Reporter. Author of To Catch a Fascist: The Fight to Expose the Radical Right. Formerly HuffPost. Words: Guardian, Zeteo, MSNBC. letsgomathias@protonmail.com.
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So @PublishersWkly just gave my book about antifa a STARRED review!
To Catch A Fascist is an “urgent, eye-opening debut” that is “by turns heart-pounding and heartening glimpse of the fight against fascism in the shadows.”
!!!!
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we just went through two years of parents storming school boards calling masks child abuse
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I have covered fascist rallies and Trump rallies.
This Trump rally was a fascist rally.
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The dad next door to our apartment in Brooklyn just took his small kids outside to let them scream as loud as they want for a few minutes before taking them back inside
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After cops tackled & arrested me, & after I identified myself as a journalist, they refused to give me my phone, leaving it on the street.
Later that night another journalist found my phone. Turned out it was recording while cops pressed my head into the concrete & cursed at me
While covering anti-racist protests, police arrested HuffPost reporter Christopher Mathias even though he showed off his press pass.
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Your daddy once called for a “complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the U.S.” He once said “I think Islam hates us.”
Sit this one the fuck out
Don’t give the POS NZ shooter what he wants. Don’t speak his name don’t show the footage. Seems that most agree on that. The questions is can the media do what’s right and pass up the ratings they’ll get by doing the opposite? I fear we all know the answer unfortunately.
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Sister of man killed while defending Muslims in Portland: "I am so proud to be able to call someone so brave and strong my big brother."
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It’s just such a profound betrayal of our profession - on so many levels - to describe the murder of one of our own in the passive voice
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The pivot from “it didn’t happen!” to “an illegal immigrant did it!” is one of the most breathtakingly ghoulish right-wing media news cycles
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NEW: In a remarkable letter sent to the White House today, @KamalaHarris leads 27 senators in calling for the “immediate removal” of white nationalist Stephen Miller huffpost.com/entry/stephen-m…
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It’s so disturbing & depressing how a sitting US congressman can tweet out neo-Nazi propaganda & it’s not a national scandal & none of his colleagues are calling for him to resign. huffingtonpost.com/entry/ste…
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“there was some concern in the administration about an unintended consequence of the pause: that it would allow journalists broader access to Gaza & the opportunity to further illuminate the devastation there & turn public opinion on Israel.”
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I swear to God if everyone doesn't make this the biggest news story today... You're just gonna let this guy stay in the White House aren't you splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
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Standing ovation at #Pittsburgh vigil as leader of Islamic Center of Pittsburgh announces Muslim community has raised over $70,000 for victims and their families
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Don’t invite people on your shows to argue that there is a white genocide in South Africa. There is not a white genocide in South Africa. This is not a “both sides” situation. This is the president pushing white nationalist propaganda.
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It’s been so revealing since @AOC has been in office to see GOP pundits & pols - who love to loudly advertise that they somehow represent real working class Americans & not “coastal elites” - demean the congresswoman as just a “bartender.”
"I'm proud to be a bartender. Ain't nothing wrong that. There's nothing wrong with working retail, folding clothes for other people to buy ... There is nothing wrong with being a working person in the United States of America." — @AOC
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Imagine if conservative media spent as much time hyperventilating about congressman Steve King openly admitting to being a white supremacist as it did covering what @AOC wore yesterday.
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As someone who has covered Steve King for a long time now, let me state this very clearly: this is fucking garbage washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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The dude with the sword? That’s Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right fascist gang the Proud Boys. The vandalism? No evidence that it’s “antifa.” The violence? Videos from last night show abt 20 Proud Boys beating 3 people while they’re on the ground.
This is so infuriating
Antifa attacks again — swords and vandalism at New York GOP office @FoxNewsNight
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New: Data shows right-wing vigilantes & paramilitaries have confronted or attacked anti-racist protesters about 500 times since cops killed George Floyd in May. This includes at least:
64 assaults
38 attacks by car
9 shootings
3 deaths
huffpost.com/entry/white-vig…
#Kenosha
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Thanks for sharing my story congressman. It’s mostly a summary of things you’ve tweeted & said on national TV. All easily verifiable. No lies.
