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Back to Scandinavia:

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:37:13 +0000

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Back to Scandinavia:

Muhammad Rafiq, septuagenarian hero who choked out an armed Nazi until that Nazi learned he was not, in fact, a member of any master race https://t.co/6GR7JL3qYn
— REIGN OF TERROR is coming (@attackerman) August 11, 2019

BTW, though at first glance this tweet might seem to be from anonymous nutsy twitter users:

User REIGN OF TERROR is coming is actually reporter Spencer Ackerman.

The original tweeter, Khasif M. Chaudry, M.D., is Cardiac Electrophysiologist |Human Rights Activist |Recipient, Presidential Service Award |Writer, Blogger @ HuffPost

And Spencer's retweet was brought to my attention by Sheera Frenkel retweeting it, who is Cybersecurity reporter for the New York Times. She's the only one of the three I follow.

Mho, this summary tweet puts

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 20:09:55 +0000

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Mho, this summary tweet puts the U.S.'s problem as regards the issue very succinctly and correctly:

There is clear evidence that violence by white extremists is an undeniable and intensifying problem. But the question of how the government should attack domestic extremism, especially white supremacists, remains politically fraught under President Trump. https://t.co/fVgKTWVjxP
— NYT Politics (@nytpolitics) August 11, 2019

Far-right homicide events are

artappraiser — Sun, 11 Aug 2019 19:43:32 +0000

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Far-right homicide events are particularly violent — they are four times more likely to involve multiple victims than an average homicide event. https://t.co/77A9bFXEuU
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) August 11, 2019