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highplainsdem

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17. I know. I winced when I saw that. But we're required to use the exact headline. I can only be
Sat Sep 13, 2025, 02:19 PM
19 hrs ago

responsible for my own writing (and then only if an editor doesn't meddle).

There's no way to know who wrote that Verge headline, but a good chance it wasn't the journalist who wrote the article, because headlines are usually an editorial decision. And the writer of the article didn't use the words Congress or Congressional even once, just referred to House Republicans.

There's also a small chance the original headline, before publication, had included a colon

Congress: Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk's death

and at the last minute someone had removed the colon - maybe even planning to change that to

Congressional Republicans want to target liberal donors after Charlie Kirk's death

- and then forgot to change that first word to an adjective.

You can get all sorts of mishaps during editing, and they don't all get caught.

I did just check that article again to see if they'd corrected the grammatical error, as sometimes happens (we've seen a lot of changed headlines in LBN, and I even had an LBN thread locked once, temporarily, after the headline was changed, even though the link hadn't been changed). But they haven't fixed the headline yet.

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Hope you get results dweller Friday #1
They need to look in the mirror. nt sheshe2 Friday #2
Which does nothing for the conservative hate that caused this murder IronLionZion Friday #3
They are not "conservatives." They are right-wing extremists, fascists. valleyrogue Friday #11
Wow, these guys had a plan all ready to go and all they needed was a convenient pretext to set it in motion. sop Friday #4
Punish liberals anyway IronLionZion Friday #7
They had already made noises about markodochartaigh Friday #5
Maybe they should look into TSF's Russian pals. sinkingfeeling Friday #6
They have no shame. yellow dahlia Friday #8
Or backbone or balls Nigrum Cattus Friday #10
Congressional HuskyOffset Friday #9
I know. I winced when I saw that. But we're required to use the exact headline. I can only be highplainsdem 19 hrs ago #17
Figured it was something like that HuskyOffset 11 hrs ago #21
Not in the headline, as far as I know. Not in LBN, anyway. highplainsdem 10 hrs ago #22
These people are insane kwolf68 Friday #12
They were doing it before his death. live love laugh Yesterday #13
Still think you're living in a free country? perdita9 Yesterday #14
Now that they know the guy is a trumper, will they change this to "target maga donors?" Scrivener7 Yesterday #15
Projection and gaslighting at its best mdbl Yesterday #16
HUAC reborn... NT GJGCA 19 hrs ago #18
I see all this firing and targeting of people and groups... ananda 18 hrs ago #19
Do these swine... GiqueCee 16 hrs ago #20
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