“The trend in recent years has been for the great majority of extremist-related murders to be connected to some form of right-wing extremism. That is also true for 2024: for the third year in a row, all the murders identified were tied to right-wing extremism.” www.adl.org/resources/re...
The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either
I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.
Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”
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.
Just realized this actually ran a day before the shooting.
Why are so many in the media and on the right trying to suppress something that was important to Charlie Kirk?
The right invented a fictional left-wing boogeyman that fueled bomb threats and chaos — and no one will face consequences. Meanwhile, people on the left who told the truth about the victim’s life work lost their jobs.
This is a firing offense. Bill Pulte must go.
Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
How it started. How it’s going
Right winger gets murdered: he was the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived Right winger ends up being the murderer: he was also the kindest, gentlest boy who ever lived
I'll never forget what Ezra Klein said about someone who sought to end democracy in the US and eliminate people outside their shared circles.
In summary: The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk. It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for. Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.
This is simply untenable. There is no way forward with media and political classes captured by the right. Every time someone commits a crime you have to pray it's not an undesirable or it's purge time, then when it turns out to be themselves again they just shrug and wait for the next one.
The suspect’s grandma weighs in. Wow. (Via The Daily Beast). via MeidasTouch on Facebook.
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
Pulte should resign
Just gonna leave this here:
Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative
If you didn’t vote for Harris you did.
“We got him!” Really? That’s the line? His father turned him in. You received him.
So after two straight days of Republicans saying trans people and the Left did this, threatening full on violence, it turns out the suspect is a politically unaffiliated white dude who was trained to use guns by his Republican law enforcement dad? Do I have that right?
“We have to get over it” -DJT, after Perry, Iowa school shooting.
This is who Charlie Kirk was. 😳👇
They are not calling for an end to political violence. They are, and will continue to be, calling for violence to be ramped up.
fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.
You're getting a clear X-ray of America right now. Look at who this country's powerful institutions choose to elevate, venerate, and celebrate. Look at the double standards. Look at the people who adore Charlie Kirk - then spend five minutes reviewing his hateful legacy. This is America.
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
Americans have short memories—keep reminding them. PLEASE SHARE!
hey the people that stormed the capitol and erected gallows to murder elected leaders want you to know that political violence is not ok
For those of you who are keeping score.
Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankees’ moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what we’re seeing right now is too f*cking much.
He’s yours. You voted for him.
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.
What happened to Charlie Kirk is also what happened to 20 children (ages 6 and 7) at the Sandy Hook Elementary School. I don’t remember the right being this upset back then—do you? 🤨
“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.
Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
You guys put podcast hosts in charge of the FBI and fired all the competent agents because you thought they were woke.
This is one of the many, many reasons we should all condemn the celebration of political violence, as Kirk did here: You often don't get to decide when to dismount the tiger. It eats you first.
How do we know Trump didn’t order Kirk’s assassination as a distraction from Epstein — and a tactic to start the civil unrest he needs to declare Martial Law and delay the 2026 midterms?
Imagine scolding people laughing at the 'it's good to die from gun violence because it gives us unfettered access to guns' guy getting got by a gun under a sign that says prove me wrong like I'm sorry grow up
I do not understand the mindset that makes liberals express sympathy for someone who would have absolutely celebrated if the roles were reversed, like bro, have some god damned self respect
The more white wing media at the Times and the Post try to gaslight people about what Kirk stood for, the more social media accounts, and new media journalists will continue posting receipts.
@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.
HitlerSuckfest1488: "This has radicalized me."
At some point, the white community is going to have to do something about the high rates of crime in white neighborhoods.
I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.
the people who mocked and made up shit about the attack on paul pelosi have thoughts about decorum and we should definitely take them very very seriously
This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.
It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin on American soil just weeks ago. That emboldened Putin, leading to the attacks on Poland right now. It’s not a stretch to say that Donald Trump is fanning the flames of a world war.
Do not be bullied, cowed, or shamed by bad-faith right-wing actors and MAGA that are blaming "liberals" and everyone who isn't MAGA for Charlie Kirk. Call them out for their hypocrisy. Go on offense. They are fine with political violence and mass shootings when it's against the rest of us.
Vaxxed?
