I’m sorry but I do have a Berlin-specific U-bahn question: why does everyone cluster near the doors and not step all the way into the car? I thought we all knew better in any city where public transit is widely used? It’s making me insane?

Wait so we’re doing the Rapture on Rosh Hashanah? Awfully pointed

Glad I already did my cynic’s trip to Disneyland!! flaminghydra.com/garden-of-ea...

Passive-aggressively speaking German to Germans, which bothers them

File under: we can't have nice things www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

It's not just American conservatives who're turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr. From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultranationalist movements have also seized on the late MAGA influencer's death.

I’m at a wine bar in Berlin drinking the weirdest thing I’ve ever smelled or tasted. they haven’t totally figured out whether they want to exchange money for goods here or just hand me random glasses of wine with no real rhyme or reason and without any money being involved. The future liberals want

I wish things were at least less stupid if they had to be so dire

The idea that the combined MMR is dangerous but separately the vaccines are fine was created out of whole cloth by Andrew Wakefield, a disgraced former doctor who had a patent on a non-combined version of the MMR. We've known his research was bunk for almost 30 years.

From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultranationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death. The irony here is hard to ignore: these same groups that often decry globalization are adopting an international message based on American politics.

“The death of Charlie Kirk is a turning point in our fight for civilization.” From Germany to South Africa to Great Britain to Japan, ultra-nationalist movements have seized on Charlie Kirk's death to make him a martyr.

Across the world, and especially in the European Union, far-right parties are using the murder of Kirk as a recruitment tool, a rallying cry, and a symbol of everything they claim to be fighting against. @annamerlan.bsky.social reports:

“The irony here is hard to ignore: ultra-nationalist groups that often decry globalization are adopting an international message based on American politics.”

I'm going to put a big glass jar on my desk and pay myself a quarter every time someone does this so I can at least get something out of it

NEW: I wrote about how far-right, ultra-nationalist and avowedly "anti-globalist" groups around the world are making Charlie Kirk a martyr and a symbol of their common cause: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Charlie Kirk's supporters are now turning their anger at colleges and universities, which they blame for radicalizing both the alleged shooter and, more broadly, people they accuse of celebrating Kirk’s death. “These universities should not receive a single American tax dollar.”

Not only was the murderer not "radicalized" by a university, American universities and their commitment to free speech regularly gave Kirk a huge platform & accommodated throngs of his MAGA followers

Charlie Kirk's allies have called for revenge against all kinds of groups, including trans people and the "radical left," even as the motivations of the alleged shooter, who was reportedly raised in a Republican household, remain far from clear. Their newest target? Colleges and universities.

NEW: Charlie Kirk’s alleged murderer spent almost no time at a traditional university, but the killing is fueling renewed attacks on higher education from the right. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

RFK Jr.'s hand-picked panel of vaccine advisors is expected to vote to delay the hepatitis B shot for newborns. Doctors warn that could fuel a return of a disease virtually eradicated in U.S. kids.

Vice President JD Vance is set to host "The Charlie Kirk Show" today as a tribute to the MAGA influencer. The hosting gig comes as the latest in the full weight of the federal government moving to memorialize Kirk—and punish those who speak ill of him.

Organizers for the “European Conference of Health and Human Rights” announced a change: Their keynote speaker, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had withdrawn after Estonian politicians reportedly called Kennedy a “quack” and “cuckoo.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Gonna try this tysm

Numerous government and elected officials are taking their protection of Charlie Kirk’s legacy a step further, indicating they’ll use the power of their offices to discourage, punish, or, in some cases, fire anyone who speaks ill of him

They told me to use the title case when I wanted to sound smart I think

I almost wish I had never tried the Kosas concealer because literally nothing is as good, it’s the only thing I have to use on my face when I wear it, and it costs (what feels like) eleven million dollars a tube

“I’m basically going to cancel with extreme prejudice these evil, sick animals who celebrated Charlie Kirk’s assassination.” The full weight of the federal government is being used to memorialize Charlie Kirk.

Last week, organizers for the “European Conference of Health and Human Rights” announced a change: Their keynote speaker, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., had withdrawn after Estonian politicians reportedly called Kennedy a “quack” and “cuckoo.”

An army of smaller social media accounts has taken up the cause of identifying—and in some cases doxxing—people they accuse of mocking Charlie Kirk’s death or simply speaking ill about his career, for example, by accusing him of promoting racist or anti LGBTQ sentiments.

NEW: I wrote about the ways that government and elected officials are threatening to have people fired or disciplined who post mean things about Charlie Kirk or are perceived to be celebrating his death www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Kennedy withdrew after the country’s Minister for Social Affairs reportedly called him “cuckoo in the head.”

HHS Spokesperson: Secretary Kennedy and the broader MAHA movement will not stand to be insulted like this. That "cuckoo" has a name, and is actually a worm.

NEW: Take a moment with me to enjoy some light comedy and read about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. apparently planning to speak at a fringe health conference in Estonia, and then pulling out because local politicians called him "a quack" and "cuckoo in the head." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

“THIS IS WAR.” “Civil war.” “The Left is the party of murder.” “The Left won’t stop unless it’s forced to.” Influential figures across the right have decided to use Charlie Kirk’s death to promote their fantasies of war and retribution against Democrats and leftists.

There's not even a suspect in custody, yet many in MAGA world are baselessly claiming Dems are responsible for the killing of Charlie Kirk. This is the kind of rhetoric that gives rise to even more political violence. And there's far too much of it already

Unsurprisingly, the thing Noah Smith is saying is obviously not true. Look at reports on the reaction to the assassination of MLK... "glee, satisfaction and weeping in equal parts" (www.nytimes.com/2018/04/02/r...) as the Smithsonian notes "some actually celebrated" (nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stor...).

We documented some of the calls for retribution that followed Charlie Kirk’s murder. With @kieraevebutler.bsky.social and @juliannemcshane.bsky.social www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I had managed to avoid video of the shooting until Alex Jones tweeted a very close-range version of it on autoplay to his millions of followers

Good lord

If Donald Trump ever becomes incapacitated, will the American public know right away? The question might seem absurd. But history isn't very reassuring on this point—and the death of an autocrat tends to create a power vacuum.

If Trump ever actually is incapacitated, will the American public know right away? History is not particularly reassuring.

NEW: If Donald Trump were... not doing well... would we know right away? I spoke to Dr. Kathy Olmsted, a historian and expert on conspiracy theories about the government. History is not reassuring on this point, as it turns out! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We live in a SOCIETY and YET

Getting upset at my posts is also— you see where I’m going with this

The children are doing something called “airport theory” on TikTok where they get to the airport really late and then marvel when they sometimes make their flights anyway. I would like to be the opposite of whatever this is, please

Good piece by @annamerlan.bsky.social at MoJo on right-wing conspiracy theories as the mental framework of Trump's Cabinet appointees, and of Republicans more generally. Recommended.

@annamerlan.bsky.social called it: Through a spectacularly ham-handed series of moves, the Trump administration has ensured that Epstein conspiracy theories will never really end.

Not sure why we’re all retweeting this but I’ll allow it

An absolutely, terminally divorced man. End-stage divorced apnews.com/article/uk-f...