The American right has picked, or more accurately invented, enemies on the left: blue-haired baristas, “Antifa,” Soros. In the interest of equity, I’m declaring war on suburban Golf Guys, electricians with four poorly paid employees, and MAHA moms. That’s fair, I think.

I'm not sure what's going on, but this year's freshman class is giving me ... what was that word ... hope? They're energized and excited, they're doing the reading and doing it well, they're asking great questions and offering smart answers too. Is this just me or are others seeing it?

I have to wonder if having more time at home in their younger years was beneficial in any way, and then having a more socially normal high school experience let them bloom

RFK Jr expected to announce that Flintstones vitamins cause gayness.

Gonna pop a Tylenol and look at some trains to see what all the fuss is about.

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

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This ought to be engraved somewhere.

The thing about Tylenol and autism is that Trump is in the Epstein Files.

At this point it's a cliche to point out the parallels between the AI bubble and the dotcom bubble but it's fascinating to see AI equivalent of companies buying banner ads from each other. Here it's Nvidia investing $100B in OpenAI which OpenAI will then use to rent datacenter capacity from Nvidia.

THEY DON’T CARE: 1. That Tom Homan took $50,000 bags of cash 2. That their party is protecting all the Epstein pedophiles. 3. That no one is safe from gun violence anywhere. WHAT THEY DO CARE ABOUT: 1. Punishing innocent brown people for crimes they did not commit.

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Jimmy Kimmel is being brought back for the same reason he was suspended: Corporations only care about money. Which is why boycotts work.

Breaking: Jimmy Kimmel to return Tuesday.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

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“52% of all autocratization episodes become U-Turns, which increases to 73% when focusing on the last 30 years. The vast majority of U-Turns (90%) lead to restored or even improved levels of democracy” V-Dem data

#Antifa runs in our blood.

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I have lived in an authoritarian government. When the leader comes after free speech- at first you think it won't affect you. But as more dissenters are punished, you end up looking over your shoulder in fear of who might hear you and report you. It is suffocating. Speech becomes a crime. #FCC

Andor, a Disney+ show about resisting fascism, just won 5 Emmys. Three days later, the network caved to it.

Antifa terrorist

Man, a lot of crazy shit has happened since Epstein’s birthday letter was released a week ago Monday.

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This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

They can’t win fairly with policy or eloquence or fairness or intelligence so they’ll just silence everyone who disagrees with them. It’s fascism but in its most cowardly and pathetic form.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

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.

As a reminder, hanging out with your friends is community building. So make time for that.

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

"President Walsh should reconsider and reverse course, reinstate the campus leaders he sidelined, and reassure all faculty that their ability to teach will not be sacrificed to political whims." #AcademicFreedom #DefendHigherEd www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

New Orleans, alarmingly good

a question I often find myself asking these days: "are these the moves of a movement that feels that it's winning or one desperately afraid that it's about to lose everything?"

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.

Violating my "no Bluesky during football season" tenets to parachute in and say that my weird obsession with far right splinter groups and their shibboleths has finally made me the expert on something. The shooter wrote 4 shitpost memes on bullets and every single one of them is a dumb groyper meme

What seems to be happening is that Conservatives are disappointed that Kirk wasn't martyred by the left, so they're going to hyper-eulogize him, up to and including distorting his record to make it look better, and anyone who doesn't play along becomes guilty after the fact for his killing. See it?

The fact that this post still exists and no retraction has been made despite the title changing and this being proven wrong just shows how normal it is to publish articles demonizing us. Shit like this is why I will never support or even trust WSJ and neither should you.

[The media receiving a note that says "Yes, hello, my name is Tyler Robinson. I'm the guy that shot Charlie, and I did it because I was secretly trans," hastily scrawled in what looks suspiciously like Kash Patel's handwriting]

Epstein and Maxwell referenced Trump in emails around the time of Epstein’s first indictment in Florida in 2006.

Re Kirk’s legacy, one thing I want younger Americans to know is that there was a time when it was not habitual to invite intentionally inflammatory speakers to campuses to spread mediocre right wing talking points, devoid of any pretense to academic value, expertise, or intellectual tradition.

it sure does seem to me like the problem with the response so far is too many people pretending Kirk was not immensely, unspeakably evil, and not too many people defending murder evil people can get murdered and murder remains bad and evil remains bad what are we doing

If ever you needed evidence that Gavin Newsom is not your leftwing savior, I want you to notice that his eulogy for Charlie Kirk includes an appeal that we should "carry on his work" before listing a bunch of moderate talking points about coming together that Charlie Kirk never believed.

Just so we’re clear, Charlie Kirk shouldn’t be shot down while talking and kids shouldn’t be shot down in classrooms. It’s that easy. However, a lot of powerful people are okay with both things, so here we are, surrounded by bullets, blood, thoughts, and prayers.