‘Fox & Friends’ on Tying Alleged Synagogue Shooter to Trump: ‘He Didn’t Even Own a MAGA Hat’ - The Daily Beast

The president's cable-news allies say it's unfair to tie Trump's conspiratorial rhetoric to the synagogue mass shooting because the neo-Nazi alleged gunman wasn't full MAGA. ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-friends-on-tying-alleged-synagogue-shooter-to-trump-he-didnt-even-own-a-maga-hat

Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 31, 2018

Interview:
https://youtu.be/dhxhvZ-v-3w

Robert Reich: The Truth About Trump's Economy

https://youtu.be/BYWEIufMjUM

Shep Smith vs. the rest of Fox News: Migrant caravan edition

Shep Smith has repeatedly shut down the rest of Fox News' lies about the migrant caravan, stressing that all of the heartless fearmongering is just a strategy to scare Republicans before the midterms....
https://youtu.be/y1iVYfOjf2Q

Just when you thought the White House couldn’t get any more offensive - The Washington Post: Opinion

Adding insult to injury and death. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/30/just-when-you-thought-the-white-house-couldnt-get-any-more-offensive/

No, both sides don't do it - Daily Kos

Republicans got defensive after a week in which the objects of Donald Trump's merciless derision and dehumanizing attacks became the targets of two of his deranged followers who sought to commit carnage in service of the venom they had been fed. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1808514

Sarah Sanders has a knack for lying - The Washington Post: Opinion

Another shameful display of anti-press venom. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/30/sarah-huckabee-sanders-has-a-knack-for-lying/

Trump complains of different news coverage of him compared to Obama after S.C. church massacre - The Washington Post

The president's comments came during a Fox News interview in which he also said the media did not dwell on another shooter's connection to Sen. Bernie Sanders. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-complains-of-different-news-coverage-of-him-compared-to-obama-after-sc-church-massacre/2018/10/30/e6782186-dc2d-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

Mike Pence sparks outrage after appearing with “Christian rabbi” in Michigan - Vox

Rabbi Loren Jacobs prayed for comfort for the Pittsburgh shooting victims — and for Republican candidates to win. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/30/18042224/mike-pence-christian-rabbi-loren-jacobs-messianic-jews

Kellyanne Conway: Trump and White House staffers are the victims in synagogue massacre - Raw Story

Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway took to Fox News Monday morning to defend President Donald Trump after many across the nation have been expressing outrage over his handling of two national tragedies last week.....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/kellyanne-conway-trump-white-house-staffers-victims-synagogue-massacre/

Parkland Congressman calls Trump 'coward' for refusing to keep his promise about background checks - Raw Story

A Democratic congressman who represents Parkland, Florida unloaded on Donald Trump for suggesting the Pittsburgh synagogue where a shooter killed 11 people should have had armed guards — and for failing to keep his promise on universal gun background checks. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/parkland-congressman-calls-trump-coward-refusing-keep-promise-background-checks/

Hero pilot and Republican 'Sully' Sullenberger blasts Trump — without saying his name - Raw Story

In a Washington Post op-ed, the hero pilot who saved 155 lives when his plane crash-landed on the Hudson River in 2009 blasted America's "absence of civic virtues" — and blasted Donald Trump without naming him. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/hero-pilot-republican-sully-sullenberger-blasts-trump-without-saying-name/

'Trump's Reichstag Fire': Ex-GOP operative Steve Schmidt explains why Republicans have 'blood on their hands' - Raw Story

In a fiery interview with MSNBC's Chris Hayes, former GOP operative Steve Schmidt compared last week's right-wing terror attacks to the rise of Adolf Hitler and explained the Republicans' role in the rising tide of white supremacist violence. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/trumps-reichstag-fire-ex-gop-operative-steve-schmidt-explains-republicans-blood-hands/

Fox News Commentator Says Migrants Are Carrying Smallpox, a Disease Eradicated in 1980 - The Daily Beast

'They're coming in with diseases such as smallpox and leprosy and TB [tuberculosis] that are going to infect our people in the United States.' ....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-news-commentator-says-migrants-are-carrying-smallpox-a-disease-eradicated-in-1980

Republicans Have Cut Taxes on the Rich, Increased Them on the Middle Class - Mother Jones

So how are those tariffs going, President Trump? When President Trump placed tariffs on imported aluminum last spring in an effort to protect American producers, European rivals thought their U.S. profits would come under pressure. But months later European aluminum companies have yet to feel much pain. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2018/10/republicans-have-cut-taxes-on-the-rich-increased-them-on-the-middle-class/

