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10:45 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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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.
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 …
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 …
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.
CNN:
What's Gab, the social platform used by the Pittsburgh shooting suspect?  —  New York (CNN Business)Right before a suspected gunman walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, he logged onto Gab and wrote to his followers, “I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered.
Alexandra Schwartz / New Yorker:
The Tree of Life Shooting and the Return of Anti-Semitism to American Life
Discussion: Mashable and New York Times
John Podhoretz / Commentary:   The Slaughter in Pittsburgh  —  The synagogue in Pittsburgh is called the Tree of Life.
Gab:
Gab.com Statement On The Tree of Life Synagogue Shooting
Washington Post:
11 killed, several wounded, in Pittsburgh synagogue shooting
Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic:
The Pittsburgh Suspect's Internet of Hate
Ben Collins / NBC News:
Pittsburgh synagogue shooting suspect threatened Jewish groups, pushed migrant caravan conspiracies
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’ …
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
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.
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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Washington Post:
‘He felt that somebody was finally talking to him’: How the package-bomb suspect found inspiration in Trump
Discussion: Al Jazeera English and 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
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.
Discussion: Political Wire
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.
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.
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.
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 …
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.”
 
 
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Josefin Dolsten / The Times of Israel:
GOP congressman sympathizes with Austrian far-right after Auschwitz visit
Discussion: Washington Post and The Guardian
New York Times:
Driven by Trump Policy Changes, Fracking Booms on Public Lands
Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal:
Violence Foreshadowed in Social Media
Andrew Hollinger / ushmm.org:
Museum Condemns Pittsburgh Synagogue Attack
Discussion: CBS Pittsburgh
Michael Goodwin / New York Post:
Neither of this week's attacks will affect the midterms
James Fallows / The Atlantic:
The Worst of Our Country—And the Best
Discussion: The Nation
BBC:
Leicester City owner's helicopter crashes leaving stadium
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
No, President Trump, the NYSE did not open the day after the Sept. 11 attacks
Discussion: Political Wire, Bloomberg and Raw Story
 Earlier Items: 
Vaughn Hillyard / NBC News:
Pence rejects suggestions of a link between Trump rhetoric and acts of violence
Discussion: Political Wire, POLITICUSUSA and IJR
Peter Wade / Rolling Stone:
Number of Georgia Voters Purged by Brian Kemp Continues to Climb
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: Hullabaloo
 

 
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