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Week 29.

July 14 to 20, 2026. 12 of the week's 12 confirmed items: 2 threatening, 7 hateful, 3 stigmatizing.

A lectern with a microphone and a police cap resting on it
ThreateningW29USPolitical opponents
What was said

A federal border official told Democrats to shut their mouths or there would be more bloodshed.

Who it targets

Democratic officials and anti-ICE critics

A bare tree with one root being pulled up out of the soil
ThreateningW29USPolitical opponents
What was said

The White House's top policy adviser called the left a cancer that must be rooted out.

Who it targets

Left-wing movements and their supporters as a whole, including people who never committed violence

A paper boat floating on a rising puddle at a doorstep
HatefulW29UKProtected groups
What was said

A conservative magazine described immigration to Europe as a flood putting Western civilization in mortal danger.

Who it targets

Immigrants to Europe, treated as one undifferentiated mass

A farmyard trough standing alone in an empty field
HatefulW29USPolitical opponents
What was said

A prominent science blogger called the Defense Secretary a pig, scarcely human.

Who it targets

The Defense Secretary, as a stand-in for the administration

An old printing press plate lying inked and face down
HatefulW29USProtected groups
What was said

A fringe site used explicit antisemitic slurs and claimed Jews control finance and Congress.

Who it targets

Jews, referred to collectively with slurs

Two wedding rings on a table with a warning triangle beside them
HatefulW29USProtected groups
What was said

An anti-Muslim blogger told Western women not to marry Muslim men, generalising from one murder case.

Who it targets

Muslim men

A newspaper front page pinned to a board, the text blocked out
HatefulW29USProtected groups
What was said

A conspiracy site's front page called Israeli society deeply depraved.

Who it targets

Israeli and Jewish society, treated as a single whole

A city hall building with a long shadow across its steps
HatefulW29USProtected groups
What was said

The same blogger called New York's mayor a jihadi and a Jew-hating Muslim over a legal question.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the mayor used as the stand-in

A ledger book open on a desk with a magnifying glass on it
HatefulW29USProtected groups
What was said

A blogger attributed fraud cases involving Muslim migrants to the Quran itself.

Who it targets

Muslim migrants

A mirror on a wall with a crack running down the middle
StigmatizingW29ILPolitical opponents
What was said

An Israeli NGO called the country's own human-rights groups a self-hating ilk serving its enemies.

Who it targets

Israeli human-rights organizations, framed as an internal traitor faction

A loudspeaker horn on a pole with a mute symbol painted on the wall behind
StigmatizingW29USProtected groups
What was said

Indiana's lieutenant governor called for banning the Muslim call to prayer, then warned about the rise of Islam.

Who it targets

Muslims, through the presence of the religion itself

A ballot paper being folded in half and put in a pocket
StigmatizingW29USProtected groups
What was said

A podcaster said women's suffrage stole half his vote, and that his wife casts it back for him.

Who it targets

Women

We run the same pass every week, so a quiet week reads as a quiet week rather than as a week we didn't look. What the pass confirms is the number that moves week to week, and it's on the dashboard. The cards here are a selection from it, weighted toward reach, so counting them is not the same as counting the week. Most of what gets said doesn't cross the line and never appears at all. All weeks · How we decide