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May 31, 2020
Anyone familiar with the current fire in DC near Hay Adams Hotel?
Is this near govt buildings?
https://twitter.com/dcfireems/status/1266943318430277633
May 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/TeamEngel/status/1266869388067639296
"It's hard to remain peaceful when the NYPD is doing stuff like this"
https://twitter.com/tomwatson/status/1266900646143254528https://twitter.com/TeamEngel/status/1266869388067639296
May 30, 2020
Election Message from 'IVote for America' (in my email)
Republicans are losing their grip on the Senate from coast to coast:
*Joni Ernst is 1 point away from LOSING Iowa.
*Kris Kobach is LOSING by 2 points in Kansas.
*Lindsey Graham is LOSING by 4 points in South Carolina.
*Susan Collins is LOSING by 4 points in Maine.
*Martha McSally is LOSING by 5 points in Arizona.
*Thom Tillis is LOSING by 5 points in North Carolina.
😁💙👍
We can expect more chaos as the GOP #'s become more grim~
So far we're right on track..
#VOTE2020
Thanks 💙
May 30, 2020
Alt History
How a self-published, racist novel changed white nationalism and inspired decades of violence
J.M. BERGER
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Before there was an alt-right, there was The Turner Diaries.
First published nearly 40 years ago, the infamous dystopian novel depicts a fictional white nationalist revolution culminating in global genocide.
The events of the book open 25 years ago today—September 16, 1991, the date of the first entry in Earl Turner’s diary.
The fictional diary describes a racist’s vision of a nightmare world, in which “The System”—African American enforcers led by Jewish politicians—attempt to confiscate all guns in the United States. A secretive organization known as The Order rises up to take back the country for white supremacists, eventually winning an apocalyptic insurgency and nuclear war, first taking over the country and later the world.
The Turner Diaries was created in the 1970s by William Luther Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi group the National Alliance. Crudely written and wildly racist, The Turner Diaries has helped inspire dozens of armed robberies and more than 200 murders in the decades since its publication.
SNIP
The most important movements to emerge from this dynamic were neo-Nazism and Christian Identity. Neo-Nazism is heavily focused on Holocaust denial and symbolic identity markers, while Christian Identity is based on an elaborate religious justification that evolved out of a 19th century religious conspiracy theory called British Israelism, which claimed Anglo-Saxons were the lost tribe of Israel. Both movements trafficked heavily in anti-Semitism, but their animus was directed to all non-white people.
These movements, along with the Ku Klux Klan, became the face of white nationalism, resulting in further marginalization due to their flamboyant racism and increasing scrutiny from law enforcement, as their views and rhetoric became increasingly extreme...
SNIP
The manifesto itself was soon reduced to the simple phrase “white genocide,” which proliferated at the start of the 21st century and has become the overwhelmingly dominant meme of modern white nationalism. The theme was promoted by white nationalist Robert Whitaker, who added what he called “the mantra”—“Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.” These two phrases were deliberately repeated and spread widely online, among white nationalists of various ideological persuasions.
White nationalist Richard B. Spencer moved the bar even further with the latest iteration of white identity politics, creating the “Alternative Right” website in 2010, the seed of the broader movement is now known as the alt right. Even more amorphous than its predecessors, the alt right includes a variety of anti-social attitudes, including racism, misogyny and religious bigotry, offering many points of entry for new adherents who are frustrated with some aspect of society or politics.
Many who identify with the alt right continue to promote the white genocide theme.
While it would be a mistake to credit The Turner Diaries for the entirety of this transition in white nationalism, the novel demonstrated how to successfully leverage racial fears and resentments in the service of violence, without a call to a specific ideology, and the book remains widely influential today.
(Trump's Base)
https://twitter.com/johntfox/status/1266770403248295938
"This is right out of the far-right, white supremacist playbook...The Turner Diaries"
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/09/how-the-turner-diaries-changed-white-nationalism/500039/Alt History
How a self-published, racist novel changed white nationalism and inspired decades of violence
J.M. BERGER
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
Before there was an alt-right, there was The Turner Diaries.
First published nearly 40 years ago, the infamous dystopian novel depicts a fictional white nationalist revolution culminating in global genocide.
The events of the book open 25 years ago today—September 16, 1991, the date of the first entry in Earl Turner’s diary.
