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Prof Emeritus Brian Levin / Ret. Dir Hate Ext Ctr

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Dir.,Ctr. for Study of Hate & Extremism-27yrs '20 CSU Sys. WANG Awd for Scholarship JD-Stanford '92 (Cv Liberties Aw), Words-Stn4d,NW,ABS Prsnl. acct. RTs≠OK

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A man who threw Molotov cocktails at a group of Colorado marchers advocating for the release of Israeli hostages being held by Hamas in Gaza pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges on Thursday in connection with the deadly attack. abcnews.link/YlRQ7SO
Boulder firebomber pleads guilty to federal hate crime charges in deadly attack

Boulder firebomber pleads guilty to federal hate crime charges in deadly attack

Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 46, is already serving a life sentence after pleading guilty to state charges in the June 2025 attack in downtown Boulder.

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Exclusive: The top U.S. commander in the Middle East briefed President Trump Thursday on military options for Iran as the U.S. weighs resuming major combat operations. on.wsj.com/4e7yBbl
Exclusive | Top Admiral Briefs Trump On Iran Attack Options

Exclusive | Top Admiral Briefs Trump On Iran Attack Options

A Thursday White House meeting included a rare in-person briefing by Adm. Cooper as the U.S. weighs new combat operations.

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Trump's anti-Muslim remarks about Abdul El-Sayed at a recent rally in Michigan are astonishing—even by recent standards, @GrahamDavidA argues. He explores the damage of the president's bigotry: theatln.tc/4blOZNfG 📸: Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP
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The Justice Department escalates criminal probe over Alaska spoiler candidate controversy with new subpoenas, AP source says. apnews.com/article/alaska-pe…
Justice Department issues new subpoenas over Alaska spoiler candidate controversy, AP source says

Justice Department issues new subpoenas over Alaska spoiler candidate controversy, AP source says

The Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, issuing a raft of new grand jury subpoenas,...

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Source familiar pushing back on this story:
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“The F.B.I. and Department of Homeland Security investigated the marriage in summer 2016, during the Obama administration, and found some evidence that it was fraudulent, current and former officials said.” nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/im…
Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage

Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage

Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother.

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Biddy Mason, San Bernardino slave who became LA leader, gets new bio ocregister.com/2026/10/29/bi…
Biddy Mason, San Bernardino slave who became LA leader, gets new bio

Biddy Mason, San Bernardino slave who became LA leader, gets new bio

“The Boundless Biddy Mason” tells her life in full. Historian Kevin Waite talks to columnist David Allen about Mason’s remarkable journey.

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"Netanyahu definitely has an incentive to go to war. He understands that returning to war against Iran while forming a government will serve his interest." - @citrinowicz npr.org/2026/10/29/nx-s1-602…
Israel's election is deadlocked. What happens next?

Israel's election is deadlocked. What happens next?

There's still no clear winner in Israel's election. What could it take to break the impasse?

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New: The Trump administration says that “DHS is NOT arresting U.S. citizens by mistake.” But that is precisely what is happening. We've cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent holding a citizen during the current administration. propub.li/4zgULAj
Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents — ProPublica

Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents — ProPublica

ProPublica has cataloged every case we can find of an immigration agent detaining a citizen during the current Trump administration. Explore our database to learn more about each incident.

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Fuentes' movement is very notable for having helped rot out the minds of young conservatives with hate and racism (a big deal with downstream effects), but he has never proven himself able to wield that influence consistently offline. Glad to see someone else unpacking that.
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With sneering racism, antisemitism, and misogyny, Nick Fuentes has built a massive following of young men that could make him a midterms kingmaker on the right. So where is he? vanityfair.com/story/nick-fu…
The Undoing of Nick Fuentes, the Far-Right Kingmaker Who Wasn’t

The Undoing of Nick Fuentes, the Far-Right Kingmaker Who Wasn’t

The livestreaming extremist has led a growing cohort of young men toward what’s looked like the insidious post-Trump future of the right. But as his movement is consumed by nihilism and infighting,...

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BREAKING: Federal judge blocks ICE from making racially discriminatory stops in SoCal. “The Government’s showing that it trains agents to follow the law cannot defeat the mountain of evidence that, in practice, agents do not follow the law." latimes.com/california/story…
'Mountain of evidence' ICE agents discriminated against Latinos, judge says

'Mountain of evidence' ICE agents discriminated against Latinos, judge says

Citing agents’ own testimony and body-camera footage, U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong found evidence of an unwritten policy targeting people who are Latino or appear to be and are...

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Video showed him covering with red paint some of the names etched in stone of those killed in the terror attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001 trib.al/yC5VGhA
Man arrested after allegedly spray-painting over names at 9/11 Memorial in NYC

Man arrested after allegedly spray-painting over names at 9/11 Memorial in NYC

Video showed him covering with red paint some of the names etched in stone of those killed in the terror attacks at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.

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A warning to Donald Trump: I’m deploying election lawyers to key battleground districts in California to protect every vote. And I just made it a FELONY to illegally seize ballots.
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Edgar Maddison Welch, the Pizzagate shooter died last year. It’s been 10 years since the shooting and he’s felt to me like one of the first in a string of online conspiracy meets real world violence events. I dug into his very American tragedy. Hope you’ll read it. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos.

He Wanted to Save Children. Instead, He Unleashed Chaos.

The American tragedy of Edgar Maddison Welch

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Dolores Huerta, labor leader, civil rights activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, has died at 96, her family said Wednesday. She spoke to FRONTLINE in 2013 about the "epidemic" of sexual harassment in the fields. to.pbs.org/3W70L04
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Florida International University students defend racist, violent group chats as jokes in federal trial ocregister.com/2026/10/29/fl…
Florida International University students defend racist, violent group chats as jokes in federal...

Florida International University students defend racist, violent group chats as jokes in federal...

A student testified that even comments about beheading Black people were intended as humor.

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Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/im…
Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage

Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage

Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother.

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US judge narrows Macron defamation case against conservative podcaster yahoo.com/news/us/articles/u… via @@YahooNews
US judge narrows Macron defamation case against conservative podcaster

US judge narrows Macron defamation case against conservative podcaster

A US judge has pared down a defamation lawsuit that France's president and his wife brought against a conservative US influencer last year.The judge also said that France's statute of limitations...

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Another example of the social media threat continuum. The suspect told investigators he was trying to synthesize TATP, apparently for use in a UAV munition. wcjb.com/2026/10/27/high-sch…
High school student accused of trying to make bombs for ISIS, Alachua County deputies say

High school student accused of trying to make bombs for ISIS, Alachua County deputies say

Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies say a 15-year-old was arrested after an investigation revealed he was attempting to make bombs

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‘Abusing & Threatening & Harassing’: Inside the Collapse of Leo Terrell’s DOJ Antisemitism Task Force thecrimson.com/interactive/2…
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Chicago-area Hindu community shaken but resilient after alleged mass shooting plan was thwarted apnews.com/article/hindu-tem…
Chicago-area Hindu community shaken but resilient after alleged mass shooting plan was thwarted

Chicago-area Hindu community shaken but resilient after alleged mass shooting plan was thwarted

A thwarted mass shooting at a Hindu temple near Chicago is stoking new fears for the area’s South Asian community, tainting a typically joyful season of faith and family gatherings.

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