Last night, shots were fired at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in Washington, D.C. President Trump was rushed off the stage by Secret Service agents. Vice President JD Vance and members of the Cabinet were evacuated. A law enforcement officer was struck, saved only by his bulletproof vest. A suspect, identified as Cole Tomas Allen,Continue reading “We Cannot Call for Violence. Even Now. Especially Now.”
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When Violence Gets Cheered, the Whole Spectrum Starts to Blur
These arson attacksāand the people cheering them onākeep reminding me of something I canāt shake. It feels eerily similar to the kind of political energy that came out of MAGA culture. And yeah, I know that alone is going to make people jump to conclusions. I know it might sound like Iām āequating both sidesāContinue reading “When Violence Gets Cheered, the Whole Spectrum Starts to Blur”
How Did We Get Here? The Normalization of Violence Across the Spectrum
Thereās something bigger going on underneath all of thisāthe arson, the copycats, the cheering, the excusesāand it needs to be said plainly: Violence has been getting normalized. Not overnight. Not because of one single incident. But over the last decade, piece by piece, moment by moment, weāve been pushed closer and closer to a pointContinue reading “How Did We Get Here? The Normalization of Violence Across the Spectrum”
A New Level of Danger: What Charlie Kirkās Shooting Reveals About Our Society
The other day, September 11, 2025, the day after Charlie Kirk was shot, I watched the news, scrolled social media, and I couldnāt shake the feeling that something in our society had shifted. This wasnāt just another act of violence. This wasnāt just another headline to scroll past and forget. Something about what happened feltContinue reading “A New Level of Danger: What Charlie Kirkās Shooting Reveals About Our Society”