest level of security clearance in the U.S. government shares top-secret information on message boards like 4Chan and 8Chan. It’s devotees are convinced members of the U.S. elite, including the CIA, Hollywood stars and high ranking Democrats, work together to scheme against Trump.
The woman, who identifies as a Trump supporter, told police she was “shocked” when Boyd arrived at her driveway on July 30 after the pair spoke on Twitter. She had not supplied him with her address, she said.
The next day, they dined at the Hog’s Hollow Saloon near Briar Creek. Its owner told ABC 16 Boyd appeared confused and manic in the parking lot.
He allegedly told the woman he heard voices telling him to kill President Trump and his family, and was convinced the CIA was performing tests on him.
The woman who asked to be identified only as Kate told The Daily Beast she warned him not to attack the President.
“I’ve been had by the f’ing Deep State and CIA,” Boyd reportedly wrote in one message to Kate seen by The Daily Beast, and also frequently used other QAnon vocabulary such “breadcrumbs”: the apparent clues the user feeds followers about what they portray as the nature of the U.S. government.
Kate also told The Daily Beast Boyd claimed during lunch that Donald Trump Jr. and Kushner headed MKULTRA, a defunct mind-control project run by the CIA, and described himself as being on a mission.
Racist couple held black man on the ground and threatened to run him over with their truck: police
Brad Reed - raw story
09 AUG 2018 AT 08:03 ET
Aaron Charles Stevens and Myrna Angelica Alanis (Photos via Stearns County Jail).
A black man who was picking up a fan in a neighborhood of St. Cloud, Minnesota found himself getting assaulted by a racist couple who hurled racial slurs at him and threatened to run him over with their truck.
Local radio station KNSI reports that 58-year-old Aaron Charles Stevens and his 41-year-old girlfriend, Myrna Angelica Alanis, emerged from their home after they saw a black man had parked his car in their neighborhood.
Police say Stevens threw a bottle at the black man, which wound up cutting him when it hit him in the face. Stevens then started yelling racial slurs against the man while telling him to get off his property.
Stevens then “charged at the man with a large tie strap with metal hooks,” KNSI reports, while urging Alanis to get in his truck and run the man over. She then proceeded to get in the truck and rev its engine while Stevens held the black man on the ground.
Stevens was arrested and subsequently charged with three counts of second degree assault with a weapon, while Alanis was arrested and charged with one count of second degree assault.
Local radio station KNSI reports that 58-year-old Aaron Charles Stevens and his 41-year-old girlfriend, Myrna Angelica Alanis, emerged from their home after they saw a black man had parked his car in their neighborhood.
Police say Stevens threw a bottle at the black man, which wound up cutting him when it hit him in the face. Stevens then started yelling racial slurs against the man while telling him to get off his property.
Stevens then “charged at the man with a large tie strap with metal hooks,” KNSI reports, while urging Alanis to get in his truck and run the man over. She then proceeded to get in the truck and rev its engine while Stevens held the black man on the ground.
Stevens was arrested and subsequently charged with three counts of second degree assault with a weapon, while Alanis was arrested and charged with one count of second degree assault.
a fool speaks!!!
Gun activist who put 3D blueprints online shrugs off potential murders
Cody Wilson says "We should expect and have a mature attitude that bad things can happen."
JOSH ISRAEL - thinkprogress
AUG 5, 2018, 11:33 AM
Cody Wilson, the 25-year-old radical libertarian whose Defense Distributed has posted online blueprints for 3D-printed guns and has fought in court for the legal right to do so, knows that his actions may lead to gun violence and murders. But, he explained on Fox News Sunday, this is why we have a Second Amendment.
Asked by host Chris Wallace on Sunday morning about the foreseeable impact of his efforts, Wilson showed no concern for the deaths he could enable.
“I literally believe in the Second Amendment, to the point that it’s alright and it should be expected that there will be social costs for protecting a right like this,” he answered. “Why is the people’s right to keep and bear arms on the Bill of Rights? Why is it even protected? Because we know that there are downsides and that there are consequences to allowing free people to own the means of self defense. Of course we should expect and have a mature attitude that bad things can happen.”
Wallace pointed out Congress has enacted laws to prevent certain people from having guns, including convicted felons, and to require serial numbers to make it possible to trace weapons. By making it easy for anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a plastic gun, criminals who are not able to legally purchase or own guns could have yet another way to circumvent criminal background checks.
Wilson dismissed this argument, claiming that the government has “never regulated the production of firearms that you’re allowed to own.” Ignoring the fact that convicted felons are prohibited from possessing firearms, even if they produce them themselves, he mocked elected officials who have expressed concern about his efforts.
“I’m sorry that a bunch of politicians woke up to the reality of this just last week, but this is the way it’s always been,” he concluded.
Asked by host Chris Wallace on Sunday morning about the foreseeable impact of his efforts, Wilson showed no concern for the deaths he could enable.
“I literally believe in the Second Amendment, to the point that it’s alright and it should be expected that there will be social costs for protecting a right like this,” he answered. “Why is the people’s right to keep and bear arms on the Bill of Rights? Why is it even protected? Because we know that there are downsides and that there are consequences to allowing free people to own the means of self defense. Of course we should expect and have a mature attitude that bad things can happen.”
Wallace pointed out Congress has enacted laws to prevent certain people from having guns, including convicted felons, and to require serial numbers to make it possible to trace weapons. By making it easy for anyone with access to a 3D printer to make a plastic gun, criminals who are not able to legally purchase or own guns could have yet another way to circumvent criminal background checks.
Wilson dismissed this argument, claiming that the government has “never regulated the production of firearms that you’re allowed to own.” Ignoring the fact that convicted felons are prohibited from possessing firearms, even if they produce them themselves, he mocked elected officials who have expressed concern about his efforts.
“I’m sorry that a bunch of politicians woke up to the reality of this just last week, but this is the way it’s always been,” he concluded.
CNN Reporter Confronts QAnon Believers: 'You Say Stuff That Doesn't Mean Anything'
By Karoli Kuns - crooks & liars
8/03/18 3:40pm
Before you watch this video of insane people doing insane things, let me give you my (and Fran's) theory: These are your original "organic" tea partiers, John Birchers, and the like. QAnon: White bigots who abandon all critical thinking in order to scratch their racist itch. You might find a few stray people of color in there, because conspiracy theories aren't uniquely a white person's venue, but the whole point of these is to justify whatever Trump does, no matter how insane, because they need him.
With that said, I give big props to CNN's Gary Tuchman for not just wandering into the fever swamps of backwater racists, but also to challenge them, however mildly.
