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clairewillett.bsky.social
reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things. I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father. Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking. She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking. I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person. My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right". None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing, enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got. Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived. Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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aoc.bsky.social
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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ubiquity75.xyz
Press release and big announcement about the new concentration camp in Florida.

My friend, out of curiosity, looked up if there were a press release upon the opening of Dachau. Turns out there was.
July 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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kendrawrites.com
I'm not going to name the podcast but it's really getting exhausted listening to people say Trump voters didn't vote for racism it's about economic issues when Black people didn't vote for Trump
April 28, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Maybe federal judges will realize it's time to stop dicking around and time to start throwing people in jail themselves.
April 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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salgentile.bsky.social
sorry if this makes james carville mad but obviously the first thing democrats should promise to do if they ever win back power is impeach trump and prosecute everyone involved in this shit
kyledcheney.bsky.social Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · Apr 26
NEW: A federal judge raised alarm Friday that the Trump administration appeared to have deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen to Honduras with "no meaningful process" — even as her father was fighting to keep her in the country.

Details w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social

www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
April 26, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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pattonoswalt.bsky.social
OR JUST NOT FUCKING USE IT EVER
April 25, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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bartenderhemry.bsky.social
This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail
“[DOGE staffers] went into the system and they killed off people,” Glasgow told The Daily Beast. “About 4 million people, they marked them as dead. But they’re not sure if those people were supposed to be marked as dead, so they’re sending us an email saying, ‘If these people come into the office with their identification, you can reinstate them.’”
April 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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justinbaragona.bsky.social
Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:
April 23, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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muellershewrote.com
Dear senators who think you can’t do anything,

Today, Senator Van Hollen - through diplomatic pressure - got a meeting with Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. So that thing you’re thinking about doing? DO IT.

~ All of Us
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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sarahposner.bsky.social
I was just thinking about how for the GOP, a regulation requiring employers to cover contraception in their employee health care plans was a crisis for rights and freedom requiring massive litigation, but holding innocent men in a Salvadoran concentration camp during Holy Week is The MAGA Way.
April 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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scottjshapiro.bsky.social
Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.
April 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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whstancil.bsky.social
Also this is how it starts: academics banding together, which leads to universities banding together, which leads to companies banding together, which leads to states banding together, which leads to nations banding together - all so Trump can’t extort us one by one
mwyarbrough.bsky.social Michael Yarbrough (he/him) @mwyarbrough.bsky.social · Apr 12
We're now tracking Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) resolutions at @wearehighered.bsky.social!

See the link below for the text of resolutions as Faculty Senates pass them across the country. And follow us to hear more MADC news as it comes our way.

www.wearehighered.org/campuses-bat...
Campus Battles and Defense Compacts — We Are Higher Ed
www.wearehighered.org
April 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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jamellebouie.net
yeah man, please make my 85 year
old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past
golden.house.gov Congressman Jared Golden @golden.house.gov · Apr 10
🧵 There are a lot of misleading claims out there about the SAVE Act. Let me set the record straight: I voted for the SAVE Act for the simple reason that American elections are for Americans. Requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote is common sense.
April 11, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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tressiemcphd.bsky.social
So weird to see colleges promoting their USNWR grad school rankings today like grad students aren’t being disappeared by their government.
April 8, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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lakauffman.bsky.social
What's most significant about today's day of action is the sheer number of locations where protests took place -- more than 1000 towns and cities, all over the country.

That's only happened one or two times before *in all of American history.*
theferocity.bsky.social Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · Apr 5
HOLY SHIT. I grew up two stoplights over from Flower Mound. I never in my life would’ve expected to see a protest like this there. WOW.
April 5, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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kpsinging.bsky.social
This is such a lovely tribute to Val Kilmer from Hilarie Burton ❤️
hilarieburton The sweetest man. I played @valkilmerofficial 's girlfriend in a movie back in 2009. The script called for us to have a fairly rowdy love scene that got interrupted by a phone call. I'd just come off of OTH where I was always put in some kind of compromising position....so it was just work as usual. But then I got to set the day we were going to be shooting that scene and there was a scramble happening. "Val wants to change the scene." Huh? "It's not interesting," he said. A gratuitous sex scene with a younger woman didn't service the story or the character. It said nothing about the relationship and why either of our characters were in it. Instead, Val sent someone out to a local restaurant to pick up a huge tub of ribs. And so, as the camera panned up from the floor, our moans were those of two people, comfortable and indulgent, tangled up in bed and unfettered by the mess, elbows deep in North Carolina's finest bbq It was infinitely more interesting and I felt so safe and cared for by that man. It would have been easy to phone it in and just go with the stereotypical way women have been seen in film. Rather than the scene playing on my naked back, he turned me toward the camera. He made the scene about us instead of using me as a prop. That one day at work rewired my brain. Val was kind to me. A thoughtful artist. I bought some of his paintings a few years back. I hope every young actor has a Val in their life. That movie was a magical experience. #bloodworth
April 2, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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73snangel.bsky.social
I’ve been blowing up Tillis and Budd, especially Tillis. He’s up for reelection next year and our former (popular & Dem) governor will most likely be running against him. They’re listening whether they want to admit it or not.
chrislongview.bsky.social Florida Chris @chrislongview.bsky.social · Apr 2
kinda sick of people saying they won't call their congresspeople or senators because they're republicans.

maybe calling our republican senators is helping...

"Senate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Senate Republicans consider joining Democrats to oppose Trump over tariffs
Republican defections would amount to rare public rebuke as concerns mount over impact of president’s plans
www.theguardian.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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elienyc.bsky.social
Suck it, Elon.

Thank you, Wisconsin!
April 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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stevenbeschloss.bsky.social
America taking over Greenland is a foolish idea. America destroying its relationship with Canada is utter idiocy. America applying tariffs and engaging in trade wars with neighbors is economic nonsense. A lunatic is holding America hostage and his enablers are making fools of themselves.
March 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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beijingpalmer.bsky.social
Listening to a New Yorker podcast about the crisis of press freedom in the United States and what’s missing, as always, is any reckoning with the press’ role in enabling Trumpism in the first place.
March 29, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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meidastouch.com
NEW BOMBSHELL REPORTING FROM DER SPIEGEL

Mobile numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to top Trump officials including Mike Waltz, Pete Hegseth, and Tulsi Gabbard have been found online, revealing an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels. 1/
Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online
Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...
www.spiegel.de
March 26, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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kendrawrites.com
Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to strip the US government for parts while enriching their own businesses, alienating us from our allies, and putting us at grave national security risk while stealing food from the elderly and children is both a compelling narrative and true.
March 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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shaneharris.bsky.social
In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
www.theatlantic.com
March 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM