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Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The Trump administration spent $167,000 to destroy $9.7 million worth of birth control and other contraceptives that were supposed to go to low-income countries. Imagine hating helping so much that you’d actually spend money just to make sure others don’t get help.doctorswithoutborders.orgUnconscionable: US plan to destroy $9.7 million of contraceptivesMSF condemns the decision to destroy these critical medical supplies, which will have devastating consequences for the communities where we work. 14634691326
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMickieMorganfield @mickiedances.bsky.social · 11/09/2025www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko was 30 yrs old in 1977 when South African police beat him into a fatal coma 48 years ago in a prison cell where they had held him for a month. Police initially claimed the charismatic intellectual had died during a hunger strike.theguardian.comSouth Africa to reopen Steve Biko inquest 48 years after death in police custodyDeath of anti-apartheid activist in 1977 after police beat him into a coma sparked outrage across the world 041
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Brazil's Supreme Court held its country's former president accountable for committing crimes. Meanwhile, our country's Supreme Court gave our former president immunity from prosecution for committing even more crimes. So guess which country is more broken and shamelessly corrupt. 302134303707
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The lawsuit fired by senior FBI agents yesterday quote Patel saying that he had to do what the WH wanted (in that case, fire people for no good reason) to keep his job. The WH needs this murder to be blamed on…an enemy. You do the math. 701900496
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAdam Cochran @adamscochran.bsky.social · 12/09/20251/2 In case you were wondering why the incorrect rumor of “trans activist” and “fascist symbols” on ammo started, it’s because arrows and initials are common ways manufacturers stamp ammo. Including “TRN” the ironsight and a direction broad arrow: 8930831079
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 12/09/2025The podcaster didn’t speak? 2216322
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/09/2025Meiselas: After Charleston, Obama didn’t blame Republicans. But MAGA leaders, starting with Trump, say Democrats must be eradicated for Kirk’s death—without knowing who did it?! That’s maliciously provoking more violence. 26470551970
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialRandi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Please 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. 543121132348
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialTexas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 12/09/2025This investigation is a disaster. We are about to have a briefing to tell us nothing of consequence but there is a real chance they spill information you don't want to release to the public. Example, they told everyone including the shooter they had his footprint so those shoes are now GONE. 2494294814
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025This is the guy who is supposed to be in charge. 2944148113434
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Thousands of undocumented immigrant workers helped rebuild New York City in the wake of 9/11. 24 years later, they're at risk of deportation as they still struggle with chronic health issues. A pathway to citizenship is the least these workers deserve. documentedny.com/2025/09/11/u...documentedny.comThey Helped Rebuild After 9/11. Now They Live in Fear of Deportation.Nearly 25 years after clearing rubble at ground zero, undocumented workers could gain a pathway to citizenship with a bill from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez being reintroduced today. 178109743513
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAdam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 12/09/2025While we were distracted by Charlie Kirk, the incompetence of Kash Patel, the conviction of Jair Bolsonaro and the GOP voting not to release the Epstein files Republicans in the Senate were busy deploying the nuclear option by shredding the filibuster Thanks so much, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema 9122311113
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialRon Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2025I can report that the temperature has not been lowered yet. 1661125052371
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialChristopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/09/2025Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much. 2222222387319
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/09/2025PRESS CONFERENCE: They’re going to share the photos and video they’ve already released. Now they’re calling him a suspect as opposed to a person of interest. They’re turning to the public to get help. They don’t have him. 4506605995
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMolly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Why????? 72360862206
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like. 216211544911
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAllison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 11/09/2025NEW: Shame on the Wall Street Journal for moving forward without details about their single-source reporting on this. The ATF is now saying the "internal law enforcement memo" about "transgender and anti-fascist ideologies" has NOT been verified and DOES NOT match their information. 20935591124
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Honestly people who believed the initial @wsj.com lies about the bullets just failed a basic media literacy test. The WSJ is just printing white wing press releases and if you don’t know that by now I don’t know what to tell you. 13264361315
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialDavid Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The aging, latent police reporter in me can't help put pause to remark on the unforced error of the SAC in Salt Lake's FBI field office making the unforced error of announcing they have recovered a “footwear impression.” A shout-out to toss or destroy those shoes, ASAP. That's a detail you keep. 524114162062
