The far-right Proud Boys group, whom Donald Trump refused to denounce this week, have been linked to assaults on protesters, white supremacist organizing, the spread of Covid misinformation and other threats against Americans.

Emily Gorcenski has been tracking them every step of the way.

Since 2018, the 38-year-old data scientist has been exposing members of the far right and cataloguing white supremacist violence across the US through her site, First Vigil. The project grew out of the attack on her Charlottesville, Virginia, community the year prior – the deadly Unite the Right rally, which brought Gorcenski face to face with neo-Nazis bearing torches and swastikas, shouting racist and transphobic vitriol at her. One of her attackers was later revealed to be an active service US marine.

Using court files and other public records, the anti-fascist researcher has catalogued hundreds of criminal cases, connected the dots of dangerous neo-Nazi networks, and revealed links that journalists and authorities have missed. These days, it can be difficult to keep up. Far-right violence has escalated dramatically under Trump, who has ignored his own government’s domestic terrorism warnings and encouraged vigilante violence against leftists.

For her safety, Gorcenski has relocated to Berlin, where she has some distance from the US white supremacist threats and the groups she investigates.

The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02800-9

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/michigan-sheriff-suggests-men-charged-with-governor-s-attempted-kidnapping-could-have-been-planning-a-citizen-s-arrest-instead/ar-BB19Sfql

Again, your lack of concern for your students, based on your ignorance, is astounding.

Gotta say: I don’t believe you about your lack of political indoctrination of them. That’s purely a probability statement: nothing you’ve said in the past has been true, so any reasonable classifier would place your recent statement in the “bull****” bin.

And no, we don’t have political discussions in the statistics or modeling courses. They do have to suffer through my nearly bottomless bag of puns, but that’s about it.

The stripper in this story is the Emperor, his acolytes still think he is booted and suited but in reality what we see is not a pretty sight. I suspect Melania wears a mask too, over her eyes.

Most Republicans continue, like Trump’s doctors, to act as enablers in all this. Especially eye-catching was a tweet from infected senator Mike Lee of Utah, arguing that democracy was less important than liberty, peace and prosperity – and that sometimes “Rank democracy can thwart” those goals. Few Republicans dare echo the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, who rather generously described Trump’s increasingly unhinged ramblings as evidence that “he’s in an altered state”.

And yet, the admission by the Republican leader in the senate, Mitch McConnell, that he had not gone near the White House since 6 August because of the administration’s lax approach to masks and social distancing, was striking. Now, McConnell is not a man to speak without prior thought: unencumbered by scruples, he is a political calculating machine. And what that remark suggests is the calculation that Republicans need to distance themselves from a president they suspect is heading towards defeat.

Covid-19 has unmasked the true nature of Donald Trump and Trumpism

Although for those of a rational disposition it did not need Covid to show us the truth.

They’re not required to wear masks, nor socially distance. The person most at risk is me, and I just don’t think they’re capable of spreading. Even if they were older, there is plenty of ventilation.

Discussions of BLM, police and Joe Biden haven’t come up in my curriculum.
Strange that you would think I would bring up these things. Is this what you do in your classes?

One would hope so dean, however as has been pointed out armed gangs have infiltrated the ranks of law enforcement.

True, but: they apparently have these “very good people” (trump’s view of these groups) recorded discussing plans to blow up one or more bridges as a distraction from the kidnapping and having other members of “militias” arrayed to execute the police and first responders who arrived. That type of direct threat probably won’t be taken well.

Also — notice that mikeN is not at all dismayed by the plans of his fellow trump supporters: he is upset that they’ve been caught and could well be punished.

Yes, they are motivated, as are you and rickA, by racism and the lie that BLM and antifa, are “terrorist groups” when they are simply ideologies. People who believe in the ideas behind BLM and antifa do, however, recognize that racism, white supremacy, bigotry — the things you, rickA, and trump’s core in general all support, are bad things.

“Lucky the FBI caught them before you guys could get the police defunded.”
Why am I not surprised that
a) You have no idea what the “defund police” idea is
b) Despite your ignorance you spout messages implying that it means eliminating police. Your dishonesty spreads over everything doesn’t it?
c) You are trying in your general message to tie Biden to the notion when he’s said he doesn’t support it.

“My question is, when they went to arrest them, did they have Joe Biden’s recommended psychologists on hand?”
Christ, you are really an asshole in your misrepresenting things.

It’s scary enough that you admitted you have no problem endangering kids by not requiring them to wear masks (and we still don’t know what kind of blithering asshole would trust kids to your care in the first place). It’s worse to realize that the type of filth you spew in these comments is being pushed on the kids in your “care”.

It’s an anarchist group that is against government and police. They are motivated by BLM and antifa as by Trump.

Lucky the FBI caught them before you guys could get the police defunded.

My question is, when they went to arrest them, did they have Joe Biden’s recommended psychologists on hand?