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Liberal In Texas

(15,868 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 06:59 PM Friday

The Hortman's T'giving.

This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.

Sherrilyn Ifill (@sifill.bsky.social) 2025-11-27T17:24:38.767Z
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The Hortman's T'giving. (Original Post) Liberal In Texas Friday OP
Oh, that has to be so hard for them Bettie Friday #1
The first holidays after your parents are gone are always the hardest. paleotn Friday #2
And they killed the dog, too. calimary Friday #3
My heartbreaks for the kids. Botany Friday #4
How awful MustLoveBeagles Friday #5

Bettie

(19,177 posts)
1. Oh, that has to be so hard for them
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:01 PM
Friday

from everything I've head, they were a close family and to lose both parents and Gilbert the way they did.

paleotn

(21,302 posts)
2. The first holidays after your parents are gone are always the hardest.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:59 PM
Friday

Just breaks my heart for them.

calimary

(88,661 posts)
3. And they killed the dog, too.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:32 PM
Friday

I can’t help but suspect that it’ll get a lot hotter for them in the Hereafter.

Botany

(76,066 posts)
4. My heartbreaks for the kids.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:46 PM
Friday

Damn the non stop right wing hate talk and internet toxic disinformation that comes in disguised
as American but from foreign sources from around the world but in the end it comes from Russia
which feeds the sick brains that makes them see Democrats as the enemy who kills babies and
forces woke ideology on “Good Christians.”

Btw Yes, where is the National Guard?

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