Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts
Showing posts with label memorial. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 23, 2025

At Kirk memorial, Republicans call activist ‘martyr’ for conservative cause - The Washington Post

Many of Trump's political opponents have criticized the level of resources and time that the administration has devoted to Kirk, who made polarizing and offensive remarks in his podcasts and college campus debates about Black people, women and transgender individuals...

 

Charlie Kirk memorial mixes rally and revival as mourners vow to spread Maga message

As the afternoon wore on, the speeches became sharper and more political – a battle cry that implored the government officials present to be aggressive in "wielding the sword against evil". There were only a handful of explicit references to Democrats and the left – but many speeches mixed personal remembrances of Kirk with a searing vilification of his ideological opponents. "To those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us, what do you have? You have nothing," said Stephen Miller, the deputy White House chief of staff, his voice rising with indignation. "You are nothing. You are wickedness. You are jealousy, you are envy, you are hatred. You are nothing. You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. We are the ones who build."… 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/21/charlie-kirk-memorial-arizona-dispatch


 

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Trump Administration Erases School Shooting Victims at ATF Headquarters – Mother Jones

"…Since resuming office, Trump shut down the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and set the stage to undo years of progress on reducing gun violence, as my colleague Mark Follman wrote. Trump then directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to "examine all orders, regulations, guidance, plans, international agreements, and other actions of executive departments and agencies" from Biden's term to assess whether they "infringe on the Second Amendment rights" of Americans. .."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/05/trump-administration-erases-school-shooting-victims-at-atf-headquarters/ 


 

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Conservatives Are Furious That the Military Replaced a Bible on a Memorial Table – Friendly Atheist

A couple of months ago, a member of the Military Religion Freedom Foundation saw that there was a “Missing Man” table — dedicated to prisoners of war or those missing in action — at the F.E. Warren Air Force Base in Wyoming. Those tables are fairly commonplace at military bases, but this one had a Bible on the table, suggesting that POW/MIAs were only Christian and that atheists and people of other faiths didn’t make the same sacrifices as other soldiers.....







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