It's sobering, in its way, to realize that there was truly nobody (save, perhaps, his children) who knew him that loved him as a man. He made himself into content, and he died as content, and his funeral is the most content of all. Soundbites to soundbites, bits to bits

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

👇🏾 The same mentality that refused to punish confederate leaders and generals - and eventually allowed them back into southern politics leading to the end of reconstruction & the birth of Jim Crow. Feeling sorry for the offspring of slave holders and traitors allowed the south to rise again.

Donald Trump: Charlie Kirk "did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagree with Charlie. I hate my opponent, and I don't want the best for them." In 2023, Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden.

Trump’s name is missing off the list of those who deserve blame. In fact he’s the only one to blame - the buck stops with him.

Trumpers aren’t dogs you can trick into consuming basic morality by talking in smooth tones while hiding it in a piece of cheese. They’re adults who have agency and bear responsibility for their decisions

Thank you!

Just like the daughters of the confederacy erected statute that celebrated losers - here’s another lie.

IN THE USA… Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them? Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… www.cbsnews.com/news/100000-...

If you’re still on Twitter I don’t trust your judgement.

That wrinkle is greed.

John Craighead George was a prominent whale expert who lived in the Alaska Arctic for decades. At the end of a whale census conducted on the sea ice, he had a tradition of releasing bottles with messages. (via @alaskapublic.org)

🚨BREAKING: Rep. Ro Khanna just motioned to SUBPOENA FCC chairman Brendan Carr in the House Oversight Committee to stop the intimidation of private businesses and assault on free speech

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Carr's FCC echoes the McCarthy era: In 1954, the FCC accused Edward Lamb, a wealthy Democratic labor lawyer and TV station owner, of being having anti-American views and tried to revoke his TV licenses. Lamb fought back, and won. He had far more spine than ABC. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_...

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Yeah, no Black or Queer person has never once experienced this.

"Outlets like FOX News have essentially pulled the entire media landscape to the right, telling these incredibly skewed stories so fast and so furiously." -- Robert Redford in *2003*

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

This is the kind of journalistic leadership we need. Journalist, opinion writers, pundits and commentators who will not shrink from the task of teaching white Americans a different way to be — to build community rather than fear it, to reject the lie that sharing power means losing it.

This is the same guy.

BREAKING: The Charlie's Murderers doxxing website was just hacked and has been taken offline. I spoke to the hacker on the condition of anonymity. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-e...

Baptist minister unpacks the threat of Christian nationalism.

Given the shutdown of speech that followed the Charlie Kirk murder, one of the lessons learned should be how utterly fraudulent, vacuous, empty and mendacious the contemporary free speech movement is, and how it is nothing more than advocacy for the 'me speech' of right-wing 'provocoteurs'.

They have a lot of practice tolerating injustice. Just as their ancestors ignored, accepted, and perpetuated the confederacy. History is rhyming.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The Confederacy will rise again and every institution in America is helping to make it happen.

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

Unhinged embarrassing and an abuse of power. Real confederate energy.

Not just Ezra Kline - ask every white journalist this question every opportunity you get. It doesn’t matter what topic you’re discussing - ask them their thoughts on whether or not it’s a violation of the first amendment. And if they refuse to answer that’s your answer.

Since the election of Obama, a huge portion of the US right has decided that they want to secede from what the US had become--a religiously and culturally pluralistic, multi-racial democracy. They consider themselves to be the victims of a nation thusly constituted and they want "our country back."

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

“.. The whole thing is screwed up,” said John Painter, a three-time Trump voter who runs an organic dairy farm in Westfield. “We need people to do the jobs Americans are too spoiled to do.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has told analysts that people without smart glasses may one day be at a "significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to those who do use the tech

🚨 Powerful 🚨 Pastor Howard-John Wesley addresses the truth regarding Charlie Kirk.

This is how awful and unethical people remain in power. An apology is not enough of a consequence for saying we should kill homeless people. The confederate generals and leaders were forgiven too. And we see where that choice got us.

“Unofficially, though, the Citizens' Councils lent respectability to the grass-roots resistance to school desegregation. They gave community approval to the actions of the mobs of white parents, the gangs of white teens, and at some distance, the violence of terrorist groups like the Klan.”

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

*looks directly at the camera*

This is actually embarrassing. How can people who live half a world away have a better read on the content of the character of his ideology than our own leadership?

the mainstream blind spot here is obvious and easily exploited 1. I, the mainstream pundit, am a good person 2. This right winger is friendly to me 3. I, as a good person, would not be friends with someone who genuinely advocated for horrible things 4. My friend didn’t mean the things he said

Though it’s traumatic for me to bring this up, I was targeted by a group allied with Turning Point USA in 2018, with the help of Tucker Carlson on Fox. My home address circulated online and I got death threats. 1/

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

Racism really is illogical bc how are you threatening HBCUs bc a white man shot another white man at a white rally at a white university in what has GOT TO be one of the top 5 whitest states in the country??? Black people couldn't be further from this if we actually tried.

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.

It’s politics as an entertainment product and not politics as something that adversely impacts people without power.