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A new report sees multiple U.S. intelligence agencies concluding that domestic violent extremists pose an “elevated threat” to the country in 2021. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released an unclassified summary of their joint comprehensive threat assessment on domestic […]
The distribution of white supremacist propaganda surged across the U.S. last year, as shown in a new annual report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). “Hate propaganda is a tried-and-true tactic for white supremacists, and this on the ground activity is now higher than we’ve ever previously recorded,” Jonathan A. Greenblatt, CEO of ADL, said in […]
The death toll from COVID-19 in the U.S. has reached another sobering milestone. Per an ongoing tally on coronavirus deaths from NBC News, the U.S. has now reached 500,000 deaths as of Sunday. Though the U.S. boasts less than five percent of the world’s population, the country currently accounts for more than a fifth of […]
As we draw closer to a full year of the pandemic here in the States, optimism can be found in the continued rollout of vaccines, despite none of this moving fast enough to bring total peace of mind. In an interview with Savannah Guthrie on Today that aired Thursday morning, Dr. Anthony Fauci—director of the […]
Violent hate crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise in the U.S. and have been for quite some time now. Back in March of 2020, a New York Times piece—featuring interviews with nearly two dozen people—took a hard look at the hate many Chinese Americans were facing while then-president Donald J. Trump repeatedly insisted on […]
Robert Keith Packer, the MAGA cult member who was photographed during the Capitol attack last week wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” hoodie, has been arrested. Packer was arrested Wednesday by federal authorities in Virginia on a D.C. warrant, per a report from CBS News citing a senior law enforcement official. The anti-Semite is now facing federal charges that include […]
A seven-foot fence is being put up around the U.S. Capitol following this week’s violent and ultimately fatal insurrection attempt from MAGA cult members. On Thursday, Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy announced that a seven-foot “non-scalable” fence would be erected around the property and will remain in place for “at least” 30 days. The fence, per a report […]
As we send 2020 off into the ether, we might as well be subjected to a few more collective sighs. Some frontline healthcare workers, despite having priority access and despite fucking science, are apparently declining to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That’s the takeaway from a new Los Angeles Times report, out Thursday, i.e. New Year’s […]
The U.S. will now require U.K. travelers to have a negative COVID-19 test. The requirement, announced late Thursday by the CDC, marks the latest travel-related response to the recently discovered new variant of SARS-CoV-2. “Viruses constantly change through mutation, and preliminary analysis in the U.K. suggests that this new variant may be up to 70 percent […]
California is now the first state in the U.S. to record more than two million COVID-19 cases. In a Los Angeles Times report early Thursday morning, the publication said the two-million mark had been hit in their county-by-county tally of statewide cases. Johns Hopkins University also confirmed the same milestone, reporting on Thursday that the […]
