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</font><div><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ads for major brands including Dish, Samsung, and The Wall Street Journal have been appearing on the verified Twitter account of VDare, a leading white nationalist group. </b>Those companies are associating with a site that is largely dedicated to complaining about the alleged danger and inferiority of nonwhites, especially immigrants. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Musk has <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/linda-yaccarino-just-started-twitters-new-ceo-elon-musk-already-destroyed-platform" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">turned</a> Twitter into a nightmare for advertisers, with <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/elon-musks-twitter-continues-favor-right-wing-content-reinstating-dozens-accounts" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">accounts</a> featuring <a href="https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/understanding-antisemitism-on-twitter-after-musk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">antisemitism</a>, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/technology/twitter-hate-speech.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">racism</a>, <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/anti-lgbtq-hate-has-increased-twitter-elon-musk-officially-acquired-company" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">anti-LGBTQ hate</a>, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/musk-attempts-court-twitter-advertisers-new-data-media-matters-provides-insight" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">misinformation</a> thriving on the platform. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/12/06/twitter-ads-elon-musk/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Media outlets</a> and researchers, including <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/under-elon-musk-twitter-running-corporate-ads-alongside-tweets-holocaust-deniers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">Media Matters</a>, have <a href="https://gizmodo.com/twitter-ads-disney-microsoft-nba-neo-nazi-videos-elon-1850549017" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">documented</a> that <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/under-elon-musk-twitter-running-corporate-ads-alongside-tweets-holocaust-deniers" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">corporate ads</a> have appeared next to toxic accounts, including those that promote Holocaust denialism, and <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/twitter/twitter-claims-advertisers-are-returning-most-advertisers-being-publicly-cited-either-never" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">major advertisers</a> have left Musk’s platform. </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The advertisers remaining on Twitter are having their ads placed directly on the accounts of white nationalists, including VDare’s verified account. Information on that account <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007348" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">states</a> that it’s been “verified since February 2023.” (Musk <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-start-paying-content-creators-ads-replies-musk-says-2023-06-09/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">stated</a> in June that “Twitter will start paying creators for ads served in their replies. <b>First block payment totals $5M</b>. Note, the creator must be verified and only ads served to verified users count.</span>”) </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VDare is a <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/vdare" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">white nationalist</a> site and organization. Headlines on its site have <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/vdare/hilton-el-conquistador-cancels-plans-host-upcoming-white-nationalist-vdare-conference" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">included</a>: </font></p><ul dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“One Problem With These Hispanic Immigrants Is Their Disgusting Behavior.” </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Diversity Is Strength! It’s Also…Hispanic Immigrants Taking Over FBI’s Ten Most Wanted.” </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Indians Aren't That Intelligent (On Average).” </font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“America Does Not Need ANY Immigrants From Africa.”</font></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221022061019/https://vdare.com/posts/new-wave-of-failure-migration-ethiopians-on-the-way" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">New Wave Of Failure Migration: Ethiopians On The Way</a>.”</font></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tags on the site <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230530225057/https://vdare.com/publication-tags" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">include</a>: “Immigrant Mass Murder,” “Anti-White Hate Crimes,” “White Guy Loses His Job,” “Birthright Citizenship Reform,” “Minority Occupation Government,” “Disgruntled Minority Massacre,” “Death Of White America,” “Black Serial Killers,” “War On Whites,” “Jewish Fear and Loathing of Donald Trump,” and “Immigrants And Disease.