memeorandum: Accused Pelosi attacker David DePape spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracies (Los Angeles Times)

11:30 AM ET, October 29, 2022

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Accused Pelosi attacker David DePape spread QAnon, other far-right, bigoted conspiracies — In the months before police accused him of attacking House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband, Paul Pelosi, David DePape had been drifting further into the world of far-right conspiracies, antisemitism and hate …

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Washington Post:

Attack on Nancy Pelosi's husband follows years of GOP demonizing her — A man with right-wing views who broke into the House speaker's home yelled “Where is Nancy?” before assaulting Paul Pelosi with a hammer, police say. — In 2010, Republicans launched a “Fire Pelosi” project …

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Catie Edmondson / New York Times:

Pelosi Attack Highlights Rising Fears of Political Violence — The assault of the House speaker's husband inside their home comes as threats against members of Congress have increased in recent years. — WASHINGTON — Members of Congress have watched warily in recent years as threats …

Discussion: Associated Press, HuffPost, Washington Post, Axios, ABC7, ABC News, The Hill, CNN, Bloomberg, Roll Call, CBS News and Los Angeles Times

Tess Owen / VICE:

Man Accused of Attacking Nancy Pelosi's Husband Left Trail of Far-Right Hate — VICE News identified several blogs under the name of the suspect that espoused far-right conspiracy theories, racism, and sexism. — TO — KH — The man who allegedly broke into Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco home …

Discussion: New York Times and National Review

San Francisco Chronicle:

What we know about David DePape, man accused of attacking Paul Pelosi with a hammer — LIVE UPDATES: Suspect David DePape lived with group who believed 9/11 was ‘inside job’ — Law enforcement have identified David DePape, 42, as a suspect in the Friday morning home invasion violent attack on Paul Pelosi.

Discussion: CBS News, Fox News, Tierney's Real News, Bloomberg, Just The News, New York Post, Breitbart, NBC News, Kurt Nimmo on Geopolitics, The Daily Beast, Insider, Mediaite, Just An Earth-Bound Misfit, I, The Guardian, Raw Story, ABC7 and Twitchy

Rolling Stone:
Paul Pelosi's Alleged Attacker Raged About ‘Pedos,’ Shared QAnon Beliefs

Discussion: The Times of Israel, Outside the Beltway, New York Post, The Daily Beast, Althouse, New York Times, RedState, Mercury News, The Daily Wire and The Guardian

Ruth Ben-Ghiat / MSNBC:
The attack on Paul Pelosi was shocking — and yet also predictable

Discussion: Axios, HuffPost, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Raw Story, New York Post, The Hill, Bloomberg, Steady, CNN, Breitbart, KTLA and RedState

CNN:
Alleged Paul Pelosi attacker posted multiple conspiracy theories

Ron Kampeas / The Times of Israel:
Man accused of attacking Pelosi's husband had spread conspiracy theories about Jews

Discussion: HuffPost, NBC News, CBS News, Rolling Stone and Los Angeles Times

Davey Alba / Bloomberg:

Musk's Twitter Roils With Hate Speech as Trolls Test New Limits — In the wake of Elon Musk buying Twitter Inc., a tide of slurs and racist memes swelled on the platform, sparking concern that the site is entering an era of hateful speech. — Twitter has long wrestled …

CNBC:

GM temporarily suspends advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover — General Motors is suspending its advertising on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover of the social media platform. — “We are engaging with Twitter to understand the direction of the platform under their new ownership,” GM said.

Politico:
'I think it's an earthquake': The political world reckons with a Musk-owned Twitter

Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Elon Musk's First Move Is To Fire The Person Most Responsible For Twitter's Strong Free Speech Stance

Blake Hounshell / New York Times:

It's 2024. Trump Backers Won't Certify the Election. What Next, Legally? — The question is most urgent in Arizona, where two of the former president's loyalists may well become governor and secretary of state. — It's a nightmare scenario for American democracy …

Discussion: Outside the Beltway, Washington Times, ABC News, Bloomberg and NBC News

Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Governor's Races Enter Final Sprint on a Scrambled, Surprising Map

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Steven Nelson / New York Post: Knives out in House GOP whip race over Electoral College abolition

Washington Post:
Republicans oppose Democrats' plan to fund Ukraine with seized Russian assets

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Newsbusters, Reason, The Daily Caller and CNN

Herb Scribner / Axios:

U.S. faces “environment of fascism” ahead of 2022 midterms, AOC says — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in an interview with MSNBC Friday that the United States is “facing an environment of fascism” similar to the days of Jim Crow in the leadup to the 2022 midterms.