You are a white supremacist. I find it interesting that you still won’t deny it.
If I redacted all of the blatant lies in this HuffPost anti King hit piece, it would look like a Hillary document Congress had subpoenaed from the FBI-nothing left to read. pgj.cc/pqcrII
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I have arrived at the Trump rally in #Greenville, NC and the first thing I see is a MAGA teen band playing a song called “CNN sucks”
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I know it's beating a dead horse at this point, but if this were a Muslim attacker, law enforcement would call it terrorism and almost every news outlet would have "terror" or "terrorist" in their headlines
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The ARE YOU LISTENING YET graffiti wow
The Wisconsin Department of Corrections building was set on fire during the second night of unrest in Kenosha. Reduced to rubble and ashes. This video was recorded before bulldozers were brought in. @cbschicago
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not long after 10/7 there was huge debate — replete w/ in-depth investigations — abt whether Israel meant to bomb a hospital. now a daily recurrence that it bombs a hospital, school, refugee camp... a repetition that made it routine, inuring so many to the sheer horror of it all
BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike has hit a school in central Gaza, killing at least 30, Palestinian health officials say. apnews.com/article/israel-ha…
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Last yr Marjorie Taylor Greene was featured speaker at a white supremacist event where her fellow speakers praised Hitler & called for Fauci to be hanged. Attendees chanted "Putin" as bombs dropped on Ukraine
The GOP just gave her a seat on the House Homeland Security Committee
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One of the most powerful demonstrations I've ever seen #bodegastrike
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You heard that right. They're chanting "Fuck you faggots." 2017. #Charlottesville
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A reminder that while the men who killed Eric Garner will not go to prison, the man who filmed Garner's death is in prison huffpost.com/entry/ramsey-or…
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Killed by a Nazi in #Charlottesville, Heather Heyer is now on posters in Athens, Greece.
"From Greece to America, crush the neo-Nazis"
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Here’s the unsigned letter the @FBI sent Dr. King trying to get him to kill himself
Today, the FBI honors the life and work of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. A quote from Dr. King is etched in stone at the FBI Academy's reflection garden in Quantico as a reminder to all students and FBI employees: "The time is always right to do what is right." #MLKDay
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Denmark players still crying while warming up to restart this game makes me think maybe they shouldn't be restarting this game
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I'll say it again: it's so deeply depressing & disturbing that a sitting U.S. congressman can tweet out a white supremacist's propaganda & it's not a national scandal & none of his colleagues are calling for him to resign. huffingtonpost.com/entry/ste…
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North Carolina health workers stood up to anti-lockdown protesters today.
I asked a nurse why they stood in silence, arms crossed, while being heckled. She replied:
“My grandma taught me not to argue with a fool, because onlookers can’t tell who’s who.” huffpost.com/entry/healthcar…
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David Porter stands by bloodstain on Milwaukee street where his friend was killed by Columbus Police - in town to police RNC
“why are cops from Ohio way out here? Had that been Milwaukee PD that man would be alive right now. I know that because they know him”
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NEW: Meet the Sacramento dildo saleswoman behind the "Terrorgram Collective," a neo-Nazi network that advocates mass shootings & calls shooters "saints."
Her propaganda helped inspired a shooting at a gay bar. Now she's been unmasked. Meet Dallas Humber. huffpost.com/entry/dallas-hu…
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A quick thread on Portland and the distortions of Andy Ngo, who was not at Saturday's rally.
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Novelist Lana Bastašić cut ties w/ her German publisher over its silence abt the genocide in Gaza & the censorship of pro-Palestinian voices in Germany.
She was then disinvited from a prestigious literary festival in Austria. Her response is remarkable lithub.com/read-novelist-lan…
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Just interviewed a father and son voting together in Sioux City, Iowa. Asked them what they thought of Steve King.
Father: “Douchebag.”
Son: “Asshole.”
