For a brief time during the pandemic, the boost in gov't spending—on stimulus checks as well as improved social benefits—helped keep families out of poverty. After decades of widening income inequality, it looked like things were moving in the right direction. Not anymore. trib.al/5HLCDAS
The reason for the anger at posting Kirk’s words is simply that we are entering a fascistic world where the truth is dangerous and lies become facts. It is literally how fascism sustains itself. Turning bigots into martyrs and innocent people into criminals. And that’s why saying the truth matters.
I’d only add that the “ideologues in control of Congress and the Supreme Court abetting this agenda” were put there by the fossil fuel industry precisely to abet this anti-science agenda, and that corrupt dark money is the motivating factor.
When left-leaning San Francisco officials faced recalls in 2022, Joel Engardio was on board. Now, he’s the one who faces a recall; he angered some voters for championing the transformation of the Great Highway into a park.
It's important for the load bearing institutions of a liberal democracy to understand that authoritarians only wield power over them by scaring them into becoming authoritarians themselves. But there's nothing they can do to you, only what you can do to yourself.
We were sent this photo of "Julio" hoeing a field of tomatoes in Santa Clara County. We were told "Julio" was working by himself in 89° temps and no drinking water was visible nearby. #WeFeedYou #CALOR
"NO ONE IS ABOVE THE LAW " the truth will come out. We must keep their feet to the file, no distractions. 🔥 Thank you @repsuhas.bsky.social for all your hard work.
As @jamestalarico.bsky.social mounts his TX-Sen run, re-upping YMRI's analysis of how he carried his message of faith and civic virtue to a new audience on Rogan over the summer. Take a moment to better understand his strategy and background. youngmenresearchinitiative.substack.com/p/what-james...
The investigation remains ongoing.
Huntington Beach, CA - Members of Patriot Front, and several explicitly Neo-Nazi active clubs marching through Huntington Beach right now. Led by “Culture War Criminal” Ryan Sanchez, they are mostly being received warmly by a Charlie Mirk memorial demonstration at Huntington Beach Pier.
🇪🇺🇺🇦 It is imperative to protect Ukraine and its civilian population by intercepting threats in Ukrainian airspace before they reach European borders. Experts predict that 120 allied aircraft will be enough to carry out this mission at the initial stage.
✈️🛡️ Military experts and civil society representatives have called for the immediate implementation of the European Skyshield project due to the incursion of Russian drones into Poland, — Le Monde.
Huntington Beach, CA - As Patriot Front, Ryan Sanchez and Neo-Nazi groups are leaving they began to pummel one man in a leather jacket, who told me he was there to mourn Kirk but “hated Nazis.” Attackers include members of the GDL and Robert Wheldon.
Classic illustration of the false dilemma fallacy. “The false dilemma…involves presenting a limited number of options as if they were the only…available. This forces people to choose between two extremes, even though there is a spectrum of possibilities.” www.scribbr.co.uk/fallacy/fals...
SELECTIVE EMPATHY: caring about suffering only when it fits your own biases, identity, or political side. A person with selective empathy shows concern for certain groups, victims, or situations while ignoring or excusing harm to others. This right here 👇🏾
Messiah Marcolin in full voice taking the stage with Candlemass in Athens won't by itself heal this sick world but it's good medicine www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjez...
Got home from the Vaccine Congress to find this wonderful surprise from my friend & fierce advocate for vaccination @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social! These are hard times but I’m grateful to Peter & @michaelemann.bsky.social for having the courage to fight for science against ignorance & tyranny. ❤️🔬🦠🔥
“In a huge blow to the White House, and a big win for everyone else, a federal appeals court has just ruled that Trump’s sprawling tariffs are unlawful and invalid.” @chrislhayes.bsky.social @allinwithchris.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
Pray they survive the Sixth Extinction. Pray we do.
Romanian air defences shot down a Russian Shahed drone that crossed into the country this weekend. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/russian-dron...
Hi ICE killed a single dad at a traffic stop here on Friday Today they are disappearing people again in broad daylight, they are everywhere If you have any national platform at all Chicago is fucking begging you, please help us
A worthwhile thread
One thing that I think some not-youngs forget (and is different from 20 years ago) is that Kirk used his ‘debates’ to generate video that could go viral and, to use an old phrase, catapult the propaganda. His debates weren’t in any way, shape, or form educational.
Every word…
During the 2024 election there were SEVERAL references to the expectation that slavery was coming back. “Black jobs” being us taking over the manual labor positions after they push all of the immigrants out and this one: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.
