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So sad for the Repubs that even in their most virulent, apocalyptic, wet-dream, ‘small pox ridden, middle-eastern infiltrated, brown invasion’ caravan scenario, the pinko Liberals sponsoring them are still too damn cheap to pop for Humvees or Land Rovers.a comment from:
https://www.dailykos.com/comments/1810034/71878582
The Washington Examiner's Twitter got hacked and told the truth for the first time in...ever.
https://twitter.com/AynRandPaulRyan/status/1059438265751597057
https://twitter.com/dcexaminer/status/1059422563322003456
"The US is positioning 5 soldiers on the border for every 1 caravan member expected to arrive"
“According to military planning documents, about 20% of the roughly 7,000 migrants traveling through Mexico are likely to complete the journey..it would mean the US is positioning 5 soldiers on the border for every 1 caravan member expected to arrive
Political Cartoon is by Marian Kamensky
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1058770676851597312
Day Before Election: President 39%
New: CNN POLL CONDUCTED BY SSRS
Nov. 1-3
How Trump Is Handling
His Job as President
Approve 39%
Disapprove 55%
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1059418362072186880
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No Blame? ABC finds 17 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection w- violence, threats or alleged assaults
'No Blame'? ABC News finds 17 cases invoking 'Trump' in connection with violence, threats or alleged assaults
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.....a nationwide review conducted by ABC News has identified at least 17 criminal cases where Trump's name was invoked in direct connection with violent acts, threats of violence or allegations of assault.
Nearly all -- 16 of 17 -- cases identified by ABC News are striking in that court documents and direct evidence reflect someone echoing presidential rhetoric, not protesting it. ABC News was unable to find any such case echoing presidential rhetoric when Barack Obama or George W. Bush were in the White House.
The perpetrators and suspects identified in the 17 cases are mostly white men, as young as teenagers and as old as 68, while the victims represent an array of minority groups -- African-Americans, Latinos, Muslims and gay men.
Federal law enforcement authorities have privately told ABC News they worry that -- even with Trump's public denunciations of violence -- Trump's style could inspire violence-prone individuals to take action against minorities or others they perceive to be against the president's agenda.
Here are the cases identified by ABC News:
MORE:
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/blame-abc-news-finds-17-cases-invoking-trump/story?id=58912889
https://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/1059296857132855296
Jewish nurse who treated Pittsburgh synagogue killer: "LOVE. That's why I did it."
“Love. That’s why I did it.”The Jewish nurse who treated the alleged Pittsburgh synagogue killer broke his silence in a Facebook post, tonight. Ari Mahler says the suspected mass shooter thanked him for the care, and likely had no idea Mahler was Jewish.
“I could care less what Robert Bowers thinks, but you, the person reading this, love is the only message I wish to instill in you."
https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1058889144330584065
Montana men mow 'FU45' in large field to protest Donald Trump's visit
Kevin Crawford of Bozeman and Curtis Roe of Belgrade decided to protest President Donald Trump's visit Saturday to the Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport in grass.
The pair mowed "FU45" on Roe's land under the landing approach Air Force One would make.
The result was lettering 60 feet tall and 150 feet across.
Crawford said that seemed like a better approach than protesting at the campaign rally because "his wingnut base loves nothing more than to think they are pissing off a bunch of liberals who are protesting."
https://pbs.twimg.com/card_img/1058814607383543808/-ZW8I8si?format=jpg&name=600x314
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/03/two-montana-men-mow-protest-trumps-latest-montana-visit/1876576002/
https://twitter.com/rickhasen/status/1058868681982205952
US Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism-Now They Don't Know How to Stop It
U.S. Law EnforcementFailed to See the Threat
of White Nationalism.
Now They Don’t
Know How to Stop It.
For two decades, domestic counterterrorism strategy
has ignored the rising danger of far-right extremism.
In the atmosphere of willful indifference, a
virulent movement has grown and metastasized.
BY JANET REITMANNOV. 3, 2018
he first indication to Lt. Dan Stout that law enforcement’s handling of white supremacy was broken came in September 2017, as he was sitting in an emergency-operations center in Gainesville, Fla., preparing for the onslaught of Hurricane Irma and watching what felt like his thousandth YouTube video of the recent violence in Charlottesville, Va. Jesus Christ, he thought, studying the footage in which crowds of angry men, who had gathered to attend or protest the Unite the Right rally, set upon one another with sticks and flagpole spears and flame throwers and God knows what else. A black man held an aerosol can, igniting the spray, and in retaliation, a white man picked up his gun, pointed it toward the black man and fired it at the ground. The Virginia state troopers, inexplicably, stood by and watched. Stout fixated on this image, wondering what kind of organizational failure had led to the debacle. He had one month to ensure that the same thing didn’t happen in Gainesville.
Before that August, Stout, a 24-year veteran of the Gainesville police force, had never heard of Richard Spencer and knew next to nothing about his self-declared alt-right movement, or of their “anti-fascist” archnemesis known as Antifa. Then, on the Monday after deadly violence in Charlottesville, in which a protester was killed when a driver plowed his car into the crowd, Stout learned to his horror that Spencer was planning a speech at the University of Florida. He spent weeks frantically trying to get up to speed, scouring far-right and anti-fascist websites and videos, each click driving him further into despair. Aside from the few white nationalists who had been identified by the media or on Twitter, Stout had no clue who most of these people were, and neither, it seemed, did anyone else in law enforcement.
There were no current intelligence reports he could find on the alt-right, the sometimes-violent fringe movement that embraces white nationalism and a range of racist positions. The state police couldn’t offer much insight. Things were equally bleak at the federal level. Whatever the F.B.I. knew (which wasn’t a lot, Stout suspected), they weren’t sharing. The Department of Homeland Security, which produced regular intelligence and threat assessments for local law enforcement, had only scant material on white supremacists, all of it vague and ultimately not much help. Local politicians, including the governor, were also in the dark. This is like a Bermuda Triangle of intelligence, Stout thought, incredulous. He reached out to their state partners. “So you’re telling us that there’s nothing? No names we can plug into the automatic license-plate readers? No players with a propensity for violence? No one you have in the system? Nothing?’’
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OMG MORE (about time):
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/03/magazine/FBI-charlottesville-white-nationalism-far-right.html
thread:
https://twitter.com/NYTmag/status/1058731664447279105
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