By David Futrelle
Three white supremacists have been charged with attempted murder after one of them fired at a group of antifascist counterprotesters after a speech by neo-Nazi celebrity Richard Spencer at the University of Florida in Gaineville yesterday.
The Miami Herald reports:
Just before 5:30 p.m., just as protesters outside Spencer’s speech at UF’s Phillips Center were wrapping up, Gainesville police said the trio started heckling some anti-Spencer protesters with Hitler chants, Nazi salutes and threats. At one point, cops said, convicted felon Tenbrink pulled out a gun and the brothers encouraged him to use it.
He fired a single shot that missed the group, police said, then sped off in a silver Jeep. An off-duty Alachua County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted the car 20 miles out of town around 9 p.m. and arrested the group. The Fears brothers are held on million dollar bonds in the Alachua County jail. Tenbrink’s is $3 million.
Surprise, surprise: Two of the three were amongst the alleged “very fine people” marching with their fellow white supremacists in Charlottesville.
Tenbrink, 28, and William Fears, 30, were spotted at Charlottesville, the site of the largest white nationalist gathering in years that erupted in violence. Fears identifies himself on Twitter as “Charismatic leader of a White breeding cult” and tweeted “blood and soil,” the notorious Nazi slogan.
This is terrorism, plain and simple. It’s appalling the story isn’t getting more attention in the media.
Here are some tweets with more details on what happened.
3 white supremacists arrested in Florida for shooting at anti-racism protesters https://t.co/zn6bUBqFK3
— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/efoster_eric/status/921495556790325248
“Kill them”: Three men charged in shooting after Richard Spencer speech https://t.co/gqCXtWSmD3
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) October 20, 2017
And these three aren’t the only violent white supremacists who should be getting a lot more attention from the press — and the cops.
Who are the white supremacists assaulting people at rallies in Berkeley, Charlottesville and Huntington Beach? We found some of them: pic.twitter.com/fL5yzyI8Om
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 19, 2017
A Cali racist group—the Rise Above Movement_is full of violent felons. Law enforcement pays it little attention: https://t.co/8AFZS9HVsO
— ProPublica (@propublica) October 19, 2017
The ProPublica piece is a long one but I think a necessary read for anyone concerned with the rise of a violent fascist movement in US.
— 🏳️🌈Spacedad (@SuperSpacedad) October 20, 2017
My thoughts exactly.
Meanwhile, everyone in the White House continues to lie about Trump’s shockingly callous treatment of a grieving Gold Star mother and the congresswoman who has stood up for her.
Specifically, this entire John Kelly story is fiction. Not one bit of it actually happened. pic.twitter.com/eGSQU0S3wc
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 20, 2017
https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/921452065338953729
Hey @realDonaldTrump I know how much you love calling out FAKE NEWS so here’s your daughter-in-law quoting a transcript that doesn't exist. https://t.co/TheR8FGrWY
— shauna (@goldengateblond) October 20, 2017
"He knew what he signed up for"
Kelly: I told him to say it
DJT: I didn't say it
LaraT: I saw the transcript
Sanders: There's no transcript— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) October 20, 2017
Don TrumpJr. has thrown himself into the fray though he apparently has trouble telling black women apart.
https://twitter.com/kibblesmith/status/921064156610088962
Rachel Maddow has a pretty convincing theory on why Trump doesn’t want to talk about Niger: that the 4 US soldiers died in part as a result of the Trump administration alienating the government of Chad, which pulled its troops out of Niger after Trump put the country (a longtime ally in the war on terror) on his alleged non-Muslim ban list for an extremely stupid reason.
Maddow connects the dots on how Trump adding Chad to his travel ban may have gotten soldiers killed in Niger https://t.co/PYk203GxVM
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) October 20, 2017
In a whole other arena of terrible, things are even worse in Puerto Rico than official reports acknowledge:
Real death toll in Puerto Rico is probably 450 — much higher than official count https://t.co/msCyhMDyyQ
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) October 18, 2017
But our country still has its heroes. Along with Rep. Wilson and all those working diligently to save lives in Puerto Rico, there is this dude:
A man in an apartment on Connecticut Ave. mooned President Trump’s motorcade to the Embassy of Kuwait tonight, per the pool report pic.twitter.com/ifGC8ycXat
— Hunter Schwarz (@hunterschwarz) October 19, 2017
Here are some cute animals because we all need more of them this week. And every week these days, frankly.
everything is terrible so here’s a baby lion cub learning to roar pic.twitter.com/JZpZGj69FJ
— shauna (@goldengateblond) October 18, 2017
https://twitter.com/awwcuteness/status/921260735119970307
https://twitter.com/ItsMeowIRL/status/921245209526132742
@Victorious
re: republi-cants n abortion, the ‘publican’ts want to make abortion illegal, period. They also want to eliminate programs that provide prenatal care, programs that pay for birthing training, birth medical care, pre-school, school, child and adolescent counselling, shall I go on?
But, remember, it’s “ALL ABOUT THE LIFE OF THE CHILD”!!!
I call bullshit… sounds like it’s all about “BROKE, BAREFOOT AND PREGNANT”!!!