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This is a goal of Project 2025 Get women back in the home
Read this. Take a long hard look at the photos. Eight months. That’s all it’s taken for the United States to turn into whatever the hell we are now.
Free speech advocates are sounding the alarm about a bill in the US House of Representatives that would allow Secretary of State Marco Rubio to strip US citizens of their passports based purely on political speech ‼️ www.commondreams.org/news/rubio-t...
I am not a political pawn. I am a living, breathing human being who has dedicated her life to a scientific problem that I believe matters for human health. The article below tells our story; I hope you will read it and share it www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Fight back against whom? Young white men who look just like them?
A Christian Ministers response to Charlie Kirk’s murder. While we condemn his murder and the gun violence that led to it, we must also reject MAGA‘s effort to portray him as something he was not‼️
📣 As the Trump Regime Nazifies America, a reminder that FLIPPING THE SENATE is critical to reining them in. Reminder: Donations to "TBD" races go to the eventual Democratic nominee. Donate today: #Blue26 secure.actblue.com/donate/senat...
I think Spencer Cox gets this essentially correct, though he goes off track in calling it "left wing ideology." It doesn't fit into conventional left-right categorizations. Rather it is an attempt to persuade young men that US society offers them nothing and to push them to violence. Elon gets it.
This has been the Supreme Court in a nutshell: where clear and immediate harm has been done by Trump to others, they delay and prevaricate, siding with Trump. Even if later deemed to be illegal, the damage is already done and Trump gets his way.
#StayReadyCrew tip- Check your med cabinet. Grab your cold/flu meds now before they get scarce / before you need them.
substack.com/@malloyrocks... Just needed to post this!
The Neo-Nazis & White Supremacists are convening in Huntington Beach CA in the wake of the Kirk killing. And local GOP officials, Trump's DOJ Civil Rights Division (including Harmeet Dhillon & HB's Michael Gates), Trump, JD Vance, MAGA Mike Johnson & John Thune are doing nothing to calm it down!
Duh
Give Victor, not Charlie Kirk, a medal.
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We are living through the lunchroom losers getting their lick back. 😩
But only the most racist white people can get refugee status. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
this is the most iconic stage entrance I have ever seen
CCDH's research has shown that Mark Zuckerberg's platforms are unsafe for kids. In 2023, we found minors being exposed to bullying, harassment & explicit content on Meta’s Horizon Worlds. Now, it's come to light that the company actually suppressed research on child safety. 📝 @washingtonpost.com
An excellent summation of the life and work of Charlie Kirk.
This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...
1/? Ohio...Ohio...Ohio...I know this is a long video so I'm going to briefly explain in a thread. But here is a video discussing it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDVY...
🇫🇮 Finnish President Stubb: "Right now, we're living in a 1918, 1945, or 1989 moment in world history. We just don't know where the world is going to."
We are at the point in the honoring-Charlie-Kirk's-memory cycle when faculty are being fired for posting, without comment, Charlie Kirk's words. At the behest of politicians sworn to uphold the first amendment, and in public institutions covered by first amendment protections.
This is the sort of nonsense you can only say if you have an awfully shallow conceptual grasp on both autocracy and democracy.
Hard to overstate the importance of the lumpenbroletariat to our particular fascist epoch. Also, if you haven’t read it already, Marx’s 18th Brumaire remains deeply insightful on the process of fascist state capture under an alleged democracy. Been reflecting on his analysis a great deal lately.
Democratic senators call for hearings about JPMorgan's, $JPM, ties to Jeffrey Epstein, per WSJ
They? The Mormons? Who?
Get your COVID shots, y'all! A great thing to do TODAY if you have a minute.
The Guardian f*cked up! They claimed, citing an unnamed high school friend, that suspect Tyler Robinson was the lone “leftist” in a family of “very hard” Republicans. They later retracted it with an editor’s note after the source admitted they couldn’t reliably recall their connection to Robinson.
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
The strike on Kirishinefteorgsintez oil refinery in Leningrad region of Russia was carried out by operators of the 14th Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment of the Unmanned Systems Forces, together with Special Operations Forces units.
Got double vaxxed today! Suck it, RFK!
