What a mess.
What a mess.
House erupts after GOP speaker requests prayer for Charlie Kirk
Violence is always wrong. But what is not wrong is pointing out the fact that someone got shot & killed as a result of the world they supported & helped create. Did he deserve it? No. Did he help create a world in which this exact scenario can easily happen? Yes. Just a fact.
Republican pedophiles protecting Republican pedophiles. The list is practically ā www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
Sandy Hook should have marked the change in sensible gun control laws but some belligerent assholes proclaimed their guns were more important than these precious lives. #Pinks #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
Trump is slapping his name on infrastructure projects funded by Bidenāeven after calling the $1.2 trillion bill āterrible.ā Now heās pretending he signed it. Gaslighting much?
This is frightening. The vast majority of Democratic politicians & public figures here on š¦ have been loudly denouncing this senseless act of violence - thereās no suspect in custody yet - but the hornetās nest of far right provocateurs are calling for ādeath to Democrats.ā
A "communist," in the typical American usage, is someone who...does the kinds of things Trump is doing www.thebulwark.com/p/no-zohran-...
Charlie Kirk: āItās worth to have a cost of...some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendmentā - A week after 3 children and 3 adults were killed at the Christian Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee. Political violence has no place in America. Nor does ignorance.
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NEW ā Internal documents from the National Guard shared with the Washington Post show that Trump's federal takeover of D.C. is "leveraging fear" among D.C. residents, driving a "wedge between citizens and the military," and causing "shame and alarm" among the troops.
Democrats consistently condemn political violence. Republicans do not. It's completely lopsided not both sided
So the White House lowered the flag to half mastā¦ I donāt remember them doing that for the state rep that was shotā¦ Or the two firemen that the Trumper shot in North Idahoā¦
Hey Goofy! Where are the flags at half mast for the 3,500 children killed in our country each year by your refusal to enact gun reform?
Steve Kerrās father was killed, victim of a political assassination while Steve was 18, a freshman in college. Steve has been a relentless advocate for gun legislation. Gun violence, political assassination is never acceptable. Sympathies to Charlie Kirkās loved ones.
Fear & shame is not what we anticipate from our service members, like the National Guard. Get to your senses and refuse unconstitutional orders from the šš© Enough military leadership must speak out without fear of being fired.
And many of these right wing people suddenly condemning political violence said nothing then. Some, like Mike Lee, even tried to joke about it. The double standard is disgusting.
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.
Good lord! Charlotte Kirk was an even worse person than I thought. Have a look.
While we're all discussing how it's wrong to murder someone, let's not forget this:
Dems will be too scared to speak as Rās tighten their grip on fear and use today to justify calling anyone who dissents a domestic terrorist, even when there are no confirmed details of the shooterās motive. Kirkās career was built on hate and division. Donāt be afraid to say it.
GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for āadvanced research and developmentā at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.
This explains it better than I can
Charlie Kirkās death is awful and abhorrent but itās appalling that the President is calling for national mourning for a right wing propagandist and hasnāt said a word about Officer David Rose or the brave employees at the CDC
šØWe shouldn't send American troops to Puerto Rico until they get the care and support they need after countless disasters and until the poisoned island of Vieques is remediated. Contact your Senators NOW to tell them to support Vieques recovery by adding it to the NDAA. @resist.bot makes it easy!
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That both of Turning Point USAās founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.
I call on media to REFUSE the framing pushed by right wing chaos agents like Cernovitch & Rufo on this act of what appears to be political violence. The Democratic former Speaker of the Minnesota House was assasinated along with/her husband. The killers was hunting Dems. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...
I hope these kids make a full recovery. This shit is way outta control š also š” www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
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Charlie Kirk belonged to a political party whose members routinely send Christmas card pics of their entire families, adults and children, bearing rifles and handguns ā and who widely wear AR-15 lapel pins. Facts.
When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% ā please donāt tell me bans donāt work, because I donāt want to hear it.
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Turning Point USA made a literal watch list of professors, primarily women, queer folks and people of color, and made us targets of political violence. Iāve received hate mail and harassment and death threats off and on for nearly a decade in part due to that manās organization so š¤·š½āāļø
Grok says that videos of Charlie Kirk being shot are memes and that he's actually fine
JUST IN: Senate Republicans defeated Chuck Schumerās amendment to mandate release of the Epstein files. Only two Republicans, Rand Paul and Josh Hawley, voted with Democrats. What are they trying to hide from the American people?
if charlie kirk didn't get shot the right wing would be equally and as consequentially as mad about a tv commercial or restaurant logo or something else, they're gonna do what they're gonna do regardless
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Extremely irresponsible for the governor of Utah to say in a press conference that he has no doubt Kirk's murder was a political assassination when the police do not have a suspect in custody and have not named a primary suspect
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox: The first guarantee of the Declaration of Independence is life Also Spencer Cox: I want to remind people that we have the death penalty here in Utah
An important detail of today's shooting is that Utah is one of only two states in the country that allow campus carry. I hope that this decision is revisited.
Charlie Kirk was a private citizen Melissa Hortman was a seated lawmaker in MN No Flags were flown half staff at the WH for her death by gun violence
Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the gov of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken"
Puerto Rico deserves to be a state and has a right to self-determination not to be used as a prop for Trump's war on drugs
Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. Itās yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence. We canāt stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.
Hey HB folks, heads up. A local white nationalist with a history of violence, Ryan Sanchez, is holding a vigil for Charlie Kirk on the pier at 7PM. Heās been calling for violence against the left for a long time and has been actively recruiting. Advise you stay away, nothing good will happen.
