ross,,, don’t dou that

now with corncob

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

my guy, even i know that’s not how you do it

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

some signs i seen today at the fair

lining up to see the Great Pumpkin like i’m visiting lenin’s tomb

I love living in a city full of immigrants and tons and tons of people who are not at all like me and not like each other. It makes us all better and it makes our city better. I know I’m preaching to the choir by saying this on the lib app but I sometimes just get so overwhelmed by how special it is

got a cat a few days ago she keeps hugging me??? i’m in heaven

Pretty scary stuff at the ICE facility in Portland

making all of my employees come over so i can read them my Call Of Duty fanfic

Weird that the FCC Chair had no issue with Kilmeade wanting to euthanize homeless people.

anyone: [quotes charlie kirk’s exact own words and nothing more] their boss: that’s hateful and you’re fired

person: “I don’t think I like what I’ve heard about that man but he shouldn’t have been killed” Some lady: “as an employment attorney, I can say that you’re gonna get rightfully fired for that.” Darryl, observing: “you can’t be good at your job, then”

i wrote this in *2017.* since then the right wing media has grown extensively. and yet it looks like no lessons learned. www.buzzfeednews.com/article/char...

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

This coverage of Charlie Kirk is absurd. As a veteran, peacenik, anti-gun nut, and proud liberal, I do not advocate violence of any kind. Kirk used his politics as a weapon, and aimed to hurt innocent people. I am not celebrating his death, but I am lamenting the demise of truth in this country.

Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on a Saturday, but I went and re-watched Jesse Watters' show the following Monday to see if it was discussed. He covered: • Trump on the Middle East • Antifa and anti-ICE protests • U.S. Army birthday The assassination wasn't discussed at all.

what happened to charlie kirk is a) fucking horrible and b) the exact thing, word for word, that he spent his public life advocating for and cheerleading, and any coverage that isn’t frank about that second part is massively irresponsible

Wait: it wasn’t enough when a day laborer died on the 210 while fleeing on foot from an ICE raid? Or when a farm worker died in Camarillo after falling off a roof where he’d taken refuge? Only *now* is “enough”?

Where was this energy when Melissa & Mark Hortman were assassinated?

Charlie Kirk goaded his followers into persecuting and threatening people he didn’t agree with. Nothing about that is virtuous. Some people are making it clear they never listened to a word the guy actually said.

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

i think it’s cool when someone who wants me dead dies 👍 sorry bitch

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

They’ll ask you to mourn the deaths they mourn, and no others. They’ll ask you to cherish the lives they cherish, and no others.

Federal agents detained a man who was in a car with his wife and two children on Monday night in D.C. The man said he didn't know why he had been pulled over.

<the president has declared war on the city I live in and our society is being torn apart for scrap metal> it's my fault I'm so anxious. I should do yoga

Everything is horrifically evil and stupid. The best you can hope for, the highest ambition, is to make a popular post wittily pointing out how evil and stupid things are. People will cite it for years as things continue being horrifically evil and stupid.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Wife: I'll buy a subscription to any publication that writes one honest story about the "masculinity crisis" that just says "Men want to be able to treat women like shit and still get laid" and just be done with it. There's no more depth to the discussion. There is no nuance.

imagine being arrested just for posting! out of curiosity though, what did they post? because i notice you haven’t seen fit to quote them. was there a lack of space?

The thing about Ashli Babbitt that I kept saying is that, for most of history, most countries would have strung up a bunch of the J6 folks in the capitol steps as a sign. And for good reason. This is what happens when you don’t.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

It was wild

So if a group of men -- all of them wearing masks, with no uniforms or badges visible, driving unmarked cars -- approach anyone on the streets of DC, they're just supposed to submit?

A DOGE kid gets beat up in DC and it’s DefCon1; hundreds of bullets into federal buildings with officer killed in Atlanta and it’s crickets; violent mob attacks Capitol wounding dozens of officers and it’s pardons for all.

imagining "Big Balls Beatdown" in a middle-school social studies textbook

This guy rules he’s like if the SimCity mayor was real

don’t ask me to read the dissents, they don’t matter

Wow so you’re telling me everyone who cheered on the Iraq war is on board with this now too? And so are the people who opposed the Iran nuclear deal and killed it? You’re kidding.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

I ran in 2022. I lost the NYTimes endorsement and the race to an extremely wealthy white man with 0 experience. I was the legislator and former staffer with 20 years of legislative experience under my belt. So, what this tell me is, we will never be “experienced” enough.

“Both sides need to relax, the ones doing the assassinating, and also the ones being mean to ICE.”

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies