They took Charlie from "who?" to "free speech martyr" to "fuck that guy" in the space of a week. Incredible, really

I do think MAGA managed to make the Kirk assassination their 9/11 Not in the sense they wanted, but in the sense that they took their brief window of public sympathy and strip-mined it so totally that everyone hates them even more, now

What

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

📽️ WATCH: Epidemiologist Erin McCanlies spent much of the past 20 years studying how parents’ exposure to toxic chemicals affects the chances that they will have an autistic child. RFK Jr. cut her entire division — yet promises to identify the causes of autism by September: https://propub.li/4nhXQua

I mean...

"Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds"

Importantly, I don’t want to “cancel“ Ezra Klein I want him to voluntarily shut the fuck up while he works on being less incompetent

This person would like to know if I am smarter than Ezra Klein and I would argue this is too vague of a question. Am I better at grifting than him? No. Am I better at being honest about racist politics? Yes. Am I a better physicist? Absolutely. Can I beat him at Mario Kart? No

like, Bessent and Lutnick have this vision of humanities profs and federal workers working for private manufacturing industry and it's telling to me

Here in Pa. we have coroners ruling a victim of 20+ stab wounds as suicide because of political/police pressure. I’m just going to go ahead and wait for that independent autopsy.

A US-funded nutrition program was helping to keep this woman’s baby alive. Days after the program was cut, he died. https://cnn.it/4ndDYbl

This happened under Biden. I need y’all to stop pretending like this is just a Team Red issue.

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

I understand CNN and ABC providing live coverage of the Kirk memorial but I don’t understand why the CBC is providing it in Canada

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trump’s numbers are tanking and there is a palpable desire in the electorate for a real alternative and yet the only money in democratic politics is for doing starmerism

There is something uniquely beautiful about winning the trust of a rescue dog with a hairy past. This morning my foster dog saw me being affectionate with Charlie and used his paw to ask me to touch him him too, and then closed his eyes as I pet his chest and gently stroked his forehead. A good day.

I very rarely use twitter these days--I read it the way a Soviet citizen would read Pravda--but my last tweet did attract people calling me a Nazi or a fag communist with a butt plug up my ass for suggesting that the destruction of Gaza's Christians is a bigger Christian new story than Charlie Kirk.

Don’t you have personal liberties and free markets you need to be defending for your business daddy?

after I stopped posting regularly on twitter there was a big debate over whether everyone who writes "anti-white" books is Jewish, and I came up as a counter-example. I don't know what influence I could have over there.

Left-of-center "influencers" didn't join Twitter to be influencers. They were writers, professors, farmers, artists, etc. They got on Twitter to talk about the things that they loved and find community.

I mean. I kind of just want to talk to interesting people and see what they have to say.

Finished spread! The lives of different types of stars, the various ways they give back all they had taken in changed, and the new forms they give rise to! This took me some time to say the least! It's a lively place out there! On to the next spread (finale of this chapter!!) #Nostos #Unflattening 2

“positive impact” lmao clearly you misunderstand what kind of content gets promoted on algorithm-based platforms

Babe I had 35k followers at peak and once Elon tweaked the algorithm I got like 15 likes a post max

someone tell the last line university administrators and naive colleagues WHO WANT TO TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO USE "AI" "RESPONSIBLY"

"Once you use ChatGPT, you don't want to rhink for yourself anymore." 😬

Breaking News: Britain, Canada and Australia formally recognized Palestinian statehood.

"You're irrelevant on Bluesky!" m8 I was irrelevant on Twitter where I had 110k followers and frequently got over a million views on my videos. It was still just shitposting on a social media site. Deciding that posting is activism has rotted a lot of brains on all sides.

“What fascisms old and new have in common is they tend to look to women to fill in the gaps that the state misses." And, I'd add, they get women to fill these gaps by making patriarchy's coattails the only way means by which women can achieve security or esteem. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It's important to note that Ezra Klein and his merry band of centrist clowns very often are just plain MISINFORMED. They don't understand the history and politics behind the garbage ideas they push. Vibes-based fascism support from the "left" is not only morally abhorrent, it's deeply ignorant.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

Really struggling to mentally recover from having an argument over email with a senior academic about whether Karen Attiah was the last remaining Black full staff opinion writer at Washington Post. I don’t get it, like why wouldn’t he just believe her? 😔

You don't have to mourn people who despised you and wanted terrible things to happen to you. Hard to believe that this needs to be said but apparently it does.

My militantly de-woked alma mater, which Charlie Kirk did not attend, might erect a statue to him, for the same reasons that Sinclair media will be airing a memorial for him tonight on local stations nationwide: Because fuck you, that's why.

How do they manage to successfully keep up the ruse? They hate reading

Conservative men are apparently pretending to be liberal and then "coming out" to their progressive girlfriends after dating for months

Alt Text Yikes! 6.5 million views on the first post.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

News: Hundreds of Jewish healthcare workers from around the US and beyond are circulating a letter demanding an “end to the genocide in Gaza.” They “reject the weaponization of accusations of antisemitism to suppress criticism of Israel and expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.”

Speaking of things making themselves irrelevant and shrinking their audience, how are things at the Washington Post?

The algorithm on Twitter actively limits the reach of anyone who is not far right—which you know well enough. But you just need some way to blame the ‘center-left’ for what the right is doing.

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’ve been fostering a young dog because I needed the distraction and I thought Charlie would make a great foster uncle and turned out I was right, it’s only been three days

More reporting from the NYT on Trump scrapping the annual survey tracking food insecurity: "[It] is completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems." gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

How interesting. Tapper and his fellow journalists, Democrat politicians and so many pundits all thought nothing of crapping on the rights of anti-genocide student protestors for months, what did you think you were enabling?