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Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

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This is wrong. This is an assault on free speech. This is our government using its power to censor and silence its critics like Jimmy Kimmel. Donald Trump continues to undermine our constitution, our freedoms, and our democracy.

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There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

erininthemorning.comWe Must Not Posthumously Sanitize Charlie Kirk's Hateful LifeInfluential anti-LGBTQ+ activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated on Wednesday. While condemning violence is something most can get behind, sanitization of his hate has gone too far.

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When he was just a sleazy real estate grifter, Trump's compulsive lying was merely annoying. Now, as POTUS, he has an army of propagandists behind him insisting that he is American history’s great truth-teller. It’s sick and it’s dangerous.

newrepublic.comWho Were Those Gullible People Who Believed Donald Trump’s Bullsh*t?His campaign promises, from peace in Ukraine to “beautiful” tariffs, were truly unbelievable. And yet, somehow, many people believed him.

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I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

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Even if you (wrongly) believe that some immigrants lack due process rights, what’s to stop the government from claiming that *you* are an undocumented immigrant; removing you to El Salvador; citing an “administrative error”; and refusing to do anything to bring you back? The answer is due process.

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Trump is destroying the country with minimal resistance. It’s especially frustrating considering millions of Americans poured into the streets over the weekend—but it's also a reminder, not only of what a mass resistance to Trump once looked like, but what it can look like again.

newrepublic.comThe Trump Resistance Is Here—Whether Democrats Want It or NotPolitical, cultural, and economic figures might be too scared to stand up to the president. Millions of Americans are not.

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With every week of additional horrors in the news I find a different part of my lecture course I feel I should expand. “Yeah, need to add more on McCarthyism and education …” “Well, probably could beef up wartime internment …” “OK, so time to revisit the depths of the Great Depression …”

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so my favorite dive bar in WI passed up showing tonight’s Bucks game so they could show live poll results. when the election was called for Crawford, the whole bar started chanting, “Fuck El*n”. the bartender pulled out the good stuff and handed out free shots to us all—an absolutely electric nite

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Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.