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Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence Zack Dulberg, Max Horder Political violence in America is not just a relic of the past. From the attempted assassinations of Donald Trump to the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, to the burning of Teslas in protest of Elon Musk, political violence is a present-day reality. More than 9,000 threats have been made against members of Congress this year—a “huge increase,” according to officials. Are these events aberrations or do they reflect a national problem? Are they connected? And does the public support them? A new report from our group, the Network Contagion Research Institute, provides answers. Our research, based on nationally representative surveys and analyses of online activity, demonstrates the existence of online subcultures that support the murder of public figures like Trump and Musk. This “assassination culture,” incubated on social media, has migrated from the margins of public life into the mainstream. We found that nearly one-third of Americans surveyed—and around half of those identifying as left-of-center—believe that the murder of certain public figures is at least somewhat justified. The figures are startling: 38 percent of respondents, and 55 percent of those left of center, said assassinating President Trump would be at least somewhat justified; 31 percent of respondents, and 48 percent of those left of center, said the same about Musk. Forty percent of respondents, and 58 percent of those left of center, deem it at least somewhat acceptable to “destroy a Tesla dealership” in protest. https://www.city-journal.org/article/progressives-political-violence-donald-trump-assassination-attempt https://networkcontagion.us/reports/4-7-25-ncri-assassination-culture-brief/

Antisemitism. A familiar motive By Scott Johnson Jewish Insider returns to the story of Cody Balmer’s arson and attempted murder of Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro in its Daily Roundup. JI links to PennLive’s story on the familiar motive that may have driven Balmer’s attack. Based on one of the search warrants executed in the case, Juliette Rihl reports: The suspect in the arson attack at the Governor’s Residence targeted Josh Shapiro due to his perceived stance on Palestine, according to a search warrant obtained by PennLive. The suspect, Cody Balmer, called 911 following the attack early Sunday, identified himself by name and told operators Shapiro needs to know he “…will not take part in his plans for what he wants to do to the Palestinian people,” the search warrant written by police said. Balmer continued, saying he needed to “stop having my friends killed” and that “…our people have been put through too much by that monster,” according to the warrant, which says Balmer’s intonation and cadence sounded like he was possibly reading from a script. Rihl has more on the motive a few paragraphs down in the story: In the warrant for his devices signed Tuesday, Corporal Benjamin Forsythe of the Pennsylvania State Police says Balmer targeted Shapiro “based upon perceived injustices to the people of Palestine,” as well as Shapiro’s Jewish faith, though the warrant does not elaborate on why Shapiro’s faith is believed to have been a motive. Immediately after the attack I expressed the thought that the authorities would get a handle on the source of Balmer’s hatred of Shapiro and the evidence would emerge. Until that time, I thought tact was the better part of wisdom. In retrospect, I think Shapiro must have been briefed on the substance of the affidavit before he made his statement this past Sunday afternoon https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/04/a-familiar-motive.php .

