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9:50 AM ET, October 28, 2018

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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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Max Boot / Washington Post:
What is happening to our country?  —  I am so sad.  I am so heartbroken.  What is happening to our country?  —  How can we live in an America where a gunman can barge into a synagogue and open fire, reportedly screaming “All Jews must die”?  —  How can we live in an America where someone …
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.
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 …
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 …
Paul P. Murphy / CNN:
Bowers blamed Jews for helping ‘invaders’ in the migrant caravans  —  Robert Bowers' anti-Semitism fueled other hate speech that he published and shared on Gab.com  —  Bowers made anti-Semitic comments alongside xenophobic content, claiming that Jews were helping transport members of the migrant caravans in Latin America.
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
Discussion: New York Times and Mashable
Gab:
Gab.com Statement On The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
Washington Post:
11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
Franklin Foer / The Atlantic:   A Prayer for Squirrel Hill—And for American Jewry
CBS Pittsburgh:
Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooter Identified As Robert Bowers, Yelled ‘All Jews Must Die’ …
Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump to go ahead with Illinois rally
Discussion: Townhall
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Intercept
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Michael Goodwin / New York Post:   Neither of this week's attacks will affect the midterms
Washington Post:
‘He felt that somebody was finally talking to him’: How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump
Discussion: Raw Story
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Mail Bomber Cesar Sayoc Threatened Me on Facebook
Discussion: Slate, CNN and The Daily Signal
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 …
Discussion: Outside the Beltway
Aris Folley / The Hill:
LeBron James dons Beto O'Rourke hat to game in San Antonio  —  Los Angeles Lakers player LeBron James donned a Beto O'Rourke hat ahead of his team's matchup with the San Antonio Spurs on Saturday night.  —  In a photo shared by James' team on Saturday evening, the player could be seen wearing a white hat, reading: “Beto for Senate.”
Discussion: HuffPost and The Atlantic
BBC:
Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium  —  The Leicester City owner's helicopter has crashed in a car park outside the club's ground as it left the stadium following a Premier League match.  —  Vichai Srivaddhanaprabha was in the helicopter when it came down at about 20:30 BST …
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.
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.
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 …
Discussion: The Nation
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 …
Anthony Adragna / Politico:
The powerful weapon House Republicans handed Democrats  —  A GOP rule change handed unilateral subpoena authority to many House committee chairmen.  Democrats cried foul, but now they hope to use it against Trump.  —  Democrats eager to investigate the Trump administration if they seize …
Discussion: Political Wire
 
 
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Fox News:
Voter fraud exists - Even though many in the media claim it doesn't
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump Cabinet exodus likely after midterms
Andrew Hollinger / ushmm.org:
Museum Condemns Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
Jacey Fortin / New York Times:
Photo of a Starving Girl in Yemen Prompts Facebook to Remove Posts of Article
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
No, President Trump, the NYSE did not open the day after the Sept. 11 attacks
Discussion: Bloomberg and Raw Story
Meridith McGraw / ABC News:
Trump mixes politics and the pain of a national tragedy in address at Illinois rally
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb
 Earlier Items: 
David Nakamura / Washington Post:
Critics say Trump has fostered the toxic environment for the political violence he denounces
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA, Vox and Reuters
Alan Dershowitz / The Hill:
Avoid temptation to seek partisan advantage from pipe bomb arrest
Discussion: Instapundit
Morgan Gstalter / The Hill:
Iowa newspaper breaks its tradition, endorses Steve King's Dem opponent
Jared Keller / Task & Purpose:
US Troops Deploy ‘Overwhelming Force’ Against Iceland's Beer Supplies
Discussion: Townhall and The Daily Caller
Patrick Coyle / National Review:
Georgetown Prep after the Smear
Discussion: Weekly Standard
Jason Le Miere / Newsweek:
Donald Trump jokes about his hair being ruined by having to answer questions in the rain about Pittsburgh shooting
Discussion: Breitbart and Hullabaloo
 

 
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