This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

OMG

This article is a great example of reflexively sympathizing with the driver. Instead of noting the cyclists “were operating a Class 2, two-person bike legally and in accordance with traffic laws” (i.e. cut off by the driver), it reports the driver “said an e-biker startled her by hitting her car.”

Omg!!!! LFG!!!

So impressed with @scottwiener.bsky.social in this clip. My face would’ve been the mirror of @jonlovett.bsky.social’s.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

I took this photo right after someone in a monster Ford pickup truck honked at us as they drove by. R said, “I don’t want to go in the bike lanes anymore because people are mean.”

Bike infrastructure is so important. Protected bike lanes are linked to nearly double the number of bike commuters:

This

it’s become clear that state level gerrymandering bans were just unilateral disarmament and the only real solution is a federal gerrymandering ban… And the only way to get that is Dems pushing for maximal gerrymandering until we get a trifecta to pass the law and pack the courts to enforce it

We were within inches of a vaccine for several cancers, flu, the cold. Inches.

Damn

Driver cuts off an ebike, then hits the accelerator instead of the brake and kills a 4 year old on the sidewalk. And this is a quote NBC prints: "Those e-bikes are out of control" #safestreets #bikesky

A chance encounter! @caltrain.com

SO good. The sarcastic “habibi” killed me 😂

One of the most incredible and moving museums I’ve ever visited is the museum on journalists slain in the line of duty at Al Jazeera’s HQ in Doha

Mayors & city council members (or candidates) walking across their cities may be partly a shtick for social media, but its also a great way to road-test pedestrian infrastructure. Let’s hope this trend catches on in more places.

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing. Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter. Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵 x.com/andrewcuomo/...

Excellent Opinion article today by @rahmemanuel.bsky.social about how the housing crisis and incel crisis and democracy crisis are directly related. Here’s a gift link. wapo.st/3Ujj3qO

Oh look, imma tikkin and a tokkin with some help from @aclusocal.bsky.social

Three days ago 9-year-old Nadir Gavarrete and his brother were hit by a driver at 4th & New Hampshire in Ktown. Nadir died and his brother is hospitalized. LA city officials are well aware of the dangers of this intersection and have done nothing. 

Four crosswalks painted at 4th & New Hampshire.

Blocking SB 9 in the Palisades means that under-insured homeowners who could have sold half their plots and used the revenue to fund rebuilding their homes will instead be forced to sell their land to McMansion developers and move elsewhere. Shameful cowardice from Mayor Bass.

One of the best things to come out of @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s rise is discovering @bradlander.bsky.social. What a gem.

Can’t wait for SCOTUS to rule that Texas can redraw their maps for political gerrymandering but California can’t

This under-construction 7-bedroom, $14mm mansion did not have to pay any affordable housing fee. If you built a five-unit apartment of the same size, it'd need to pay a $360,000 affordable housing fee. How do five small homes negatively impact affordability more than one mansion?

This.

This is a really good plain language of what CEQA is, how it went off the rails, and how it was recently reformed for the better. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

Fixed it

I attended this hearing in the courtroom, so no electronic devices. I'm driving home and processing; I'd like to post thoughts soon.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

LFG!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

This is an incredible analysis

So when do Blue states start banning firearms? And then start making every gun owner file an individual lawsuit seeking an individual injunction? Or they can go through the class certification process which, let me tell you having done it myself in litigation, takes forever. Let’s do this.

I want to reiterate that countless conservative judges issued universal injunctions against the Biden administration, and the Supreme Court never halted the practice. Now, barely five months into Trump's second term, the court puts an end to these injunctions. A brazen double standard.

*Biden tries to forgive student loans* SCOTUS: Whoa there, that is, uh, a major question. Which means you can't do it. *Trump revokes part of the constitution* SCOTUS: Obviously, we got to give the President the benefit of the doubt on this one.

My favorite Zohran moment of this campaign. And why, more generally, he won:

Congratulations to the City of Berkeley for taking a huge step in overcoming their history as the birthplace of exclusionary zoning! 🎉🥳🍾

The main lessons to me of Mamdani’s win: 1. Democratic voters really are fed up with their fossilized, incompetent establishment. 2. Housing is by far the number one issue, and if you want to beat that establishment, own the housing issue by pledging to make it easier to build housing of all kinds

Let’s gooooooo!!! Amar mayor! Tomar mayor!

Another thing I can’t get over about the Democratic establishment’s backing of Andrew Cuomo in the New York mayoral race is how much hostility they’ve shown to Zohran Mamdani, an extremely gifted young campaigner whose energy and charisma the party sorely needs. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Millennials will save the world if everyone else will actually let us.

Every time I experience imposter syndrome I’m going to re-read this tweet

My statement on the Trump administration's illegal military actions and the wars that must end.

Well this aged like milk

Trump is now officially bombing Iran. The US is now bombing Iran. The man who destroyed Obama's Iran nuclear deal that prevented this war has finally completed his mission: an American War with Iran

Usha! You do not need to be married to a man this vile! I promise you your parents will understand if you DTMFA.

The Democratic Party needs to realize that our values on LGBTQ+ rights, abortion access, refugees & most recently, support of undocumented communities, need to take into account accessibility to those rights, via affordability to protective communities. #YIMBY jeremyl.substack.com/p/do-democra...