ALERT: Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego seeks to block Ashli Babbitt from military funeral honors
www.cbsnews.com/news/democra…— Scott MacFarlane (@macfarlanenews.bsky.social) September 9, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy…She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down…She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) September 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Today we had a chance to stand with the brave men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice for this country in uniform. Ashli Babbitt is not that. She is a traitor. She will be a traitor. She died a traitor."
— The Bulwark (@thebulwark.com) September 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Former Marine Gallego’s brave move got largely overlooked yesterday, for some reason. Per the Military Times, “Senate Democrat Tries to Formally Condemn Funeral Honors for Ashli Babbitt”:
Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic effort to put the upper chamber on record opposing the Trump administration’s decision to grant military funeral honors to Air Force veteran and Jan. 6 rioter Ashli Babbitt.
Sen. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., went to the Senate floor Wednesday afternoon to request what’s known as “unanimous consent” to pass a resolution that would have stated the Senate believes Babbitt is not eligible for military funeral honors.
But Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., objected to Gallego’s request, thereby blocking the resolution from passing.
“Ashli Babbit was a traitor,” Gallego, a Marine Corps veteran, said on the Senate floor. “She didn’t die protecting our country. She died trying to tear it down.
“Military honors are sacred,” he continued. “They are reserved for the men and women who swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution and the rule of law, and actually live up to it. To give them to Babbitt would be a spit in the face to all of them and to every veteran who died defending this country.”…
Babbitt was part of a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to overturn former President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
She was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer as she tried to climb through a shattered window that leads to the Speaker’s Lobby, a restricted hallway just outside the House floor. At the time, lawmakers were barricaded inside the chamber as they tried to find a way to evacuate.
The officer who shot Babbitt was cleared of any wrongdoing, but Babbitt’s supporters have cast her as a martyr…
The resolution Gallego filed Wednesday would have formally stated that the Senate believes “Ashli Babbitt’s actions on January 6, 2021, constitute disqualifying conduct under section 985 of Title 10, United States Code; the rendering of military funeral honors to her would bring discredit upon the Air Force; and she is not eligible for such honors.”
The section of U.S. Code cited in the resolution disqualifies veterans from military funeral honors if they are convicted of a capital crime, were found to have committed a capital crime but can’t be convicted because they died, or died in circumstances that “would bring discredit upon the person’s service.”
Gallego’s resolution also would have said the Senate “rejects efforts to glorify or legitimize the actions of those who sought to overturn the Constitution of the United States.”
Useful reminder, if needed:
Ashli Babbitt was a terrorist. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/a…
— ky-blue17.bsky.social (@ky-blue17.bsky.social) September 10, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Jeffro
Thank you, Senator Gallego (seriously) – it needed to be said.
The enablers would like to bury their heads in the sand about J6, and we should never, ever let them.
rikyrah
If only she had complied with the orders of Law Enforcement…….
Elizabelle
Good for Gallego.
Babbitt was one hot mess, and a traitor to the country whose uniform she (briefly) wore too.
Betty
Which branch of the military did Tommy Tuberville serve in? According to his Wikipedia, that would be none. But the article includes the military as one of his interests. What??
danielx
Happy the man – c5-c6 fusion went well and felt better almost immediately. Having some difficulty with swallowing and talking, which are normal and temporary side effect (steroids for those). I am quite sure that any difficulty in speech for me can only be seen as a blessing by any number of people.
Edit: speak no ill of the dead. Charlie Kirk is dead. Not sorry though I deplore the violence.
Suzanne
@danielx: Good news!! Glad you’re holding up as best as can be expected, it sounds!
Betty
@danielx: Congratulations on your successful surgery. Wishing you a speedy, uneventful recovery.
OGliberal
@Betty: I’ve read a lot of books about wars and my brother went to West Point – can I claim military experience? And, like Tommy T., I did coach football once.