At one point, Tuchman asks one woman why she thinks "Q" is someone highly placed in the government or national security structure.
She answered, "Well, I’m just telling you, that’s what it appears to be.”
“So you don’t have any proof of that. You’re just guessing,” Tuchman shot back.
To which she replied, “And you don’t have any proof there isn’t," which is of course true, because it is impossible to prove a negative. That is an important component of right-wing conspiracies -- lots of "you can't prove a thing didn't happen" because of course you can't.
In another exchange, Tuchman takes on their hostility to the press.
“You guys are our enemy,” one supporter tells Tuchman.
He answered, “So you don’t believe in the First Amendment.”
Nay, nay, says the man. “I totally believe in the First Amendment.”
Tuchman tries again. “Well, you don’t. You just said the press is the enemy.”
Again, the man comes back with the stock line of the conspiracy: "You guys are weaponized, you are totally weaponized by the CIA.”
Tuchman reacted the exact same way I did: “What does that even mean? You say stuff that doesn’t even mean anything.”
It just has the key triggers: "Weaponized" and "CIA". That makes them the enemy, because triggers. Logic doesn't have a thing to do with it.
It is critical for Trump to bolster these people and lift up their arguments. He was careful to make a distinction between the "fake news" (CNN) and the "good news" (Fox). His goal here is to erode trust in any media which approaches him with a critical eye. Having installed Fox "News" as official State TV, he has a vested interest in destroying all of the other, more objective news outlets. CNN is their biggest threat, particularly when there is breaking news.
But again, this "conspiracy" is intended to scratch the insecure itches of white bigots who cannot abide a changing country. Whatever excuses these people attach to their bizarre thought patterns, it is their fear of losing their white supremacy that drives them. (video)
With that said, I give big props to CNN's Gary Tuchman for not just wandering into the fever swamps of backwater racists, but also to challenge them, however mildly.
At one point, Tuchman asks one woman why she thinks "Q" is someone highly placed in the government or national security structure.
She answered, "Well, I’m just telling you, that’s what it appears to be.”
“So you don’t have any proof of that. You’re just guessing,” Tuchman shot back.
To which she replied, “And you don’t have any proof there isn’t," which is of course true, because it is impossible to prove a negative. That is an important component of right-wing conspiracies -- lots of "you can't prove a thing didn't happen" because of course you can't.
In another exchange, Tuchman takes on their hostility to the press.
“You guys are our enemy,” one supporter tells Tuchman.
He answered, “So you don’t believe in the First Amendment.”
Nay, nay, says the man. “I totally believe in the First Amendment.”
Tuchman tries again. “Well, you don’t. You just said the press is the enemy.”
Again, the man comes back with the stock line of the conspiracy: "You guys are weaponized, you are totally weaponized by the CIA.”
Tuchman reacted the exact same way I did: “What does that even mean? You say stuff that doesn’t even mean anything.”
It just has the key triggers: "Weaponized" and "CIA". That makes them the enemy, because triggers. Logic doesn't have a thing to do with it.
It is critical for Trump to bolster these people and lift up their arguments. He was careful to make a distinction between the "fake news" (CNN) and the "good news" (Fox). His goal here is to erode trust in any media which approaches him with a critical eye. Having installed Fox "News" as official State TV, he has a vested interest in destroying all of the other, more objective news outlets. CNN is their biggest threat, particularly when there is breaking news.
But again, this "conspiracy" is intended to scratch the insecure itches of white bigots who cannot abide a changing country. Whatever excuses these people attach to their bizarre thought patterns, it is their fear of losing their white supremacy that drives them. (video)
Trump supporter holds homophobic sign outside Orlando man's home
left-of-center2012 - demo underground
8/1/18
Ignoring Orlando's residential picketing ordinance, a Trump supporter was recently caught on video targeting a College Park man's home with a sign referring to him as a "Trump hater" and a "gay Asian with AIDS." The video, which has since gone viral, shows a man identified in the clip as Matt Sherman, sitting in front of a home in the College Park neighborhood of Orlando that has anti-Trump yard signs, as well as an Anna Eskamani sign.
The front of the man's homemade sign reads, "A butt hurt Trump hater lives here, who's the keyboard warrior now?", while the back says "A gay asian with AIDS who hates America + fireworks lives here!"
It's unclear at the moment what exactly fully triggered the seated asshole to picket in front of his neighbor's home, but the whole thing reportedly started as an argument on the NextDoor app that got out of hand. It should also be noted that it's illegal to directly target someone by picketing their residence in the City of Orlando.
Ordinance 43.42 was updated back in 2015, and now says that it is "unlawful for people to picket before or about the residence or dwelling of any person …"
In other words, as much as you may hate your neighbor's yards signs, you can't camp out in front of their house.
Short video at link:
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/07/10/trump-supporter-and-local-asshole-holds-homophobic-sign-outside-of-orlando-mans-home
The front of the man's homemade sign reads, "A butt hurt Trump hater lives here, who's the keyboard warrior now?", while the back says "A gay asian with AIDS who hates America + fireworks lives here!"
It's unclear at the moment what exactly fully triggered the seated asshole to picket in front of his neighbor's home, but the whole thing reportedly started as an argument on the NextDoor app that got out of hand. It should also be noted that it's illegal to directly target someone by picketing their residence in the City of Orlando.
Ordinance 43.42 was updated back in 2015, and now says that it is "unlawful for people to picket before or about the residence or dwelling of any person …"
In other words, as much as you may hate your neighbor's yards signs, you can't camp out in front of their house.
Short video at link:
https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/07/10/trump-supporter-and-local-asshole-holds-homophobic-sign-outside-of-orlando-mans-home
Steve Bannon plots for Trump to exclude women voters: ‘The Republican college-educated woman is done — They’re gone’
David Edwards - raw story
31 JUL 2018 AT 13:12 ET
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon this week cautioned President Donald Trump that he is wasting his time by campaigning to Republican women because “they’re gone.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair writer Gabriel Sherman, Bannon suggested that Trump is on track to win the 2020 election.
“It’s like my white board’s there and Trump is checking shit off,” Bannon crowed. “Trump is on the full MAGA agenda.”
Bannon argued that the 2018 midterm election is like 2016’s contest, except Trump is running against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) instead of Hillary Clinton.
“She’s the Hillary,” he said. “She’s got some of the same tendencies!”
The former Trump adviser said that the threat of impeachment would drive Trump voters to the polls.
“When you focus on impeachment, it’s a game changer,” he explained. “It’s an emotional issue that raises the stakes.”
But Bannon’s also had some bad news for Trump concerning Republican women voters.
