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entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

ah, well

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

Hard to think of a more on-the-nose encapsulation of how far the online speech wars have swung in the year of our lord 2025 than major U.S. corporations racing to fire people whose tweets offended Milo Yiannopoulos

“If we’re going to live together as a family in this house, we have to let dad beat the shit out of us now and again”

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

This is honestly worth reading for my younger audience, you probably (?) have huge gaps in your understanding of this. This focuses earlier decades, but there was quite a profound shift of culture in my lifetime you probably missed yourself.

i think it’s wild how many people are fine with leaving their children a totally uninhabitable world that’s inevitably pitched in constant bloody conflict over who gets the last resources so they can have copilot email tone rewriting and slop memes of trump as a taco with a drooping fold.

And 2- people have gotten death threats as a direct result of Kirk calling for mass violence. If this is not only acceptable but actually admirable political speech then the fundamental tenets of fascism are already normalised

I admire this person who has built a white supremacist organization AND who proudly espouses white supremacy because HE REFUSES TO BACK DOWN FROM DEBATE. Unlike the woke mob, he stands in the shoes of his open white supremacy & bigotry. HE DID NOT BACK DOWN. Liberals should do the same - U.S. pundit

I got the complaint in the horrific OpenAI self harm case the the NY Times reported today This is way way worse even than the NYT article makes it out to be OpenAI absolutely deserves to be run out of business

I used to find "DEI" to be a weak corporate counterpoint to "racial justice" but now I unironically want every business in America doing DEI as loudly as possible because the relevant counterpoint today is "overt racism." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/more-dei-l...

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Amazing how peak masculinity for a Republican is swearing that you’re too afraid to go outside

this scamming has also kneecapped community-based organizing and advocacy groups (like mine!) from raising grassroots dollars. these consultants churn and burn and no donor sees any change so why invest more?

The cruelty and insanity of cutting Medicaid and food stamps while demanding cities crack down on homeless people www.theurbanist.org/2025/07/28/s...

"Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death" Regional population: 1.3 million

I met Palestinian activist, Awdah Hathaleen, years ago when he gave me a tour of an olive grove destroyed by Jewish settlers for a story I was reporting. Today, Hathaleen was shot and killed by a Jewish settler who was sanctioned by the Biden admin, according to Hebrew news outlets.

me in 2077: what people forget is that there were a half dozen plane crashes each month before the Great AI Plane Skyfall of 2025 grandson: wow so everybody thought AI was going to fix all of that? me: haha what? oh. no. not even kind of. No

The only reason Rep. Crockett was able to run and win is because an 87 year old representative retired. Imagine what other leaders like Rep. Crockett might we find if more older leaders stepped back!!

Imagine being rich enough to do anything you want and choosing to take food and medicine from starving children to give yourself even more money.

Not surprised that it's community colleges that are fighting back. Community colleges serve the greatest number of people facing systemic barriers. A large percentage of community college students are the first in their family to attend college.

The future of the Democratic Party will not be shaped by think tanks, pollsters, ad makers, or consultants. It will be shaped by people literally running as Democrats over the next few years. That’s why rebuilding the party requires aggressive candidate recruitment for principled authentic leaders.

no one ever banned the Associated Press from the White House for not saying "Latinx"

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

Getting exactly what you want at all times is absolutely ruinous to your personal development. Most rich people are stunted at the moment that they made their money and if they were born into it they're functionally middle schoolers.

So…a residential school

The JD Vance team flagged my TikToks for impersonation and had my account banned for making fun of him in a doughnut shop.

I'm starting to think that maybe robber barons aren't buying newspapers and social media sites to promote the free flow of information.

the riding at dawn has been indefinitely postponed but if you sign up for the mailing list your department could win a waffle party

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, during a closed-door meeting on Wednesday, rejected an offer by the Trump administration to relinquish half of the country’s mineral resources in exchange for U.S. support, according to people with knowledge of the talks. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

Ah, the 1930s Germany frame. But in the post-reconstruction era, America had Jim Crow, the resegregation of the federal workforce, and deadly pogroms against black people in the South. We’ve been here before. It’s just it didn’t happen to white people. Where do yall think Germany learned from?

it's very weird to live under authoritarianism as just a random person and have the mad king and his scheming vizier's every passing thought fully available to us because they are mass broadcasting all of them as posts because they are addicted to posts

Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990. One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS. #LGBTplusHistoryMonth

learn about the Black Panther Party free breakfast program learn about the Zapatista uprising learn about Jane learn about the Kensington Welfare Rights Union learn about STAR learn about Act Up learn about the Battle of Blair Mountain learn about the Spanish Civil War we are not the first

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

"...if we are serious about wanting to improve reliability, we should be treating our near misses as first-class entities, the way we do with incidents." —@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com resilienceinsoftware.org/news/1142817

Goin' to a protest Monday. Made me a sign.

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me." Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

Sheryl Crow has sold her Tesla and donated the proceeds to NPR. “My parents always said... you are who you hang out with”

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Always wanted to know what laying off 18% of the staff responsible for maintaining our nuclear weapons would lead to? You're in the right timeline!