Huh wow turns out the people who wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs never cared about free speech, they just wanted to misgender and deadname trans people and use racist slurs

The regularity with which JKR quotes Hitler at this point… how does anyone with any sense still support this women?

Literally fascism. Literally what the Nazis did with Horst Wessel.

Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences. The modern American right in 2025, folks.

it's absolutely critical to understand in this moment that people aren't largely reacting to who Charlie Kirk was as a person, but who they knew him as because of what tiny pieces of him got clipped out and stuck in their newsfeeds.

as soon as there's evidence the shooter's identity isn't easy to weaponize things magically become complicated

Instead of a public retraction, the Wall Street Journal quietly adjusted its headline. Neither Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief, nor the two reporters who wrote the original piece responded to my requests for comment. www.advocate.com/news/wall-st...

there’s no quick fix for the surge in political violence gripping the united states. what could help: cultivating leaders who prioritize empathy for their fellow human beings.

This was the Utah Republican Party’s response to the shooting the night of. In my option, the fact that there was no additional violence was more based on luck than anything else. It certainly wasn’t being promoted by the powers that be.

The one time we got the smoking gun of undeniable ideology that mapped neatly onto american partisanship in political violence was J6, and we decided it was too scary to treat it as such, so now we return to deciphering memes of school shooters like medieval peasants panicking at an eclipse.

A lie will get halfway around the world before the truth has time to tie its shoes. What the WSJ did was irresponsible and they need to retract and apologise.

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

It's worth asking why every elite institution is issuing statements like this rather than pointing out the obvious fact that the institutional right commits and glorifies violence far more than the left. Is there a reason you feel you can't say that out loud? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...

Judging by the shamefully opportunistic & politicizing rhetoric of some rightwingers on Twitter, & their cynical use of Charlie Kirk’s horrific murder for political point scoring, it’s almost as if Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman wasn’t murdered by a Trump-voting MAGA maniac just 12 weeks ago.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

The people wondering "how could anyone who isn't a professional escape after a high profile daylight assassination" are forgetting two things: 1. Cops are bad at their jobs 2. The FBI used to be somewhat better at their jobs and were recently gutted by political layoffs

My feed is almost entirely people condemning violence and telling others not to celebrate this.

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot.

Sometimes it’s important to state the obvious

We see these stories time after time and nothing is ever done. Nothing changed after Sandy Hook. My guess is nothing will change now. Thoughts and prayers aren’t action and action is what we need to stop more mass shootings.

And I definitely don't want to hear anyone in my mentions talk about Bolton and his complicity in the current moment. I know who he is and what he's done AND I can still see that this current fascist administration is targeting it's enemies and that this is extremely dangerous. You might be next.

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

Dating right now is rough. I have nothing interesting or insightful, it’s just rough. Got some good stories out of it but though, so maybe not all bad.

To briefly add to this point: Every guy I talk to who wants to “skip the small talk” immediately jumps to asking if/when I’ll sleep with them. Then if I say, I’d rather get to know them a little first, they call me “dramatic” A little small talk is not the end of the world.

I truly hope no one is actually buying the line about how this is a “financial decision”. Colbert has the late night show with the highest ratings, he’s immensely popular. This is about censorship and fear. Whether you like the show or not, it is something that should worry you deeply.

Going beyond just sports, transphobia of any kind is a gateway hatred. It never stops there.

This is not the act of a legitimate government.

Despite New Yorker's choosing Zohran Mamdani by a historic margin in the Democratic primary, 13x credibly accused sexual abuser Andrew Cuomo is now running as an Independent for NYC Mayor—surprising absolutely no one that he doesn't know how to take NO for an answer.

Wow this isn’t a really terrible idea with a lot of potential for backfiring. No one wants this, Andrew. Knock it the fuck off.

Andrew Cuomo, in the hallmark of an abuser, refuses to believe that no means no.

I also learned this from threads and will be using it as an excuse to go on a mini rant. There is a big difference between liking/supporting a dead author whose books had problematic elements vs supporting a living one who is doing active harm. I love Lord of the Rings, books which

He’s doing exactly what he said he would do. If you weren’t paying attention to what he was saying… that’s on you.

How delusional does Ritchie Torres have to be to think he could actually win in a primary at this point?

By custom do they mean Constitutional right? Wtf is this reporting?

I really love this whole thread for a lot of reasons. It speaks to a lot of feelings I’ve been having lately. For myself, I’m glad I’ve been spending less time online. Better for my mental health, better for my political goals.

This is framed as "lessons for the left," but Lander and Mamdani actually offer lessons for the center: Instead of ruthlessly undermining leftist candidates, emphasize shared values and refuse to amplify right-wing attacks. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

I’m going to need someone to explain to me, like I’m a child, how kicking millions of people off food stamps and limiting access to food will “make America healthy again”. How doing so is an example of Christian values.

Back offline for me, I remain in the fight and will continue. I know that many of you are too because this is a fight for our lives, the lives of our loved ones, and the lives of strangers. Each of those lives matters. Take care of yourselves and I will be back online later next week. Peace to you.

There's a lot of talk about medicaid in the big awful bill but hardly anyone talking about how it will turn ICE into the largest law enforcement agency in the country and world's largest jailer. This is the equivalent of the enabling acts and will be the start of an ethnic cleansing campaign.

I have had this exact thought about many Republican policies and talking points. It has never stopped anyone from falling for this, but we can always hope

I have given Hakeem Jeffies a lot of shit, and I think pretty much all of it was well deserved.I’ll give him credit for this. If delaying this bill gave people time to call their reps, increased the amount of push back or even just forced into daylight hours rather than a midnight vote, that’s good.

Hakeem Jeffries is so skilled at being a disappointment. The worst opposition leader possible. I am so sick of rank careerism and incompetence.

Along with LGBTQIA+ materials, I foresee science class also getting hit pretty hard as well. Evolution and biology… I foresee classes getting much smaller.

looking forward to some parents suing to demand segregated schools because integration violates their religious beliefs

There isn't an opposition party at the Federal level to address what needs to happen with the Fed and Supreme Courts. I think folks should be honest about that. But we have A LOT MORE SWAY at the state and local levels. That's where I am putting my emphasis.

The federal government could announce tomorrow that it will no longer recognize same-sex marriages and every single person in one would need to sue to enforce the recognition of their marriage. If you can't sue, it won't be recognized. No right is safe.

All the Supreme Court decisions that came down today were bad. The Birthright Citizenship one probably has me the most riled up, but to be clear they are all bad. Each one is regressive and strips basic rights and humanity from people.

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

Sonya Sotomayor put it best, “no right is safe in the new legal regime the court creates” This whole situation is deeply disturbing and quite honestly terrifying. I, like so many others, am only a citizen through birthright citizenship. There are so many under threat because of today’s ruling.