The fictional diary describes a racist’s vision of a nightmare world, in which “The System”—African American enforcers led by Jewish politicians—attempt to confiscate all guns in the United States. A secretive organization known as The Order rises up to take back the country for white supremacists, eventually winning an apocalyptic insurgency and nuclear war, first taking over the country and later the world.
The Turner Diaries was created in the 1970s by William Luther Pierce, leader of the neo-Nazi group the National Alliance. Crudely written and wildly racist, The Turner Diaries has helped inspire dozens of armed robberies and more than 200 murders in the decades since its publication.
SNIP
The most important movements to emerge from this dynamic were neo-Nazism and Christian Identity. Neo-Nazism is heavily focused on Holocaust denial and symbolic identity markers, while Christian Identity is based on an elaborate religious justification that evolved out of a 19th century religious conspiracy theory called British Israelism, which claimed Anglo-Saxons were the lost tribe of Israel. Both movements trafficked heavily in anti-Semitism, but their animus was directed to all non-white people.
These movements, along with the Ku Klux Klan, became the face of white nationalism, resulting in further marginalization due to their flamboyant racism and increasing scrutiny from law enforcement, as their views and rhetoric became increasingly extreme...
SNIP
The manifesto itself was soon reduced to the simple phrase “white genocide,” which proliferated at the start of the 21st century and has become the overwhelmingly dominant meme of modern white nationalism. The theme was promoted by white nationalist Robert Whitaker, who added what he called “the mantra”—“Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.” These two phrases were deliberately repeated and spread widely online, among white nationalists of various ideological persuasions.
White nationalist Richard B. Spencer moved the bar even further with the latest iteration of white identity politics, creating the “Alternative Right” website in 2010, the seed of the broader movement is now known as the alt right. Even more amorphous than its predecessors, the alt right includes a variety of anti-social attitudes, including racism, misogyny and religious bigotry, offering many points of entry for new adherents who are frustrated with some aspect of society or politics.
Many who identify with the alt right continue to promote the white genocide theme.
While it would be a mistake to credit The Turner Diaries for the entirety of this transition in white nationalism, the novel demonstrated how to successfully leverage racial fears and resentments in the service of violence, without a call to a specific ideology, and the book remains widely influential today.
(Trump's Base)
https://twitter.com/johntfox/status/1266770403248295938
May 30, 2020
Replying to
@tomwatson
These guys remind me of "A Clockwork Orange," which is terrifying.
"A group of white people showed up in Oakland armed with hammers and started destroying shit as Bl
https://twitter.com/porter9811/status/1266726741000761355Replying to
@tomwatson
These guys remind me of "A Clockwork Orange," which is terrifying.
May 30, 2020
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State by State Voting Rules from Vote.org Everyone MUST 💙#VOTE2020
https://twitter.com/deOrygun/status/1266535605841739777Enter your State for updated info Absentee & Mail in ballots...& please pass it on~
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May 30, 2020
I just want to give a shout out to Sara Sidner & the CNN crew
Covering the MPLS protest.
Thank You
May 30, 2020
https://twitter.com/bevredhm/status/1266350720971943937
@tomwatson
No. You’re SMART because, history.
This is a much bigger op than most of us are aware. You’re right to be concerned. We all should be. Trumps been fanning the flames for too long. He (and his handlers & GOP hacks) are counting on this very thing to happen.
I believe America will survive the next 5 months.
Battered but not beaten.
#💙2020
Did anyone watch the mini series or read the book " The Plot Against America"?
HBO-Trailer:
Premise. The Plot Against America imagines "an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism."
..."afraid that they'll use race as an excuse for a police state"
https://twitter.com/KoriWasinger/status/1266345054114918402https://twitter.com/bevredhm/status/1266350720971943937
@tomwatson
No. You’re SMART because, history.
This is a much bigger op than most of us are aware. You’re right to be concerned. We all should be. Trumps been fanning the flames for too long. He (and his handlers & GOP hacks) are counting on this very thing to happen.
I believe America will survive the next 5 months.
Battered but not beaten.
#💙2020
Did anyone watch the mini series or read the book " The Plot Against America"?
HBO-Trailer:
Premise. The Plot Against America imagines "an alternate American history told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, as they watch the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who becomes president and turns the nation toward fascism."
