Sarah Posner
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Trudeau says Canada will take refugees banned by U.S.
TORONTO -- Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has a message for refugees rejected by U.S. President Donald Trump: Canada will take you.
Yes, Democrats Should Impeach Trump — and Make Mitch McConnell Defend His Acquittal
The Senate will acquit the president if the House impeaches him, true. But that’s not a reason not to do it. It’s exactly why they should do it.
QU Poll Release Detail
Majority Of Voters Say Climate Change Is An Emergency Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; 72% Say Congress Needs To Act To Reduce Gun Violence
A Timeline of the Trump Administration’s Efforts to End Asylum
United States law enshrines the protections of the international Refugee Convention, drafted in the wake of the horrors of World War II. The law provides that any person “physically present in the United States or who arrives in the United States …...
A Travel Influencer Has Admitted To Photoshopping Her Photos After People Noticed Multiple Instagrams With The Same Cloud Formation
"I really don't see the big deal [here], I never lied about it."
The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking
An anonymous book author has lit the online right on fire — including some in the president’s orbit.
Sarah Posner
The alt-right manifesto that has Trumpworld talking politi.co/2zisMUA pic.twitter.com/oj4lfucH7A
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Sign on to the Pastoral Letter on the El Paso Shootings
Mr. President, we recognize that you are a symptom of our decaying moral fabric and you have ignited a modern day wildfire. The coals of white nationalism are always smoldering in our common life, and they have fueled the violence of indigenous...
Sarah Posner
Interfaith group of religious leaders letter on El Paso:
action.groundswell-mvmt.org/petitions/sign… pic.twitter.com/FzmvSEVDBL
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Nadler Says It Out Loud: 'This Is Formal Impeachment Proceedings'
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY) admitted in public Thursday evening that his panel is conducting “formal impeachment proceedings”...
Trump won't stop his racially charged rhetoric. The repetition is what makes it work.
My research shows anti-immigrant politicians need to constantly repeat their messages to keep their base agitated. Trump figured this out long ago.
Here's the data on white supremacist terrorism the Trump administration has been 'unable or unwilling' to give to Congress
A government document, which has not been previously reported on, becomes public as the Trump administration’s Justice Department has been unable or unwilling to provide data to Congress on white supremacist domestic terrorism.
The Legacy of Toni Morrison
There is a blossoming of black women writers who are following her footsteps and making their own impact.
ICE releases hundreds rounded up in Mississippi as children left behind
Several hundred individuals arrested during a roundup across Mississippi, leaving their children without parents in some cases, have been released, ICE said.
Pass Bipartisan Legislation To End Gun Violence Now
The nation's mayors are calling on the United States Senate to return to Washington to pass bipartisan legislation to end gun violence now.
Read The Letter
August 8, 2019
The Honorable Mitch McConnell
Majority Leader
United States...
2 families at UMC decline to meet with President Trump
President Trump landed in the borderland making his first stop at the University Medical Center. He spoke to some families of the victims of the shooting. But two families at the hospital refused to meet with the president. The Washington Post...
Sarah Posner
“I wish he wouldn’t have needed to come. I think he just came to do a circus. He was the one who brewed up all of this hatred against Mexicans I guess he forgot what he said."
2 families at UMC decline to meet with President Trump
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Cesar Sayoc and the potential rise of the “Trump made me do it” legal defense
Sayoc may be the most high-profile defendant to at least partially blame the president’s rhetoric in a court of law. But he’s unlikely to be the last.
Sarah Posner
@missoulian Here's @Mimirocah1 on why we will likely see more of this kind of defense from Trump fans prosecuted for violent crimes
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Superior man believed he was acting on Trump's orders in attacking boy for wearing hat during national anthem
An attorney cites President Trump's rhetoric in the case of a man charged with assaulting a boy for disrespecting the national anthem.
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Man's lawyer says, "I am certain of the fact that (Brockway) was doing what he believed he was told to do, essentially, by the president."
Man believed he was acting on Trump's orders in attacking boy for wearing hat during national anthem missoulian.com/news/local/sup… via @missoulian
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Racist Graffiti at Ohio House Explosion Spurs Investigation as Hate Crime
After the home of an interracial couple was destroyed in an explosion early Wednesday, investigators found hateful graffiti spray-painted on the couple’s garage.
Sarah Posner
"When a reporter asked what was going through her head, she answered, "'Disbelief, that there’s still this much hatred in America.'"
Ohio House Explosion Investigated as Hate Crime After Racist Graffiti Is Found
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Frank Figliuzzi: Trump Failed By Not Directly Condemning White Supremacists | The 11th Hour | MSNBC
Fmr. FBI Assistant Director for Counterintelligence Frank Figliuzzi breaks down the rhetoric coming from the president in the wake of two mass shootings and ...
Sarah Posner
"The numbers 88 are very significant in neo-Nazi and white supremacy movement." - @FrankFigliuzzi1
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Trump's Encouraging QAnon May Result in Violence—Just ask the FBI
Newly revealed FBI memo warns about conspiracy theories' causal connection to extremist violence