Goebbles or Miller?

Violence As Policy in Trump’s America Jan-Werner Mueller argues that the murder of Charlie Kirk has highlighted the fundamental asymmetry of contemporary US politics.

"Trump has been signaling for a decade or so that political violence committed by his supporters is acceptable and might even be rewarded...Trump and...his acolytes frame such conduct not as violence, but as legitimate...self-defense;...they portray themselves as perpetual victims."

New column:

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School.

I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨

Charlie Kirk’s assassination was horrific.

That doesn’t change the fact that the vast majority of gun (and political) violence has been perpetuated by right wingers.

You don’t get to change the narrative at will.

I'm horrified to hear that Charlie Kirk was shot at an event in Utah.

Democratic societies will always have political disagreements, but we must never allow America to become a country that confronts those disagreements with violence.

Mark and I are praying for Charlie's recovery.

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing.

Half-mast, my ass.

Have these people MET liberals?? We just sit around drinking expensive coffee and complaining about stuff.

Funny, seeing as how Utah is a red state.

Ugh, true..

Utah isn’t exactly a blue state so who is Trump going to after, Mormons??

If Trump is so strong, why does Putin feel emboldened to attack NATO during his presidency?

So much for the idea that 'the war would never have happened if I were president’

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C.

The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.

Duckworth: "It was an illegal move by the Trump administration. There's a thing called due process in this country and that needed to have happened. And the fact it happened in international waters actually opens Americans to a similar action by our adversaries"

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

Rep. Quigley: It's time to watch what this president is doing. It's instructive in history to remember that, often tyrants are elected democratically at first….

RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode They're failing — so far.

"The GOP is signing on to mass murder of children based on the novel theories of a man who has no party ties except a single Trump endorsement. It is a measure of the party’s utter hollowness, brokenness, and evil that even in this case, it can barely find the resources to demur."

RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode They're failing — so far.

New in PN: RFK Jr gives Republicans a chance to defy Trump on easy mode

"What’s really notable is the extent to which GOP leaders have remained supine even in the face of a radical assault on their grandchildren by a transparent death-dealing fraud who wasn’t even a member of the party a year ago."

You guys see where this is going? Right?

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in school…

I hope everyone notices that Trump is trying to normalize the idea of arresting political opponents for no reason

(Trump attempted a coup in 2021 so miss me with the false equivalences)

ICE just prevented me from entering an immigration detention facility in my district—a clear violation of federal law.

Members of Congress have the right to immediately access these facilities. Listen here 👇

Environment secretary ‘furious’ about England and Wales water bills Steve Reed says he is unable to rule out further above-inflation rises and any decision would be up to regulators

It's performative. If Steve Reed were really "furious" about water bills, he wouldn't have ruled out renationalisation, or forbidden the Independent Water Commission to recommend it. He enables the filthiest, most parasitic capital to defeat the public interest.
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