Deeply disturbed to see today's 'Unite the Kingdom' march in London with 100,000+ attendees. This was likely the largest far-right protest in British history and was led by Tommy Robinson and addressed by Elon Musk. The far right are emboldened like never before. But, here's the good news... 🧵
wearing a "what would orwell think" shirt at the Tommy Robinson rally makes my nose bleed
Musk has now spoken at a Tommy Robinson rally, an AfD campaign event, and numerous Trump/MAGA rallies. You do the math 🤷♂️
Matthew Dowd had been invited to talk about other issues when the news broke on live TV: “Keep in mind when the anchor came to me to comment on the “national environment” the only thing known at the time was shots were fired & there was no reporting yet that Kirk was the target or had been shot at.“
It shouldn't escape notice that Trump explicitly threatened to use *the state* to target anyone he and MAGA scapegoat for Charlie Kirk's murder. We really could see Stephen Miller and Kash Patel use the FBI for 60s-style domestic persecution. Some thoughts on that: newrepublic.com/article/2004...
Stephen Miller: You will live in exile. The power of law enforcement under President Trump's leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power and if you have broken the law, take away your freedom Sounds like a typical fascist
After Donald Trump blamed the left for Charlie Kirk’s murder because they likened him and his cohorts to Nazis MAGA tried to create a myth that Kirk was some Christ like martyr Well, here’s Stephen Miller destroying that myth while making both Kirk and himself seem like Nazis Be careful, friends
Texas isn't the only state that doesn't believe in representative gvt. Missouri just passed their own gerrymandered map, eliminating a seat held by dems for the past 76 years. Vote YES on #Prop50 www.newsweek.com/missouri-red...
The English far right mob is so useless that they have to pick an Irish guy to lead them. They [& we Irish] really aren’t sending our best. Starmer, will be outraged that Tommy O’ Two Names, has stolen his racist, Queerphobic & misogynistic policies.
in the interest of being totally fair and balanced about charlie kirk, sally has opted to using her platform as a staff writer for the atlantic and its attendant assumption of good faith (waning though it might be) to pretend this clip never happened
🚨BREAKING 🚨Deadly Memes: Tyler Robinson's Far-Right 'Groyper' Ties Despite initial reports and President Trump’s claim that the suspect in the murder of Charlie Kirk was a ‘leftist’, two pieces of evidence point the other way bylinetimes.com/2025/09/13/d...
Remember this? Flash forward…MAGA is calling for death, war, and unemployment against anyone who tweets, “Charlie Kirk said gun deaths are worth it.” Censorship for thee, but not for me.
it’s telling that mainstream reporters seem to have more genuine sadness and empathy for Kirk than his fellow travelers in the right wing media sphere, to whom he is nothing but a cudgel
Mike Lee should be decrying "we", not "they".
Shame on you Mike Lee. Who is “they?” One 22yr old white young man from Utah is accused of killing Charlie Kirk. Who the hell is “they?” Shame on you. You are purposely inciting hate & division. Hiding behind “they.” Shame on you.
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
This is fine, as long as he didn’t say any mean hurty boo-boo words about Charlie Kirk, right?
If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear… 📌 California lawmakers just passed SB 627, the “No Secret Police Act,” which would make it illegal for law enforcement to hide their identities while on duty in the state.
Objective data show BBC & ITV bias. Reform featured in 49 bulletins between January-July 2025 whereas Lib Dems(with 72 MPs) were in 18% of bulletins, with 35. Reform referenced in nearly 1 in 5 ITV News At Ten bulletins, but 6% for Lib Dems www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA. Fascinating to watch this right now.
Last 4 films watched #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched #MovieSky #FilmSky #movies📽️ @letterboxd.social
Good choices! Just watched Thursday Murder Club and quite enjoyed it.
They can’t stop lying about Charlie Kirk…
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
#Bloomberg journalists got access to Jeffrey #Epstein’s personal #Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 #emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.
The CDC is in the ICU (<-good diagnosis) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...
BREAKING: We're suing to stop Missouri from implementing new congressional district lines that violate the state constitution. Lawmakers are caving to President Trump's demands by pushing this unconstitutional map. Voters must choose their representatives, not the other way around.
LISTEN‼️ Threats to politicians aren’t just rising, they’re redefining the job. The political climate is so toxic that members of Congress are changing how they live & work in response to Charlie Kirk’s killing. When violence becomes the backdrop of public service, democracy’s already under siege.
I was happy to contribute to this CBC News article debunking conspiracies around the killing of Charlie Kirk, specifically the flight data nonsense being spread by some randos on Twitter, Reddit, 4Chan, 8Kun, and #MonkeyWerx (YouTube) about #N888KG. Only the best! 🙄 www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...
Grateful for the opportunity to meet some of the folks at the Institute for Nonviolence in Austin who’ve changed their own lives and others to make a safer Chicago.
RoseAnne Timbrell ended up in a Florida hospital and thought she was fully covered by her extended health coverage through her employer. globalnews.ca/news/1141503...