«À part les saints et quelques chiens errants, nous sommes tous plus ou moins contaminés par la maladie de la tristesse. Plus ou moins.» — Christian Bobin #LaPlusQueVive

O America! Say no to killing. Say no to brutality and death and lies. Say yes to life and love and joy and justice. Take our mess of anger and nurture a beloved community.

My husband asks, ‘Who IS Charlie Kirk??. “…How siloed are WE? I guess Kirk was never asked to do many (any) long form interviews on NPR. Why? Perhaps he declined or maybe it’s because NPR fired all the hosts who could HANDLE Kirk FAIRLY

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We need to stop committing ..martyr..it’s a zero sum game . Everyone loses..

Does anybody feel that both George Floyd and Charlie Kirk have this in common? After they were killed they were used to promote the divisive destructive causes of others?

We are all back in middle school .. only with leader of the free world powers ..poked fun at.. pulled trigger..it’s sooo complicated.. my only hope is that Kirk’s death is not in vein and leads to the society sobering up to having a civil discourse…but don’t pull the episode

As citizens we need to let journalists allow people with a controversial platform to express themselves without fearing that someone with opposing viewpoints will somehow mesmerize the audience.. a good host tough but fair make great journalism .

And God forbid if comparisons are to be made.. this guy didn’t play to the choir

Not to mention the gerrymandering of municipal districts…

It's not right vs left Its the extremes vs everyone in the middle

Disagreeing with Charlie Kirk "does not justify anything even close" to what happened to him, Benji Backer says. "The more that we pit other people as the villain to the point where we think that we need to end their life, that is when we are losing control of society, and our

We certainly are bringing out the worst in each other.. we all have to admit to our darker impulses and try not to propagate them . Online or IRL .. we need to bring out the better angels in ourselves and in each other somehow..

It’s so very odd .. I just love it.. sets in motion a thousand narratives. Some very funny

Remember when asbestos was considered harmless.. my house is filled with a gray dust that I can’t account for ..began just over the past 5 years ..microplastics. Hmmm?

Bill Doherty, co-founder of Braver Angels, warns Americans about what happens when we see the other side as our enemy and domestic politics takes on the characteristics of war. Don't let this happen to our country. We need courage in this moment. Watch: kare11.com/article/news/l…

New York Times columnist David Brooks and Jonathan Capehart of MSNBC joined amna to discuss the week in politics, including the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk and the tough questions it raises about the political environment in the country.

We live in such a fractured society that my husband and I didn’t know who Kirk was ..until now .. we watched SouthPark but we didn’t get the reference.. We are PBS/NPR people . What are we missing?