memeorandum: What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect? (CNN)

11:50 AM ET, October 28, 2018

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Jason Sattler / New York Daily News:

The tide of hate and the man in the White House — Before Shabbat began Friday night, a Donald Trump superfan had been arrested for a failed domestic terrorism spree against the President's favorite rhetorical targets. — Trump refused to take any blame for inspiring alleged mail bomber …

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Howard Fineman / New York Times:

Shaking My Faith in America — The bloodshed in the Tree of Life synagogue is a sign that hatred of The Other is poisoning our public life. — Mr. Fineman is an NBC News analyst and a journalism lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania. — WASHINGTON — I grew up in Pittsburgh's Tree of Life synagogue.

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CNN:
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect?

Discussion: KRTV-TV, New York Times, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, Washington Free Beacon and Raw Story

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full

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USA Today:
A 97-year-old, an elderly wife and husband: These are the 11 victims of the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre

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Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Bowers blamed Jews for helping ‘invaders’ in the migrant caravans

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U.S. Department of Justice:
Statement on Filing of Federal Charges

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Max Boot / Washington Post:
What is happening to our country?

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Michael Goodwin / New York Post: Neither of this week's attacks will affect the midterms

CBS Pittsburgh:
Victims In Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Begin To Be Identified

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Gab:
Gab.com Statement On The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting

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Associated Press:
Suspect in synagogue slayings spewed online hate for Jews

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John Podhoretz / Commentary: The Slaughter in Pittsburgh — The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life.

CNN:
Here's what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect

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Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life

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Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate

Discussion: Washington Post, New York Times and The Guardian

Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies

Discussion: Slate, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Mediaite and CBS Pittsburgh

Washington Post:
11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:

Trump's Attacks on the News Media Are Working — He was at it again. — At 3:14 a.m. on Friday, President Trump was awake and tweeting. — “Funny how lowly rated CNN, and others, can criticize me at will, even blaming me for the current spate of Bombs and ridiculously comparing …

Nancy Cook / Politico:

Trump Cabinet exodus likely after midterms — President Donald Trump could see up to six Cabinet officials depart in the weeks after next month's midterm elections, according to interviews with a half-dozen current and former Trump officials and Republicans close to the White House.

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Anthony Adragna / Politico:

The powerful weapon House Republicans handed Democrats — Democrats eager to investigate the Trump administration if they seize the House would have the GOP to thank for one of their most potent tools — a sweeping subpoena authority that Democratic lawmakers denounced as an abusive power grab three years ago.

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Matt Morrison / CBS News:

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Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed News:

The Conspiratorial Hate We See Online Is Increasingly Appearing In Real Life — This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen of President Trump's critics, and a neo-Nazi sympathizer who opened fire …

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Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:

Pence rejects suggestions of a link between Trump rhetoric and acts of violence — The vice president defended Trump's attacks on opponents as part of “political debate.” — LAS VEGAS, Nev. — Vice President Mike Pence rejected the suggestion that there is a link between the kind …

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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

‘Riling Up the Crazies’ — WASHINGTON — As long as I've covered politics, Republicans have been trying to scare me. — Sometimes, it has been about gays and transgender people and uppity women looming, but usually it has been about people with darker skin looming.

Josefin Dolsten / The Times of Israel:

GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit — After going on trip to Poland funded by education group, Steve King meets with Freedom Party, says Germans shouldn't have to apologize for Holocaust anymore — JTA — Rep. Steve King of Iowa met with members …

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Marco Giannangeli / Daily Express:

Khashoggi BOMBSHELL: Britain ‘KNEW of kidnap plot and BEGGED Saudi Arabia to abort plans’ — MURDERED journalist Jamal Khashoggi was about to disclose details of Saudi Arabia's use of chemical weapons in Yemen, sources close to him said last night. The revelations come as separate intelligence …

Washington Post:

Mail bomb suspect made numerous references on Facebook to Russian associates and echoed pro-Kremlin views — A Facebook account apparently belonging to the man charged with sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats this week included references to Russian associates and propaganda links …

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Washington Post:
‘He felt that somebody was finally talking to him’: How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump

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Associated Press:

Enough is enough: Fed-up Americans crave unity amid violence — LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — She flipped through television channels and radio stations, scanning from conservative to liberal media, searching for any sign that the polarized nation had finally reached its tipping point.

CBS News:

Tight contests mark critical Senate races — CBS News Battleground Tracker poll — Florida — Tight contests dominate the Senate landscape: In Florida, incumbent Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson and Republican Gov. Rick Scott are tied among likely voters, 46 percent to 46 percent including those who have cast ballots already.

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James Fallows / The Atlantic:

The Worst of Our Country—And the Best — Every society contains its monsters: people damaged or disturbed enough, or misdirected enough, to inflict cruelty on others. A central purpose of society—its families, its schools, its civic and faith organizations, its official …

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