Suzanne
Between Babbitt getting a military funeral, and Kirk getting his body escorted on AF2….. Republicans really are totally emptying all of out national symbols of any meaning.
ExPatExDem
@Suzanne: Don’t forget Billy Graham lying in state. Rush Limbaugh’s Presidential Medal of Freedom (congrats on 5 years drug-free, Rusty!).
mappy!
In other developments…
The WHOLE U.S. Will Be Hit By MAGA’s Georgia Stupidity
Quote:
“…not only Hyundai, but Ford itself – one of the most iconic American car manufacturer – had every single part of their North American plant set up by Koreans (SK Engineering). They designed the machines, made them in Korea, brought them to America, set them up and then trained Americans in how to use it.
Chevy, Nissan, Toyota – all their assembly machines are made in Korea.”
cain
This country’s media and the GOP has really hit rock bottom.
ArchTeryx
@Suzanne: In a very deliberate and methodical way. They’re replacing our national symbols with their own fascist ones. It’s just the Reichsadler by a different name. They’ve already replaced our national flag with Trump flags and Dixie swastikas, and replaced Jesus with Trump. How is this any different? It’s all blasphemy under the same rotten banner.
Suzanne
@ExPatExDem: I’m so glad you mentioned Rush Limbaugh. It gives me yet another opportunity to share this.
JaySinWa
I think the enablers want to rewrite J6 as a glorious peaceful protest put down by bad cops.
Suzanne
@ArchTeryx: Oh 100%. It is imagecraft.
mapanghimagsik
Well it appears my presentation wasn’t the career ending move I thought it would be.
There goes my hope that i could make it so i never have to give a talk again.
ExPatExDem
@Suzanne: That is so awesome. LOL
Elizabelle
@Suzanne: I hope this comes back to bite them, hard.
We have governor’s races in Virginia and New Jersey. Voting begins September 19 in Virginia.
Midterms next year. Women, people of color, and other inferior beings vote.
More than one way to fly the dead Charlie Kirk flag. You shall know them by who they idolize. And did you hear what he said? This is the type of speech that was honored on Air Force 2, and the Air Force was forced to honor a woman who tried to overthrow the government.
WereBear
I just remembered how chickenshit these Right Wingers are.
Will it have a chilling effect on the loudmouths on that side? I mean propagandists. Wait, wait, media commentators?
ArchTeryx
@Suzanne: I used to be a graphic designer and motion graphics artist. Believe me… I know imagecraft. And for someone used to working in subtleties, every one of their fascist symbols is like a bullhorn blaring in my face. Blunt and right in your grill, as any fascist symbol is.
JaySinWa
If South Korea did assembly machines the way the US does weapons, they would have remote kill switches installed.
Elizabelle
@ArchTeryx: Second time as farce is not much fun to live through, is it?
trollhattan
This shouty person seems like your Typical American Hero, to be sure. Face, meet ammo.
youtu.be/XGthb6ZKpjg?si=aAPSBzEmyN5EEg1b
I’d be in a fucking ditch if I tried that whilst driving. She was special.
Suzanne
@ExPatExDem: Sharing that link every time Rush Limbaugh is mentioned is my sole value-add to the Balloon Juice comment section.
trollhattan
@mappy!:
Thus was UTTERLY predictable. Korea tends not to fuck around.
Suzanne
@ArchTeryx: I know, I remember we discussed this once before. I also worked in graphic design for a couple of years. And yes, once you see how they manipulate semiotics, it cannot be unseen. It is everywhere. FFOTUS has, like, a lizard brain talent for it.
Baud
@ArchTeryx:
No reason we can’t adopt some of these national symbols as ours. Start with the flag, maybe add the statue of Liberty, and then move on from there.
ArchTeryx
@Elizabelle: Try it as a targeted minority. Let me tell you, it’s not farce then. It’s a deadly threat to every single loved one I have, and I’ve already had one literally tear my life apart because he went monstrous. (Transman).
