My god they're gonna kill Jimmy Kimmel
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My god they're gonna kill Jimmy Kimmel
I'm gonna argue that it wasn't rapid at all, and has in fact been in the works for upwards of 50 years. reason it seems rapid to the casual observer is we've reached the part where they don't have to be secretive about it anymore
great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system
Ezra Klein went beyond opposing political violence to extol Charlie Kirk for doing politics "exactly the right way," making up a fictional version of Kirk to praise. That distortion, with its indulgence of bad faith, is a perfect illustration of the larger media failure that helps Trump. My latest
Happy Constitution Day 2025. Who would ever have thought the constitution would be at its most precarious and menaced since the Civil War if not ever? But it’s where we are. We have to fight fight fight. A republic, if you can keep it.
Many of the conservative professionals I worked with fully understood climate change to be a real and significant challenge for the future. The amount of climate truthers to be won seems to me actually quite low
climate change??
Another spin off think tank that advocates for "popularism" but very conveniently doesn't have anything to say about one particular issue in which Democratic Party leadership is wildly off the mark in relation to its base. Shocker!
If living standards were improving none of this boneheaded nonsense would find fertile ground. A fatal flaw for Labour is that administering a broken system better doesn't improve things. You can't fight a meme with a graph 🤷🏻♀️🇬🇧
how is this real
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The time for the left to move is now, wind on our backs against a centrist leadership so steeped in consultancy brain they're too conflict adverse to react.
been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.
When you watch the entire Emmys broadcast going "please don't mention him, please don't mention him, c'mon, I've got a great tweet ready to go, we're getting to the biggest awards, so close, c'mon."
Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.
The oligarchs couldn’t make the terror charge stick. But if you didn’t understand before, you should understand now that oligarchs see themselves in a special club above you. Don’t ever forget it. apnews.com/article/unit...
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
"There is no center between fascism and democracy." – @rbreich.bsky.social Full episode at www.levernews.com/robert-reich...
The best guess I can offer is that actually existing antisemitism is less of a priority for the establishment than the political consensus surrounding material support for Israel.
One has to wonder why a preacher who once said that Hitler fulfilled God's will is considered less of a liability and of a persona non grata than a Muslim from New York who consistently says he believes all people are equal.
he saw your shut the fuck up friday posts
Following Sen. Chris Van Hollen’s criticism of Democratic leadership for refusing to endorse Zohran Mamdani, Hakeem Jeffries’ spokesman mocks: “Chris Van Who?”
you will never make it moral to excuse genocide, no matter how hard you try
William F Buckley Jr in his own words youtu.be/Ho9M-q_kcn8?...
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no notes
Democrats seeking an own goal instead of fighting the Trump regime…. Why is my party so embarrassing…
Demanding that China stop exporting solar panels while the climate crisis worsens? Seriously? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
My favorite parts of the Kpop culture are the child slave contracts and the message your body and face aren’t good enough the way you were born. Oh wait…
one of the most important technological revolutions in modern history and you're likely not hearing anything about it because it's making the oligarchs who control our information environment poorer instead of richer
I don't think the future has to be a continual grinding descent into enshitification
Yup.
Robert Reich explains how his generation’s political flaws fueled Trump’s rise and the demise of the Democrats. www.levernews.com/how-the-boom...
A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income. Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?
It's no longer taboo to be a socialist. Pre Bernie we were basically an endangered species, now we form a significant portion of the Democratic party and are its only real source of novel policy ideas.
This Joshua guy is outstandingly sharp!
people's response can be "fuck americans" or "fuck republicans" and it's up to democrats which one will happen
on the electoral side of things, this is why you need a loud opposition party saying they reject this and will not stand for it. that this country should be safe for people from korea as new immigrants but also for longstanding korean americans.
I'm proud of the film. I'm sorry it didn't solve the climate crisis.
The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion, after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year alone. Meanwhile, the rest of the country is getting squeezed by tariffs and high prices for groceries, utilities, and health care. The system is broken.
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
It does not have to be this way.
On my personal authority as the Chairman of the Johnson County Board of Supervisors, I have determined to defy the Governor’s order that our colors be at half staff through Sunday on behalf of Charlie J Kirk. 1/4
BREAKING: The police have confirmed they won't be charging any of the violent far-right rioters with terrorism because they only do that for grandmas in wheelchairs who hold up signs they don't like ♥️
“The most dangerous message you could have is ‘we should all come together and find common ground.’...anytime anyone wants to bring people together, they figure out a way to tar and feather the person.” - Bill Burr podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
Freezing rain is the worst
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.
The two most prominent politicians in America who compared Trump to Hitler are not Democrats but members of his own administration: Vice President Vance and HHS Secretary Kennedy.
The biggest far-right demonstration in British history is a gruesome reminder of how much trouble we are in. Since the financial crash, the direction of travel for the far right across the West has only been in one direction - and that is up.