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Think what I found so cool abt journalism when I was younger was how journalists were natural enemies of bad rulers/regimes, but now I look around and see an American media industry that can barely muster indignation over daily photos of our dead & dismembered colleagues
Urgent: Al Jazeera journalist Fadi Al Wahidi, shot in Gaza by the Israeli Occupation Forces on October 9, 2024, has fallen into a coma. His condition is critical. We demand immediate medical evacuation to save his life. Every moment counts. Al Jazeera condemns the continuous targeting and killing of journalists. #TargetingJournalistsIsACrime
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why NYT why? we've gone over this so many times. you don't just take far-right groups' description of themselves at face value. you accurately describe Patriot Prayer as a far-right group yes, but their sole function is neo-fascist street violence not promoting Christianity
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With the MAGA kid story, I shouldn’t be surprised, but it’s still wild to see mainstream journalists completely capitulate to bad faith narratives put forward by far right people
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I saw you the night before the election at a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa. You stood side-by-side with Steve King. You were laughing & smiling w him.
A couple weeks before, King had told an Iowa TV station that he didn’t think the term “white nationalist” was a bad thing.
I condemn Rep. Steve King’s comments on white supremacy; they are offensive and racist - and not representative of our state of Iowa. We are a great nation and this divisiveness is hurting everyone. We cannot continue down this path if we want to continue to be a great nation.
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Twitter has verified the organizer of the Charlottesville Unite the Right white supremacist rally nitter.app/themaddimension/status…
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NEW @RichardHanania is a right-wing star. A @UTAustin scholar, his fans include JD Vance, Thiel, Musk, Sacks, Rufo. @HarperCollins will publish his book "The Origins of Woke"
HuffPost found he used a pseudonym for yrs to write for white supremacist sites huffpost.com/entry/richard-h…
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Recap for those following at home. Over the past few weeks:
Ron Paul tweeted out a racist and anti-Semitic cartoon abt 'cultural marxism'
Dinesh D'Souza (guy pardoned by Trump) retweets the hashtag #BurnTheJews
And congressman Steve King retweets neo-Nazi, won't apologize
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NEW: Police officer John Donnelly attended/helped plan the deadly Nazi rally in Charlottesville. (Was Richard Spencer's bodyguard.)
He went to a Nazi party celebrating the rally & posted racist slurs.
Then he returned to being a cop for 5 yrs. Until now huffpost.com/entry/john-donn…
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In 2016, Steve Bannon called Breitbart a "platform for the alt-right."
In 2017, @Bernstein published a blockbuster piece on how Breitbart was smuggling white nationalism into the mainstream.
Now @facebook is set to list Breitbart as a "trusted" news source
Facebook’s new section of “trusted” news sources will include Breitbart, a website that featured a section on “black crime” and laundered white nationalist talking points bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Philly was really prepared for shit. These counter-demonstrators were here bright and early. They’re dancing and carrying signs and putting the astroturfed “stop counting the votes” folks to shame
There’s a small gathering of MAGA people outside the Pennsylvania Convention Center calling for an end to the vote counting inside. They’re with a super PAC called Freedom Works for America, which I think is coordinating similar demonstrations across the country.
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New: My dispatch from Idaho's Christian nationalist insurgency, where extremists are seizing power, in part, by targeting their opponents w/ shocking cruelty.
Now, a 'cry for help' & a warning from those targeted: Idaho is a blueprint & a bellwether.
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I’ve written a lot of stories abt Steve King, but this is the craziest one yet tbh.
That his GOP colleagues don’t publicly call for him to resign, or try to expel or censure him, or even just denounce him, says everything you need to know abt the GOP.
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Read this a couple times to makes sure that yes, the retired agent was, you know, retired. Not working undercover. Just in the same chat room as the Buffalo shooter.
A retired Federal agent from Texas was one of 6 people in regular communication with the white supremacist Buffalo murderer. 30mins prior to the attack the shooter invited the former agent to review his attack plans and watch his live stream.
buffalonews.com/news/local/a…
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New: Gab was key to the Tree of Life synagogue massacre. The site’s owner is a raging anti-Semite. The GOP nominee for PA gov, @dougmastriano, paid Gab $5k for “campaign consulting.” Now every new account on Gab automatically follows Mastriano. huffpost.com/entry/doug-mast…
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Fuentes as vile as they come. Explicitly racist & antisemitic, praised Hitler, says n word, marched w/ Nazis in C’ville, cheered on J6 rioters at the Capitol, Holocaust denier, advocates political violence/killing lawmakers…
Now having dinner w Trump, de facto leader of GOP
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That is definitely Chuck Johnson. And that means a day after allegedly condemning white supremacy & Steve King on the House floor, some Republicans are walking into the House with.... a Holocaust-denying white supremacist. Fucking amazing.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but is that Chuck C. Johnson walking with Reps. Phil Roe and Andy Harris?