“This is a ‘deplorable-plus electorate.’ What I mean is, it’s deplorables plus Reagan Democrats and guys who voted for Trump who vote never. You bring them out in an off year.” he said.
“The Republican college-educated woman is done,” Bannon added. “They’re gone. They were going anyway at some point in time. Trump triggers them. This is now the Trump movement.”
In an interview with Vanity Fair writer Gabriel Sherman, Bannon suggested that Trump is on track to win the 2020 election.
“It’s like my white board’s there and Trump is checking shit off,” Bannon crowed. “Trump is on the full MAGA agenda.”
Bannon argued that the 2018 midterm election is like 2016’s contest, except Trump is running against House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) instead of Hillary Clinton.
“She’s the Hillary,” he said. “She’s got some of the same tendencies!”
The former Trump adviser said that the threat of impeachment would drive Trump voters to the polls.
“When you focus on impeachment, it’s a game changer,” he explained. “It’s an emotional issue that raises the stakes.”
But Bannon’s also had some bad news for Trump concerning Republican women voters.
“This is a ‘deplorable-plus electorate.’ What I mean is, it’s deplorables plus Reagan Democrats and guys who voted for Trump who vote never. You bring them out in an off year.” he said.
“The Republican college-educated woman is done,” Bannon added. “They’re gone. They were going anyway at some point in time. Trump triggers them. This is now the Trump movement.”
Conservative candidate calls Melania Trump a ‘hoebag’ — then defiantly stands by his prostitution smear
Bob Brigham - raw story
31 JUL 2018 AT 14:07 ET
An Oregon man running an “independent conservative” bid for Congress is doubling down on his salacious attacks on First Lady Melania Trump.
Mark Roberts is challenging Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) in the state’s sprawling second congressional district, which prognosticators say is a safely Republican seat.
During a Monday conversation on Twitter about the size of the East Wing staff, Roberts seemed to suggest that the First Lady was a “hoebag” prostitute.
Following criticism, Roberts did not retract his allegation, but instead also referred to the First Lady as a “hosebag” while mocking any worry of legal liability.
When The Daily Caller reached out for comment, Roberts said, “never heard of The Daily Caller.”
“I think I’m too big for you,” he added.
Rep. Walden, the incumbent Republican whom Roberts is challenging, will be raising money at a “secret” location next week with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
On Monday, addressing CEO Jack Dorsey, Rep. McCarthy said Roberts’ account “should be banned ASAP.”
Mark Roberts is challenging Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) in the state’s sprawling second congressional district, which prognosticators say is a safely Republican seat.
During a Monday conversation on Twitter about the size of the East Wing staff, Roberts seemed to suggest that the First Lady was a “hoebag” prostitute.
Following criticism, Roberts did not retract his allegation, but instead also referred to the First Lady as a “hosebag” while mocking any worry of legal liability.
When The Daily Caller reached out for comment, Roberts said, “never heard of The Daily Caller.”
“I think I’m too big for you,” he added.
Rep. Walden, the incumbent Republican whom Roberts is challenging, will be raising money at a “secret” location next week with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
On Monday, addressing CEO Jack Dorsey, Rep. McCarthy said Roberts’ account “should be banned ASAP.”
GOP candidate’s spokesman calls majority-black cities ‘shitholes’ and wishes the Confederacy had won
Tana Ganeva - raw story
30 JUL 2018 AT 09:58 ET
A spokesman for Corey Stewart, Virginia’s Republican nominee for US Senate, derided majority black cities as “s**tholes,” the Daily Beast reported Sunday.
Spokesman Rick Shaftan also cautioned against opening businesses in predominantly black areas.
“The message out of Ferguson and Baltimore is a simple one: DON’T OPEN A BUSINESS IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD!”
The “shitholes” in question were Memphis, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Shaftan’s boss, Corey Stewart, has been a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, who infamously referred to predominantly black countries as “s**tholes.”
Shaftan, a passionate advocate for the preservation of Confederate statues, doubled down on Twitter after the Beast exposed his tweets, daring reporters to find even worse things he’d said.
“I must have said something worse than that in all these years! They need to look harder.”
In another Sunday tweet, Shaftan appeared to link a shooting that claimed three lives to the removal of Confederate monuments.
“Here’s one city that’s really making a comeback now that those ‘racist’ monuments have been destroyed. #NOLAComeback!”
As for finding other controversial sentiments he’s expressed over the years: it doesn’t take a deep dive into his social media to find a graphic he’d posted to Facebook yearning for Confederate victory in the Civil War. Raw Story reached out to him for comment on the meaning of the graphic and will update accordingly.
Spokesman Rick Shaftan also cautioned against opening businesses in predominantly black areas.
“The message out of Ferguson and Baltimore is a simple one: DON’T OPEN A BUSINESS IN A BLACK NEIGHBORHOOD!”
The “shitholes” in question were Memphis, New Orleans, and Baltimore. Shaftan’s boss, Corey Stewart, has been a longtime ally of President Donald Trump, who infamously referred to predominantly black countries as “s**tholes.”
Shaftan, a passionate advocate for the preservation of Confederate statues, doubled down on Twitter after the Beast exposed his tweets, daring reporters to find even worse things he’d said.
“I must have said something worse than that in all these years! They need to look harder.”
In another Sunday tweet, Shaftan appeared to link a shooting that claimed three lives to the removal of Confederate monuments.
“Here’s one city that’s really making a comeback now that those ‘racist’ monuments have been destroyed. #NOLAComeback!”
As for finding other controversial sentiments he’s expressed over the years: it doesn’t take a deep dive into his social media to find a graphic he’d posted to Facebook yearning for Confederate victory in the Civil War. Raw Story reached out to him for comment on the meaning of the graphic and will update accordingly.
Handgun-waving white man threatens to lynch blacks in Pennsylvania road-rage incident
Bob Brigham - raw story
27 JUL 2018 AT 12:51 ET
A man hold a black handgun out the window of his car (Shutterstock)
Police have charged a white Pennsylvania man with a felony hate crime after he allegedly used a racial slur while waving a handgun out the window of his car — while threatening a lynching — during a road rage incident.
Adam Kraus, 32, of Fayetteville, PA was charged with felony ethnic intimidation and misdemeanor simple assault and misdemeanor terroristic threats for the incident, The Sentinel reports.
The victims reported the incident to police, including the license plate number of his pickup truck.
They described the perpetrator as “a white man between 28 to 35 years old with gaps in his teeth and blond hair” and later identified Kraus in a photo lineup.
The affidavit of probable cause reportedly claimed Kraus tailgated the victims, flashing the high beams of his Chevrolet pickup truck.
