Charlie Kirk Purges Show the Need to Stand Up to Government Bullying

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But as of September 11, when Karen Attiah was fired from the Washington Post, DC’s paper of record has none who are full-time. “He’s prioritizing his other businesses over the Post,” former Post executive editor Marty Baron told Zeteo (2/26/25) in February. “Political violence has no place in this country,” Attiah wrote on Bluesky (9/10/25) in the hours after Kirk’s murder. “The United States cannot stand by and allow Israel to carry out the collective punishment it has declared it will exact,” Attiah (10/13/23) wrote six days after October 7. It was a damning indictment— not of Attiah, but of the Washington Post.