century of national humiliation

Jimmy Kimmel returns to late-night after Disney suspension over Charlie Kirk remarks www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

Trump is rescinding road safety grants all over the country, in blue states and red ones. The reason: those projects are "hostile" to cars. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump Says It Is “Really Illegal” for Journalists to Give His Administration Negative Coverage

Americans aren’t too into political martyrology, but Charlie Kirk is becoming the new Robert Mathews

For those just learning more about Turning Point USA and Kirk, here's a thread of some of the stuff I've covered over the years, mostly for @lcrw.bsky.social, which has also covered TPUSA over the years and the real (negative) impact they've had on various communities throughout the county. 🧵⤵️

Let this sink in: A president can apparently now order lethal force outside of congressionally declared wars, in international waters, without oversight, and face no personal criminal or civil liability—even if the action was blatantly illegal. trib.al/FwmJyLa

This whole thread is worth reading

The Gun Violence Archive, which tracks this, lists five mass shootings by transgender or nonbinary people since January 2013. That’s less than 0.1% of the mass shootings in that period.

I must not fall for Politico engagement bait. Politico engagement bait is the mind killer. Politico engagement bait is the little death that brings total annihilation. I will allow Politico engagement bait to pass over me and through me.

The chicken run many media personalities do from left to right once their initial audience dries up is so nakedly cynical. They know where the money is and know they'll never be personally negatively affected by the policies they now espouse.

Trump's "antifa" inanity - including the threat to designate it as "domestic terrorism" (no such legal designation exists) - is just a rehash what as said in 2019 and 2020. here's several articles i wrote about it at the time thebattleground.eu/2020/06/05/b...

Brian Glenn, a ”reporter," told Trump that if he labels ”transtifa”—the far-right’s new hate-mongering term—a domestic terrorist group, then he could get the flag taken down. www.jezebel.com/trump-and-mt...

Free speech is when conservatives can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/tani...

A colleague from the UK posted this elsewhere and I am so happy to see that sexual healthcare is the one area where the UK remains world-leading.

The far-right majority in the Dutch parliament (BBB-FvD-JA21-PVV-SGP-VVD) has just designated “Antifa” a terrorist organization. This is a dark day for Dutch democracy and the final nail in the coffin of the VVD as a serious liberal democratic party.

Sen. Ron Johnson spoke at this 9/11 truther conference tonight, where he said that 9/11 truther Richard Gage (was who seated next to him) "provided me, before I started going to some of these shows once I opened my mouth on" 9/11, "to give me the questions," which was "very helpful."

Exclusive from @nbcnews.com: Pentagon leaders are considering a recruiting campaign centered around Charlie Kirk. Possible slogans discussed include "Charlie has awakened a generation of warriors" and there's talk of using TPUSA chapters as recruitment centers. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

so apparently i'm nominated for an award for "Best Work Of Music Journalism Text (English)" at the Reeperbahn Festival in Hamburg, which is going on this weekend?! www.reeperbahnfestival.com/en/imja

NEW from LCRW: Things moved fast after Charlie Kirk was murdered. @azrww.bsky.social, the staff & I tried to encapsulate the bizarre first week after his murder in as much minutiae as we could stomach. The end of every graf felt like the most gut-punching absurd kicker I've ever written.

if patel is toast, his replacement could easily be worse

Everything old is new again

Trump says he’s designating “antifa” a terrorist group and launching a probe into finding of antifa activities. The FBI has long said antifa doesn’t really have a centralized structure or leadership.

A frequent co-host of Charlie Kirk’s show.

BREAKING: Democrat Xp Lee wins the Minnesota House special election to fill the seat of Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

Lots of stuff out there on far right views of trans folks, and to a lesser extent gay men and lesbians, but this is the first piece I’ve see on how the far right sees bisexual women. xtramagazine.com/power/politi...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

We still need more information about the Trey Reed case but it follows a frenetic propaganda push by MAGA around the murder of Iryna Zarutska. It also follows a wave of terroristic threats against HBCUs. www.bet.com/article/6phx...

Stephen Miller has said it out loud: he considers Antifa a terrorist organization on the level of Tren de Aragua, and intends to put members behind bars "Antifa" has always been a catch-all term for protesters and leftists

“The event hosted on Aug. 30 by SoCal Active Club was part of a movement that champions violent & racist ideas. The photos show a banner for a support group of the Hammerskins, a violent international neo-Nazi gang that has links to the Active Club movement.” www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/09...

if fascists are targeting your community i've written 3 guides to help. plz share! "40 Ways to Fight Fascists" spencersunshine.com/2020/08/27/f... "Six Things to Do If You Become the Target of Online Harassment" www.patreon.com/posts/85220523 A guide to 30 more Guides www.patreon.com/posts/101459...

🧵 1/7 Nazis exploited Charlie Kirk’s murder as an opportunity to recruit in Huntington Beach on 9/13/25:

I know a lot of people are being doxxed by the far right because they were too honest in public about how they felt about the Kirk assassination. I wrote a quick guide about the first things you should do if this is happening to you. (Not paywalled) www.patreon.com/posts/85220523

Altho there’s not direct proof that Kirk’s assassin Robinson is a groyper, there’s certainly evidence that he’s familiar with— and seemingly sympathetic to —them. Fuentes knows it and is really shook. (Taken from the “other place”)

The Supreme Court just ruled this meme is constitutional.

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.

best one-line insight about the Kirk assassin: “To them, murder is the ultimate act of trolling, and they want to be remembered for it.” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?

“Dude is a terminally online brain rotted young adult with no comprehensible political motive” aura is intensifying.

"On the last episode of his show before he was killed," Kirk told "his audience, falsely, that “one in 22 Black men will be a murderer in their lifetime” and that “by age of 23, half of all Black males have been arrested and not enough of them have been arrested.”

just the world's richest man speaking at a fascist rally and calling for the removal of a democratically-elected government. and that government doesn't even care.

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

The Ave Satanas Podcast has a new episode out. Might Ain’t Right Ep.2, “Iconoclastic”. With @sairabesharam.bsky.social @queersatanic.bsky.social and @dcsatanists.bsky.social Dissecting the seminal text that The Satanic Bible “borrowed” so much from. open.spotify.com/episode/0Lmd...

Oop.

The co-owner of The Satanic Temple has an almost infinite number of “no fucks” to give for all kinds of political violence and victims (the enforced silence on TST re: police brutality and George Floyd’s lynching is well-known internally) but a white bigot gets killed and he’s johnny on the spot

If you want a comparison for Kirk’s assassination, I think the attempt on segregationist George Wallace is pretty spot on. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_...