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Last week, Sesame Street got a new resident in Julia, an orange-haired Muppet with autism. Funny Or Die has envisioned a distressingly realistic possibility for another new Muppet in the form of Stan, a character that aims to educate children on the issues important to the eminently punchable alt-right, a subsection of society identifiable by their dislike of political correctness and admiration for national socialism. Its all a gag, and the real Sesame Street is far too forward-thinking to do anything like this, but they flesh the concept out with surprising depth.

Stan would evoke Bert by way of Hitler Youth, what with his toothbrush mustache and greasy undercut. Stans fire-engine-red shirt proclaims, LOCK HER UP! while the character himself spouts infectious catchphrases like Where are the emails?; So much winning; and Thinking your daughter is hot is fine. His backstory, apparently, involves Stan having run away from home due to his liberal snowflake parents. He was drawn to Sesame Street because its initials are SS, just like the Schutzstaffel, Hitlers paramilitary organization in Nazi Germany.

Being alt-right means that Stan often flails his arms around when someone refutes his bullshit with facts, hypothetical puppeteer Debra Thompson says in the article. His back is often hunched also, as if even gravity hates him and wants to push him directly to hell where he belongs. Its very interesting to control Stan and it also makes me hate myself. You can get many more details on the speculative fiction of Stans trip to Sesame Street here, then spend the rest of the day envisioning how he would shame Cookie Monster, shitpost about Elmo, rail against the companionship of Bert and Ernie, and interrupt the Counts number-counting segments to take his shirt off and drink milk.

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In an oddball crossbreed betweenleftist language and retroanti-Semitic tropes,posters that read End Jewish Privilege appearedonUniversity of Illinois at Chicagos campusearlier this month.

The posters proclaimed, Ending white privilege starts with ending Jewish privilege, followed by an image of a pyramid with Jews at the top and goyim not drawn to scale at the bottom.

Eva Zeltser, a UIC junior, told New Voices, My reaction was basically disbelief. In some ways, I wasnt surprised because of all the active anti-Semitism prevalent throughout college campuses across the country Its really difficult grasping that that kind of hatred is still so real and alive today.

But thats the thing. Whats strange about this poster campaign is it isnt the usual anti-Semitism, real or supposed, that we often find ourselves wrangling about on campus: conflations of Zionism and Judaism or thestraightforward dorm door swastika.

Its this bizarre hybrid between the language of todays left and some of the top ten hits for oldest anti-Semitic stereotypes, now often found onthe alt-right: Jews are money-grubbing, were conspiratorially amassing power, muahaha.

Essentially, this is the mutant half-squirrel half-narwhal of campus anti-Semitism, the Frankensteins monster of campus anti-Semitism You get the point. The parts just dont fit together and the result is an amalgamation of misapplied ideas from different parts of the political spectrum put together haphazardly into one perfectly weird poster project.These posters usea progressive concept, privilege, to ironically marginalize and make other a minority group in the exact same way Jews are beingdiscriminated against byan element on the right.

Justlike mutant narwhal squirrels shouldnt exist, neither should a left that sounds eerily like the alt-right or an alt-right that coopts the language of the left.Its just wrong.

And, as a progressive, it also feels personal. Many Jewish studentsembrace and actively take part in campus conversationsabout privilege, which is why these posters hitso hard in the kishkes.This kind of campaign arguably misappropriates ourleftist values and mixes themwith the same anti-Semitic rhetoric as ouralt-right Twitter trolls which is incidentally full of the same conspiracy theories used to persecute ourgreat grandparents.

Asecond batch ofposters was found that same weekby UIC third-year Valeriya Volodarskaya, and they werent any better. One read, Maybe Jewish donations to the University come at too high a price Questioning the influence of university donors is not anti-Semitic.

Other posterscompared Gaza to Auschwitz and arguedcountries unfairly jail people who question the 6 million.

The language on there didnt make any sense, Volodarskaya said. Since when is attacking someone social justice?

