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The New York Times reports: An Ohio man who was part of an online community of “incels,” or misogynists who blame women for denying them what they believe is their right to sexual intercourse, was arrested on Wednesday and charged with plotting to shoot students in sororities, federal prosecutors said. The man, Tres Genco, 21, of Hillsboro, Ohio, was charged …

The New York Daily News reports: A popular YouTuber accused of live-streaming a bomb threat in Manhattan is out on bail to get psychiatric treatment, a federal judge ruled. Malik Sanchez, who uses the online moniker “Smooth Sanchez,” was released from the Essex County jail in New Jersey. Sanchez, 19 was locked up after arrest on April 14 for proclaiming …

The New York Daily News report: A self-proclaimed “incel” YouTuber who previously grabbed headlines for climbing the Queensboro Bridge was arrested Wednesday for making a bomb threat at a Manhattan restaurant, authorities announced. Malik Sanchez, known online as “Smooth Sanchez,” walked into an outdoor seating area in the Flatiron on Feb. 13 and announced the hoax threat, prosecutors said. He …

Heavy.com reports: A manhunt is underway for a man who appeared in surveillance footage outside one of two spas where shootings occurred in the Atlanta area in Cherokee County, Georgia. At least four people have died in two separate shootings. Police have not said whether the two shootings are related. Police told Channel 2 Action News that all four victims …

The Toronto Star reports: The man who planned and carried out the Yonge Street van attack in April 2018 is criminally responsible for his actions, a judge ruled Wednesday. Superior Court Justice Anne Molloy found Alek Minassian guilty of 10 counts of first-degree murder and 16 counts of attempted murder. “He made a choice,” Molloy said in her decision live-streamed …

The New York Daily News reports: An avowed white supremacist pleaded guilty to illegally purchasing guns in preparation for a “racial holy war,” federal prosecutors said Friday. Joseph Miner, 30, was arrested in May right after he and buddy bought a cache of weapons from an undercover federal agent in a hotel room in Bayside, Queens. Miner not only went …

The New York Post reports: A sexually frustrated Virginia man blew off a hand while trying to make homemade explosives — ones he planned to use on a revenge attack on “hot cheerleaders,” according to federal prosecutors. Cole Carini, 23, went to a health clinic in Richlands last Wednesday suffering from an amputated hand, amputated fingers on the opposite hand, …

Global News reports: A deadly attack at a Toronto erotic massage parlour three months ago is now being treated as an act of terrorism after police allegedly uncovered evidence it was inspired by misogynist incel ideology. Charges against the suspect accused of carrying out the Feb. 24 stabbing attack, which killed a woman and injured another, were updated in court …

The New York Daily News reports: A racist anti-Semite who hinted online at his sexual frustration was busted after he and a buddy bought a pile of assault rifles from an undercover agent, the feds said Wednesday. Joseph Miner, 29, and friend Daniel Jou, 40, bought a cache of weapons with obliterated serial numbers in a hotel room near LaGuardia …

From the military blog Task & Purpose: At least one Air Force base is on the lookout for a sinister new threat: angry men who can’t get laid. Personnel at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland were recently treated to a threat brief regarding an “increase in nationwide activity” by self-described “incels,” members of an online subculture of “involuntary celibacy” who …

The Daily Beast reports: A Texas man accused of opening fire outside a Dallas courthouse uploaded right-wing memes to Facebook, including memes about Nazism and the Confederacy. Authorities said Brian Clyde, 22, attacked the Earle Cabell federal courthouse Monday morning before law enforcement killed him. No one else was reported injured. A May 4 post defended Infowars founder Alex Jones …

Provo’s Gephardt Daily reports: A 27-year-old Provo man has been arrested after he allegedly wrote on his Facebook page that he was going to kill “as many girls as I see,” because he had been rejected. Christopher Wayne Cleary is facing charges of third-degree felony threat of terrorism as well as probation violation, according to a probable cause statement from …

Buzzfeed News reports: The man who shot dead two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, on Friday before killing himself was a far-right extremist and self-proclaimed misogynist who railed against women, black people, and immigrants in a series of online videos and songs. Scott Beierle, 40, was named by Tallahassee Police as the gunman who opened fire inside …

The New York Times reports: The founder of the far-right group the Proud Boys said on Friday that he was arranging the surrender of eight members whom the police are seeking in connection with a brawl outside a Republican club in Manhattan last weekend. At the same time, a senior official said the police have opened a broad criminal inquiry …

The Huffington Post has published a fascinating/horrifying deep dive into the violent, misogynistic world of so-called incels, men who say they are “involuntarily celibate” because women won’t have sex with them due to their looks. Here’s the opening: It’s late on a Friday, and hundreds of men are browsing the forum Lookism.net. A new member logs on and posts two …