He then allegedly pulled alongside and began yelling at the victims, including using “a racial slur directed at black people” as he threatened to murder them and hang one from a tree.
It was at that time that Kraus was allegedly waving a black handgun out the window.
After being contacted by Lower Allen Township police, Kraus allegedly denied being in the area and did not appear for a interview at the police station.
Kraus was released on unsecured bail following a Wednesday arraignment.
Adam Kraus, 32, of Fayetteville, PA was charged with felony ethnic intimidation and misdemeanor simple assault and misdemeanor terroristic threats for the incident, The Sentinel reports.
The victims reported the incident to police, including the license plate number of his pickup truck.
They described the perpetrator as “a white man between 28 to 35 years old with gaps in his teeth and blond hair” and later identified Kraus in a photo lineup.
The affidavit of probable cause reportedly claimed Kraus tailgated the victims, flashing the high beams of his Chevrolet pickup truck.
He then allegedly pulled alongside and began yelling at the victims, including using “a racial slur directed at black people” as he threatened to murder them and hang one from a tree.
It was at that time that Kraus was allegedly waving a black handgun out the window.
After being contacted by Lower Allen Township police, Kraus allegedly denied being in the area and did not appear for a interview at the police station.
Kraus was released on unsecured bail following a Wednesday arraignment.
Franklin Graham warns ‘media spin masters’ to shut up about Trump’s Playmate payoff or face God’s wrath
Travis Gettys - raw story
25 JUL 2018 AT 13:10 ET
Evangelical leader Franklin Graham won’t criticize President Donald Trump for authorizing the possibly illegal payoff of his mistress just before Election Day — and he doesn’t think anyone else should, either.
The right-wing Christian has defended Trump’s affair with another mistress, porn actress Stormy Daniels, as “nobody’s business” — although he insisted in 1998 that Bill Clinton’s “sins are not private.”
Graham continued his double standard for Trump after his former attorney released a recording of them discussing a hush money payout to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
“Everyone in the media is talking about the just-released tape & what the President said or didn’t say, what he meant or didn’t mean,” Graham tweeted. “It is a good moment to point out that everyone should realize that every word that is spoken or thought is recorded by God.”
The evangelical pastor warned the president’s critics that their dark deeds must one day become public.
“Here’s a sober warning from God’s Word, ‘What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, & what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs’ (Luke 12:3),” Graham tweeted.
Graham then warned Trump’s critics to remain silent or face God’s wrath.
“The Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die & then the judgment,” he tweeted. “We won’t be judged by media spin masters or forensic audio analysts, but you will be judged by truth & righteousness—by God Himself. Have you ever thought about what His verdict will be on your words?”
The right-wing Christian has defended Trump’s affair with another mistress, porn actress Stormy Daniels, as “nobody’s business” — although he insisted in 1998 that Bill Clinton’s “sins are not private.”
Graham continued his double standard for Trump after his former attorney released a recording of them discussing a hush money payout to former Playboy model Karen McDougal.
“Everyone in the media is talking about the just-released tape & what the President said or didn’t say, what he meant or didn’t mean,” Graham tweeted. “It is a good moment to point out that everyone should realize that every word that is spoken or thought is recorded by God.”
The evangelical pastor warned the president’s critics that their dark deeds must one day become public.
“Here’s a sober warning from God’s Word, ‘What you have said in the dark will be heard in the daylight, & what you have whispered in the ear in the inner rooms will be proclaimed from the roofs’ (Luke 12:3),” Graham tweeted.
Graham then warned Trump’s critics to remain silent or face God’s wrath.
“The Bible says it is appointed unto man once to die & then the judgment,” he tweeted. “We won’t be judged by media spin masters or forensic audio analysts, but you will be judged by truth & righteousness—by God Himself. Have you ever thought about what His verdict will be on your words?”
An angry racist fatally shot a white man who defended a black friend from being harassed: police
BRAD REED - RAW STORY
23 JUL 2018 AT 09:44 ET
24-year-old James Saylor, who allegedly shot a man for standing up to him for racially harassing a black man (Photo via York County Sheriff's Office).
An angry racist this weekend fatally shot a white man who stood up for his friend, a black man who had been getting harassed while sitting at the Red Rose restaurant in York County, Pennsylvania.
The York Daily Record reports that 25-year-old Chad Merrill had been sitting at the Red Rose bar with his friend, Jerrell Douglas, when they were accosted by a 24-year-old man named James Saylor, who yelled the n-word repeatedly at Douglas.
Merrill stood up to defend his friend, and the bartender at the Red Rose threw Saylor out of the bar for racially harassing a customer.
Merrill then followed Saylor out to the parking lot and tried to confront him while Saylor was in his car. At that point, Saylor shot Merrill in the chest with his .45-caliber handgun and drove away, police say.
Hellam Township Police Chief Doug Pollock tells the York Daily Record that surveillance footage shows Saylor “had a gun shoved into the waistband in the front of his shorts” that he used to shoot Merrill. Pollock also tells the paper that police subsequently conducted a manhunt for Saylor and located him at his living quarters in his parents’ basement.
Saylor has since been charged with criminal homicide and has been denied bail.
Merrill leaves behind his wife and a five-month-old son.
The York Daily Record reports that 25-year-old Chad Merrill had been sitting at the Red Rose bar with his friend, Jerrell Douglas, when they were accosted by a 24-year-old man named James Saylor, who yelled the n-word repeatedly at Douglas.
Merrill stood up to defend his friend, and the bartender at the Red Rose threw Saylor out of the bar for racially harassing a customer.
Merrill then followed Saylor out to the parking lot and tried to confront him while Saylor was in his car. At that point, Saylor shot Merrill in the chest with his .45-caliber handgun and drove away, police say.
Hellam Township Police Chief Doug Pollock tells the York Daily Record that surveillance footage shows Saylor “had a gun shoved into the waistband in the front of his shorts” that he used to shoot Merrill. Pollock also tells the paper that police subsequently conducted a manhunt for Saylor and located him at his living quarters in his parents’ basement.
Saylor has since been charged with criminal homicide and has been denied bail.
Merrill leaves behind his wife and a five-month-old son.
LISTEN: GOP congressman rants whites are the real victims of ‘racism’ and black people are addicted to welfare
Dominique Jackson - raw story
20 JUL 2018 AT 16:19 ET
Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN) (Photo: Screengrab from video0
CNN’s KFile has uncovered more audio files from Rep. Jason Lewis (R-MN) and this time he is asserting that white people are the real victims of racial violence.
Lewis made these comments from 2009 to 2014 on his radio show entitled “The Jason Lewis Show.”
His first absurd claim was that black people have an “entitlement mentality.”
