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How the alt-right's political violence went from online to real life
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When reporter Elle Reeve is recognized at the airport, it's often by members of the alt-right: the online white nationalists who organized the violent Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville in 2017, and who originated much of today's political rhetoric. How did a bunch of 4chan users feeding Microsoft's Tay chatbot hateful language become such a potent political force?
Elle Reeve joins Endless Thread to discuss her book Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics.
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- Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics. (Amazon)
- Charlottesville: Race and Terror (Vice)
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Teenage Cartel Hitman Is a U.S. Citizen
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But he's only one teen killer among many as Mexico's drug violence intensifies
By Elspeth Reeve
The floppy-haired 14-year-old turned, like any other modern teen, to YouTube to make his confession. But unlike a typical 8th-grader, Edgar Jimenez's was confessing to beheading people for a Mexican drug cartel for the price of $2,500 each. A hunt for the boy ensued, and this week, Mexican authorities nabbed the "hit boy" known as "El Ponchis" at an airport; he was en route to Tijuana, where he and his teenage sister were planning to sneak into San Diego. Why? He's an American citizen.
Jimenez was arrested Thursday night, suspected of working for Pacific Sur, a gang that splintered off from the notorious Beltran Leyva cartel. The teen was paraded in front of news cameras, even as police guards wore masks for their own protection, yet another symptom of the persistent horrific violence that has plagued Mexico since the start of its drug war. As an American citizen, Jimenez will get "all appropriate consular assistance," CNN reports.
But shockingly, Jimenez is not unique as a child participant in this violence. Drug cartels--like their fellow fans of beheadings, Al Qaeda--are increasingly leaning on kids and women to help them maintain control over large areas of the country. Here are a couple of accounts on offer in the media as outlets attempt to contextualize.
- Gangs Recruiting More Kids "The number of young people aged 18 and under detained for drug-related crimes has climbed steadily since President Felipe Calderón launched his assault on cartels in 2006," reports The Telegraph's Harriet Alexander. "Figures from the Attorney General's office show that there were 482 arrests of under 18s in 2006, and 810 in 2009. The tally this year is set to be even higher." A psychologist says Jimenez is a "psychopath," and that kids like him "like to kill, to st
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Christopher Reeve's 3 Children: All About Matthew, Alexandra and Will
Christopher Reeve was not only Superman on screen, but also to his three children: Matthew, Alexandra and William.
The Superman actor welcomed his first two kids, Matthew Reeve, 45, and Alexandra Reeve Givens, 41, with his former partner Gae Exton. He later married Dana Reeve in 1992 and the pair welcomed their son, William "Will" Reeve, 32, the same year.
Christopher died on Oct. 10, 2004, nine years after a horseriding accident that left him paralyzed from the neck down. On Father’s Day in 2021, his youngest son honored his memory with a sweet letter posted on Good Morning America.
"In our short time together, my dad gave me everything: his love and attention, his values and passions," Will wrote. "When he died, I was certain my purpose in life was to be him, to seamlessly carry on his legacy, to leave no separation between where Christopher Reeve ended and where Will Reeve began.”
He continued, "Like many missing the main character every third Sunday in June, I never feel fully whole on Father's Day. But I find peace and strength in the fact that the greatest gift I can give my dad is to keep him in my heart while I follow it wherever it leads me."
In January 2024, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, a documentary looking back on Christopher's life, including his marriage and getting cast as Superman, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and all three of his children were in attendance.
During a September 2024 appearance on Good Morning America to promote the documentary, Christopher's children talked about what it was like to see their father paralyzed for the first time. Alexandra said that their stepmom, Dana encouraged her and her siblings to "hold his hand" and to "ignore" the medical wires and machines that might scare them.
"As far as I remember my first words were just, 'I love you. We're here,'