The killing of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus on Wednesday — shortly after he began speaking to a young crowd — raises the possibility that the U.S. has entered an even more perilous phase. nyti.ms/3JYg05h
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please, we entered a more perilous phase long ago.
sep 11, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
Why do we accept the slaying of school children and Democratic leaders, but when one podcaster is murdered, now it’s a problem? You stand by and report the military invasion of US cities like it’s a ho hum every day thing. How about nobody should be gunned down by lunatics?
sep 11, 2025, 9:09 am • 1 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 7:50 am • 0 0 • view
That already happened when SCOTUS allowed Trump to violate the law numerous times.
sep 11, 2025, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
And then there are the incompetents at the FBI. A Fed agency that normally is tasked to investigate & mitigate any potential for US sliding into a "perilous phase".
sep 11, 2025, 7:07 am • 1 0 • view
Heather Heyer.
sep 11, 2025, 8:29 am • 3 0 • view
It did with the election of Trump who has been taking a bit fat dump on human rights, democracy, and the rule of law ever since. Impunity and violence comes from the top.
sep 11, 2025, 6:42 am • 25 0 • view
Charlie Kirk said "Gun Deaths 'Unfortunately' Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment." Apr 06, 2023 at 5:39 PM
sep 11, 2025, 7:34 am • 1 0 • view
Just another chapter in Americans solving personal grudges with bullets.
sep 11, 2025, 6:45 am • 4 0 • view
Yep....America is truly doomed
sep 11, 2025, 7:34 am • 1 0 • view
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sep 11, 2025, 7:08 am • 3 1 • view
Gabby Giffords would also like a word, NYT.
sep 11, 2025, 9:45 am • 1 0 • view
Would love to hear why the "perilous phase" didn't begin with the multiple assassination attempts on the current president or the killing of multiple Minnesota lawmakers or any number of other attacks in the last decade.
sep 11, 2025, 10:46 am • 0 0 • view
Really? Not the politicians killed in Minnesota? Haven't heard any updates on that 'news' story the NYT's dropped quick for the next click bait headline.
sep 11, 2025, 11:33 am • 0 0 • view
Where was your concern about escalating violence when a MAGA terrorist assassinated two Democratic members of congress in Minnesota? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_sh...
sep 11, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 6:51 am • 57 3 • view
🙄🙄
sep 11, 2025, 6:51 am • 0 0 • view
Hard to fathom that it took events of yesterday for NYT to recognize America’s ‘perilous phase’. It’s been underway for years.
sep 11, 2025, 10:38 am • 0 0 • view
Well, Utah state law allowed people to bring their concealed weapons to this event without any ability to screen if people had guns with them … so this is what they wanted … reaping what they have sown
sep 11, 2025, 7:04 am • 3 0 • view
Two Democratic politicians were murdered in their homes.
sep 11, 2025, 6:55 am • 39 0 • view
Correction, Mark Hortman was not a politician. His death was senseless nonetheless.
sep 11, 2025, 8:32 am • 3 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 6:53 am • 1 0 • view
No shit?
sep 11, 2025, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
I spy martial law… Too “dangerous” for Republicans to vote…. need to ensure public safety… need to “postpone” mid terms… credible threat and all that…
sep 11, 2025, 7:29 am • 1 0 • view
Prominent right wing people are inciting violence following the assassination. Prominent left wing people are not. How about you be less vague about that.
sep 11, 2025, 7:03 am • 11 0 • view
So why didn't we enter this phase about 2 months ago when Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota were assassinated in their own home?? Where was the outrage then?? Why haven't we been talking about political violence since then??
sep 11, 2025, 6:47 am • 73 0 • view
Does it?! Every Day Kirk and his fellows got more aggressive and lied, the hell out of them! Even after the lies began to strongly harm a certain population they didn‘t stop! It is not the way to interact with such people, but the chance that it happens grew day by day!
sep 11, 2025, 6:46 am • 4 0 • view
Let’s use a senseless murder to justify the pre existing self destruction of your societies and countries in favour of an elite few - honestly don’t see what you think is more perilous than what has occurred already - all that follows was started many years ago
sep 11, 2025, 8:47 am • 0 0 • view
Fuck the fuck off
sep 11, 2025, 7:50 am • 0 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 9:17 am • 1 0 • view
Holy shit, welcome to the party, NYT. Your keen observance of the world around you is definitely not why legacy media is dead and buried. "More Perilous Phase" is a good indie rock band name, though.
sep 11, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
Were you as concerned when Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated ?
sep 11, 2025, 7:00 am • 13 0 • view
A right-wing terrorist assassinated two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses barely a month ago.
sep 11, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
But at least it took pressure off Trump and Epstein…
sep 11, 2025, 7:28 am • 1 0 • view
Everybody is armed to the teeth and the government has been hijacked by unqualified & incompetent individuals. Laws’ courts, professionals & doctors are ignored. Facts are twisted & ignored… If I was Putin watching, I would be very pleased
sep 11, 2025, 12:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Is it because Kirk was killed in public while Democratic Party lawmakers were hunted and killed in their own homes?
sep 11, 2025, 6:43 am • 78 1 • view
He also killed their dog.
