@MrAndyNgo “The gunman behind the 2016 attack on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, was Muslim. During the attack, he pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (ISIS) in a 911 call and claimed inspiration from extremist terrorist groups.”
@dfossier “Yes, the Salem Witch Trials of 1692–1693 are widely cited by historians, psychologists, and medical researchers as a classic historical example of mass psychogenic illness (or mass hysteria) combined with intense social panic.
@alexchristy17@newsbusters This might matter, “The U.S. is an outlier in terms of scale. With a population of roughly 340 million, it is vastly larger than almost all of its high-income, developed peer countries.”
@ggreenwald@trillspot “During the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, Barack Obama publicly distanced himself from his longtime pastor, Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”