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As Trump tries to trash the life of Rob Reiner, Judd Legum and Noel Sims remind us of what Reiner stood for:
He was a champion for young children.
He played a critical role in establishing marriage equality as a federal right.
He opposed the Iraq War, saying protesters were patriots
He warned of the rise of Christian Nationalism.
Some people's lives will be celebrated — as will some deaths.
#RobReiner #children #MarriageEquality #ChristianNationalism #IraqWar
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What Rob Reiner believed
Rob Reiner, an actor, writer, and director, and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner, a photographer and producer, were found dead at their home in Los Angeles on Sunday.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
"For the rest of us [who aren't in the MAGA cult], this has to be a moment of clarity and forward vision. We are lucky that Trump and his cronies are so transparently incompetent and hollow. If they were even remotely capable the challenge would be much, much worse. But what Trump does for us is to set a very clear and very recognizable example of what it is that we do not want."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/19
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What Do We Want?: Trump as Rock Bottom and Choosing a Better Future
This article is free for educational and organizing purposes, but Dispatches From A Collapsing State depends on your support.Jared Yates Sexton (Dispatches From A Collapsing State | Jared Yates Sexton)
Ben Jennings' commentary on the heroism and moral witness given by Ahmed al-Ahmed in the antisemitic Bondi Beach attacks when he ran towards the shooters to try to stop them and was shot as a result of his bravery.
Light in darkness….
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas #Muslims #AlAhmed
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Ben Jennings on the Bondi beach terror attack – cartoon
Ahmed al-Ahmed has been hailed as a hero after tackling one of the alleged gunmen during Sunday’s attackBen Jennings (The Guardian)
"I see in Christmas an invitation to see differently: God in the social outcast, life on the margins reimagined as the centre of gravity.
That way of seeing is the Christmas gift that keeps on giving."
~ Justine Toh
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"Joy comes to the world not in a single, triumphant finale, but in the midst of one terrible ruler’s reign. The Advent we await happened in a moment like our own."
~ William J. Barber and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"If layers of life have covered over things you used to love, I hope you take this as a sign.
Go sing your song."
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"Every day brings something else that makes you want to curl up under the covers and make yourself less visible.
But that’s exactly when reclaiming your voice matters most.
Because reclaiming your voice – literally or metaphorically – is an act of resistance all on its own."
~ Michele Hornish
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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Go Sing Your Song: Joy as Resistance and Fuel
Michele does the brave thingMichele Hornish (Small Deeds Done)
"But even then, still miserable. So even all the wealth and all the power and having a cult at his service still hasn't given him joy, grace, dignity, and peace.
It's right there in front of you. It's corrosive, folks. It's corrosive. Hate just eats you up inside. There's a better way to live. So light a candle."
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"And if you don't believe me, look at Donald Trump, the world's most powerful man who late at night or, sorry, early in the morning, just wakes up with hate and bitterness in his heart, has all the money in the world, five billion dollars thanks to crypto, has failed up in life, escaped all accountability. If I were him, I'd be sleeping, drooling, watching TV and golfing and drinking a Diet Coke."
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"I think there is something beautiful about always lighting the light. Right? The light in the darkness. Righ?. So, you know, it's how do you want to live, folks? We have one life. How do you want to live? Do you really want to go down this rabbit hole of Randy Fine and all these hate mongers and Laura Loomer? It's a miserable place to be."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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How To Heal and Move Forward After the Bondi Terror Attack
Muslims and Jews aren't going back and our communities won't be used as cannon fodder for hatemongers willing to exploit tragedies for the sake of profit and power.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"We can extinguish his hate by being the light.
Wishing a very Happy Hanukkah to all who celebrate."
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"I attended a training in Brooklyn last weekend with approximately 1,000 other New Yorkers where we learned strategies for resisting ICE and protecting the people they seek to hurt. Whistles were given out as favors. It was inspiring and electric.
If we can salvage one bit of light from this moment—maybe even just a spark—it’s that while Trump’s rule is punishing, it is not impenetrable."
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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"The horrors of the past few days were vibrant and searing, and Trump’s subsequent response made it that much worse. But signs of light can be found around so many corners. For example, people across the country are organizing to stop ICE from invading our communities."
