Republicans and Democrats, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Nancy Mace, are canceling events and taking other security precautions.

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk is sending shock waves through Capitol Hill, with lawmakers on both sides of the aisle expressing fears for their own safety and taking greater security precautions following a summer of political violence.

Members are beefing up their security, moving public events indoors or canceling them altogether. One is even vowing to carry firearms.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the progressive star who has faced numerous death threats over the years, said Thursday she had postponed two public events planned for this weekend in North Carolina, including a rally in Raleigh set for Sunday.

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    There’s a good book called “Not for Profit” came out around 2010 and describes how the systematic erosion of arts/literature, the Humanties, from school systems, is being replaced by bare minimum to train workers. Creating a dumb population that can’t think for themselves, makes it easy for government control with no resistance

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      School has always been about training us to sit still and not make problems for the boss.

      There have been some exceptions through the years, but as a whole US non- college education has been pretty bleak for the whole time.

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        And thus USA has 70 million voting for a Moron twice, then some complaining when he does exactly what he said he would do. They could not think ahead on how his plans could go badly. And those on the dumber scale still support the administrations plan to eliminate science, health and research because somehow it will be better 😱