i really wish our law enforcement and media werent telegraphing to mass shooters that messages written on bullets will be breathlessly and uncritically publicized with no further examination

I've said it before, but I think the current spree of memekillings is the product of an ideological transition. It's hard to parse because it's rapidly evolving. It's clearly derived from far right precursors, but it hasn't progressed to coherence yet.

CHOTINER: And you didn’t know this person - what did you call him again? CELEBRIMBOR GREATEST OF THE ELVEN SMITHS: Right, his name was Annatar but CHOTINER: And you taught him to create a ring harnessing all his malice and cruelty? CELEBRIMBOR: Well I mean I was deceived CHOTINER: So you’ve said

formally launching my "Burnham is a symptom not a solution" take if your Labour party finds itself turning to Andy Burnham and going ohhhhhh should we maybe go for him instead then that means your Labour party is feeling poorly and must be tended to, don't ignore the Burnham warning signs

“Shoot a bunch of people using a bolt-action with incoherent messages on the shell casings, you’ll be famous” is not a great place to be, but yet, that seems to be quickly becoming a meme in this goddamned country

I think there's a very good argument to be made that Luigi is what kicked this into high gear because the guy had incoherent politics but made his act of violence into a political message and people saw how that got him glamorized as a Jesse James type of figure so they're being copycats

I agree and would just add that this is basically true for all spree killers: the killing is a means to an end (attention). It’s why these killings generally follow the same well worn patterns.

these kids aren't Alex Jones or Steve Bannon. the dude who fired at an ICE van and shot himself was not engaged in a cunning long term political gambit. The term "non-political" here means their motivation was not in furtherance of some sort of cohesive partisan project. they did it for the lulz.

They're trying to paint a 4chan edgelord who loved offensive online humor and shot a bunch of detainees being held by ICE as a leftist

in a weird way, the GOP’s efforts to turn American society into a giant crypto scam is sort of working in our favor at times

Vance once called Trump "America's Hitler."

שיפה ושונה תהא השנה אשר מתחילה לה היום

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Every right-wing antisemite understood exactly what Tucker Carlson was saying in his speech at the Kirk memorial event. But Tucker's history of promoting Holocaust denial isn't enough to stop him getting a top speaking slot there.

seems like the kind of thing that a media famously concerned with aging presidents should care about!

A bit underplayed that the Homan sting didn't reportedly come out of a public corruption investigation, it was a counter-intelligence one. Which means they somehow made the not-very-far leap to him from initially targeting a foreign and almost certainly state actor.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

I beg of you, please, do not make me have to defend Bill Maher from government censorship

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

We are in hell.

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

In a less insane time, if it was discovered that the President of the United States said this privately to their AG, it would’ve triggered an all-encompassing, impeachable corruption scandal. Here, Trump is saying it publicly and it’s just another Saturday.

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

Charlie Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden in 2023.

After Colbert, he said Kimmel was next.

Well, Season Three of Andor is going to be brief.

Your Party and Party For You?

We'll see what happens once Trump's allies own Tiktok

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They should call the two factions His Party and Her Party.

i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here

Free idea that literally every Democrat in Congress could and should get behind today: Impeach Brendan Carr.

The Nick Denton Theory Of Everything.

This is so messed up.

The loser energy that radiates off "it's illegal not to like me" shit like this is palpable bsky.app/profile/zack...

One thing this really shows is that for all the bitching about safe spaces blah blah blah there’s never been a time when comedy has been so anodyne and cowardly and had less to say, it’s not just that there’s no George Carlin, there’s not even a prime David Letterman

The involvement of the Downing Street press operation in this is genuinely shameful. Someone present should use their question to grill the PM on this, on camera.

Reminder that the USA has no domestic terrorism designation. The President can't designate a US organisation as a terror group.

variety.com/2025/tv/news... This is what corporate collaboration with a fascist takeover of a formerly liberal democratic country looks like: Jimmy Kimmel Live Replaced With Charlie Kirk Tribute; Sinclair Demands Apology

Joe Manchin will be 81 years old at the time of the 2028 presidential election.

Very telling example of ideological blindspots. Dylan Roof not part of the extended MAGA cinematic universe for reasons you can figure out for yourself.

murder on unidentified vessels on the high seas. ha ha. as they say.

Oh a forced sale to regime allies? Shocker.

Another Jeanine Pirro felony case just crumbled. Prosecutors claimed DC resident Scott Pichon assaulted guardsmen by spitting at them, but moved to withdraw the charge “after reviewing the evidence.” Judge: “The way this is supposed to work is the U.S. Attorney’s Office does its due diligence.”

Just a reminder: they were never actually against cancel culture. They were against the cancellation of people they agree with or like. They’ve always been enthusiastically in favor cancelling people they don’t like. If you took them at their word you’re a useful idiot.

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