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When you speak to parents of young children about whether their weekend was relaxing and restorative.

Well don't I feel stupid

“…but when you start to follow the money, you don’t know where the fuck it’s gonna take you.”

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Right-wing Sinclair Broadcasting owns all these local media stations and many others all across America. This is not journalism, it is scripted propaganda.

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

It is possible to condemn political violence without venerating objectively bad people who made America worse. Let's try for that.

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Political violence is bad. It usually begets more political violence. Celebrating political violence is bad. It usually encourages more political violence, against various targets. Campus shootings are bad. They make everyone on campus less safe. It's bad that what I wrote here is controversial.

/3 We can also call out who has encouraged and normalized political violence and made it government policy. We can note the irony of it in many cases. But celebrating it — yelling “hooray” — is like celebrating going to war. People will die and it won’t be fun.

/2 We can, and should, discuss whether political violence is inevitable, or whether we’re fooling ourselves because we’ve been swimming in it for a long time. You can note that political violence against the Left (like Melissa Hortman) is treated differently than political violence against the right

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

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probably worth thinking about what it would mean to pursue accountability for what increasingly looks like murder www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

i cannot believe they are expecting us to play along with this "might not be his signature" farce and that a lot of people actually are, i feel like ive lost my goddam mind

society would improve immediately if we just seized the assets of every person who wrote jeffrey epstein a birthday note

My friend Jane Leavy aka @ballgirl.bsky.social --author of the definitive, blockbuster biographies on Koufax, Mantle, and Ruth--has a new book out today on how to fix the modern game. It's full of great ideas, and not finger wagging at all. It's a really fun read! bookshop.org/p/books/make...

I'm afraid that whatever this message was supposed to be is utterly lost on me because I'm fixated on why Ron Donald is at this press conference over Mike Johnson's shoulder.

I thought this was funny and hyperbolic until I saw the pages and now it's just obviously correct.

In The Situation, @benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org considers the magnitude of the Trump administration's lethal strike on the Venezuelan vessel. "Frankly, the action seems far closer to simple murder than it does to the drone strikes program of the past," Wittes writes.

The president gets to harm as many Americans as he wants defying whatever laws he pleases and our job is to be nice to him and make sure everyone agrees he's cool. Not sure what you people don't understand about that.

THE ICE AGENTS ARE WEARING FUCKING NAZI STAHLHELMS WHAT THE FUCK COME ON, YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP

Not joking when I say that "maximum lethality -- not tepid legality" (Hegseth just now) is one of the scariest phrases I've heard uttered by a government official in my lifetime.

I do not identify as a horror guy, but the CF folks regularly intersect with stuff I like anyway, or help me find horror that does fit into my very-narrow wheelhouse. You should check em out. Even if they're wrong about the masterpiece that is Lucky Number Slevin.

Using the same authority as a presidential executive order, I’m renaming the New York Times “The Paper of Wreckord.” Please write a story acknowledging this. @nytimes.com

Oh hey a pre-market-close announcement, guess someone called for another round of light corruption.

I understand the desire to dunk on Cassidy for the naivety that led to this, but please let’s all remember: the best day to start resisting is always today.

If you’ve ever wondered what someone being waterboarded sounds like, simply try sleeping in the same room as a newborn.

Trump's Presidencies have so far involved numerous Saturday Night Massacres, dozens of Watergates, and a never ending parade of Tea Pot Dome scandals. I worry that we're about to enter the "dozens of Kent State's" portion of the story.

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

Doing a land acknowledgment to Clippy before launching Copilot

Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words

Saw The Departed in a full theater very early in its run, and when the elevator door opened the entire theater shouted in agony with one collective voice.

I’m here to stump for Station Eleven and The Expanse.

This is so perfect. "Dead Center" and he's so far to the right that he's half off the cover

Fucking subtle

this is what every anti-zohran attack sounds like

Do we think "God" or "Trump" was the Freudian slip here

Some of you really should be posting about Taylor Swift instead of politics and it shows.

Walkoff bunt is some piranhas shit (derogatory)

I saw some discourse on this website that amounted to “why didn’t he convince more republicans to vote against it” because Merc’s law is always in effect