Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Everyone in this country believes they would’ve sheltered people from the Nazis in WWII. It’s so easy to pick out the pieces of shit who would’ve immediately winked and pointed toward the attic.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

i have personally despised bari weiss for a long time, her book was incoherent garbage, and to see her rewarded with the plum of the profession while the smartest people i know are scraping for dollars is gross as hell

Where does someone get radicalized to the point where they shoot up the CDC bc they think the COVID shot is harmful? Online. We don’t know what content the August 8 shooter was absorbing, specifically. But we do know the folks scaremongering about mRNA shots and the CDC. Several work in HHS.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Allow me to address the elephant in the room: If Charlie Kirk wasn’t a right-wing extremist, right-wing extremist groups wouldn’t be marching to honor him.

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

This guy — www.apsu.edu/president/in... — is too cowardly to take on the country’s most feckless senator and too dense to recognize a mob of MAGA squealers for what it is. Abysmal leadership that serves only the worst of us. A good man is out of a job because of this.

I want the folks who support, adulate, & agree with Charlie Kirk's history of hate to wear the "I am Charlie Kirk" shirts. Wear them publicly. Show us all—no subtlety or dog whistles. You are the man who said Black people were better off as slaves and the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. Got it.

What happened to Charlie Kirk is an opportunity for every politician and reporter who’ve never read a single book on how fascism actually looks across history to reflect on the fact that no matter how much you toe the line, no matter how much you push their talking points, you’re not safe.

In summary: The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for. Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

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.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

I beg you, in the name of basic human decency (& my mental sanity), STOP calling being anti-LGBTQ+ “a disagreement.” Stop calling racism “a disagreement.” Stop calling being anti-reproductive rights “a disagreement.” Do not normalize these vile views as one equal side of a reasonable debate.

The left isn’t “dancing on Charlie Kirk’s grave,” we’re just pointing out that, thanks to rhetoric like his, a lot of other graves exist.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

flags half mast and bottomless media hagiography for a man who spent his days tricking dim children into thinking black women are worthless

One of the neighborhood alligators has returned to our backyard. A welcome guest! (Or maybe I’m the guest. It’s cool, regardless.)

The one thing I've taken from reading the classics and the past week is the need to live a life worth mourning

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

After 9/11 entirely innocent Muslim Americans were unjustifiably attacked. After the COVID 19 lockdown entirely innocent Asian Americans were unjustifiably attacked. After today entirely innocent left-leaning Americans will be vulnerable to unjustifiable attacks. Be safe.

Just a reminder that - starving children - police brutality - homelesness - dying for lack of access to healthcare are also forms of political violence, ones that millions suffer every day.

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Oh! my friends, but this is man-killing! Yet this is life.

The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.

It's important to remember that fascists work to foster a dog-eat-dog atmosphere where people look out for themselves and throw others under the bus. We don't have to live this way or think this way, no matter what the fascists say. Through all of this, it's important to help others when we're able.

We need an HHS Secretary who respects science and does not make policy based on conspiracy theories. Vaccines are safe and effective. Kennedy is threatening the health of our kids and all Americans. He must resign.

Science denial is a weapon of mass destruction.

To all who wryte storyes & poemes, to everyone who doth wryte scriptes & screenplayes, to those who make art of all kyndes, and to those who designe and performe yn daunse, and theatre -- thanke yow. Whethir you make for a few friendes or an audience of millions, thanke yow. You helpe us all.

I was chatting with a fellow dog walker about the state of the nation just now, and he said, “I’d rather be a woke lefty than a cunt” — which sums it all up rather well, I think.

I now prophesy that I will dismember my dismemberer.

Sorry to the PetSmart clerk, I did not mean to give a hysterical laugh and say “why the fuck not, who knows how long we all have” when you asked if I wanted to use my $4 in PetPoints today

The damage RFK Jr. and his merry band of conspiracy theorists are doing at DHS and CDC is going to kill a lot of people.

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

note how Trump on a daily basis is trying to normalize the idea that he's a dictator

all im saying is if we start saying we think the first one is more woke we can really fuck with their heads

/7 It’s easy to say why. Saying “you can prosecute flag burning as incitement because it makes people really mad” allows you to say “you can’t criticize Israel/denounce Trump/preach Islam/say reality TV suck because it makes people so mad.” It limits speech to what thug trash will tolerate.

Democracy dies on the op-ed page of The Washington Post.

I really think RFK Jr. has a great shot at making his uncle and father mere footnotes in American history. Such is the devastation he has already wrought and will continue to wreak.

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

the practices of whalemen soon convinced him that even Christians could be both miserable and wicked

Given that openly abusive "law enforcement" officers are committing crimes on the streets of DC, legal action should be brought immediately to prevent them from hiding their identities.

The propagation of misinformation on social media is among the greatest threats to public health right now. Many people want to ignore this, but there are millions of Americans who have been groomed to believe that science is just some kind of scam.

It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety