If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

All hail the "peace president"

Shit like this makes me want to order a GQ subscription just so I can cancel it. There is no genre of takes that's as tiresome as "liberal women love conservative bad boys in spite of themselves"

please do not fool yourselves: trump whining about the photo for the TIME cover is the kind of thing that ppl who hate him cannot imagine anyone enjoying but people who like him genuinely love about him. they think "I'd feel the same way! I'd say the same thing! He's just like me!"

This is a much more plausible explanation for why NYT carries water for Trump than “they like Trump and want to help them.” Sure, maybe a few people actually like Trump, but the real motivation is that the whole newsroom is obsessed with coming off as enlightened centrists.

Yeah, I think most elites do not really have ideology or beliefs so much as a desire to be perceived favorably by whatever institution or group they’ve embedded themselves within - that’s how you become an elite! So asking “who are they trying to impress” is a great way to understand their behavior

There were at least two ceasefires under Biden! In which more than five times as many living Israeli hostages were released in exchange for 240 Palestinians! Has everyone forgotten this?

People are responding to this quote by mocking the guy's claim of libertarianism, but understand, at root this is what *all* libertarians mean in their heart of hearts: "the government should be 'small' in the sense that it allows me & mine to do whatever we want." Small for me, not for thee.

Huh?

If you voted for him, you've done this.

I've posted this picture before but I do find it interesting that the police here arresting Carlo Gambino, at the time one of the most dangerous men in America with dozens of killers at his command, didn't feel the need to cover their faces because they are not ashamed of their work

This was once a flashpoint of Republican outrage. For, like, ten years.

Weird how all the hacks that helped Trump seem to be getting rewarded!

Forget “messaging” for a sec, and whether they should have been more directly demanding bigger stuff; the whole thing, tied to a concrete example, is “you don’t get to rule like this.”

This is mostly ridiculous, but if it will be good if it trickles down to our bearded-out, tatted-up local law enforcement officers who apparently think they're Delta operators in Herat.

this is one of my faves personally

The President of the United States has posted a fake AI video of himself announcing a non-existent policy to give people access to a fake miracle cure that also doesn't exist truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT... We are fully through the looking glass, folks.

Liberal pundits beat themselves up over whether "The Daily Show" was too smug 15 years ago, while literally every conservative who's ever contributed to the Marketplace of Ideas — from Limbaugh to Tucker to Gen Z Nazis — has leaned on the "argument" that The Left is ugly, gay and literally demonic.

This is how it's done.

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

elon musk: the only reason any westerner might have for living in thailand is pedophile sex tourism also elon musk: there might be any number of reasons for visiting little saint james island that have nothing to do with anything unsavory, from the pristine beaches to the intellectual fellowship

Alex Jones, living the meme.

If a government tells you that you can’t call it authoritarian, it’s authoritarian.

155% tax rates for billionaires at home, 155mm for billionaire dictators abroad, and 155 SEC investigations into Ticketmaster

Jimmy Kimmel isn't returning to the airwaves because of "thoughtful conversations" with Disney executives. He's back because consumers sent Disney a clear message: selling out our fundamental rights is not an acceptable cost of doing business.

But remember, we can't refer to MAGA as a hate movement, because that wouldn't be civil.

Charlie Kirk is US Christians’ favorite motivational speaker because he never asked anything of them except to believe and do what they already believed and wanted to do

This is Sardinia cancellation.

Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...

He died doing what he loved; blaming non-white and trans people for gun violence.

I genuinely think a lot of normies have been shocked in the past few days because they learned in quick succession 1. Who Kirk was 2. What he said and believed 3. What media elites appear to think of him And 2 and 3 are not matching up for them

Usually when someone dies, the people who considered them a hero will share their greatest quotes and epic moments. It's extremely telling that Charlie Kirk supporters are NOT doing that because they'd have to share, ya know, his quotes. They can't share vids of him either coz he was such a douche.

so the Q3 numbers are BAD bad, huh?

When we look back at this era, how in the world is anybody involved in this going to be able to defend dismissing the last black opinion columnist at the Post for, among other things, accurately quoting the anti-black, anti-woman bigotry Kirk was famous and loved for spewing?

Dessert mode ACTIVATE: Best pie: key lime Best ice cream: chocolate almond Best donut: sour cream cake Best bar: lemon Best cake: carrot Best other: crème brûlée

This has been worse than “both sides!” Not just claims that Charlie Kirk calling for the murder of Democrats and Democrats denouncing the murder of Charlie Kirk are equal, but that Kirk did politics the right way, so we’d be better off if more acted like him and if Dems were more supportive of that.

Bluesky is different because we don't entertain the performance of "both-sides-ism" that's proven so lucrative for centrist pundits on Nazi-friendly platforms. Both-sidesers can't get reach here. The routine doesn't work. That's why they hate it.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

ohhhhh, shit, this from @bylinetimes.bsky.social has it all in one place: bylinetimes.com/2025/09/13/d...

Damn. This dude writes for the Dispatch!

See, Kirk's fans are telling us who he hated.

there are two wolves inside Hanania. one is a snob, the other a bigot. the fate of his soul depends on the snob defeating the bigot

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

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.