#white-supremacist

#white-supremacist

You don't see many cads in the wild any more: they are, perhaps, an extinct species.This staple of the 19th-century novel is a rare figure in mainstream literature these days.Undoubtedly if I looked hard enough, I would find a subculture of spicy contemporary rogues tweet me your picks but in this instance I am concerned with the noxious products of class and odiously outdated sexual politics that make me thankful to live in an age where I can get a credit card without my husband's permission.

Former NAACP Chairwoman Myrlie Evers-Williams, widow of civil rights activist Medgar Evers, has donated her archival records to her alma mater, Pomona College, the school announced Thursday.Evers-Williams, who is a month shy of her 90th birthday, was only 30 when her husband was assassinated in Mississippi in 1963 by a white supremacist.

Yes, Virginia, there is a 6:57.At least, that's what it says in the schedule.A 6:57 a.m.train arriving at my neighborhood Metra station on its way downtown.The Tribune has reported on the transit system's many woes, and I'll admit that I'm part of the problem.After years of steady ridership, I now commute on a much more sporadic basis.

"Marjorie Taylor Greene is an enemy of the Constitution and of our country," Bowman said.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is seen during a vote in the U.S. Capitol on November 30, 2022.Tom Williams / CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-New York) called for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) to be removed from Congress on Monday after the far right lawmaker remarked that, had she led the January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, she would have "won."

An update on the information war, for the 2023 Walter Cronkite Awards
We're losing.I'm hesitant to start off this memo on such a grim note, but it's true: The people putting out the truth are under siege in the information war, and we're not doing so great.That's, in part, because a lot of those people aren't even aware they're in an information war to begin with.

This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME's politics newsletter.Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox.If you look at the top-line numbers in public polling, it would seem impossible to fathom anyone but Donald Trump emerging in 2024 as his Republican Party's nominee.After all, a robust 95% of Republican voters in this month's midterm elections held a favorable view of the ex-President, according to exit polls.

The messages, in simple white text, flashed onto the walls of Twitter's San Francisco headquarters Thursday evening."Musk's Hellscape.""Launching to bankruptcy.""Worthless billionaire."Other messages called Elon Musk, who closed his $44-billion purchase of Twitter late last month, a "Space Karen" and "lawless oligarch."

"Tucker on Twitter" began airing on the social media site earlier this month.Tucker Carlson speaks with attendees at the 2022 AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.Gage Skidmore via Flickr Fox News has sent a cease and desist letter to former host Tucker Carlson demanding that he stop producing videos for a program he began on Twitter earlier this month after his ouster from the right-wing network in April.

A gun-making far-right extremist who said minorities should be shot and accidentally blew up his kitchen while experimenting with explosives has been convicted of terrorism offences.Bungling Vaughn Dolphin filmed himself in a gas mask surrounded by a choking cloud of smoke, after attempting to blend a blast mixture in a saucepan, on a domestic hob.

A podcast host on trial accused of stirring up racial hatred has claimed the content of his show was not racist.James Allchurch, 51, from Pembrokeshire, is on trial at Swansea Crown Court charged with 15 counts of distributing audio material to stir up racial hatred over a two-year period.Radio Aryan, since renamed Radio Albion, was described as highly racist, antisemitic and white supremacist in nature by prosecutors.

Officials have failed to correct a false claim in a major counter-terrorism report that there have been no far-right attacks in recent years.The Independent Review of Prevent concluded that the intervention scheme should be recalibrated to focus more on Islamists, rather than other ideologies that currently take up a greater portion of its work.

The United States Military Academy at West Point will start removing Confederate symbols from its campus, including taking down a portrait of Gen. Robert E. Lee dressed in his Confederate uniform from the academy's library, officials said.Over the next year, West Point will also remove, relocate, modify or rename busts, memorials, streets and buildings named after Confederate figures as part of a directive from the Department of Defense.

From NPR's Books We Love list, we hear about three novels and a collection of short stories: "Less Is Lost,""The Confessions of Matthew Strong,""If I Survive You," and "Thank You For Listening."DANIEL ESTRIN, HOST: There were a lot of great new books this year, too many to keep track of.

Last week, the former president of the United States and current leader of the Republican Party sat for dinner with a famous anti-Semite and a far less famous but somehow more vile white supremacist.It's an enormous controversy and one with vast political implications: the meeting has exposed fissures within the GOP and significantly altered the political calculus for 2024.

Welcome to Best of Late Night, a rundown of the previous night's highlights that lets you sleep  and lets us get paid to watch comedy.Here are the 50 best movies on Netflix right now.Kanye West visited Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago last week, bringing along a white supremacist and Holocaust denier, Nick Fuentes.