I am really learning that normal people know practically nothing at all about Groypers. I'll tell you, I have been wondering for YEARS how the Right has been able to get away with pretending they're the normal ones and we're all crazy. This is how.
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I am really learning that normal people know practically nothing at all about Groypers. I'll tell you, I have been wondering for YEARS how the Right has been able to get away with pretending they're the normal ones and we're all crazy. This is how.
The FBI didn't know who the guy was until his dad turned him in
I feel like i want to subscribe but…. No? Right?
Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.
Deleted a post where I called the new rightwing CBS the new rightwing CNN. Silly me, the new rightwing CNN happened a few years ago when John C Malone‘s protege David Zaslav took over, fired the liberals like Stelter and replaced them with Collins from the Daily Caller.
She's trying to vault off his death to take over his role as a rightwing activist
Americans are breathing a sigh of relief today, knowing that shooters can hide all they want, but our FBI will track them down as soon as their father turns them in.
NPR is trying to whitewash Charlie Kirk all the way to getting their funding back. Not gonna happen. But go ahead and embarrass yourselves I guess.
sorry guys, civil war is off, alleged shooter's white so it's all prayers for his soul going forward
Why is Charlie Kirk wife trying to incite a civil war talking about “to the evil doers… you have no idea what you have unleashed…” girl… okay if you say so. meanwhile the POTUS and his party already moving on because the funeral food be so good have you forgetting who died
MAGA is using my critique of Erika Kirk's address to gaslight America from their hypocrisy, cruelty, & hate, but I refuse to bend the knee and stay silent. Instead, I bring receipts. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
MSNBC marked the death of a "free speech warrior" Charlie Kirk by firing Matthew Dowd for describing Kirk as divisive.
This is the guy who is supposed to be in charge.
The governor of Utah is sad that the suspect they have in custody for the murder of Charlie Kirk won't let him start a race war.
lmaooooo matt just told me the one korean hyundai engineer who chose to remain in the country is only doing so out of spite so he can sue the US government I LOVE YOU KOREANS
Any fellow journalists saying, “well, he was pleasant when we shared a green room once”: yes, and: he spoke in favor of televised executions of those deemed enemies of the regime. But I’m sure he’d have been polite as he pulled the trigger.
Podcasters running the FBI hopelessly trying to track down the assassin of another podcaster while the ex-reality show president and the ex-FOX News host Secretary of Defense stoke fascism and people wonder why I’m constantly bitching about how we should be teaching critical media literacy in K-12.
For those who want to joke about it, remember: "There are worse things than bad taste, and that is to live in fantasy...at least with the Thatcher death parties, you had some kind of recognition of reality" youtu.be/jreoohRcs0Q?...
The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
A better world is possible.
We’re peacefully protesting for our neighbors. What does ICE do? Pick us up and throw us on the ground. No arrest, no identification, no process.
They can’t stop lying about Charlie Kirk…
Phang: Part of the reason the FBI has been showing this level of dysfunction is evidenced by the lawsuit filed yesterday by former FBI officials—what it shows is that the FBI has basically been hollowed out…
utah police wisely choosing not to show the bullet casing that says ‘if you read this you are gay’ bc they know it would instantly turn the country gay
NEW: No, Charlie Kirk was not practicing politics the right way. That's what Ezra Klein said. We can condemn this heinous assassination but also recognize that with his 2020 election denialism and extremist rhetoric, Kirk built his movement with falsehoods and in a wrong and divisive manner.
Here we go. Tyler no longer Groyper adjacent. Leaked Police interview with his family, Tyler Robinson hated Charlie Kirk because Kirk wasn't conservative enough+ Robinson admired/followed neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes. The entire GOP talking head-a-verse will be exploding and unwriting every narrative now.
“We got him!” Really? That’s the line? His father turned him in. You received him.
ANOTHER GOV’T SHUTDOWN APPEARS INEVITABLE & IT’S ONCE AGAIN 💯 CAUSED BY THE FAR RIGHT EXTREMIST GOP www.fedweek.com/fedweek/key-...
And Idina ate you up in Wicked. Twice.
Oh look. Selma Blair is a loser, too. She & Chenoweth can both go to hell
Kristin Chenoweth saying she “appreciated some perspectives” from Charlie Kirk? Girl… no. We are not here for this. Cancel that soprano.
Wrote this in The Sirens Call about mass shootings as the darkest, most violent form of extreme trolling and think it likely applies here as well.
State Department to ban immigrants speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. VP to fly his body to Arizona on Air Force 2. Trump to award him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Journalists getting fired for asking the right questions. We are spiraling into a dystopia beyond our imagining.
