cities like charleston and pittsburgh and el paso and christchurch in new zealand that have been tragically been victimized by racist rampages and violent extremism fueled by racial hatred. the conversations across this country today do nothing for the families of the victims. they do not erase their pain or ease their horror of the loved ones violent deaths, but at least we have a quorum willing to acknowledge the problem. the ideology that fuels saturday s mass shooting no longer sits on the absolute fringes of our society. ten people were gunned down, three others injured at a supermarket by a shooter who traveled more than 200 miles to target a predominantly black neighborhood in buffalo, new york, a shooter who according to police this morning would have continued with his rampage if he had not been stopped and arrested by police. 11 of the 13 victims were black. the dead range in age from 32 years old to 86 years old. the shooter wrote a lengthy, in which he was inspir
it is 4:00 new york. it is not every day that a former president of the united states is in a courthouse. much less as a defendant in the case that threatens to bring down the entire brand that he used to propel himself into office in the first place. today, donald trump was back in court in the $250 million civil fraud trial in new york. before walking in, trump lashed out as he so often does at the judge, the trial, at the new york attorney general who brought the lawsuit. he did not mention judge engoron s clerk, who has been a frequent target of his, he remains under a gag order that prohibits him from talking about court staff. inside the courtroom, accounting expert eli bartov took the stand and testified that in his expert opinion the attorney general s claims of a years long pattern of fraud, manipulating the values of trump s real estate assets were baseless. there is no evidence whatsoever for any accounting fraud, he said. dold trump was reportedly visibly pleased.
Conspiracy that white people are being replaced out of the dark, dank corners of the internet. as the new york times puts it, replacement theory once confined of reddit message boards and semi-obscure white nationalist sites has gone mainstream, in sometimes more muted forms the fear crystallizes of a future america in which white people are no longer the numerical majority has become a potent force in conservative media and politics where the theory has been borrowed and re-mixed to attract audiences, re-tweets and small dollar donations. that has become gospel for parts of the republican party. from the post, quote, representative elise stefanik, the number three house republican and other gop lawmakers came under scrutiny sunday for previously echoing the racist great replacement theory that inspired an 18-year-old who allegedly killed ten people while targeting black people at a supermarket in
It s the choice between majority rule and team hypocrisy, the republican party that believes in tyranny of the minority. every single decision they do, whether it s they don t believe in science, they don t think telling the truth is an important value anymore. they don t think protecting the common good in communities is an important value anymore and there is only one party that believes in those things and that s the choice americans have to make. that s the choice i ve made in this and that s why i m running especially against somebody like dan patrick who basically runs the state senate here like a dictator and done everything in his power to hurt the majority of texans. so that s the choice today. look, we talk about these things all the time. i want to continue to discuss him because you and i have talked many times about your concerns of the gop and racerac racer earlier this month. on the fox propaganda network promoted the racist great replacement theory. how did that play
Do, whether it s they don t believe in science, they don t think telling the truth is an important value anymore, they don t think protecting the common good in communities is an important value anymore, and there s only one party that believes in those things. and that s the choice americans have to make. it s the choice i have made in this, and that s why i m running especially against somebody like dan patrick who basically runs the state senate here like a dictator. and has done everything in his power to hurt the majority of texans. so, that s that s the choice today. look. we talk about these things all the time. and i want to continue to to discuss him because you and i have talked many times about your concerns about the gop and race. earlier-this month, the current lieutenant govern, dan patrick, that you were just talking about went on the fox-propaganda network. promoted the racist great replacement theory. how did that play into your decision? or did it play into your