'Truly an authoritarian personality': NYU professor pounces after DeSantis suggests students shouldn't have access to their phones during class



During remarks on Monday, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said that he believes a school district would be within its rights to require kids to stow their phones somewhere like a "cubby" so that they are not distracted during class — he suggested that kids could use their phones during recess.

"He is so dangerous in every way. Truly an authoritarian personality," New York University professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat tweeted in response to a clip of DeSantis' remarks.

\u201cHe is so dangerous in every way. Truly an authoritarian personality\u201d
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@Ruth Ben-Ghiat) 1674536107

Her tweet raised eyebrows.

"He is dangerous because he thinks students shouldn't be on their phones in class?" Tim Meads of the Daily Wire tweeted.

"When I saw this tweet I braced myself for a ghastly example of DeSantis’s authoritarianism. Instead I heard a governor say school kids should put their cell phones in a cubby during class," Jewish Institute for Liberal Values founder David Bernstein tweeted.

"Apparently, teachers controlling their own classrooms is now authoritarianism," Dan McLaughlin of National Review tweeted.

In another tweet, Ben-Ghiat added, "It is not the phones, people. It is the arrogance of a man who wants to control everyone and everything: businesses, students, other poiticians. He wants to dictate what you learn and read, how you train your employees, and much more."

DeSantis, who won a second term last year during the Sunshine State's gubernatorial contest, is widely viewed as a figure who could potentially mount a 2024 White House bid.

While DeSantis has not announced plans to pursue the presidency, former President Donald Trump announced last year that he is running for president once again.

Ben-Ghiat has claimed that "the goal of #Strongmen like Trump is to make Americans be their very worst selves so his garbage (lying corruption violence) becomes the norm in politics, making the advent of authoritarian rule much easier."

\u201cThat's because the goal of #Strongmen like Trump is to make Americans be their very worst selves so his garbage (lying corruption violence) becomes the norm in politics, making the advent of authoritarian rule much easier.\u201d
— Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@Ruth Ben-Ghiat) 1674417549

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Leftist group that doxxed Kavanaugh plans another protest at his home after would-be assassin arrested there



Ruth Sent Us, the radical left-wing group that posted the home addresses of six Supreme Court justices online last month, is planning to stage a protest outside Justice Brett Kavanaugh's home Wednesday evening, hours after an armed man was arrested there for allegedly threatening to kill Kavanaugh.

Early Wednesday morning, police took an armed suspect into custody outside Kavanaugh's home in Montgomery County, Maryland. The suspect had allegedly called emergency dispatchers and said he intended to murder the justice and then kill himself.

FBI Special Agent Ian Montijo filed an affidavit in court that said the suspect, Nicholas John Roske of California, told police he was upset with the leaked draft Supreme Court opinion that indicated the court would overturn its abortion precedents and believed Kavanaugh would also vote to loosen gun control laws after the recent mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Roske allegedly found Kavanaugh's address online, bought a Glock pistol, and traveled to Maryland intending to kill him. He has been charged with attempted murder of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.

The private home addresses of six Supreme Court justices, including Kavanaugh's, were posted online by Ruth Sent Us in May after a draft majority opinion for Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization was leaked to Politico. The draft document, authored by Justice Samuel Alito, explained the court's reasoning for upholding Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban and overturning its precedent in Roe v. Wade.

Though there is not yet an official decision by the court, pro-abortion rights activists seethed and began possibly illegal demonstrations against the impending decision outside the private homes of the Republican-appointed justices.

When the Washington Post broke the news Wednesday that an armed suspect making threats against Kavanaugh's life was arrested outside his home, Ruth Sent Us downplayed the incident on Twitter and denied reports that the suspect was carrying a gun and a knife.

"We are committed to non-violence. Fundamentalists will talk non-stop about how our peaceful protests inspired this, rather than the daily mass-murders in America," the group tweeted. "Oh, what was this 'weapon' the 'California man' had? If it was a gun or even a knife, police would say so."