Baud
@ArchTeryx:
I’ve seen a bunch of Nazi inspired art on agencies’ Twitter accounts.
Craig
@cain: probably not
ArchTeryx
@Suzanne: And I have the memory of a goldfish so my apologies if I’m just repeating myself. Right now I’m studying 3D design and am working on a protest video for YouTube. Two can play at the imagecraft game and right now, we need all hands on deck. As badly disabled as I am, I can’t be out canvassing like old times and I live in NYS anyway. But however small, a Youtube video at least has national reach.
Melancholy Jaques
@trollhattan:
What is the deal with right wing rants while driving?
ArchTeryx
@Baud: starts singing “Everything Old is New Again.” Though a more modern version of it is Depeche Mode’s absolute tour de force “Going Backward.”
rikyrah
@danielx:
glad to read positive news. may you continue to heal.
WereBear
Gun Violence To ‘China Virus’: A Look At Charlie Kirk’s Controversial Takes
It is hard to find Charlie Kirk quotes even though lots are searching!
Teresa
@mappy!:
Wow!
I’m imagining that it also impacts setting up for new vehicles and new parts for the future. Plus factor in repairs, parts for the machines, calibration and regular maintenance. I wonder how many suppliers use similar equipment from SK.
Baud
@ArchTeryx:
Maybe some good Civil War diddies. When Johnny Comes Marching Home.
Elizabelle
@trollhattan: Ashli is like a parody of herself. Rest in peace (for the rest of us. Enough, bish.)
Baud
HBCUs getting threats
Baud
What pathetic snowflakes.
ExPatExDem
@Baud: To the surprise of no one.
Betty Cracker
I don’t give a fuck about Kirk, but I am worried about how the Trump regime will use his death as an excuse to persecute their enemies, which is every damn one of us. They’re starting with immigrants first, as usual. (Axios)
First they came for the pro-Palestinian protesters, blah blah blah.
Also, did y’all watch the four-minute video Trump recorded in the Oval Office last night? Kirk is his Horst Wessel and Reichstag Fire all rolled into one.
The lunatic shitposters like Rufo, Loomer, Miller, Musk, the Federalist douchebags, etc., are baying for blood, which is not unusual, but now many of them directly wield state power.
It’s such a weird time because as scary as all that potentially is, there’s also the possibility that these morons will lose focus or shoot their own dicks off. In a way, it feels like being stalked by a particular dumb pack of would-be serial killers.
zhena gogolia
@danielx: Oh, good to hear!
JaySinWa
@ExPatExDem: I am surprised. What has triggered an apparent coordinated assault on HBUs?
ETA as opposed to other institutions?
zhena gogolia
@danielx: Oh, good to hear!
rikyrah
ProPublica
@propublica
Citing concerns about DEI, the U.S. Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states.
“How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?”
x.com/propublica/status/1966109611771015197
rikyrah
Robert Welch II
@WelchRobII
Republicans are going to blame Democrats.
The news media is going to blame
Democrats.
Democrats are going to blame Democrats.
This is what we do in America Republicans cause all the problems and we blame Democrats.
3:16 AM · Sep 11, 2025
x.com/WelchRobII/status/1966053236068217324
Baud
@rikyrah:
No lie told.
ExPatExDem
@JaySinWa: Because their hate for non-white people outweighs everything else in their empty little skulls.
Jeffro
Hmm, I think you’re thinking of the actual J6 perps and their funders & organizers.
The enablers are the ones who look away (and not just from J6, either)
trollhattan
Rep I never heard of blames everybody but Kirk. Also works in Democrat Party[sic].
KSinMA
@mapanghimagsik: You have my sympathy.
They Call Me Noni
@Suzanne: In addition to the medals and honors that FFOTUS hands out like candy to undeserving individuals. It is disgraceful.
sab
@Suzanne: Not the sole value add, but it is an important one
We picked up the DIL at work today and she spent most of the half hour ride rerisively quoting charlie kirk’s more appalling statements.
