It’s an atrocious money grab. It make sense in futbol, where different leagues play each other’s teams. For a league that rests it stars in the name of “load management,” it makes zero sense.

How many long balls did Nix miss today?

Maybe the way forward is to reclaim politics as a practice of compassion and clarity — a way of shaping the future that reduces suffering rather than increases it. If our words are seeds, then let us plant those that heal.

13/13

Charlie Kirk’s death is tragic, but the greater tragedy is how normalized cruel speech has become in our public life. We can mourn his death without beautifying his legacy, just as we can reject hatred without meeting it with more hatred.

12/x

And yet, many lionize him. Perhaps that is the greatest sign of how far our politics — and our moral compass — have drifted.

11/x

What I struggle to understand is how Charlie Kirk became a moral figure for so many, or how he reconciled this way of speaking with Christianity. By the standards of either tradition, his legacy is hard to call moral.

10/x

Buddhism reminds us of the precept of right speech: to use words that are true, kind, and healing. Christianity, too, teaches love of neighbor, compassion for the poor, and care for the vulnerable.

9/x

It’s also about what we argue for.

Words carry karmic weight. When words normalize racism, dismiss compassion, and accept preventable deaths as “worth it,” they are not simply the practice of politics — they are seeds of suffering.

8/x

Ezra Klein recently wrote that Kirk was “practicing politics in exactly the right way.” I understand his point — showing up, engaging, and debating is essential to democracy, and political violence is corrosive no matter who it targets. But politics is not only about how we argue.

7/x

by his supporters. Either they agreed, they condoned, or they were too afraid to call out bad behavior when their “side” engaged in it. Silence in the face of cruelty allows cruelty to grow.

6/x

He spread the debunked “great replacement” conspiracy theory that immigrants are being used to replace white Americans.

I of course did not know this man personally, and I am in no place to judge his heart. But I can say that these comments were rarely acknowledged, let alone challenged…
5/x

He called Martin Luther King Jr. “awful” and “not a good person,” said the Civil Rights Act of the 1960s was a “huge mistake,” and joked that if he saw a Black pilot he would “hope he is qualified.” He compared vaccine requirements to apartheid.

4/x