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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

From Feb 4th 1939

Goebbels Ends Careers of Five 'Aryan' Actors Who Made Witticisms About the Nazi Regime Feb 4th 1939

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 18/09/2025

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Meanwhile, the meanest and most accurate thing you can say about Jimmy Fallon is that the Trump administration isn’t worried about him in the slightest.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

ah, well

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

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ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’

The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

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Remora House DC @remorahousedc.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

UNHOUSED PEOPLE ARE MORE LIKELY TO BE THE VICTIMS OF CRIME THAN THE PERPETRATORS People are so bothered by someone drinking a beer in a park or trying to sleep on a sidewalk they froth at the mouth screaming about how they are a danger to society. And this is what fucking happens.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We now have a MAGA congressman using Charlie Kirk to call for taking trans people "off the streets," putting them into institutions, and banning them from the internet. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/texas-c...

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Texas Congressman Says Trans People Need To Be Taken ‘Off The Streets’ After Charlie Kirk Shooting

The killing of right wing activist and influencer Charlie Kirk has prompted...

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 17/09/2025

It's been another morning of terror in Chicagoland. ICE is snatching people across burbs + city. More cars abandoned on the side of the road, & more day laborers disappeared. A van rolls into the Broadview "processing facility." After gates close, agents move 3 men in shackles into the building.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I am amazed at just how inept the Democrats’ congressional leadership is on this moment of crisis. Trump is moving troops into blue cities and declaring war against the left, and these guys are complaining that the GOP Congress is pushing a partisan budget. Jesus Christ, wake the hell up.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

We are witnessing a swift and sweeping consolidation of media (traditional and social) into the hands of a small number of billionaires who are actively aligned/aligning (both via free will and coercion) with Trump and his right wing political party. This is (I’ll say it) a fascist project.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 16/09/2025

Maybe Ezra Klein should have asked Ben Shapiro about his friend and fellow Daily Wire podcaster, Matt Walsh, who is calling for the death of everyone on the left and LGBTQ people.

"Tweet from Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) posted September 16, 2025, at 4:37 PM. It reads: 'This was left wing LGBT terrorism. There was never much doubt. Now there is none at all. All left wing terror networks must be crushed. All of the terrorists and their helpers and funders must be arrested, prosecuted, and put to death.' The tweet shows 63.3K views."

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 17/09/2025

Activists in Seattle just sent us this update from the Tesla showroom in South Lake Union. This is the heart of Seattle's tech core, blocks from Amazon HQ and Google's Seattle campus. We can win. We are winning. Keep pushing. #teslatakedown #MuskMustFall

Photo of car navigation system pointed to Tesla at 435 Westlake Ave N, nav shows location listed as PERMANENTLY CLOSED

Photo outside the empty showroom, where protestors have hung a Spirit Halloween Coming Soon banner

Photo of side windows of former Tesla showroom where activists have hung banners reading "accountability for billionaires" and multiple anti-Tesla and anti-Musk signs.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

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Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause

By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Just read the indictment. Gonna guess this is the most detail we get about why this happened. Presuming these messages weren't some sort of misdirect, he hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk was hateful. Honestly doesn't sound like he had a super clear idea why he inscribed the memes on his bullets.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Donald Trump's approval rating has fallen to -17 in our tracker, the worst of his second term www.economist.com/interactive/...

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

NEW: Two men were found hanging from trees in Mississippi on Tuesday—a Black student at Delta State University in Cleveland and a homeless white man in Vicksburg. Police say the deaths aren't connected, but speculation has spread on social media like wildfire.

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Man Found Hanging in Tree in Vicksburg, Hours After DSU Hanging

The body of 35-year-old Cory Zukatis, a homeless man, was found hanging from a tree in a wooded area in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

It seems that the only trans person known to be in the orbit of this horrific Kirk assassination saga expressed shock and horror, and immediately cooperated fully with law enforcement.