Elizabelle
@ArchTeryx: I’m so sorry about the personal travails.
And I am glad to hear you are working on your protest video. How lucky to have a background in graphic design!
Elizabelle
@trollhattan: What do you know, Derrick Van Orden (R-Stupidity) made Joan Walsh’s article in The Nation.
The Nation: Let’s Not Forget Who Charlie Kirk Really Was
The right-wing influencer did not deserve to die, and we shouldn’t forget the many despicable things he said and did.
Baud
Newest “distraction”
Suzanne
@They Call Me Noni: The medals and ribbons feel very Bri-ish. He wants to be the fucken king and hand this stuff out to his subjects.
sab
Well, after years of defending MSNBC as night like the rest of the MSM in these here comments, I am done with that. Matthew Dowd fired for saying out loud what most of the audience was thinking.
Baud
@sab:
I stopped watching a long time ago because I was tired of the cable news format, but that firing is really inexcusable.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Yeah, it does.
C-Span. I hope that footage is not augmented.
Elizabelle
@sab: Do any of you have video of the full Matthew Dowd segment?
I gave up on MSNBC years ago — cable news is appalling; prefer to read — but would like to see the whole thing and decide for myself.
They Call Me Noni
@sab: I agree. Their attempt at political correctness is not having the effect they were hoping for.
Suzanne
@Baud: Bell’s palsy?
Baud
@Suzanne:
Someone on Reddit suggested that.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
Story here.
thedailybeast.com/msnbc-axes-analyst-who-blamed-charlie-kirks-hateful-words/
Westyny
@cain: They can always drain a little more water out of the pool.
WereBear
@danielx: Dang glad to hear the good news about your wake up call :)
Elizabelle
@They Call Me Noni: Fie on Rebecca Kutler, the new lickspittle in charge of MS NOW.
Someone should have the full video.
Most popular LA Times reader comments were disparaging MSNBC/NOW for the firing. Which is interesting, because the LAT comments are usually filled with hateful rightwingers. (Trust me, the trolls are out in force too.)
Interesting point from one commenter:
and
and
WereBear
@ArchTeryx: I have been worried about you. Hope things are better now but I would hope they would have to be.
satby
Just came back online and am delighted to see a post (thank you Anne Laurie) not centering on a heinous person’s death again. We’ve wasted enough time on the obvious.
Much prefer seeing that our elected Democrats continue to fight against the degradation of our democracy and what is considered worthy of respect and honor.
Marc
@danielx: Welcome back and I wish you quick healing!
Marc
@rikyrah:
Eugenics.
trollhattan
Bob Onder (R, MO) did not get the memo that Stalin in now A-OK. The rest of you commies all did this.
Suzanne
@Baud: Apparently Justin Bieber had Bell’s palsy fairly recently.
Justin Bieber might make a better POTUS and that is….. some shit to think about.
Baud
@Suzanne:
The list of better POTUS’s is long.
JoyceH
@Baud: Wow. That’s either less than an hour after dental surgery or — something else.
Baud
Reddit
rikyrah
This was Charlie Kirk’s response to Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul being attacked with a hammer in a home invasion in October of 2022. He suggested a “patriot” go bail out the person who bludgeoned Paul Pelosi with a hammer. And this is who you want me to mourn and pray for? t.co/bat27xD0HF
(https://x.com/queenclown__/status/1965989121190670594?t=eXJNXGAEDnITIcuv21jb_w&s=03)
Matt McIrvin
@Suzanne: My niece got it once because of a Lyme disease infection. Nasty situation.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: What’s NYT political desk’s take?
Spanky
@Baud: Pitch perfect response.
cmorenc
Next up: Senator Tommy Tuberville, R-Alabama, will be requesting full military honors for John Wilkes Booth as a virtual soldier for the southern cause.
prostratedragon
@danielx: Congratulations on the great start, and I take it the great relief.