Both waited for him to get through security.
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yea it's making me feel insane.
like 2 things can be true: 1) a lot of us knew Miller was racist af, had white nationalist links
2) here's a ton of documentation SHOWING the extent of those links & his fascist worldview & the emergency of him having power over immigration
kind of shocking that so many people are all “eh, old news” about actual evidence of stephen miller’s white nationalist views
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I’m inside the Columbia campus now, and the pro-Israel crowd is yelling through the gates at students. “Stop wasting mommy and daddy’s money!” “You want to camp? Go camp in Gaza!” “Go back to Gaza!”
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What the Ilhan Omar news cycle has yet again brought into harsh harsh relief: you can be blatantly and explicitly bigoted against Muslims in this country and keep your job, even rise to the highest levels of power
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The "14 words" is a white supremacist slogan that goes "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."
New DHS press release is also 14 words, and is titled: "We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again"
This is an actual story on an official government website with a 14-word headline starting with "we must secure". This is not an accident. There are actual Nazis-who-call-themselves-Nazis at DHS. dhs.gov/news/2018/02/15/we-m…
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can't stop thinking about the photo of the IDF soldier proudly posing in front of the Gaza university library he set on fire after a weeks-long meltdown in U.S. media about student protesters setting up tents on lawns
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"Transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely," Daily Wire host Michael Knowles says at CPAC to cheers in the middle of a straight-up eliminationist anti-trans tirade. Fuck this shit
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New: New: Trump called for “remigration,” a term with a deep fascist history, and which has always been a euphemism for ethnic cleansing.
Idk man it’s all really really bad huffpost.com/entry/trump-rem…
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Absolute, shameless bull shit.
He defended stop & frisk and ramped up its use. There were abt 98k stops in 2002, his 1st year in office.
By 2011, cops did nearly 700,000 stops of (almost exclusively) black&brown NYers.
He didn't "cut back" shit. A lawsuit made him do it.
I have apologized for taking too long to understand the impact of stop and frisk on Black and Latino communities.
I inherited stop and frisk. In an effort to stop gun violence, it was overused. I cut it back by 95%.
I should have cut it back sooner.
mikebloom.bg/39led2y
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All the stories about the protest at the CNN building should mention up top that there’s a Atlanta Police Department precinct in the CNN building?
Also: there’s an Atlanta Police Department precinct in the CNN building?!
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The Great Replacement conspiracy theory is explicitly white nationalist & elitist, and Tucker — a frozen food fortune heir who went to private New England boarding school, then Trinity, & is now a millionaire making propaganda at behest of billionaires — is definition of elite
Tucker Carlson is the only powerful figure who consistently challenges elite dogma—on both cultural and economic questions. That is why they try to destroy him. Don’t fall for it this time, or any other.
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One of the defining legacies of 9/11 is how it was exploited to create a booming Islamophobia industry, so much so that years later a man could say “Islam hates us” and call for a ban on all Muslims entering the US... and still get elected president.
Overall, Americans took 9/11 pretty calmly. Notably, there wasn't a mass outbreak of anti-Muslim sentiment and violence, which could all too easily have happened. And while GW Bush was a terrible president, to his credit he tried to calm prejudice, not feed it 2/
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some perspective: Gaza is a little bigger (139 sq. miles) than Queens (109 sq. miles) with roughly same population (abt 2.2 million)
so imagine over 25k tons of explosives dropped on Queens, killing 16,000 people, 6100 of whom are kids, with half of all homes damaged/destroyed
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Good example of how he (& other right-wing propagandists) often operate: post a clip of something dramatic happening, & in the description deliberately omit the back story trusting people won’t dig any deeper while scrolling
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Yes many of us already knew Stephen Miller is a white nationalist, but the significance of the revelations in this article cannot be overstated.
