Looks like we're increasingly seeing a bimodal poll distribution for Trump's approval where there's a bunch of polls in the 38-42 range then a bunch in the 46-49 range

With each day, this tweet becomes more prescient.

It just saddens me that people will look at this "memorial service" and think that this is what Christianity is. It doesn't make me mad anymore, it just makes me sad.

Is he Worthy?

This is going to screw over medical education

Starting to maybe feel like the wheels are starting to fall off for this administration

As a NeverTrump former Republican being shaken free of partisanship against your will definitely gives you a different perspective on politics.

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These guys can only think in the hyper short term, it's going to part of what saves us

Love this coming from the free speech absolutists

😳 oh man

Yeah pretty sure now he was groyper or gamer dude, if he was left wing this administration would have absolutely leaked it by now

Just gotta sadly chuckle at the boomer grandparent I'm discussing the bullet sayings with who is still convinced he's antifa

The WSJ has now hopefully learned the lesson the lower courts have, never trust anything this administration says until proven otherwise

No one who has ever played Farming Simulator has ever assassinated anyone

i do think there's something to be said for how American Christianity so easily reduces itself to the conservative culture war and nothing else

it does seem like mainstream media types are totally unequipped to even describe let alone parse this kind of hyper online political violence

So I'm getting caught up but was the kid another vaguely political nihilistic shooter wanting attention?

i really hate this postmodern nihilistic violence

So, uh, imagine being on the board of THIS charity today, @oceanbound.bsky.social

People don't understand that civil conflict looks like your neighbors dragging you out of bed in the middle of the night and executing you in your living room simply because they're suspicious you might be a political enemy, and it really shows sometimes.

So happy I married an extremely apolitical not online teacher

Good

it's elder millennials with postgraduate education and also we all hate each other from alternating directions

Genuinely, the most radical stuff I've seen about the Kirk shooting has been on Meta products. I'm not on X or TikTok, but I can't imagine that they're any better. Bluesky has been tame by comparison.

I mean . . . Trump's goal up until yesterday was to exact revenge on the FBI, not for the FBI to be good at their jobs. These are fundamentally incompatible goals, and everyone in the Trump administration assumes that no matter what they do, the departments and organizations will *stay* competent.

I'll say what I tried to explain to MAGAs after J6: Yes, political violence is worse than random or criminal violence. Not in terms of the direct human toll, but in terms of undermining the foundations of society and unleashing the prospect of ever-more violence.

This political era is all about vengeance & escalation. Impose maximum suffering on the other side. They started the war, and they are evil, sick, and must be destroyed. Civility & grace is for losers & wimps. Real leaders fight - no apologies, no mercy. We desperately need de-escalators.

If you're a person of faith, it's a serious test of that faith to pray for someone you detest. That's a good reason to try and do it.

There’s some incredibly dark rhetoric on the right tonight, but FWIW, here’s Matt Schlapp’s pinned tweet at the moment. A pretty responsible and sober sentiment that he has arguably zero incentive to share right now.

my feed is essentially entirely people 1) condemning political violence; 2) fearing the likely violent response; 3) telling people not to fed post

"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you" H/t to @radiofreetom.bsky.social for the always good reminder of our orders

Speaker Johnson saying "This is not who we are" is about the dumbest thing someone could say at this moment. This is exactly who were have become, often several times a week.

I pray he pulls through, and the recent political violence we've experienced doesn't escalate further. This is horrible.

The rule of law matters.

this is the text that shows up next to each visitor to your park in Rollercoaster Tycoon

Lord North to Boston, 1775:

Some of the seeds of the WWII Pacific War started with Japanese anger at mistreatment of Japanese immigrants in CA during the early 20th century. It's a given that China is going to take advantage of this. This administration is just doing so much long term damage.

the deep American inability to think about other countries is going to mask how much we're destroying our international reputation I think

He says a second time in his opinion today, "If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go." Often not the case! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Justice Kavanaugh is wrong here that people legally in the US have been “promptly” set free after they show their status. A lot of examples of this not happening. Like the Episcopal priest’s daughter getting arrested in NY, sent to Louisiana detention before press coverage brought her release

The thing with what SCOTUS is now letting ICE do is that it won't be super effective at deportations but it is going to continue to alienate Hispanics who have understandably soured on Republicans

How does SCOTUS propose people prove they're here legally? Kavanaugh is saying ICE has a green light to detain and question anyone who isn't white and speaks with an accent. Does everyone who meets that description have to carry around papers now? What country is this?

Hegseth's insistence that 'Department of War' fake-name-change is about 'warriors' and 'warfighters' is the dumbest s*** I think I have ever heard. The guys that created the Department of Defense in 1947 - in NINETEEN FORTY-SEVEN - had done more warfighting than Trump's entire cabinet put together.

Its so embarrassing to be an American right now