May 30, 2020
Outrageous, but not unbelievable
MORE at Threadreader:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1265988524043616263.html
This is a clarifying moment. / It shows exactly what Facebook is and who Zuckerberg is
https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1265988524043616263Outrageous, but not unbelievable
MORE at Threadreader:
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1265988524043616263.html
May 29, 2020
THE EPIDEMIC OF WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICE
Aug 2017 Article
A Worthy Read:
SNIP
"..For years national law enforcement agencies have been sounding the alarmabout white supremacists in their midst. In 2006, the F.B.I. warned of white supremacists attempting to enter into police departments and recruit police officers. In 2009, it was the Department of Homeland Security that was letting the public and local law enforcement know of the threat to national security posed by white supremacists after the election of the first black president.
It is no secret that white supremacist groups are actively recruiting college students and former members of the military — qualifications necessary to become a police officer in D.C.
In the time that has passed since the first of these now-repeated warnings, there has been an alarming number of police officers reported to be members of hate groups or expressing racist vitriol in texts, emails, and on social media. In 2014, three police officers of a 13-member all-white police department were discovered to be members of a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Fruitland Park, Florida.
These men were discovered because they were trying to recruit other officers to join them.
In 2015, a lieutenant in the Anniston County Police Department in Alabama was fired for being a member of the League of the South, a southern hate group. (Another lieutenant was also a member but retired once his affiliation became publicized.)
The membership was no secret to the department when the fired lieutenant was first hired, and in fact was “the subject of friendly jokes.”
It was only once a story about his membership was highlighted by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch that he was eventually fired. A Lake Arthur, Louisiana police officer was fired after a photo of him surfaced on Facebook giving a Nazi salute next to a man in a white hood in 2015.
Just last week, a different Louisiana police officer posted a depiction of a mother drowning her daughter in a bathtub with the caption: “when your daughter’s first crush is a little negro boy.”
SNIP
Public opinion of police in American is low: one-third of white Americans do not express a favorable opinion of police, while the number is even lower when limited to African Americans.
Further, according to Cato Institute survey, “Black (31%) and Hispanic (42%) Americans are far less likely than white Americans (64%) to be highly confident their local police departments treat all racial groups equally.”
This tension threatens not only the reputation and functionality of the criminal justice system, but also the physical safety of certain communities and the very fabric of our country.
Without swift action by state and federal law enforcement to address this clear and present danger, things will only get worse.
8/2017 - "THE EPIDEMIC OF WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICE"
https://theappeal.org/the-epidemic-of-white-supremacist-police-4992cb7ad97a/THE EPIDEMIC OF WHITE SUPREMACIST POLICE
Aug 2017 Article
A Worthy Read:
SNIP
"..For years national law enforcement agencies have been sounding the alarmabout white supremacists in their midst. In 2006, the F.B.I. warned of white supremacists attempting to enter into police departments and recruit police officers. In 2009, it was the Department of Homeland Security that was letting the public and local law enforcement know of the threat to national security posed by white supremacists after the election of the first black president.
It is no secret that white supremacist groups are actively recruiting college students and former members of the military — qualifications necessary to become a police officer in D.C.
In the time that has passed since the first of these now-repeated warnings, there has been an alarming number of police officers reported to be members of hate groups or expressing racist vitriol in texts, emails, and on social media. In 2014, three police officers of a 13-member all-white police department were discovered to be members of a local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Fruitland Park, Florida.
These men were discovered because they were trying to recruit other officers to join them.
In 2015, a lieutenant in the Anniston County Police Department in Alabama was fired for being a member of the League of the South, a southern hate group. (Another lieutenant was also a member but retired once his affiliation became publicized.)
The membership was no secret to the department when the fired lieutenant was first hired, and in fact was “the subject of friendly jokes.”
It was only once a story about his membership was highlighted by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch that he was eventually fired. A Lake Arthur, Louisiana police officer was fired after a photo of him surfaced on Facebook giving a Nazi salute next to a man in a white hood in 2015.
Just last week, a different Louisiana police officer posted a depiction of a mother drowning her daughter in a bathtub with the caption: “when your daughter’s first crush is a little negro boy.”
SNIP
Public opinion of police in American is low: one-third of white Americans do not express a favorable opinion of police, while the number is even lower when limited to African Americans.
Further, according to Cato Institute survey, “Black (31%) and Hispanic (42%) Americans are far less likely than white Americans (64%) to be highly confident their local police departments treat all racial groups equally.”
This tension threatens not only the reputation and functionality of the criminal justice system, but also the physical safety of certain communities and the very fabric of our country.
Without swift action by state and federal law enforcement to address this clear and present danger, things will only get worse.
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