Aerial view of very large crowd of "No Kings" demonstrators outside the Colorado Capitol building in Denver

No Kings in Denver today. Photo by Cheney Orr for @nytimes.com

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

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Apparently the rapture is happening on Wednesday and now I'm like should I even bother folding my laundry if I'm going to be fighting to avoid eternal damnation on Thursday?

Supposedly, the Rapture is supposed to happen next week?

So how come evangelicals went to the grocery store today?

Fun Fact -
The Rapture isn't in the Bible

It has never been in the Bible.

I'm serious. Google it.

The rapture is an entirely separate concept that only started appearing within 19th century interpretations that just... inserted it or were complete misinterpretations of the scriptures.

Apparently on Christian tiktok they're predicting a rapture on Tuesday. So I'm going in to work early, laying out an outfit of clothing in my office and pretending it got me.

really hoping they're right about Tuesday being the Rapture because a world without Evangelical Christians sounds like a literal paradise

This commentary offers a clear, powerful statement of why freedom of speech is at the heart of democracy and must be defended, whether the speaker is Charlie Kirk or Jimmy Kimmel, MAGA supporters or MAGA opponents.

Sen. Cory Booker to Kash Patel: "I don't think you're fit to head the bureau, but here's the thing, Mr. Patel: I think you're not going to be around long. I think this might be your last oversight hearing” … Trump has shown us in his first term, and in this term, he is not loyal to people like you."

Cory Booker tells Kash Patel in a fiery exchange, "You may be in charge of the FBI, but I'm not afraid of you!"

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There's no excuse for the Vice President of the United States to use a heinous killing as an occasion to baselessly frame political opponents as accomplices to murder while threatening to use the power of the government to attack them.

This dangerous rhetoric will only fan the flames.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

When JD Vance tells the world that Kirk was a "critical part if a political movement", he is saying Kirk was essential to grooming students to accept our Authoritarian dictatorship & Christian Nationalism & the violent overthrow of democracy.

Sorry – the killing of Charlie Kirk was wrong, but having his body flown on Air Force 2, flags at half-mast, having him lie in state, putting a statute of him in the Capitol, and giving him a Presidential Medal of Freedom are all entirely inappropriate.

people are talking weird about Charlie Kirk. "you weren't in the target audience to hear his inspiring and faithful words". hmm kinda like how an abuse victim isn't in the "target audience" to get treated with kindness and respect by the abuser. there's a target audience, and there's the targeted

The right is trying to turn Charlie Kirk into a martyr.

His killing was tragic and criminal, and the shooter is in police custody.

Many don’t know much about Kirk.

Here are some of his own quotes.
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Giving Kirk credit for his “open debates” is textbook revisionism.

Throughout his podcasting career, he weaponized the guise of dialogue to fuel propaganda, radicalize the right, particularly the young, while normalizing cruelty, racism & misogyny.

That’s not debate.

That’s indoctrination.

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I hate everything Charlie Kirk stood for, but I never wanted him dead. I didn’t care enough about him to want him dead. I rarely even thought about him, except to laugh at how poor of a debater he was when I saw clips. I think I’m probably not alone here.

White groyper gun nut raised by Republican gun nuts killed Charlie Kirk with a gun.

That is a fact, as Kirk would say.

Fox News must fire Brian Kilmeade – and completely and utterly denounce his genocidal beliefs. Now.

The same people that get upset when you call them Nazis.

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"