CNN’s Jake Tapper: “It’s so easy in this world. Everybody just demonizes everybody else. And — and look, Charlie was in — in the battle. He was in the political rough and tumble too but these are human beings. And, you know, they don’t eat, breathe and sleep politics. I mean, Charlie had a wife, and Charlie had two little kids. And again, you could disagree with every word that Charlie Kirk ever said. And still think those kids deserve to have a dad and I don’t know where we’ve come in this country that this kind of thing is becoming so commonplace.”
Spencer Cox: "Our nation is broken. We had political assassinations recently in Minnesota. We had an attempted assassination on the governor of Pennsylvania. And we had an attempted assassination on a presidential candidate and former president of the United States and now current president. Nothing I say can unite us as a country. Nothing I can say right now can fix what is broken. Nothing I can say can bring back Charlie Kirk."
If you think it's so immaterial, maybe call a few seniors in nursing homes and explain to them where they'll go next.
Call the mom of a kid with disabilities who won't be able to pay for a new wheelchair.
Call just one person whose life you're going to tear apart.
California will keep fighting on behalf of all our people including in the courts.
If some of us can be snatched off the streets without a warrant, based only on suspicion or skin color, then none of us are safe.
Authoritarian regimes begin by targeting people who are least able to defend themselves. But they do not stop there. Trump and his loyalists thrive on division because it allows them to take more power and exert even more control.
"He wants a military who will be loyal to him personally, one that will obey his orders, even when he tells them to break the law... even said he would use the U.S. military to go after American citizens."
Kamala Harris was right.
LA protester goes viral for delivering impassioned plea to authorities at anti-ICE demonstration:
“You should be standing here with us! You’re on the wrong side of history. We know you got a job to do. But you took an oath to the Constitution, not the fascists in the White House!”
Francis's papacy was defined by his advocacy for the oppressed, championing refugees, addressing income inequality, and calling for humane responses to global crises. His actions spoke louder than words, from washing prisoners' feet to visiting slums. https://t.co/5CcwpXc5ov
if there’s one thing today is making me realize, it’s that i am so confident in my beliefs. i LOVE the empathy i have for others. i love that i care more about basic human rights than the cost of groceries. i love that i voted to move forward instead of voting to stay divided.
Kamala Harris didn't lose, America did.
As a nation, we collectively failed her—and in doing so we failed girls and women, the LGBTQ community, people of color, Muslims, Jewish people, immigrants, the sick, the poor, the elderly, the people of Ukraine, and Gaza, and the planet.
It's unthinkable, that instead of being able to celebrate a beautiful, hopeful new chapter in the story of this nation with a leader who appealed to the best of our natures—we will instead be holding a postmortem for democracy as we enter our 250th year, stewarded by a malevolent sociopath who despises empathy and shuns the law.
I truly thought we were better than this, that our shared humanity would show up. I thought we would reject this hatred and ugliness once and for all.
I hate being wrong about the majority of the people of this nation.
I don't know what's ahead. All I know is that good-hearted human beings are more necessary now than ever.
We did all that we could to avoid this moment, but now that it's here we'll just have to decide who we will be.
There is no way to comprehend or measure how grievous an error this is, but the only thing the decent people of this nation can do is wake up tomorrow and fight like hell for what we still believe is worth the fight, and we will.
I'll be doing that with whoever has the strength to join me.
I'm mourning the country we could have been and the one we apparently are—but I refuse to give up believing that compassion is the right path, that diversity makes us better, and that love is greater than fear.