I broke down Trump's executive order on "antifa"—which he describes as a “SICK, DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT DISASTER"—for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Went to the pharmacy today and the pain meds aisle was teeming with pregnant women with blue hair and badges with their pronouns on them, just filling their baskets with Tylenol

raptured?

dumbest timeline

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.

DOJ has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the US www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

logged on today to find that everyone across the political spectrum has decided the kirk shooters texts with his partner are fake? which I suppose says a lot about where we're all at in terms of trust in institutions.

remember when everyone wanted domestic terror laws to go after the far-right but there were concerns such laws would eventually be weaponized. Phew!

That would be a neat trick given (a) there is no formal Antifa entity and (b) federal law doesn’t have a mechanism for designating domestic terror organizations.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

People really need to pull themselves together

There it is.

Really relishing the Frankenstein's monster situation that Elon Musk and the right have created with Grok

I know several people who have covered right-wing folks and white nationalists for years. I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous and hard the work is, how much of a toll it can take on their mental health, and how newsrooms undervalue it even when that expertise is clearly relevant and needed.

Also, if you are not following these folks already, I strongly recommend following: @bencollins.bsky.social @tessowen.bsky.social @ninajankowicz.com @jeffsharlet.bsky.social @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social @tinanguyen.bsky.social @willcarless.bsky.social @oriion.bsky.social

If you're not already, @tessowen.bsky.social is a great person to follow to sort through some of the online culture in which Tyler Robinson steeped.

time to go back to bed

This is especially interesting to me in the context of this FT analysis from early 2024, which i regularly find myself coming back to www.ft.com/content/29fd...

Nothing to see here, just MTG calling for a "peaceful national divorce"

Sorry correction: it's been rebranded to the Charlie Kirk Data Center. they claim that they've compiled a list of more than 50,000 identities

A quick round up of everything thats happened over the weekend with regards to the Kirk shooting aftermath:

In theory, staffing up the FBI with brainwormed groyper adolescents should actually have made it better qualified to investigate this one

Katie Miller wants you to think her podcast is about honest conversations for conservative moms. In reality, it’s fluff disguised as distraction — with a much deeper purpose. Watch the new #StandingRoomOnly episode with @amandamarcotte.bsky.social and guest @tessowen.bsky.social👇

maybe, it’s possible, that when Kirk started out back in 2012, he was genuinely interested in the spirit of debate & civil discourse. there is no question that he became increasingly bigoted & radicalized in the years since. that’s in-keeping with the broader radicalization of the maga right.

who needs fringe extremist groups when the calls for war, retribution and violence are coming from the mainstream? my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

who needs fringe extremist groups when the calls for war, retribution and violence are coming from the mainstream? my latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

FBI says they believe they’ve recovered the shooters weapon, a high-powered bolt action rifle, in a wooded area where the shooter fled

So what do we know about CCTV in and around Utah Valley University?

being totally comfortable speaking this way to millions of people is one of many signals that we're in an extremely dark place

still trying to wrap my head around the fact that hundreds of thousands of people, if not millions, saw a video on the internet today of Charlie Kirk getting shot to death

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

I know jumping to politically-advantageous conclusions is just what we do now, but its still striking how many right wing folks have immediately jumped to "violent leftist," as if there hasn't been a sustained, decadelong hate campaign against Charlie Kirk from those to his right.

LOTS OF NEWS TODAY BUT BLUESKY HAS BOOKMARKS FINALLY 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Not good apnews.com/article/char...

This is ripped straight out from the MAGA / Trumpian playbook. It’s really worrying watching how Reform/ Farage are trying to emulate those tactics almost to a T

slightly obsessed with this OSINT-y game "When Taken" but one thing I've noticed is you can almost always tell when a photo was taken post 2015 ish, because you'll see multiple people looking down, at their phones whentaken.com

This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In its alleged fight against antisemitism, the Trump administration has relied on two groups with murky funders—one of which is in Israel. Here's my deep dive @thebaffler.com into Canary Mission and Betar, two extreme Zionist groups at the heart of Trump's crackdown. thebaffler.com/latest/for-b...

They are trying to erase trans people and doing it in the open....

My story for @wired today: The MAGA movement is breaking up families - some have even decided to go “no contact” with their Trump supporting parents. But there’s a few who are trying to re-establish common ground, through “book clubs” www.wired.com/story/people...

This is a really hopeful story. Well done @tessowen.bsky.social

Fascinating story by @tessowen.bsky.social on people trying to reconnect to their MAGA parents via book clubs. One woman promised to attend church if her ailing father reads 3 books. “It would be good to know that when I go one day, I’ll see my daughter again,” he says. www.wired.com/story/people...

ICYMI, CISI Co-Director @bostonjoan.bsky.social was quoted in the @wired.com piece by @tessowen.bsky.social on dog whistles & aesthetic slop as targeted recruitment appeal www.wired.com/story/trump-...

SCOOP The White House said EJ Antoni—Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics—went to the Capitol on Jan 6th after seeing it on the news But a now-deleted Twitter account bearing his name shows someone deeply enmeshed in far-right election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/twitte...

The Independent has identified Eric Lendrum as the DHS PR officer responsible for a relentless flood of social media posts on DHS pages using Nazis memes, slogans and images. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I’m still unable to form words about this

An all-time classic....

Of course Christian nationalist militia leaders are using Instagram to recruit — and they are become influencers at the same time. More great reporting from @tessowen.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/christ...

BIG from @spytalker.bsky.social ... The Justice Department has effectively gutted its domestic terror unit. open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...

I will say that there is no better moment for all the journalists on the extremely niche crossover beat: "antifascism x sandwiches": @andybcampbell.bsky.social and @swordsjew.bsky.social its your time to shine