#violent-rhetoric

#violent-rhetoric

The leaked chat logs - spanning 2,900 pages of dialogue from January to mid-August - showed leaders of the GOP group referring to Black people as monkeys and "the watermelon people," talking about raping and putting political enemies in gas chambers or driving them to suicide, and also praising Republicans who they believed support slavery. "The chat offers an unfiltered look at how a new generation of GOP activists talk when they think no one is listening,"

Despite reports of a "person of interest" being detained late Wednesday, the suspect in the killing of Charlie Kirk remains at large as of Thursday morning. Authorities in Utah recovered a high-powered, bolt-action rifle popular with hunters in some woods near the Utah Valley University campus where the shooting occurred, and they say the suspect is likely "college-aged." [New York Times]