And the terrifying thing is that these lunatics wield power.
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And the terrifying thing is that these lunatics wield power.
The other interesting thing about this clip is how outraged Kirk is that anyone would blame Republicans generally for the act of a single deranged individual just because they routinely said terrible things about Pelosi. What a concept.
Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
How’s that for timing www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...
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New video: "CRAZY Charlie Kirk Clip Exposes It All" click below to WATCH👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTUY-Tsa554
These traits allow it to function even with light breezes or changing wind patterns. The Bladeless Wind Turbine is quiet. No hum, no buzz, no swooshing blades. That’s a big plus in crowded areas. Birds fly safely around it www.thebrighterside.news/post/new-bla... www.youtube.com/watch?v=J21u...
wait, but I thought crime was totally out of control in cities?
I’m sorry I don’t know who to give credit to for this meme, but damn. Truth.
Journalists kept asking: “If Trump’s policies are so bad, why is the data holding up?” My answer: patience, grasshopper. Four months later, the slowdown is here.
Exactly
Only people who have never treated a patient with fulminant liver failure from hepatitis B will question the value of this vaccine.
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The president is intentionally killing non-combatants who pose no direct threat in violation of domestic, international and military law and his VP and chief policy adviser are promising an authoritarian crackdown on his political opponents. Just today. Democracy and the rule of law are on the line
Yeah, this is a subtweet. And f@&@ Laura Loomer too.
Fuck dictatorship. Its anti-American.
The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness. Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.
C’mon, man, that is like a cockroach fart.
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Time for me to join my husband in Toronto.
Posting a criticism of Charlie Kirk - much less noting something outrageous he himself said - is not “celebrating” his murder. Nor is it condoning his murder. It is simply saying that his political career and legacy are not something to be celebrated. And that is not the same thing at all.
It's all wildly illegal & unconstitutional. The president doesn't get to do this stuff. Except now he does, because we're in the midst of the worst Article I constitutional crisis in American history. Presidency ending stuff for in the last 80 years. bsky.app/profile/mcop...
GOP Rep. Clay Higgins, (LA) wants to ban people from social media for life. “I’m also going after their business licenses and permitting, their businesses will be blacklisted aggressively, they should be kicked from every school, and their drivers licenses should be revoked.”
Just so everyone can follow along: The MAGA beef against @karenattiah.bsky.social is that she said Kirk said this:
Yes, I was planning to use them! I have used them quite a few times.
This is why being independent is SO powerful. Can't fire someone with no boss!
This is like how in 2020 you could know a bad COVID wave was coming because Trump would start screaming about how we should stop testing people.
Stay focused.
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Democracy dies in whiteness
Just saw someone post "Democracy Dies in Whiteness." Amazing truth. Encapsulates America. Should be @washingtonpost.com new motto.
I refuse to pay ridiculous amounts of money for cable or multiple streaming services.
And then I discovered that the remote control didn’t have numbers on it. Apparently the norm now. I feel like I have been transported back to 1980 when we were excited to have a remote for the VCR that allowed us to scroll through the like 7 TV channels we could get, without getting off the couch.
It sure looks like they are going to get rid of MMR
Fun fact: People who said negative things about Charlie Kirk have faced more consequences than the child sexual abusers in the Epstein files. #ReleaseTheDamnFiles
The outrage of a no bid contract on autism to an engineering school that doesn't even have a department of epidemiology or neuroscience is only exceeded by the choice of recipient, a data scientist who last published on autism in 2020 and thinks like Wakefield. 🧪 #episky 🧵 apnews.com/article/vacc...
One reason I think so many people are being fired merely for quoting what Kirk actually said is that, based on what I've read, many of his followers were in social media silos where they never heard those things. Showing full picture risks Trump admin being able to capitalize on this politically
Entomological version of Hitchcock’s The Birds 😱
We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.
Chills. Tim Snyder reposted this April article in the aftermath of the Kirk assassination, noting that some of the predictions and points herein could be helpful now. Much of what he predicted has come to pass, but not all. There is still time. Read, resist. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation
Imagine voting for a bully, and then being shocked that the rest of the world decides not to play with you anymore.
Imagine being the kind of person with the chutzpah to "explain" to Margaret Atwood what Margaret Atwood meant in The Handmaid's Tale
Anyone proposing that an official be allowed to revoke the passport of a citizen for criticizing *this* country would be rightly regarded as batshit insane and deeply hostile to this country's laws and traditions. Proposing that they can do that if we criticize some *other* country? Fuck. That.
They suck so bad
"Reality is super-inconvenient, y'all!!!"
9/ I hope I'm wrong. But we need to be prepared if I'm right. That means everyone who cares about democracy has to join the fight - right now. Join a mobilization or protest group. Start showing up to actions more. Write a check to a progressive media operation.
I just tried calling my local Best Buy after purchasing a TV from them and discovering that it is missing the screws for the stand. After having their automated AI phone system give me the run around and hang up on my THREE times, I have decided that I will never use this company again.
It feels like we’re heading into social credit scores territory.
they're doing a Canary Mission for people who aren't sad enough about Charlie Kirk dying.