I find myself asking the same question.These posters are oldschool anti-semitism complete with a defense of Holocaust denial couched in social justice terms, afascinating rhetorical crossbreed that disturbs me both as alefty and a Jew.

This is new, and I dont like what it means for the left on campus. Either we have a fringe that misapplies our ideology in a way that sounds more like the alt-right than our allies ora white supremacy thats learned to use the language of the left.

In either case, as progressives, we need to layclaim to leftist terms toensure they remain toolsin service of our highest ideals, not marginalization.

Sara Weissman is the editor in chief of New Voices. Kvell or kvetch to her at editor@newvoices.org.

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For Paul Ryans conservative antagonists, the slow-motion collapse of the House Republican health-care bill was greeted with an outpouring of schadenfreude, if not outright celebration. Breitbart, the alt-right media organ formerly run by White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, a longtime critic of the House Speaker, was practically feverish. RYAN YANKS BILL; NOT ENOUGH VOTES, blared the top headline on Breitbarts home page on Friday afternoon. Surrounding the bright orange text were a half-dozen more articles that left no doubt who should be blamed after the White House and Republican leadership failed to whip enough votes for the unloved bill, which the House Freedom Caucus had refused to support. REPORT: BANNON SAYS BILL WRITTEN BY INSURANCE INDUSTRY, read one headline, followed by another citing Rep. Mo Brooks calling Ryancare a form of Republican welfare and one of the worst bills ever. Matt Drudge, the iconoclastic proprietor of the conservative news aggregator The Drudge Report, who had highlighted stories blaming Ryan for the bills troubles in the days leading up to the vote, led his own front page with a photograph of the Hindenburg explosion. The headline: REPUBLICAN CATASTROPHE.

At the end, most of the blame will fall on Ryan.

Donald Trump, himself, was careful not to fault Ryan publicly in the wake of the bills failure. I dont blame him for a thing, I really dont, the president told The New York Times in a phone interview just minutes after the legislative effort was unceremoniously aborted. Im not disappointed, he insisted, explaining that he was eager to move on to other things. He also accused Democrats of sabotaging his effort to repeal Obamacare, despite the fact that the Republican Party controls both houses of Congress.

But behind closed doors, the newly-elected president fumed, the Times reports. After retreating to the White House on Friday night, Trump repeatedly asked advisers who should take the fall. Some pointed the finger at White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. Others said they regretted allowing Ryan to draft the bill, suggesting it was a mistake to make health-care reformon which Republicans have never agreedhis first legislative effort. According to the Times, Trumps team was privately stunned by Mr. Ryans inability to master the politics of his own conference.

So far, Republicans are publicly casting blame in all directions. The bulk of Republicans will probably say its a combination of Trump and Ryan, one G.O.P. strategist told me. But I think at the end, most of the blame will fall on Ryan.

Outside the White House, Ryans longtime enemies were not hiding the fact that the long knives are out. Breitbart political editor Matthew Boyle was the first to report on Friday that members of Congress are considering a plan to replace Ryan as House Speaker, and that a source close to Trump had said the president was skeptical of Ryan. This is another example of the staff not serving the president well and the weakness of the Paul Ryan speakership, the source told Breitbart. Judson Phillips, a prominent Tea Party leader, called the debacle the worst disaster for a majority party since the Democrats tried to push Hillarycare. Milo Yiannopolous, the popular alt-right provocateur who was recently ousted from Breitbart, wrote simply, Ryancare is finished.

Trump, however, isnt done with Ryan. Sources told me that Ryans power has been vastly diminished after burning his political capital on health care, leaving him weakened going forward. But the president still needs the House Speaker as Republicans move on to the next big item on their legislative agenda: comprehensive tax reform, which Wall Street is betting on to lower corporate rates and streamline the tax code. And if theres anyone who can spin a political debacle to his advantage, it is Trump. He, of all people, has had failures and setbacks throughout his career, former Trump campaign surrogate Jeffrey Lord told me, noting that Trump had published a companion book to The Art of the Deal titled The Art of the Comeback. So what he does is acknowledge the setback, and then what he does is go about finding a way to get whatever the setback is, overcome.