\u201cWe are committed to non-violence. \n\nFundamentalists will talk non-stop about how our peaceful protests inspired this, rather than the daily mass-murders in America. \ud83d\ude0f\n\nOh, what was this \u201cweapon\u201d the \u201cCalifornia man\u201d had? If it was a gun or even a knife, police would say so. \ud83d\ude0f\u201d
— Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7 (@Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7) 1654700210

The FBI affidavit confirmed that the suspect, Roske, had a tactical knife and a Glock 17 pistol with ammunition in his possession when he was taken into custody. He was also carrying pepper spray, zip ties, a hammer, screwdriver, nail punch, crow bar, pistol light, duct tape, hiking boots with padding on the outside of the soles, among other items, the FBI said.

When a Twitter user responded to Ruth Sent Us and said the group's tweet "will not age well," the left-wing activists asserted "Yes, it will," and said, "We're protesting peacefully at his home again tonight."

\u201c@mprussart Yes, it will. We\u2019re protesting peacefully at his home again tonight.\u201d
— Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7 (@Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7) 1654700210

Subsequent tweets by Ruth Sent Us announced that the group intends to participate in protests outside of Kavanaugh's and Chief Justice John Roberts' homes in Chevy Chase, Md. Wednesday night.

"We offer our thoughts & prayers to Brett & Ashley Kavanaugh after a California man arrived by taxi near their home, armed with a gun & knife, then called the police on himself to confess his murderous rage against the abusive alcoholic 'Justice'," the group mockingly tweeted. "We didn't send him."

\u201cWe offer our thoughts & prayers to Brett & Ashley Kavanaugh after a California man arrived by taxi near their home, armed with a gun & knife, then called the police on himself to confess his murderous rage against the abusive alcoholic \u201cJustice\u201d. \n\nWe didn\u2019t send him. #RuthSentUs\u201d
— Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7 (@Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7) 1654700210

According to another leftist activist group, Downright Impolite, the demonstrations will begin at 7 p.m. ET.

\u201cTonight we peacefully (different than quietly \ud83e\udd23) rise together to say, \u201cNot today, Fascists!\u201d You in?!\n\n@ShutDown_DC @OurRightsDC @RuthSentUs @riseup4abortion #SCOTUSisCompromised #pridemonth2022 #Protest #Women #LGBT #WearOrange\u201d
— Downright Impolite (@Downright Impolite) 1654703310

Republican lawmakers responded to the alleged threat against Kavanaugh by calling on the Democratic House majority to pass a bill providing additional security measures for Supreme Court justices.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) railed against House Democrats on the Senate floor Wednesday for blocking the bill — which passed unanimously in the Senate.

"House Democrats need to stop their multi-week blockade against the Supreme Court security bill and pass it before the sun sets today," he said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security warned in May that political violence directed at the court and its justices is "likely to persist and may increase leading up to and following the issuing of the Court's official ruling" on abortion.

Video: Fed-up man climbs over pew, stops red-robed pro-abortion demonstrators in their tracks, cutting short their disruption of Catholic mass



A decidedly annoyed man was caught on video climbing over a pew and stopping red-robed pro-abortion demonstrators in their tracks, cutting short their disruption of a Catholic mass Sunday in Los Angeles.

What are the details?

A parishioner told the Catholic News Agency that protesters dressed in "huge hats" and "red, hooded gowns" disrupted morning mass at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels. The cathedral is the mother church of the Los Angeles Archdiocese, and CNA said an archdiocese spokesman confirmed the incident late Sunday.

The protesters' red robes and white bonnets symbolize enslaved women who are raped and forced to give birth, the outlet said, and are inspired by Margaret Atwood’s dystopian novel, “The Handmaid’s Tale.”

The parishioner who spoke to CNA, Bradford Adkins, said the demonstration began shortly before communion.

“I was getting ready for a stampede, and I glanced near the exits,” Adkins told the outlet, adding that the demonstrators held a large green banner, though he could not see what was written on it.

CNA said cathedral staff and parishioners intervened. Cellphone video posted on Twitter captured the moment one man dressed in jeans and a blue and white checkered shirt climbed over a pew to confront the demonstrators in an aisle:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @Romangod7

Indeed, he brought the demonstration to sudden halt as he appeared to bash a sign from the hands of one activist and then point them toward the exit:

Image source: Twitter video screenshot via @Romangod7

Others stepped in to help, and the demonstrators were escorted from the church. The video ends as one protester's hollering voice trails offs in an eerie echo:

Marxists try to disrupt Mass at Cathedral of our Lady of the Angels. Security, ushers and parishioners said they were not having it.\n#cathedral #Catholicpic.twitter.com/HlN8yHxPKL
— Romangod7 (@Romangod7) 1652034335

Anything else?