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WasWrecked&NowImFound @wrecked9n76e.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Karina Villa protecting her constituents by literally running ICE off the streets in West Chicago and yelling to residents to stay inside their homes.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The political juggernaut that Democrats cower in fear of

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Now he is very openly promising to crush civil liberties in order to "save civilization." This is naked fascist talk

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The chief judge of the Rwandan genocide tribunal has concluded, after studying the evidence exhaustively, that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide in Gaza: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

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Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

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Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

The glorification of Charlie Kirk is becoming a bit excessive. Right-wing pastor Rick Joyner: "Do you know of anyone in their earlier 30s that accomplished as much as that man, except for Jesus?"

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Honoring Charlie Kirk's memory by ruining the lives of anyone who accurately quotes Charlie Kirk

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/09/2025

under this language charlie kirk would not have been allowed to speak on clemson’s campus

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 15/09/2025

1. Vance, Miller, and Trump announced crackdowns on left-leaning NGOs that the regime views as responsible for Charlie Kirk's death. They targeted specific nonprofits for an article calling Kirk a racist and transphobe, the Ford Foundation and Open Society. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Vance, Miller Announce Crackdowns Left-leaning Nonprofits That Criticized Kirk, Calling Them "Terrorist Networks"

The administration announced that it would target nonprofits who were critical of Kirk, going as far as to name the Ford Foundation and Open Society after an article criticized Kirk at The Nation.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/09/2025

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Candace Owens is live on Youtube right now and seems to be winding up to blame Israeli PM Netanyahu for Charlie Kirk's murder. More than 170k people are watching.

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

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

JD Vance is doing the Reichstag Fire the right way. by Ezra Klein

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"It’s no longer tenable... to delineate between the digital world and 'real life.' The bile we swim in daily, sometimes for hours on end, is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable." @aselrod.bsky.social is right. From shooters to voters, the internet is driving toxic anger.

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Yes, It’s the Guns. It’s Also the Phones.

Life online is corroding the virtues that make liberal democratic life tenable.

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/09/2025

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

"Bill Kristol quotes George Washington's condemnation of 18th century antisemitism to defend transgender people from scapegoating following the assassination of Charlie Kirk" is an actual sentence

Jews were then a tiny percentage of the population of the United States–something like 2,500 souls out of almost 4 million. But Washington wanted to emphasize that the members of this small and previously persecuted minority were entitled, here in the United States, to the same rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as everyone else.

Two hundred and thirty five years later, there is in this nation a minority group whose rights are under severe attack: transgender individuals. We have a presidential administration which seeks to curtail those individuals’ rights. We have a powerful political movement that wishes to make them afraid.

This is wrong. It’s also un-American. Other Americans don’t have to understand or sympathize with transgender individuals. But we ought to defend their basic human rights. We ought to do so out of a simple sense of justice. But we also ought to do so out of a sense of pride that our nation exemplifies an “enlarged and liberal policy” for mankind, and that here “there shall be none to make him afraid.”

One could call that American greatness.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The WI Dem party flags that GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden has tweeted more than 550 times in the 5 days since the 22-year-old Utah man killed Charlie Kirk. And in those posts, Van Orden has:

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

“South Korea’s labour minister has said ‘not even prisoners of war’ would be treated as badly as hundreds of Korean workers detained by US immigration authorities following a raid at a Hyundai-LG battery plant in Georgia.”

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Miles Howard @milesperhoward.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Neo-Nazis seen hear violently attacking a Charlie Kirk supporter who did not support white supremacists being part of the memorial. Will the media cover this?

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onion person @junlper.beer · 13/09/2025

what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Almost all of the initial reporting on ICE murdering Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez in cold blood was wrong because it was based on government propaganda, what seems to have actually happened is that he tried to flee the border Gestapo and they shot him Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

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nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Hi! I was homeless. That's me he wants to kill. If you don't know me, hi, I am pretty nice, I think. I'm a privacy lawyer. I drive a cute yellow Bronco. I do art. I have two really fluffy Maine coon cats. I volunteer at food banks when I can. This guy would have killed me for being homeless.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.

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