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Beto O’Rourke Finds His Voice Helping El Paso Grieve
O’Rourke has been unsparing in his criticism of Donald Trump, calling the President a white supremacist and assigning blame for the attack to his rhetoric. “When you look at what he has said and done in its totality, it is unmistakable the intent,” O’Rourke says. “This is how it happens. Using his pulpit and his access to the country through social media, mass communications, and the media. Sending these signals out unambiguously.”
…As President, O’Rourke says he would take a set of steps to prevent massacres like this: make the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and intelligence community “fully focused” on domestic-terror threats. Push for universal background checks and “ending the sale of weapons of war.” He wants a national standard for red flag laws, and to close the Boyfriend Loophole, which would keep those convicted of domestic abuse or stalking a dating partner from purchasing or owning guns.
In addition to all of that, he suggests, it’s important to have a leader “who reflects that the power of this country is in its diversity,” O’Rourke says. “That’s our genius and what has so powerfully and positively set us apart from the rest of the world.”
Beto O’Rourke Finds His Voice Helping El Paso Grieve | Time
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Texas Is Illegally Throwing Out Mail-In Ballots, Lawsuit Says
Richardson and Weisfeld were among at least 1,800 Texans who had their ballots rejected because of signature issues, according to the suit. The two ― along with multiple disability and advocacy groups ― are parties in the suit, arguing that the Texas process for disqualifying ballots over the signature issue violates the U.S. Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of law and due process, as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
…If the ballot is rejected, local officials don’t have to notify the voter until 10 days after Election Day that their vote wasn’t counted.
In their complaint, lawyers for the plaintiffs noted that the Texas election code outlines no process those officials, who aren’t handwriting experts, are supposed to follow in comparing signatures.
The state relies “on untrained officials to ‘eye-ball’ a signature, leaving the sacred right to vote up to chance,” said Hani Mirza, a lawyer with the Texas Civil Rights Project who is helping represent the plaintiffs.
Texas Is Illegally Throwing Out Mail-In Ballots, Lawsuit Says | HuffPost
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A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women
One common thread that connects many of them — other than access to powerful firearms — is a history of hating women, assaulting wives, girlfriends and female family members, or sharing misogynistic views online, researchers say.
…In more than half of all mass shootings in the United States from 2009 to 2017, an intimate partner or family member of the perpetrator was among the victims.
…“Most mass shooters have a history of domestic or family violence in their background. It’s an important red flag.”
…In recent years, a number of these men have identified as so-called incels, short for involuntary celibates, an online subculture of men who express rage at women for denying them sex, and who frequently fantasize about violence and celebrate mass shooters in their online discussion groups.
…[Elliot O. Rodger] killed six people in 2014 in Isla Vista, Calif., a day after posting a video titled “Elliot Rodger’s Retribution.” In it, he describes himself as being tortured by sexual deprivation and promises to punish women for rejecting him.
…Several mass killers have cited Mr. Rodger as an inspiration.
…Experts say the same patterns that lead to the radicalization of white supremacists and other terrorists can apply to misogynists who turn to mass violence: a lonely, troubled individual who finds a community of like-minded individuals online, and an outlet for their anger.
“They’re angry and they’re suicidal and they’ve had traumatic childhoods and these hard lives, and they get to a point and they find something or someone to blame.”
A Common Trait Among Mass Killers: Hatred Toward Women – The New York Times
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Largest US immigration raids in a decade net 680 arrests
A tearful 13-year-old boy whose parents are from Guatemala waved goodbye to his mother, a Koch worker, as he stood beside his father.
…Workers who were confirmed to have legal status were allowed to leave the plant after having their trunks searched.
Mississippi immigration raid: Koch Foods hit with ICE sting
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New York Times regret ‘seriously asinine’ headline on Donald Trump speech
New York Times changed ‘flawed’ headline on Donald Trump speech
the New York Times with the buying into, facilitating, propagating , and endorsing Trump’s doublespeak move.
Wow.
My, how far the mighty Grey Lady has fallen….
8chan owner has been summoned to testify before the House
The owner of 8chan, the online message board that has been repeatedly linked to mass shootings, has been summoned to appear before the House Committee on Homeland Security..
