📡 On my Radar
The assassination of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University represents a dark moment for American democracy. Political violence has no place in our society, regardless of ideology.
But the aftermath raises uncomfortable questions about who gets to police grief and how institutions respond to tragedy. Hundreds have been fired for social media comments about Kirk's death - from teachers to federal workers. Some of their comments are abhorrent, some distasteful, but almost have some First Amendment protection.
Private companies, of course, aren't bound by the First Amendment.
I can abhor the violence that took your life but I do not have to honor the life you chose to live.
Yet when Attorney General Pam Bondi openly threatens to "go after" those expressing "hate speech," and when government officials pressure employers to fire dissenters, the line between corporate decision-making and state coercion of speech blurs dangerously.
Where were these firings when Democratic officials…
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