“There’s a cultural problem in the African-American community that is leading to this. The entitlement mentality,” Lewis said. “You’re a victim. It’s OK to hate women, beat up women. It’s OK to hate gays. All this, we’re just sort of feeding this to people who are very lost because of the breakdown of society to begin with.”
He went on to say that welfare has been more detrimental to the black community than Jim Crow.
“What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do,” he said. “A hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. ”
In August 2012 he shared that when black people gather that violence and trouble follows.
“You simply can’t say the same thing about other groups. But when there is a festival, a gathering, call it what you will — June ninth, Juneteenth or urban weekend in Miami Beach or Myrtle Beach and Indianapolis. When there is a predominantly black festival, there’s trouble.”
He claimed black-on-white crime was the root of the “racial war” happening in America and blamed the media for ignoring it.
“The violent racial crime that’s going on, and most of it black on white, but the media choose to ignore that as well. Now, no one can discount the horrible legacy of slavery. No one can discount the sin of America’s past — but the chances today, and I want to be clear about this, I know it’s provocative, but I want to be clear — the chances today of a gang of KKK members beating up a black kid are remote compared to the opposite. A gang of black on white crime.”
In defense of his comments, his office said in a statement that the reporting of his remarks is “an orchestrated attempt at making anyone who supports reducing illegitimacy or crime in minority communities, Voter ID laws and work requirements for public assistance back [off] their public policy positions.” (video)
Lewis made these comments from 2009 to 2014 on his radio show entitled “The Jason Lewis Show.”
His first absurd claim was that black people have an “entitlement mentality.”
“There’s a cultural problem in the African-American community that is leading to this. The entitlement mentality,” Lewis said. “You’re a victim. It’s OK to hate women, beat up women. It’s OK to hate gays. All this, we’re just sort of feeding this to people who are very lost because of the breakdown of society to begin with.”
He went on to say that welfare has been more detrimental to the black community than Jim Crow.
“What the welfare state has done to the black community, a hundred years of racism could not do,” he said. “A hundred years of racism could not break it up, it could not destroy black families. Jim Crow could not do it. ”
In August 2012 he shared that when black people gather that violence and trouble follows.
“You simply can’t say the same thing about other groups. But when there is a festival, a gathering, call it what you will — June ninth, Juneteenth or urban weekend in Miami Beach or Myrtle Beach and Indianapolis. When there is a predominantly black festival, there’s trouble.”
He claimed black-on-white crime was the root of the “racial war” happening in America and blamed the media for ignoring it.
“The violent racial crime that’s going on, and most of it black on white, but the media choose to ignore that as well. Now, no one can discount the horrible legacy of slavery. No one can discount the sin of America’s past — but the chances today, and I want to be clear about this, I know it’s provocative, but I want to be clear — the chances today of a gang of KKK members beating up a black kid are remote compared to the opposite. A gang of black on white crime.”
In defense of his comments, his office said in a statement that the reporting of his remarks is “an orchestrated attempt at making anyone who supports reducing illegitimacy or crime in minority communities, Voter ID laws and work requirements for public assistance back [off] their public policy positions.” (video)
Homophobia, Misogyny, and Islamophobia: The Right’s New Darling — Mark Keith Robinson — Has It All
There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote their racist views.
By Kali Holloway / Independent Media Institute - alternet
July 20, 2018, 11:17 AM GMT
This Saturday, pro-gun control MAGA hordes will gather at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Among the speakers will be the newest darling of the right—recently granted fawning coverage by outlets such as Breitbart, Twitchy, Tucker Carlson’s The Daily Caller and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze—Mark Keith Robinson. The right’s latest attack dog epitomizes the current Republican brand, as a “birther pundit who says gay people are ‘devil-worshipping child molesters,’ black Democrats are ‘slaves,’ the student survivors of the Parkland shooting are ‘silly little immature media prosti-tots,’ and Michelle Obama is a man.”
As Shareblue Media notes, Robinson became a favorite among alt-right and right-wing media back in April after delivering a pro-gun speech at a town council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. But he’s also incredibly vocal on social media. In a Facebook post dated February 7, Robinson wrote that homosexuality has been “pushed...over the top” and hysterically concludes “PEDOPHILLA is next, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”
There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote the party’s racist views. Robinson, who is African-American, frequently promotes the ahistorical GOP view that the party remains that of Abraham Lincoln, and tacitly accuses black people of being too stupid to understand their own political interests. “Half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are,” Robinson posted on Facebook in February, employing a corruption of a totally fake Harriet Tubman quote. “The other half don't care.” (“Nor do all of them vote. Yet always the first to complain,” wrote a fan of Robinson’s in the comments.)
In March, Robinson posted a meme that declares President Barack Obama “entered the White House with a fake birth certificate.” And in yet another example of his misunderstanding of how slavery worked, Robinson recently compared Senator Maxine Waters, an African-American woman, to 19th-century “PRO SLAVERY Democrat Preston Brooks,” and labeled her an “OVERSEER.” Following his lead, fans of Robinson filled the comments with overtly racist and misogynoir responses, including memes that paint Sen. Waters as a “crack addict” and imagine her speaking in clumsy, misspelled, inarticulate phrases.
Just this Friday, Robinson took to Facebook to call Hillary Clinton a “witch,” a word he apparently thinks works for pretty much any woman he doesn’t like, considering he used the same term in 2016 to describe Beyonce. Shareblue points out that Robinson “uses the male pronoun to refer to Michelle Obama, echoing a conservative theory that she is male.”
Robinson has also disparaged Muslims via his social media. In one deleted post (saved in this screenshot), he declared, “The question is not ‘When is the last time you saw anyone but a Muslim holding a severed head and smiling’....The question is, when is the last time you saw a Muslim protesting against a Muslim who severed a head, or bombed a shopping mall, or ran down a group of humans with a truck, or shot up a nightclub, or burned someone alive.....”
Despite—or rather, because of—Robinson’s remarks, he’s become a highly sought-after speaker on the right. There are appearances this summer in Broward County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among many others. This month, Robinson shares a bill with Candace Owens, the black conservative provocateur who wrote that Trump “isn’t just the leader of the free world, but the savior of it as well.” During his April appearance on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt gushed, “You’re great; I really think you should run for office.”
As previously mentioned, Robinson’s latest stop will be a speaking gig at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this Saturday. In a press statement, Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action (HPTA) notes that he’ll be joined by “speakers from Grass Roots NC, whose PAC ‘recommends’ white supremacist and anti-Semitic House candidate Russell Walker.”