…Little is known about Jim Watkins, 8chan’s owner, including — it appears — his physical mailing address.
…Watkins, a US Army veteran, is said to have relocated his family in 2004 to the Philippines, where he reportedly lives today.
…In its tweet announcing the letter, the House Committee included 8chan’s Twitter handle in an apparent attempt to make contact with the company. Given that 8chan then retweeted the letter, it appears the company is aware its owner had been summoned.
…8chan’s message board remained offline at the time of this article’s publication.
8chan owner has been summoned to testify before the House – Business Insider
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House Democrats file suit to force Don McGahn to testify, saying his testimony needed for impeachment investigation
he House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday filed suit to compel former White House counsel Don McGahn’s testimony, arguing that the committee needs to hear from him to determine whether it should consider articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump.
…Trump directed McGahn to flout the committee’s subpoena for documents and testimony following the publication of the report by former special counsel Robert Mueller, and the Trump administration has argued that McGahn and other close advisers to the President have “absolute immunity” from congressional testimony due to executive privilege.
The outcome of the court fight that Democrats started on Wednesday could set the precedent for a litany of House subpoenas attempting to obtain documents or compel testimony from various officials in the Trump administration, as well as for future fights over executive privilege between the executive and legislative branches.
…House Speaker Nancy Pelosi referenced the lawsuit in a letter to colleagues Wednesday, in another signal that she’s opening the door to considering impeachment.
…McGahn did not appear when the committee gaveled into session in May for his hearing, setting the stage for a House vote to go to court to enforce McGahn’s subpoena. The subpoena to McGahn is one of a number the committee has issued and been rebuffed by the White House: both former communications director Hope Hicks and former McGahn deputy Annie Donaldson did not answer nearly all of the questions that the committee asked of them related to their time at the White House.
…When President George W. Bush’s former top counsel, Harriet Miers, and his former chief of staff, Joshua Bolten, did not comply with subpoenas issued by the Judiciary Committee, a judge ruled in 2008 that they couldn’t ignore them.
…McGahn, no longer in the administration and now represented by a private attorney, isn’t protected from testimony by the same attorney-client confidentiality as other lawyers because his client wasn’t President Donald Trump or any one person when he served as White House counsel.
…The special counsel’s investigation documented how Trump told McGahn to fire the special counsel, which he did not do, and then told McGahn to lie publicly about Trump telling him to dismiss Mueller.
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Ivanka Trump: Let’s Focus On the Shootings My Dad Isn’t Responsible For
“With 7 dead and 52 wounded near a playground in the Windy City- and little national outrage or media coverage- we mustn’t become numb to the violence faced by inner city communities every day.”
…That people are regularly shot and killed in Chicago, and that the violence rarely receives as much coverage as other mass shootings, is of course true, but the first daughter‘s concern might’ve seemed at least slightly sincere had she expressed it at any other time than while her father is taking heat for whipping racists into a frenzy and creating an environment in which they believe it’s okay to go on killing sprees if their targets are of the nonwhite variety. (Her previous mentions of the Windy City mostly center around promoting spa treatments and cocktails at the Trump Hotel Chicago, plus a photo op with the new mayor.) It would also carry a bit more weight if her father’s comments about “inner city communities” weren’t filled with dog whistles, or if he actually had a plan to reduce the number of gun-related deaths in Chicago by restricting access to firearms, which of course he does not.
…Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Lori Lightfoot, the mayor of Chicago fact-checked Ivanka’s tweets (“It wasn’t a playground, it was a park. It wasn’t seven dead. It wasn’t 52 wounded in one incident, which is what this suggests.”) and said that she “isn’t going to be distracted by nonsense tweets from people who don’t know what they’re talking about.”
Ivanka Trump: Let’s Focus On the Shootings My Dad Isn’t Responsible For | Vanity Fair
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Ohio Rep. Candice Keller says she won’t resign over mass shooting comments
Keller is [ignoring] calls to step down for comments blaming mass shootings in Dayton, Texas, and elsewhere on everything from gay marriage and transgender people to open borders and legalized marijuana.
Ohio Rep. Candice Keller says she won’t resign over mass shooting comments – cleveland.com
Can we all just agree that a lot people who use the word, “conservative,” are using it to me “bigoted hater” ? Seems like we could save ourselves a lot of time and trouble.