Splitting Image
I’m going to go ahead and believe that Trump had a stroke recently. It might not be true, but there are no downsides to saying it and getting it out there.
Either he’s had a stroke, is on a definite downswing, and likely to be dead as a doornail before the year is out, which if it happens is all well and good. Or he’s had a minor stroke or other health issue, but will linger on for years, in which case he will suffer enormously, the watching of which will have its own pleasures. Or he’s fine, in which case he is lucid enough to get angry at hearing all of these rumours about his health, which is perfect, don’t you know?
A best case scenario for Trump at this point is that he is still healthy enough to throw ketchup at the fake gold crap on the walls, so in the event that this is the case, everyone should try to make sure that he is angry and miserable enough to throw it.
trollhattan
@cmorenc:
AKA The Patriot™ who saved us from the terrors of Reconstruction.
Suzanne
@Splitting Image:
It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
It might not be true. But it feels true.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Thank you.
Matthew Dowd did not say anything untrue or particularly insensitive. The firing was ridiculous.
Proud of most women who reach executive positions, and root for them, but Rebecca Kutler can go suck a bag of dicks for being such a coward.
Article notes Dowd has been dating Maria Shriver for 12 years. I wonder if he ended up a rightwing target partially because of that. His remarks were neither inflammatory or inaccurate.
Also, when do they become MSNOW? Still see the MSNBC logo.
MSNBC: Nothing But Cowardice.
schrodingers_cat
@Elizabelle: They have been awful for a long time. They have been attacking Ds from the left for years now. Now they have decided to drop of all pretense as to whose side they are really on.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah. I have not watched them for ages and ages. Not having cable helps. I do not like the bombast. I caught a little of CNN yesterday morning, on in background at my hotel during breakfast. Two murders were top of the news: elderly couple in Queens (?) and the Ukrainian woman stabbed on the train. Both alleged perps were black. And then, I think, they moved on to …. tariffs.
Cable news portrays a different and blood-spattered world.
MSNBC and the NY Times. With friends like these …
The obeying in advance is impossible to miss, and the FTF NY Times website this morning was clinical.
JoyceH
@Splitting Image: Have you no pity? Just think of the poor staffer who will have to clean all that ketchup out of the gold curlicues! If they can’t get it all out, it will rot and stink.
BTW, I’ve seen several articles recently about Queen Elizabeth, related to the anniversary of her death, and looking at the pictures it struck me – hey, the Queen didn’t gild her marble fireplaces! But know who did? Geoffrey Epstein. I’ve seen comment threads where Trumpies claim to find the Oval Office redo glamorous and classy, but turns out it’s just a copy of a pedophile’s lair.
trollhattan
rikyrah
The Associated Press (@AP) posted at 10:11 PM on Wed, Sep 10, 2025:
South Korea’s president says the country’s companies will struggle to maintain direct investments in the United States unless the visa system for Korean workers is improved. t.co/vPPLPDcRAY
(https://x.com/AP/status/1965976505835528197?t=y45CYX5KRJGGgprmEQtxFA&s=03)
rikyrah
Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH (@GeauxGabrielle) posted at 11:04 AM on Thu, Sep 11, 2025:
Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence.
What a legacy.
(https://x.com/GeauxGabrielle/status/1966171048908566557?t=-iTFZ3-vvi7h81D1G4VBhw&s=03)
They Call Me Noni
@Elizabelle: To me it comes down to he was a person who peddled, pushed and made money off of hate. Pure hate. You reap what you sow and he sowed pure, unadulterated hate. They can glory wash him all they want but he trafficked hate. I don’t think there should be any shame in calling his actions out. I don’t condone violence but he did. And violence is what he got.
rikyrah
LastNoleOfKrypton (@GodofKrypton) posted at 4:05 PM on Wed, Sep 10, 2025:
Hate speech isn’t politics and I’m tired of people pretending it is just because people need to play devil’s advocate because they’ve never been affected by the things the devil likes to advocate for.