We have a White House senior advisor whose worldview is shaped by explicit white supremacist literature splcenter.org/hatewatch/2019…
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The fuck. A week after Muslims were massacred in a mosque you do a nice profile of a woman who worked directly with anti-Muslim extremist groups
Kellyanne Conway’s humble New Jersey roots laid the foundation for a long career in a male-dominated world of politics. Now, she’s the one consistent figure in the otherwise revolving door of the Trump White House. #BadassWomenDC | @DanaBashCNN cnn.it/2U3WXuA
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Two white supremacists who marched in Charlottesville - who Trump called “very fine people” - stormed the capitol on his behalf over three years later
Holocaust denier Nick Fuentes and neo-nazi loser Baked Alaska both live-streamed from Pelosi's office after storming the capitol. Neither have been arrested.
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Speaking before Trump at Madison Square Garden, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe says: “These Latinos love making babies, there’s no pulling out, they cum inside, just like they do to our country”
Calls Puerto Rico “floating garbage island”
Joke abt black people “carving watermelons”
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getting arrested allowed me to report from inside a NYPD precinct during a pandemic / mass protests. what i saw:
- cop with a Punisher skull patch
- protesters needing medical attn, not getting it
- crowded cells w no way to social distance / no masks
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Educated at a private boarding school in New England, a graduate of Trinity, the heir to a frozen food fortune, a millionaire who works for a billionaire, who calls congressmen when people are mean to his grown son, Buckley, lashes out at coastal elites. Tonight at 8.
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.@hodakatebi, an Iranian-American, goes on @WGNNews in Chicago to talk about her new fashion book.
Host: "Let's talk about nuclear weapons."
Other host: "You don't sound American."
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I'm home & overwhelmed by all your messages of love & support. Thank you.
I'll explain more about my arrest later but for now just know it was bogus, as were the arrests of all the brave New Yorkers protesting against a police force that routinely terrorizes this city.
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probably because it's not illegal to be tied to antifa!
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As someone who was in Charlottesville, and who didn’t start a disastrous war that killed so many people, from the absolute bottom of my heart, fuck off forever
The Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville was reprehensible. But it ended in two days.
What’s happening now on college campuses is worse. It’s been happening for weeks with no end in sight. It’s based on hatred toward Jews and America.
Where is Biden? Biden the hypocrite is silent.
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Seeing the muted reaction to the Supreme Court allowing the Muslim ban and I'm struck by how normalized something that's so evil and explicitly bigoted has been completely normalized over the last year. Guess this is how it happens
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People who have called on Stephen Miller to resign or be fired:
- About 25 senators
- 107 members of the House
- Over 50 civil rights orgs, including @NAACP
- A coalition of Jewish groups
- Not a single Republican
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Hard to overstate how much the media abdicated its duties with Stephen Miller.
Leaked emails prove beyond a shadow of a doubt he’s a white nationalist. Press covers it and then moves on.
White House reporters, if you’re using Miller as an anonymous source, wtf you doing
Breaking news: Under secret Stephen Miller plan, ICE to use data on migrant children to expand deportation efforts wapo.st/35FvvpI
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Charlie’s good friend & collaborator Jack Posobiec literally wrote a book this year called “Unhumans” abt how people w/ left-wing beliefs are “unhuman” & which celebrates/praises the violent dictatorial regimes of Franco & Pinochet
the book was endorsed by JD Vance
Joe Biden is using dehumanizing language towards 80 million Americans, calling Trump supporters "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities of the 20th century begin again in 2024. They think you are garbage, therefore worthy of elimination.
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New: At least 6 Republicans who attended the Jan. 6 rally which turned into the insurrection were elected to office on Tuesday huffpost.com/entry/january-6…
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I just witness the most over-aggressive policing I've ever seen in #Newnan. Tackling protesters and arresting them... for wearing masks.
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Steve King has promoted ANOTHER white nationalist on Twitter. This time, Faith Goldy, who once gave a chummy interview to The Daily Stormer, a website that advocates gassing Jews, and who has recited the “14 words,” a white supremacist slogan
I commissioned 3 GAO studies—criminal aliens represented an average of 1/4 of the federal prison population. There would have to be 82 million illegals in America before they would be committing an equal proportion of crimes. See AZ & TX. 3,000 Texans were murdered by illegals.
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