Trump can refuse to accept asylum applications - The Hill

Nolan Rappaport says people mistakenly believe that asylum seekers have a right to apply for asylum in the United States. ....
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/413470-trump-can-refuse-to-accept-asylum-applications

Trump wants to see the death penalty come “into vogue” again. He’s wanted that for years - Vox:

The president has a long-standing fascination with capital punishment. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/28/18032438/trump-death-penalty-pittsburgh-shooting

Lost pregnancies at a Verizon warehouse show the urgent need for a Pregnant Workers Fairness Act - Daily Kos

In a Tennessee warehouse supplying Verizon customers with their phones and tablets, pregnant women are routinely worked to the point of losing their pregnancies, lifting boxes up to 45 pounds through long shifts in heat that can reach more than 100 degrees. And there is no law that says their employer can't do this to them. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1806367

Trump Stump Speeches: Health Care - FactCheck.org

President Donald Trump has made health care — in particular a "Medicare for All" plan proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders — a main theme in his campaign rallies across the country. ....
https://www.factcheck.org/2018/10/trump-stump-speeches-health-care/

Israeli police arrest Coptic priests protesting at Church of the Holy Sepulchre - Mondoweiss: Video

On Wednesday Israeli police removed Coptic priests holding a sit-in at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City and arrested one. The clergy were protesting a renovation dispute that arose because the historic site's roof is nearing collapse. ....
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/10/israeli-protesting-sepulchre/

Religious Freedom May Now Include Discrimination Against Jews and Muslims - Rewire.News - Religion Dispatches

South Carolina governor Henry McMaster moved to protect Miracle Hill and other agencies that want to to discriminate against Jews and others and continue to receive government funding.....
https://rewire.news/religion-dispatches/2018/10/25/religious-freedom-may-now-include-discrimination-against-jews-and-muslims/

Canada passed a carbon tax that will give most Canadians more money | Dana Nuccitelli - the guardian

By rebating the revenue to households, disposable income rises, which can be a boon for the Canadian economy ....
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2018/oct/26/canada-passed-a-carbon-tax-that-will-give-most-canadians-more-money

How to Make Halloween Truly Scary

A holiday tip to turn the tables on Satan, from Mrs. Betty Bowers and "Bringing Integrity To Christian Homemakers" -- now with captions for people who can't see! Glory!...
https://youtu.be/65TuTUsfaVQ

The GOP mailed wrong information to voters in a Senate battleground. They say it was a mistake - The Washington Post

The committee told reporters that the error was not intentionally included on the mailer and that it plans to correct the mistake.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/25/gop-mailed-wrong-information-voters-senate-battleground-they-say-it-was-mistake/

Vatican releases its own 'Pokémon Go' app that lets you chase Jesus and it's just as unbelievable as it sounds - Business Insider

Pope Francis is reportedly a fan of the game. The Vatican has released a game called "Follow JC Go" based on the augmented reality game "Pokémon Go." Rather than chasing Pikachu and Squirtle, the Vatican version involves collecting saints and other Biblical figures. Once players "catch 'em all," their spiritual squad becomes an "evangelization team" that follows Jesus together. ....
https://observer.com/2018/10/pokemon-go-catholic-church-jesus-follow-jc-go-pope-francis-millennials/

Cartoon: Just another week in hell - Daily Kos

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1807929

Tax reform's broken promises on full display in latest GDP report | TheHill

Despite the promises of massive increases in business investment if we cut corporate tax rates, the American people instead are seeing a slowing in business investment growth while deficits increase and companies handout stock buybacks and dividends like Halloween candy....
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/413637-tax-reforms-broken-promises-on-full-display-in-gdp-report

Fox's Shep Smith rips Trump rhetoric on caravan: 'There is no invasion' - The Hill

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith on Monday accused President Trump of exploiting the "migrant caravan" in order to stoke anxieties ahead of the Nov. 6 midterm elections. ....
https://thehill.com/media/413732-shep-smith-rips-trump-rhetoric-on-migrant-caravan-there-is-no-invasion-no-one-is-coming

Fox News Is Now Saying, Without Evidence, That The Migrant Caravan Might Spread "Diseases" - BuzzFeed News

"We have diseases in this country we haven't had for decades."...
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/talalansari/fox-news-migrant-caravan-disease

Top Republican tries to deflect incitement of hatred, violence away from GOP and on to Nancy Pelosi - Daily Kos