The Democrats who forged Trump’s signature on that card and put it in Epstein’s papers 22 years ago to frame him when he was president in 2025 sure were diabolical.
man i dunno i just feel slightly suspicious of people who apparently were not so shaken by stuff like the Pulse or Las Vegas or Uvalde shootings and what that says about the state of the US but now suddenly have this reaction of "we're on a dark path" now that someone prominent was targeted
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Could the administration that just murdered 7 people in a boat use this as an excuse to commit violence?
You obviously have difficulty understanding the mathematics involved in choosing A versus B. Or maybe you don’t and you just like the idea of Trump running the country. That’s actually much more likely.
You like trump obvi. So you can F off.
no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
Imagine being so beholden to a false narrative that you are willing to ignore the 15 million who have died worldwide from a virus just to remain committed to a lie. It Is Well Past Time To Stop Coddling The Right's Delusional Pandemic Narrative www.wonkette.com/p/it-is-well...
We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence. Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
I know you love Trump.
I hope you enjoy your Trump.
Hope you enjoy your Trump.
I hope you like your Trump.
The mainstream media is never going to ever “do better.” It’s just going to get worse and worse. Liberals need to integrate media pressure and criticism into our politics. The press is not an ally.
So true. As if they could not understand the clear signals that Kamala was sending about Israel, as when, for example, she refused to meet with the visiting Netanyahu. She could hardly do anymore given her position.
i like this
Love your work, Aaron, but that’s not hard hitting at all. She’s completely intimidated by this bozo.
The reason so many so-called "centrist" Dems immediately started saying that Mamdani's success in NYC couldn't be duplicated elsewhere was because they are deathly afraid it will be. Authenticity, humor, youth, believability as a change agent, intelligence, ideas that help people--that's the ticket.
Tell Democrats that they cannot vote to fund the government without a provision banning ICE from detaining Latinos for the crime of being Latino. No “papers, please” checkpoints for Latinos in America. Bare friggin minimum.
Did you know that in 2021 Democrats passed a historically popular, FDR-scale kitchen-table bill that was supposed to cement Biden and the party’s majorities? Did you know that they were so sure of this that they abandoned Trump’s Senate trial for Jan. 6 to focus on this bill as a higher priority?
If ABC News said they were going to hire someone from Media Matters as their ombudsman and throw money at Daily Kos to lead their news focus not only would the administration look for ways to put Disney out of business, other news organizations would pile on at the obvious bias move. But CBS? Eh.
remember when Dems passed the overwhelmingly popular COVID stimulus bill and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER remember when Dems campaigned on protecting Social Security and received LITERALLY NO POLITICAL BENEFIT WHATSOEVER remember when they passed the infrastructure bill and r
I think we should all just assume John Roberts is compromised. Maybe he isn’t, but everything he’s done since 2023 or so is what you’d expect from someone who’s compromised.
Democrats should not and cannot fund the government without securing a statutory provision reversing the Supreme Court and banning ICE from questioning, detaining, or attacking Hispanic and Latino Americans on the basis of their ethnicity alone.
First time I’ve seen a Bluesky post go viral on Twitter
the results so far on congestion pricing in new york have been so outrageously good that opposition to it works as a convenient identifier of unserious buffoons www.reuters.com/world/us/new...
It is extremely obvious that it is not an adult woman. At least not a fully adult one.
Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.
If Democrats control Congress in 2027, they should defund the Supreme Court. Pay them their salaries and zero out the rest.
The Supreme Court says it's OK to use racial profiling to arrest immigrants. I'm wondering how this will catch all the white men in churches molesting children and the white males getting access to guns so they can shoot up schools?
the answer to "why has the supreme court gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has elon musk gone insane" is the same as the answer to "why has my uncle gone insane" which is that people mostly mirror the prevailing beliefs in their social environment and they're immersed in nazi media
You gotta wonder at the journalists who spent the past month describing that drawing as "bawdy" and "lewd" and of a "curvaceous nude woman" and such, instead of what it very obviously actually is.
Do you think that if a Dem President had been exposed with a letter like this today, that top GOP consultants would be telling their leaders to pass bipartisan budget bills and focus their messaging on popular tax cuts? It's utterly insane.
Congressional Dem leadership: uhhh bipartisanship is still good Former guys who used to work for the Bush admin: comrades, counterrevolutionary and fascistic forces surround us. We must use worker power to SMASH this reactionary state into smithereens!
What else do you all need
Get out of the way and let more qualified people lead.