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A Year After Kirk: Is the Rate Actually Up, or Is the Coverage Just Louder?

A year after Charlie Kirk’s assassination, the numbers show a genuine rise in threats and targeted violence. What they don’t show is an unprecedented era of political bloodshed—or that every high-profile death belongs in the same statistical bucket.

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Dialogue Is Dead: Social Media Has Made Politics a Bloodsport

Social media has become less about dialogue and more about domination. On Bluesky, Discord, and Reddit, conservatives are routinely drowned in hate and labeled Nazis or fascists for daring to speak. When platforms that should build community instead encourage pile-ons and even mock a man’s murder, it’s clear unity is gone. Dialogue isn’t dying—it’s already dead.

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