The Texas governor rushed to pardon a man convicted of murder for killing someone at a BLM protest because the conviction disturbed the right wing fantasy that someday they might get to kill a lib and be a hero instead of going to jail theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Four years ago Jair Bolsonaro, then Brazil’s president, made a vow. He said his re-election campaign could end only in jail, death or victory. “And you can be sure the first option doesn’t exist,” he said. He was wrong econ.st/4piw95J Photo: Getty Images

That many feel the need to portray Kirk in a more palatable light to feel secure in mourning—seeking to control what's allowed to be thought, expressed, or discussed—is instructive. It's fine to have valued him just as he was, and fine to be honest now. x.com/a_picazo/statu…

It's hard to tell if Charlie Kirk was really this formative figure in the lives of every conservative because they just claimed that about the Cracker Barrel logo.

More incitement against ordinary Americans.

After the shooting at my high school you literally accused my friends and myself of being paid government crisis actors that resulted in us getting thousands of death threats. Go fuck yourself.

Let’s talk about how Trump demanded Brazil drop coup charges against Bolsonaro and slapped them with tariffs, sanctions, and a trade probe, but Brazil responded by convicting Bolsonaro anyway to 27 years for trying to overthrow the results of Brazil’s 2022 election.

Just a hideous cavalcade of lies and incitement from Mike Lee. Meanwhile Lee is literally the guy who tweeted making jokes about the former Speaker of the Minnesota state house being murdered in her home by a right wing extremist. There's no more twisted or disingenuous

Recall the outrage over interference when Obama gently suggested Brexit might not be a good idea. Now we have Musk — who ensured Trump’s election — openly calling for the removal of the government and inciting insurrection and the BBC, needless to say, showcasing him.

Interesting algorithm pairing here. But entirely fitting. Perpetual grievance combined with projection. An industry spanning borders. x.com/emzanotti/stat…

Claiming that directly, and accurately, quoting Kirk without comment is unacceptable is remarkably telling.

Fully agree. But hey, if we're going to extrapolate to "the Left" as a whole, let's talk about the "performative malice" of right-wingers who respond to videos of sobbing illegal migrants being separated from their American spouses & children with "Good" or "I voted for this."

As Jonathan Chait says, Republicans are being wildly dishonest in their effort to exaggerate the number of Democrats who are supportive of political violence. As G Elliott Morris says, the impact of misperceptions about this is to make people *more supportive of violence*

This weekend people came to the streets to celebrate the guilty verdicts for Jair Bolsonaro and his cronies, including 5 high ranking military officers - a historic first in a country that has suffered 134 years of military coups and coup attempts. My story teleSUR English

Sad and valid point.

There's just a lot of very deliberate muddying of the waters between "celebrating someone's murder" and "saying something critical about a prominent person's work."

In a country of 300 million, you canm find plenty of random people saying crazy things. They have found zero Democrats who endorsed political violence. (Trump has repeatedly endorsed political violence). x.com/RudyGiuliani/s…