That comeback begins with Trump stepping back and allowing others to fall under the bus, even if hes not the one doing the pushing. The Congress takes the blame, but the leadershipnot for nothing, the word leader is in there, Lord said. Breitbart editor-at-large Joel Pollak made much the same point in an op-ed Friday, asserting that Trump would not only recover easily from his most recent scandal, but that he had acted strategically to humiliate the Republican establishment. [H]e let them make the first moveand he exposed two things about them, wrote Pollak. First, that they had not come up with a plan that was ready for prime time; second, that they had not done any of the political legwork necessary to sell their plan to voters. The myth of Trump as three-dimensional chess master lives on.

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A veteran accused of murdering a black man in New York showed signs of radicalization online after what appears to be an accomplished military career.

James Jackson liked alt-right YouTube videos and boasted of high intelligence during his time in the U.S. Army before he killed a black man with a sword in New York this week.

Jackson, 28, was charged with second-degree murder Thursday after he took a bus from Baltimore to New York City with the express goal of murdering black men, according to prosecutors. Late Monday night, Jackson allegedly encountered Timothy Caughman, a 66-year-old black man hed never met, and plunged a 26-inch sword into him. Prosecutors say the slaying just test run for a larger killing spree Jackson planned for Times Square.

We are considering and expect additional charges on a grand jury level, Assistant District Attorney Joan Illuzzi said in Thursday hearing. This was an act, most likely, of terrorism.

Police said Jackson confessed to the murder, to being a white supremacist, and to penning an anti-black manifesto, police said. Jackson also allegedly said he hated black men who were romantically involved with white women.

The attack was clearly racially motivated, NYPD Assistant Chief Bill Aubry said. Its well over 10 years he has been harboring these feelings of hate towards male blacks.

But in the months before the attack, Jacksons internet use suggested recent radicalization by the alt-right. Jacksons YouTube page, where he had previously listened to the Final Fantasy soundtrack and liked a British royal family video, lit up with likes on videos about white superiority and black on white crimes.

The Daily Beast verified the YouTube accounts username as being associated with Jacksons email address he listed on a rsum posted to his LinkedIn profile.

Jackson liked a livestream video called Is It Time for Whites to Start Voicing Their Displeasure With Black on White Crimes? two months before the attack. The two-hour video characterized African Americans as violent, and featured musical interludes of Donald Trump speeches set to electronic music.

How many of you have got to the point where youre more guiltless about your racism, or better yet your prejudice? the livestreamer asked as viewers typed racial slurs in the comments.

Jackson also recently liked the videos Blacks Know That Blacks Are Violent So Why Does the White Media Pretend They Are Not? and BLACK PERSON TALKS ABOUT ALT-RIGHT DESTROYED | MGTOW RED PILL SEXY TEEN CRINGE and Why Im Quitting Porn & How to Achieve Any Goal & Cut Out Bad Behaviors.

Jackson also subscribed to a series of racist channels including that of the National Policy Institute, a white-supremacist group founded by Richard Spencer. Another subscribed channel uploaded videos denying the Holocaust and claiming there are IQ differences between races. Videos in several other subscribed channels included I Want a Fascist Ethnostate for Christmas and uploaded broadcasts from Nazi website Stormfront.org and ex-Klansman David Duke. He also subscribed to the White House YouTube channel.

Jackson served in the U.S. Army from 2009 to 2012, leaving as a non-commissioned intelligence officer, according to the Department of Defense. His military record shows deployments in Germany and Afghanistan.

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On his LinkedIn profile, Jackson claimed to have Top Secret/Secret Compartmentalized Information Security Clearance, one of the highest security clearances in the military, though it is not unusual for a soldier of his rank and position to have it.

Jackson also boasted of top-notch test scores: 97 out of 99 on the entry-level exam for the Armed Services. In one composite score of that exam, Jackson claimed a score of 141a score of 110 is required to join special forces.

In Afghanistan, Jackson said he worked as an intelligence analyst in Kabul where he trained Afghan National Army intelligence officers.

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