Discussion: MSNBC and CNN

Nicole Sganga / CBS News:

Government warns of “heightened threat” to 2022 elections, fueled by rise in domestic violent extremism — Less than two weeks before the 2022 elections, the U.S. government is warning of a “heightened threat” to the midterm contests, fueled by a rise in domestic violent extremism, or DVE …

Discussion: Washington Examiner

Dana Milbank / Washington Post:

American Jews start to think the unthinkable — On the holiest night of the Jewish year earlier this month, my rabbi looked up from his Kol Nidre sermon — a homily about protecting America's liberal democracy — and posed a question that wasn't in his prepared text: “How many people …

Discussion: American Prospect and Associated Press

Evita Duffy / The Federalist:

John Fetterman's ‘Trump-Voting Republican’ Parents Are Card-Carrying Democrats — It appears Democrat Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman's “Trump-voting Republican” parents are not Trump-voting Republicans, but card-carrying Democrats. In an apparent attempt to paint himself …

Discussion: New York Post

Trip Gabriel / New York Times: Oz Struggles to Woo Black Philadelphians in Senate Race

CBS News:

Man convicted of 1983 murder cleared after spending nearly four decades in prison — A 69-year-old man who has spent nearly the last four decades in prison after being convicted of murder was freed on Friday, after new evidence exonerated him from the crime.

Discussion: KTLA and ABC7

Benjamin Lindsay / The Wrap:

Penguin Random House Staffers, Others Call for Canceling of Amy Coney Barrett Memoir … Hundreds of Penguin Random House staffers and other literary professionals are calling on the publishing company to cut ties with Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett and to cancel her upcoming book.

Discussion: National Review, The American Conservative, Fox News, Mediaite and IJR, more at Mediagazer »

Insider:

Paul Pelosi secretly called 911 while in front of the intruder and spoke in ‘code’ to dispatcher to convey what was happening: ‘Why are you here? What are you going to do to me?’ — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's husband was attacked by an intruder at their San Francisco home Friday.

Discussion: Mediaite, TMZ.com, Lucianne, The Daily Wire, New York Post, Washington Examiner, Fox News, Raw Story, Los Angeles Times and CNN

Los Angeles Times:
Alleged attacker asked for Nancy Pelosi before beating her husband with hammer

Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:

U.S. Releases Guantánamo's Oldest Prisoner — Saifullah Paracha, 75, was accused of being a Qaeda sympathizer and was held for two decades. But he was never charged with a crime. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The United States has released the U.S. military's oldest prisoner …

Discussion: Associated Press, NPR, The Mourning and Al Jazeera

Sarah Mearhoff / VTDigger:

‘So blatantly illegal’: Liam Madden admits to funneling money through family to inflate campaign finance numbers — Liam Madden, the Republican nominee in the open race for Vermont's lone seat in the U.S. House, during a radio interview Thursday morning described in detail a self-funded scheme …

Wall Street Journal:

Iranian Drones in Ukraine Project Tehran's Power Beyond Mideast, Testing U.S., Europe — Wave of Russian attacks highlights how sanctions failed to stop Tehran from building a drone army that can arm proxies and friendly governments — Russia's expanding use of Iranian drones in Ukraine poses …

Discussion: Washington Post, middleeastmonitor.com, Informed Comment, Washington Examiner and RedState

Philip Oltermann / The Guardian:

Mondrian painting has been hanging upside down for 75 years — Despite the discovery, the work, titled New York City I, will continue to be displayed the wrong way up to avoid damaging it — Mondrian painting wrong on the left and correct on the right — A painting by abstract Dutch …

Discussion: The Times of Israel, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Gothamist, nltimes.nl and Boing Boing

Yahoo News:

As temperatures begin to fall, Russia steps up attacks on Ukraine's vulnerable power grid — KYIV — Large parts of the Ukrainian capital have been experiencing rolling blackouts in recent weeks, after increased Russian attacks over the past month that have destroyed an estimated 30% of Ukraine's power and heating generation capacity.

Discussion: The Times of Israel and The Guardian

Washington Post:

Key Proud Boys Jan. 6 co-conspirator pleads guilty, Tarrio lawyer says — A cooperator plea by John Charles Stewart related to the Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case is disclosed as the U.S. turns up pressure on Proud Boys ahead of December trial — An accused key co-conspirator …

Discussion: Raw Story