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Hello, and welcome to cool people did cool stuff, your weekly reminder that when bad

things happen, we're there for each other.

We always have been, and we always will.

I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy, and this is going to be

another week where I break from the regular format of the show, because it has been a rough week

to try to act like everything is normal. There have been a lot of weeks like that in the three

and a half years I've been doing this show, to be clear, but for whatever reason, I thought this was a decent week to try something a little bit different.

This isn't a new show, and I don't want it to be, and we will continue to do history

and do all the things that we do on this show.

But I can't pretend like what's happening right now, what happened last week,

doesn't affect me and doesn't affect my work. This might have been the worst week for free speech

in the U.S. since the end of the Red Scare. I can't immediately point to a worse time of that.

People are being deplplatformed at an astonishing

rate for sharing their opinions about the death of Charlie Kirk and for sharing their

opinions about the government's backlash against free speech in the wake of the death of Charlie

Kirk. I'm recording this two days after Trump declared Antifa a domestic terrorist organization.

He has vowed to dismantle.

Obviously, Antifa isn't an organization.

There are no members.

There's no funding.

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