The New York Times, “Trump’s Lies”
FEB. 3 “Professional anarchists, thugs and paid protesters are proving the point of the millions of people who voted to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” (There is no evidence of paid protesters.) Continue Reading
New York Magazine, “Jon Ossoff Pulls Ahead in Polls As the GOP Tries to Link Him to Kathy Griffin”
The message, which is about as subtle as a 5 a.m. jackhammer, is that any Republican who doesn’t bother to vote against Ossoff will be enabling “childish radicals” (an allusion to Ossoff’s youth, which apparently makes him suspiciously similar to the window-smashing anarchists in the ad) to destroy the country. Continue Reading
New York Magazine, “Paul Ryan Super-PAC Tries to Tie Jon Ossoff to Kathy Griffin Video”
Yet he’s lumped in with her, along with images of Michael Moore and sundry window-breaking, car-burning, trashcan-spilling anarchists, as “angry liberals” who “have gone too far” in their determination to foist Ossoff on the clean-living suburbanites of the sixth district. The fact that Ossoff has nothing to do with any of these people— certainly not […]
CBC, “Chelsea Manning’s controversial journey to freedom”
June 3 – July 30, 2013: During his military trial at Fort Meade, Md., the prosecution brands Manning an anarchist whose leaked files ended up in the hands of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda’s communications arm, saying the collaboration with WikiLeaks was earlier and much less passive than the defence claims. Continue Reading
.Mic, “Trump once funded a conservative provocateur now trying to pay for inauguration violence”
The attempt bribing people to incite violence is a small part of a larger conservative attempt to paint anti-Trump protesters — particularly on Inauguration Day — as violent anarchists looking for a fight. Along with conservative op-eds about angry anarchists, there is evidence suggesting organizers for the alt-right planted a “Rape Melania” sign at an anti-Trump […]
The Atlantic, “The American Leader in the Islamic State”
In late 2003, Yahya and Tania traveled to Damascus for an extended honeymoon, living there furtively and quietly associating with other jihadists. Their existence mirrored that of many young radical tumbleweeds of yesteryear: Black Panthers, Baader-Meinhof gangsters, fin de siècle anarchists. They dodged the authorities and lied to anyone who inquired about their activities. Continue […]
Smithsonian SmartNews, “The Sticky Science Behind the Deadly Boston Molasses Disaster”
Though an anarchist terrorist attack was first blamed for the calamity, investigators soon pointed at the holding tank’s shoddy construction. But the question has remained, why did the molasses explode as a wave and not just slowly drip out of the tank? A group of students at Harvard investigated the event and presented their conclusions at recent […]
Washington Examiner, “Trump to meet with with fiery anti-Obama sheriff, 7 others on Monday”
Among them are Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke, who rose to prominence this year as an outspoken critic of the Black Lives Matter movement. He has called the group an “anarchist movement” and a “hate group” and said President Obama “set this whole country on fire with his race politics.” Continue Reading
The Washington Post, “Sen. Sasse, here are some answers to your questions about ‘paid rioting’”
“Why don’t we have more reporting on paid rioting?” Well, it’s probably important that we take a step back and point out that there isn’t any good evidence that the people who are protesting (and who shouldn’t be called “rioters,” save that crew of self-described anarchists in Portland, Ore.) are actually being paid to do […]
KATU Portland, “About 30 people arrested in last week’s protest appear in court”
Many of the protesters said they’re a part of Portland’s Resistance, a group of peaceful protesters who say their events were hijacked by anarchists. “Those people need to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,” Kevin Grigsby, who was arrested Saturday, said. “How is that the anarchists are in more control than we […]