As Shareblue Media notes, Robinson became a favorite among alt-right and right-wing media back in April after delivering a pro-gun speech at a town council meeting in Greensboro, North Carolina. But he’s also incredibly vocal on social media. In a Facebook post dated February 7, Robinson wrote that homosexuality has been “pushed...over the top” and hysterically concludes “PEDOPHILLA is next, which will be closely followed by the END of civilization as we know it.”
There is nothing more beloved by the GOP than a token visible minority who’s eager to promote the party’s racist views. Robinson, who is African-American, frequently promotes the ahistorical GOP view that the party remains that of Abraham Lincoln, and tacitly accuses black people of being too stupid to understand their own political interests. “Half of black Democrats don't realize they are slaves and don't know who their masters are,” Robinson posted on Facebook in February, employing a corruption of a totally fake Harriet Tubman quote. “The other half don't care.” (“Nor do all of them vote. Yet always the first to complain,” wrote a fan of Robinson’s in the comments.)
In March, Robinson posted a meme that declares President Barack Obama “entered the White House with a fake birth certificate.” And in yet another example of his misunderstanding of how slavery worked, Robinson recently compared Senator Maxine Waters, an African-American woman, to 19th-century “PRO SLAVERY Democrat Preston Brooks,” and labeled her an “OVERSEER.” Following his lead, fans of Robinson filled the comments with overtly racist and misogynoir responses, including memes that paint Sen. Waters as a “crack addict” and imagine her speaking in clumsy, misspelled, inarticulate phrases.
Just this Friday, Robinson took to Facebook to call Hillary Clinton a “witch,” a word he apparently thinks works for pretty much any woman he doesn’t like, considering he used the same term in 2016 to describe Beyonce. Shareblue points out that Robinson “uses the male pronoun to refer to Michelle Obama, echoing a conservative theory that she is male.”
Robinson has also disparaged Muslims via his social media. In one deleted post (saved in this screenshot), he declared, “The question is not ‘When is the last time you saw anyone but a Muslim holding a severed head and smiling’....The question is, when is the last time you saw a Muslim protesting against a Muslim who severed a head, or bombed a shopping mall, or ran down a group of humans with a truck, or shot up a nightclub, or burned someone alive.....”
Despite—or rather, because of—Robinson’s remarks, he’s become a highly sought-after speaker on the right. There are appearances this summer in Broward County, Florida; Tallahassee, Florida; and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, among many others. This month, Robinson shares a bill with Candace Owens, the black conservative provocateur who wrote that Trump “isn’t just the leader of the free world, but the savior of it as well.” During his April appearance on Fox & Friends, co-host Ainsley Earhardt gushed, “You’re great; I really think you should run for office.”
As previously mentioned, Robinson’s latest stop will be a speaking gig at the Orange County Second Amendment (OC2A) rally in Hillsborough, North Carolina, this Saturday. In a press statement, Hillsborough Progressives Taking Action (HPTA) notes that he’ll be joined by “speakers from Grass Roots NC, whose PAC ‘recommends’ white supremacist and anti-Semitic House candidate Russell Walker.”
150 years later and they are still traitors!!!
Neo-Confederates reach out to their ‘Russian friends’ in new project
Once again, racist secessionists are looking to Moscow for succor.
CASEY MICHEL - thinkprogress
JUL 20, 2018, 1:06 PM
In late 2014, before Russian hackers had stolen emails from Hillary Clinton or accused Russian agents had met with Republican higher-ups, a small conference gathered in Moscow’s Izmailovo Alfa Hotel.
Organized by a group called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), the one-day conference was, according to a press release, dedicated to the “struggle for independence and creation of new sovereign geopolitical entities on the map of the world.”
The 2014 gathering was the first of what would become an annual affair for AGMR. The group went on to host a series of conferences that would, in time, attract both Kremlin funding and secessionists from states like Texas, California, and Hawaii — and, this week, help spark the newest plea for help from neo-Confederates in the United States.
The 2014 event was small, and generated almost no press coverage, but it did attract the participation of one of the best-known neo-Confederate groups extant: the League of the South. Described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a group dedicated to reforming the Confederacy, the League of the South envisioned a new country in the American South that would be dominated by “white Christians.”
While the group’s president, Michael Hill, was unable to attend the 2014 event in Moscow in person — this was two years before AGMR, with Kremlin backing, could afford to help individuals from the Texas Nationalist Movement and Yes California groups travel to Moscow — he managed to Skype into the conference. Hill’s talk centered on some of his favorite, fascistic points: the “independence of the Southern people,” the “South’s identity as an historic ‘blood and soil’ nation.”
As Hill later wrote, his talk “was very well received (through a translator) by the largely Russian audience.”
The invitation for Hill to speak marks one of the earliest instances of interest in Russia in stoking secessionists — and white supremacist — movements across the U.S. It would set the tone for things like the opening of a “California Embassy” in Moscow or the “Heart of Texas” Facebook page, which advocated Texas secession.
Even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office pointed directly to Russian operations like “Heart of Texas” as evidence of Russia’s social media interference, Russian pro-Confederate and pro-secession material is still floating around on social media sites — including the memorable “Captain Confederate,” first posted by the Russian “South United” page.
But Hill and the League of South never managed to make it to Russia. As California secessionists and Texas separatists flitted back and forth from Moscow, Hill and his group remained in the U.S., taking part in things like last year’s violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
While it’s unclear how popular the League of the South became over the past two years, Matthew Heimbach, one of the white supremacist faces of the so-called “alt-right,” took a photo with the group’s flag — while simultaneously holding a book written by Alexander Dugin, a Russian neo-fascist whose work has been assigned at Russia’s General Staff Academy.
Now, though, Hill is reaching out once more to his allies in Russia. First reported by Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery, Hill penned a note to his “Russian friends” this week, announcing that the League of the South would soon have a “Russian language section” on the group’s website. Wrote Hill:
We understand that the Russian people and Southerners are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion. As fellow Whites of northern European extraction, we come from the same general gene pool. As inheritors of the European cultural tradition, we share similar values, customs, and ways of life. And as Christians, we worship the same Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and our common faith binds us as brothers and sisters….
[W]e believe that the Russian people and the Southern people are natural allies against the destructive and impersonal impulses of globalism. We ought to encourage closer ties between our two peoples and between those who represent our interests in all phases of life, including government, business, education, the arts, and other areas. Moreover, we should seek peace and goodwill between our peoples as the foundation for all our cooperative efforts.
Hill has not announced a timeline for the “Russian language section” on his group’s website. (He also wrote a similar statement in 2016, noting that both Russians and “Southern people” are “fellow Christians and traditionalists.”) It’s also unclear who, exactly, Hill has in mind regarding his “Russian friends”; AGMR appears to have effectively folded over the past year, with no secessionist conferences planned for the future.