Time for some common sense gun laws. Democrats should introduce a bill named the Charlie Kirk common sense gun reform bill and make every Republican vote for it.
Political violence is absolutely unacceptable of any kind. I donāt agree with Charlie Kirk on anything. I condemn this attack in every way. We cannot slip into violence. Iāve seen where this goes.
Hereās the thing. Itāll be a cold day in hell before I lower my American flag for someone who sent bus loads of insurrectionists to the Capitol.
Welcome to the martyr show
No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...
We live every day in a world of hate and violence and fear and anger. Please find ways, when and where you can, to put some good into it, to shine your light in the darkness.
For years, US military used Vieques, PR as a shooting range Leaving a devastating swath of disease that still hasn't adequately been repaired Now Trump wants to send troops there to launch more military operations against alleged drug dealers We MUST clean up our mess #Justice4Vieques
NEW: Senate Republicans have BLOCKED Schumer's effort to release the Epstein files. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
How to separate a country. Lets provide a current exa: When Minnesota state senator Michelle Hortman was assassinated there was no outcry from Trump. No flags ordered to half staff. Now the death of conservative Charlie Kirk will get 4 days of flags at half staff. Separation.
In more important news 3 students, including the shooter have been shot and injured at a Colorado high school. Letās see if the orange, rapist, has anything to say about it. Of course not! #SheShed #Pinks www.cpr.org/2025/09/10/e...
A point I made about Mike Lee's more grievous response on Xitter today. This is not a time to both-sides things but it is, IMO, a time to call out when people like Erick Erickson fails to mention Paul Pelosi's attack, which Kirk celebrated.
School children were shot today in Colorado. Sorry but you'll have to excuse me for not giving a damn about Charlie Kirk, who said this.
I'm holding my tongue for now, but if you fuckers in the media don't stop trying to eulogize Charlie Kirk like he was Ted Kennedy or Bob Dole I am going to tell everybody what I think about that hate filled son of a........like I said I am currently holding my tongue, for now.
Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.
Does it seems a little odd that the party that violently attacked our capitol is suddenly outraged with political violence?
Charlie Kirk spent his lifeās work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and weāre now not supposed to mention that because itās not polite.
Iāll never forget the assassinations of two Democratic lawmakers who were shot and murdered in Minnesota a few months ago and fascist MAGA republicans not only mocking them but the orange felon not lowering flags for them or anyone who has died in mass shootings.
And THIS is why I didn't make that "political violence is terrible" statement all people seem compelled to say. This was Elon Musk's statement.
Information environment has reached its grotesque conclusion in that there is a very real killer out there who has not been identified, apprehended, or investigated, a detail practically inconsequential to nearly every commentatorās purposes.
Trump doesn't give two shits about Charlie. But Trump will definitely make all the political hay he can about the shooting.
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Trump doesn't give two shits about Charlie. But Trump will definitely make all the political hay he can about the shooting.
Controversial conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was killed at a Utah Valley University event. The shooter is NOT in custody. America is veering towards an ugly conflict... and we're being manipulated into it. šØLIVE ON MY YOUTUBE AT 5:35 PM ET
Yes. Yes, they are.
No one should have murdered Charlie Kirk. No one should lower their flag for Charlie Kirk. Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
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there was never going to be a world in which the right didnāt claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
You can condemn murder and political violence without whitewashing Charlie Kirk's shameful history of hate, racism, white nationalism and promotion of dangerous conspiracies that radicalized Trump supporters to violence. You can do both.
Save any empathy you were about to give Charlie Kirk, the TPUSA founder, double it, and send it towards Evergreen High School instead. Three kids in critical conditionā¦. www.cbsnews.com/colorado/new...
GUN violence HE condoned
Charlie Kirk wasn't killed by political violence. Charlie Kirk was killed by *gun* violence.
This is not who we are? This is EXACTLY what that predator and traitor squatting in the Peopleās House is doing each and every goddamn day.
Ohio Republicans launched a joint legislative committee to redraw the stateās congressional map Wednesday. The redistricting process is required by state law, but Democrats warn it could open the door to another round of partisan gerrymandering amid a broader national effort by the GOP.
Charlie Kirk called me a ālunaticā and a āprostituteā and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We donāt know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.
As I do understand the reality of gun violence, I have long despised Rep @realannapaulina and consider her to be someone who makes America less safe. Listening to her comments today blaming Democrats for the shooting just confirms how awful she is. Anna, perhaps photos like this were a bad idea.
Good to see Elon out there doing his best to calm things down in a moment like this
@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "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." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
security did not save charlie kirk. a vest would not have saved charlie kirk. the only thing that would have saved him is if our administrations actually had reasonable gun control in the aftermath of the last hundred school shootings.
"Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause." Andrea Junker
On the same day that Maga activist Charlie Kirk was shot in Utah, two high school students were shot in Colorado. There is NO excuse for gun violence in our country. I am praying for gun control NOW: an Assault Weapons Ban and Universal Background Checks immediately! ļæ¼
Just blocked a guy who said that I could only tell people not to celebrate Charlie Kirk's shooting because I, a liberal college professor, doesn't understand what it's like to be targeted by Charlie Kirk, who runs an organization that targets liberal college professors.
Charlie Kirk was shot during an audience Q&A. I swear that the following transcript is real. Question: "Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last ten years?" Charlie Kirk: "Counting or not counting gang violence?" He was shot a split second later.
I'm sick after seeing the video of Charlie Kirk being shot. Violence against civilians is never okay. Political violence ā no matter who is hurt ā will always beget worse political violence. And it has no place in our country.
Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.