EVERY RECORD HAS BEEN ALTERED: At Harvard-Hosted ‘Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon,’ Law Students Target the Pages of Firms That Criticized School’s Response to Anti-Semitism. Anti-Israel Harvard Law School students organized a workshop on the Ivy League campus earlier this month to edit the Wikipedia pages of more than a dozen prominent law firms, singling out some that threatened to stop recruiting at the school over its failure to rein in anti-Semitic activity. Harvard’s National Lawyers Guild chapter, a left-wing legal advocacy group, hosted the “Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon” on April 2 at Harvard Law’s WCC student center, according to an announcement on Harvard Law’s website. Third-year Harvard Law student Corinne Shanahan, an organizer with Harvard Out of Occupied Palestine, organized the clinic for students to “gather data to edit the Wikipedia pages of Big Law firms to reflect cases they have recently argued.” Two days later, Harvard Law student Aashna Avachat edited the Wikipedia pages of 14 law firms, mostly to add details of their representation of clients that the activist students deemed to be unsavory, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of Wikipedia edit logs. Avachat edited the pages for the firms Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett to soften the language about anti-Semitic activity on college campuses. Amid a wave of anti-Semitic protests following the Hamas attack on Israel, the two firms warned Harvard Law and others that they would cut back on recruiting on their campuses for failing to rein in anti-Semitic incidents. The edit logs show Avachat changed the term “antisemitic incidents” to “pro-Palestine protests,” and reworded references to “incidents targeting Jewish students” to incidents that the law firms “described … as antisemitic.” Avachat herself was involved in one incident at Harvard in which her law school classmate, Ibrahim Bharmal, accosted and shoved a Jewish student during an anti-Israel “die-in.” Avachat said she witnessed the incident and claimed Bharmal was protecting “peaceful protesters” against an “aggressive” Jewish student. Both Bharmal and another student activist, Elom Tettey-Tamaklo, were charged in connection with the “die-in,” a case that Harvard delayed by refusing to cooperate with local prosecutors. https://freebeacon.com/campus/at-harvard-hosted-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-law-students-target-the-pages-of-firms-that-criticized-schools-response-to-anti-semitism/

STANDING UP FOR WOMEN: Trump administration establishes ‘Title IX Special Investigations Team’ to defend female athletes. https://www.campusreform.org/article/trump-administration-establishes-title-ix-special-investigations-team-defend-female-athletes/27806

"Would [Harvard] recognize the Ku Klux Klan? For me, the National Lawyers Guild and the Ku Klux Klan are indistinguishable in terms of ideology...." "If [Harvard] wouldn't recognize Klansmen or if it wouldn't recognize a group of sexists who called for the end of equality for women, then it shouldn't recognize the pro-Hamas National Lawyers Guild.... If this were the1950s and there was a university say the University of Mississippi Old Miss that was forcibly integrated and it was allowing... some of the Klansmen who were students to harass black students, and the federal government came in and said 'Unless you stop Klansmen from harassing black students we're going to cut off federal funding,' people would be applauding that.'..." Said Alan Dershowitz

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Japan’s Economic Revitalization Minister Ryosei Akazawa Japan to kick off tariff negotiations with Trump in Washington Emily Crane President Trump said Japan is set to kick off tariff negotiations with the US in Washington on Wednesday — becoming one of the first countries to test his willingness to relent on the sweeping tariffs. “Japan is coming in today to negotiate Tariffs, the cost of military support, and ‘TRADE FAIRNESS’,” Trump said in a Truth Social post. “I will attend the meeting, along with Treasury & Commerce Secretaries. Hopefully something can be worked out which is good (GREAT!) for Japan and the USA!” It comes a day after the Trump administration said it had been presented with offers from at least 15 nations for bespoke trade deals following the president’s announcement last week of a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs. More than 75 countries have reached out to request talks, too. https://nypost.com/2025/04/16/world-news/japan-to-kick-off-tariff-negotiations-with-trump-in-washington/

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At it again. This time no "behind closed doors"

To them, our entire government that we pay for is one big lawfare game. Sounds kinda 'insurrectiony'

Remember when he was sharp as a tack ?

Another Homelander classic. This "tool to kill" that you are fixated on is an inanimate object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . That is the fact. The person who picks it up and uses it to kill, just as with a knife, a car, a club, THAT PERSON IS RESPONSIBLE. As @Orlando Buffalo stated it is no longer useful to debate this with the extremists who cannot grasp that fact.

Everyone should work towards peace. You should know that.

Not win the nation, but "WIN THE THREAD" childish is understating it. But you knew what I meant. .

They want to normalize insanity. Sir, it's your day, wear whatever your heart desires, but just know, no matter what, you're always going to look like a man in a dress ...because you are a man, wearing a dress. Good day.

The American people Calm down everyone. We need to begin a @GiveSendGo to raise money for the shooter. (not really funny, but it what Frankie would have said.)

So no real response. Just a poor attempt at wit. Not surprising at all

CHANGE,