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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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The Moderate Voice and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
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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 …
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 …
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Politico, Breitbart, ThinkProgress, The Week, POLITICUSUSA, The Root, 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.
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Washington Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Vox and Splinter
Kevin Roose / New York Times:
On Gab, an Extremist-Friendly Site, Pittsburgh Shooting Suspect Aired His Hatred in Full
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National Review, Mashable and RedState
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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Talking Points Memo, TheBlaze and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Bowers blamed Jews for helping ‘invaders’ in the migrant caravans
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Slate, WTKR-TV, FOX6Now.com and Mediaite
U.S. Department of Justice:
Statement on Filing of Federal Charges
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Mother Jones, Politico, Washington Post, Outside the Beltway, POLITICUSUSA, NPR and Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Max Boot / Washington Post:
What is happening to our country?
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New York Post, Refinery29 and CBS Pittsburgh
CNN:
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect?
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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
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The Week, Liberty Unyielding and The Times of Israel
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Violence Foreshadowed in Social Media
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ThinkProgress, NPR and TechCrunch, more at Techmeme »
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Slaughter in Pittsburgh — The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life.
Associated Press:
Suspect in synagogue slayings spewed online hate for Jews
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Talking Points Memo, Associated Press, WPIX 11 New York and FOX6Now.com
CNN:
Here's what we know so far about Robert Bowers, the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect
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Politico, The Atlantic, KRTV-TV, Gothamist, Breitbart, WTKR-TV and ImmigrationProf Blog
Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life
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Outside the Beltway, Mashable and New York Times
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
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Washington Post, New York Times and The Guardian
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
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Slate, ThinkProgress, The Atlantic, Mediaite and CBS Pittsburgh
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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Raw Story
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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Political Wire
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.
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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Washington Post, Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
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 …
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Outside the Beltway
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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Washington Post and The Guardian
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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Raw Story and The Intercept
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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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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 …
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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The Nation and The Guardian
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Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:
A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
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