Regardless of how any of us felt about Kirk, it is *devastating* that his kids and wife will never see him again. That's a horrifying, traumatic thing for anyone to go through, and I do hope they hang in there. Kindness, not violence, should be our aim in life, always.

I think everyone feels empathy for her. That’s just being human. I don’t like the politicization of the funeral but that’s our societal reality.

on a human level I feel for Erika Kirk. The look on her face here. Heartbreaking. My heart goes out.

Let’s go Lynx!

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Here's what Saint Charlie said about Crockett a few months before he died. www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

I have plans this afternoon that will take me away from the computer so no live coverage of the Kirk memorial from me. Have a nice Sunday, folks.

Trump and Vance’s contradictory messages on these killings: 1: Our glorious military carried out hyper-precise attacks on dastardly drug smugglers. 2: If you’re an innocent fisherman, watch out because we might kill you by mistake!

Third time (at least) Trump has made a joke or light of killing fishermen, and Vance did it too. They’ve made joking about killing fishermen an effing talking point.

I have written for @atrupar.com and PN so I endorse this heartily:

Reporters, this is when you ask him what day it is. And how to spell his name. Have him count backwards. Just see how that all turns out.

Trump on the TikTok deal: "A man named Lachlan is involved. Lachlan Murdoch ... Rupert is probably gonna be in the group."

You know a doctor is a quack when he asks for medical advice from RFK, Jr., who admits that nobody should ask him for medical advice.

Trump: "I think water fishing, I think almost anything we have to get into a boat right now in that area would not be doing too well."

REPORTER: Will you help depend Poland and the Baltic states from Russia if Russia keeps escalating? TRUMP: Yeah, I would

REPORTER: Have you ever threatened DOJ leadership if they don't prosecuted Letitia James? TRUMP: No. I don't do that. I mean, I look at the facts like everybody else. You read the facts, and to me she looks terrible, she looks like she's very guilty. But that's going to be up to the DOJ.

This is the most sobering post of the day. Aaron is absolutely right. This is the most brazenly corrupt, authoritarian regime the U.S. has probably ever seen. It is a test we cannot fail to rise to. Trump must be (legally) removed from office. Congress must act.

Sen. Roger Marshall on what he wants to ask RFK Jr: "How do we build up our own immunity, so when we do get viruses like covid - and we've probably each had had covid 5 or 10 times, we're developing natural immunity - but what can we do to address the chronic disease epidemic?"

WELKER: Do you believe it's appropriate for the president to direct the AG to go after his political opponents? RAND PAUL: I think lawfare in all forms is bad. What they did to Donald Trump ... WELKER: Do you disagree with Trump's post? RAND PAUL: I just said -- lawfare of all sorts is wrong

Rand Paul stops short of criticizing Trump's egregious attack on free speech, saying "I can't control everything the president says" and deflecting by bringing up the Twitter Files

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

WELKER: Do you believe Brendan Carr's comments were appropriate? RAND PAUL: Absolutely inappropriate. Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.

It’s really all we should be talking about today.

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Josh Shapiro: "In a society where we have less freedom, which is what the president is doing -- restricting one's ability to speak, which is enshrined in the 1st Amendment of our Constitution -- we are all safe, we are all less free."

Josh Shapiro: "I was on a Spanish language radio program in the Allentown area and the host said something really chilling to me -- that he now has to think about what topics he's going to discuss because he's fearful he might offend federal regulators of the president."

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Chris Murphy: "The question today is when is enough enough for Republicans. I was very glad to see Ted Cruz stand up and say what is simply true -- it is unconstitutional and deeply immoral for the president to jail or silence his political enemies."

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Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

BASH: He's asking his AG in a public way to go after his political enemies. You're okay with that? MARKWAYNE MULLIN: What we know is President Trump is very open and transparent with the American people and he speaks his mind. That's what his supporters love about him.

Mullin: "When 97% of the news stories are negative about him & 99% about Pete Hegseth are negative, it is cheating, bc you're putting out a narrative that isn't true...there's a thin line between free speech & when it crosses a line and causes violence. And when you start calling someone fascist..."

BASH: Trump is redefining free speech as speech that's only favorable to him. I can't imagine you're ok w/ that as somebody who swore an oath to the Constitution MULLIN: He didn't say free speech. He said cheating & what he was referring to are elections B: No. That's not what he was talking about

BASH: The big difference here, as you know, is that this is a broadcast network that was threatened by a govt individual who has oversight over their regulation and potential for mergers MARKWAYNE MULLIN: Sure, but this is also a network that has not been friendly to this administration whatsoever

Raskin: "He wants to condition the public to the idea that it's completely legitimate for the president not only to be ordering prosecutions of particular people over the objections of prosecutors, but he wants to condition the public to accepting the idea he can do that in public, openly."

Fetterman: "It's the wrong tactic at this time -- always, always -- to shut our government down."

"All I can tell you is I'm going to continue talking to him" -- Schumer is still refusing to endorse Mamdani

SCHUMER: I hope and pray that that Trump will sit down with us and negotiate BASH: And if he doesn't, I'm just confirming that you'll vote no. Is that correct? SCHUMER: We are hoping that he will negotiate with us BASH: And if he doesn't? SCHUMER: We must get a better bill than what they have

Schumer: "What we are asking, very simply, is what has always been done in these kinds of budget negotiations -- a bipartisan negotiation."

SCHUMER: This is the path to a dictatorship. That's what dictatorships do. BASH: You heard the president over & over on the campaign trail saying that he was going to do just this, that he was going to investigate his political enemies. And he won the election! SCHUMER: He ran on many other issues

Neil Young brought it at Farm Aid. One of the greatest rock n rollers of all time.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

If people who know their history keep comparing you to Nazis, the fault is not with the people making the comparisons.

Post now deleted, more or less confirming it was a DM. Great opsec!

so the president just tweeted out an offense worse than watergate, we all realize that right?

if I were a member of the current Trump administration I would not be excited about the concept of “illegal pardons”

Obvious to say, but the algorithm will be manipulated to amplify MAGA disinformation and throttle anti-Trump posts.

"Imagine if Biden did this" Yes that's the point they're making sure you know Dems and the media are straight stupid for believing in norms or whatever. The administration wakes up every day and cannot believe what they got away with and they're gonna make sure you pay for it.

Make Lies-to-congress Illegal Again

He still thinks/claims that “asylum seekers” come from insane asylums