Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth convenes a meeting of generals (2025)

A family friend works at a defense contractor. Many coworkers are military families and are being told that their children are deploying in the next couple of days. Coupled with the mysterious Whiskey Pete meeting with generals, this sounds bad. Like invasion of Venezuela?

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“MAGA/MAHA does not like autistic people. So it has now officially blamed mothers for bearing autistic children and offered the possibility they can cure these defective people. This is wrong. Wrong on the science. Wrong on the reality. And wrong on the humanity.” www.thebulwark.com/p/autism-mah...

Hours after Charlie Kirk was shot, I emailed my editors at a major American newspaper a potential column focused on the role of Christian Nationalism + radicalization of young white Christian men. They killed it. This is what they published instead. The last line: The Show Must Go On.

BREAKING: Further confirmation that the shooter targeted immigrant detainees, not #ICE agents. All three #shooting victims were people ICE was holding and processing at the center. The shooter died of a self inflicted would and has been described as a white male www.fox4news.com/news/dallas-...

1/I'm not particularly interested in Kamala Harris's musings on whether the anti-genocide demonstrators at her campaign events were astroturfed or influenced by astroturfing. I'm less interested in misinterpretations of her thoughts that cast her them as contempt for the demonstrators.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

You know what else is “stark raving mad?” Journalists and Democratic politicians who refuse to leave a website overrun with Nazis, and owned by an outright Nazi.

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

I feel like these were going to be in the Trader Ming's line, but somebody thought better of it.

The backlash to ABC/Disney canceling Kimmel has been swift, and severe. The whole episode underscores something I've been blogging about for a while: A lot of powerful people just don’t realize how unpopular Trump is www.gelliottmorris.com/p/a-lot-of-p...

Feelings.

The botfarms are all up in their feels about a racist corpse today..

You know who'd win the Democratic nomination in 2028? The first Dem who says, "Trump is a sniveling little piss-baby who spends all day whining, 'Oh, the press is meant to me! Late-night comedians are mean to me!' Grow the fuck up, Donald. If you can't take it, go home and let an adult do the job."

At least Trump's dropped the pretense that this is about Charlie Kirk and is instead really just about him not wanting to be made fun of.

This’ll all get worse before it gets better www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Charlie Kirk on Pope Francis:

True. Also: so 2020 as a right-wing bogeyman phrase. In fact, he's repeating himself, sadly as elderly people so often do.

Kimmel. Colbert. Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes. Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others. Blocking the AP's access to the White House. 🧵

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

TNC identified as the last well known American columnist with a spine: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I'm just saying. If the messages between the suspect and his romantic partner are real and the suspect started a week earlier to murder Charlie Kirk, episode 1588 of the Nick Fuentes broadcast or reactions to it fit the timeline as a motivator.

The media are failing big time by falling for the idea that only people on the left aren't transphobes. Just because the mother of the suspect in the Charlie Kirk shooting described her son as recently becoming more left because he expressed support for trans people doesn't make it true. 1/3

Ok back to the issue of this pedo president

Political violence and threats are not the answer. This is a watershed moment — we can choose to stay silent and live in fear, or we can choose to be loud for peace and compassion. We must work together to stop this crisis, and it should start from the top with the President.

Fuckers drive around town and harass small business owners into lowering their flag, and harass other business owners into firing people who fail to treat Charlie Kirk with the desired reverence. But they GIVE A PASS to a president who couldn't be bothered to attend Kirk's memorial.

JD Vance: “Charlie Kirk never said Black women do not have brain processing power to be taken seriously. He never uttered those words.” Charlie Kirk: “Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, Ketanji Brown Jackson — you do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken seriously.”

One of the biggest lies I’ve been told repeatedly (by people who aren’t liars) is that the military will refuse illegal orders. They have not been doing that.

U​tah's Republican Governor professed, “I was praying ... that [the killer] wouldn’t be one of us.” But then a 22-year-old electrician from Utah, the son of a MAGA family with a passion for guns, was arrested—and they appeared to recognize Robinson as maybe, just maybe, one of them. trib.al/8z5LV9Q

I really do think Ezra Klein needs to be held to account for why he gets to keep his columnist job, as a white man, for saying CK was "practicing politics the right way" while Karen Attiah, a Black woman, loses her columnist job for quoting what CK said about Black women. Someone, plz ask him.

“When certain far-right voices vow retribution in response to Kirk’s murder, they’re seizing on it as a bad-faith pretext to wage open warfare on liberals and leftists who are not guilty of any political violence at all.” @gregsargent.bsky.social absolutely nails it newrepublic.com/article/2004...

New cartoon about (gestures vaguely) www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

Down this morning's rabbit hole... The governor of Utah seems to see some sort of value in alleging that the roommate of the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk is trans. 1/🐇

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

I may not be a digital native, but I'm a digital Mowgli, chronically online since month one of the internet in 1993. It's bad now. ...But it doesn't have to be this way. open.substack.com/pub/morewret...

There is no reason to ban the "tush push." There is every reason to ban commentators from calling it the "tush push."

Trump is still hiding evidence of his pedo rape club participation and that of countless other men

Pay attention. Something dark might be coming. The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent. 1/ Here's what's happening.

It's weird to eulogize someone who had a career in public speaking without ever offering any examples of the things the person being eulogized said. Corporate journalists are odd. By which I mean they are shit-eating dogs.

Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.

The last 48 hours have shown why people have stopped relying on legacy journalism and have migrated to independent journalists in droves. The benefit of legacy journalism is supposed to be “editors” and “factchecking” and they can’t even get that right in a rush to blame trans people.

hey @moderation.bsky.app just curious if you think the new york post can remain on this app. is posting rest in piss worse than this?

these people genuinely live in another reality where they think we are screeching hateful liars accusing everyone of being racist because Charlie Kirk just flat out saying he thinks Black people are subhuman never breaks through into their media silo

I reject the world he wanted and the world that killed him. They are one and the same.