I am going to post this once, and I'm not going to argue about it. We have pretty strong evidence that Charlie Kirk's murderer was motivated by frustration with the "hate" in Kirk's politics. We have no evidence that he was a Groyper. slate.com/life/2025/09...

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Michigan lawmakers have introduced a bill prohibiting the any "depiction or description" of trans people or trans existence online, including it in a bill banning "pornographic" material The bill would completely erase trans people online, equating them with porn.

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

We don't know what's going to happen so might as well fight for better. That's really my basic political orientation.

Just going to remind you that if the police or any other law enforcement show up you should ABSOLUTELY say I INVOKE MY RIGHTS TO SILENCE AND COUNSEL AND WILL NOT ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS WITHOUT MY ATTORNEY PRESENT i.e., then say nothing else except repeatedly demanding a lawyer.

I do not know another way to express to people that trying to appease fascists by “being a good minority” or totally deferring to them publicly has saved absolutely no marginalized group or profession in human history. They are coming after us anyway. Even if you scold peers for not being nice.

Folks, I'm seriously questioning your reading comprehension here. "Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation." —Douglas Adams.

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Trump making a generous contribution to the Democratic Party with a midterm convention. Can't help himself.

Man, I'm so glad Jeffries is so good at maintaining discipline in his caucus... SMH

Can people please stop making it sound like signing up online for information on a protest is the end of the world? Yes, it's arguably unnecessary. Yes, it's a teachable moment. But the average person has already left a lot of potentially "incriminating" data that's just as easily obtainable.

It's like Trump has a big stack of baseball cards listing each of our traditional allies, and he's rushing to see how much he can destroy not just that relationship but the goodwill citizens of those allies once had to the US.

people who are clout sharks about it being unsafe to sign up for protests or whatever the fuck are basically doing the work of the cops for them and are the bane of people doing actual offline political works existence

I love reading about old Great Lakes shipwrecks. It's cool that this was found by a citizen science initiative.

A world where misinformation is endemic - in other words, a world where people get to believe whatever feels most validating, regardless of truth - is a world where liberalism is dead and cartoonish authoritarianism rules.

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Happy birthday to the OG Strange Horizons!

Amid these ICE raids, something folks should understand about the Chicago suburbs is that a lot of stereotypes about the era of white flight from the city do not apply. A lot of these folks were priced out of Chicago and many commute to work here. They are part of the same social fabric.

Can people please stop making it sound like signing up online for information on a protest is the end of the world? Yes, it's arguably unnecessary. Yes, it's a teachable moment. But the average person has already left a lot of potentially "incriminating" data that's just as easily obtainable.

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BREAKING: Justice Gregory Carro has dismissed the first degree murder charge against Luigi Mangione in his state case, finding the DA put legally insufficient evidence before the grand jury. More TK.

Black folks don’t hang themselves.

A thought I keep returning to — and that’s underscored by today’s news — is that a legacy publication or a deep-pocketed investor could hire an astonishing array of talent right now and make the best newspaper in America overnight.

"You've let me down, you've let the squadron down... and worst of of all you've let yourself down."

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

That’s a smart framing. I remember when the main debate was how best to address climate change, not whether it was happening. How to provide health care, not whether we should.

The strongest statement Hakeem Jeffries’ office has made this week as the right declares war on speech itself was to attack Sen Chris Van Hollen, a Democrat

Iowa’s new state legislator, Catelin Drey, was sworn into office Monday, officially ending Republicans’ supermajority hold on the chamber. via @iowacapitaldispatch.com

The whole "Charlie Kirk did politics the right way" (he didn't) conversation got me thinking about how we used to have Reid Ribble on our pod at HuffPost. Genuinely conservative guy; also a genuinely *interesting* man. (Disliked Trump intensely, to put it mildly.)

best tik tok account i’ve found recently is called “envoy of the plateau” by a yak farmer featuring videos of yaks hanging out & flipping each other like wrestlers which apparently they do often

"Look - let us put back the healthcare subsidies that we could use as a club against your party in '26, and you can have the rest of your fascism." Is Schumer even on the same planet as the rest of us?

Like, i keep listening to @npr.org's daily news shows' coverage hoping that one of them will be the first to fully contextualize the games and internet aspects, in the mainstream broadcast space, but they *keep* deferring to people who very clearly have no background or expertise in this area at all

This is why being independent is SO powerful. Can't fire someone with no boss!

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“Klein’s interest here isn’t honesty but flattery. It shows Klein isn’t writing about Kirk at all. He’s writing about himself and saying, ‘I’m doing politics the right way because I’m lauding someone who disagrees with me.’”

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Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

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Watching a video about the Civil Rights Movement and the Freedom Summer and it noted how names of Black people trying to exercise their rights would be published in lists to institutionally punish them. Today’s methods of surveillance and political punishment have roots and not just in McCarthyism.

Right, so this is ol’boy’s real/regular email address, not a burner—he’s written Google Maps reviews with it three years ago. That means he’s used it for lots of other things too. Which means if Elizabeth wanted to track this guy down it would be piss easy 9/10 trolls SUCK at OSINT

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.

She has such wonderful things to show you.

*15 seconds later* we regret to inform you that the animal internet is now riddled with abuse and doxxing

Ruin a song title by adding the word "literally" to the title Another one literally bites the dust Literally the sound of silence Life is literally a highway

Dear lord it's refreshing to hear a Democratic senator say something like this.

“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”