Happy second birthday to my book JEWISH SPACE LASERS, on the growth and durability of antisemitic myths based around one prominent Jewish family. Sadly, it's a subject that's probably always going to be relevant. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/733925...

I have some nice quotes in this CNN piece on the frenzy of conspiracy theories around Charlie Kirk's death. www.cnn.com/2025/09/19/p...

Comedy Central, owned by MTV, which is owned by Paramount, which just merged with Skydance, and is attempting to merge with Warner - a deal that would likely require FCC and DOJ approval. Hosted by Jon Stewart, who Trump has made no secret of absolutely loathing.

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

The performative martyrdom of Charlie Kirk put the left in a position where any honest reflection on Kirk's words or any criticism of the over-the-top grief shown by the right is treasonous heresy. They made Trump into their God, now they've made Kirk into their Christ.

It's kind of breathtaking to watch a cult of personality develop within days, and seamlessly attach itself to the other cult of personality that spawned it.

At least some MAGA influencers understand that if a Republican president can get Kimmel taken off the air, a Democratic president could get them taken down just as easily.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Have to assume Paramount cancels South Park next to make sure their potential merger with Warner goes through. Fox will cancel the Simpsons to keep Murdoch happy as he hashes out his shit with Trump. And NBC will dump SNL preemptively - or neuter it to the point where it's worthless. America!

I'm coming around to the idea that it's been so hard to pin a motive on Robinson shooting Kirk because even Robinson doesn't know why he did it. He just didn't like Kirk for some reason he can't articulate.

This is absolutely insane. Newsom's "low income housing" initiative for a small part of the Palisades is dead, "water from the Pacific Northwest" would have done nothing to stop the LA fires, and the President of the United States does not issue City of LA permits.

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

I'm jumping on with @kalwradio.bsky.social in San Francisco to talk about limestone mining traffic in Sri Lanka. Or Charlie Kirk and the Podcaster Apocalypse. Whatever comes up first.

He has no idea who she was or what happened to her, and only perks up when he hears she was a Democrat.

A big part of the performative martyrdom of Charlie Kirk stems from his alleged killer not being who the far right needed him to be. They banked on his death having political meaning, and so far, it doesn't. It's a variation on the need for Oswald to be a patsy.

Nobody should be surprised the right has fully embraced censorship and cancel culture. Trump has nationalized companies, put troops in the streets, bloated the deficit, and is talking about taking guns away from citizens - and they think he's a god.

I just realized I didn't see a single reference to Benghazi on the 11th. After a decade of being a right wing battle cry against the depravity of the Obama regime, it's just gone and forgotten.

There's no reason to take any reporting about Tyler Robinson at face value right now. Countless officials, law enforcement agencies, politicians, influencers, and reporters have been wrong, hoaxed, or caught making things up. Social media is making us all crazy and stupid.

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

They got lost in the *waves hands* but I wrote two other things this week. The first is a Patreon subscribers-only piece about how one of the trolls that's been harassing me for years claimed my house burning down was a money laundering scheme. www.patreon.com/posts/my-tro...

Amazing how the "THIS IS WAR" theatrics immediately vanished once they found out Kirk's killer was some brain-wormed gamer. They thought they were getting Horst Wessel. They got Urkel.

Parents who aren't up to date on what their kids are watching and chatting about and of at least the broad strokes of what's happening in online gaming culture and on TikTok are losing the war. It's that simple - and that complex.

Online culture and "real world" culture are the same. It's not just dumb crap we can ignore...even if a lot of it actually is. They don't go in random chats or online with the door closed. We can read anything they write. It's exhausting and I'm sure they hate it, but the alternative is unthinkable.

I'm around kids a lot. They speak meme. They chat constantly, even with kids they see every day. Much of it is gibberish. Rather than dismissing it, I ask them to explain it to me. I ask what videos they've seen or what their friends have seen. I monitor their chats.

Every parent in America must make sure their kids aren't being brain-poisoned online. What are they seeing in chats? Who are they talking to? What about their friends? What do those random nonsense things they're saying actually mean? This is our job now. Lives depend on it.

Just a gentle reminder that white-nationalist “Groypers” like Troy Robinson have long plagued Charlie Kirk’s operations because he wasn’t racist, homophobic or antisemitic enough. www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

If the Kirk manhunt goes into Monday, it will be interesting to see if the Influencer Industrial Complex starts turning on Patel/Bongino. Some of them must be pretty afraid of being targets themselves.

The simplest explanation is that the FBI has been rendered completely useless and ineffective because they fired smart people because of "DEI" or whatever and because its two current leaders were chosen for their posting abilities.

I wrote for Conspiracy Watch about why disinformation and wishful thinking are driving the Charlie Kirk discourse. Essentially, we have nothing new to talk about, but we can't stop ourselves from talking. So we make things up and hope they're true. www.conspiracywatch.info/en/why-charl...

That's...pretty pronounced.

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Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

Given the date, I was thinking a lot about the 9/11 truth movement, and how it became one of the major drivers of discourse and documentary about the attacks, only to almost completely vanish after about a decade. 9/11 trutherism was HUGE, then it was essentially gone and nobody talks about it.

When you put podcasters in charge of the FBI, they run the FBI like a podcast.

ATF already backing away from the "transgender bullets" claim. But don't worry, Kash has it under control.

Almost two hours since this incredibly incendiary and dangerous claim was posted, and nobody has confirmed it and there's been no evidence posted that supports it. The only other source that supports this is a Twitter post from Steven Crowder.

Absent any evidence, and given how badly the FBI has bungled this so far, it's absurd and incredibly dangerous to just print this at face value. What is "transgender ideology?" Did the bullets have pronouns?

Yeah, but this is the same reaction most of these people had to Uncle Ben's Rice changing its packaging.

With the shock having worn off and absolutely no news about who killed Charlie Kirk or why, conspiracy theories are the driving force in the discourse about his death. The left and right are absolutely convinced the other side did it, yet nobody has even the slightest idea.

Maybe gutting the FBI and replacing its leadership with influencers wasn't the greatest idea.

BREAKING The killer of Charlie Kirk remains at large. FBI Director Kash Patel just now: “The subject in custody has been released after an interrogation by law enforcement. Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.”

I'm already seeing "Trump had Charlie Kirk killed as a distraction from the Epstein Files" and all I can say is that Trump can't walk across the street and get dinner without it being a fiasco, so let's slow down on the conspiracy theories.

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

NEW: Trump and his inner circle need their acolytes to believe that dark forces planted his signature in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book two decades ago. This is when conspiracism flourishes: when the lie is more palatable than the truth. themikerothschild.com/2025/09/10/t...

Appears person filmed being arrested is not a suspect and suspect is not in custody. CNN reports that University now says single shot came from a building 200 yards away. Certainly suggests an experienced marksman.

Charlie Kirk's political and social opinions are hateful garbage. And he has the same right as anyone else to express them without fear of being shot. Political violence suppresses all free speech, not just the stuff we agree with.

NEW: Trump and his inner circle need their acolytes to believe that dark forces planted his signature in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book two decades ago. This is when conspiracism flourishes: when the lie is more palatable than the truth. themikerothschild.com/2025/09/10/t...