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While the probe into today's synagogue massacre is in its early stages, it's worth noting that white supremacists and other far-right extremists were responsible for 59% of all extremist-related fatalities in the U.S. last year (Anti-Defamation League Center on Extremism) /1
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The ADL’s annual report—“Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2017”— notes that the number of murders conducted by white supremacists more than doubled in 2017 from the year before adl.org/resources/repo…
/3 The study notes the following: adl.org/news/press-rel… …
Far right extremists are also far more likely to kill police officers, says a study by the University of Maryland
Israel's Haaretz notes: haaretz.com/us-news/fbi-re…
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As a new year begins, there is a gulf in this country between what some people want to believe and what the truth really is. At some point these two things—truth and untruth—will be reconciled. Perhaps this year, perhaps not. But in the end, truth always wins /1
Last year, we were told by the president that the economy is great. In fact, he boasted, it has never been so great. And yet the 4.2% growth rate of the second quarter faded almost immediately. The Federal Reserve predicts 2.3% growth this year and slightly under 2.0% in 2020. /2
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We were told that Americans have never had it so good. And yet 40% of us don’t have even $400 to deal with an unexpected expense.
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First film screened in the new White House movie theater - this day in 1942 - and it was a good one
Times Square, New Year's Eve, 1945
World War II was over and America stood astride the world like a colossus; never again would it be so utterly dominant: half the world's GDP, untouched by the war itself - the only country with the bomb
The Johnson Ranch, New Year's Eve, 1968
One of the worst years in American history was finally over, and Lyndon Johnson - his five-year presidency also at an end - celebrated. That awful year easily remains the worst America has endured in the last half-century
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Two Presidents died on this day. Modest men from the Midwest, each had been VP for just a few months before ascending to the top job. Harry Truman, the 33d POTUS (1945-53), died in 1972; Gerald Ford, the 38th (1974-77) in 2006
President for just three months when Franklin D. Roosevelt died, Truman became president just as World War II was ending in Europe. He made the grave decision to drop two atomic bombs on Japan, which brought the Pacific war to an end /2
Truman oversaw the Marshall Plan, Berlin Airlift, Korean War and creation of NATO—the North Atlantic Treaty Organization—a pillar of global peace and order for nearly 3/4 of a century - but is now threatened /3
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If you need reminding, American History X is on ITV4. Worth rewatching these days.
A couple of things watching it again, 20 years later.

The tropes from Derek and his acolytes are the same. The same tired tropes from the far right we get today. The same bullshit. Just dressed up differently; but identical.
The second thing is the scene where Cameron Alexander correctly identifies the internet as a massive opportunity for white supremacists and the far right. It predates social media, but he correctly identifies it as a vector for organising.
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Trump: Day 675
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Far-right violence in the past 3 wks:

-Proud boys mob attack in NYC
-White supremacist kills black couple in Kroger
-Trump fan mails pipe bombs to Trump foes & media
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-Floating the same conspiracy theory that motivated the synagogue shooter
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-Ending countering violent extremism programs
-Diverting resources away from domestic terrorism to focus on the "caravan" of asylum seekers
As far-right extremism spikes, the Trump administration is poised to end DHS's Countering Violent Extremism grants program & has already crippled the interagency task force on Countering Violent Extremism.

But he's sending troops to deal w/ asylum seekers
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We're publishing next week's cover story early:

U.S. law enforcement failed to see the threat of white nationalism. From the FBI to the DHS to state police — now they have no idea how to stop it.

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There were no current intelligence reports he could find on the alt-right.
The state police couldn’t offer much insight.
Whatever the F.B.I. knew (which wasn’t a lot), they weren’t sharing.
The Department of Homeland Security had only scant material.
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"Far-right media does not create unstable individuals, but it has proven remarkably successful at radicalizing them and providing them with targets." MAGAbomber & synagogue shooter's similar extremist media diet, w/ anti-Semitism at its core. v @Bellingcat bellingcat.com/news/americas/…
Radicalization is the conversation we must have. Trump sends troops for fake immigrant invasions while his information war has created the real threat. He & GOP propaganda media are radicalizing far-right extremists—terrorists to terrorize & kill Americans. Also BTW Putin's goal.
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