Two key things to point out re: Trump sending National Guard troops to Memphis: 1) Unlike in blue states, there’s just no need for this; even if circumstances warranted, Governor Lee, who still commands the TN National Guard, could’ve just sent them in himself; and 2) Chicago (and Illinois) won.
I will add that this political incongruity in when/whether to seek the death penalty is one of the big reasons it should be abolished.
The key empty-headed fatuity to the Ezra Klein approach is that if you engage in a pantomime of "debate" by going places and taking questions, you're still "doing politics right" even if you are calling for people to be deported for speech or stoned for being gay. It's civic society cosplay.
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...
This Administration treats the actual military with utter contempt. Just a few weeks ago, some of them were calling to revoke Florent Groberg's Medal of Honor because he spoke at the DNC. And when Garrett Foster, a veteran, was murdered, they celebrated it and pardoned his killer.
People are on that other site calling for the lynching of Black faculty who are speaking up about the impact the professor watchlist has had on them (us) and how it bred violence on campus.
"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post
The interests of suspects in not having a confession beaten out of them is ultimately an interest in evading the law, which is not an especially weighty interest.
I know everyone is consumed with other news, but this is a big fucking deal: The Trump administration says that IUDs and the Pill are actually abortions. Here's what USAID told the NYT about the $10m in birth control they plan to destroy. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...
The Free Press was founded by someone who tried to get a college professor fired, bangs on about free speech but has been completely silent or encouraging of Trump's crackdown on campus speech, and now will be at the helm of CBS.
If a single semester at Utah State could turn a kid from a conservative background into a wild eyed leftist, pretty sure we’d see armies of revolutionaries graduating after four full years at universities across the nation.
I seriously don't know how to explain to people that it is not in fact a sign of maturity and democracy to peacefully debate whether certain groups of people should be allowed to exist
the world will have to learn what “groypers” are and i don’t think the average boomer is ready for that
So, I’m guessing that the chuds’ WAR OF REVENGE will now be halted since their mascot was killed by a suburban son of a sheriff whose family was way into guns?
“.. 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...
Good thread here
Duffy: You heard the family members say that this man became more political in recent years—what did he do in recent years? He went to college. That is where kids are getting radicalized. Not just online, our campuses are where a lot of radicalization, hate, and intolerance starts from.
there's barely a pretense that the sweeping censorship is meant to halt political violence. It's obviously being undertaken because *people who run these platforms are frightened of political reprisals from the right*—including political violence.
"I wish we could blame this on muslims or migrants, but turns out it was one of us." what a wild thing to say
Over on Xitter, the troll account of UT's senior senator has launched a campaign to encourage Charlie Kirk's estate to sue Stephen King for ... describing something Charlie Kirk actually said.
BLITZER: Now we’re getting reports that one of the bullet casings was engraved with a message saying that if you are reading the casing, you are gay. We must warn our viewers we’re about to show the photo and don’t know at this time whether the engraving is what makes you gay or if it just tells you
The words from Gov Cox of Utah are the words they should be coming from the president of the United States. Will the media hold him, and people like Nancy Mace accountable for their false accusations?
So Matthew Dowd was right. Will MSNBC re-hire him?
Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours
where does the left go to get its apology
the wsj coverage of the shooter might be one of the worst and most irresponsible handlings of a story i’ve witnessed in the last 10 years
"You have to play dumb about the distinctions between persuasion and deception, reason and manipulation, to convince yourself that Kirk’s project was admirable." @brianbeutler.bsky.social cc @ezraklein.bsky.social www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
It was an all-out call for war against "them" when the right didn't know who "they" were, but now that it's clear that Kirk's assassin came from their world they've shifted back to meaningless "thoughts and prayers."
If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these
Grateful to have spoken w brilliant colleagues on the immediate weaponization of Kirk's killing. 1. My excellent colleague @akelalacy.bsky.social hosted @alibreland.bsky.social and me on @theintercept.com podcast. including dangers of hagiographies like Ezra Klein's theintercept.com/2025/09/12/b...
I’m still trying to wrap my mind around Kavanaugh actually writing this, as if the Fourth Amendment only protects people who have not done anything illegal. This is so foundationally wrong that it’s hard to know where to start.
this was really the only thing pointing at all left and it's wrong
On X everyone misread this part of the arrest report and thinks it means Tyler Robinson said Charlie Kirk spread hate. The relative said that, not the shooter himself.
Incredible post 9-11 vibes for anyone who remembers Ari Fleischer's "all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do.”
So the Pulte allegations were just straight-up lies not backed by any actual documentation, yes?
