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Matthew Prince / The Cloudflare Blog:
Terminating Service for 8Chan — The mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio are horrific tragedies. In the case of the El Paso shooting, the suspected terrorist gunman appears to have been inspired by the forum website known as 8chan. Based on evidence we've seen …
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New York Post:
The Post urges Trump to take action on assault weapons — Two mass shootings within 24 hours in El Paso and Dayton, days after the Garlic Festival killings. Three months after Virginia Beach, six months after Aurora, nine months after Thousand Oaks, 10 months after Tree of Life …
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New York Times:
El Paso Shooting Suspect's Manifesto Echoes Trump's Language — At campaign rallies before last year's midterm elections, President Trump repeatedly warned that America was under attack by immigrants heading for the border. “You look at what is marching up, that is an invasion!” he declared at one rally.
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New York Times:
We Have a White Nationalist Terrorist Problem — America's leaders need to do more to condemn and combat the extremist ideology — white nationalism — in their midst. — The editorial board represents the opinions of the board, its editor and the publisher. It is separate from the newsroom and the Op-Ed section.
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Washington Post:
A mother died shielding her infant in El Paso. The father died shielding them both, family says. — They had just dropped their oldest daughter off at cheerleading practice when they pulled into the Walmart parking lot, packed with hundreds of back-to-school shoppers like them.
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Bangor Daily News, KTLA, One America News Network and The Week
Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump says US must condemn ‘white supremacy’ and ‘racism’ in wake of weekend shootings — Making his first formal remarks after the weekend mass shootings, President Donald Trump said Monday the U.S. was “overcome with shock, horror and sorrow” and that the nation must condemn “racism and white supremacy.”
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Politico, USA Today, ThinkProgress, NPR and Breitbart
Emily Larsen / Washington Examiner:
Confusion: Biden offers sympathy for the ‘tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan’ — Former Vice President Joe Biden misstated the locations of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, while speaking to donors at a high-dollar fundraiser in San Diego on Sunday night.
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Mediaite, Splinter, The Daily Caller, The Week and The Gateway Pundit
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
FBI faces skepticism over its efforts against domestic terrorism — The FBI insists it is fully engaged in combating the threat of violence from white supremacists, but some former federal officials charge that the government is still coming up short in the face of a strain of American terrorism that now seems resurgent.
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UPI, One America News Network, Townhall, The Week and New York Post
Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
FBI Warns Other Domestic Violent Extremists Could Become ‘Inspired’ By El Paso — The FBI late Sunday warned that Saturday's shooting massacre in El Paso that left 20 people dead could prompt other violent acts of extremism in the future. — The shooting is being investigated as an act …
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Vox, FBI.gov and Washington Post
Wall Street Journal:
The Killers in Our Midst — Nearly all mass shooters …
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The Daily Caller
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Must Fix Himself Before He Fixes El Paso and Dayton
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New York Times and New Republic
Mark Moore / New York Post:
Biden completely flubs where mass shootings occurred
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Splinter
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump condemns white supremacy, focuses on combating mental illness over new gun-control measures
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Balloon Juice, The Guardian, Slate and Politico
Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The Only Thing Trump Should Say Right Now Is “I'm Sorry”
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KTLA and Washington Examiner
John Wagner / Washington Post:
Republican state lawmaker in Nebraska says his party is ‘enabling white supremacy’
David Frum / The Atlantic:
The American Exception
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Chicago Sun-Times and Outside the Beltway
New York Times:
After El Paso Attack, Mexico Demands Protections for Mexicans in the U.S.
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
‘How do you stop these people?’: Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric looms over El Paso massacre
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Associated Press:
Classmates: Ohio shooter kept a ‘hit list’ and a ‘rape list’ — DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — High school classmates of the gunman who killed nine people early Sunday in Dayton, Ohio, say he was suspended for compiling a “hit list” of those he wanted to kill and a “rape list” of girls he wanted to sexually assault.
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Jessica McBride / Heavy.com:
Connor Betts: Twitter Posts on Being a Leftist, Guns — Connor Betts, the Dayton, Ohio mass shooter, was a self-described “leftist,” who wrote that he would happily vote for Democrat Elizabeth Warren, praised Satan, was upset about the 2016 presidential election results, and added …
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Christina Schaefer / WRGT:
Police: Suspect's sister among those killed in Oregon District shooting
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Heavy.com, The Daily Caller, Slate and Associated Press
David French / National Review:
It's Time to Declare War on White-Nationalist Terrorism
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NB Blog, CNN, PJ Media Home, The Atlantic and BuzzFeed News
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
On guns and white nationalism, one side is right and one is wrong
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Progress Pond, Refinery29 and NBC News
Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Steve King Narrowly Won in Iowa in 2018. Now His Challenger Will Run Again. — J. D. Scholten, a Democrat who nearly toppled Representative Steve King of Iowa in a heavily Republican district in 2018, will announce on Monday that he will run again for the seat in 2020.
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Jonathan Martin / New York Times:
Kenny Marchant Will Be Fourth Texas Republican Congressman to Retire in 2020 — Representative Kenny Marchant of Texas announced on Monday that he plans to retire, becoming the fourth Republican House member from Texas in recent weeks to head for the exits rather than face re-election in 2020 …
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Washington Post, Politico, Talking Points Memo and Outside the Beltway
Adam Serwer / The Atlantic:
The Most Dangerous American Idea — Last week, the historian Timothy Naftali revealed a 1971 conversation between Richard Nixon, then the president of the United States, and Ronald Reagan, then the governor of California, in which Reagan referred to African UN delegates as “monkeys” who are “still uncomfortable wearing shoes.”
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Tom Scocca / Slate:
Where Taking the Concerns of Racists Seriously Has Gotten Us — Within last week's story of how Ronald Reagan made a racist phone call to Richard Nixon, there was a second story—a parable, effectively: a small point that contained a much larger point. It had nothing, or almost nothing …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money, more at Mediagazer »
Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
He's Getting Worse — The current, and (to date) most debased, phase of the Trump presidency—the phase that includes the unceasing demonization of minority legislators and the endorsement of North Korean communism—began, in retrospect, on May 8, in the Florida Panhandle, at a rally in Panama City.
Washington Post:
Markets plunge after China lets currency fall to a decade low in payback against Trump's tariffs — BEIJING — China mounted a counteroffensive Monday to new U.S. tariffs by allowing its tightly controlled currency to slide to an 11-year low, a move that could further provoke the ire of President Trump …
National Review:
Crush This Evil — Yesterday, in the Texan border town of El Paso, a young white supremacist opened fire at a Walmart, killing 20 people and injuring dozens more. His intention, per a manifesto he left on the website 8chan, was to exact revenge against “the Hispanic invasion of Texas,” …
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Rebecca Klar / The Hill:
Scarborough says Trump donors are financing white supremacy
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Talking Points Memo, twitchy.com and Breitbart
Allyson Chiu / Washington Post:
‘Do something!’: Ohio governor drowned out by angry chants at Dayton shooting vigil — Microphone in hand, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) had just finished remarking on the size of the crowd that was crammed tightly into the brick-covered main street of the Oregon District in Dayton, Ohio, on Sunday night when a single voice rang out.
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