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I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

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Just um…no

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.

Meanwhile on Reddit…

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

Yeah, I would't necessarily credit Kirk as an exponent of "good-faith debate." One can lament violence without making up a better person to mourn than the victim actually was.

March 18, 2017 - Antifascists gathered to oppose a Turning Point USA conference at the Grand Hyatt in Denver. On a video Charlie Kirk posted of a confrontation with protesters, a TPUSA attendee can be heard shouting “yeah, I’m a Nazi”:

Charlie Kirk’s legacy…he had a constitutional right to free speech. This is how he used it.

Solid. This is the blueprint elected officials should use for guidance right now. The governor of California could learn a thing or two from his Illinois counterpart.

All victims of gun violence should be mourned, regardless of party. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

None of this is acceptable. Americans have the right to free speech and everyone should be able to exercise that right safely, even if we disagree. Everyone should have the benefit of the Constitution’s protections, even Charlie Kirk and especially all the many other Americans he denigrated.

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

Charlie Kirk’s legacy - some things he said: “If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like ‘Boy, I hope he’s qualified.” “Birth control makes women angry and bitter.” “The ‘Great Replacement’ is not a theory, it’s a reality.” Free speech was his right as an American. This is how he used it.

Hannah Arendt said 'The death of human empathy is one of the earliest & most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism' We saw the recent cruelty of MAGA denying empathy to Melissa Hortman Empathy for Kirk—not because he ever acted like a decent human—but because we are decent humans

@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.

Be the lawyer on the tarmac in whatever part of your life and work you can be right now.

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing. Half-mast, my ass.

Earlier this year, Utah Republicans passed a "Campus Carry" law (HB 128), which allows individuals aged 18+ to carry a firearm, either openly or concealed, on college campuses, provided they hold a valid Utah Concealed Weapon Permit (CWP).

Thinking about the family of Representative Melissa Hortman & her husband who were assassinated at the hands of a radical MAGA shooter in June. Melissa was doing such important work for the state of Minnesota & this country-we grieve her loss & demand strict gun reform legislation.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

Political violence is wrong. And I’ve never wished anyone ill. However, I am really finding it difficult to have compassion for someone who had so little compassion for others. Hopefully we can rise above this such that people can speak freely & safely in the U.S. for both left & right.

The Constitution's fatal blind spot: it never mentions corporations. This enabled systemic racism, surveillance capitalism, and the real-life Lex Luthor in the White House. But we're done letting traitors define what America means. Let's fight "America's Kryptonite." Let's Make America Super.

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For the Republican Speaker of the House to threaten to shut down the House to block a vote calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files is absolutely insane. Literally willing to end work on American priorities to protect Trump’s pedophile friend.

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Once the tariff shortages and higher prices really hit this summer (gas is already at least $1 more per gal) - the GOP is going to find themselves answering a lot of very angry questions from their confused disinformed voters & culture warriors…

Starting this week, Republicans are going to try to ram through their tax cuts for billionaires at the expense of our kids and seniors. Don’t let them! #HandsOffOurMedicaid

Sir with all due respect - can we stop using SAT fancy people words like “oligarchy” which carries exactly zero emotional resonance for maybe 95% of normal people and just call it maybe - “tyranny” & “un-America”. Which it also is!

They call it “deportation” to whitewash their crimes. But anyone can see that’s not what this is. An American citizen was abducted by the MAGA regime and expelled from her own country. In Trump’s America, no one is safe from being stripped of their rights — without warning, process, or recourse.

Congrats to Canada for making a better choice for their future than half of a deluded desperate bamboozled and bigoted America.

Right now US voters have essentially 2 choices - a greedy band of old vicious billionaire grifters willing to use bigotry & false promises for votes OR a well-meaning set of “comfortable” aristocrats & elitists disconnected from normal ppl to whom they condescend w head-patting - “there there”.

✝️Pope Francis called for peace among people with his last words. May we all do our best to fulfill that shared dream and go down fighting for it as hard as he did. ✨

I was heartbroken to hear of Pope Francis’ passing. He led by example; he loved by example. He showed how much power generosity, charity & tolerance can build. He taught you can counter cruel conservatism head on with both Word and deed - how much better we can be to each other. So much to learn.

Should we start a betting pool on how long before Trump’s next impeachment hearings begin? The GOP cost-benefit calculus of monster appeasement for job security and 🤑 seems to be re-calibrating…

It seems it is finally becoming clear to certain ppl that Trump may be, at his advanced age, more idiot than useful.

Trump wants to turn America into North Korea. Do you want to live in North Korea? This should be Democrat’s sole message.

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Can’t disagree- clearly we need new leadership with new ideas.

We…should be talking about this more given that Navarro is a leading driver of the current tariff madness.

This… the same happened to teachers when women began to join the education sector. Overtime teachers have become increasingly devalued and disrespected in America. It’s not too late to appreciate those whose work serves others.

We are about to find out if the U.S. Constitution is still A Thing or not …