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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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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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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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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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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.
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
On guns and white nationalism, one side is right and one is wrong — When one side proposes ways that human beings might begin to solve a deadly problem while the other side leaves it up to God, you know which side is right. — When one side proposes solution after solution to contain gun violence …
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Associated Press:
The Latest: El Paso victim dies, raising death toll to 21 — EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a mass shooting in El Paso, Texas (all times local): — Authorities say another person has died from a weekend mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, raising the death toll in that attack to 21.
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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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David French / National Review:
It's Time to Declare War on White-Nationalist Terrorism — We need all the tools we can muster — legal, rhetorical, financial, and cultural. — It's time to face some dreadful, terrible facts. The United States is now facing a deadly challenge from a connected, radical …
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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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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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Colby Hall / Mediaite:
Joe Biden Mourns El Paso and Dayton Mass Shootings as ‘Tragic Events in Houston’ and ‘Michigan’
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Katherine Faulders / ABC News:
Trump says US must condemn ‘white supremacy’ and ‘racism’ in wake of weekend shootings
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Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
You don't need to read the El Paso killer's manifesto. Just turn on Fox News.
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Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:
Trump Must Fix Himself Before He Fixes El Paso and Dayton
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Cristina Cabrera / Talking Points Memo:
FBI Warns Other Domestic Violent Extremists Could Become ‘Inspired’ By El Paso
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American Psychological Association:
Statement of APA President in Response to Mass Shootings in Texas, Ohio
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Dayton and El Paso won't change Trump. He's bet his future on division, cruelty and guns.
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Guy Benson / Townhall:
Weekend Horror: Identify the Terrorism By Name, But Not Its Perpetrators
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Trump condemns white supremacy, focuses on combating mental illness over new gun-control measures
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Jessica McBride / Heavy.com:
Connor Betts: Twitter Posts on Being a Leftist, Guns
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National Review:
Crush This Evil — Yesterday, in the Texan border town of El Paso …
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Mark Moore / New York Post:
Biden completely flubs where mass shootings occurred
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Miranda Devine / New York Post:
Beto exploits tragedy for sake of politics
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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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Christina Schaefer / WRGT:
Police: Suspect's sister among those killed in Oregon District shooting
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Trip Gabriel / New York Times:
Steve King Narrowly Won His Last Race. His Challenger, J.D. Scholten, Is Running Again. — J. D. Scholten, a Democrat who nearly toppled Representative Steve King of Iowa in a heavily Republican district in 2018, announced on Monday that he would 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:
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 …
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Chris Mills Rodrigo / The Hill:
GOP senator calls for background check legislation after shootings — GOP Sen. Pat Toomey (Pa.) on Sunday called for background check legislation after two deadly mass shootings rocked the U.S. — “While no law will end mass shootings entirely, it's time for Congress to act to help keep our communities safer,” Toomey tweeted.
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Nicholas Wu / USA Today:
This is the gun control legislation Mitch McConnell won't allow senators to vote on
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
All the Disturbing Parallels Between Radical Islam and White Nationalism — The scale is smaller, but the fundamentals are all the same. — If you're going to read one piece about the El Paso massacre, it should be this one from Robert Evans, who has been monitoring 8chan for a long while now.
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Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
Terror and Policy: 2 Sides of White Nationalism
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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.
Owen Daugherty / The Hill:
Ohio state representative blames shootings on gay marriage, video games, open borders — A Republican state representative in Ohio wrote a lengthy Facebook post in the aftermath of the Dayton, Ohio, mass shooting where she blamed the incident and other shootings on “the breakdown …
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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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