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I wish people on here would stop posting screenshots of whatever the curséd jackanapes on Twitter are posting — like if I wanted to see that I’d still be on there. I’m not. On purpose! 😒

I just saw an influencer on TikTok say that they refuse to give their child Tylenol, and instead they only give them acetaminophen so I’m just logging off for the day

I wish people cared about the first amendment rights of authors and artists who are getting their works banned in schools and libraries across the USA as much as they care about the rights of white male comedians to be on national TV

is what a 22-year-old thinks about sex scenes the canary? idk. probably it's fine. it's rare i enjoy a sex scene in movies NOW because largely they suck, which is i think the real takeaway there. but i think it's disingenuous to pretend that people are not anxious about this for very good reasons

adults largely DON'T care what young people think about sex scenes. what adults care about (especially queer ones, and creators) is puritanism increasingly seeping into our culture in ways that impact us all very negatively and people's concern about this does not make them creepy!! sigh

calling autism a “tragedy” and saying that there should be fewer autistic people are eugenicist talking points. Everyone who opposes such views also needs to recognize the ways in which everyday ableism left the door wide open for a person like RFK Jr.

the most important thing to remember when you see eugenicists who don’t believe that autistic people should exist rambling about “the autism epidemic” is not that they’re wrong about the “cause” (although they are absolutely wrong about it); it’s that they are eugenicists

Steve Silberman is so pissed about this Tylenol bullshit that he's screaming from the afterlife he didn't even believe in. Increased rates of autism are due to testing, a broadened definition, and greater awareness. It's not vaccines. It's not Tylenol. It's like his work never happened.

so much of what this administration is doing is based on creating the perception that he is inevitable and unstoppable and it’s not true and he can lose and it’s important that people see that because the only way he does win is if everyone gives up

I have zero fucking sense of humor about this rfk shit. besides the obviously gross misreprestation/othering/etc of autistic people it's catastrophic from any sound scientific POV. any doctor who consults governmental guidelines for anything at all under this admin is guilty of malpractice

regardless of the details I think it’s important to spin the Kimmel thing as a win Trump is weak, he’s unpopular, he massively overreached and inspired enough of a revolt that Disney had to backtrack immediately he wants to paint himself as an all-powerful dictator, paint him as a loser who sucks

The fact that Charlie Kirk was viewed as some kind of a Titan of free speech and debate shows a bizarre trend where it somehow became acceptable for adult non student conservatives to invade college campuses and talk about why women and black people shouldn’t have basic civil liberties

I feel like part of the problem is that in the modern era, especially in the United States, people think that in order to count, they have to post about their activism or what they're doing. But here's the thing: you don't. 99% of what I do is stuff I never mention on social media.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

I had a teacher who genuinely believed vaccines caused autism which as an autistic kid in a mostly autistic school... wasn't great

Pam Bondi deleted a government study showing that right-wingers commit more terrorism. The right cannot think coherently so instead of making their own studies, they censor legitimate ones. But don't worry Pam, I saved it for you web.archive.org/web/20250911...

The vice president is taking over the podcast of a dead Nazi

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.

The only way you genuinely believe Kirk never harmed anyone is if you're cis, white, and think human rights are an academic exercise.

it is insane we have actual video of this guy saying gay people should be stoned to death and journalists are still going "nah uhhhhh"

they did a cat scan on this lady and the computer just made a slide whistle sound

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

you have to admit it’s funny that they cared about the Cracker Barrel logo as long if not longer than this

I said from the beginning that it was more likely to be someone on the alt-right. Because those are the people suggesting gun violence as a solution. It’s that simple.

It is pretty amazing to see people go from “the left is the enemy of democracy and must be purged” to “who can really know why good kids do bad things?”

“Let’s not speculate as to his motives”— Nah I remember 25 hours ago when you were happy to speculate without knowing anything at all, and now you know MORE but want to say less? Fascinating.

going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable

And now that we know the shooter was a Groyper, it's confirmed that this was a case of fascist on fascist violence. Or at the very least someone who was radicalized by and speaking the language of fascists online.

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats. What's this got to do with us?!

This was the messaging they had ready to go as soon as it happened. All the big right wing influencers were in lockstep full on Nazi mode. Nancy Mace is making the cable news rounds making herself the victim. These are people Democrats still believe will become reasonable once Trump is gone.

its-a me! chris pratt mario! i have come-a to tell you to keep president trump in your prayers tonight before you eat your spaghetti dinner. wahoo!!

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?

If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Guys it's ok. He only called for violence against gays and trans people and declared the Civil Rights Act a mistake for the money and power.

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Charlie Kirk spent his life making people like me unsafe. His followers sent me death threats for years and threatened my employer if they didn’t terminate me. His work was NEVER about free speech. It was about hate and emboldening violent people. The dishonesty of the past 24hrs is disgusting.

It is kinda funny seeing the worst most cruel most heartless people in the world shrieking about empathy. The thing they say is a sin, the thing they denounce as satanic.

It’s an absolute farce for Scholastic to have Lauren Bezos be a “literary champion” along with providing her book in English & Spanish when she attended the inauguration of the man whose administration is leading country-wide book bans, unlawful ICE raids & deportations, & the defunding of libraries

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Charlie Kirk just last month. This is a lot of things, but “practicing politics the right way” it isn’t

I feel like the last 48 hours have just been the entire world going full NYT Pitchbot. "Whether it's the people on the right saying we should shoot everyone on the left as terrorists, or the people on the left saying we should give everyone on the right health care, both sides are---"

what an efficient reminder that "free speech" only ever applies to a really specific type of guy

This is such a funny element to the Kirk eulogizing: they can’t describe him the way they’re describing him *and* show clips of anything he actually said or did

I know Charlie Kirk valued debate and free speech because he blocked me for fact-checking his lies on Twitter and then put me on his organization's Professor Watchlist for writing a book he didn't like.

the media rush to canonize charlie kirk is legitimately maybe one of the weirdest things of this nature i have ever seen in my life