"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

all i’ll say about ezra klein is that the daily caller crowd wants “disproportionate violent action. pain & suffering.” starting at “should we win over [people who think trans folks should die]? do we compromise with them?” is neither a “salient question” nor even a bit plausible. stand or don’t.

My latest:”Through gossamer tributes, Kirk’s cruel condemnation of transgender people & his racist throwback views abt Black Americans were no longer anathema but instead are being treated as just another political view to be respectfully debated —like a position on tax rates or health care policy.”

as far as i can tell, people are having substantive conversations about ezra’s interview with ta-nehisi, but then i’m not thomas chatterton williams, professional dilettante and, apparently, liar

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Pedocon theory remains undefeated

The Roberts Court is a threat, not a guardrail. Let’s act (and plan) accordingly.

The real cure to male loneliness is earnestly giving a shit about literally anything other than being a vague centrist troll

Didn’t he call Trump Hitler

It’s beyond time the United States joined a majority of UN nations in recognizing Palestinian Statehood and calling for an end to the genocide in Gaza.

Essentially, it Autism is perceived as preventable and treatable, then families (mothers) who fail to take their recommended prevention or treatment steps can be blamed for their kids' Autism and denied social support (eg, healthcare, school-based accommodations, etc.).

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

23 September 1943, Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto is executed by German paratroopers at Torre di Palidoro, near Rome. He falsely confesses responsibility for an explosion that kills two Germans to save the lives of 22 innocent civilians rounded up for execution in reprisal [Thread] >> 1

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Please support Kat and the people who are trying to save America

Current Democrats by and large do not establish a narrative and build it over time, they are mostly content to play defense and respond to the narrative that republicans establish. So, when a crisis small or large comes along, they are always responding defensively and from a place of weakness.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”. They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left. This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up. www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

damn there really is a Charlie Kirk quote for every aspect of this story huh

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

“A democratic society needs people in Ezra Klein’s position to treat Charlie Kirk’s anti-democracy stances as disqualifying, rather than pretend they’re just another policy opinion…” @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social w/an excellent critique of Kirk hagiography www.arcdigital.media/p/ezra-klein...

Imagine capitulating to a president that is so underwater that he doesn't even have 50% approval with white people as a white supremacist

throws a lot of cold water on the bullshit peddled by the whole austin comedy scene, which has constructed an identity around the idea that the election freed up comics to say whatever they want without fear of cancellation

"Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize? I don’t know. But the most telling detail in Klein’s column was that, for all his praise, there was not a single word in the piece from Kirk himself." Ta-Nehisi Coates, with receipts.

November 17, 2021 www.mypanhandle.com/news/local-n...

I’ve never seen anything like this Charlie Kirk speech suppression campaign. So many media organizations, schools, and others caving in to this totally dishonest bullshit and destroying careers to defend a racist bigot who did not and does not deserve this kind of defense.

Oh my god, they did my meme.

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

The president is boasting about how he has shut down boating and fishing in the Caribbean because everyone is afraid that he’ll murder them.

jesus christ

Both sides are NOT the same.

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

3/4 But I will not grant Johnson County honors to a man who made it his life’s mission to denigrate so many of the constituents I have sworn an oath to protect, and who did so much to harm not only the marginalized, but also to degrade the fabric of our body politic.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

This is more actually disrespectful of the deceased than anything they're pretending to be mad about. Wow.

You have to know by now - they're coming for us if we cooperate or not.

It really cements Charlie Kirk’s reputation as a hero of free speech when his followers threaten, doxx, and get people fired for not “mourning properly.” (Actually, it underlines what a scam that “free speech” routine was in the first place.)

Charlie Kirk's grieving wife Erika just promised to carry on his mission of hate, like stoning queer people, encouraging violence against black folks, and calling black women affirmative action picks. I think you're better off thinking of almost literally anyone else and their family.

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

Almost comical that Charlie Kirk was killed in a chronically online turf war between the Kirk gang and the Fuentes gang while referring to gang violence.

man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger

Why do they keep saying Charlie Kirk was an advocate for free speech when he made a hit list of professors who didn’t say what he liked? I just don’t get it.

Whose life matters?

thank god we’re all against political violence

here is the truth the mainstream media doesn't want you to see The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

America has to be a place where we settle disagreements with our votes and our voices. Last night, the President chose to divide and incite. It's difficult to ignore that. Leaders need to bring our country together. There is always a way back. We need to get there together.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social