Nonetheless, Hill’s missive highlights the fact that American white supremacists continue to view Russia as some kind of bastion, or some kind of ally, in their quest to either impose their own white supremacist beliefs in the U.S. — or, failing that, in breaking off part of the U.S. entirely.
As white supremacists at “Occidental Dissent” wrote in response to the League of the South’s move, “We were already pro-Russia long before this… Why wouldn’t the League of the South open a Russian language section on its website?”
Organized by a group called the Anti-Globalization Movement of Russia (AGMR), the one-day conference was, according to a press release, dedicated to the “struggle for independence and creation of new sovereign geopolitical entities on the map of the world.”
The 2014 gathering was the first of what would become an annual affair for AGMR. The group went on to host a series of conferences that would, in time, attract both Kremlin funding and secessionists from states like Texas, California, and Hawaii — and, this week, help spark the newest plea for help from neo-Confederates in the United States.
The 2014 event was small, and generated almost no press coverage, but it did attract the participation of one of the best-known neo-Confederate groups extant: the League of the South. Described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a group dedicated to reforming the Confederacy, the League of the South envisioned a new country in the American South that would be dominated by “white Christians.”
While the group’s president, Michael Hill, was unable to attend the 2014 event in Moscow in person — this was two years before AGMR, with Kremlin backing, could afford to help individuals from the Texas Nationalist Movement and Yes California groups travel to Moscow — he managed to Skype into the conference. Hill’s talk centered on some of his favorite, fascistic points: the “independence of the Southern people,” the “South’s identity as an historic ‘blood and soil’ nation.”
As Hill later wrote, his talk “was very well received (through a translator) by the largely Russian audience.”
The invitation for Hill to speak marks one of the earliest instances of interest in Russia in stoking secessionists — and white supremacist — movements across the U.S. It would set the tone for things like the opening of a “California Embassy” in Moscow or the “Heart of Texas” Facebook page, which advocated Texas secession.
Even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office pointed directly to Russian operations like “Heart of Texas” as evidence of Russia’s social media interference, Russian pro-Confederate and pro-secession material is still floating around on social media sites — including the memorable “Captain Confederate,” first posted by the Russian “South United” page.
But Hill and the League of South never managed to make it to Russia. As California secessionists and Texas separatists flitted back and forth from Moscow, Hill and his group remained in the U.S., taking part in things like last year’s violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
While it’s unclear how popular the League of the South became over the past two years, Matthew Heimbach, one of the white supremacist faces of the so-called “alt-right,” took a photo with the group’s flag — while simultaneously holding a book written by Alexander Dugin, a Russian neo-fascist whose work has been assigned at Russia’s General Staff Academy.
Now, though, Hill is reaching out once more to his allies in Russia. First reported by Right Wing Watch’s Peter Montgomery, Hill penned a note to his “Russian friends” this week, announcing that the League of the South would soon have a “Russian language section” on the group’s website. Wrote Hill:
We understand that the Russian people and Southerners are natural allies in blood, culture, and religion. As fellow Whites of northern European extraction, we come from the same general gene pool. As inheritors of the European cultural tradition, we share similar values, customs, and ways of life. And as Christians, we worship the same Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, and our common faith binds us as brothers and sisters….
[W]e believe that the Russian people and the Southern people are natural allies against the destructive and impersonal impulses of globalism. We ought to encourage closer ties between our two peoples and between those who represent our interests in all phases of life, including government, business, education, the arts, and other areas. Moreover, we should seek peace and goodwill between our peoples as the foundation for all our cooperative efforts.
Hill has not announced a timeline for the “Russian language section” on his group’s website. (He also wrote a similar statement in 2016, noting that both Russians and “Southern people” are “fellow Christians and traditionalists.”) It’s also unclear who, exactly, Hill has in mind regarding his “Russian friends”; AGMR appears to have effectively folded over the past year, with no secessionist conferences planned for the future.
Nonetheless, Hill’s missive highlights the fact that American white supremacists continue to view Russia as some kind of bastion, or some kind of ally, in their quest to either impose their own white supremacist beliefs in the U.S. — or, failing that, in breaking off part of the U.S. entirely.
As white supremacists at “Occidental Dissent” wrote in response to the League of the South’s move, “We were already pro-Russia long before this… Why wouldn’t the League of the South open a Russian language section on its website?”
Avalon, PA: Neo-Nazi Group Linked to Republican Party Attacks Black Man at Bar
By Philly Antifa - its going down
July 17, 2018
Report from Philly Antifa about a recent racist attack carried out by the Keystone State Skinheads/United, who includes a member which is active within the local Republican Party.
Coming a few weeks after holding a picnic in the area, Keystone United members were cited by police (but tellingly not arrested or charged) following an unprovoked attack on a regular patron of the Jackman Inn in Avalon PA on July 7th.
According to a local news report:
“An alleged neo-Nazi group is being accused of targeting an African American customer, assaulting him and using racial slurs against him at the Jackman Inn…
It happened when the victim, patron Paul Morris, walked into a backroom where a group of men were playing pool. The men allegedly used a racial epithet against the victim.
Police say the group of men may have been from Keystone United, which they describe as a racist neo-Nazi group formerly known as the Keystone State Skinheads…
when the bartender asked the group to leave, they attacked Morris…
‘Eight of them jumped Paul,’ (the bar manager) said. ‘He was hit in the face. He bent down to pick up his glasses. He was hit again’…
Morris is now California, but KDKA’s Andy Sheehan spoke with him on the phone. He says one member who called him the n-word said his group would eradicate blacks one-by-one, and then he attacked.
‘They attacked me because they had hate in their hearts. I didn’t do anything to these people,’ Morris said.
Avalon Police detained some members of the group, but did not charge them. Avalon Police Chief Thomas Kokoski said he believes they will be charged, but the incident is still under investigation….
The incident happened on July 7, and Morris’s lawyer, Fred Rabner, questions why no arrests have been made, saying they should be charged, not only with assault but with ethnic intimidation.
‘This is a hate crime, there’s no doubt about it,’ said Rabner. “
Fortunately, Morris received no serious injuries, nor did the bar employee, who was also attacked when they intervened.
It is unknown which KSS members were involved in the attack, but the event is not dissimilar from an attack on a black man by 3 KSS members in Scranton, PA back in 2003, one of whom was Luzerne County republican committeeman and co-founder of KSS Steve Smith.
Smith was in attendance at the KSS picnic in the area at the end of May, but it is unknown if he was involved in the attack on the 7th.
