Mockler: I'm pretty tired of conservatives gaslighting about the current political environment and Donald Trump's rhetoric when all of this escalation can be traced back to his entrance into American politics.

courts and state bars need to become willing, and quickly, to disbar govt attorneys for bringing these blatantly political prosecutions

South America first

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

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.

This “anti Trump lawyers” stuff from the CDC testimony is authoritarianism 101 if we are still allowed to say that in America thx free speech warriors great job here

I may need to subscribe to the Chronicle. This is very good. The so-called free speech warriors have no idea of how they are undermining free speech. www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The political climate since Kirk was killed is different than the climate the week before. Wake the fuck up. Just be smart. You're yelling at me because I am encouraging people to be smart and frankly you sound like a bunch of fucking feds.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

New Tyler Robinson posts leaked to me tell a very different story than you've heard before: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-...

These also do a good job of providing context, which makes it worse than I thought.

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

We still have no idea who the shooter is or what their motivations were

The Trump administration is working overtime to stop the federal government's anti-violence initiatives theconversation.com/trump-admini...

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.

Trying to strike a balance between hating political violence and hating Charlie Kirk, while acknowledging America’s history of violence against Black leaders and liberation activists that Kirk doesn’t care about, while also pointing out the systemic problems the right built that led us to this...

lots of messengers gonna get killed this year

Has Melania commented on this yet ?

Indeed they do.

This is a crucial flaw in “free speech culture” mindset, which tends to presume against all evidence that everyone is participating in good faith. It’s one thing to say the wolf should have a fair chance to eat me; it’s another to say I have an obligation to make the wolf feel comfortable about it.

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator very grim

Time for a relisten to the excellent @gustavoarellano.bsky.social prop 187 podcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

not a good sign for the big beautiful ballsack of a bill

Our current Director of National Intelligence:

RFK Jr. resignation watch. From 2023 NYT questionnaire 2023:

Among many other things this is a proliferation nightmare. The lesson learned will be never negotiate with the United States.

Paging Congress … @congressmin.bsky.social

Did you know that Nextdoor has an AI-driven algorithm that detects and reports 'events'? Such as, in this case, totally fabricated instances of 'rioting' from protesters?

MY LATEST @kcrw.com ORANGE COUNTY LINE: Federal agents accused of racially profiling LA residents. Share, porfas!

When violent criminals are pardoned due to partisanship… When tribalism excuses violence against the opposing political party… When justice depends on political affiliation… People. Will. Die. GOP leadership must stop this.

It is very difficult to believe that Los Angeles’ political leadership—or California’s governor or other state officials—truly wish for ICE raids to end when they are willing to arrest the only people who are actually standing in ICE’s way. https://trib.al/C1KuDDE

“In the first three months, the Trump family has become $3 billion wealthier, so that’s a billion dollars a month.” https://trib.al/TrxOMjl

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

This actually rings true to my experience

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

Your reminder that Home Depot has always sponsored this shit www.reuters.com/world/us/hom...

Seeing a massive divide online between Angelenos of all political stripes who understand that the protests in LA yesterday were mostly peaceful and any violence was ICE-initiated and East Coast establishment liberals lecturing “the left” on how riots just amplify right wing talking points.

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Hey everyone, you want to know a fun factoid? Almost all of the federal agents currently in LA aren’t local, which means they’re staying at a hotel somewhere. Hotels have fire alarms. Wanna know another fun fact? If protests start popping off in other states, they can’t be everywhere at once.

I’ve never been happier for a tweet to not age well

I stayed at the White House and all I got was Stephen Millers wife.

Important thread on ICE in Orange County with @gustavoarellano.bsky.social on Orange County Line. @kcrw.com www.kcrw.com/news/shows/k...

So my lovely & talented wife Colleen made this video for the first single off my new album "Don't Lose Sight" which features footage from the "Hangover Terrace" sessions in London last fall RS youtu.be/G7nqzg811Cs?...

i let my son punch me in the head and i tell him the day you can kill me in one blow is the day you officially become a Teen

My go to "pick me up" song. Thank you again, Tommy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCis...

My Chicago FOMO meter is so high right now. Nancy Faust, the Pope, and Tommy Stinson all happening this month.

Yesterday, I saw Musk's biographer Walter Isaacson wheeled out for a TV interview under the chyron "Musk: Back to Business" and it really feels like the media is entirely happy to go along with a concerted PR effort to increase Musk's finances by downplaying what he did to your government.