Republicans have a strange idea of what constitutes heroism. After years of complaining about liberal cancel culture on college campuses and elsewhere, right-wing conservatives are doxxing and trying to get their political enemies fired, or worse.
Kumbaya
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In the United States, the vast majority of political violence is directed at the left from the right. Indeed, the Trump administration repeatedly calls for violence against its political opponents. Ignoring history and the facts, however, they’ve cynically exploited the assassination of Charlie Kirk to demand that their liberal opponents stop doing the very thing they are not really doing, but that Republicans are.
No Political Violence, Trump Says
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Following the assassination of Charlie Kirk, it was breathtakingly bizarre to see a president whose administration has perfected the art of violent political rhetoric and action, and is enthusiastically embracing genocide, haughtily decry political violence.
Rules-Based Order, Revised
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Russia accidentally on purpose invades Polish airspace with drones and blows up a farmer’s house. Israel brazenly bombs downtown Doha, as well as Iran. The UN does nothing. What kind of rules-based order lets countries invade each other without any consequences whatsoever?
Steal, Pay, Leave
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The artificial intelligence company Anthropic has agreed to pay $1.5 billion to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by book authors whose works were used without permission to train its chatbot. The company will compensate authors or publishers approximately $3,000 for each of an estimated 500,000 books included in the settlement. However, Anthropic will be allowed to continue operating and retain the benefits derived from the unauthorized use of the books.
Getting Even and Even and Even
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The assassination of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk in front of thousands of Utah college students shocked the nation and raised the prospect of a tit-for-tat series of retribution killings between the left and the right.
We’re the Enigma Now
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Trump keeps declaring one emergency after another. Aside from the fact that the American public is suffering from emergency exhaustion, you have to wonder how other countries, especially adversaries of the U.S., view our current predilection for catastrophizing everything.
Lazy Dems
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As President Trump runs roughshod over norms and laws, extrajudicially murdering 11 alleged drug runners without evidence, deporting legal residents, and dispatching troops to peaceful American cities, all eyes turn to the Democrats who might oppose him. But they seem content to sit by idly and watch the mayhem.
Keep On Doing What You’re Doing, Evil Ones
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The Trump Administration’s tactic is to brazenly violate the law and the Constitution, doing what it wants until the courts inevitably intervene. But even when the judicial branch steps in, more often than not, they follow their condemnation of the administration’s actions with a stay that suspends their decision to allow the government to come up with a justification for what they’re doing while allowing them to keep right on doing it.
Thinking of Beginning to Consider Reconsidering
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When a war is about to begin or is just starting to kill countless combatants and innocent civilians, the American media can always be counted on to support it. They only advocate for peace when it’s far too late. This is the pattern we are witnessing now with Israel’s genocide in Gaza. After nearly two years and hundreds of thousands of Palestinian deaths, the American media is just beginning to express regret.
