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10:10 AM ET, October 28, 2018

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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.
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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.
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 …
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.
Jason Sattler / New York Daily News:   The tide of hate and the man in the White House
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
Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life
Discussion: Mashable and New York Times
Washington Post:
11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:   A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ …
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
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Washington Post:
‘He felt that somebody was finally talking to him’: How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Mail Bomber Cesar Sayoc Threatened Me on Facebook
Discussion: Slate, CNN and The Daily Signal
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.
 
 
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Jim Rutenberg / New York Times:
Trump's Attacks on the News Media Are Working
Matt Morrison / CBS News:
Killer cats: The invasive species in your backyard
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
The powerful weapon House Republicans handed Democrats
Discussion: Political Wire
Andrew Hollinger / ushmm.org:
Museum Condemns Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
The Worst of Our Country—And the Best
Discussion: The Nation
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Pence rejects suggestions of a link between Trump rhetoric and acts of violence
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump mixes politics and the pain of a national tragedy in address at Illinois rally
 Earlier Items: 
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Critics say Trump has fostered the toxic environment for the political violence he denounces
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Vox and Reuters
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Avoid temptation to seek partisan advantage from pipe bomb arrest
Discussion: Instapundit
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Iowa newspaper breaks its tradition, endorses Steve King's Dem opponent
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
US Troops Deploy ‘Overwhelming Force’ Against Iceland's Beer Supplies
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
Patrick Coyle / National Review:
Georgetown Prep after the Smear
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jason Le Miere / Newsweek:
Donald Trump jokes about his hair being ruined by having to answer questions in the rain about Pittsburgh shooting
Discussion: Hullabaloo
 

 
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