</span>”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It also <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230621190722/https://vdare.com/search?q=%22Great%20Replacement%20update%22" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">runs</a> regular “great replacement” updates</b> designed to warn white readers that they are being replaced by nonwhites. (The so-called “great replacement” <a href="https://www.vox.com/23076952/replacement-theory-white-supremacist-violence" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">conspiracy theory</a> is a white supremacist trope that’s <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2023/05/11/buffalo-massacre-year-later" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">motivated</a> violence, including mass murders.) </font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">VDare has previously <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230301090820/https://vdare.com/posts/a-line-in-the-sand-few-realize-has-been-drawn-elon-musk-calls-out-anti-white-racism-from-u-s-media" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">posted</a> content praising Musk for calling out supposed “anti-white racism from U.S. Media” and responded to his <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/rings-of-power-elon-musk-lord-of-the-rings-tolkien-b2160808.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">complaint</a> about the new<b> <span style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lord of the Rings series</span></b> on Amazon by <a href="https://twitter.com/vdare/status/1566923643870973954" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">tweeting</a>, “Elon Musk is /ourguy.”</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Numerous companies and even the U.S. government have been advertising directly in VDare’s Twitter account. Media Matters found ads for the following while looking at VDare’s feed: </font></p><ul dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; clear: both; list-style: none; padding: 0px;"><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007351" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Alibaba</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007353" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Dish Network</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007354" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Golf Channel/<b>PGA Tour </b>Superstore</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007355" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Hootsuite</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007356" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Samsung</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007357" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">U.S. Customs and Border Protection</b></font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007358" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The Wall Street Journal</font></a></li><li role="presentation" style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.75em; padding-left: 3rem; position: relative;"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/media/4007359" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wimbledon</font></a></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">The advertisement for CBP was an invitation to apply for jobs. Border Patrol has a <a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/secret-border-patrol-facebook-group-agents-joke-about-migrant-deaths-post-sexist-memes" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">history</a> of <a href="https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; text-decoration-line: none; box-shadow: rgba(25, 118, 210, 0.5) 0px -1px 0px inset;">problems</a> with online racism and bigotry in its <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-border-patrols-congress-d2df6bd815d0e8ff42602d8d6bcb2889" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; outline: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: box-shadow 0.15s ease-in-out 0s; box-shadow: rgb(25, 118, 210) 0px -2px 0px inset;">rank</a>S</span>[TWT]</font></p></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></div></div></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><a href="https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/trumps-secret-police-things-are-heading-in-that-direction/"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">https://www.alternet.org/2020/02/trumps-secret-police-things-are-heading-in-that-direction/</font></a></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">no lnx</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Trump’s secret police? Things are heading in that direction</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[President Donald J. Trump speaks with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers coming in for their shift change, after President Trump attended a Roundtable on Immigration and Border Security Thursday, January 10, 2019, at the U.S. Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Written by John Stoehr, The Editorial Board February 18, 2020</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I wrote this morning about the president’s new intimidation of sanctuary cities. He’s deploying 100 CBP agents, including BORTAC, which is a SWAT team for border security. The official goal is increasing deportations by 35 percent, but it’s pretty clear the aim is bullying local law enforcement into cooperating with federal authorities. I set the Times report in historical context, trying to explain, as I see it, how 9/11 sparked a chain reaction leading to what appears to be Donald Trump’s secret police force.