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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
/7 So I question the proposition that just because Charlie Kirk didn't go around killing people, but went around belittling and demeaning and dehumanizing them instead, that he's inherently admirable. Would I be a hero if I said I will debate ANYONE about whether black people are human? No.
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
And some of us did but we’re in the microgap generation of 1978-1981 so … there! I guess.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.
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Miss Ivy @miss-ive.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
True political violence is always awful. But let’s be clear, Kirk is no hero. He make a profitable career of spreading hate, lies, and conspiracies.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
This is quite possibly the most sanitized, white-washed hagiography of Charlie Kirk. You can and should condemn his murder AND accurately describe his life devoted to hate, division and bigotry. It's all there. He didn't hide it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
washingtonpost.com
Charlie Kirk, fiery voice in conservative politics, killed at 31
Charlie Kirk, 31, built one of the most influential organizations on the right, turning viral debate moments into fuel for Turning Point’s rapid growth.
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Constant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
TBH, I find this really insulting, especially in light of them not being lowered for Minnesota.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Holy fascist madness.
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2025
We all can and should condemn political violence but doing a moment of silence is a very specific kind of choice given who he was
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Yankees suck
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
It’s because Republicans and Republicans alone drive coverage
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.
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Aaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
David Rose was a Black Marine veteran with 2 children and a third on the way. He was shot and killed as a police officer responding to the attack on the CDC by an anti vaxxer lone gunman. This was what he got for his service & sacrifice: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
A gunman shot at the CDC, killing an officer. Trump hasn't said a word.
Trump has said nothing about the police officer killed by a gunman who shot at the
CDC, an example of how selective he can be amid his daily torrent of words.
Updated August 15, 2025
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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Wish the news outlets and baseball teams (lol???) rushing to eulogize a D-tier right wing mouthpiece would include some of their favorite inspirational quotes from the guy. Should be easy, right? Show me that soaring rhetoric and big thinking worthy of such veneration
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.
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andré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
edited photo of a bear with a glamour shots background
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I know someone whose husband teaches there. He’s safe but it’s just so ever present. It will eventually directly impact us all.
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Dan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 10/09/2025
On the same day that Charlie Kirk was murdered, at least 3 teens, including the shooter, are reported to be in critical condition following a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado. The only difference is that we've become numb to gun violence aimed at our children. coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/e...
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3 teens, including suspected shooter, in critical condition after shooting at Evergreen High School
A fourth minor was also transported to a hospital, a spokesperson with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said
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Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
They've completely memory-holed the assassination and attempted assassination of two Dem legislators in Minnesota less than three months ago.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off
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WelcomeToDot @welcometodot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
from r/boston if you see any of these vans on the road, they deserve whatever full blown masshole behavior they are asking for
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.
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You Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for Yourself
This time, the conspiracy theorists were right.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
lol fuck off
Washington Post headline: No clear answers on whether Trump signed the Epstein birthday book
The president denies it is his writing, and experts say they can't be sure. The White House welcomed a forensic analysis of the loopy D and long tail.
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Oh I am a scientist and many many years ago I used to have to make very thin slices of a fetal mouse brain on a slide for an experiment we did and those slices looked EXACTLY like an alien head. The big eyed, big head take me to your leader version from the 50s and 60s
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
oh so we're referring to the biden era as a boom now, huh
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Congressional Democrats can’t decide if they should cut a deal with the pedophile dictator who is trying to militarily invade their cities. Seems like a fairly obvious choice to me, but what do I know.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It's also always funny when "Southerners" means exclusively "white Southerners." You have to keep your eye on people like this when they start using words.
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☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I feel like your political movement may have gone off the rails if it requires you to hate To Kill a Mockingbird and Tom Hanks
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Raptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Sorry to make it worse but there's a part of the WSJ article that no one is talking about that I had to share with someone.
The Epstein estate also turned over another letter from the book that references Trump. It came from businessman and longtime Mar-a-Lago member Joel Pashcow, who made a crude joke about a woman that Trump and Epstein socialized with in the 1990s, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Pashcow letter included a photo of a posterboard-sized check for $22,500, which had been mocked up to appear that it was sent from Trump to Epstein. Beneath it, a handwritten caption said: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women sells ‘fully depreciated’ [redacted] to Donald Trump for $22,500.” The woman’s name is redacted in the image.
Photo of three men holding a check for $22,500 made out to Jeffrey Epstein, with handwritten notes discussing the transaction.

Pashcow and his attorney didn’t respond to requests for comment. A lawyer for the woman said she doesn’t know Pashcow and has no knowledge of the letter naming her, which the lawyer called a “disgusting and deeply disturbing hoax.”Letter which reads: "Jeffary showing early talents with money + Women! Sells "Fully depreciated" [Name Redacted] to Donald Trump for 22,500$. Showed early "people skilld" too. Even though I handled the deal I didn't get any of the money on the girl!
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
It's important to give a guy who accused Barack Obama of faking his own birth the benefit of the doubt when covering his loving connection to the one of the most vile sex traffickers in human history
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geoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
chuck if you're going to make me tease out riddles to figure out what the fuck you're saying i'm just going to assume you're folding like last time, i do not have time for this
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says.
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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Under this Supreme Court, Joe Biden couldn't forgive student debt because that would be a presidential overreach, but Trump can demand that anyone who looks like they may be an immigrant show their papers.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern...
A chart listing the Supreme Court's rulings on emergency applications from the Trump administration, the last 20 of which have been granted in full or in part, and almost always over dissents from (only) the Democratic appointees.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Beating women is man's God given right, says Trump. After all, I beat Ivana.
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Not me. So there.
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swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I guess this is what being an originalist really is - a firm commitment to the 3/5th compromise
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Biden spent almost all four years calling a partisan democratic infrastructure law the “bipartisan infrastructure law” in one of the dumbest fucking branding moves I’ve ever seen in politics. Democrats earned this L
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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them.
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rob c. @rcolonna.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
we took a disney cruise to alaska and didn’t go insane or get capsized by orcas or eaten by bears. vuvuzle.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/i...
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It’s A Hell Of A Day At Sea, Sir!
Or, why our cruise to Alaska was great, but we’d probably never do it again until we’re old and rich. The thing is, it was excellent. We have nearly nothing bad to say about the Disney cruise *2. O…
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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
The founding fathers ranged from "weirdest religious beliefs you could imagine" to "agnostic" to the 18th century equivalent of "I'll go to Church on Sunday, but only if it means I don't miss the kickoff." It was, as best, a tertiary influence.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
its just mind boggling that a president can get away with hating his constituents this much, i just cant even comprehend this shit its so beyond the pale
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
there is a deep rot in the soul of this country that delights in the misery of others for no reason other than their perceived “non traditional” way of life its sick and it needs to be addressed
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
but cracker barrel changing their logo is an attack by woke on half the country? we need new elites, we’ve given the wrong people money and power and influence and we need to take it away from them
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