Overview

• Proud Boys Telegram channels have circulated memes urging followers to shoot ‘‘No Kings’’ protesters with messages like “Shoot a couple, the rest will go home.”
• Demonstrations are slated for Saturday in over 2,000 U.S. cities, coinciding with President Trump’s military birthday parade in Washington D.C.
• Research fellows and sociologists describe the online threats as the worst surge in far-right violence and caution they could motivate lone-actor attacks.
• White House and Department of Homeland Security officials, including Stephen Miller, reshared anti-immigration posters originally produced by extremist groups that urged citizens to report undocumented immigrants.
• Solidarity protests are planned in more than a dozen countries, including Australia, Canada and several European nations, in support of U.S. demonstrators opposing the administration.