(https://x.com/GodofKrypton/status/1965884422844199150?t=zZ8X3eSX_IZKKQNDQFc8mQ&s=03)
rikyrah
Tim Hannan (@TimHannan) posted at 1:02 PM on Thu, Sep 11, 2025:
It’s crazy how Donald Trump wasn’t responsible for Jan 6th but Democrats are supposed to be responsible about what happened to Charlie Kirk
(https://x.com/TimHannan/status/1966200783986200882?t=AjGXaRjftytsp_7vwGFKvw&s=03)
Elizabelle
@rikyrah:
@They Call Me Noni:
Yes to both of you. The decentwashing is ridiculous.
Someone wrote that Kirk’s last word was “violence.” In response to a question. Who knows? Not the most memorable thing about the video clip, alas.
sab
@Baud: Well that figures. I usually saw him on Nicole Wallace’s show Deadline White House.
So he said it on Kay Tur’s show. She is a piece of work herself.
She was actually shocked by Kennedy’s testimony. Her jaw dropped. It really did. She worried about her little kids in school if no vaccines. September 2025 and she only just noticed Kennedy is a malevolent nut job? Where has she been for the last year?
Getting Dowd fired probably helped her restore some credibility in her circles afterwards.
Her dad is trans and she hates that and therefore him. Her husband is a professional marijuana is terrible spokesperson ( his dad sold it when it was highly illegal.). She isn’t a reliable or an unbiased reporter on culture issues.
Elizabelle
@rikyrah: Head north, to Canada, dear South Koreans.
Many of you are already accustomed to bracing weather, and the US of Cray Cray is just below the border — easy to get your products in, unless Cray Cray in Chief is fighting with Canada again. At least your Canadian workers won’t be shooting up your workplaces, we hope, as is a measurable risk in their immediate neighbor.
Gamble either way, hmmm?
Jeffro
@Baud
Since the MAGAts like “free speech” and “debate” so much…let’s see where they land when they don’t have the benefit of a much-praised (or maligned) name attached to a quote, or a Fox News commentator to tell them who to hate
sab
@Elizabelle: But even north (they can handle it. Korea is very cold in winter) that won’t help because Trump has huge tariffs on parts or whole cars from Canada.
Purposely ignoring fifty years of industrial development becaise he is an idiot and Wharton undergrad could not pound facts or reasoning into his thick head.
satby
sab
@satby: Good for them. Those kids deserved coverage.
Elizabelle
Brazil: Bolsonaro was just convicted of attempting a coup.
Why can WE not get that right?
pat
I honestly don’t know what so many people seem to have against MSNBC. We start watching at 5:00, with Ari Melber, then it’s the Weeknight, then Chris Hayes, on Monday it’s Rachel Maddow, and then at 9:00 it finishes up (for us) with Lawrence O’Donnell.
What on earth can anyone complain about???
Forgot to mention Jen Psaki.
Sister Golden Bear
@JaySinWa:
Or if they’re subtler than the US, they’d have remote-controlled malware a la Stuxnet to cause occasional, damaging but non-traceable glitches. After all it’s not their fault that American workers don’t maintain the machines property, and it’s no longer safe for them to sent their repair techs here…. Or maybe it was the North Koreans, America companies really should do better with their cybersecurity amirite….
Shalimar
@Elizabelle: The audience member who asked about trans mass shooters asked a follow-up question about how many mass shooters there have been, which Kirk was trying to turn into a racist thing by saying that gang shootings should make the number a lot higher. His last 2 words before the shot were “gang violence.”
montanareddog
@Baud:
Definitely diagnosis at a distance here, from a non-medical professional, but my dad died of Lewy body dementia earlier this year. In his last few months, before he got really badly ill, his face often drooped lopsidedly like that, but not all the time, and he would lose focus and his head move around weirdly. The similarities in comportment really struck me in that clip.
