Hatewatch Headlines 4/23/18

CNN: Travis Reinking, the suspect in the weekend’s mass shooting in Tennessee, called himself a sovereign citizen last year when he tried to gain access to the White House grounds.

Washington Post:  Has the alt-right peaked? Is it imploding?

Orange County Weekly: The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) is playing a role in getting California cities to opt out of the “Sanctuary State” law.

Think Progress: A look at ties between Russia and the far-right and the National Rifle Association in the United States.

Mercury News: California man faces hate crimes for allegedly having “kill lists” of prominent Jews.

The Guardian: Blackface is free speech at Cal State, but anti-Bush tweet is not.

Slate: Facebook shouldn’t count on artificial intelligence (AI) to fix its hate speech problems.

The Daily Beast: Attorney Jason Lee Van Dyke, who has represented the alt-right Proud Boys, sues a man who’s trying to get him disbarred for racism.

Huffington Post: California lawmakers are considering a bill to make selling or advertising gay conversion therapy a violation of the state’s consumer fraud laws

Public Radio International: They spewed hate. Then they punctuated it with the president’s name.

Newsweek: Why are Richard Spencer and David Duke still on Twitter?

Washington Post : Is it a coincidence that Trump uses the language of white supremacy?

Daily Beast: Alex Jones protégé, Paul Joseph Watson, is about to steal Jones’ crown as king of the conspiracy theorists.