"Fuck this Nazi bullshit" is a perfectly acceptable editorial stance, in fact

man.

The life and death of Charlie Kirk and the response to it is the fastest case study of the difference between history and memory that I have ever seen develop.

wtf now yall doing investigative journalism

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

I think one of Ezra Klein's big problems is that when he says "doing journalism" what he actually means is content creation

Obama on Charlie Kirk:

The controversy of his legacy aside, I've never seen so many people so clearly pretend to be familiar with a recently deceased person. If Kirk was alive to hear himself be compared to MLK Jr., he would be ranting about it about it with the utmost disgust. Kirk hated MLK Jr. openly and passionately.

Neither did the indictment of Tyler Robinson for that matter. It credits Kirk as founder, not co-founder, which isn't a huge deal but is odd to see in an indictment.

Ezra Klein, and Vox in general, are the perfect avatars of the modern DNC: graduate degree holders with the object permanence of a dog, who are shocked at piece of information as if they've heard about it as a concept for the first time, and cannot conceive of doing anything else

Just as a heads up (because I see screenshots from the AF Post account all the time) AF Post stands for America First Post, which isn’t a real news organization, and is affiliated with neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

"I spent some time thinking how I whitewashed a violent demagogue—and decided it's time to whitewash another violent demagogue."

"US Tiktok users would be asked to shift to new app" controlled by Trump friends Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Good fuckin' luck with that.

Max Blumenthal has indeed gone to appear on Infowars to peddle far-right crazy about Charlie Kirk's murder.

...what, now?

"People in California say, 'Charlie, it's so bad here." I said, 'No, no, no. Go go to Ontario. Go to Toronto. Go to Ottawa.'" - Charlie Kirk

"And you should be saying your prayers of gratitude today. 'Thank you, Lord, for saving us. Thank you, Lord, for giving us the grace,' because Canada -- we are going to be neighboring a semi-Soviet country soon. It's not an exaggeration." - Charlie Kirk

"Canadian baby boomers don't care about the future of Canada." - Charlie Kirk

"Canada being our neighbor to the north has indulged the last 40 years in liberal government and their decline is steep. I'm sorry, 16 years. Huge explosion of housing prices, a incomprehensible immigration flood, like hard to even grasp." - Charlie Kirk

Worse, when the right wingers brigade journalists who do the work, a lot of news executives will race to blame their own journalists for offending the extremists.

Meanwhile on Twitter.

Posobiec - whose ties to white supremacists are legion - wrote a book last year called “Unhumans” in which he labeled half the country UNHUMAN It is language designed to inspire political violence yet our cable news channels have made him a talking head about political violence

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Great example of journalistic malpractice. Headline repeats the claims of an elected official, while the story notes that no evidence of this supposed "leftist ideology" has been found. Has the New York Times not been made aware that people only read headlines? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/u...

Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us

We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.

If you’re wondering how many paragraphs it takes for them to mention any of the more unsavory aspects of Sliwa’s history — like the time literally last year his men beat up a guy in Times Square on live TV and then he lied about it — the answer is, “It literally never comes up.”

Especially galling considering that Sen. Blackburn said nothing when a professor at this *same university* last year was unmasked by antifascists as a popular, pseudonymous neo-Nazi propagandist who attended the deadly Unite The Right rally in Charlottesville.

Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

To forget Kirk’s words is to dishonor his memory.

One thing that kinda blows my mind: I spoke to national French-language media all morning about this. I did three separate interviews before 10am. I was interviewed for the U.S. publication WIRED about it. But English-language Canadian media? Crickets. It’s just so odd!

The Dept. of Education has pulled funding for programs in 8 states that support students with both hearing and vision loss. A staffer at one program says he was told the Trump admin. took issue with 2 words on the grant application: “transition" and “privilege": www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.

LMAOOOOO tiny racist protest HOUNDED out of the park by THOUSANDS of torontonians screaming ‘GO HOME NAZIS GO HOME!’ Absolutely love to see it, triumph of the human spirit, Toronto sometimes surprises me for the best. Live band playing Bella Ciao. Unparalleled

Thanks to all the folks who showed up to counter the white nationalist rally at christie pitts today

But his style was famously uncivil too. He was known to bait people with outrageous remarks, fake outrage to get a rise out of them, interupt and speak over colleagues. I genuinely don't think 90%+ of pundits commenting listened to 30 minutes of Kirk content. He was notorious for this stuff.

In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed

Yankees: Moment of silence State Capitals: Flags at half-mast New York Times: Country in Mourning Trump: See all these trucks!

Damn. This dude writes for the Dispatch!

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

one of the things that was most jarring about being undercover in nazi chatrooms for my book was how often violent videos were posted in the channels. executions, murders, blood. purposeful desensitization to violence can be detached from ideology and just entail inurement to the sight of death

Spot the 9/11 mention on the NYPost’s cover for their September 11, 2025 edition.

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon: