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  • Date Issued: Friday, August 13, 2021 02:00 pm ET
    View as PDF: National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - August 13, 2021 (pdf, 2 page, 234.89KB)
    Summary of Terrorism Threat to the U.S. Homeland

  • Through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority for the United States. These extremists may seek to exploit the emergence of COVID-19 variants by viewing the potential re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks. Pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions, driving several plots by domestic violent extremists, and they may contribute to more violence this year.
  • Historically, mass-casualty domestic violent extremist attacks linked to RMVEs have targeted houses of worship and crowded commercial facilities or gatherings. Some RMVEs advocate via online platforms for a race war and have stated that civil disorder provides opportunities to engage in violence in furtherance of ideological objectives. The reopening of institutions, including schools, as well as several dates of religious significance over the next few months, could also provide increased targets of opportunity for violence though there are currently no credible or imminent threats identified to these locations.

https://www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisory/national-terrorism-advisory-system-bulletin-august-13-2021
 
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Where Police Killings Often Meet With Silence: Rural America

Officers in rural areas fatally shot about 1,200 people from 2015 through 2020, while in cities there were at least 2,100 such deaths, according to the news organizations’ analysis of data compiled by The Washington Post; no comprehensive government database exists.

The data analysis found that, although the rate of rural police shootings was about 30 percent lower than the urban rate when adjusted for population, the rural incidents mirrored many of the dynamics of police shootings that have come under scrutiny in cities.

And even as deadly police shootings declined in cities and rural communities during this time, according to the analysis, the rural decrease was more modest: about 9 percent versus 19 percent.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/us/police-shootings-rural.html
 
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'Your child will wait for another child to die.' Amid Covid-19 surge, Dallas County has no pediatric ICU beds left, county judge says
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"That means if your child's in a car wreck, if your child has a congenital heart defect or something and needs an ICU bed, or more likely if they have Covid and need an ICU bed, we don't have one. Your child will wait for another child to die," Jenkins said. "Your child will just not get on the ventilator, your child will be CareFlighted to Temple or Oklahoma City or wherever we can find them a bed, but they won't be getting one here unless one clears."

The judge added no ICU beds have been available for children for at least 24 hours. The Texas Department of State Health Services told CNN the shortage of pediatric ICU beds is related to a shortage in medical staff.

"Hospitals are licensed for a specific number of beds and most hospitals regularly staff fewer beds than they are licensed for. They can't use beds that aren't staffed. With the increase in COVID cases, hospitals are experiencing a shortage of people to staff the beds that they are licensed for," department spokesperson Lara Anton said in an email, adding that staffing agencies in the state are working on recruiting medical surge staff from across the US.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/y...ic-icu-beds-left-county-judge-says/ar-AANim8Z
 
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South Carolina county GOP censures Sen. Lindsey Graham after he voted for $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill

The local party, which is based in one of the most solidly Republican counties in the state, said Graham "consciously violated the platform of the South Carolina Republican Party" in censuring the four-term senator, alleging that he "opened the door for additional Chinese investment in American projects" which would heighten "the threat to our national security."

https://news.yahoo.com/south-carolina-county-gop-censures-150949294.html
 
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MAGA begins to realize Dave Chapelle had it right...

Students’ plea to block Indiana U. vaccine mandate rejected by Justice Barrett

Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett yesterday rejected a request to block Indiana University's requirement that students be vaccinated against COVID-19.

"The case, Klaassen v. Trustees of Indiana University, was the first test of COVID-19 vaccine requirements to arrive at the Supreme Court," SCOTUSblog wrote. "The rule at the center of the case, announced in May by the university, requires all faculty, students, and staff to be vaccinated unless they qualify for a medical or religious exemption. Eight students went to federal court to challenge the constitutionality of the mandate, but on July 18 a federal district judge in Indiana rejected their request to block the mandate, and the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit declined to put the mandate on hold while the litigation continues."

Students challenging the mandate asked for an emergency injunction that would block it, but the docket says that the application was "denied by Justice Barrett." Students claimed they have "a constitutional right to bodily integrity, autonomy, and of medical treatment choice in the context of a vaccination mandate" and that the university "is treating its students as children who cannot be trusted to make mature decisions." Barrett "rejected the plea without even asking the university for a response or getting her colleagues to weigh in," the Associated Press wrote.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy...first-scotus-test-of-a-covid-vaccine-mandate/
 
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Don’t Be a Schmuck. Put on a Mask.

Generations of Americans made incredible sacrifices, and we’re going to throw fits about putting a mask over our mouth and nose?

By Arnold Schwarzenegger

Earlier this week, I delivered a simple message: There is a virus here. It kills people. The only way you can prevent it is to get vaccinated, wear masks, and do social distancing.

Some people are complaining, “Well, my freedom is being kind of disturbed here.” Well, I told them, “Screw your freedom.” You have the freedom to wear no mask. But if you exercise that freedom, you’re a schmuck—because you’re supposed to protect your fellow Americans.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/08/schwarzenegger-schmuck-mask-vaccines/619746/
 
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Mississippi 8th Grader Dies With COVID Hours After Gov. Reeves Downplays Child Cases

An eighth-grade girl died this morning in Raleigh, Miss., mere hours after testing positive for COVID-19. Multiple sources told the Mississippi Free Press that the student attended classes at the school most of the week, including Wednesday, before testing positive for COVID-19 at week’s end. Her health quickly declined afterward.

Classes began in the Smith County School District, where she attended school, on Aug. 6. Unlike last year when Gov. Tate Reeves mandated masks in all public schools, the district decided in June that it would “allow” students and educators to bring face masks to school but would not require them. Photos posted on school Facebook accounts on the first day show maskless students walking through the hallways in close proximity.

But as students and employees in the school district tested positive within the first three days of classes, the school district reversed course. “After much consideration for the welfare of our children, Smith County Schools will require all personnel and students to wear a mask,” the district announced on Aug. 10. By Friday, at least 76 students and 11 educators had tested positive; 411 students and 11 educators were quarantined by that point.

https://www.mississippifreepress.or...hours-after-gov-reeves-downplays-child-cases/
 
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