Ryan Saavedra

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The Right Blames Everything But Right-Wing Extremism for Poway Synagogue Attack

This is the first installment in an occasional series about the dynamics between the political right and the white nationalist movement. A 19-year-old man entered a synagogue in Poway, California, on Saturday and started shooting, killing one person and injuring three others, including a rabbi.

Right-Wing Media Amplify Iowa Student’s Killing As Cohen And Manafort News Breaks

As the news broke yesterday that former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on multiple counts while President Trump’s former personal attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to multiple separate crimes—including campaign finance charges that appear to implicate the president—the di

This Dishonest Smear Of Chris Cillizza Proves How Petty Right-Wing Media Have Become

Chris Cillizza, arguably one of the most frequently ridiculed CNN pundits on Twitter, posted an animated image yesterday in which a software glitch briefly depicted President Trump in the middle of a set of green crosshairs.