They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Remember when the husband of a congresswoman got his head beat in by a guy who spent his time in a dark room mainlining their Gamergate content into his schizoid personality disorder.and they made hammer jokes about it? www.didnothingwrongpod.com/p/episode-8-...

Looking forward to reading this book.

There is no domestic terror statute with which to designate antifa a terror group. Want to know abt antifa? Preorder my book here www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...

These sentences - “we are going to have to live here with each other believing what we believe. Disagreeing in the ways we disagree." - do nothing to reckon w/ how one side is EXPLICIT abt not wanting to “live here with each other.” They’re trying to eradicate whole categories of people!

The first sentence of this - "Much of what I would describe as Kirk's worst moments were now just standard fair MAGA Republicanism” - is so true but somehow Klein doesn’t seem to seem the absolute fucking emergency of that reality

Just so I'm clear: TV host says we should kill every homeless person? No big deal TV host says the right must "go to war" with the left? Pfft. TV host says the government is cracking down on critics? Well, the government cracks down on him for the criticism. Free speech, everyone.

With GOP condemnations of political violence, just remembered when I was at 2022 Christian nationalist conference in PA - Roger Stone, Mike Lindell, Michael Flynn, Eric Trump were there - and the crowd cheering when a speaker announced a prophecy that the “Angel of death” would visit these people

I am pretty sure this is the most downloaded episode of our show to date. It has been so rewarding to make something people find value in, and to do it with one of my best friends @michaelehayden.bsky.social

Thomas Rousseau, leader of white nationalist Patriot Front, spoke at a vigil for Charlie Kirk in Fort Worth, Texas over the weekend. This is the first time I'm aware of that Rousseau and his loyalists did not attend a rally wearing Patriot Front's trademark uniform. They feel emboldened. 1/3

J.D. Vance, who is almost certainly going to be president before 2028 rolls around, blurbed and endorsed this book and it was barely mentioned in the mainstream media. bsky.app/profile/lets...

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

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

Last year: Austin Peay State University learns prof is Nazi who went to Charlottesville rally. Admin drags heels, pays him $56k severance to leave This week: APSU prof posts screenshot of headline - Charlie Kirk Says Gun Deaths ‘Unfortunately’ Worth it to Keep 2nd Amendment- & is immediately fired

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.

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

Has anyone checked in on the Harper’s Letter crowd

it’s right to be v angry at liberals doing hagiographies of Kirk because none of this - mass deportation, Gaza, the project to eradicate trans people from public life, this fascist moment - happens without their constant collaboration & compromise

For the pundit class civility means saying, for example, that trans people are “an abomination to God,” but politely, on stage with a microphone, in a suit and tie

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Here's my article on AmericaFest 1, the now annual TPUSA mega conference held at the Phoenix Convention Center in December. This is the one where Rittenhouse was the big special guest and he walked out to a Rittenhouse themed song while the big screens displayed graphic footage of his victims.

For those just learning more about Turning Point USA and Kirk, here's a thread of some of the stuff I've covered over the years, mostly for @lcrw.bsky.social, which has also covered TPUSA over the years and the real (negative) impact they've had on various communities throughout the county. 🧵⤵️

This is extremely bad faith. Kirk quoted Leviticus saying gay men should be stoned to death, then called it "God's perfect law." Pretending honest summarirs of these remarks such as "Charlie Kirk believed gays should be stoned to death" were false is itself dishonest and false.

if youd like to get a bit more background on how young men get radicalized online but don't want to dive into hell facefirst alone i have a book about it (it's five years old, but speaks to methods & human motivations that are still current, i think) www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia...

praise for Kirk from liberal pundits is one of the clearest distillations of how ill-equipped they are for this fascist moment, & how devoted they are to a West Wing fantasy of a respectable right/conservative movement that does not exist, and which - like Kirk - almost never operates in good faith

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

when the journalist knows the interview is useless to the story but that the public deserves to “check out this guy”

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Are flags gonna fly at half staff for this? Yankees gonna take a moment of silence?

This is especially infuriating, not only because Jack wrote a book last year about the left titled “Unhumans” - exactly the type of rhetoric designed to inspire political violence - but because HE LIED FOR YEARS ABOUT WORKING FOR CBS NEWS!!!!!

Interesting time to listen to this @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social episode w/ @moiradonegan.bsky.social & @adriandaub.bsky.social about how the Nazis made Horst Wessel into a martyr open.spotify.com/episode/0WlH...

Not so gentle reminder that “transgender ideology” isn’t a thing - it’s a way of negating the existence of trans people

A few questions about Brett Kavanaugh: nymag.com/intelligence...

"Unlike prominent right-wing influencers like Mr. Bannon, Charlie Kirk and Laura Loomer, he has no ties to the Trump White House." Well, that's just flat out wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

“What shocked me, when I was kidnapped [by US immigration], was just how reminiscent that was to cases I witnessed in Syria. You would have plainclothed officers without any warrant come and take you just because of your political speech.” @oliverlaughland.bsky.social interviews Mahmoud Khalil

(GO BILLS)

My latest in @us.theguardian.com: Texas AG Ken Paxton wants students to pray in school, unless they’re Muslim www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"launch operations" against an American city

at last year's NatCon Poso said: "We don’t negotiate with unhumans because that’s the stakes of this — humanity vs. unhuman; populist nationalist vs. atheistic Marxist; strength, beauty & genius vs. weakness, ugliness & stupidity; civilization vs. barbarism; crime & chaos vs. law.” he's a fascist!

Eric Schmitt's speech was cribbed from Samuel T. Francis.— www.unpopularfront.news/p/the-schmit...

Guards at 'Alligator Alcatraz' engaged in indiscriminate beatings of detainees after an uprising at the detention camp forced them to regain control last week, several people held at the widely condemned site told Noticias 23/Univision last week:

a @ashleyfeinberg.bsky.social tweet that remains undefeated

NEW: 16 months ago, a young Palestinian locksmith went to help unlock a car. He's been in detention ever since. The FBI interrogated him. After refusing to become an informant, he was put in high-security as "retribution." He's not convicted of a crime—but ICE will neither free nor deport him.

seriously, there is no evidence whatsoever that Weiss is capable of writing a news story, much less running a news organization. the actual quality of the writing at The Free Press is barely a notch above AI slop.

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

“Now, sugar is a rumor. Milk is a myth. Real fruit is only something you can dream about. When a child bites into medicine and calls it ice cream, it’s not just due to hunger. It’s a grief too old to be soothed. -Logain Hamdan, from Gaza, for @prismreports.org prismreports.org/2025/08/25/a...

A year ago Milwaukee was made into the fortress for the RNC, where Vance was officially nominated. 4,500 cops from out of town arrived - one of whom ended up shooting & killing an unhoused veteran during “back the blue” night www.huffpost.com/entry/rnc-sh...

the shooter appears to be part of this horrifying, gamified world of people who worship mass shooters. his gun was scrawled over in a similar style to the Christchurch shooter's. Terrorgram was a hub for a lot of this, which I wrote about here a few years ago www.huffpost.com/entry/dallas...