Top Items:
Bari Weiss / New York Times:
A Massacre in the Heart of Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood — Squirrel Hill will continue to live by the values that Jews have sustained for more than 2,000 years. They can never be gunned down. — October 27, 2018 — How to Turn a Person Into a Voter — Our approach is specific to black Southerners.
Discussion:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency
RELATED:
Max Boot / Washington Post:
What is happening to our country? — I am so sad. I am so heartbroken. What is happening to our country? — How can we live in an America where a gunman can barge into a synagogue and open fire, reportedly screaming “All Jews must die”? — How can we live in an America where someone …
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.
Discussion:
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Vox, The Week and Splinter
Sam Stein / The Daily Beast:
I Grew Up in a Place Where I Felt Safe from Anti-Semitism—It was the United States — As a Jewish child in 1990s America, anti-Semitism to me was a theory, not a reality. But today, I wonder if it will be the same for my young son. — I remember standing there, staring at the ash pits …
Discussion:
Breitbart, ThinkProgress, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, Daily Wire and NBC News
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Bowers blamed Jews for helping ‘invaders’ in the migrant caravans — Robert Bowers' anti-Semitism fueled other hate speech that he published and shared on Gab.com — Bowers made anti-Semitic comments alongside xenophobic content, claiming that Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans in Latin America.
Discussion:
Slate, Washington Free Beacon, WTKR-TV and Mediaite
CNN:
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect?
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect?
Discussion:
The Atlantic, KRTV-TV, New York Times, Raw Story and The Daily Beast
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Slaughter in Pittsburgh — The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life.
Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life
Discussion:
Mashable and New York Times
CNN:
Here's what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect
Here's what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect
Discussion:
KRTV-TV, Breitbart, WTKR-TV, USA Today and ImmigrationProf Blog
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
Discussion:
The Atlantic, Mediaite and CBS Pittsburgh
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
Discussion:
Washington Post, New York Times and The Guardian
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
Michael Kunzelman / Associated Press:
Study: Online attacks on Jews ramp up before Election Day
Study: Online attacks on Jews ramp up before Election Day
Discussion:
ABC News and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Andrew Liptak / The Verge:
Paypal bans Gab following Pittsburgh shooting
Paypal bans Gab following Pittsburgh shooting
Discussion:
The Gateway Pundit, Engadget, RedState, Japan Times, We Hunted The Mammoth and The Daily Caller, more at Mediagazer »
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ …
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ …
Discussion:
The Week, archive.fo, CNN, Indianapolis Star, Vox, CBS News, abc7ny.com, electionlawblog.org, Outside the Beltway, Balloon Juice, Breitbart, New York Post, The Other McCain, The Root, Mediaite and Boing Boing
Shay Khatiri / gofundme.com:
Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
Discussion:
CBS Pittsburgh, abc7ny.com, Refinery29, The Daily Caller, Hot Air and CBS San Francisco
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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story and The Intercept
RELATED:
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 …
Discussion:
Outside the Beltway
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.
Discussion:
Raw Story
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.
BBC:
Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium — The Leicester City owner's helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club's ground as it left the stadium following a Premier League match. — Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter when it came down at about 20:30 BST …
Fox News:
Voter fraud exists - Even though many in the media claim it doesn't — President Trump warned on Twitter last week that law enforcement would be looking for “voter fraud” in the midterm elections. Many journalists quickly responded - as they always do - by dismissing the very existence of voter fraud.
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
No, President Trump, the NYSE did not open the day after the Sept. 11 attacks — “I remember when we had the attack in Manhattan, we opened the stock exchange the next day. People were shocked.” — “With what happened early today, that horrible, horrible attack in Pittsburgh, I was saying maybe I should cancel both this and that.
Discussion:
Political Wire, Bloomberg and Raw Story
Aris Folley / The Hill:
LeBron James dons Beto O'Rourke hat to game in San Antonio — Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James donned a Beto O'Rourke hat ahead of his team's matchup with the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night. — In a photo shared by James' team on Saturday evening, the player could be seen wearing a white hat, reading: “Beto for Senate.”
Discussion:
HuffPost and The Atlantic
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Neither of this week's attacks will affect the midterms — Whom can we blame? How will it play in November? — For the second time in a week, those were the crass calculations running through the minds of the political class. First it was the pipe bombs and now it is the Pittsburgh synagogue massacre.
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Violence Foreshadowed in Social Media — Social media posts by Robert Bowers and Cesar Altieri Sayoc hinted at violence — Two acts of hatred in recent days have again exposed the way social-media services can be platforms for dangerous people to disseminate threats and intolerance that publicly foreshadow their violence.
Discussion:
NPR, TechCrunch and New York Times, more at Techmeme »