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"A close reading of the Justice Department’s charges Monday afternoon against 31-year-old Cole Allen hint that he didn’t fire any weapon at all.
In fact, it’s not clear from what we know that this was a 'shooting' at all. ...
Here is what to me is a more likely scenario than what the government is telling us so far:"
~ Garrett M. Graff
#WhiteHouseCorrespondentsDinner #WHCD #violence #shooting #DOJ #ColeAllen
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Is the Justice Department lying about Saturday's "shooting"?
A central point of the government's case doesn't add up.Garrett Graff (Doomsday Scenario)
Will Bunch thinks that what happened at the White House Correspondents Dinner "went beyond metaphor for a depraved and decadent America." ...
"Despite the dull surprise of more gunplay in a nation where firearms outnumber human beings, it does seem odd that so many in the black-tie crowd wanted to keep eating after a man with a long gun nearly burst into their ballroom. Or maybe not."
#WHCD #Trump #media #violence #guns
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Gunfire of the Vanities: Trump dinner shooting defines a violent, unserious America
Another Trump assassination try leaves dinner guests wanting to party on, in a laughingstock America, numb to violence.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
Following what happened at last night's White House Correspondents Dinner, Marcy Wheeler points to a valuable "Breaking News Consumer's Handbook" from WNYC's On the Media. The handbook is in the image below.
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Dinner and a Show: What Isn't Being Discussed after WHCA 'Nerd Prom' - emptywheel
A threat of gun violence at the annual "nerd prom" has co-opted all the attention media was paying to other critically important topics. Convenient, hmm?Rayne (emptywheel)
"There can be no denying that violence surrounds this regime. …
We also need to recognize that there was violence in that room last night long before shots were fired. And the reporters who had gathered to mingle with members of the regime, for a night that I suppose, in their view, represented a mix of entertainment and obligation, were, by showing up, helping to normalize trauma, suffering, and death on an epic scale."
~ Elliot Kirschner
"He has incited violence against members of the media at rallies, and he kicked off the celebration of the United State’s 250th anniversary in Des Moines, Iowa last July 4th by declaring hatred for Democrats and others who would not support his dramatic cuts to nutrition assistance and healthcare."
"At a press conference back at the White House, Trump claimed he felt 'everyone coming together' before the shots were fired and called for unity in response to the gunman’s actions. But Trump has spent a decade exploiting every possible fault line to divide Americans."
~ William J. Barber II and Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Nonviolence or nonexistence
Why this moment requires a moral escalation of our demand for peaceWilliam J. Barber, II (Our Moral Moment w/ Bishop William Barber & Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove)
"We must not allow the corporate media nor even members of the Democratic elite to bully us into not asking questions. While the facts surrounding the shooting are still being gathered as I write this on Sunday morning, there are many questions raised that demand answers.
For starters, we should be suspicious of any and everything involving Trump."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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When it comes to the WHCD shooting: Ask questions and demand answers!!
If not, Trump will try worse in November!Dean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
For more commentary on last night's White House Correspondents Dinner, see:
Ben Meiselas:
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Lucian K. Truscott:
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Norman Eisen and Carlos Eduardo Espina:
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Aaron Parnas:
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Political Humor:
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#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Norm & Carlos LIVE after the White House Correspondents Dinner Shooting
Norm Eisen & Carlos Espina update us from the ground after the WHCD shootingNorman Eisen (The Contrarian)
"The whole grotesque spectacle was supposed to be a celebration of press freedom. Instead, it became a case study in institutional self-abasement.
Then came the shooting. ...
Both last night and this morning, these journalists congratulated each other all over social media for rushing to the White House to cover their own assassination attempts. They should hang their heads in shame instead, based on what happened inside the briefing room."
"The old media order dressed up for a banquet and discovered that its own credibility was on the menu. ...
They showed up to preen and party anyway.
They put on gowns and tuxedos, smiled for cameras, and clinked glasses. They feted the president who has made attacking them central to his political identity. They feted the president who has made attacking them central to his political identity."
~ Julie Roginsky
"In response to a question about why Trump thought attempts on his life happened so frequently—a reminder: there is as yet no information about what the man’s plan or motives were—he responded that assassins come for 'impactful people' and boasted of how much he has done for the country."
"'It’s actually a larger room, and it’s much more secure. It’s got— It’s drone proof. It’s bulletproof glass. We need the ballroom. That’s why Secret Service, that’s why the military are demanding it. They’ve wanted the ballroom for 150 years for lots of different reasons, but today’s, uh, a little bit different, because today, we need levels of security that probably nobody’s ever seen before.'”
"Trump took to the podium a little after 10:30. Referring to the threat of a shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner—which has never happened before—he said: 'I will say, you know, it’s not a particularly secure building, and, uh, I didn’t want to say this, but this is why we have to have all of the attributes of what we’re planning at the White House.'"
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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April 25, 2026
Tonight the White House Correspondents’ Association (WHCA) held its annual black-tie dinner, which is designed both to raise money for the institution and to provide a glitzy night out for journalists.Heather Cox Richardson (Letters from an American)
"The problem with having a criminal President who promotes conspiracy theories, incites an insurrection, & lies habitually about everything and is enabled by an entire political and media movement that does the same is that after a while, people don’t believe him and create their own narratives."
"He also used the shooting to promote his ballroom (bunker) and MAGA, of course, blamed 'the left' and said this is why Congress should fund DHS, and by extention secret service.
Unfortunately, STAGED was already trending on Twitter before we received all of these details."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media #staged
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Behold The Ridiculous, Unbearable, God-Awful Trauma Theater in the Aftermath of The WHCD Shooting
A nation must prepare itself for a nauseous, self-congratulatory display of awfulness & gaslighting that will emanate from the corporate press class & Trump Administration following the WHCD shooting.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"When the president was asked at a press briefing late Saturday why he’s been targeted by several attempted gunmen now, Trump said he’s 'studied assassinations,' and they often target 'the most impactful people' and 'the big names.'
'I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot,' he said. 'We’ve changed this country, and there are a lot of people that are not happy about that.'”
~ Andrew Perez and Asawin Suebsaeng
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Trump Evacuated From White House Correspondents Dinner
Secret Service reportedly apprehended a gunman at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday evening.Andrew Perez (Zeteo)
"There is a close relationship between Trump and violence — not just the attempts on his life but also the violence he’s unleashed on the world, the violence his ICE and Border Patrol agents have caused inside America, the violence he has incited among his followers."
~ Robert Reich
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Sunday thought: Last Night's Correspondents Dinner
Fear and Loathing in Trump's WashingtonRobert Reich
"My first thought wasn’t shock.
It was recognition.
Because I had spent the better part of this Saturday documenting exactly how we arrived at a place where something like this could feel — in the most sick and twisted way imaginable — not just possible but almost inevitable."
~ Kristoffer Ealy
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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Corporate Media Chaos: Trump, the WHCD Shooting, and the Future of the Free Press
“Don’t trust empty promises from billionaires driven by greed and corrosive ideology.”Kristoffer Ealy (Lincoln Square)
(continued from /1)
"the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol and the killings of the former Minnesota house speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the rightwing activist Charlie Kirk. Political violence is rampant and on Saturday, in a fancy Washington ballroom, Trump and the media glimpsed the edge of the abyss."
"For a decade I have been following the twists and turns of Donald Trump’s America with the privilege of journalistic distance. On Saturday night I felt the darkness come viscerally close. ...
The past 10 years have witnessed a shooting at a congressional baseball practice, a deadly white supremacist march in Charlottesville," (continued in /2)
~ David Smith
#Trump #WHCD #shooting #violence #media
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I’ve covered Trump for a decade. At the White House correspondents’ dinner, darkness came viscerally close
Men in tuxedos and women in dresses dove under tables, like a scene from a dozen Hollywood movies, but now it was happening to meDavid Smith (The Guardian)
The #SPLC previously paid informants to infiltrate #extremist groups & gather information on their activities, often sharing it with local & federal law enforcement, Fair said. It was used to monitor threats of #violence, he said, adding that the program was kept quiet to protect the safety of informants.
#law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism #PoliticalViolence #CivilRights
“When we began working with informants, we were living in the shadow of the height of the #CivilRights Movement, which had seen bombings at churches, state-sponsored #violence against demonstrators, & the murders of activists that went unanswered by the justice system,” Fair said. “There is no question that what we learned from informants saved lives.”
