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genuinely crazy that this is happening on behalf of charlie kirk of all people
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The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.
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One of the hallmarks of authoritarianism is to terrify people into self-censorship. ABC ending Kimmel’s show is the perfect example of this.
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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.
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We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
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Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate
The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.
Ezra Klein has clearly lost the plot Such an offensive and intellectually dishonest take. Wild that he believes Kirk represented what America should be about.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
Watching MSNBC and I feel like we’re in bizarro land. Contributors falling all over themselves to mourn and sort of praise Charlie Kirk. Wtf is happening? The man was toxic and represented all that is wrong with the hateful, reactionary politics of the American right wing.
Charlie Kirk died how he lived. Violently and by a gun. #CharlieKirk #MAGA
So #SCOTUS just made racial profiling legal. These unexplained emergency rulings are blowing up the guardrails of precedent and human decency. #Trump
What in the actual fuck is going on in Texas?! Leave it to a Black woman to put her body and freedom on the line for what is just. #NicoleCollier #Texas #GOP #Politics
To the surprise of absolutely no one, Trump flew home from Alaska with absolutely zero concessions from Putin.
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One was beaten unconscious. Others were covered in bruises, struggling to walk or vomiting blood. Another said he’d been sexually assaulted.

These are the stories of 16 former detainees who were deported to El Salvador’s mega prison.
‘Welcome to hell’: Inside the megaprison where the U.S. deported migrants
Interviews with 16 former detainees of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center offer the most complete view yet of conditions inside the notorious prison.
www.washingtonpost.com
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The entire reason we created the ACA and Medicaid expansion is many jobs don’t offer health insurance, and certainly those who work as contractors or consultants are not employees. They all understand this and are just saying crazy shit up there all the time. Ugly bill will hurt entrepreneurship.
JIANG: What is the NEC's estimate for how many people could lose healthcare coverage?

HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
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Incredibly grim to learn that Jeff Bezos and his wife, in addition to hanging out with the Trump family, are huge fans of The Free Press, and see it as the future of media.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Third in line for the presidency, can marshal the votes of the bicameral congressional majority to pass just about any bill.

“Helpless”
Mike Johnson on Texas floods: "In a moment like this, we feel just as helpless as everyone else does ... all we know to do at this moment is pray."
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MSNBC put together a supercut of Republicans trashing on Trump's big bill before they voted for it
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Raskin: "It's a nightmare. 17 million people are gonna lose their health insurance ... the Republican Party just pulled the plug on a whole public health ecosystem organized around Medicaid."
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“You know what would help a lot? Some elite disapproval—publicly and boldly expressed. While a successful democracy depends on some degree of reasonableness from voters, a successful liberal democracy also depends on responsibility and even courage from elites.”

www.thebulwark.com/p/the-public...
The Public Is Resisting Trump. The Elites Aren’t.
The president is encountering little resistance as he remakes our society. And yet polling is clear that voters aren’t with him.
www.thebulwark.com
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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illegal war started by a man constitutionally ineligible to be president
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this is as good as turning the Constitution off. If this is what congressional leaders are going to do when an executive just seizes power from the legislative branch, we do not have one.
Trump’s military attack on Iran gets quick support from the Speaker of the House and Senate majority leader 👇