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Michael Brendan Dougherty

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author of My Father Left Me Ireland. Senior Writer @NRO.

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@michaelbd
Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Me: Hey kid! Back up, you're going to get bit by that crocodile if you're not careful. Them: Crocodile lover. Big Croc shill. Why do you hate innocent kids?
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Good to see information corrected but the right is angry that Kirk was assassinated. it’s directing anger at the left because it’s in the left side of their social media feeds that they see approval and celebration of the murder. Not from elected officials thank God, but
@themaxburns
Max Burns
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This Guardian story was the sole source to speculate on Robinson's politics, and it's now acknowledged to be not credible. It was viewed tens of millions of times, and provided the backbone for a wave of right-wing hate directed at the left. Media illiteracy is dangerous!
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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I see the Guardian retraced their report. Why?
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@emeriticus
Pedro L. Gonzalez
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He's right. I don't care if it sounds like a "boomer" cliche, he's right, and the last few days on this app proves him right
@bensiegel
Ben Siegel
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Utah Gov. Spencer Cox (R): "Social media is a cancer. And I would urge people to log off, turn off, and touch grass."
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As the House of Lords debates the bill, here is my argument against legal assisted suicide. The bill incentivizes doctors to make the prognosis that allows for suicide. People in their final agony rarely request death, psychologically vulnerable people, fearful of going through
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@emeriticus
Pedro L. Gonzalez
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People should accept this apology, if they want things to get better, because precluding the possibility of forgiveness and charity and grace is how things stay bad and get worse
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Stephen King
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I have apologized.
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Calgie
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Theresa May's short and sweet speech objecting to Assisted Dying
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Wait. So the killer’s dad does all the work, then laws enforcement congratulates themselves and each other and heads out for celebratory beers. Are they going to look into this Discord chat? The roommate? The press that can’t even quote Kirk accurately concludes the killer
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Yep. I regret saying the nastiest thing I’ve said here. And the internet is practically built to deliver to you the thing you’ll find most hateful.
@jpodhoretz
John Podhoretz
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Here's the danger of social media. It allows people to publish their internal monologues. Our internal monologues and fantasies are often incredibly ugly. People go to therapists because they feel so guilty about them, and one of the tasks of a therapist is to explain that 1/
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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It’s really hard to explain how high the editorial standards go at these places when negatively characterizing a liberal idea or figure, and how low they go when dealing with the right.
@DanielMael
Daniel Mael
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What a correction from the @nytimes on Charlie Kirk.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Pedro has been spreading a lot of good sense and straight thinking on this, and I commend him to you.
@emeriticus
Pedro L. Gonzalez
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"I just want people to know that Charlie's family, his daughter, is going to live without a dad. His wife is going to live without a husband. That's not okay, that's horrible, and no one should be justifying that." This is someone on the left. I don't care if people think it's
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@NR_Institute
NR Institute
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To celebrate Buckley’s centennial year, we are partnering with @ISI to host the debate, “Buckley: Conservative or Libertarian?” @michaelbd will take the conservative side, @ToryAnarchist will take the libertarian side, and @charlescwcooke will serve as moderator. Come see the
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@mnovendstern
Max Novendstern
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There is so much alpha this decade in just not going insane
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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“Every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.”
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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To be honest the reaction on X is far preferable to what’s on every other social network and channel right now. It’s weird watching people you know and love say he deserved to be killed for what he said when they know damn well that you believe the same and can see them saying
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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The visual and audio suggested a rifle shooting from a distance.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
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CNN is reporting that the suspect who shot Charlie Kirk did so from a university building 200 yards away. If true, that means he was farther away than the Trump assassin in Pennsylvania and farther away than Lee Harvey Oswald was when he shot Kennedy.
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@_CLancellotti
Carlo Lancellotti
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Nowadays even the most horrible politically-motivated violence seems to be ... non-political, in the sense that it serves no discernible political goals like seizing power or starting a revolution. It expresses the anger of deranged individuals living in a virtual reality.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Love to @megynkelly who is somehow broadcasting through this, and reflecting exactly what so many of us feel in real time.
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@jpodhoretz
John Podhoretz
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It is time to stop showing the clips. Of Charlie and of Iryna. These are snuff films, and repeated viewing will desensitize us to them. They will destroy our civilization, and I'm not kidding.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Universities need to increase security at all political events in the coming days and weeks. For everyone.
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Michael Brendan Dougherty
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Trauma doctors are miracle workers. No matter how awful the video looks, if they got him to an ER quick, he has a chance. Pray.
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