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Marcy @deadheadgirly.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
“You were born a boy. If you want to say you’re a woman, fine, but why should I have to go along with your delusion?” Like how we all have to go along living and working with people who will literally die for the idea an invisible man lives in the sky and has preordained our lives?
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LockUpCheetoIn24.bsky.social @lockupcheetoin24.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
People over here saying “don’t be divisive” like I want to be united with Charlie Kirk’s white supremacist following 😂 Bitch, the division is the point.
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Girl we’ve wanted to split up ever since yall decided school shootings were a fair trade for the 2A. Let the divorce proceedings proceed procedurally 😂
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)
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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Pointing out Charlie Kirk's hate speech is not hate speech. It's objective reporting. Apologize to Matthew Dowd and rehire him. A full-throated embrace of genocide is hate speech – beyond all measure. Fire Brian Kilmeade. Immediately.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/09/2025
You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.
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nora "nora.jewelry is now open" rude (they/them ze/hir) @nora.zone · 14/09/2025
it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead
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Rosegarden54🦋💙🦋 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Sean Bass @seancbass.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Matthew Dowd was fired for accurately saying Kirk was divisive. Yet Kilmeade will face zero repercussions for saying we should euthanize the homeless. Liberals and any sane human has every right to be upset about the current climate.
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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 13/09/2025
"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
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🎃👻 Rob for Apples 👻🎃 @robwillb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
This you? Just two hours later?
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13/09/2025
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
What's your secret to being online all the time without contracting computer madness? For me it's being pure of heart
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed
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'Just Kill 'Em': Fox Host Makes Shocking Comment On Homeless People
"Fox and Friends" co-host Brian Kilmeade made a jaw-dropping remark while discussing homelessness and mental health.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian. All the other outlets who failed to confirm their reporting. I want to see fewer cowardly, shrugging "editor's notes" on these stories and more statements of "wow, we really failed in our reporting on a grave matter, and here's how we're going to do better."
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
When you write a piece noting that a guy promoted racism and violence, his followers immediately prove you right
Rape threats and racist nonsense in my inbox
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 13/09/2025
After the Minnesota shooting Senior DOJ officials started weighing proposals to limit transgender people's right to possess firearms. After the Kirk shooting, I look forward to the DOJ's proposal to limit white men's ability to possess firearms. Wait, what do you mean that's not how it works???🤔
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
I’m curious. If an outspoken atheist was to set up tables outside churches on Sunday and on campuses of Christian colleges with a sign that said “God doesn’t exist, prove me wrong,” would that person be hailed as a figure who was trying to engage in good faith debate and heal our divisions?
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 13/09/2025
fuck your "focusing on the positive" if it means ignoring, suppressing or distorting reality and folding for fascism
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 12/09/2025
I cited actual Kirk quotes where he calls Black women less intelligent, demonizes me for being Muslim, & dehumanizes LGBTQ people—& his supporters are upset at me for “speaking evil of the dead.” If quoting him is “speaking evil” maybe ask yourself why you followed someone who believed evil things.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2025
Young men never have agency, they're just man children to be coddled apparently. Everything is the fault of the left.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did? I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/6 To me this is a little like the virtue of bravery. Bravery seems morally neutral in itself; its virtue depends on its ends. Very few people say "look, I don't agree with the 9/11 hijackers, but they were really brave and that's admirable."
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/4 The other thing is this: I don't particularly buy the notion that being willing to go anywhere and say shitty things to anyone makes you a hero. Does it make you better than someone willing to go anywhere to beat anyone up? Yeah I guess.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/2 See, a significant part of the "Free Speech Culture" movement is about saying "this person is standing up for the right to say things they agree with, therefore they are a free speech hero," even if they manifestly aren't in favor of free speech for other people they disagree with.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It is so fucking easy to talk about the struggles of men without repeating right-wing myths and shitting on your own electoral base — and yet!
