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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, The Verge and Mashable, more at Techmeme »
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
Max Boot / Washington Post:
What is happening to our country?
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New York Post and CBS Pittsburgh
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
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
John Podhoretz / Commentary:
The Slaughter in Pittsburgh — The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life.
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
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, Breitbart, Gothamist, WTKR-TV and ImmigrationProf Blog
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
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.
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
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
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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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
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
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.
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.
Danielle Wiener-Bronner / CNN:
Campbell Soup VP who tweeted Soros conspiracy is out — Migrants continue north, reject Trump's tweets — New York (CNN Business)The Campbell Soup lobbyist who said George Soros' foundation was assisting a caravan of migrants bound for the United States is no longer with the company.
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BuzzFeed News, skippy the bush kangaroo, Front Page Magazine and KRTV-TV
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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