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“In honor of Charlie Kirk, a truly Great American Patriot, I am ordering all American Flags throughout the United States lowered to Half Mast until Sunday evening at 6 P.M.,” Trump posted on his Truth Social platform.

• https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/trump-administration-news-updates-today-latest
• https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/local/2025/09/11/wisconsin-flags-to-fly-at-half-staff-for-charlie-kirk-per-trump-order/86091344007/

It sounds like you're the one in the market for a bridge.

There were lowered yesterday, and ordered to remain down for Charlie Kirk until Sunday. Memorializing Kirk's death is more important to Republicans than honoring the victims of Sept 11th.

That's correct, Caroline Kwan is not a TERF. The TERFs referred to in the title are the ones 'protecting a very specific idea of what a woman is'

I was going to joke that he probably got it from the police he trained in the United States, but the inclusion of an Israeli flag takes this from fascist shit to peak fascist shit.

Whoops, already posted.

Sorry, my mistake. It feels like the recent flare up was more recent.

Someone linked the video in this post but it has since been taken down.

From my memory I have no idea where the 'children maced' accusations are coming from. A male fascist protected behind a line of police brandished a weapon at antifascists nonviolently protesting, and got a face full of mace in response. It was accurately targeted, and even the police with their backs to the fascists who the stream sprayed past were unaffected. There was a fascist woman who brought her children to protest alongside people sieg heil'ing who harassed the police until they arrested Leif while lying about the context of the action.

I'm not saying the details of it are not complicated.

History is always complicated

Present events are always complicated

But the way this is reported in the western media is as though one needs a PhD in Middle Eastern studies to understand the basic morality of holding a people in a situation in which they don't have basic rights including the right that we treasure most the franchise the right to vote and then declaring that state a democracy

is actually not that hard to understand.

-- Ta-Nehisi Coates

The IDF also murdered 972 Magazine journalist Khalil Abu Yahia.

Don't confuse support for Palestinians as support for Hamas.

Which supporters? This is a boon to Vladimir Putin, as world attention and aid to Israel comes at a cost to support for Ukraine.

By escalating the conflict to a genocidal ground war, Israel's criminal leaders may have doomed not only Israelis, but the people of Ukraine as well.