The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Told my Not Very Online gf “hey did you hear that the rapture is tomorrow?” And had to answer the question “what the fuck are you talking about” like five times in a row before what I was saying was remotely intelligible to her

Jimmy Kimmel, vanguard of the revolution

ANDOR MENTIONED‼️‼️

Really a prettt fitting eulogy for its subject. It’s what he would have wanted

NYT doing literal “land of contrasts” “analysis” lmao

I think Obama very clearly wants to be a party elder on Mount Olympus, keeping his powder dry so when he hurls down a thunderbolt it has the most impact/salience but not exactly surprised to see that strategy crumble if other party leaders aren't pulling their weight

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

i think Kimmel could have the #1 podcast in the world in two weeks if he wanted to

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

because, when you get down to it, there's just not that much to say about it. what trump stands for is evil, and self-evidently so. it's not interesting. there's no nuance to it. it is just every kind of idiotic belief which exists fuelling every kind of evil a state can do.

Really excited about living in the future

concept of this publication seems to be "what if we claimed we were Liberal Currents, but were actually just copperheads"

OK I've been posting incessantly and I need to go cold turkey for the weekend for my mental health. Yell at me if I'm on here before Monday the 15th

I wonder what it's like inside his mind

Haidt has such a perfectly reactionary centrist mind that he managed to come up with the rhetorical version of Godel's incompleteness theorem

We basically live in a world roughly equivalent to if nobody in the media had heard of political Islam after 9/11 and had no intention of learning that it exists or even listening to anyone attempting to inform them of it.

This is the kind of thing I’m getting all over my Instagram reels ok. We’re so fucking cooked. It’s so bad.

“Video game culture” is indeed becoming crucial to understanding our politics but in particular it’s Paradox games and in particular in particular its HOI4. Yea I know the game he directly referenced is helldivers but the Bella ciao thing is HOI4 and everything is HOI4

basically a generational cohort split here where certain younger people intuitively grasp the irony poisoned context, and if you aren't already up to speed, very hard to explain

This poor woman. Also my heart sank upon realizing I know what this means

They’d love to do their own cultural revolution. Stretch goal doing it Cambodian style

the reason that the republican party treats the word "nazi" as blood libel is to ensure that the media never prints the fact that actual no-shit neo-nazis are a critical constituency of their party

Very, uh, cosmopolitan of Kash

Do you recognize this man? Congratulations, you are probably better equipped to understand the world we live in than people who are paid millions of dollars to understand it

Keep picturing Patel dropping the casings in terror after reading “if you read this youre gay”

Don’t like that getting into goofy memes in 2015 has ultimately led me to being uniquely equipped to understand the most turbulent moment in modern American historu

*insert random shitposters being granted the gift of prophecy by Apollo meme here*

It approaches

Scrolling through Instagram my feed is entirely about Charlie Kirk now. It is unbelievably fucking depressing. It’s either chuds doing hagiographies of him, leftists making fucked up jokes about his death, or Nazis claiming that (((Israel))) killed him

I should watch Sicario since it’s apparently happening in real life

This guy is like the number one promoter of political violence in America. He has a book called “Unhumans” where the unhumans in question are the left. CBS knows this and doesn’t care.

If I had been around during the Spanish Civil War it wouldn’t have gone down like that.

We got a year’s worth of stupid dystopian cyberpunk shit in 24 hours

Everything is content. Everything is up for consumption

Apparently the lesson of Charlie Kirk is that if you are a political figure in America your death will not be mourned, observed, or even acknowledged unless the political movement you were a part of presents a credible threat of violent retaliation if such commemoration fails to occur.

So MSNBC reportedly fired Matthew Dowd tonight just hours after Jesse Watters called for his "immediate" termination over his Charlie Kirk shooting comments. Meanwhile, Watters said he's going to "avenge" Kirk's death because "they are at war with us" -- and he'll face no repercussions from Fox.

It seems that everyone is convinced that Trump’s reaction to Charlie Kirk’s death was AI (it was not.) Fuck this shit

It’s possible they simply don’t find the shooter, ever. That would not be good

charlie kirk lived and died in the america that charlie kirk wanted to exist

the video of the assassination is going to be to the daily wire staff (and other rw media/policy guys) what the video of gaddafi getting murked was to putin

Shapiro didn't lower flags for Melissa Hortman, a great woman, but for the man who said this?

I had no wish for him to be murdered, but I’ll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.

I am so fucking furious about this. Spineless motherfucker. There was a school shooting in this state today and this limp dick asshole doesn’t give a shit. You can do everything they ever demand of you to show contrition and they will only loathe you even more. When will this fuckhead understand

Not a single elected dem is even going to come remotely close to what Lee and a whole bunch of elected GOP officials did. They’re all going to express sympathy and condemn political violence and we’re of course going to get a billion different “both sides” articles in the coming weeks

this is what truly breaks you. like, we don't know anything outside of the ultraviolence that shapes contemporary american society and yet deep down, you have to ask yourself what was any of this suffering for

genuinely one of the bleakest political moments of this era to watch

One might be tempted to think that the FBI is up to some nefarious plot to pin it on someone but the overwhelmingly likely explanation is that Kash Patel is just totally incompetent