Morning Briefing: Details Emerging of White Superracist Shooting in Jacksonville
Details continue to emerge about the White Supremacist who used a 'weapon emblazoned with a swastika' to allegedly gun down three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida.
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Morning Briefing: The White Supremacist who used a “weapon emblazoned with a swastika” to allegedly gun down three Black people in Jacksonville, Florida, reportedly “may have initially targeted a different store.”
The Nationalist Social Club (NSC-131), a neo-Nazi White Supremacist group based in New England, staged protest outside hotels in Woburn, Massachusetts, “after it was announced that 59 migrant families were being housed in local hotels.”
In Orlando, Florida, murals at a pair of LGBTIQ centers were “defaced with anti-LGBTQ messages and hate symbols,” in the latest incidents of far right extremist violence targeting LGBTIQ or LGBTIQ affirming organizations.
Timothy Allen Teagan, who attended “various rallies with an AR-style rifle while dressed in a Hawaiian shirt” as a member of the far right White Supremacist Boogaloo movement, was “sentenced today to 12 months in prison after having pleaded guilty in April to being a drug user in possession of firearms and ammunition, and for making a false statement in connection with the acquisition of a firearm.”
Anti-abortion activists were convicted of “illegally blocking a reproductive clinic in Washington, D.C.,” and the trial of a second group of anti-abortion activists are “facing charges from the same blockade is scheduled to begin next week.”
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Chrissy Stroop writes that “what else should we expect in a country where prominent members of the Republican Party threaten civil war because the criminal justice system has moved to hold their authoritarian figurehead accountable for his actions? The fact is that whether or not US prosecutors had charged Trump with any crimes, the right-wing rage he has fed since his 2020 election loss, which he has refused to accept and continually lied about, was always going to burn fiercely during the 2024 election cycle. The radicalised Republican Party has shown its true anti-democratic colours. With the other Republican primary candidates lacking charisma and unlikely to win their party’s nomination, prospects are (I think) reasonably good for the Democrats to hold on to the presidency. But however things play out, the patriarchal, racist, unreconstructed US right’s violent rage, enabled by the capitulation of the Big Tech companies on policing hate and disinformation, guarantees a bumpy ride to next November – and beyond.” [openDemocracy]
Emma Brown and Peter Jamison report that Michael Farris “has reached the pinnacle of the conservative legal establishment. From 2017 to 2022, he was the president and chief executive of the Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF), a powerhouse Christian legal group that helped draft and defend the restrictive Mississippi abortion law that led to the overturning of Roe v. Wade. ADF and its allies have filed a flurry of state and federal lawsuits over the past two years alleging that public schools are violating parental and religious rights. Yet it is outside the courtroom that Farris’s influence has arguably been most profound. No single figure has been more instrumental in transforming the parental rights cause from an obscure concern of Christian home-schoolers into a GOP rallying cry.” [The Washington Post]
Amanda Moore writes that she “attended more than a dozen extremist and conspiracy events and went to ostensibly mainstream Republican conferences, including the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the annual gathering of Republican activists, politicians, and hopefuls, and Turning Point USA’s Student Action Summit, and witnessed a radical youth movement trying to take over the GOP. Like a parasitic pilot fish, a robust fascist community follows the big Republican events into every town. They host shadow parties, receptions, and speeches as they work to recruit new members. The conservative establishment benefits from the presence of these farther-right gatherings; the extremists are often younger, well-dressed, and social-media savvy. While the more mainstream GOP organizations occasionally ban the most overt racists from a featured event, their attempts often feel half-hearted, and there are always other extremists who step up and fill the role as intermediaries between the white nationalists and normie conservatives.” [The Nation]
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