Powerful brainrot from @ezraklein.bsky.social After doubling down on praising Charlie Kirk for his "right politics", now Governor Cox being "remarkable leader?" The same guy who "prayed [... the shooter] was from another country?"

@nytimes.com This is buffoonery coming from inside the house.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board:

Hi @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social, we're friendly, we've been on each other's shows. We both agree Kirk's murder is horrific. Q: was Kirk "practicing politics in exactly the right way" when he called for me to be deported because he didn't like my Covid views on MSNBC?
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More elite failure. The preservation of democracy required our journalists to tell straightforward truths and instead they have abdicated their role in the same way Congress and the Supreme Court have to support MAGA. Laziness? Incompetence? I can’t say for certain, probably a bit of both.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

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Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless

Incredible steelmanning from the NYT: “RFK makes good points if you disregard the times he isn’t (even if it’s in the same sentence), and you also disregard the existence of at-risk populations…” great analysis holding the powerful accountable.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that could have stood up and refused to comply.

“Make America Healthy Again” is nothing short of a slogan for mass murder. Nothing about this benefits the health of Americans and only threatens ALL of us.

Columbia heard “we must all hang together or we shall assuredly all hang separately” and seems to have decided being hanged was the better option. A loss for the world.

The newspaper that told the truth about Watergate and the Pentagon Papers will now “communicate with optimism about this country” in its time of rising fascism

Couldn't agree more Robert. It's time for courage, not concern.
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The American public elected a president and administration who whether they knew it or not was intent on dismantling the very things that made America the economic and cultural envy of the world. That is the story of Trump 2.0.

Police who keep their identities secret are, quite literally, secret police. I don’t know why this is even controversial. You don’t get to yank people off the streets while hiding your face and identity and still retain the respectability of an accountable, democratic police force.