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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17d

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"

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 18d

As I told @newrepublic.com, "Once last week, twice today, ICE has picked me up and thrown me on the ground. Honestly, it doesn’t compare to what our neighbors who are trapped inside the Broadview processing facility are going through. They’re committing crimes against humanity there."

I’m a Congressional Candidate. I Was Assaulted by ICE.

An interview with Kat Abughazaleh, a 26-year-old Democratic House candidate in Illinois, who was violently thrown to the ground twice at a peaceful protest in Illinois on Friday morning.

newrepublic.com

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Melissa Nadia Viviana @resistrebelrevolt.net · 19d

🔥💯 Jon Stewart's prophecy from 2022:

"When a democracy is under threat: comedians are the ones who get sent away first. Authoritarians are the threat to comedy, to art, to music, to thought, to progress. It ain't the pronoun police, it's the Secret Police. It always has been & it always will be."

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Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 19d

Half the major players in an authoritarian takeover and destruction of the US being like “we are doing an authoritarian takeover and destruction of the US” 😑

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 20d

hey so this is insane

Brendan Carr confirming that the FCC is carrying out Project 2025 stuff via a gif on Twitter

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 20d

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will.

Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

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Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 20d

Jason Statham Fans

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22d

“In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Trump’s DOJ deleted a study from its site stating right-wing violence ‘continues to outpace all other types of terrorism & domestic violent extremism’ in 🇺🇸 — The study was available online until Friday.” newrepublic.com/post/200537/...

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21d

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

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Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 22d

I think D is also a contender

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404 Media @404media.co · 22d

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing

Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

www.404media.co

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Lindsey Cormack @dcinbox.bsky.social · 23d

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

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Chad Loder @chadloder.bsky.social · 23d

"The killer has done a great disservice to the nation in the elimination of Rockwell by making a martyr of a despicable enemy of America."

Samuel Samuels, the leader of the Jewish War Veterans of the USA, in 1967 on the assassination of George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 24d

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 24d

I recommend everyone watches this

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Red Hot World @redhotworld.bsky.social · 25d

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?"

So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25d

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 26d

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk’s Legacy Deserves No Mourning

The white Christian nationalist provocateur wasn't a promoter of civil discourse. He preached hate, bigotry, and division

www.thenation.com

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Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 25d

Should Democrats demand a thorough investigation into Charlie Kirk’s killer and the whole internet poisoned culture that drives so much of this?

Any investigation would be a bad look for the whole right wing, but also how do they justify publicly voting not to pursue it after all this? Worse look?

Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 25d

Ugh disgusting to hear it that way because of the accuracy

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · 26d

One of the best people decoding all this chaos is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme

Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

www.garbageday.email

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 26d

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

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Conor @conorino.bsky.social · 27d

It’s hard to tell so maybe he should have another bigger one so we can know for sure?

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 28d

There’s a way to be respectful in reporting on Charlie Kirk being shot while also refusing to whitewash who he was and what consequences his political activism has had. Obituaries for public figures are a part of history.

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Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 28d

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"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."

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