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">I end the piece by quoting Jenn Budd, a former Border Patrol agent turned civil rights activist, who reported a conversation she had with a former CBP official</span>. She wrote:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Border Patrol does not believe they are a civilian law enforcement agency. They believe they are kin to the Marine Corps. They do not believe they are accountable to Congress, which is why they have no issues lying to them even while under oath.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">They believe they are only accountable to … presidents like Trump. </span>Border Patrol believes it is not required to answer to local police, FBI, CIA or any other law enforcement agency. They claim to be the “premiere” law enforcement agency, superior to all others. They say they will become a “national police force” to be used by a president to enforce laws even among citizens. (Italics are mine.)</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Check out the whole thing here.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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has been So. Much. Great. climate-change-related coverage across news
outlets large and small this week. Congratulations, <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMuOwyAM_JpyjMAhJBw4VOr2NyIK3hSVQMRjo_z90kSybGlG9njG6IJLTIfaYi6kZkyzswpGQaWkxCpu2TRMxOX5NyGu2nlVUkWy1Zd3RhcXw7lA2UTeCu0IvZYg7IjIhEQY-GA57xmORveCfFVmXa3DYFDhH6YjBiRevUvZ8q2_3-DZat_3zsTGurAY79b2ZIh7F9PSSOK-cpJKYEA5B9GxTsCDA9CBjfefJ7-LG6frAl2ur1y0-bRjK0lq02U1H9Y3dvlaOeHmZG5zrcGVY8agXx7tZbJcqZxPl2NDFXDPHkvBdIHNOQPZijQlG9vNoCwmXKo_owln_wf-NnjI" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlUMuOwyAM_JpyjMAhJBw4VOr2NyIK3hSVQMRjo_z90kSybGlG9njG6IJLTIfaYi6kZkyzswpGQaWkxCpu2TRMxOX5NyGu2nlVUkWy1Zd3RhcXw7lA2UTeCu0IvZYg7IjIhEQY-GA57xmORveCfFVmXa3DYFDhH6YjBiRevUvZ8q2_3-DZat_3zsTGurAY79b2ZIh7F9PSSOK-cpJKYEA5B9GxTsCDA9CBjfefJ7-LG6frAl2ur1y0-bRjK0lq02U1H9Y3dvlaOeHmZG5zrcGVY8agXx7tZbJcqZxPl2NDFXDPHkvBdIHNOQPZijQlG9vNoCwmXKo_owln_wf-NnjI&source=gmail&ust=1569260438347000&usg=AFQjCNHWjXDBPiVZU_yyUI6kWnRHefNYig">Covering Climate Now </a>and all the news teams who’ve jumped on board. (Now, keep it up.)</font></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 1em"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> My biggest praise for a groundbreaking political report goes to <a href="http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkN2OgyAQhZ-m3GEAqdULLprs9jUMwmgnKz8BrPHtF20y4eeQ4cz5jC6whHSoGHIhW4Y0olXi0bFhYMQqaXl_7wnmcU4ATuOqStqAxG1a0eiCwV8NjPfkrWYxabCW2VlyAH6fjeFzb-zU9kLLgZPTZdSbRfAGFHwgHcEDWdW7lJhv7fMmXrX2fW_8ZDzsuTHBVSWGFQuaXI_oHC7psq63Oo2LVFuHnuLiQwJLsWQadk_hg_Y0omZFV4NS89Z-AZopuqhNoZ6ze9f2nOCZYGCD4IJJKbqGN534kUKwO388f1_y2d0kc4to8jblos3fORdJKurizB9v6-ty0rnkCmesu9s8lmMEr6cV7Jdb-YK-OJQjgjozrlAKpK9YYXIx1CLVyYb6p1cWEizbekX21_oPn0iXew" style="color:#1a1a1a;text-decoration:underline" target="blank" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.mg2.substack.com/c/eJwlkN2OgyAQhZ-m3GEAqdULLprs9jUMwmgnKz8BrPHtF20y4eeQ4cz5jC6whHSoGHIhW4Y0olXi0bFhYMQqaXl_7wnmcU4ATuOqStqAxG1a0eiCwV8NjPfkrWYxabCW2VlyAH6fjeFzb-zU9kLLgZPTZdSbRfAGFHwgHcEDWdW7lJhv7fMmXrX2fW_8ZDzsuTHBVSWGFQuaXI_oHC7psq63Oo2LVFuHnuLiQwJLsWQadk_hg_Y0omZFV4NS89Z-AZopuqhNoZ6ze9f2nOCZYGCD4IJJKbqGN534kUKwO388f1_y2d0kc4to8jblos3fORdJKurizB9v6-ty0rnkCmesu9s8lmMEr6cV7Jdb-YK-OJQjgjozrlAKpK9YYXIx1CLVyYb6p1cWEizbekX21_oPn0iXew&source=gmail&ust=1569260438347000&usg=AFQjCNHw0lcDEnWQZ-RvxGt_58Qm_EQLLg">NBC News, for uncovering how the Trump administration ignored and buried research</a>
by its own Customs and Border Protection linking the large number of
Central American migrants coming to the US southern border with the
impacts of climate change on their farms.</font></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 1em"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CBP
found that climate change-driven crop failures are contributing to such
intense poverty and near-starvation on Guatemalans, that fleeing home
to embark on a difficult and dangerous overland journey to the Mexico-US
line seems like a better choice than staying put.</font></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 1em"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“But
inside the Trump White House, that message was largely ignored in both
policy decisions and messaging around what should be done to stem the
flow of migrants,” NBC News reports. “With evidence of a correlation
between acute food insecurity and migration in hand, the Trump
administration instead focused on an agreement with the government of
Guatemala to stem the flow of immigrants through law enforcement means.”</font></p><p style="color:#1a1a1a;font-size:16px;line-height:26px;margin:0 0 1em"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">NBC
sent a reporter to Guatemala to witness and confirm the
climate-change-driven human desperation that the Trump administration
denies and ignores:[vid]</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><a href="https://theintercept.com/2019/08/01/perceptics-hack-license-plate-readers">https://theintercept.com/2019/08/01/perceptics-hack-license-plate-readers</a></div><div>
</div><div>lee fang contractor </div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Border Patrol Official Circulates Article That Deems Our Reporting on Secret Facebook Group a Threat</b></font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">An official who directs a Border Patrol intelligence gathering center sent the article to all top intelligence officials and field offices. The article directly attacks a ProPublica reporter who revealed that agents were posting anti-migrant and misogynistic memes in group for current and former agents.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by Ginger Thompson July 12, 6:06 p.m. EDT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for ProPublica’s Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox as soon as they are published.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A senior Border Patrol official, who directs a key intelligence-gathering center, on Thursday circulated an inflammatory opinion article that blasted ProPublica’s reporting on a secret Facebook group for current and former agents and described the news organization as a threat to the agency and its members.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A link to the article, which specifically castigates ProPublica reporter A.C. Thompson for his articles about the degrading posts in the group, was sent in an email to top intelligence officials at the agency’s headquarters in Washington and to field offices across the country. Sources said other supervisors then shared it widely with agents under their command.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article was widely distributed by Michael E. Powell, director of the Customs and Border Protection’s Northern Border Coordination Center, and comes as the heads of the Department of Homeland Security, the CPB, which it oversees, and the Border Patrol have publicly condemned the Facebook posts and launched investigations into the group.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><span style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large">And the article raises questions about whether internally, agency officials may be having different reactions to the public exposure of anti-migrant and misogynistic posts by some of its agents. On Friday,<b> The Intercept reported that Border Patrol head Carla Provost appeared to have once been a member of the group</b>. She has not commented.</span></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Border Patrol spokesman responded angrily Friday to questions about the significance of a senior intelligence official circulating such an article.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m not going to comment on a third party opinion piece simply because you disagree with it,” said Matthew Leas, a Border Patrol spokesman. “The author isn’t even a CBP employee. Last time I checked, agency responses typically come from the agency…”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Powell did not respond to questions about the email.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article was published on a website called Law Enforcement Today, and was written by a woman named Dawn Perlmutter, who describes herself as an expert on “symbols, symbolic methodologies, atypical homicide and ritualistic crimes.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">It alleges that ProPublica’s reporting about the secret Facebook group, which was known as “I’m 10-15,” was part of an “anti-police information operation” that was “calculated to incite hatred against CBP, ICE and DHS officers, provide party-line propaganda for the media and ignite protests to further political agendas.” And it claimed that Thompson, who broke the story about the Facebook group, “essentially doxed CBP officers,” when he published the posts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Thompson’s byline says he covers hate crimes and racial extremism, when in fact, he perpetuates it,” the piece reads. “His irresponsible reporting incites police hatred and endangers officers’ lives under the guise of social justice.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[Read More</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Border Patrol Condemns Secret Facebook Group, but Reveals Few Specifics]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The agency won’t say how many employees have been disciplined or warned in the ongoing scandal over offensive social media posts.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One agent who received the piece was troubled that an official in charge of an intelligence unit would send it out under his Border Patrol email, and worried that it could undermine trust in the unit’s work.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We need effective intel units that have garnered the trust of agents, the community, and elected officials,” said the agent, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. “Distributing partisan opinion pieces under the guise of intelligence, undermines the credibility of our intelligence department and raises doubt about the intelligence we distribute.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Revealing hateful posts circulated to 9,500 people on Facebook hardly constitutes doxing,” said Richard Tofel, the president of ProPublica. “ProPublica seeks to hold public officials to account, including making sure the Border Patrol lives up to the standards of decency that every American law enforcement agency pledges to live by.”</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The article’s distribution came as the House Committee on Oversight and Reform held a hearing Friday on recent reports about appalling conditions inside Border Patrol detention facilities and the disturbing Facebook posts revealed in ProPublica and The Intercept’s reporting. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, a Democrat, had requested that Kevin McAleenan, the acting chief of the Department of Homeland Security testify at the hearing. But McAleenan did not attend.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Instead, the hearing devolved into a fierce partisan debate with Democratic legislators accusing the Republicans of “manufacturing” the crisis at the border for political gain and Republicans admonishing Democrats for “vilifying” border patrol agents.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div>