I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

in modern america, women won’t even date perfectly good men who methodically lie about their abhorrent beliefs

They abandoned the whole free speech thing as soon as people started saying things that genuinely offended them. It wasn’t that they were so tolerant that they accepted nazi talk as a necessary evil to protect speech writ large, they just liked saying and hearing slurs bsky.app/profile/jame...

Charlie Kirk Sept 27 2024: "Just so we're clear, the Haitians that are in Huntsville that are raping your women and hunting you down at night - it's only gonna get worse - unless Donald Trump wins There will be hundreds of thousands of Haitians brought into Alabama and they will become your masters"

Not anymore. I'll vote for a candidate that talks about improving things that impact me. If youre gonna lay down, youre just Trump. Thats it.

Hey, we found the "ghouls celebrating Charlie Kirk's death!" And once again... Every Republican Accusation is a Confession.™ blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/19/v...

Former Congressional Black Caucus Chairwoman Joyce Beatty explains why she opposed the Kirk resolution: "The end of your story does not change the chapters you wrote. How you leave this world does not erase how you lived in it. I can grieve the tragedy without celebrating the legacy"

Not a Native American here. Just a Black American, but I agree with a whole lot of whats been said in this thread. My POV is from Black history but subjugation and eradication is a part of my history too. And Black folks always get told "it wasnt that bad" by white folks. Good thread.

2/? At the time, Arsenio had the highest ratings for late night talk shows. But the industry said that these powerful white men could interview Farrakhan but a powerful Black man could not. Arsenio's show was cancelled not long after the interview. This has always been the U.S. for Black people.

3/3 Black people, even the most powerful and rich, have never really had freedom of speech. Remember, PRESIDENT Obama's Presidency almost ended before it started simply because he called out a cops racism. He had to capitulate to a low level cop with a "Beer Summit" to save his Presidency.

1/? People of a certain age will remember this. Phil Donahue interviewed Farrakhan. Mike Wallace interviewed Farrakhan. There was not a single murmur of cancelling their shows. Arsenio decided to interview Farrakhan and was told him if he did so, he would lose the Arsenio Hall Show.

I've been going through the "'This isn’t the America I know' Black People: " memes and I love us so much

I'll add that the purpose of any institution is to perpetuate itself. I learned that from Dr. McMillan Cottom. Its absolutely the right thought.

Everyone's trying to find the "this is because" moment and the problem is you're all right because more than one thing can be true at the same time, but you're also all wrong because let's be honest, this is who this country has always been.

That was the most aggro I've ever seen the agents. While pushing to get vehicles out, agents grabbed at least 2 people. Multiple tear gas cannisters deployed and pepper balls fired into the crowd.

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

@democrats.senate.gov now officially VICHY DEMS.

Been the GOP position since W. "Youre either with us or against us."

hey @govpritzker.illinois.gov @mayorofchicago.bsky.social that press conference a few weeks ago was great but what's up now

Theyre just gonna lie their way through this. Be nice if we had a party to oppose this.

Yes. He has endorsed the death penalty for dealers. He echoed Rodrigo Duterte's call to execute dealers AND users. He's very clear on that point.

if only Black people went to Klan meetings to debate their humanity

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

If you spent even one second of the last decade indulging the free speech claims made by the American right in earnest, I genuinely think you're lacking in intelligence. I do not think you have what it takes to deliver sound commentary on American politics.

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is why I've been annoyed at white liberals since last November. Whiteness protected them for so long that most white liberals never had to learn the lessons that non-whites carry with them every day! Medgar Evers, Fred Hampton, Ruben Salazar. It aint over bc of fcking Kimmel. (No shade, Jimmy)

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

I think what drives me nuts is I am not some sort of genius, everything was really obvious at the time, it required an active effort not to see what their goal was.

This is what I wrote four years ago during the "Woke Capital" nonsense. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is really all we're asking of anyone with a large platform. Dem leadership has so far failed this test.

Say it with me: we would not be seeing this authoritarian censorship takeover in the United States, had both parties, the media and elite institutions not already greased the path with the muzzling of speech on Palestine.

i dont want to go back to normal, i want a democratic president to use these newfound powers to completely dismantle the conservative media apparatus responsible for this mess

Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

Firing me is fascism, but firing you? That's freedom, baby bsky.app/profile/joel...

I don't want to say anything... but I do think that these stories need to contextualize what they mean by "farmers" - some of these are not small family farmers but very well off land owners who hire undocumented people who they treat terribly for profit. AND their workers are punished not them.

Anyone with a large platform that doesnt make this EXACT statement is doing it wrong and needs to rethink everything theyre doing. Bobby has THE MESSAGE today.

Anybody can be Antifa when Antifa doesnt exist. Thats the whole point. I think they got the moment theyre gonna use as their Reichstag Fire. Just a question of will enough people go along with it.

Its absolutely collaboration. Power always knows it can count on money to do whatever it takes to keep its money.

amen.

They never believed it. Ever. Just look at how minorities were treated by those types in the past. They've only cared about democracy for white people. That has never changed.

It is clear that you cannot call white people racist when they clearly were which means you can never call white people racist. Funny how that just works out, aint it?

there just isn't any liberal or democratic equivalent to the depraved contempt these people show for the rule of law or the responsibility of leadership, and if you want to moan about how we're going to have to live together, you have to foreground that, it's not subtext, it's text

ah, well

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.

We’re more or less at the point where white liberals are turning towards the Benedict Option while letting everyone else deal with the fallout.

Its just disheartening. I know what rich people do when power comes knocking. Doesn't make it any easier to take though. I'm not even a Kimmel watcher but this is bullshit.

You should go to protests the same way you go to the club- by just showing up appropriately dressed and looking for someone to walk in with

AKA Republicans

And thats why white people are terrified, TERRIFIED, of being a minority in the US. They saw what they did and are determined to never let it happen to them. They know slavery is wrong. They cling to power for a lot of reasons, fear of retribution is high on the list.