Thank you Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal for firing up our Jackson Heights canvass this afternoon and joining us to knock on doors in the world's borough.
They were the same person doing the same thing, separated only by a few decades of ideological inbreeding. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Ezra Klein says this is how you do politics right
www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...
An Iowa official defied the governor’s orders to fly flags at half-staff for Charlie Kirk, writing he wouldn't honor a man who "did so much harm"
Just friends, roommates even
In a shocking on-air moment, a “Fox and Friends” co-host said homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should be killed
also I don’t give a shit about “civility,” who cares
Its an indicator of the condition of politics that Kirk is actually lauded by both sides because,as someone involved in politics, he was prepared to be part of a panel for a debate used to push intolerance and lies. A political operator prepared to be involved in debate..the very idea !!
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
“Armando” and his crew were heading back into the fields at 1050am after a brief break in the fields in Arvin CA. Every step under the blistering sun takes endurance and discipline and is done out of necessity so they can support their families. #WeFeedYou
Civility is code for "I'm white"
I generally think a) too much of my feed is tone policing and dunks rather than genuinely interesting ideas or moments of delight, and b) I contribute too much to that and should do better.
The suspect in the Kirk killing, Tyler Robinson, was a diehard Trump supporter at the 2020 election, one of his former classmates tells CNN.
Seems our discussions have not changed all that much after all youtu.be/Ho9M-q_kcn8?...
Why does the US "harbor" British diplomats?
And at any rate "harbored" is an odd word to describe hosting the civilian leadership of a political organization. Moralizing terms like terrorist mean basically nothing when it comes to actually negotiating, that thing you famously only do with people you have a problem with.
A simple Google search would allow the thousands of people who ask this question to learn that it was the United States of America which asked Qatar to do so over a decade ago.
At what point do Labour MPs decide to rescue their party - and their seats - by evicting Starmer and Reeves? When voting intention figures fall to 19%? 15%? 10%? (Last week they stood at 21%, and have prob fallen since) The longer they leave it, the harder and less plausible the recovery will be.
Can Ben Burgis stfu for one moment, let his guests speak, and stop trying to look like the smart guy in the room?
An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.
So much for anti-trust laws, huh?
They wield vagueness as a weapon. It’s a rhetorical trick, all attitude and no substance.
Do any of the “Charlie Kirk did politics the right way” crowd have the courage to directly defend lying about election results, bussing people to Jan. 6, and advocating pardons of convicted seditionists? Does US politics need more lying, coup attempts and violence? Or do they always keep it vague?
Man the groyper movement really does not want the bright lights of the media
From 'Der Sturmer' to this meme in less than a 24 hrs.
It was Helldivers and furry lingo
Charlie didn’t believe in our country, he believed in fascism. And an orange criminal. That is not the America most of us believe in. This Governor is aiding and abetting his mission.
I would say "oh wow looks like maybe normies are about to learn what Groypers are," except let's be real. If he's a Groyper the occupied media is gonna memoryhole this whole embarrassing affair as fast as it can rearrange the typeset
Remember all those in the West - politicians, journalists, anchors, pundits - who systematically claimed that the Gaza death toll was "exaggerated." Who said the Gaza health ministry "could not be trusted." This includes Biden himself, who led this charge.
"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
I will say, American history is a history of political violence, often for the better. I don’t want to wantonly decry all violence as unjustified even if this one was not.
So Trump may have had a stroke…hmm
“A populist anti-war socialist is always going to beat a fascist granny killing rapist” -Louis Rossman (by transmission)
This morning’s whitewashing of Kirk’s legacy by civility-obsessed liberals isn’t just offensive to anyone targeted by Kirk (ask anyone on the ‘professor watchlist’) but dangerous. 1/2
I fail to understand why Klein thought it was acceptable to praise a hate merchant, even if it was just a cynical ploy for attention. Or perhaps I do understand, because his worldview is warped by his greed.
Ezra Klein is proof that when a pundit's main goal is to rush out a hot take to try to use a tragic news event to grab as much attention for himself as possible, it can go very wrong. One can rightly condemn an act of violence without venerating the political project of the victim.
Republicans hate America and they determined to destroy it. People need to wake the fuck up.
Kirk was a Jan 6 instigator as well
Newsom wanting us to continue Kirk’s work and Polis saying flags are going half mast for Kirk on the same day someone shot up a Colorado high school are definitely choices. No clue what Shapiro has done other than cover up a murder.
Because he tacitly approved of it? That seems to be the message here
Shapiro didn't put flags at half mast when Minnesota lawmakers were assassinated just 3 months ago.
Shapiro is a Weimar liberal, confirmed
Josh Shapiro deciding that the flag should be flown at half mast for - let’s be clear - A RIGHT WING ACTIVIST WHO HAS NO GOVERNMENT OR CIVIC ROLE - is fucked up!!!
Same with every new outlet and shit poster on bsky