memeorandum: Killer cats: The invasive species in your backyard (Matt Morrison/CBS News)

11:00 AM ET, October 28, 2018

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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: The Moderate Voice and Jewish Telegraphic Agency

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 …

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

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: Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Vox and The Week

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 …

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, WTKR-TV, FOX6Now.com and Mediaite

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

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

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

Discussion: The Times of Israel, CBS San Francisco and The Gateway Pundit

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

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

Discussion: Foreign Policy, Financial Times, The Daily Beast, Intelligencer, Washington Post, UPI, The Verge, Gizmodo, New York Times, Engadget, Fox News Insider, Sputnik International, Breitbart, The Daily Caller, Middle East Eye and AOL

Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
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

Discussion: The Atlantic, KRTV-TV, Breitbart, Gothamist, WTKR-TV, USA Today and ImmigrationProf Blog

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

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

CBS Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ …

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

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

Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh

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

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 …

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: Al Jazeera English and Raw Story

Washington Post:
Mail bomb suspect made numerous references on Facebook to Russian associates and echoed pro-Kremlin views

Discussion: Raw Story and The Intercept

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

Discussion: Slate, CNN and The Daily Signal

Matt Morrison / CBS News:

Killer cats: The invasive species in your backyard — Watch the CBSN Originals documentary, “Burmese Python Invasion: Fighting Invasive Species,” in the video player above. The full hour special premieres on CBSN Sunday, Oct. 28, at 8 p.m., 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. ET. — Invasive species can be ruthless.

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.

Discussion: Political Wire

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.

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

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.

Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNN:

Campbell Soup VP who tweeted Soros conspiracy is out — Migrants continue north, reject Trump's tweets — New York (CNN Business)The Campbell Soup lobbyist who said George Soros' foundation was assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States is no longer with the company.

Discussion: BuzzFeed News, skippy the bush kangaroo and Front Page Magazine

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: Washington Post, 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 …

Discussion: The Nation and The Guardian