Less than 24 hours after what's probably the deadliest attack on Jews in the nation's history, the incredibly odious Sen. John Cornyn, the number two Republican in the Senate, tweeted this: ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1808158

Trump resumes tweeting about caravan conspiracy theories that apparently inspired Pittsburgh shooter - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump resumed tweeting baseless conspiracy theories about a migrant caravan that is traveling north from Central America on Monday morning, less than 48 hours after an anti-Semite who reportedly promoted similar conspiracy theories on social media murdered 11 people in a Pittsburgh synagogue. ....
https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-twitter-migrant-caravan-pittsburgh-shooting-robert-bowers-gab-f5f412c1a7ab/

How Trump and Republicans wield the politics of victimhood - The Washington Post: Opinion

Even an anti-Semitic hate crime is an opportunity to say that they and theirs are the real victims. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/29/how-trump-and-republicans-wield-the-politics-of-victimhood/

In the Wake of the Pittsburgh Massacre, Sarah Sanders Gaslights America - Mother Jones

It was not surprising. Giving the first White House news briefing in weeks, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued the predictable words: "The American people reject hatred, bigotry, prejudice, and violence." But President Donald Trump has not rejected any of that. The case is undeniable—except Trump and his minions keep denying it. ....
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/10/in-the-wake-of-the-pittsburgh-massacre-sarah-sanders-gaslights-america/

2 pastors just heckled Jeff Sessions at an event on religious liberty - Vox

They told him "you are wounding the body of Christ" by failing to care for marginalized. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/29/18039194/jeff-sessions-religious-freedom-heckled-event-pastor-methodist

Enough platitudes: Let’s name names - The Washington Post: Opinion

Let's end the lazy thinking and the moral denseness. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/29/enough-platitudes-lets-name-names/

Republican strategist begs America to reject Trump's nationalism: ‘The president needs to be punished’ - Raw Story

In a Monday appearance on MSNBC, Republican strategist Rick Tyler practically begged Americans to exercise their right to vote, saying that President Trump "has failed the test of leadership" in the wake of last week's mail bomb attacks and synagogue massacre, and needs to be punished at the polls. .....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/republican-strategist-begs-america-to-reject-trumps-nationalism-the-president-needs-to-be-punished/

Trump calls Florida Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum a ‘thief’ without citing evidence - The Washington Post

The president's tweet sought to contrast Gillum's credentials with those of Republican hopeful Ron DeSantis.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-florida-democratic-gubernatorial-candidate-andrew-gillum-a-thief-without-citing-evidence/2018/10/29/e19b7cce-db8a-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

Robert Bowers' synagogue attack is only one of 18 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated

President Donald Trump is a terrorism-generating machine. In one week, America has been hit by three separate terrorist attacks directly connected to his sowing of division and promotion of violence....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/robert-bowers-synagogue-attack-one-16-cases-white-supremacist-killings-since-trump-inaugurated/

Fox News host: 'Anti-Semitism from the left' is the real cause of hateful attacks on Jews - Raw Story

Fox News host Rachel Campos-Duffy on Sunday blamed "the left" for the rise in hate against Jews in America. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/fox-news-host-anti-semitism-left-real-cause-hateful-attacks-jews/

What is Gab? Everything you need to know about the breeding ground for the alt-right - Daily Kos

Robert Bowers, the suspected gunman in the massacre at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, reportedly killed 11 people and wounded six others when he entered the place of worship Saturday morning. "All Jews must die!" he reportedly yelled while shooting at random. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1807909

Trump, hours after preaching unity, ridicules Democratic bomb target - POLITICO

The president had pledged Saturday "to fight for a future of justice, safety, tolerance, morality, dignity and love." ....
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/28/hours-after-preaching-unity-trump-ridicules-democratic-bomb-target-944017

Robert Bowers' synagogue attack is only one of 16 cases of white-supremacist killings since Trump was inaugurated - Raw Story

Far-right terrorism is a feature, not a bug, of Trump's presidency ...
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/robert-bowers-synagogue-attack-one-16-cases-white-supremacist-killings-since-trump-inaugurated/

The slaughter in Pittsburgh was not ‘unimaginable.’ It was inevitable - The Washington Post: Opinion

The cause is a climate in which the sentiments of white nationalists and other hate groups are no longer suppressed.....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/10/27/the-slaughter-in-pittsburgh-was-not-unimaginable-it-was-inevitable/

