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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of September 15

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    AnthonyB
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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...

    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)

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    1. arch_mage
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      Associative Press is also reporting on people being targeted for speaking against Kirk. The Administration is also engaging in the activity.

      Associative Press is also reporting on people being targeted for speaking against Kirk. The Administration is also engaging in the activity.

      For his part, Trump on Sunday suggested he was already using the government to look into his political adversaries when asked if he would investigate them after Kirk’s death.

      “They’re already under major investigation, a lot of the people that you would traditionally say are on the left,” Trump told reporters.

      Goldstein noted that Trump’s State Department in the minutes after Kirk’s death warned it would revoke the visas of any foreigners who celebrated Kirk’s assassination. “I can’t think of another moment where the United States has come out to warn people of their impending cancellation,” Goldstein said.

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    2. snake_case
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      I feel so bad for the shooters family. They’re in this “no please we didn’t have anything to do with this we’re loyal to the empire and we thought he was too” thing going on and for me thats been...

      I feel so bad for the shooters family. They’re in this “no please we didn’t have anything to do with this we’re loyal to the empire and we thought he was too” thing going on and for me thats been the most difficult to watch.

      That family isn’t scared of liberals. They’re scared of the government they claim to support.

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