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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Edward Helmore

US philanthropies condemn political violence and defend their work

an adult and child in front of a memorial
People visit the makeshift memorial for Charlie Kirk outside of the headquarters of Turning Point USA on Tuesday in Phoenix, Arizona. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

More than 100 philanthropies and institutions have issued a letter condemning “acts of political violence” and pre-emptively opposing an expected Trump administration crackdown on ideologically left-leaning funding in the wake of the death of Charlie Kirk last week.

The groups, including the Ford Foundation and George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, denounced the recent murders of Kirk and of Melissa Hortman in Minnesota, saying such acts “have no place in our democracy”.

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