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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 15
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There were a few articles from the aftermath of the Kirk shooting that I thought were worth sharing but not worthy of their own post.
This one from The Nation touches on some of the responses we saw in the media, including those that seemed to soften Kirk’s image, like this Ezra Klein essay.
There's also this terrifying piece from Wired that details the targeting of people who had anything other than nice things to say about Kirk. (Related video from the person whose name appears first on the website dedicated to tracking those people)