University of Virginia police announced on Wednesday that white supremacist Chris Cantwell, wanted by police on three felony charges, has turned himself in to Lynchburg authorities. The Daily Progress, a local Charlottesville, Virginia publication, reported that Cantwell is being held in Lynchburg’s Blue Ridge Region…
“We didn’t know the KKK was in Boston!” one woman said excitedly, boarding the bus to the Boston Common around noon today for the protests against last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville. She and her friend had heard that white supremacists were in town, and, like diehard Sox fans, word of the opposition was enough…
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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), along with co-sponsors Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY), and Bonnie Watson-Coleman (D-NJ), on Wednesday introduced legislation asking Congress to formally reprimand Donald Trump for his woefully inadequate, grotesque, and harmful response to Charlottesville, in which he empathized with…
Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.
On Saturday, emboldened by the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who came out in droves to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee in Charlottesville, Virginia, 20-year-old James Fields, an admirer of Nazi concentration camps, plowed his car straight into a crowd of counter-protesters,…
After the president failed to specifically denounce the white supremacist and Nazi ideologies responsible for the violence and terrorism in Charlottesville this weekend, Merck CEO Kenneth Frazier stepped down from Trump’s American Manufacturing Council on Monday. Trump, who directly benefits from white supremacist…
Whether you’re on the blue feed or the red feed, chances are you’ve seen reports on Facebook of clashes amongst white nationalist protests Charlottesville, VA which began at the University of Virginia Friday night and moved to Emancipation Park Saturday morning. The governor has declared a state of emergency. Riot…
On May 7, France will vote in a runoff election between far-right Islamophobic Holocaust revisionist Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron, a 39-year-old business-friendly centrist who served as economy minister in President Hollande’s astoundingly unpopular administration.
Texas A&M University is making changes to its policy governing who can speak on campus after a December 2016 visit by the imminently punchable white supremacist Richard Spencer caused a mild uproar.
As you may or may not know, I have a thing for early Volkswagens. I’m also aware of how problematic that is, what with all the Nazi history. That may not have been as much of a problem for Jesse James, who may find the Nazi associations a bit more of a plus than most people. Regardless, the car he’s selling on eBay…
In the wake of the widespread reports of bomb threats and incidents of vandalism enacted upon Jewish community centers and cemeteries, the Department of Homeland Security has offered their assistance and support.
On Monday, bomb threats were called into Jewish schools and JCCs in 11 states, including Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Virginia. On Sunday, 100 headstones were damaged in a Philadelphia Jewish cemetery, just a week after the same thing…
Yesterday, besuited Nazi Richard Spencer got kicked out of CPAC for his “repugnant” views, which a CPAC spokesman claimed have “nothing to do with conservatism or what we do here.” Shortly prior to this, Spencer called a heckler “a moron who can’t dress.” Can Richard Spencer dress, though? Seems like maybe not?
On Sunday afternoon, the telephone of Nazi Germany leader Adolf Hitler was purchased at auction for $243,000. It’s unclear why someone would covet an item once in intimate proximity to undiluted evil. Rich tapestries, I guess.
Bad timing for a love story about Nazi Germany.
He Will Not Divide Us, an anti-Trump performance art project created by Shia Labeouf with the Museum of the Moving Image, was shut down by the museum on Friday due to “a serious and ongoing public safety hazard.” The project became overrun by trolls and white supremacists (Labeouf was recently charged with assault…
Solidarity, let alone eye contact, isn’t easy to come by on the New York City subway, but on Saturday night, according to a Facebook post by 27-year-old lawyer Gregory Locke that’s gone viral, New Yorkers worked together to scrub swastikas and slurs from the walls of a train car.
Reuters reports that the Trump administration is planning to reframe CVE, or the “Countering Violent Extremism” program, to solely focus on Islamist extremism. According to sources briefed on the matter, this means that the program would no longer target, say, white supremacists, another victory in a long series of…
Days after a Texas mosque was destroyed in a fire and a right-wing Internet troll murdered six worshipers at a Quebec mosque, at least 17 Jewish Community Centers across the U.S. have been targeted with bomb threats and evacuated, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports. This is the third wave of such threats to Jewish…