It’s all about control.
I think you mean “Kinder, Küche, Kirche.”
Can confirm.
I live in a very low-crime area, but that doesn’t stop people (in a very small town where nobody locks their doors) from just coming in (I’ve had this happen to me a couple of times).
We have a pretty big dog with a big voice. She’s harmless but noisy. I think it’s mainly the noise factor that makes burglars bypass a home with dogs.
@ dreemr
I used to live in the classic isolated cottage at the top of a hill. The door didn’t lock (it didn’t even shut, but I guess that kept the Radon levels down). Anyway, in the bath one day, thought I heard a noise but thought nothing of it. Came downstairs to find some random stranger sat at the kitchen table with my ferocious hound Sassy having her ears scratched.
“Barry Richards?”
“No, he’s the farmer lives the other side”
“Oh, sorry to have bothered you”
(The irony is, drive to the beach and she’d be barking in your ear the entire journey)
@ Alan
I also lived in “the cottage at the top of the hill” for a while, with a 40 min hike through the woods to the next neighbour.
I once got home from a trip to London to discover that someone had broken in, made tea – and done the housework.
Seriously, the cottage was in better condition than it had been all year. I reckon a pair of walkers had broken in and used it as a base for a couple of days. All that was missing was a bottle of wine and a few days worth of firewood.
A person’s stance on abortion is one of those tells for me when it comes to people; the sheer number of consequences that follow forcing a woman to bear a child against her will demands answers to dozens of moral questions. Scratch any anti-choice zealot and dollars to donuts says they haven’t even considered those answers.
I still remember seeing this clip back around the 2008 election:
Like the Jezebel article that linked it said “[the protesters] respond like they were asked to solve quadratic equations.”
(Which incidentally isn’t too tough… it’s just x = (-b +/- (b^2 – 4ac)^(1/2))/2a, where a, b, and c are the coefficients of ax^2 + bx + c = 0.)
Math aside, the only reason these people didn’t consider the ramifications of criminalizing abortion is because they didn’t want to admit to themselves what their crusade actually entails. It demands they deceive themselves, or else they couldn’t look themselves in the mirror knowing what it is they’re doing to people. This is why you have these twits cooking up bullshit about “legitimate rapes” or “fetal pain”; it’s pathetic justification for their real goal (controlling women) which is so unpalatable that they’re too gutless to speak it aloud.
You can tell in that video that gears are grinding in their brains, coming ever so close to that moment of self-awareness. I’d be refreshing if these people really would just come out and say “We want to control women’s bodies!” It would save sooooo much time.
@Alan Robertshaw
I can remember a spate of burglaries at a friend’s student dorm. I don’t recall if they caught the thief, but they worked out, eventually, how they operated. The trick was to walk along a hallway, knocking on doors and then trying the handles of any which had no response, and stealing anything of value if the door was left unlocked, as students are prone to do. If someone answers the door, apologise profusely and say you were looking for Sally Madeupname, and maybe you got the wrong floor or something and leave swiftly. I suspect the trick is not uncommon.
Sitting at the table playing with the resident dog probably isn’t part of it though.
@Alan & @Girl who runs with scissors
When it has happened to me, it’s been someone I “know” (am acquainted with and/or know who they are) but showing up at odd hours and usually very very drunk.
One was, I woke up around 2 a.m. to the sound of someone washing my dishes (clink, clankety clink). Go downstairs to find a woman I barely knew, cleaning my kitchen for me.
One day, I had taken my son and his friend down a few blocks to a baseball diamond to teach them a little hitting and fielding. We came home to find my front door wide open and someone moaning at the back stairs. I sent my son and his friend (they were only 7 or 8 at the time) to another neighbor’s house, and investigated. It was a man who had lived next door to me a few years prior, stinking drunk, crying about his wife having left him.
The funny thing about that incident was, he only lived 2 blocks away. I put him to “bed” on my sofa (he kind of passed out) and took my son out to his grandparents. I came back hours later and he was still snoring on my sofa, HOWEVER, there was an empty cereal bowl and spoon next to him on the floor. Thing is, it wasn’t MY bowl or spoon. The drunken dumbass had woken up, GONE TO HIS OWN HOUSE for cereal, and brought it BACK to my house to eat and fall asleep again. I woke him and told him I would drop him off wherever he wanted but he had to GET GONE, pronto.
There have been other times as well, but those were the most confusing.
Someone was doing that in a nearby neighborhood a few weeks ago. He would walk down the street trying front doors, and if he found one unlocked he would steal stuff. If someone answered the door, he offered to cut their lawn for a fairly cheap fee.
Apparently he did a good job with the lawn cutting, but because of the late hours he was casing neighborhoods, he often would be making this offer in the dark.
He was eventually identified as a known drug addict from a completely different area. I can feel sorry for him in a way, because living with addition is rough, but a lot of that pity goes out the window when I learn that he’s been victimizing mostly older people who are forgetful about their locks.