Cyntoia Brown was released from a Tennessee prison today. Here are 4 things to know about her case
At 16 she was solicited for sex by Johnny Mitchell Allen.
He brought her back to his house, Brown testified, where she saw a gun cabinet. Brown testified that she had been forced into prostitution by a pimp and resisted Allen. But then, she said she saw him reach under the bed, and she believed he was going to kill her.
In self-defense, she reached for a gun in her purse and shot him, she said.
…Rihanna posted on social media: “Imagine at the age of 16 being sex-trafficked by a pimp named ‘cut-throat.’ After days of being repeatedly drugged and raped by different men you were purchased by a 43-year-old child predator who took you to his home to use you for sex. You end up finding enough courage to fight back and shoot and kill him.”
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Hawaiian protesters started a school on Mauna Kea to teach local culture to the next generation
Presley Keʻalaanuhea Ah Mook Sang, a Hawaiian language instructor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, said she first came up with the idea to start a community-led school or “teach-in” after witnessing the crowd swell in that first week from hundreds of protesters to thousands.
…The classes at the community-run Puuhonua o Puuhuluhulu University focus on topics including indigenous rights, history and a variety of other subjects taught through a Hawaiian perspective.
….The school quickly grew to a daily schedule of four one-hour blocks with five concurrent classes.
…”The morning is more indigenous peoples and native rights and towards afternoon is more Mauna-focused,” Ah Mook Sang said.
…Since 1968, the University of Hawaii has been leasing the land at the summit of Mauna Kea. The area is on “crown lands,” land that belonged to the Hawaiian kingdom before it was overthrown in 1893 and is now managed by the state with the intended purpose of benefiting Hawaiians. The crown lands are still debated, as many Hawaiian groups believe they were illegally stolen. The university has been accused several times over the years of mismanaging the land, including in the ‘90s when the Sierra Club filed a complaint about the trash from the observatories.
Puniwai said teaching at Puuhuluhulu is a way to show she doesn’t condone her employer’s actions and to show her support for the protest.
…As for Ah Mook Sang, she’s hoping to keep the spirit of Puuhuluhulu alive and maybe see it expand to the other islands, where there’s already interest in forming branches of the community-led school.
Hawaiian protesters started a school on Mauna Kea to teach local culture to the next generation
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Lā Ho‘iho‘i Ea Observed at Maunakea
The demonstration started 18 days ago by various groups who believe that Maunakea is sacred and say construction atop the mountain will further desecrate the site. On Tuesday, the governor rescinded an emergency proclamation at Maunakea and the state issued a two-year extension to Sept. 26, 2021 on the deadline to initiate construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope project atop the mountain.
Maui Now : Lā Ho‘iho‘i Ea Observed at Maunakea, Jason Momoa Visits
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Dayton Police Chief Says Gunman Was Killed Within 30 Seconds Of First Shot
Dayton Police Chief Says Gunman Was Killed Within 30 Seconds Of First Shot : NPR`
With that headline you’d almost think he wasn’t white.
8chan: Cloudfare terminates ‘lawless’ online message board
Founded as an alternative to the more well-known 4chan message board, 8chan, or “Infinite Chan,” has nearly 20,000 public boards. The website’s welcome is, “Welcome to 8chan, the Darkest Reaches of the Internet.”
…8chan, “remained on the fringes until 2014, when some supporters of GamerGate — a loose reactionary collection of anti-feminist video gamers — flocked to 8chan after being kicked off 4chan.
…The Washington Post called the website “one of the Web’s most venomous refuges for extremist hate.”
One anonymous 8chan user, for example, praised the El Paso shooting in a thread.
…In March, a New Zealand man posted a lengthy manifesto to Twitter and to 8chan before killing 50 and injuring dozens in a rampage that was live-streamed on Facebook and Twitter.
In April, a shooter posted a manifesto to 8chan before killing one woman and injuring three others at a California synagogue.
…The site’s founder called for its end.
Cloudfare will cut off services for 8chan at midnight PDT, CEO Matthew Prince said in a statement, though he noted that another network provider could bring 8chan back online.
8chan: Cloudfare terminates ‘lawless’ online message board
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