"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I'm pretty sure the third guy is just an anagram of the first guy and will just *be* the first guy in a fake mustache

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

see the thing about them all being the worst people in the world is that even when one of them gets killed they can't create a proper cult of martyrdom around him because the others get jealous he's getting all the attention.

Ray Morimura (Japanese Artist, born 1948) "House in Tamugimata", 1999. Japanese Woodblock Print, 45 × 30 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

Not coincidentally this is a pretty good list of Most Important Companies to Unionize.

Remember the recent middle-of-the-night apartment building raid where children were dragged outside naked & zip-tied in the street while black & Latino residents were _sorted by race_ and piled into separate vans while their apartments were ransacked & robbed? That raid? So it resulted in 0 arrests.

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

…and the fight is funded by OUR MONEY.

What he said: 💯 🎯

might be one of the funniest videos i’ve ever seen

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Q: “Most hospitals + people who will lose insurance are in rural areas. If Trump & Republicans are so intent on sticking it to their own voters, why not let them?” @aoc.bsky.social : “That’s the difference between us & Trump. I don’t care if you voted for me, I want you to have health care.”

A story in three parts

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

A story indistinguishable from those depicted/dramatized in all the WWII / Holocaust movies and plays and novels we grew up with

Trump has sought emergency intervention by the Supreme Court 28 times in the first eight months of his new term, more than Bush, Obama and Biden did combined over 20 years. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

I know we say cruelty is the point but I think fear is the point. They want everyone too afraid to stand up to them. I hate that I got worried for everyone involved in helping this man, waiting for ICE to come back with a tank or some shit. But this is community at work and I love that they won.

If Trump’s re-election didn't motivate you to stockpile abortion pills, here’s your chance. www.jezebel.com/trump-admini...

that we have built an alternate media ecosystem in which every American city is an apocalyptic hellhole - completely unmoored from reality - and the political system has collapsed to the point that the president can use this fabrication to send troops against his own citizens is a staggering failure

Well don't I feel stupid

I see lots of people pointing out that this is a lie and even Ted Cruz knew it was a lie and Trump already threatened ABC again, and yes, yes, yes... THAT'S WHAT THEY DO. They lie.

It’s grotesque to think your religion is gonna punish everyone you consider an enemy while you escape but actually we all have to take responsibility for our actions in this life and on/for our shared planet, hope this helps

I try to remember that while they were fighting the ban on gender affirming care for minors here, one of the (trans) lawyers did a thread reminding folks that they're really good at making this feel like an overwhelming groundswell, but it is one clown car of debunked experts on a road trip.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

I’m begging someone close to her named Stephanie with a last name that is a color to tell her to stop acting like a 12 year old

"This blatant double standard reveals that the GOP’s crackdown on Kirk’s detractors has nothing to do with decorum or respect for the dead, and everything to do with political retribution against their rivals."

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

I’m sorry, do you mean being able to expect basic human decency and respect in the workplace? Is this a typo?

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

one time elizabeth warren proposed making the ultra-wealthy pay 2 cents on every dollar of their net worth above $50 million and republicans ate their own faces

A new generation of politicians who will tweet about important issues and then write and promote books about them!!

jesus christ

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

excellent

The 16-year-old boy accused of shooting two classmates at Evergreen High School embraced conspiratorial, antisemitic and white supremacist social media content

The absence of mourning is not equal to the presence of celebration, and it’s strange how many people have conflated the two over the last day.

Thinking about the times Dems refused to do this. Wouldn't be sporting, or whatever they said at the time. Once again, whatever the GOP does is seen as the norm and acceptable, and anything Dems do is seen as a transgressive overreach.

Trump orders flags to half mast for Charlie Kirk but wouldn't even call the Gov of Minnesota after Democratic elected officials were killed in Minnesota by a Trump supporter. Democratic lives do not matter to Trump

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.