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accountability post: this is my first post since 9/12/25

would love to see @aftermath.site do an article on using RSS readers in 2025. @papapishu.bsky.social

Comment on a @thebaltimorebanner.com story about eliminating parking minimums for new housing construction.

Really cool how I, and presumably a wide swath of Americans, received a push notification this morning blaming the shooting on my own highly stigmatized and extensively attacked minority, statements that will never be retracted or corrected where most people will ever see or hear about it

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

come on man

GBDSA and @delawaredsa.bsky.social regarding the wrongful imprisonment of Sian Radaskiewicz-King by Talbot County.

He was not even arguing civilly! That's the thing! Setting the content of what Kirk said entirely aside, the idea that he modeled reasoned, respectful, fact-based debate and charity towards one's political opponents is completely insane! The form was also extremely bad!

If you fanned the flames by rushing to post the unconfirmed rumor about the bullets of Charlie Kirk's assassin having trans stuff written on them, please take a moment to consider whether the clicks were worth it

This doesn't seem to be an idle threat. Landau is responding to people reporting posts on X with an image suggesting that they'll put permanent black marks in peoples' files or even seek to strip visas from people who "made light" of Kirk's assassination. Another betrayal of the First Amendment.

@51st.news is vital reading for anyone interested in D.C., or in the existence of democracy in the United States

Justice Clarence Thomas writes constantly that the Constitution is colorblind. And yet, he and his fellow conservative justices were silent this week as the court voted to allow the Trump administration to detain suspected immigrants based in part on the color of their skin.

very curious!

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.

“More people will be murdered if the Left isn’t crushed with the power of the state." “The Left is the party of murder.” “Civil war." Following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk, several right-wing public figures used the moment to make incendiary claims.

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

too late! in the minds of the chuds the shooter is already a transgender person so the "leak" worked as intended.

Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.

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.

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

At Law Dork this week, I’ve written about the four SCOTUS shadow docket orders we’ve gotten so far: • Racial profiling in immigration raids: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-tru... • S.C.’s restroom fight against a trans boy, as well as Roberts’s two administrative stays: www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-rej...

have just subscribed to some local news @thebaltimorebanner.com . Support your nonprofit local news folks!

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

"Charlie Kirk spread infinite amounts of disinformation about LGBTQ people. Lies & vitriol about transgender people were a frequent part of his rhetoric & events. We need leaders & all those w platforms to prioritize safety over disinformation, irresponsible politics, & profit.” -GLAAD spokesperson

yesterday POTUS was videoed in an obviously unsecured space, stuff is falling apart from the inside

Charlie Kirk’s murder happened on the first stop of his ‘Prove Me Wrong (The American Comeback)’ Tour.

I would never have thought replacing everyone at the FBI with podcasters and cigarette boat salesmen had downsides

"The Pride Flag did not make me gay, and it won't make DOD employees gay either."

The House Floor has devolved to general yelling at one another.

"Many people in this body have received gender affirming care," pointing to Republican colleague's boob jobs.

Happening now, the US House is considering several amendments to the NDAA, which would ban trans people from bathrooms on military bases, create further care bans, and more. Nancy Mace has hurled slurs on the house floor repeatedly. Watch with me. www.youtube.com/USHouseClerk...

The troops have a hell of a lot better sense than the Republican civilians and handpicked generals at the top of the chain of command

happy birthday to defector, without which @aftermath.site would not even a little bit exist

The senator told @nickturse.bsky.social that the attack defied rules of engagement and came from a drone. A legal expert calls it murder.

This should be illegal.

I already said I’m voting for him

america is such a young country.

Congestion pricing is one of the biggest policy successes of the past decade.

UPDATE: Of the indictment unsealed Monday, @hrc.org President Kelley Robinson says that "what we are seeing in Alabama is not new .... We saw it during Jim Crow, and now, it's being used to go after a civil rights lawyer fighting to protect the rights and lives of transgender Alabamans."

Everybody who fell for the Harper's Letter or all the hand-wringing about "uncivil" students on the left, congratulations. You built this. You own this. And fuck you for being the useful idiots these fascists needed to launder their dismantling of academic freedom.

cura personalis cura mundi ✊🇵🇸

While deployed in DC at the behest of Trump, the National Guard has been filling the time by picking up trash and spreading mulch in federal parks. At the cost of $1 million a day, the military troops make very expensive landscapers.

Just take five minutes out of your day to go ahead and do this. I even recommend adding it to your calendar now, so you don’t forget (what I am doing right now)

hi, cis folks! if you said you’d stand with trans people, we need you now. the FY26 budget bill gets a vote by 9/30. the GOP wants to jam a ban on federal funding for ALL health services that provide trans care for ANY AGE. we need you to call senators: reps.fyi more info & script downthread.🧵

Day 22 of trying to be hired by Andrew Cuomo

you have to get your chuckles in where you can these days, so: it's funny how fascist aesthetics get in the way of fascist implementation sometimes