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Washington state rep Matt Shea secretly backed and organized terror-training camps to create child soldiers to fight in a race war

Leaked emails reveal that Washington state rep Matt Shea has "close ties" with Team Rugged, a white nationalist/Christian fundamentalist terror organization that trains children, teens and young men to fight in an apocalyptic race-war against Muslims and communists.

In a leaked email, Team Rugged leader Patrick Caughran describes its mission as "[providing] patriotic and biblical ...

Google tells U.S. House it spends ‘hundreds of millions’ on content review each year, found +1M ‘terrorist videos’ on YouTube in Q1 2019

Alphabet, parent company of Google and YouTube, told a U.S. House panel that it spends hundreds of millions of dollars on reviewing content each year, and claims to have identified at least one million “terrorist videos” on YouTube in the first quarter of 2019.

Alphabet/Google/YouTube disclosed this information to lawmakers in an April 24 letter ...

The weird grift of “sovereign citizens”: where UFOlogy meets antisemitism by way of Cliven Bundy and cat-breeding

Since the 2008 financial crisis, the "sovereign citizen" movement/conspiracy theory (previously) has grown by leaps and bounds, thanks to a combination of the rise of antisemitism (long a dogwhistle in the movement, now out in the open), an increase in financial desperation and a sense of betrayal, and the movement's ability to realize real ...

What we know about explosive devices sent to Democratic targets

Authorities from the FBI, NYPD, and New York Mayor Bill De Blasio gave an update to reporters today in New York about the series of explosive devices sent to former presidents and public figures, and the news network CNN.

Here's a loose summary of what we know, after their briefing on Thursday afternoon, 3-4pm Eastern time.

At ...