Kimmel: "The President of the United States made it very clear he wants to see me and the hundreds of people who work here fired from our jobs. Our leader celebrates Americans losing their livelihoods because he cannot take a joke."

As a trans, I am sorry for 1 mass shootings (still trying to figure this one out) 2 shutting down the government 3 being a [looking at notes]… terr0rist Didn’t know I had it in me tbh them.visitlink.me/6TsiZD

I didn’t see Jimmy Kimmel crying for CK. I saw a man who went through something stressful on a global stage, with a lot of employees who rely on him, and who has been getting threats. Like him or not, I saw a nervous system response.

All three people who were hit by the sniper in Dallas were ICE detainees.

a Reichstag fire, but one of them every week

Every Democrat with 2028 ambitions is showing their hand by throwing trans student athletes under the bus: Gavin Newsome, Pete Buttigieg, Kamala Harris People want an alternative vision of economic safety outside of fascism. That's not it.

I keep trying to click "cancel" for my Hulu Bundle, and it starts to load the page and then goes back to the account main page.

Evergreen

Hell of a piece to have written Tuesday night. My newest piece in @slate.com follows up on my August piece, looking at the right-wing anti-trans ideology and how that leads us into a rapid descent towards out and out fascism.

same but I don't want fame or event like wealth, just enough to exist comfortably

The issue is not whether regular people will know why these flags are at half mast but that the state and its leaders know who Kirk is and decided to lower the flags in the first place.

This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people

CBS… CNN…

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist

The oligarchs are consolidating all of the legacy media. This would leave David Ellison, son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison, in control of CBS News and CNN. On top of that, 2 major studios in Paramount and Warner Bros. This is a hostile takeover of the information space. www.wsj.com/business/med...

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

The media is complicit @msnbc.com

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Just reminding everyone that we still don't know who killed Kirk or why so can we all stop talking about how his murder is an assault on democracy or whatever. We don't know anything so why are folks advancing a narrative that the regime has run with. It's really dumb

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

Can we collectively decide to stop giving inches, pages, links to Ezra Klein? Please? I beg.

Citing concerns about DEI, the Department of Education has halted funding for programs that support students with combined hearing and vision loss in eight states. “How low can you go?” one advocate asked. “How can you do this to children?” By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

Just so we're clear, Ezra Klein believes that practicing politics the right way is saying things like "gay people should be stoned to death" just so we're clear. Ezra Klein thinks we need more of that.

Ezra Klein was like “that’s my Bat Signal”

i do not think ezra klein genuinely grieves for charlie kirk. i think ezra klein thinks it’s professionally advantageous to perform grief.

Can’t believe we have to mount a defense of vaccines in twenty-actual-twenty-five this is the hottest garbage imaginable

(Person who destroyed homeless peoples belongings with a smile on their face) political violence is bad

I'm telling all of you that they are going to do what they ALWAYS do. What you do or do not say has no impact on what THEY WILL DO AND SAY. [just going to leave that here]

Don't be surprised if whoever killed Charlie Kirk has no coherent political ideology, didn't do it for any particular reason, and doesn’t fall anywhere neat on the left/right paradigm.

His work was calling for lynching of trans people. Political violence is wrong no matter what and he constantly called for it.

Excellent response from Hasan Piker, who was scheduled to debate Charlie Kirk in two weeks. On his stream he said: “The reverberation of people seeking out vengeance in the aftermath of this violent, abhorrent incident is going to be genuinely worrisome.” Also talked about his own vulnerability

He didn’t have to die like that. He also didn’t have to live like that.

Oh no, the people who were threatening to deport or murder me yesterday on social media are threatening to deport and murder me today.

When a Black peacemaker was shot, the Press called it a “slaying”. When a white Nazi Propagandist was shot, they called it “political violence.”

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Do this. Get this book. Do it.

US Chattel Slavery cannot be *overemphasized* That's the thing about world historical violence.

1/ PSA - Chaplain Ric Smith of Carolina Caring is part of the Southern Independence Association Fb group. SIA is a confederate group of racists from all over the US that organizes w/similar groups in NC. Ric also has a history of posting racist content on Fb.

Who is doing counter-recruitment organizing for ICE? As the economy worsens, those jobs and the loan forgiveness offer will become more attractive to unpoliticized individuals. There needs to be a clear social cost for even considering joining those ranks.

GOD I really liked him as Superman 😒

I'm not trying to be mean, but I'm Pete's age, and I spent a lot of time in mid-90s Indiana, where "God invented AIDS to punish the gays for having sex" was among the milder things you'd hear about Homosexuality. It sucks that he can't see the historical parallels here.

Vanity Fair did a profile on Sir Ewan Forbes, a trans man from the UK who transitioned as a teenager in Weimar Germany. www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

So while the white members of that generation could tell you stories about fighting Mussolini or Hitler. They don't have good stories about fighting Jim Crow at home.