what do you mean he was a grifter, they're all grifters. are you saying funerals don't usually have a number you can text to order merch

Incredible image. Also incredible that the vast majority of white Christians in this country align with the men in camo.

got a new niece this week. ivy mae. 💚

ok

In conclusion

and those millions of followers are definitely engaged, genuinely eager to learn from others and, best of all, real people.

really striking to see how quickly and effectively the rightwing messaging apparatus turned kirk’s murder into a rally point for coalitional unity and expansion, and think about how many opportunities the dems have had to do the same that just whistled right over their heads.

you have to admit "can you make a documentary about a contemporary subject that never directly quotes anything he ever said or did" is kind of an interesting challenge from an artistic perspective

this exists it is called thinking

pundits spent the last decade warning america that lefty wokeism was our generation’s chief danger and now that it’s indisputable that rightwing fascism is and always was the real threat, they have to remove political valance from the word “woke” so that they can pretend they were right all along.

charlie kirk’s memorial service getting the coachella treatment

at this point i think you just let superman handle it

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

Every man age 5 or older thinks he could kill a badguy with a palm strike to his nose.

Judge:

the walter i turned mitty

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt. Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

it would be a pretty good week for Rolling Stone to have a TV critic

you killed the moderate …now you get the extremist

"Whether or not we recognize them, migrants and immigrants are our neighbors, people made in God’s image who are worthy of dignity. As Christians, they deserve our solidarity." sojo.net/articles/opi...

🦝 Squirrels and other fur-bearers Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1900. [Source]

if peele's directin', a good time i'm expectin' if peele's producin', i'll be a'snoozin'

peacemaker s2 time

can't stop thinking of how little kids died in chapel, praying on the first day of fall term, but somehow Charlie Kirk--a man who accepted school shootings as the guarantor of unconstrained gun access--is the martyr. may God have mercy on the innocent; Charlie Kirk was not of them.

hey so this is insane

guess i never thought about it that way

he fears john oliver. can only assume it's a british thing.

if you’ve spent more than two minutes reading my posts you know how much contempt I hold Dem leadership in but this is good and they should reiterate it on TV demanding a resignation rather than just calling it “unacceptable” is correct and they are threatening subpoenas when they get that power

this would have been a really great time to not comply in advance. if the white house wants to crack down on free speech, make them crack down on it. don’t cave to hypothetical threats. the fbi should have had to storm disney hq and drag kimmel out along with the abc execs.

everyday a new horror. being forced to defend jimmy kimmel. humiliating.

This is true and deserves a reckoning!

imagine having any sort of emotional reaction that involved taking action against jimmy kimmel. man. i don’t think i could live with myself.

the trajectory from circa 1999 Man Show-era women jumping on trampolines Jimmy Kimmel to 2025 free speech canary in the coal mine Jimmy Kimmel is really something

Samurai moves. At first it scans like the same “we must learn to disagree” pundit spiel. No harm, no foul. Then you look down and your guts are spilling out from the katana slice.

husbands used to explain things. even if they didn't have to, they'd just do it for fun. now chatgpt does all the explaining, and it's not even very good at it. just goes to show. the war on men continues.

was under the impression that making fun of someone else's murder is out of bounds

me explaining the Peanuts cast

if there's a takeaway for dems from trump's success it's that the think tank and focus group class is simply no electoral match for leaders with deeply felt opinions that they can comfortably discuss at length because it's what they actually think, not a series of Davos-branded Power Point slides.

Yesterday a friend and my wife(!) both said I look like Robert Redford which had me levitating for about 30 seconds before I realized they didn’t mean my jawline or eyes, they just meant he and i share an unsettling, spiritually unnatural trait in that we are grown men who are blonde.

"It was always about more than just ice cream" and it always will be king 🫡 😭

Coates absconded from social media, leaving his haters with no one to argue with and his followers watching the sky, waiting for him to appear in times of great need, soaring far overhead like a majestic seabird, dropping golden morsels of nourishing wisdom from the land of the eternally logged off.

Happy pub day to the inimitable @philipchristman.bsky.social and 'Why Christians Should Be Leftists.' I was more than happy to write a blurb for it because I liked it and if you read it, I think you'll like it too! www.eerdmans.com/978080288405...

these posts really blow up the theory that he was antifa and the theory that he was groyper AND the theory that he was an irony-poisoned nihilist. there's still a lot we don't know but based on this, he may well have been the last thing anyone expected: Just A Guy.

It seems that the only trans person known to be in the orbit of this horrific Kirk assassination saga expressed shock and horror, and immediately cooperated fully with law enforcement.