sep 11, 2025, 8:23 am • 3 0 • view
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sep 11, 2025, 6:19 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 11, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Charlie Kirk tweet from just five months ago… x.com/charliekirk1...
sep 11, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
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sep 11, 2025, 3:17 pm • 0 0 • view
why are you using AI to create posts? Better yet, why are you posting this fascist propaganda at all? The only real use for the NYT is to line a bird cage
sep 11, 2025, 10:41 am • 1 0 • view
The same reason anyone uses AI. Laziness
sep 11, 2025, 10:54 am • 2 0 • view
Political violence has been very prominent ever since Trump started his political career. Let's say it how it is!
sep 11, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
Trump began this "phase" by inciting political violence at the capitol. And everyone knows that. He continues to incite such violence every day with rhetoric and acts of fascism and racism. And everyone knows that too.
sep 11, 2025, 9:21 am • 2 0 • view
So Nancy pelosis husband and the hortmans didn't? Says a lot.
sep 11, 2025, 6:46 am • 44 0 • view
Interesting to see that all the Democrats condemn violence and express concern for the family. The Republicans, without any information about the perpetrator or the motive, immediately condemn the Democrats. The students who were killed at the same time apparently don’t matter to them at all.
sep 11, 2025, 7:18 am • 4 0 • view
NYT: pls stick to what you are good at, word games. For real, watered down reporting is dead in 2025. Focus on games, you are good at that!
sep 11, 2025, 7:58 am • 0 0 • view
More will follow…
sep 11, 2025, 7:48 am • 0 0 • view
Charlie Kirk was not a political debater. He was a businessman. He was part of the “Outrage Industry”: media figures who profit from anger, fear & ridicule. The country needs to stop giving these businesses platforms.
sep 11, 2025, 7:42 am • 1 0 • view
Let's say Kirk was not really a fascist, but rather a businessman who came up with yet another way to leverage social media to make money Well, if your Goebbels impression is so perfect that people think you _actually_are_ Goebbels_, guess what bad thing might happen?
sep 12, 2025, 1:21 am • 0 0 • view
The phase where right-wing personalities get shot, not just kids at school?
sep 11, 2025, 7:17 am • 3 0 • view
Netanyahu's response - also Geert Wilders and Georgia Meloni. 👇🏽
sep 11, 2025, 12:09 pm • 0 0 • view
On X they are calling for war against blue states. Quite possibly a false flag attack or foreign meddling.
sep 11, 2025, 6:45 am • 2 0 • view
The phase where nazis assassinate other nazis to blame the left and start a war??? Yup.
sep 11, 2025, 6:46 am • 24 2 • view
It was an inside job. Charlie Kirk had a big megaphone and he wanted the Epstein files released.
sep 11, 2025, 7:02 am • 6 0 • view
Until Trump called him 2 weeks ago and he did a U turn and didn’t want them released. I don’t want you implying Kirk had any integrity.
sep 11, 2025, 9:04 am • 2 1 • view
No kidding
sep 11, 2025, 10:01 am • 1 0 • view
There is NO suspect , NO evidence this was political violence. Perhaps it was Kirk’s jilted gay lover.
sep 11, 2025, 7:21 am • 3 0 • view
trump speech: Angered by "the radical left"-The shooter may have been a cultist who didn't like Butthead. No mention by trump of violence against Dems, such as the murder of Melissa Hortman and her husband, or the attack on former House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s husband. So he can go FCK himself again!
sep 11, 2025, 7:03 am • 3 0 • view
One down!
sep 11, 2025, 6:49 am • 3 0 • view
Trump was obviously not kidding when he said he wanted the Epstein thing ripped from the headlines at any price. Anyway, when are we getting a full release of the Epstein files?
sep 11, 2025, 8:26 am • 0 0 • view
While the shooting of Melissa Hortman was just another Saturday.
sep 11, 2025, 6:51 am • 14 0 • view
Unfrigginfuckingbelievable
sep 11, 2025, 10:38 am • 1 0 • view
Charlie Kirks gay lover shot him.
sep 11, 2025, 7:54 am • 1 0 • view
Is this guy bare any responsibility for his words? How about you NYTimes?
sep 11, 2025, 7:12 am • 5 0 • view
There is only one who benefits from the assassination: Trump. He has done everything to ensure that civil war-like conditions arise. Maybe we should look at the motive of the assassination attempt on Kirk from this perspective
sep 11, 2025, 7:36 am • 3 1 • view
And yet this might be the only option to force him out of office
sep 11, 2025, 8:03 am • 1 0 • view
It is interesting. Leading MAGA caller for the Epstein files release gone. Instant MAGA saint/martyr created and another reason to crack down hard on dissent. It’s way too early to assume a left wing sympathiser did it.
sep 11, 2025, 7:41 am • 0 0 • view
“We’re going to go on offence, not just on defence. Maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct.” Is this what he meant?
sep 11, 2025, 7:17 am • 4 0 • view
I understand that America has entered the Golden Age of Stupid, with easy, and polarized, answers to every issue, including an assassination. But again, you should really, really ask yourself; who benefits the most from a United States imploding on itself?