Campaigning Republicans Suddenly Embrace Pre-Existing Conditions

The same Republicans who voted to repeal Obamacare in its entirety are now on the campaign trail defending certain elements of the ACA....
https://youtu.be/mhTGam9p7eM
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Michael Moore releases footage of mail-bomber suspect Cesar Sayoc at Trump rally - The Washington Post

Trump has denied that he inspired Cesar Sayoc, but footage released by Michael Moore depicts a fervent supporter. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2018/10/29/michael-moore-releases-footage-mail-bomber-suspect-cesar-sayoc-trump-rally/

How Russian money and influence slipped through cracks in the US legal system - Vox

The 2010 Citizens United decision helped open the door to foreign influence in US elections. ....
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/25/18016212/russian-meddling-dark-money-influence-2018-midterm-elections-citizens-united

Rick Wiles Says Democrats Can't Wait To 'Spill Blood In America' - RWW News

Rick Wiles says Democrats cannot be allowed to gain power in America because if they do, they will immediately slaughter tens of thousands of Christians....
https://youtu.be/YAjcWfhAsH0

Michigan Woman Denied Miscarriage Medication Spotlights the Danger of Religious Refusals - Rewire.News

Rachel Peterson says a Michigan pharmacist refused to fill a prescription for misoprostol to treat her miscarriage because of a religious objection to abortion....
https://rewire.news/article/2018/10/19/michigan-woman-denied-miscarriage-medication-spotlights-the-danger-of-religious-refusals/

China and Russia listen in on Trump's personal phone calls: NYT - The Hill:

U.S. spy agencies have determined that Russia and China are eavesdropping on President Trump's personal phone calls in order to gain information that they can use to influence American policy, according to a New York Times report. ....
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/413044-china-and-russia-listen-in-on-trumps-phone-calls-nyt

GOP school board member busted for Facebook plot to accuse the 2020 Dem presidential nominee of sexual assault - Raw Story

Two groups have called for the immediate resignation of a South Carolina Republican school board member for writing on Facebook that she intends to falsely accuse the eventual 2020 Democratic presidential nominee of sexually assaulting her. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/10/gop-school-board-member-busted-facebook-plot-accuse-2020-dem-presidential-nominee-sexual-assault/

Meet the Next Ted Cruz - POLITICO

In November, Chip Roy is likely to be elected to Congress. Top House Republicans worry that he'll be to the right of the Freedom Caucus. ....
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/23/chip-roy-house-freedom-caucus-221737

Why faith leaders and the federal government will be in court this week defending the tax code | Deseret News

The Rev. Tuesday Jane Rupp's new job came with an interesting perk: an invitation to live in an 181-year-old house. Like many faith communities, her new employer, Saint Paul's Episcopal Church in Woodbury, Connecticut, owns a parsonage and offers it to rectors as part of their compensation package....
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900038235/why-faith-leaders-and-the-federal-government-will-be-in-court-this-week-defending-the-tax-code.html

Top U.S. & World Headlines — October 29, 2018

Interview:
https://youtu.be/l1vVUN4dUgk

Pence: Don’t link political rhetoric to Pittsburgh synagogue shooting - The Washington Post

On Sunday morning shows, some urged a stronger response from Trump, others a more measured tone. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-dont-link-political-rhetoric-to-pittsburgh-synagogue-shooting/2018/10/28/df466f10-dab3-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

Trump's bewildering new tax cut proposal is 'the height of cynicism' and an admission the GOP tax law failed politically - Business Insider

The GOP was counting on the GOP tax law passed in December to be a cornerstone of their midterm election strategy. But the bill is wildly unpopular, and most Americans believe it benefits the wealthy and corporations. Many analysts believe President Donald Trump's unexpected promise that another tax cut is on the way is an admission that the first tax bill "has failed politically." ....
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-cut-proposal-gop-law-midterm-elections-2018-10

New Russian hacks raise alarms in US - The Hill

Russian hackers have recently been linked to cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure in other countries, raising concerns about the nation's ability to target U.S. utilities. ....
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/413430-new-russian-hacks-raise-alarms-in-us

Lying Republicans are topping their old Obamacare lies with their new pre-existing conditions lies - Daily Kos

We're used to Republicans lying about health care. They've been doing it for eight years now. First, when it was "repeal and replace," they insisted they had a plan for replacing the Affordable Care Act. After year after year in which they offered no plan, they kind of just focused on the "repeal" part. Then when forced to put up by the popular vote loser getting into the White House, they scraped together some bits and pieces and said it was a replacement. ....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1807460