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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 11d

I think it’s a northern Inuit - Tamaskan

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11d

Mockler: I'm pretty tired of conservatives gaslighting about the current political environment and Donald Trump's rhetoric when all of this escalation can be traced back to his entrance into American politics.

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 11d

Do you hand write them down anywhere? I do. And it’s especially humiliating come October.

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No true bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 12d

courts and state bars need to become willing, and quickly, to disbar govt attorneys for bringing these blatantly political prosecutions

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 14d

South America first

Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 14d

Odd, how we can’t afford to give Americans healthcare, but we can afford to drop $200,000,000,000 on Argentina with a moment’s notice.

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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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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 19d

“In honor of the principle of free speech we demand all fired professors be reinstated and Jimmy Kimmel be put back on the air.”

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Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd.bsky.social · 20d

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 21d

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21d

Just so I'm clear:

TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal

TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft.

TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism.

Free speech, everyone.

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 21d

This “anti Trump lawyers” stuff from the CDC testimony is authoritarianism 101 if we are still allowed to say that in America thx free speech warriors great job here

Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 21d

I may need to subscribe to the Chronicle. This is very good. The so-called free speech warriors have no idea of how they are undermining free speech.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Opinion | The Assassination That Broke Campus Free Speech

Professors are allowed to say hateful things. That doesn’t mean they should.

www.chronicle.com

Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 21d

Why wont the abused spouse stop punching back?

Curious about his plans to have Trump stop a fascist takeover.

Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 22d

Wow it was a good fake I have to admit

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22d

The political climate since Kirk was killed is different than the climate the week before. Wake the fuck up. Just be smart. You're yelling at me because I am encouraging people to be smart and frankly you sound like a bunch of fucking feds.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 22d

coates is genuinely a generational writer

What are we to make of a man who called for the execution of the American president, and then was executed himself? What are we to make of an NFL that, on one hand, encourages us to "End Racism," and, on the other, urges us to commemorate an unreconstructed white supremacist? And what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk's death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don't know. But the most
telling detail in Klein's column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself.

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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 22d

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Leaked Messages from Charlie Kirk Assassin

Accused shooter’s “politics” is not what government and media say

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 22d

"undermining the dignity of others" means essentially a MAGA-free campus, no?

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 22d

I dunno. The author sports a bowtie.

Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 24d

These also do a good job of providing context, which makes it worse than I thought.

Seth Langner @sethlangner.bsky.social · 25d

Contextualize these for us, Sally, please. Point out the civility here.

Charlie Kirk in His Own Words

17 quotes you should read from the right-wing activist and Trump ally who was tragically shot and killed on Wednesday in Utah.

zeteo.com

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 26d

Groypers

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27d

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 26d

Looks like you may have been right!

Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 27d

You can tell he wasn’t going for a neck artery?

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Kurt formerly of LosinUgly @losinugly.bsky.social · 27d

how do you know where they were aiming?

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