“You have to remember that – whether you’re Christian, whether you’re Jewish, whether you’re Muslim – in your fundamental belief documents, there is that sense of ‘I was a stranger, and you welcomed me.’” https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/religion-politics-texas-annunciation-house-migrant-aid-catholic-organizations/

"...severe weather events have traditionally attracted misinformation and conspiracy theories, but that the modern information ecosystem now makes it easier for outlandish claims to find audiences who are often anxious for explanations." https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/extreme-weather-forecasts-get-better-warnings-struggle-cut-rcna173311

Morning Briefing: America First Legal Foundation, a nonprofit right-wing litigation group, is reportedly advancing the legal theory that judges can throw out election results over 'failures or irregularities.' https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-right-wing-legal-group

🧵Capitol Riot Map Updates

Nearly 1,500 people have been arrested for participating in the January 6th Insurrection. Use this interactive visualization to explore connections of rioters to extremists groups, conspiracy theories, and elected officials: https://capitolriotmap.com

The R.N.C. Asked a Conspiracy Theorist to Train Poll Watchers. Here’s What He Told Them. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.html

Conspiracy Theorists and Vaccine Skeptics Have a New Target: Geoengineering https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/climate/geoengineering-conspiracy-theorists-skeptics.html

Teach the Conflicts: It’s natural—and right—to foster disagreement in the classroom https://theamericanscholar.org/teach-the-conflicts/

“In a single afternoon last week, schools in Tennessee, South Carolina, Minnesota, Ohio, Florida, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Texas, Michigan and Maryland all received threats.” https://www.axios.com/2024/09/24/bomb-threats-schools-closures-evacuations

Months After Biden’s Promise to Pardon Thousands of LGBTQ Veterans, Only 8 Have Applied https://thewarhorse.org/few-lgbtq-veterans-apply-for-bidens-promised-pardons/

“On his own website, Trump doesn’t just appear unfit for the highest office in the land; he seems small, embittered, and under the influence of the kind of online outrage that usually consumes those who have been or feel alienated by broad swaths of society.” https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/09/trump-truth-social-posts/680003/

Morning Briefing: David Bloyed, who has connections to the White Supremacist neo-Nazi group Goyim Defense League (GDL), was charged for allegedly threatening 'to lynch' a District Attorney in Tennessee. https://www.radicalreports.org/p/morning-briefing-neo-nazi-threats-tennessee

“Why is it the responsibility of women to remove ourselves from public space, in order to be safe from threats and violence? Telling victims or those at risk of abuse to get off social media just gives free rein to the perpetrators. It does nothing to stop them.” https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/musk-block-function-twitter-online-abuse/

"In his writings, lynchings transform into a symbol of a heroic counterrevolution aimed at redeeming civilization from the realization of one of America’s deepest fears: an interracial democracy." https://lithub.com/how-the-work-of-thomas-dixon-shaped-white-americas-racist-fantasies/

"...the Trump-Vance team is sharpening the anti-immigrant nativism that fueled the former president’s initial rise to power in 2016, seizing on scare tactics, falsehoods and racial stereotypes." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/22/us/politics/trump-vance-nativist.html

The Anti-Semitic Revolution on the American Right: How Jews became collateral damage in a Republican power struggle https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/09/anti-semitism-american-right-wing/679992/

Capitol Riot Map Updates

Nearly 1,500 people have been arrested for participating in the January 6th Insurrection. Use this interactive visualization to explore connections of rioters to extremists groups, conspiracy theories, and elected officials: https://capitolriotmap.com

This Week's Recommended Reading on Substack: Jared Yates Sexton, Melissa Ryan, Steven Beschloss, Parker Molloy, Derek Beres, and Jill Filipovic https://www.radicalreports.org/p/recommended-reading-who-they-have-always-been

Fake news was invented 500 years ago – we must learn from its history https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/fake-news-invention-witch-hunt-history-for-tomorrow-book-roman-krznaric/

Not “Three-Fifths of a Person”: What the Three-Fifths Clause Meant at Ratification https://commonplace.online/article/not-three-fifths-of-a-person/

"...turning to archives to find community, to find examples of the ways that trans people have existed for centuries. Being able to see that kind of continuity really can bolster trans people in the present as we are fighting for our human and civil rights." https://daily.jstor.org/preserving-history-at-the-digital-transgender-archive-with-portico/