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Liberal In Texas

(16,270 posts)
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:59 PM Nov 2025

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 Nov 2025 OP
Oh, that has to be so hard for them Bettie Nov 2025 #1
The first holidays after your parents are gone are always the hardest. paleotn Nov 2025 #2
And they killed the dog, too. calimary Nov 2025 #3
My heartbreaks for the kids. Botany Nov 2025 #4
How awful MustLoveBeagles Nov 2025 #5

Bettie

(19,704 posts)
1. Oh, that has to be so hard for them
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 08:01 PM
Nov 2025

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

paleotn

(22,215 posts)
2. The first holidays after your parents are gone are always the hardest.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 09:59 PM
Nov 2025

Just breaks my heart for them.

calimary

(90,020 posts)
3. And they killed the dog, too.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:32 PM
Nov 2025

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

Botany

(77,323 posts)
4. My heartbreaks for the kids.
Fri Nov 28, 2025, 10:46 PM
Nov 2025

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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