A broadcast showed cadets from the United States Military Academy and midshipmen from the Naval Academy in the stands displaying the sign at least five times behind ESPN broadcaster Rece Davis at the game, which was held at the Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia on Saturday.
“West Point is looking into the matter,” Lt. Col. Christopher Ophardt, a spokesman at the military academy, said in an email Sunday. “At this time we do not know the intent of the cadets.”
The gesture, which looks like an O.K. sign, is formed by “the thumb and forefinger joined together in a circle, the remaining three fingers splayed out behind,” according to the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Viewers of the football game on Saturday noticed the gestures and shared clips on social media.
“Please someone tell me I didn’t see what I thought I just saw,” one user wrote on Twitter, asking “white power sign?”
Officials of the United States Coast Guard reprimanded a service member who flashed a similar gesture in the background of a television interview on MSNBC last year.
Segre has come under fire from the right-wing fascistic elements of our world after promoting “a new parliamentary panel against racism, discrimination, anti-Semitism and online hatred,” according to TIME magazine.
Italy has seen the rise of neofascist right-wing elements like the rest of the world in recent years. The Forza Nuova party has taken a violent line on refugees and immigrants as the reasons for the economic inequalities that have plagued Italy. And anti-Semitic fervor has underpinned this fascistic hatred as it always does. Quite a strange flag for people to fight against, but then again, our president is Donald Trump with henchmen like Sebastian Gorka.
CNN reports that 600 mayors marched with Segre, while the crowd chanted her name and sang an anti-fascist song “Bella Ciao.”
United Against White Supremacy ✊ #NoNazis
Liliana Segre was only 13 when she was deported to Auschwitz.
"I have known hatred. I have known what it means to become a reject of that civil society of which I believed I belonged," Segre said addressing the crowd. "I have heard the words of hatred, hateful and insulting, and then I saw with my eyes the realization of the ferocious program prepared from hatred."
Trump is NOT destroying the Republican Party!
awarded posthumously
Nephew
A vocal crowd of middle school and high school students erupted in a mix of loud boos and some cheers as the first lady strode across the stage at the B’More Youth Summit on Opioid Awareness.
Republicans won’t say it publicly but their actions prove otherwise!
Trump is the proof. #WhiteSupremacistInChief continues trending on Twitter
Trump won’t be receiving one penny in royalties 😂
This is from the same Anonymous who wrote NYTimes Op-Ed “I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Trump Administration”.
“I was wrong about the ‘quiet resistance’ inside the Trump administration. Unelected bureaucrats and cabinet appointees were never going to steer Donald Trump the right direction in the long run, or refine his malignant management style. He is who he is.”
In “A Warning” by Anonymous, obtained by The Washington Post ahead of its release, a writer described only as “a senior official in the Trump administration” paints a chilling portrait of the president as cruel, inept and a danger to the nation he was elected to lead.
The author — who first captured attention in 2018 as the unidentified author of a New York Times opinion column — describes Trump careening from one self-inflicted crisis to the next, “like a twelve-year-old in an air traffic control tower, pushing the buttons of government indiscriminately, indifferent to the planes skidding across the runway and the flights frantically diverting away from the airport.”
The 259-page book — which was published by Twelve, an imprint of Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group, and goes on sale Nov. 19 — does not re-create many specific episodes in vivid detail, which the author writes was intentional to protect his or her identity.
“I have decided to publish this anonymously because this debate is not about me,” the author writes. “It is about us. It is about how we want the presidency to reflect our country, and that is where the discussion should center. Some will call this ‘cowardice.’ My feelings are not hurt by the accusation. Nor am I unprepared to attach my name to criticism of President Trump. I may do so, in due course.”
“I’ve sat and listened in uncomfortable silence as he talks about a woman’s appearance or performance,” the author writes. “He comments on makeup. He makes jokes about weight. He critiques clothing. He questions the toughness of women in and around his orbit. He uses words like ‘sweetie’ and ‘honey’ to address accomplished professionals. This is precisely the way a boss shouldn’t act in the work environment.”
The author alleges that Trump attempted a Hispanic accent during an Oval Office meeting to complain about migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
“We get these women coming in with like seven children,” Trump said, according to the book.
There’s more!
Trying not to laugh at Clay Jones’ cartoon — Forty😂😂😂😂😂
Back to being serious.
White Christian conservative men (let’s just pretend Trump’s a Christian since he claims it) are the biggest whiners about victimization where there isn’t any. In this instance, one of them is appropriating actual victimization, something that brutally happened to hundreds of Americans. Most of those Americans who were lynched in the past were black men, hung by white, Christian, conservative men.
Hey, Trump cultists. Guess what. Worse things have happened to people than being impeached. What will Trump appropriate next? Slavery? Japanese internment? The Holocaust? No, Donald Trump. Your impeachment is nothing like a lynching, especially since most lynching victims were only guilty of being the wrong color in a hateful society. Donald Trump is guilty of violating his oath of office. Nobody is hanging him because he’s orange.
☑️ Another foreign country “Facebook Nation” answers Trump’s call to help him win in 2020. *** Facebook’s International Headquarters is located in Ireland.
☑️ Zuckerberg adds far right wing conspiracy theorists Breitbart to the list of things Facebook is doing to help Trump win in 2020 — just as Facebook did in 2016.
Earlier this month, Mr Zuckerberg was criticised by liberal commentators for hosting informal talks and off-the-record dinners with conservative journalists, including Fox News host Tucker Carlson. ... and Lindsey Graham
It’s worst! #HateGroups #WhiteDomesticTerrorists
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asked Zuckerberg during a congressional hearing on Wednesday
Breitbart, a publication that has been criticised for repeatedly inaccurate and incendiary reporting, has raised concerns about Facebook’s editorial judgement.
Facebook has also been criticised in recent weeks for its policy decision to not fact check political adverts.
Replying to @GOPLeader and @realDonaldTrump
#KievMcCarthy protecting #PutinsBitch....
... The RACIST-TRAITOR @POTUS is the face of "Racism, bigotry, and white supremacy"....
#YesObstructionYesIndictment #YesTraitorYesIncarceration
— Francisco Castro @FKAFernando
Lindsey Graham was just photographed with prominent white supremacist Geert Wilders.
But the picture was taken down fast!
Don't share this. Lol
— Fired Up @MikeTheBigMac
Just think Trump
Wilders is the most obviously disturbed member of the neo-right suicide squad in attendance. He cannot finish a sentence. His voice drifts, and he trails away, already out of the room. There is a dustbin fire behind the blank eyes of his human suit.
Wilders is a less polished, wholly charmless rendition of the neo-right demagogue character creation sheet that gave us Donald Trump and Boris Johnson. These people do not have personalities, they have haircuts. Ugly ones. And we have fallen through the looking glass in which they see themselves reflected as small gods.
- Laurie Penny
The Trump’s #FirstFamilyOfTreason — #TrumpCrimeFamily @DonaldJTrumpJr @IvankaTrump @EricTrump @jaredkushner #LockThemAllUp #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether #CrimesAgainstHumanity #CrimesAgainstAmerica
@realDonaldTrump #BenedictDonald Forty😂😂😂😂😂
Get to work #Resisters
... imagine that
The only “very bad people” are Racist Trump, his family, his administration and Republicans!
“The Bahamas has some tremendous problems with people going to the Bahamas that weren’t supposed to be there,” Trump stated. “I don’t want to allow people that weren’t supposed to be in the Bahamas to come into the United States, including some very bad people and some very bad gang members and some very, very bad drug dealers.”