sep 11, 2025, 6:53 am • 5 0 • view
Putin smiles.
sep 11, 2025, 6:59 am • 3 0 • view
He does indeed.
sep 11, 2025, 7:21 am • 1 0 • view
Fortunately it was not Thomas Matthew Crooks who shot.
sep 11, 2025, 8:14 am • 0 0 • view
You mean an era where preaching hated and division lead to violence? As opposed to legislators doing their jobs being slaughtered in their home?
sep 11, 2025, 6:56 am • 11 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 9:19 am • 4 2 • view
Go ahead. Fan the flames absent any knowledge whatsoever about who or why.
sep 11, 2025, 6:42 am • 29 0 • view
Another mediocre white tranny who wasn’t allowed in the ladies room Democrats think the violence is perfectly justified So be it Let the revenge roundups begin The parasites invading our country have had it too easy. It’s time to get serious about rounding up these illegals #ForCharlie
sep 11, 2025, 6:45 am • 1 0 • view
What you should worry about is people like Kirk at the helm of this failing country. But no, let's fucking cry for a despicable nazi.
sep 11, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
More then 398.5 million guns.The U.S.has more firearms than people. Every day,125 people are killed from guns and more than twice as many are shot.MA.has among the strongest gun laws in the USA and the lowest rate of gun deaths.NRA will NEVER allow Congress to pass gun laws! States must do the laws!
sep 11, 2025, 2:09 pm • 0 0 • view
And a huge part of that can be attributed to, the NEW YORK TIMES. Thanks for running cover for these bigots, homophobes, racists, and misogynists.
sep 11, 2025, 12:14 pm • 2 0 • view
Too many guns and too many itchy trigger fingers.
sep 11, 2025, 7:05 am • 1 0 • view
Indeed……….. www.americanprogress.org/article/trum...
sep 11, 2025, 6:53 am • 9 0 • view
I love you @nytimes.com “some signs of really bad stuff maybe, potentially, in the future; but everything is within range of normal right now” Every day I am relieved to read that we aren’t in a fascist or autocratic era, and that the explosion of stochastic terror is because phones or smth
sep 11, 2025, 7:33 am • 2 0 • view
We’ve been in this perilous stage since Nov 2016. We have a president who speaks violently every single day. A man who brings the worst out of everyone, even those who oppose him. Trump is the worst possible leader for this time, followed by his sycophants in Congress. No idea where we go now.
sep 11, 2025, 11:24 am • 0 0 • view
Helter Skelter!
sep 11, 2025, 7:55 am • 1 0 • view
Words matter. Clarity matters. Facts matter. It starts with all of the above.
sep 11, 2025, 8:18 am • 0 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 7:00 am • 11 2 • view
That phase started a few years ago, on 6 January 2021.
sep 11, 2025, 7:33 am • 1 0 • view
Entered a more perilous phase? Trump sent an armed mob to attack the Capitol building, and a Democrat politician and her hisband were shot dead a couple of months ago. The US has been in this phase for years aready.
sep 11, 2025, 7:46 am • 1 0 • view
why does the NYT have to blow trump so much
sep 11, 2025, 6:59 am • 1 0 • view
if the NYT blows trump any harder they'll have cum stains on the inside of their undies
sep 11, 2025, 7:03 am • 0 0 • view
sep 11, 2025, 6:58 am • 0 0 • view
So let me get this straight @nytimes.com this is political violence but fascists hunting left wing elected officials, killing activists, *FUCKING RAIDING THE CAPITOL* is not? Of course this is political violence, but THIS IS NOT the begining of it. I wonder how would you have covered Reichstag fire
sep 11, 2025, 7:01 am • 19 1 • view
You harvest what you sow
sep 11, 2025, 6:48 am • 5 0 • view
How is this worse than the Minnesota State senator who was killed?
sep 11, 2025, 6:54 am • 22 0 • view
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sep 11, 2025, 6:47 am • 4 0 • view
I’m confused. Usually when people are shot on a school Campus we offer our thoughts and prayers and move on. At least the conversation seems to be moving towards retribution rather than any form of gun control.
sep 11, 2025, 7:44 am • 1 0 • view
It’s a shocking report of Charlie Kirk, a prominent conservative figure, being killed while speaking at a Utah college. This tragedy suggests the U.S. may be facing a dangerous new level of political violence.
sep 11, 2025, 6:41 am • 0 0 • view
Hardly new, unless we ignore the murders of politicians in Minnesota a couple of months ago, or the hammer attack on Pelosi’s husband that was meant for her.
sep 11, 2025, 8:45 am • 0 0 • view
He advocated gun deaths as a worthwhile cost of freedom so he probably was in favor of this new “phase”, I bet.
sep 11, 2025, 7:17 am • 1 0 • view
Glaring omission of all the attacks on Dems...assault on Paul Pelosi, attempted kidnapping of Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, attempted assassination of Gov. Josh Shapiro, death of Melissa and Mark Hortman and shooting of John Hoffman and his wife. Yet attacks on Republicans are listed. Media is worthless.
sep 11, 2025, 7:12 am • 13 3 • view