@Elizabelle: ETA to say I agree. I hope it is not augmented; it is a risk nowadays.
Omnes Omnibus
@pat: Maybe it’s what’s on when you aren’t watching?
Scout211
404 Media in response to Ezra Klein’s opinion piece (of shit)
Charlie Kirk Was Not Practicing Politics the Right Way
Elizabelle
OK. Kirk’s last word was indeed “violence.”
NY Times has footage; does not include the injury and flying blood.
Young man questioning him from audience:
“Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America in the last 10 years?”
Kirk: “Counting, or not counting, gang violence?’ — BANG.
sab
@pat: I agreed with you until yesterday. Now I am simply outraged.
Elizabelle
@Shalimar: Yes. That clip is up on the NY Times website right now and you don’t seem to be able to stop the video playing.
And yes. His last sentence spoken on earth. Was setting up a lie.
sab
duplicate.
Elizabelle
@montanareddog: My condolences on losing your dad. And that is a terrible, terrible disease.
Shakti
I refuse to take this more seriously or reverently than the investigative team or the actual attendees:
In summary:
This Mormon tiktok influencer livestreamed and self promoted himself and Mormonism with his selfie stick while people are screaming and running.
After he finished filming, he stole the blood soaked merch to sell on Ebay and left his fingerprints all over an active crime scene.
Shades of Jenna the Realtor from J6.
Sister Golden Bear
@Baud: Not just HBCUs. Via Wired: Right-Wing Activists Are Targeting People for Allegedly Celebrating Charlie Kirk’s Death
As you’d expect most of the posts/people being targeted didn’t celebrate Kirk’s death, but merely expressed concern over the potential MAGA reaction.
If you’re on social media, now is a good time to lock down your accounts, if you’re still on Twitter, set your account to private. Bluesky posts are always public, but you can change settings to:
Prevent your posted from being seen by people who aren’t signed-in to Bluesky (not foolproof because it relies on 3rd party sites respecting this.
Turn off quote posting (i.e. someone reposting and quoting your post)
Limit who can reply to your post—I set mine to only people following me, people I follow, people I mention in my posts (which I rarely do anyway).
And if you haven’t already done so, be sure to enable two-factor verification for signing in.
Can always relax these later, but doesn’t hurt to lower your exposure at the moment.
WaterGirl
@danielx: I saw the last night, such a relief!
So happy that’s behind you, and especially happy that it went so well!
WaterGirl
@mapanghimagsik: I must have missed talk of your presentation earlier, glad it went well, glad for you that it’s behind you!
Congratulations!
pat
@Omnes Omnibus:
That must be it. What I watch at night is a rehash of the news with a decidedly liberal slant!!!
pat
@sab:
Outraged about what?? Something on MSNBC? Oh, the firing of Dowd. Hmm, I wonder if that will come up tonight.
Going to Ari Melber right now…..
prostratedragon
@JoyceH: I remember seeing a tour of the royal yacht Britannia, since decommissioned, and she hardly had one extra thing on it. The elegance was all fit, finish, and maintenance.
sab
@pat: Well apparently you watched nothing yesterday so good for you. Enjoy your hip hop with Melber.
JoyceH
@prostratedragon: I’ll be touring the royal yacht in October. The tour we’re taking starts in Edinburgh but oddly doesn’t actually tour Edinburgh, so we’re arriving a few days early so we can tour the city and the yacht is definitely on our list.
stinger
Army veteran here. Ashli Babbitt was a traitor who died assaulting our nation’s seat of power.
MrPug
It is astounding to me that one dumbfuck redneck from Alabama in the Senate can single-handedly block legislation, but the entire Democratic leadership can’t.
Elizabelle
@stinger: Yes she did.