This seems bad. I tried asking Gemini "Was Charlie Kirk a good person?" and this is what it said. Almost no mention of any of the really obvious bad stuff about him, and the results are mostly framed as if he was heroic and provocative. This is the point I feared we would reach with generative AI:

The Board of Immigration Appeals has ordered Emmy-award winning journalist Mario Guevara to be deported to El Salvador after 100 days in ICE detention, a country he fled more than two decades ago after being persecuted for his reporting.

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]

These jerks don't seem to realize how much they are making "trans girlfriend" into an ontological reality for practically the first time ever in mainstream society

See, @petebuttigieg.bsky.social? You are absolutely not better or more socially acceptable than your trans constituents after all. You are still dealing with much of the exact same shit we are.

1. Today, 95 Democrats voted to "honor the legacy" of Charlie Kirk, calling him a "model for young Americans." Kirk was notable for practicing anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-trans extremism, racism, and violent rhetoric. Among the yes votes was Trans Rep. Sarah McBride. Subscribe to support our journalism.

cancelling Disney+ and Hulu is well and good but it’s not a huge hit on an individual level but Disney adults? people who spend real money at the parks? you guys can make a dent, call ‘em up and tell them your vacation is postponed until they pull their heads out of their asses

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Democratic New York lawmakers — as well as City Comptroller Brad Lander — were arrested by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers Thursday after demanding access to an alleged detention facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at 26 Federal Plaza.

David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.

Every time I feel like I know a lot about the rise of fascism in Germany, I learn something new.

Columbine happened as I was graduating from college. This week, I got the "I love you" text message from my kid as he hid from a gunman who shot one of his friends. Today, I went to one of the many school walkouts and cried as I realized just how badly we have failed these children.

in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments. that fox news host still has his job.

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

It appears that we are living through an unpredecented & disturbing historical moment now. Haven't gotten any normal work done since Kimmel news an hour ago. I think it's going to have to be OK to not get as much of the normal work done. Because there is clearly so much other urgent work to do.

Literally, Trump's FCC goon Brendan Carr said on a podcast TODAY that ABC can "do this the easy way or the hard way". The Trump administration is a mob organization shaking people down. We are so fucking cooked unless officials fight back on this bullshit.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Jerry from Ben & Jerry's has resigned after 47 years after Unilever silenced their politcal activism.

I know I’m naive but it is pretty wild that the president of the United States just publicly declares he and the military killed some guys on a boat, multiple times, and the entirety of Congress doesn’t immediately hit a giant red IMPEACH button

These people calling for bipartisanship! Even now! It’s a level of delusion that defies credulity.

lol new clown car just rolled up

Trump finally got Jimmy Kimmel fired, after admitting he was gunning for it with the network. And just like that, we're at state run TV where no one can criticize the naked emperor.

This is a big deal. When Skydance bought Paramount, they put a Trump-approved content monitor in charge of CBS News, fired Stephen Colbert, and hired right wing talent. What do you think they will do to get Trump's approval for the purchase of CNN?

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1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Students were eating lunch when they heard the gunshots. It’s yet another horrific school shooting, and every time my heart breaks for the kids, parents, and communities shattered by gun violence. We can’t stop demanding change. Congress can and must pass gun safety legislation.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

NEW: Shame on the Wall Street Journal for moving forward without details about their single-source reporting on this. The ATF is now saying the "internal law enforcement memo" about "transgender and anti-fascist ideologies" has NOT been verified and DOES NOT match their information.

i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

Notice how not a SINGLE CLIP of Charlie Kirk is being shown on TV as the news organizations try to eulogize him kindly. Even Fox News. You cannot show a SINGLE THING he ever said that wasnt spewing HATE and violence. What a legacy.

A health care crisis is coming, triggered by Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill. Analysts expect employer health insurance premiums to rise by 9% next year, while premiums in the individual market will rise by 18%. From @damonsilvers.bsky.social:‬

I really hope Bezos' latest rocket contract was worth this gem.

Firing RFK Jr would unburden a lot of overworked mitochondria in this country

public service message, for clarification's sake

We knew Project 2025 was coming, & we knew exactly what form it was going to take, but we were somehow unable to stop it, because.... we were too addicted to dopamine hits from social media? Because we were in denial? Because we were too afraid to fight? Because SCOTUS had gotten there first?

I'm really going to need every @npr.org and supposedly liberal news outlet to stop uncritically repeating this "tough on crime" narrative; fucking stop it

For a few weeks now, I've had a persistent gestalt image of the United States as Wile E Coyote having just run off a cliff, and bicycling his legs as if still moving somewhere. But there is nothing underneath him, and he is about to plunge into the canyon. Our plunge is about to happen any moment.

The Trump administration has released a memo allowing federal workers to proselytize their coworkers and assert that their religion is 'correct.' "An employee may engage another in polite discussion of why his faith is correct and why the non-adherent should re-think his religious beliefs."

If you still think generative AI is part of some bright utopian future after those AI deregulation / anti-DEI executive orders he just signed, and after Grok came out as "mechahitler," congratulations you are part of a cult.

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

Speaking as a trans woman professor who has previously taught trans studies at Yale, I cannot fucking believe that Yale New Haven Health is ending its youth gender-affirming care services. This comes only 3 weeks after Integrity Project at Yale published a critique destroying the Cass Report. WTF???

Uh... I'm pretty sure there's no line in Othello that goes "I'll let loose the forces of Iago." Though it is iambic pentameter. (why I was googling that exact phrase is a longer story, but I was struck to see this laughably false answer pushed to me at the very top of the page)

I am reading with Mark Doty today at 7 PM in the Poetry in the Garden Series at Keeler Tavern Musem in Ridgefield, CT. See you there! Winners of the 2025 Ridgefield Pride Poetry Contest will also be reading one poem each: keelertavernmuseum.org/events/527/p...

Stop Giving Credence To The Notion That Cancelling The Most-Watched (By A Very Large Margin) Late Night Show Host Was A Financial Decision Challenge 2025