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Imprisoned Ukrainian Director Oleh Sentsov Wins Sakharov Prize
via alekesy godin The 2018 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought has been awarded to Ukrainian director Oleh Sentsov, who is serving 20 years in a Russian prison on terror charges that are widely seen as politically motivated.
Bomb Sent to Robert De Niro, Latest in Wave of Explosives Sent to Trump Critics – The New York Times – Is InfoWars claiming “false flag” yet and the other right wingnut talking heads?
(8/9) “There were twelve people in my family before the…

(8/9) “There were twelve people in my family before the genocide. I’m the only one who survived. We recovered eight of the bodies. And we buried the bones we were able to find. I didn’t trust anyone after the genocide. Even when I was rescued by the Rwandan Patriotic Front, I wouldn’t take the food I was given. I thought it might be poisoned. So I’d eat raw food from the fields. I was losing so much weight but I didn’t care. People looked at me like I was a statue. They assumed my emotions were frozen. They knew my family was dead, and didn’t want to ask me questions. So I held it all in for decades. Who could I talk to anyway? In a nation of one million victims, how do I begin to tell my story? There’s been too much tragedy for everyone. Some people lost their arms and legs. Other people were raped and given HIV. What makes my story worth telling? Who am I? Why should I ask for sympathy? And who would I even ask? So I never asked anyone. I’ve never asked anyone for a thing. I don’t want anyone to take care of me. I don’t want people to celebrate my birthday. Or cook for me. Or tell me sweet words. I’m fine with giving love. But I can’t accept it. Because I don’t want anything that can ever be taken away.”
(Butare, Rwanda)
Russia should release theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov
A critic of the Russian authorities, Kirill Serebrennikov has been under house arrest since 23 August 2017 on dubious charges of defrauding the state.
Megyn Kelly Faces Rift With NBC After ‘Blackface’ Remarks
The NBC News chairman Andrew Lack condemned her comments at a staff meeting, and three network stars publicly criticized the “Today” show host.
Debunking 5 Viral Images of the Migrant Caravan – The New York Times
Images of injured police officers went viral after being posted to right-wing Facebook groups such as Trump Train, Make America Great Again, and the Diamond and Silk Fan Page. They have also gotten thousands of retweets on Twitter. The caption on one Facebook post read, “Mexican police are being brutalized by members of this caravan as they attempt to FORCE their way into Mexico.” Several Mexican police officers, along with migrants and journalists, have been injured in caravan-related incidents, according to reports citing United States and Mexican officials. But these are old photos unrelated to the caravan. One widely shared photo, of a bloody police officer, was taken in 2012 at a student protest in Mexico, and was on the website of the European Pressphoto Agency.
Donald Trump sees terrorists everywhere, but not under his own nose | Richard Wolffe

The US president has been quick to paint the migrant caravan approaching America as a grave threat, but is muted on liberal figures being targeted
This blunt-spoken White House, best known for its smash-mouth president, doesn’t usually shy away from fightin’ words. Just this week a tough-talking Donald Trump declared himself a nationalist, accused Democrats of organizing mobs, and dismissed Puerto Rico’s entire leadership as inept.
Which makes it so glaring when Team Trump tiptoes so gingerly while talking about a series of pipe bombs. Normal people call a coordinated series of bombs something as simple as terrorism. This White House calls them “terrorizing acts”, presumably performed by actors rather than terrorists.
4 Members of Violent White Supremacist Group Face Riot Charges, Federal Authorities Say
Federal authorities announced riot charges against four members of the Rise Above Movement, a violent white supremacist group based in California. The charges relate to assaults carried out at protest rallies in California and Charlottesville, Virginia.
The charges against four men — Robert Rundo, Robert Boman, Tyler Laube and Aaron Eason — come weeks after four other Rise Above Movement members or associates were indicted on riot charges in Virginia, accused of engaging in violent assaults during the infamous “Unite the Right” rally in the summer of 2017. Only Rundo, Boman and Laube had been arrested as of Wednesday afternoon.
The four men indicted in Virginia have not entered pleas in the case.
ProPublica and Frontline have been reporting on the Rise Above Movement since late 2017, and the U.S. attorney in Virginia noted that work.
The government’s accusations, made public on Wednesday against the four men, are laid out in a criminal complaint signed by an FBI agent who specializes in domestic terrorist groups.
“Through my training and experience,” the agent wrote, “I am familiar with terrorist organizations’ methods of operations, including their use of social media to communicate regarding coordination of strategic ideological goals, recruit and radicalize individuals, and coordinate violent extremist activities.”
The complaint then asserts that the four men, as part of the Rise Above Movement, planned and carried out attacks in three California cities as well as Charlottesville in 2017.
“The defendants used the Internet to coordinate combat training in preparation for the events,” the complaint states, “to arrange travel to the events, to coordinate attendance at the events, and to celebrate their acts of violence in order to recruit members for future events.”
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Rundo, one of the men arrested this week, had been identified by ProPublica and Frontline as the founder of the group. He is a native of New York City who had deepened his white supremacist leanings during a stint in state prison in New York.
The complaint asserts that investigators used the men’s social media and private communications, as well as videos and other material created by the group itself, to document specific acts of violence in Huntington Beach, San Bernardino and Berkeley, all in California, as well as Charlottesville.
In Huntington Beach, for instance, Laube is accused of assaulting a journalist at the rally; Rundo and Boman are also identified as having punched, kicked or otherwise set upon people at the rally on March 25, 2017.
It was not clear on Wednesday if the four men charged most recently had retained lawyers, and they could not quickly be reached for comment.
Identifying the Members of RAM
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61,000 Adams County voters are still missing ballots (and other voting problems around Colorado) – The Colorado Sun
Twenty-five percent of the county’s ballots are Adams County’s “#1 priority” after sitting in a truck for a week
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