We could go on forever about state/cop bias in favor of white supremacists (and white people in general), for example, participating in an Anti-Racist march where some windows got broken can get you arrested and looking at 70 years while attacking 2 people during a hate crime gets you cited with no charges. Or we could belabor that those who equate Antifa with Nazis, or claim we have “Anti-White Bias” would be hard pressed to find an incident where Antifa randomly attack a white man for his race when he comes into a bar to deliver a thank you note to one of the employees, but we won’t.
This was a horrific attack that could have ended in much more serious injury or even death, as attacks by KSS members have in the past. We are glad Mr. Morris and the bar employee escaped serious injury.
Keystone United/KSS have been a blight on PA for too long. If we can hope for any silver lining to this attack, it is that people in this state will start taking the threat they represent seriously again, and that the years of PR spin KSS has employed to try and convince people that their “old days” of randomly attacking People of Color, Queers and Anti-Racists were behind them in favor of “positive white activism” have been debunked.
Anyone with information about this attack, specifically which KSS members were involved, should contact us. We plan to identify those involved and release their names, which is more than the state could be counted on. No one should be able to commit a racist assault on Saturday and go back to anonymity on Sunday.
Time to shut these fucks down. More to come.
Coming a few weeks after holding a picnic in the area, Keystone United members were cited by police (but tellingly not arrested or charged) following an unprovoked attack on a regular patron of the Jackman Inn in Avalon PA on July 7th.
According to a local news report:
“An alleged neo-Nazi group is being accused of targeting an African American customer, assaulting him and using racial slurs against him at the Jackman Inn…
It happened when the victim, patron Paul Morris, walked into a backroom where a group of men were playing pool. The men allegedly used a racial epithet against the victim.
Police say the group of men may have been from Keystone United, which they describe as a racist neo-Nazi group formerly known as the Keystone State Skinheads…
when the bartender asked the group to leave, they attacked Morris…
‘Eight of them jumped Paul,’ (the bar manager) said. ‘He was hit in the face. He bent down to pick up his glasses. He was hit again’…
Morris is now California, but KDKA’s Andy Sheehan spoke with him on the phone. He says one member who called him the n-word said his group would eradicate blacks one-by-one, and then he attacked.
‘They attacked me because they had hate in their hearts. I didn’t do anything to these people,’ Morris said.
Avalon Police detained some members of the group, but did not charge them. Avalon Police Chief Thomas Kokoski said he believes they will be charged, but the incident is still under investigation….
The incident happened on July 7, and Morris’s lawyer, Fred Rabner, questions why no arrests have been made, saying they should be charged, not only with assault but with ethnic intimidation.
‘This is a hate crime, there’s no doubt about it,’ said Rabner. “
Fortunately, Morris received no serious injuries, nor did the bar employee, who was also attacked when they intervened.
It is unknown which KSS members were involved in the attack, but the event is not dissimilar from an attack on a black man by 3 KSS members in Scranton, PA back in 2003, one of whom was Luzerne County republican committeeman and co-founder of KSS Steve Smith.
Smith was in attendance at the KSS picnic in the area at the end of May, but it is unknown if he was involved in the attack on the 7th.
We could go on forever about state/cop bias in favor of white supremacists (and white people in general), for example, participating in an Anti-Racist march where some windows got broken can get you arrested and looking at 70 years while attacking 2 people during a hate crime gets you cited with no charges. Or we could belabor that those who equate Antifa with Nazis, or claim we have “Anti-White Bias” would be hard pressed to find an incident where Antifa randomly attack a white man for his race when he comes into a bar to deliver a thank you note to one of the employees, but we won’t.
This was a horrific attack that could have ended in much more serious injury or even death, as attacks by KSS members have in the past. We are glad Mr. Morris and the bar employee escaped serious injury.
Keystone United/KSS have been a blight on PA for too long. If we can hope for any silver lining to this attack, it is that people in this state will start taking the threat they represent seriously again, and that the years of PR spin KSS has employed to try and convince people that their “old days” of randomly attacking People of Color, Queers and Anti-Racists were behind them in favor of “positive white activism” have been debunked.
Anyone with information about this attack, specifically which KSS members were involved, should contact us. We plan to identify those involved and release their names, which is more than the state could be counted on. No one should be able to commit a racist assault on Saturday and go back to anonymity on Sunday.
Time to shut these fucks down. More to come.
Woman Allegedly Defaced Black Neighbor's Home With N-Word, 'Hail Trump'
Toledo woman has been charged with ethnic intimidation, among other things
By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff
Posted Jul 18, 2018 10:44 AM CDT
(NEWSER) – A white Toledo woman was hit with charges including ethnic intimidation Monday after allegedly spray-painting "Hail Trump," "Nigger keep out," and a swastika across the front of her black neighbor's home over the weekend. Patricia Edelen, 47, pleaded not guilty; she was ordered not to have any contact with the victim, who is in the process of selling the house. The incident went viral after Monica Davis, the victim's realtor, posted a video on social media showing the vandalism, which took place less than three miles away from the location where, mere hours later, the Ohio city's annual African American Parade would be kicking off. Davis called for the video to go viral, and it did: Soon, community members were at the house, power washing and scrubbing away the spray-painted words, the Toledo Blade reports.
"This morning we had a great time celebrating our community’s diversity at the African American Festival parade. At the same time, a family in our community experienced a hate crime," Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz posted on Facebook on Saturday. But since the alleged crime does not meet the federal standards for a hate crime, the ethnic intimidation charge was filed, which increases the severity of the other misdemeanor charges Edelen is facing—criminal mischief, criminal damaging, and obstructing official business. Police tell the Washington Post the charge is rarely used. A neighbor caught Edelen on video allegedly vandalizing the home, and police used the recording to identify her, ABC 13 reports. They had to force their way into her house to arrest her Saturday night after she refused to allow them in. "I have never been more dismayed and [then] more proud of Toledo than today," a resident posted Saturday along with pictures of the clean-up.
"This morning we had a great time celebrating our community’s diversity at the African American Festival parade. At the same time, a family in our community experienced a hate crime," Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz posted on Facebook on Saturday. But since the alleged crime does not meet the federal standards for a hate crime, the ethnic intimidation charge was filed, which increases the severity of the other misdemeanor charges Edelen is facing—criminal mischief, criminal damaging, and obstructing official business. Police tell the Washington Post the charge is rarely used. A neighbor caught Edelen on video allegedly vandalizing the home, and police used the recording to identify her, ABC 13 reports. They had to force their way into her house to arrest her Saturday night after she refused to allow them in. "I have never been more dismayed and [then] more proud of Toledo than today," a resident posted Saturday along with pictures of the clean-up.
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