White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre on Tuesday told reporters that she wouldn’t call out by name media commentators or elected officials who have helped spread the racist “replacement theory” because doing so would give them a platform.  “The people who spread this filth, they know who they are and they should be ashamed of…

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First, despite the coordinated effort to blame Fox News, the manifesto attacks a number of news networks, including Fox, for hiring Jews.

A search of the entire manifesto also yields no mentions of Tucker Carlson and specifically mentions “the internet” as where he got his beliefs.
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Others have tried to link the shooter in a more general way to right-wing politics. For example, the so-called conservative S.E. Cupp of CNN tried to blame “right-wing extremism” for the shooting.

But here’s what the manifesto says about the shooter’s politics:

Did you always hold these views?

"When I was 12 I was deep into communist ideology, talk to anyone from my old highschool and ask about me and you will hear that. From age 15 to 18 however, I consistently moved farther to the right. On the political compass I fall in the mild-moderate authoritarian left category, and I would prefer to be called a populist."

So, the shooter describes himself as “authoritarian left-wing,” but the left and S.E. Cupp are trying to blame “right-wing extremism.” Okay?



Later in the manifest, the shooter insists, “I would prefer to call myself a populist. But you can call me an ethno-nationalist eco-fascist national socialist if you want, I wouldn’t disagree with you.” He also repeatedly attacks capitalists, and rejected the conservative label because, he wrote, “conservativism is corporatism in disguise, I want no part of it.”

But let’s not pretend that, assuming the manifesto is legitimate, the rhetoric espoused in its pages means the shooter cannot be legitimately aligned with either major political party or political movement. While I would argue that the views expressed in the manifesto echo rhetoric of radical leftism, the manifesto is full of nonsense and garbage that is at times inconsistent. The people who were quick to exploit the situation to attack Fox News and conservatives were wrong and should be ashamed of themselves.

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Ceasing new oil, gas, and coal development is not enough—already built extraction facilities must be prematurely decommissioned—warns a new study released today in Environmental Research Letters.

MAN WHO HAD A PENIS ATTACHED TO HIS ARM WANTS TO DATE KATE BECKINSALE


The man, who has lived with a penis attached to his arm for six years, proposed to Kate Beckinsale after she shared her story on Instagram.
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Malcolm McDonald, 47, was forced to live with a penis attached to his arm after surgery went wrong following his amputation, forcing doctors to stop the procedure midway.

And after Kate wished him success on social media, the loner Malcolm offered to take him on a date, noting that he would take the Hollywood actress “for Seville and fries.”

What a suggestion: a man who lived for six years with a penis attached to his arm offered it to Kate Beckinsale after she shared her story on Instagram.

She said On: I will be happy to take you to Seville and Chips anytime. I will pay....
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The vile conspiracy that led to a mass shooting in Buffalo has been normalized by leaders on the right.

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Stephanie Frappart of France, Salima Mukansanga from Rwanda and Yoshimi Yamash*ta from Japan have been included on Fifa’s official list

A team of Johns Hopkins University students are aiming to change the way people eat their burritos with a new invention: edible tape.

Screenwriter Todd Farmer talks about a version involving Gilbert Gottfried, being rewritten by David Cronenberg, and stealing from Aliens

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Brian Maiorana, 55, was sentenced to 36 months in prison on Wednesday.