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Why Won’t Republicans Say Melissa Hortman’s Name?

Political violence is never acceptable. Mike Nellis Sep 11, 2025 https://endlessurgency.com/p/why-wont-republicans-say-melissa   The conservative propaganda machine is in overdrive right now, blaming the left for Charlie Kirk’s murder yesterday in Utah despite knowing very little about the shooter. Let me be clear: what happened to Charlie Kirk was horrible. However you or I may feel about the man, political violence is unacceptable—full stop. He didn’t deserve that. His kids didn’t deserve to lose their father. No one should have to suffer that kind of loss. But there’s a name Republicans are terrified to say right now:  Melissa Hortman . Melissa Hortman was a Democratic lawmaker from Minnesota, brutally murdered—alongside her husband and her dog—by a conservative activist just 12 weeks ago. Her name deserves to be said in this moment. Charlie Kirk’s murder is an attack on all Americans. So was Melissa Hortman’s. Every time this kind of political violence su...

It is past time

It is far past time to begin the practice of shunning the orange idiot, everyone in his administration, every one of their family members, and everyone of their sympathizers, and every republican in Congress. We can no longer afford to allow these people to run around enjoying the fruits of OUR labor, without paying the same costs they are imposing on the American people, and the people of the world. Protests, marches, placards, and banners are no longer working. These people have no shame, and they don't give a flying fuck about you or the United States. The only thing that they care about is their own comfort, and their own power. They are laughing at our feeble attempts to force them to abide by the laws, the traditions, the social norms, or even the tenets of their religion. They really don’t care that they are taking food, and health care, and proper education and housing from children and their families just to have more money and power. And damn, many of them have more m...