Rep. Ilhan Omar asked CNN anchor and Chief White House Correspondent Kaitlan Collins if she finds slain activist Charlie Kirk’s views “reprehensible” as Collins grilled her about social media posts related to Kirk.
Omar faced an attempted censure over her posts, which included reposting a video referencing Kirk being “shot through the neck” by his own “Frankenstein monster.”
Four Republicans helped vote down the censure resolution
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https://globalvoices.org/2025/06/29/bangladesh-struggles-to-balance-reform-efforts-and-calls-for-elections-after-the-…
How Walmart, seeking to compete with e-commerce rivals like Amazon, built a multibillion-dollar HQ in Bentonville, aiming to attract workers and woo shoppers (Kevin Draper/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/business/walmart-rebrand-hea…
It Depends: Resolving Referential Ambiguity in Minimal Contexts with Commonsense Knowledge
Lukas Ellinger, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16107 https://
Kyiv didn’t get over €1,5 billion from EU because it hasn’t completed 3 reforms under Ukraine Facility. Why weren’t they these reforms done? : https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/21/kyiv-didnt-get-over-billion.html
Don’t hold your breath, but as raids stifle economy, Trump proves case for immigration reform
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-20/lopez-column-trump-ice-raids-economy-immigration-reform
In a remarkable turn from prominent American conservatives,
-- who until Trump’s return to power in January had long complained of a censorious leftwing “cancel culture”
-- now seem happy to reframe that, too, as “consequence culture”.
Nancy Mace, a House representative, sounded a lot like the progressives she has often decried for their political correctness when she declaredlast week, during an effort to censure one of her opponents in Congress, that “free speech isn’t f…