#law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #WhiteSupremacy #MaleSupremacy #heterosexism #racism #sexism #WhiteChristianNationalism
#House #Republicans hosted a hearing centered on the #SPLC in December, saying it coordinated efforts with President Joe Biden’s Democratic admin “to target Christian & conservative Americans & deprive them of their constitutional rights to free speech & free association.” [only if they’re planning or performing acts of #violence & then all they do is report them & publish articles about them… so???]
#law #Trump #DOJ #DomesticTerrorism #extremism #heterosexism #racism #sexism #PoliticalViolence
"Media coverage of violence against women and girls and misogynistic harassment is at a 'pitiful' low, despite a proliferation of high-profile cases of men abusing women and children, and a rise in AI-assisted violence against women and girls, new research shows."
~ Sarah Johnson
#misogyny #women #femicide #violence #ViolenceAgainstWomen #media
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Media coverage of violence against women reaches ‘dismal’ low, report finds
Analysis finds stories citing terms of misogynistic abuse fell to 1.3% of global online news in 2025Sarah Johnson (The Guardian)
An 86-year-old Frenchwoman who spent 16 days in #US #immigration “#detention” [concentration camp] returned to #France Friday.
The French foreign affairs minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, announced the return of Marie-Thérèse Ross-Mahé to reporters Friday morning, saying “there were acts of #violence” in her case that concerned the French government.
#law #immigration #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #Trump #Republicans #heartless
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"For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself 'secretary of war,' read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship service at the Pentagon on Wednesday (April 15) to bless the U.S. war against Iran and call for 'great vengeance and furious anger.'”
~ Brian Kaylor
#Trump #Hegseth #war #Iran #Pentagon #death #destruction #violence #HolyWar
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Hegseth Borrows Violent Prayer from ‘Pulp Fiction’ to Bless Iran War at April Pentagon Worship Service
For the second month in a row, Pete Hegseth, who likes to call himself “secretary of war,” read a violent prayer — that echoes a scene in the Quentin Tarantino film Pulp Fiction — during a worship service at the Pentagon on Wednesday (April 15) to bl…Brian Kaylor (A Public Witness)
"It feels like something shifted in the United States this week after President Donald J. Trump threatened on Tuesday that 'a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.'”
#Trump #war #WarCrimes #death #destruction #chaos #violence #Republicans #MAGA #MadKing #MentalHealth
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"We are witnessing a profound shift in the way power is exercised and performative violence is consumed. On one of the holiest days of the Christian calendar—Easter—the discourse was not one of resurrection and hope, but of 'war crimes' and 'hell.'”
~ Danielle Moodie
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #violence #Easter #WhiteChristianNationalism
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The Golden Calf of 2026
Market Manipulation, Militarized Borders, and the Death of the American SoulDanielle Moodie (The DAM Digest)
"An absolute insane person. My god."
~ Sarah Longwell quoted by Greg Dworkin
P.S. Are we really going to play the purist CW labeling games — US Pol — when the fate of the WHOLE WORLD is at stake as a madman with his hand on the nuclear button threatens to rain down destruction on a nation he's targeting?
Do we really have the luxury of that kind of purism right now?
#Trump #Iran #war #death #violence #destruction #NuclearWeapons #WarCrimes
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dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/6/…
Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: Trump's unqalification to lead is on full display
G Elliott Morris/Strength in Numbers: Why Democrats are suddenly winning back the left — and the "double-haters" Plus, the share of Americans calling themselves Republicans just hit a decade low. Your weekly political data roundup for April 5, 2026..Daily Kos
How in the World Was the Supreme Court’s Awful Conversion Therapy Ruling 8–1?
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Conversion Therapy Violence? Yes please
- SCOTUS
#SCOTUS #USA #ConversionTherapy #Violence #Lawfare #Fascism #ReligiousExtremism
How in the World Was the Supreme Court’s Awful Conversion Therapy Ruling 8–1?
The Supreme Court delivered a major blow to one of the triumphs of the LGBTQ+ rights movement on Tuesday.Mark Joseph Stern (Slate)
