Look who’s the snowflake now. https://youtu.be/L3UPVLrclAk

1000% this

BREAKING: The Epstein Files just got one step closer to being released. With Adelita Grijalva’s victory in AZ-07, Thomas Massie and Ro Khanna now have the magic number — 218 votes — needed for the discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the full Epstein Files.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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Painfully stark.

As America nears a tipping point, Russell Vought desires a radical rightwing “counter-revolution.”   For @zeit.de, I wrote a profile of one of Trumpism’s key figures – and one of Trump’s most dangerous henchmen.   Some thoughts from the piece (since it is in German):

Alex Acosta remains defiant defending his decision not to prosecute Epstein. He “essentially said he didn’t have faith in the victims, their stories and their ability to tell their own story and their own testimony, which is deeply disturbing to all of us sitting in there,” said Rep. Maxwell Frost.

Yes do this- “I will happily answer your question, but first, how can we trust your company, since it is owned by Donald Trump? Every time. Attack and attack and attack. Don’t complain. Attack. People are bewildered by what they’re seeing. They want to see someone talk back.”

I hope someone will collect the speeches and posts that call out this fascistic firing and denounce Trump. Anything from the powerful Hollywood friends?

The solar revolution means that power can be decentralized, democratized, distributed far more justly. So it makes perfect and hideous sense, given the nostalgia of authoritarians for a golden age (of exclusion, exploitation, and inequality ), to tie themselves to all fossil fuel's problems.

So, Charlie Kirk was not a purveyor of hate, intolerance and disinformation and was instead a paragon of open debate and free speech, which is why anyone who says anything bad about the fellow needs to be identified and targeted so they'll shut up and maybe lose their jobs. Cool. Just checking.

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Terrible. Repression masked as free speech. I hope you can sue for wrongful dismissal.

This guy says it like it is. youtu.be/TNN5gIVS4Co?...

I was traveling, so sorry about the video quality, but someone had to say this:

This conversation echoes precisely the way certain white Americans talked about Indigenous Americans in the nineteenth century. It's so close it's eerie.

"Trump’s 2024 speeches, for instance, feature far more references to corrupt elites than those of his predecessors, revealing a deeper attachment to exclusionary populist rhetoric.” Important research. And, in my opinion: Trump's rhetoric is not "populist". theconversation.com/we-analyzed-...

Any fellow journalists saying, “well, he was pleasant when we shared a green room once”: yes, and: he spoke in favor of televised executions of those deemed enemies of the regime. But I’m sure he’d have been polite as he pulled the trigger.

You know what to do.

Yikes. Important comments. "At least 12 million Americans, which Hotez believes includes “a substantial percentage” of children, suffer from at least one neglected tropical disease. Hotez calls the chronic, debilitating conditions “the most important diseases you’ve never heard of.”

This article is very helpful. As an old Boomer, I had no idea about these disaffected communities and gaming groups - "In these morbid spaces, killers are viewed as martyrs, and they’re dubbed “saints.” Really, they’re influencers."

Charlie Kirk's murder is just the latest example of how our nation's love affair with guns is allowing the Second Amendment to swallow up the First. With @dahlialithwick.bsky.social: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Ezra Klein, watch this.

They will fill the time and "explain" everything based on their own conditioning and ability or lack of ability to question, what if I don't understand what these engravings mean? What if I'm not up on how a young guy like this would express himself? Unwatchable.

Will be a case study about the importance of DEI (that no one reads at Harvard Business School).

“To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe only the truth.” ~ Voltaire Let's make sure the truth about Charlie Kirk isn't white washed.

Let's not pretend we were born yesterday. President Trump has made it clear that he will enthusiastically endorse and materially support brutal, deadly political violence for his own benefit.

Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.

The murder of Charlie Kirk is terrible for our country. Violence is not the answer. To learn from this, let's not fictionalize who Kirk was. A day before his death, he said: "Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America." That's not respectful speech. That's violent rhetoric.

This is why I shake my head when I hear, "we need to have conversations with MAGA people, open exchange of ideas". Few MAGA-Trump cultists want to do this. Most I've met are against everything I work for and stand for, and against the humanity of people of color, LGBTQ+ etc etc

There are ideological reasons for why a right-winger would shoot Charlie Kirk - accelerate the race war, disloyalty to Trump (below). There are no ideological reasons for someone on the center-left to do so. We're fighting for democracy and rule of law. No one is calling for violence on our side.

NPR is whitewashing Charlie Kirk, reporting minutes ago that he "had critics" without a mention of his racism, misogyny, and hate-mongering. Yes, Kirk created a large organization promoting conservatism to young people, but tell the rounded facts about what he said and did.

Gonna put up a few links to C&L that reflect the REAL Charlie Kirk, not the one you see through the gauzy whitewash of cable tv and newspapers. Again, these things don't mean he should be shot. But they do suggest that hate speech is bad and more hate speech is worse.

His assassination deserves full condemnation; his full impact should not be sidestepped. @davidcorn.bsky.social gets it right www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time."

There has been a rush among centrists like Gavin Newsom and Ezra Klein to brush over the hateful life of Charlie Kirk and valorize the man. Let me be clear, killing Charlie Kirk was wrong and abhorrent. We must condemn murder without sanitizing a man who built his empire on hate. My latest piece.

Charlie Kirk, in an interview with Megyn Kelly: "The DOJ should immediately move to unseal all the Epstein documents...Every file should be released to the public." - Sept. 2025 Want to honor Charlie Kirk? RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!

NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.

Most excellent piece that helped me better understand the divide we are facing today. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” — are among the most important in human history. But VP Vance and others reject this.

Klein chooses to whitewash the hate and violence that Kirk spewed because he doesn't want to lose his platform in mainstream media. Weak and cowardly to not give a full picture of Kirk and his impact, and also call out that violence is wrong.

It is entirely possible to be respectful about the death of a person you disagreed with without “honoring” him by vowing to continue his disagreeable, hateful “work.”

Good day to remind people that we wouldn't have this Supreme Court if it weren't for Mitch McConnell deciding that no Justices can be considered during an election year and then deciding that Justices can be confirmed one month before an election. McConnell's evil directly enabled Tr*mp's evil.

I heard this, too. And I screamed. These lies just roll off the anchor's lips and sound so true - but they are lies. I think that was Katie Tur. #Comeon

Apparently, SHRM thinks the best way to “advance workplace equity” is to hand the mic to someone whose career is built on dismantling #DEI. Platforming Robby Starbuck to speak is yet another step in the wrong direction by SHRM. conference.shrm.org/blueprint?_g...

Read this free New York Times link and come to your own conclusion about whether JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon knew Jeffrey Epstein was a monster and helped him anyway.

Holy shit! During the national anthem at the US Open men's final, the moment Trump is shown on the jumbotron the entire stadium erupted in boos. To say the pedophile president is loathed in his own hometown would be an understatement. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

US Open wants the crowd and broadcasters to obey in advance. Yet another organization bends the knee. I trust the NY crowd will be vocal.