Now do housing.

Tired: Defund the Police Wired: Deport the Police

i see the VP's full on backing of the hitlerite group chat as showing the GOP understands that their power in large part flows from their unified front. meanwhile the democrats continue to attack their left and progressive members. not a surprise the GOP keeps running circles around them

These fuckers don’t care about facts at such a fundamental level, it’s mind boggling that anyone can’t see straight through them.

THIS is what patriotism looks like.

Is there a better indication of how superficial and unhelpful mainstream media has become than that they are cutely musing about whether the domestic terrorist who changed "The Department of Defense" to "The Department of War" will get a Nobel Peace Prize—instead of reporting the fascism/terrorism.

“Hot beef. Hot beef everywhere …”

These guys are so vulnerable to defecting to Chicago

great piece from the always-great @pastpunditry.bsky.social and a welcome antidote to vacuous commentators whose historical memories seem to go back no further than the first iron man movie

It really can not be emphasized enough that "exaggerating the danger of the left" is a key, central tactic of aspiring fascists. Look back at every country that slid into authoritarianism & you'll find a campaign like this preceding it. Every time. It's part of the script.

Music added. Hosted on YouTube as BSky video uploads always fail for me. youtu.be/2x5-JtDhTns

S/O to Steve Terry for the Studbudz pink hair 😂

It took just three days to get Sinclair to back down, and what it got in exchange for agreeing to put Kimmel back on the air was...nothing. This is not what happens every time you stand up to a bully, but if you don't fight back, you'll never know if you would have won.

We should honestly start with the working assumption that the Trump administration murdered these people and buried them in a mass grave. Then, go from there. Make them prove they're alive. If they are, it should be easy to demonstrate.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

Every headline talking about Kimmel being suspended for his “Kirk comments” is journalistic malpractice. He was suspended for comments about MAGA opportunists exploiting Kirk’s death, after the FCC chair issued a Mafioso threat.

Let me just say a simple thing. Democrats have no obligation to provide the votes to fund the destruction of our democracy. If you want my vote for a bipartisan budget, there need to be protections to stop Trump's brazen lawlessness.

Charlie Kirk called for the execution of Joe Biden in 2023.

'Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that.' As Robert Iger won't.

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

This is so messed up.

Trump said in July that he wanted Kimmel fired next. July. Kirk was still alive in July. This has nothing to do with Kirk. Nothing.

"Bill Kristol is more expansive and full-throated in his defense of transgender rights than most elected Democratic officials" is another sentence.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

"I don't care that he's dead." "He's not a hero." "He's a scumbag." "He shouldn't be celebrated." No, no. I'm not saying that about Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk said that about George Floyd. Just in case anyone's interested in what he thought was fair to say about someone who was killed on camera.

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.

Charlie Kirk had called for the full release of the Epstein files several days ago. Congress should honor his last wish.

Basically everyone our Elite praise as “free speech warriors” (Charlie Kirk, Elon Musk, Bari Weiss, etc) are actually using their free speech to silence large swaths of the population. It is pathological how absurdly wrong our Elite understand free speech.

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

By far the best take on the subject that I have seen, heard, or read.

Historians will cite Kirk’s inflammatory statements followed by the media’s hagiography to condemn both.

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.

Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

The effort to paint Charlie Kirk as some sort of model for practicing politics and a beloved figure across the spectrum is bizarre. Just a month ago, South Park was mocking him pretty mercilessly.

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

The man’s last words were insinuating that blacks cause mass shootings.

He was shit talking against trans people just moments before the shot that took his life. It's on the video. And he was sitting under a tent that had the words "PROVE ME WRONG" above his head.

The lionization of Charlie Kirk genuinely proves the point about centrists and leading media figures. The man dehumanized women, minorities, transgendered people, Muslims, etc was building bridges by debating others on these views that all these people are less than human. What a great guy.

I have two professor colleagues who have faced threats and harassment due to the organization Charlie Kirk built, and they were not alone. We can denounce and loathe political violence without hagiography for its victims. This is dangerous nonsense.

did these make it into the piece?? like what the fuck

Also, sorry, too worked up and my first cup of coffee just hit… Kirk was part of the effort to overthrow the elected government of the United States on January 6th! In what sense was that “practicing politics the right way”????