@ girl who runs & dreemr
I was just about to put something similar. I had a weird thing where it was almost like gaslighting. Just stuff seemed ‘off’ when I got in from work. Cups in a seemingly different place, that sort of thing. Turned out a friend had been down for two days (I hadn’t any occasion to check the spare bedroom). I nearly had a heart attack when I finally encountered her in the house.
@ pie
The only thing of value in that cottage was the dog.
When I was a teenager our house was defended by a big dog with an intimidating bark.
Someone tried to steal her and nearly succeeded because while Afghan Hounds are gorgeous and make lovely family pets, they are also as dumb as a box of rocks and will wander off with anyone. Our cat was a better defender of the family home than our dog was.
@PoM:
Sing it. Anyone know of a good clinic for someone who wants to kick a serious math habit? Asking for a friend who got hooked on some really hard stuff — he started with crystal math, i.e. symmetry groups, but also ended up doing calculus, abstract algebra, even some algebraic topology. 🙂
LOL! My bad!
Irish Setters, too. So, so beautiful. So loving. So, so stupid.
I am guilty of sneaking onto a neighbor’s property once as a child, because doggies made my common sense go out the window even more than they do now.
It was a pitbull puppy, still small and not trained to growl and bark at strangers yet. The poor little guy was left chained to a doghouse. I would pet and cuddle with him, and leave with a thoroughly licked face and an adrenaline rush like I had just shoplifted.
Thing one.
Society is full of problems involving relationships and sex, and insurance tends to not cover sex therapy. It’s like we’re trying to be disfunctional. What’s the fear? I suspect a desire to keep social control of sex in some places and a desire to keep people quiet about sex related problems.
Thing two.
Two hours I left that piece of cookie on the floor to see what would happen. Nope, the janitor has to get it. Of course they might have been waiting to see how long it would take me.
Thing three.
Me + Candy Crush: Meh
Me + Candy Crush * Magic the Gathering-ish (Gems of War): Addicted.
SIX FUCKING WEEKS… SIX. Jesus..
On twitter,
Kristin @KLDVComedy
Replying to @WhyAsk65 @JamesDakinOwens @GOP
This.
This is the plan. It hurts women so they’re in favor of it. Anything they can do to be in control. They don’t single fuck about “innocent babies” – this is the same party with its members who’ve been outed pushing their mistresses to get abortions when they’re pregnant.
@dreemr, heh yeah my mum had an Irish setter when she was a kid then a dalmation, which are also not known for their brain power. Her mum then changed things up by getting a labrador who is tied with my current cat as the most intelligent and good humoured animal I ever knew. Then she got the Afghan but Jemima was too frisky for an now elderly woman so we inherited her. We lived in the highest and coldest town in England and we had a desert dog who needed at least one hours walk a day.
Although in winter, which back then in the late 80’s was around September to Easter I’d have “conversations” with her that went:
Me: “Time for a walk and don’t look like that, you need at least an hours walk a day”
Her: “I bloody don’t”.
Me: “No, you DO, the Afghan Hound responsible users manual says so”.
Her: “You made that up.”
Me: “No, look, c’mon I don’t want to do this either and.. please come out from under the sofa”.
Poor thing, we had a bucket of hot water on standby so I could dunk her paws to get the ice balls that formed between her pads. One year I had the bright idea of basically trimming most of the long hair on her feet and back legs where snow would make her sad. She looked a bit daft, but she felt much better.
Lovely dog but needed so much grooming! Luckily she enjoyed being brushed. Not like my current cat who savages me daily when I run the flea comb over him, although if I surprise him I can usually do most of it before he gets super annoyed now.
The ‘publican’t party consists of two types, plutocrats and xian fundamentalists. The plutocrats care only about funneling money to the mega-wealthy,. The xian fundamentalists care about crushing about non-whites, non-xians, non-heterosexuals and un-subjugated women.
Their politicians are concerned only with making public policy follow these issues, and with not losing their seats to someone further to the right.
@Eddie
FTFY
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@varalys I thoroughly enjoyed that conversation!
@dreemr, cheers! If my circumstances were different I’d love to own a dog again, though I’d probably go for a medium sized pupper like a British Bull Terrier (a neighbour I had for a while had one and she was just the most friendly and happy dog I had known in quite some time) now. But my cat loathes dogs. My dad has a greyhound and I had to break the news that he just can’t bring him over. Biff would never forgive me. But I think I’d want to be living in a house which I am unlikely to be doing in the forseeable future, so having a dog for now remains a fond fantasy.
@Alan, dreemr, girl who, etc.,
I remember seeing an interview with Sorcha Ni Chathain (aunt of the singer Dolores Keane), where she described waking up one night in her farmhouse in the far west of Galway to find four huge fellas standing around her bed! “Come here, missus”, said they (in Irish Gaelic), “we hear you’re a great one for a song!” It transpired they were all somewhat pissed, and just fancied a bit of a sing-song. Poor Sorcha got up, made them sandwiches and tea, and sang for them till about four or five in the morning, at which time the boys all had to go home to milk the cows.
Google wants to use my phone number for more than security. Google asks and presents me with “More options” followed by “I agree”. I was disturbed by the lack of “No” (an option aparently).