~ Marisa Kabas
#Trump #BondiBeach #BrownUniversity #RobReiner #light #joy #solidarity #Hanukkah #Christmas
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Flaming out
Trump may beckon darkness, but he can never extinguish the light.Marisa Kabas (The Handbasket)
"And let’s be clear: blaming a victim of violence for provoking their own death is not merely cruel. It is moral rot. It is the logic of the crazed mob, the whisper that they had it coming, the language historically employed by cowards who want brutality to feel justified. When it comes from the mouth of a U.S. President, it is not just indecent. It is dangerous."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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Trump Turns Murder Into a Punchline—and Calls It Politics
David Shuster condemns Donald Trump’s grotesque response to a violent death, exposing a moral collapse that turns grief into political cruelty.David Shuster (Blue Amp Media)
"I have never held Donald Trump in lower esteem.
But the silence of 99% of his party in failing to rebuke his sick and cruel behavior today means they’re utterly irredeemable."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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Rick Wilson (@therickwilson) on Threads
I have never held Donald Trump in lower esteem. But the silence of 99% of his party in failing to rebuke his sick and cruel behavior today means they’re utterly irredeemable.Threads
"But then Trump climbed in his AI fighter jet and dropped shit all over Posobiec’s argument. …
And with that, a crazed statement by Trump had once again put the right on the defensive and called into question whether they were prepared to descend further into the abyss along with him."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"After news of Reiner and his wife Michele’s brutal murder broke, the right leveraged it to score political points.
'You won’t see people on the right celebrating the horrific murder of Rob Reiner and his wife,' posted Jack Posobiec. He told readers to 'Compare the Left’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s murder,' even though there were no Democratic officials who had actually celebrated."
~ Jay Kuo
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/17
“Live your life in such a way that America's worst president sends a deranged and disgusting post about you when you die.”
~ Tim Miller quoted by The Bulwark
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
/16
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The Psych-Ward Presidency
The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)
“God has placed some prominent evangelicals in Trump’s orbit, and they’re going to have to give a full accounting of why they did not do more than they did, because the whole project has descended into getting scraps from the table of power at the expense of the President’s soul.”
~ Eric Erickson quoted by Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 271. 12/15/25
… As Americans were waking up to the shocking news of the murder of beloved and acclaimed director and activist Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, Donald Trump reacted with perhaps the most vile and disgusting post of his life - and that is certainly s…Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Only four House members that I can find spoke out, with empathy for the family: Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Mike Lawler, and Stephanie Bice."
~ Joyce Vance
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Nicole Lafond names the names Vance mentions and provides quotations.
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
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Trump’s Vile Remarks on Rob Reiner’s Death Prove a Bridge Too Far For Some GOPers
In the wake of President Trump’s “inappropriate and disrespectful” remarks — making what appears to be a tragic double murder of director and actor Rob Reiner…Nicole LaFond (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"CNN tried without success to get Republicans on Capitol Hill to comment on Trump’s post, reporting that Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson 'are not addressing' Trump’s post about the killing of Rob Reiner, but instead are 'offering prayers for his family.'”
~ Lucian K. Truscott
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner #ThoughtsandPrayers
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Donald Trump desecrates the memory of Rob Reiner and everything else he touches.
By now you have no doubt heard of Donald Trump’s post on Truth Social this morning about the murders of Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele Singer Reiner.Lucian K. Truscott IV (Lucian Truscott Newsletter)
"Peering into the Trump mind-set — the logic underpinning his priorities, his morality, his decision making — is like opening up a garbage pail left out for days during a summer heat wave."
~ Thomas B. Edsall
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"The sick mind that, without our increasingly loosened guard rails, would conjure up a gulag or wherever autocrats like him send those they hate, usually without any real basis.
He is rotting from the inside and under his leadership, so is our nation."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"The president of the United States is a psychopath. This is not about his policies — although lord knows, they will kill millions of people before he is through.
This is about Donald Trump himself — the putrid, malignant soul that occupies his broken-down body."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"Seventy-eight million people decided to give a corrupt, depraved, and sick human being almost unlimited power; the kind of deranged person who makes things worse for a family suffering an unimaginable and horrific loss. I wish we could ignore Donald, but we can’t."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"Who responds this way? Only the thirstiest, weakest, and most depraved of men. Because Donald is irredeemably himself, he did not retract this statement; he didn’t apologize or write something decent and appropriate. In fact, he doubled down."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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No Such Thing as Worst
The off-the-rails rants of a jealous demagogue diminish all of usThe Good in Us by Mary L. Trump
"He is a twisted and malicious man. We knew that. We suspected his depravity was boundless. His Monday post confirmed that fact with an economy and precision that is rare in a political world that runs on evasion and double-speak."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"[Trump's] vile outburst over the murder of a beloved entertainer and advocate for democracy provoked a moment of shocking moral clarity that exposed the essence of Trump’s malevolence as never before.