CNA said the protesters' costumes resemble those worn by members of leftist group Ruth Sent Us, which threatened to disrupt Catholic masses on Mother's Day.

Whether you\u2019re a \u201cCatholic for Choice\u201d, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church Sun May 8. #WarOnWomen #MothersDayStrikepic.twitter.com/v2vtpd12Gp
— Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7 (@Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7) 1651604719

But CNA said Ruth Sent Us as of Sunday night didn't appear to have taken responsibility for the L.A. protest, and the outlet added that group representatives didn't respond to a request for comment.

Ruth Sent Us posted on its website apparent home addresses of six conservative Supreme Court justices — John Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett — and was planning "walk-by" protests Wednesday at their residences in the wake of the leaked draft from the high court that would overturn Roe v. Wade.

Pro-abortion activists on Saturday night marched to the homes of Roberts and Kavanaugh, holding up signs that read, "F*** your God" and "Abortion is healthcare."

Catholic churches receive 'credible threats' that pro-choice protesters will disrupt Mother's Day Mass



A historic Catholic church in Washington, D.C. warned parishioners on Friday that there have been "credible threats" of protesters planning to disrupt church services this weekend. The warning came after a pro-choice abortion activist group called on Americans to disrupt church services this weekend.

In an email sent to the church body, St. Peter's Church on Capitol Hill said that church leaders have been alerted that "there is a credible threat of our Masses being disrupted this weekend by protesters."

"All are welcome to join us for Mass at St. Peter's. Even though the disruption of the celebration of the Holy Mass is a grave offense to every person of faith, we will strive to continue worship of God and exercise fraternal charity in any case," the email said.

In the event that Mass is disrupted, the church has instructed the congregation to avoid engaging with protesters, to remain inside the building if possible, and to "take a prayerful position and simply pray."

"The police departments are aware of these threats and will have increased patrolling and presence around the church," the email said.

St. Peter\u2019s on Capitol Hill alerted parishioners to a credible threat of protestors disrupting mass this weekend \u2014>pic.twitter.com/nSXUsoJaSM
— Matt Gorman (@Matt Gorman) 1651858520

Pro-choice abortion activists have called for protests at American Catholic churches on Mother's Day Weekend after Politico reported Monday that the U.S. Supreme Court has voted to overturn the landmark abortion decision Roe v. Wade. A leaked draft court majority opinion for the case concerning Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban suggests the court will overturn its precedent on abortion rights, returning the issue to state legislatures and the people's elected representatives.

Protesters on both sides of the abortion debate gathered at the Supreme Court building this week, prompting authorities to erect non-scalable fencing outside of the building.

A pro-choice group called Ruth Sent Us on Thursday posted what it claims are the home addresses of the six Republican-appointed Supreme Court justices, calling for an organized "walk-by protest" outside their homes next week. The group has also called for protests inside Catholic churches during Mass on Mother's Day.

"Whether you’re a 'Catholic for Choice', ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church Sun May 8," Ruth Sent Us tweeted earlier this week.

Whether you\u2019re a \u201cCatholic for Choice\u201d, ex-Catholic, of other or no faith, recognize that six extremist Catholics set out to overturn Roe. Stand at or in a local Catholic Church Sun May 8. #WarOnWomen #MothersDayStrikepic.twitter.com/v2vtpd12Gp
— Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7 (@Ruth Sent Us \ud83e\udea7) 1651604719

After this tweet was sent, a pastor at St. Joe's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill reportedly requested that police "be ready to intervene" in case Mass is disrupted, according to the Daily Wire's Mary Margaret Olohan.

NEW: The pastor at St. Joe's Catholic Church on Capitol Hill has requested that police be present and "ready to intervene" in the event that pro-abortion protestors show up for Mother's Day mass, as @RuthSentUs has called on activists to do.pic.twitter.com/Eon4wyoTyq
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@Mary Margaret Olohan) 1651856334

"MPD is aware of potential disruptions associated with First Amendment demonstrations, MPD will be monitoring, assessing and planning accordingly with our local and federal partners," a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police Department said. "We have increased available resources, including the activation of our Civil Disturbance Units, in preparation for these activities."

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser's office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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