memeorandum: Museum Condemns Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack (Andrew Hollinger/ushmm.org)

8:40 AM ET, October 28, 2018

Top Items:

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. — Ms. Weiss is a writer and editor in the Opinion section. — On a Saturday morning in March …

Discussion: Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Washington Post, POLITICUSUSA, The Guardian, RedState, The Nation, The Times of Israel, Mashable and CBS Pittsburgh

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: Vox, Splinter, WTKR-TV and Daily Kos

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: ThinkProgress, The Week, NBC News, POLITICUSUSA, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit

John Podhoretz / Commentary:

The Slaughter in Pittsburgh — The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life. The name is a translation into English of the Hebrew phrase etz chaim. We sing those words as the Torah is put away on every Shabbat. They are words from the Book of Proverbs: “She is a tree of life …

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

Discussion: The Atlantic, ImmigrationProf Blog, Raw Story and The Daily Beast

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

Discussion: The Atlantic and Mediaite

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

Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh, Mother Jones, Politico, The Week, The Daily Signal, Refinery29, The Moderate Voice, CNN, Greensburg Tribune-Review, The Mahablog, CBS New York, New York Magazine, France 24, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, CBS San Francisco, Jezebel and Arkansas Blog, Arkansas Times

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

Discussion: Washington Post, The Guardian and New York Times

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

Discussion: UPI, Intelligencer, Gizmodo, New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, israpundit.org, Breitbart, The Daily Beast, Japan Times, Lawyers, Guns & Money and AOL

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

Discussion: ABC News

Andrew Liptak / The Verge:
Paypal bans Gab following Pittsburgh shooting

Discussion: Engadget, The Gateway Pundit, Sputnik International, 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’ …

Discussion: archive.fo, CNN, Indianapolis Star, Vox, CBS News, abc7ny.com, Hot Air, Balloon Juice, Outside the Beltway, Breitbart, New York Post, The Other McCain, The Root, Mediaite, Boing Boing and Splinter

Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump to go ahead with Illinois rally

Discussion: Townhall

Kaelyn Forde / ABC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooting claims 8 lives; 4 officers among multiple wounded, officials say

Discussion: HuffPost, The Atlantic, Power Line, FOX 61 and Daily Wire

Press:
Malinowski Statement On Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting

Discussion: New York Times

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

Washington Post:

‘He felt that somebody was finally talking to him’: How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump — BOCA RATON, Fla. — The first thing that stood out about Cesar Sayoc was his vehicle. — As far back as 2002, lawyer Ronald Lowy recalled, the windows of Sayoc's white Dodge Ram van …

Discussion: Raw Story

Ilya Somin / Reason:
Mail Bomber Cesar Sayoc Threatened Me on Facebook

Discussion: Slate, CNN and KTVQ-TV

Kevin Roose / New York Times:
Cesar Sayoc's Path on Social Media: From Food Photos to Partisan Fury

Discussion: Sean Hannity, NPR, electionlawblog.org, TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Sputnik International, more at Techmeme »

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 …

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

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 …

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.

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 …

Discussion: Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and IJR

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 …

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: Bloomberg and Raw Story

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.

Jason Le Miere / Newsweek:

Donald Trump jokes about his hair being ruined by having to answer questions in the rain about Pittsburgh shooting — Hours after a mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed at least 11 people, President Donald Trump gave a political speech at the Future Farmers of America Convention.

Discussion: Hullabaloo