Peering into the bottomless evil of a man’s soul can be a harrowing experience. On Monday, Americans stared into the pitch darkness of Trump’s soul and recoiled in disgust and horror."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"The president is morally sick. ... The post is deranged, pathologically narcissistic, crude, stupid, and cruel. No human adult outside a psych ward expresses such thoughts. To have them at all is evidence of a twisted soul. ... the United States has muddled along with other dim presidents. Where Trump occupies a category all his own is in his breathtaking moral depravity."
~ Mona Charen
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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The Psych-Ward Presidency
The president has no moral core. And, according to his own chief of staff, he’s surrounded by amateurs, opportunists, and drug users.Andrew Egger (The Bulwark)
"His multiple emotional and psychological issues — the malignant narcissism, the pathological lying, the utter, sociopathic absence of empathy, and yet also an almost childlike manipulability — would be disturbing enough in an unemployed drifter. Manifested by the most powerful man on Earth, they amount to a global emergency."
~ Andrew Coyne
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"[Trump's statement about Reiner] reminds you that Donald Trump is evil. And that's the word. He's an evil person."
~ Dean Obeidallah
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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Rob Reiner was the best of us while Trump is a vile scumbag
A recording from Dean Obeidallah's live videoDean Obeidallah (The Dean's Report by Dean Obeidallah)
Kristin Du Mez, who knew Rob Reiner personally and collaborated with him on a documentary about Christian nationalism, replicates Trump's vile statements about Reiner after he and his wife were murdered by their son, and says,
"I think it’s important to look this evil in the eye, and I think Reiner would have wanted us to."
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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"There is no bottom."
~ Lewis Grossberger
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"I agree, there's no bottom for him. How about for 'us?'"
~ Chitown Kev
#Trump #Republicans #RobReiner
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Malcolm Nance offers a touching eulogy of his friends Rob and Michele Reiner:
"They were wonderful and open and charming and helpful and they loved people. And most importantly, and I say this without reservation -- you will hear it universally -- they were kind people, kind in a way that I hope you and I can emulate."
"We are in a terrible new world. Our country is under the control of a madman who is doing heinous things, and the mainstream media has been waay too slow to discard their mannered norms in the face of that existential threat. The Reiner case is both obviously off point and absolutely on point.
~ Gene Weingarten
#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #media #normalization
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The Unbearable Politeness of Being the MSM
About midnight last night, we learned from The New York Times, and a little later from The Washington Post, that film director Rob Reiner and his wife had been found dead in their Los Angeles home, apparently a double homicide.gene weingarten (The Gene Pool)
"First, this angry, partisan message is utterly inappropriate to the tragedy that has engulfed the Reiner family and the community of people who care about them.
Second, Trump has made it all about himself. It’s not the first time his malignant narcissism has put himself at the center of whatever is preoccupying the public at the moment, but this is one of the most extreme and disgusting examples I’ve seen."
~ Robert Reich
"If a prominent liberal is killed, the president can mock them, blame them for their own death, and make it about himself. No one will be fired for celebrating. No one will be investigated. No one will lose their visa.
That’s it. That’s the whole thing.
The mourning requirements were never about principle. They were a loyalty test dressed up in the language of civility. And now Trump has made that impossible to deny."
#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
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"If a prominent conservative is killed, you must mourn publicly and appropriately. Quoting their own words is not allowed. Pointing out the consequences of their rhetoric is not allowed. Criticizing how their allies respond is not allowed. Failing to show sufficient grief is grounds for termination, investigation, deportation, or FCC action against your employer."
#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
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"The post-Kirk purge was never about mourning. It wasn’t about opposing political violence or maintaining civil discourse or respecting the dead. It was about power. It was about demonstrating that there would be consequences for insufficient loyalty, for failing to perform the correct emotions at the correct time about the correct people. …
Let me spell [the rules] out, since they’re now pretty clear:"
#Trump #RobReiner #cruelty #CharlieKirk
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