"A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home." Shame on media outlets who had stenographed the regime's allegations in their headlines.
yeesh so much disinfo out there about the gunman "Notices bulges, OWO whats this?" - Meme about furries/roleplaying; not political "hey fascist! Catch! Up, right, down x3" - From Helldivers 2, satirical game, you nuke 'fascist' aliens even though you're a fascist yourself; the code launches a bomb
"O bella ciao ..." Italian anti-fascist song also used in Far Cry 6 and Netflix's Money Heist www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpXn... "If you read this you are gay lmao" Just how online edgelords talk Is he a 'groyper'? We don't know, though Nick Fuentes’ fans have attacked Kirk for years as anti-white
man they really didn't give a shit about that guy. as soon as it was clear they couldn't use his death to launch a purge they started to treat it like a nothingburger
The 16-year-old boy accused of shooting two classmates at Evergreen High School embraced conspiratorial, antisemitic and white supremacist social media content
Trump just went on Fox and said radical right extremism is justified as a response to the left. If Trump wanted to explicitly encourage the right to wage violent open warfare on the left as payback for Kirk, he couldn't have done much better than that. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2004...
“There’s never been a president in our lifetimes who has excused political violence on his own side,” Robert Pape, expert in political violence, says. At a time when Trump's biggest supporters are vowing open season on the left, he's saying: Go for it. newrepublic.com/article/2004...
It’s disturbing that the President is hellbent on sending troops onto America’s streets. Using those who serve in uniform as political props is insulting. None of this is normal.
I've had the privilege of working alongside Governor Cox through @natlgovsassoc.bsky.social and appreciate his calling for moral clarity at a time of uncertainty. Grateful law enforcement apprehended the alleged suspect — there must be a full investigation ensuring accountability and justice.
I am aware of the troubling incident that has unfolded in Franklin Park. This is a developing situation and the people of Illinois deserve a full, factual accounting of what’s happened today to ensure transparency and accountability.
Holding of breath is not recommended
In all seriousness, I'd love to see a reporter try to get comments from all of these people about their initial impulse to declare a literal war on half of their fellow citizens and to see if any of them regret it, apologized for it or learned anything at all from it.
Olivia Matthews, an award-winning playwright whose work appeared across the country, was killed in a fire someone intentionally set, authorities said
Good point here. I think an initial mistake some are making is leaping from detecting Groyper influences to ascribing something like Groyper membership—or converting that into a neat and tidy categorization of affirmative Groyper convictions.
With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
I wrote emails to the two authors demanding: -a retraction of the article -an apology to the trans community -Immediate changes to their publishing standards id encourage everyone else to do so as well. I would also encourage them to contact their bosses and demand that the 2 authors be fired
Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.
1. In the immediate aftermath of Charlie Kirk's shooting, the WSJ laundered claims that "transgender symbols" were found with the shooter's gun. Now, a press conference reveals that NO such symbols were found. WSJ owes a full retraction and apology. Subscribe to support our journalism.
Just going on the police's media strategy: They made a trans panic leak to the WSJ very eagerly that they walked back later. Now they are trying to be obtuse about what type of hate Robinson expressed in interviews and on discord. I think he may be a groyper lol.
Per grok, Robinson aligned with “fringes of the alt-right, specifically the Groyper movement” “pro-Trump conservatives who see mainstream Republicans like Charlie Kirk as sellouts or "fake conservatives" infected by globalism, liberalism, or even fascism-lite.” Re: bullets 👇
MAGA is now blaming college for indoctrinating Tyler Robinson, the guy who allegedly murdered Charlie Kirk. Bro apparently dropped out of Utah State University after one semester. Methinks Charlie Kirk also wasn’t “fighting against” colleges since he was literally giving a speech at one. 🤦♀️
The alleged Charlie Kirk assassin identified as Tyler Robinson from a white Republican household. His family are 2nd amendment, blue lives matter, MAGA, and he was taught to shoot since a young age. His father, an ex sheriff, convinced him to turn himself in, qualifying for the FBI $100,000 reward.
Is the Wall Street Journal going to issue an apology for their headline this morning that turned out to be completely false conflating Tyler Robinson with the Transgender movement? This comment, scratched on the spent shell casing has nothing to do with being Transgender.
way too many outlets reporting "Hey fascist! Catch!" without the "Up arrow, right arrow, 3 down arrows" part that was all the same inscription because its a very specific video game reference to Helldivers 2 all we know about Tyler Robinson right now is he is terminally online
To other journalists investigating Tyler Robinson and the meaning of "Notices your bulge, OwO what's this" - I'm a journalist specializing in expertise in the furry community. If you would like me to provide professional comment for your stories regarding the meaning of this, my email is in my bio
Jacob Davison 