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Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images Donald Trump delivered an address Tuesday that made him sound like President of the Confederacy. Trump went on an angry defense of the racists who sparked riots that led to a terror attack and three deaths in Charlottesville this weekend, inaccurately blaming much of the violence on the…
Ok, deep breath. My last day at Polygon will be August 15th. I’ve been deliberating how to write that for literally months, but there it is. I’m leaving Polygon, which I helped to co-found in 2012. I’m not leaving for a job at another outlet, which would be totally fine, or to…
I wanted to get there early because I knew stuff would be popping off. The rally, the actual permitted rally at Lee Park, was not supposed to start until noon. But I couldn’t get there until 11:30. By the time I parked my motorcycle, I had seen through the side streets that the police had…
Read your ebook purchases where and when you want Intrusive DRM often means ebooks you’ve purchased can only be read on one type of device, especially when it comes to the Amazon products like the Kindle Voyage. Here’s how to remove ebook DRM, so you can read your purchases on any of your multiple devices, including…
Depending on who’s defining it, to whom, and why, SB Nation is either a popular website best-known for puckish, irreverent coverage and such whimsical projects as Jon Bois’s 17776, or a sprawling network of “team” or “fan” websites, each tightly focused on a particular topic, like the New York Mets or professional boxing. In either…
WASHINGTON, DC — President Trump, under mounting pressure from the left and right to deliver a more forceful response to the race-fueled riots in Virginia this weekend, called out white supremacists and said “racism is evil.” Trump was widely criticized over the weekend for not denouncing by name the white supremacist groups that planned the…
Tiki Brand said it’s “not associated” with torch-bearing protestors who chanted “white lives matter” at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11. Tiki Brand is distancing itself from white nationalists who used tiki torches in a protest march in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took…
From the August 13 edition of Fox News’ Fox & Friends: Loading the player reg… PETE HEGSETH (CO-HOST): I think the president nailed it. He condemned in the strongest possible terms hatred and bigotry on all sides as opposed to immediately picking a side out the gate. He saluted the police specifically for what they did….
Ku Klux Klan members march in cemetery funeral rites in Chesapeake, Virginia, in 1966.AP The “Unite the Right” gathering wasn’t a Klan rally at all. It was a pride march. In July 2017, the Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society invited members of the press to a private conference to discuss a sensitive pair of items from…
When James Alex Fields Jr.’s mug shot was released after he drove his Dodge Challenger through a counterprotest in Charlottesville on Saturday, no one was surprised by what the image revealed: a young, white man with a neo-fascist undercut. “Alt-right” figures like Richard Spencer absorb nearly all the media glare on white nationalism, creating the impression that…