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bmazing.bsky.social @bmazing.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

weird that neither of these articles two main stories decrying censorship mention WaPo's firing of @karenattiah.bsky.social I guess democracy really does die in darkness

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.

I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

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Josh Fruhlinger @jfruh.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

I guess the main thing I’m learning this week is that lots of elite media people knew charlie kirk personally and didn’t know any minnesota state legislators

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Manik @manik.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The assassination of Charlie Kirk makes we worry we can no longer have peaceful discussions of whether gays should be stoned to death or civil and collegial debates about whether black people are inherently inferior. Our culture will suffer. New York Times tomorrow

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Alex Arrelia @alexarrelia.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

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Michael Paarlberg @mpaarlberg.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

One of Kirk’s more pernicious legacies was the whole “debate me bro” culture. He somehow convinced a lot of liberals like Ezra Klein and Gavin Newsom that “doing politics the right way” isn’t about organizing power, it’s about talking fast at people.

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Mike (beep boop era) @latimeriidae.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

My take on the Current Event is that the right has been calling for civil war over pronouns and the relative fuckability of green M&Ms for years at this point.

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The Derek that gets mad about butter @ratcitypnw.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

When ya’ll are ready to talk about mens health, we can start by discussing how Charlie Kirk was strategically using the mental health and self esteem issues afflicting young men to sow misogyny into an entire generation of men. Cause thats his story.

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

uhh can someone tell me if this is normal for a civilian???

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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time: 1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society 2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

when has history in the US ever shown us that bad guys get their just punishments? genuinely asking. doesn't seem to happen here

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Rachel @maddow.msnbc.com last night: "We do now live in a country that has an authoritarian leader in charge. We have a consolidating dictatorship in our country."

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Alicia @aliciablackgirl.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

People should be up in arms about the closure of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the destruction of the economy, the arrests of non-criminal immigrants and the increasing banning of books and other information sources in this country. Wake up, folks.

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 05/08/2025

one of the most infuriating parts of the Epstein story is over the same years that young women went to police and reported assault, and were ignored, law enforcement is pushing this idea that they need massive grants and manpower to rescue thousands of girls they say don’t even know they’re victims

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

The most corrupt White House in 🇺🇸 history. Pay for play. Selling the country for parts. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/u...

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

ya'll know we're never having another free and fair election, right?

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

COLBERT: You warned everyone…he would prosecute political enemies, cut Medicaid, alienate our allies, give tax cuts to the rich. I know you're not here to say 'I told you so' but would you like to? HARRIS: You're correct. I did predict a lot of that. But what I did not predict was the capitulation.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

great PSA. more men should be getting #vasectomies in #oregon

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📎𝑹𝒐𝒙𝒊𝒆 🌹💙🐾 @roxierose2.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Fact: The President of the United States has a worse criminal record than 99% of the people he is deporting.

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

trying to not be overly dramatic, serious question: is there truly anything to be hopeful for right now? it looks so extremely bleak in every. single. direction.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Yes, this IS absolute madness.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

It's hard not to be a mean cyclist. Drivers keep risking your life to save a few seconds off their trip. You quickly get sick of it

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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 26/07/2025

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Welcome to America; where our president is publicly saying nice things about, giving immunity to, and suggesting a possible pardon for a well-connected child sex trafficker. But I’m sure he’s got a good reason.

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AFSCME @afscme.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Today, marks 16 years since the federal minimum wage was last increased. Since then, CEO pay has increased by 91%. What's the best way to strengthen worker power and secure family-sustaining wages? Get Organized.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/07/2025

wrote this last month!

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Straight up gangster strawberry festival. “I’m just going for the jam” “Then why you got a gas mask?” “Immabouta say some shit I’ve had pent up all damn year”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Constitutional crisis is here

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C Lee @lovelyclee.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

the irony that none of them ever tell Elon to go back to Africa...

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Let's be clear people: Russell Vought and Steven Miller are reigning over us now. Trump has essentially handed over day-to-day decision-making to them and others. Congress and the Supreme Court have ceded their authority to unelected men in the White House. Trump is a figurehead.

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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

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