Kirk was a nobody to normal people, but it's now clear how important he was to the right. The dream of post-Steve Bannon conservativism: An influencer presidential candidate. A homegrown Trump. The panic we're seeing is a movement realizing they have nothing to replace Trump's cult of personality.

For @onthemedia.bsky.social I spoke with @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social (whose Garbage Day newsletter is absolutely essential these days) about radicalization and what mainstream outlets get wrong about internet culture and memes. Really enjoyed this one: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

Every journalist, pundit, and entertainer in the country that doesn't want to bend the knee to Trump needs to figure out a way off corporate platforms ASAP www.garbageday.email/p/petty-powe...

More for your consideration: Welcome to Hell World @lukeoneil47.bsky.social The Handbasket @marisakabas.bsky.social How Things Work @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social @garbageday.email @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social Expedite @kristenhawley.bsky.social The Food Section @hannaraskin.bsky.social

The media company that can figure out how to produce news or news adjacent video content without relying on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, broadcast TV, cable, or corporate streamers will make a billion dollars and probably help save American democracy — or exist long enough to document its end

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

Went on PBS NewsHour last night to talk about Gen Z accelerationist violence

The meme aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s death (1/2)

And if you wanted an audio version… podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

Thank everyone who read @garbageday.email this week. Our Friday issue was read 500,000 times. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki... Our coverage wouldn't be possible without @bumas.bsky.social, @cates.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, @grantirving.bsky.social, and @joshfjelstad.bsky.social.

Here's what comes next www.garbageday.email/p/utah-gov-c...

Anyone wanting actually-gets-this-shit type analysis of the internet-side of this situation, I recommend this and his new podcast episode ... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Not really sure where this guy is getting this. The BBC, as of 14 minutes ago, has family friends saying that Robinson "stated Kirk 'was full of hate and spreading hate'." Not really how Groypers would describe things... www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

One of the best people decoding all this chaos is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

good recap here, but read @cwarzel.bsky.social & subscribe to @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social’s newsletter. they’re pros www.cnn.com/2025/03/23/u...

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

We're on it. Issue incoming.

Knew @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social and @garbageday.email would nail it right on the head and they did. Bleak shit.

"The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front of a crowd of smartphones."

"The logical endpoint of 21st-century America: An influencer shot to death at a school in front of a crowd of smartphones." Ryan is very good at his job. An excellent summary and analysis of the last 24 hours.

Adding alt text for those who need it. This is significant.

Kirk’s death is “a darkly fitting end for the premier digital propagandist of the Trump administration. The same algorithms he relied on to create narratives for the MAGA movement now turning his death into a dizzying torrent of content” via @garbageday.email www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

Huge thanks to @bumas.bsky.social, @ellievhall.bsky.social, @cates.bsky.social, and @grantirving.bsky.social for helping me get this out today. The internet is more chaotic and intense than I've ever seen it. Impossible to keep up with it on my own.

Some thoughts on yesterday www.garbageday.email/p/the-logica...

Really loved this pod about AI generated music and I think some of my followers might too. Some really smart observations paired with a good sense of humor about how soulless and bleak it all feels kudos to @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social / @fantano.bsky.social youtu.be/cOOGSpsh-Rc

Ryan writes a great newsletter I subscribe to that really breaks down all the Internet trends and memes I *should* know about but don't have it in me to seek out myself. Subscribe to read his work!!

The Republicans have been pushed into a corner by the Epstein scandal and their propaganda machine can't handle it. www.garbageday.email/p/oh-no-the-...

It was very important to Adam to include this fun fact.

It’s great when an embittered generalist gets bodied by a fucken nerd (complimentary) with domain expertise and a grudge.

Garbage Day remains illuminating.

"But as all text-based social platforms lose their grip on both the internet at large and, by extension, mainstream media, which is also on its way out, guys like Silver are clearly feeling uncomfortable about it."

via @garbageday.email @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...

Nate Silver's big dumb Blueskyism piece doesn't make any fucking sense. www.garbageday.email/p/nate-silve...

It's fascinating how large Bluesky looms in these guys' heads. It's basically just a rehash of the 4chan/Tumblr dynamic. They literally own X and Substack, but the fact there's a social network that exists beyond their influence appears to be literally driving them insane.

I hate what that stupid billionaire took from us. Pretty accurate theory about Twitter imo @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social [he says, on bluesky] www.garbageday.email/p/trump-s-la...

This weekend's Trump death hoax, Sydney Sweeny's jeans, the Cracker Barrel meltdown — X is having a real big summer and still very much moving the cultural needle in America. What gives? www.garbageday.email/p/trump-s-la...

Firefighters, famously, have a house they all live in, where they wait for people to call them, actually.

I can't tell which is the funnier Panic World -- the video version where you can see the slop ads, or the audio version where you just need to hear @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social attempt to describe the insanity he is seeing. I guess check 'em both out!

In the latest Panic World episode, please enjoy as @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social utters what @jduffyrice.bsky.social calls “the worst sentence I have ever heard in my entire life.” youtu.be/RX3x3AePxbw?...

Panic World's @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social talks to guest Chelsey Weber-Smith of @americanhysteria.bsky.social about the sloppiest of slop online these days: mobile game ads. Watch today's new episode now:

This is always a terrific podcast, but @pjvogt.bsky.social ‘s episode this week was full of especially mind-popping insights on Internet culture.

This is a nightmare

My latest for @garbageday.email: Trump's takeover of Washington is all thanks to dumb Truth Social posts and Big Balls - that's the whole point. Welcome to the age of LOLgislation. www.garbageday.email/p/the-uncann...

pivoting to video was a mistake

I mean, Big Ballz getting jumped by Romanians over a crypto scam being the pretext for the National Guard occupying DC lines up pretty well with the theory in Rise And Fall Of The Third Reich that the Nazis heard a random Dutch arsonist was gonna burn the Reichstag and just waited for him to do it.

Growth on Bluesky has cratered since November. But is this just an issue for Bluesky (and its business)? Or is Bluesky simply the most easily tracked corner of an entire social media landscape that's shrinking all at once? Either way, it's troubling. www.garbageday.email/p/this-is-of...

X users have suddenly decided that "Home" by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros is the worst song ever. They also have been incorrectly claiming it's “stomp clap hey ho indie" and I am here to say, no! That is not true! It's a totally different thing! www.garbageday.email/p/can-people...

Fox devoted almost an hour and a half of airtime to the Sydney Sweeney ad last week?