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents. 631381029910
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Today, we honor the lives lost and the courage of the first responders who were impacted on September 11, 2001. We remember not only the tragedy of that day, but the deep scars it left on families, communities, and our nation. 153120212061
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 11/09/2025From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki... 330125485677
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 11/09/2025Today, we mourn the memory of those we lost on September 11, 2001. We also come together to honor the brave heroes, like our first responders, who risked their lives that tragic day to save countless others. Their sacrifice can never be repaid. We will never forget. 14095191955
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/09/2025 1183149784744
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office. 326124343994
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/09/2025No, Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk wasn't “practicing politics the right way.” He promoted racism, sexism, homophobia and xenophobia. Kirk had every right to express his political views, and his death is an outrage. But no one who believes in peace and love should praise what he was doing to our politics. 2123098756
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialJon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11/09/2025What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨 1418270306970
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This is a very Nazi thing to say, actually. 54865971263
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is 308206714232
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2025When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization. 103175904608
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAaron Weiss (no relation) @aweiss.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado. 951320459244
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAdam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Charlie Kirk was killed for saying things "that used to be simple common sense," says Boris Johnson. Here's a few of those things 37139381651
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025The 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. 1187380317423
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialSchooley @schooley.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Meanwhile, MSNBC over there firing people for saying the obvious. 2340967
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAsha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 11/09/2025And now law enforcement is in the position of either following the evidence, even if it contradicts Trump’s “conclusions” and makes him mad, or validate his predetermined narrative no matter what 1063196813
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.” 1373300386672
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 11/09/2025“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk 611150404672
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialMeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2025Deeply disturbing rhetoric is spreading from influential MAGA figures (including the President of the United States and the owner of that other website). They have no idea who the shooter is, and many of these same people mocked Democrats when they were victims of political violence in the past. 1/ 56350811723
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialKittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Trump was angry that Charlie Kirk dared to call out the Epstein files. He was angry that Charlie dared to question the cowardly and inappropriate attack on the Venezuelan speedboat. Did Trump decide shooting Charlie would be a great distraction from these issues? The shooter probably won’t be found.media.tenor.coma man in a suit and tie is asking how it worksALT: a man in a suit and tie is asking how it works 2511436491
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11/09/2025He joked multiple times about Paul Pelosi getting smashed in the skull with a hammer. 240133582882
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialSami Schalk @drsamischalk.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. I’ve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that man’s organization so 🤷🏽♀️ 5687342823
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialkate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 10/09/2025When Minnesota Democratic State Representative Melissa Hortman was murdered in her home by a gun toting MAGA maniac less than 90 days ago they said nothing. Trump even skipped her funeral and chose to play golf instead. He had the chance to condemn political violent and did not. 153418970
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialTexas Paul @realtexaspaul.com · 11/09/2025I'm holding my tongue for now, but if you fuckers in the media don't stop trying to eulogize Charlie Kirk like he was Ted Kennedy or Bob Dole I am going to tell everybody what I think about that hate filled son of a........like I said I am currently holding my tongue, for now. 1081135733246
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialJust Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Here’s the thing. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I lower my American flag for someone who sent bus loads of insurrectionists to the Capitol. 367157882801
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/09/2025My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies. 23374642079
Reposted by @southernjib.bsky.social𝙽𝚊𝚜𝚑 𝙸𝚜 𝙷𝚎𝚛𝚎 𝙵𝚘𝚛 𝙸𝚝 @nashishereforit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025He completely ignored the assassination of a democratic lawmaker, her husband, and their dog, and the attempted assassination of another lawmaker and his wife, so f*ck this… 55163891829