He also worried that men feel alienated from the political left-wing, in part, because the left has developed a culture that is "increasingly scolding and finger-wagging" and (in a post #MeToo context) often only discusses masculinity in terms of being "toxic" rather than providing alternatives of positive masculinity.
"Nobody wants to feel like they've got to look over their shoulder all the time. I grew up in a time when as a man, you were looking over your shoulder to make sure that you were being masculine enough. And of course, that's 10 times more if you happen to be gay. Then you go one turning of the wheel or one generation forward, and I think a lot of young men felt like they were looking over their shoulder for fear of being censured for somehow being toxic or being too masculine or doing or saying something wrong. This is part of what happened with cancel culture.""The key is for people to understand that positive change is not at your expense," he said. "I have a very personal version of this that I've lived out, obviously, which is marriage equality, right? No straight married couple is worse off because we've had marriage equality for the last 10 years. It's only made the institution of marriage stronger. When we get this right, this is not at anybody's expense. But it can feel that way, and my side bears some of the blame for making it feel that way."
"Because, again, if we can't separate the word masculinity from the word toxic, or if we make it seem like anybody who's got any discomfort around changes in society, gender roles, you name it, must be some kind of dinosaur or retrograde a**hole — if that's the message we're putting out, then of course people are going to feel like it's hostile to them versus feel like they're being recruited into that new future," he added.
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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12/09/2025
Can we at least admit they’re seeing what they want to see and hearing what they want to hear because they want an excuse to target particular people?
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
luigi mangione murdered a healthcare executive and opposed "wokeism." i don't know why people insist that killers need some coherent ideology. most people don't even have coherent wardrobes, let alone a coherent worldview.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2025
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Are all you white media punidts who have been cannonizing Charlie Kirk also going to start praising Nick Fuentes for practicing politics "exactly the right way" now that it looks like the suspect was inspired by Fuentes' "willingness to debate"? Or nah?
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 12/09/2025
The same people who complained that “wokeness” got people fired and ostracized over tweets … are currently demanding that people be fired and ostracized over tweets.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Please stop calling it a "political assassination."Charlie Kirk wasn't elected to anything, and calling it that elevates him to something he wasn't. It was not an assassination. It was a murder.
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The Borowitz Report @borowitzreport.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
For accuracy’s sake, I stop calling people Nazis when they stop saying and doing Nazi things. At that point I call them former Nazis
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Everyone should be held to the same standards.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Since Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, people on the left have been censored, punished, and targeted with more violence for telling the truth about Kirk's legacy. The cycle continues: mainstream whitewashing of violence begets more violence and the victims are blamed. spitfirenews.com/p/the-nation...
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The national gaslighting about Charlie Kirk
Another pattern of censorship that only hurts the left—and emboldens political violence.
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Farming While Beige @sylvanaquafarms.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Haven’t written an actual essay in some time… sylvanaqua.medium.com/why-were-not...
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Why We’re Not Sad About Charlie Kirk
We’re mourning our future in a place where even progressives have accepted White Supremacy as a facet of, rather than a threat to, America.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Groypers are white christian nationalists, and Kirk was also a white christian nationalist. They're all fascists, but they disagreed on tactics, with Groypers being more openly racist/accelerationist while Kirk wanted to be seen as "respectable" in the eyes of mainstream America, more or less.
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Snow Burrow @bostonjerry.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
If you don't know who the Groypers are, they're one of the most extreme and most extremely online subcultures of fascism, led by Nick Fuentes. Laura Loomer also comes from the Groyper world. They're the ones who basically took the Pepe meme and made it into their mascot.
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
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Quadcarl @quadcarl.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Don’t let conservatives rewrite history.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 12/09/2025
If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
The Republican-led US government is throwing its full weight, at the federal and state levels, behind punishing teachers, soldiers, or immigrants for their speech about the killing of a conservative pundit. It's as absurd and laughable as it is dangerous and dystiopian.
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