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Hatewatch Headlines 7/24/2018

Vocal neo-Nazi is charged in black woman’s murder; How ideas go from Infowars to Fox; Idaho man gets 14-year sentence in Bundy standoff; and more.

Kansas City Star (MO): ‘True definition of evil’: Alleged Shawnee murderer is a white supremacist, family says.

The Daily Dot: How far-right narratives travel from Infowars to Fox News.

Boston Review: White supremacy has always been mainstream, as three new history books reveal.

CNN: Georgia lawmaker Jason Spencer is under fire after dropping pants, yelling ‘n-----’ on Cohen’s new TV show.

Las Vegas Review-Journal: Idaho man gets 14-year federal prison sentence for his role in Bundy standoff.

Seattle Times: Assault on Burien’s mayor over city’s sanctuary-city policy is investigated as a hate crime.

Think Progress: Michigan’s attorney general claims that state’s law don’t protect LGBT people from discrimination.

Daily Beast: Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, the far right’s twin trolls, taste their own bitter medicine.

Media Matters: NRATV correspondent pushes white nationalist talking point praising cultural homogeneity on air.

The Intercept: Lawsuit against Project Veritas may shed light on right-wing group’s internal operations.

NJ.com: Babysitters, lawn care and white supremacists: These ads are popping up on community bulletins.

Pacific Standard: Research shows that white mass shooters are treated more sympathetically by the media.

York Daily Record (PA): Man shot, killed while defending black patron from verbal assault at restaurant.

Orlando Sentinel: Orange County killing marks fourth murder of transgender woman of color in Florida this year.

WTOP-TV (Washington, DC): Sex offender gets 33 months for making racial threats against Howard University.

Union-Leader (Manchester, NH): Keene’s ‘crying Nazi’ Cantwell is back in New Hampshire after Virginia guilty plea.

Huffington Post: Facebook let a notorious Russian neo-Nazi profit off its platform for years.

Guardian: How a whistleblower thwarted a neo-Nazi assassination plot against a Labour MP.

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