A work update: I'll be on book leave until end of year! Pls still send tips (can pass along to my wonderful HuffPost colleagues etc) but gonna try to stay off Twitter as much as I can.
Excited for you all to read To Catch A Fascist. Until then, take care of yourselves!
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
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
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.
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
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.
Speechless
“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.”
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
#Kenosha
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
A generation that has grown up in peace and prosperity jonesing for the rush of having their own version of the 1960s, and looking desperately to shoehorn every cause into a replay of what they think their boomer grandparents were doing
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.”
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
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.
Just interviewed a father and son voting together in Sioux City, Iowa. Asked them what they thought of Steve King.
Father: “Douchebag.”
Son: “Asshole.”
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
just called Ed and asked him about this. said he borrowed the office and has "no idea" what QAnon is.
wouldn't tell me what/whose office it is. then he called me "ridiculous" and hung up
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
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.
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
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!”
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
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.
"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
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.
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.
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?!
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/
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
.
@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."
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
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
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
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.
NEW: Unidentified cops tossed a protester into an unmarked van in Spokane.
The arrest of Jeremy Logan — co-chair of his local
@DemSocialists
— appears politically-motivated, by a sheriff hostile to "antifa."
In jail, feds tried to interview Jeremy.
New: Over 75 members of Congress have now called on Stephen Miller to resign from the White House after leaked emails published this week showed the depths of his white nationalism
NEW: Renton's a trans man. HIs mom — Miss Illinois 1996 — is a MAGA influencer traveling the US calling the existence of trans people 'demonic'
But Renton says his childhood with his mom was hell — a hell the GOP is trying to recreate for all trans kids
I covered C'ville & I covered Tree of Life shooting in Pittsburgh where I saw Jews, many anti-zionist, cry & pray & sing Ozi V’Zimrat Yah in streets
for Sen. *from PA* to compare Columbia students, many of them anti-zionist Jews, to torch-wielding nazis is beyond the pale
I fully agree with the White House—these “protests” are antisemitic, unconscionable, and dangerous.
Add some tiki torches and it’s Charlottesville for these Jewish students.
To
@Columbia
President Minouche Shafik: do your job or resign so Columbia can find someone who will.
writing that a protest "turned violent" almost always obscures what the initial act of violence actually was - in this case police officers killing a man
A march in Minneapolis for
#GeorgeFloyd
has turned violent after video surfaced of police deploying smoke bombs or tear gas and flash grenades on protestors.
Every story about this forthcoming speech should mention Stephen Miller's extensive ties to organized white nationalism, as documented in leaked emails obtained by
@MichaelEHayden
Stephen Miller, who crafted
@realDonaldTrump
immigration policy at the southern border, including separating families and caging children, is preparing a
@WhiteHouse
speech on race relations.
@aurnonline
#AURN
report
the fundamentals of what I reported are being lost in the discourse:
A guy who was a big part of the movement that created the deadly rally in Charlottesville is now influencing some of the most powerful people in the US. That’s it.