Inside the race to develop a vaccine for our other pandemic: Hate
A little-noticed group of government-funded researchers is developing a clever inoculation against the disinformation and violence threatening American democracy.
By David Scharfenberg Globe Staff,Updated February 5, 2021, 3:01 a.m.
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The coronavirus vaccine rollout, however chaotic, has been cause for optimism; we can all hope that COVID-19 will soon lose its power.
But itâs hard to be sanguine about the course of our other pandemic: hate. The storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 was a shocking display of extremismâs reach.
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Democrats Slam Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Over Reports of Violent Rhetoric By Rachel Tillman Nationwide UPDATED 5:23 PM PT Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:50 PM PT Jan. 27, 2021 PUBLISHED 12:50 PM PST Jan. 27, 2021
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Newly-elected Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene has quickly emerged as a lightning rod of controversy in Congress.
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Earlier this week, CNN reported that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had expressed support for executing Democratic lawmakers on social media in 2018 and 2019
Greene said CNN s work amounted to a hit piece and claimed she often was not the person in charge of running her Facebook pages
Several prominent Democrats, including Georgia Sen. Rev. Raphael Warnock and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, have called for Greene s removal from C
email Raphael Warnock Reflects On 2017 Capitol Arrest As He Walks Into His New Office On At The Same Site
The 51-year-old pastor became the first Black senator from Georgia after winning a special election in January.
Published January 23rd
Raphael Warnock’s no stranger to “good trouble.”
The newly-inaugurated first Black senator from Georgia took to Twitter on Friday (January 22) and reminisced about a semi-recent arrest for his activism.
Warnock, who was elected to the Senate on January 5, tweeted pictures of himself standing in-front of his new Senate office at the Capitol and captioned it with a subtle flex.
“The last time I was here in 2017, Capitol police were escorting me to central booking for leading a non-violent protest of an immoral budget,” Warnock writes. “This time they just had to show me to my office.”