Excellent!
A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.
Just wait for the Korean movie industry to start making movies about ICE.
the century of american humiliation is upon us and those in charge have no fucking idea
Korea's leading press agency publishes accounts from the Hyundai/LG employees and execs who were brutalized, put in chains and subjected to hours of racist taunts by Trump's secret police... much of which was comically ignorant (ICE agents called them "Rocket Men"). Needs US translation.
Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.
What a bizarre spectacle it is to watch Democratic politicians and prominent opinionists on the center/center-left attempt to valorize Charlie Kirk. It is not just utterly detached from the reality of who Kirk was/what he did – it also misunderstands why political violence is bad.
We still underestimate propaganda. Goebbels turned Germans into Nazis, before social media, mass marketing, and applying clinical psych findings to get people to feel excited to value a billionaires bank account over their own. -And it wasn’t complicated.
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She also loved her kids, and Hitler loved his dog, until they killed them in the Führerbunker.
Just watched Downfall last night as a reminder of how self-destructive Nazism is, even though people within it don’t see it.
I still can’t get over how @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social sanitized this guy.
substack.com/@ymbfkm/note... -ABC fired Terry Moran for calling Stephen Miller a world class hater. -MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for saying that hateful thoughts lead to hateful words, which leads to hateful actions. -While @ FOX, Brian Kilmeade calls for exterminating the homeless. He still has a job!
A great post! But watch on YouTube to get the subtitles Dedicated to all those folks who are angry about being called Nazis - after they said Nazi things, did Nazi things, and carried Nazi flags to marches & Jan 6 🤷🏻♀️
Believe who people are the first time they tell you.
Just to be clear: Brian Kilmeade *did not* endorse euthanizing homeless people. He advocated MURDERING over 700,000 of them. And on a network that has been *beside itself* over the murder of just one man this week.
*If* the info is accurate, is of course, a giant if. Not only is the generated content often wrong, it's prejudiced. I've seen how it warps historical content in subtle or sometimes not so subtle and harmful ways. Learning how widely ChatGPT et al. are being used in the field is terrifying.
This is how they ensure political opponents can't escape when they start rounding them up. If you're in a position to leave, you should do so now before they close the door. theintercept.com/2025/09/13/m...
He says this while wearing a “what would Orwell do” t-shirt
He is actually trying to incite a violent revolt in the UK.
Can’t the UK government arrest Elon for fomenting insurrection?
I can’t hit “like” on such a video
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You can't want to exterminate all the homeless people and still be a decent human being worthy of love and respect. You just can't. Sorry if that sound harsh, but I'm just done with pretending.
Matthew Dowd is fired for stating the obvious. Brian Kilmeade says we should euthanize the homeless, his cohosts agree and they'll be repeating their violent rhetoric regularly for years to come. It's kind of like Al Franken losing his seat over a joke while a criminal rapist gets reelected POTUS.
the future of tech is sociopaths chasing engagement clicks with zero ethical considerations at impossible scale
At least 15 people including journalists and teachers have been fired or suspended for criticising Charlie Kirk online, Reuters reports. Free speech for us, not for you. #NorthKoreaShit
They also herded up homeless into concentration camps, labeling them as “asocials.” They almost all died there. From Life and Death in the Third Reich, by Peter Fritzche
So where are we now, like 1940, 1941
I have many thoughts about Charlie Kirk—and perhaps even more about the white elites, including some on the left, who insist we can’t hold multiple realities at once. We can. And we must. A brief 🧵
We are reminded, yet again, by this administration and the cowards in universities who carry its water, that the true threats to free speech are powerful elites who punish dissent. The true threats are violent actors and those who use their platforms to chill the speech of their opponents.
One of Hitler’s first actions was to declare the socialist party domestic terrorists and outlaw them. He then proceeded to “dismantle“ his opposition. This is what happens when Reagan cuts funding for education and kills civics and history classes in public schools.
Brian Kilmeade suggested we execute homeless people. How the actual fuck does he still have a job?!?
Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him
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.
There are some people talking about it, at least. But you are right to be scared. Hitler was able to make the homeless and mentally ill disappear by putting them in camps and eventually outright killing them, without significant pushback from the German public. bsky.app/profile/gtco...
I have no words for this.
It is weird that the fbi director said “Valhalla” let’s not skip over that
Yeah, I saw that. Nazis get to spout their shit on FoxNews, but Matthew Dowd gets fired for telling the truth on MSNBC.
Perfect German skit about this ⬇️ Watch on YouTube for the subtitles to show up. youtu.be/zvgZtdmyKlI?...
Why go after hospitals, though? It makes no sense.
It does not matter what motivated the assassin in this case. Trump will use this awful moment as justification to attack anyone — and everyone — who stands up against him, his agenda and the MAGA movement. Indeed, he has already begun to do just that. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/a-lo...
The ignorance out there is limitless. She really said this, folks. She is a professional wrestler, and the occasion was the announcement that WWE WrestleMania 43 will be taking place in Saudi Arabia.
I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"
So much for “pro-life”