Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
WSJ when an American conservative gets killed versus when Arab children get killed:
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This all changes so so rapidly, but as of 6:30 PM on Sunday night, the argument appears to be “every bad quote of Charlie Kirk’s has been taken out of context, and with thoughtful critical analysis you’ll see there’s nothing wrong with them, but if you posted them online, you should lose your job”
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 ♥️
'Hacks' star Hannah Einbinder delivers a message as she accepts her award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series at the Emmys
"Never mess with Dad before coffee."❤️😻 Hope you understand Nagasaki 🤣🤣🤣
The Green Bay Packers had a moment of silence for Charlie Kirk, the same NFL that kicked Colin Kaepernick out for social injustice.
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
Every time I read an editorial in the Washington Post in which the geniuses over there predict how someone will act in office, I remember this.
Williams was a photographer for Jet magazine. He took the photo himself. The OG selfie. Iconic. Orangeburg, South Carolina, 1956
And why, Chris, did you correctly use an apostrophe to indicate a possessive ("Victim's"), but fail to use one for any of the three contractions you wrote? That's not very professional. Did that key break while you were typing? You seem to be struggling with both contractions and retractions today.
Furthermore, it's "If a Democrat WERE assassinated."
So he'll come back from a vacation early for THAT.
This is a THREAD of people NOT FIRED. bsky.app/profile/atru...
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Dammit, I knew I'd left out a cliché.
Need a new box in the bottom…doxxing those who post Kirk’s actual bigoted words & try to get them fired.
The MET police used Live Facial Recognition cameras at Notting Hill Carnival but not todays Far Right Riot. Why? Clearly the higher risk was today.
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
That's what happened to the White Rose movement, too: a university janitor reported them. The Gestapo, far from being the ultra-efficient intelligence agency it presented itself as, relied very heavily on "denunciations" (i.e. snitching) from nazi-supporting members of the public.
Probably not, but if he does (or learns that it does), he hates (or will hate) that too.
Three possibilities: 1) The video has been flipped horizontally. 2) The video is from one of the many countries where you drive on the left side of the road. 3) The driver is crazy, but fortunately not crazy enough to run over a baby.
The cat's out of the bag, too - AND he can't get the toothpaste back in the tube!
For Charlie Kirk’s sake, we should all tone down the political rhetoric, right?
I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!
That was wild! 4 singles (incl. a bunt), a throwing error on the bunt, and an interference call, to make up 2 runs and then walk off. ALL that in the bottom of the 9th, AFTER the drama of giving up a run but then getting out of further trouble by thwarting a steal attempt in the top of the inning.
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
"I get to do whatever I want. Everyone else has to do whatever I say." If you think that sounds like something a bratty six-year-old would shout, you're right on the money, and that's all right-wing politics boils down to.
Angry, vicious goldfish, they are.
They are attacking the Police again, at the 'peaceful march'. Imagine if Pro Palestine supporters did this (they never do), they would all be instantly in jail.
Now where have I heard this before? Oh yeah...
Kindergartener hoarding crayons to make great landlord one day
Fascists are famous for turning on each other: night of the long knives, the wehrmacht executed WAY more of its own soldiers than the Western Allies did of their own soldiers, and the rate of executions within the ess-ess was even higher.
quite a feat to effortlessly make bill maher look like the smarter one in 2025 but here we are, ben shapiro
This you? Just two hours later?
Imagine seeing the wave of firings for insufficient deference to Charlie Kirk (in some cases by merely quoting him), then watching right-wing influencers demand state and personal violence for speech, all based on a false assumption . . . and then writing this. www.noahpinion.blog/p/the-bluesk...
The retraction is meaningless. The cat's outta the bag. The horse has left the stable. There's no way to get the toothpaste back in the tube.
Brian Kilmeade wants to murder unhoused Veterans then?
Carter helped clean up after the world's first reactor meltdown, even.
Hamberder
He has also met some of his favourite actors and clearly been under the impression that said actors were their TV show characters in real life.
Blaming Islamic terrorism didn't come completely out of the air; the WTC bombing was two years before OKC. Nevertheless, the right did indeed call for blood w/o any facts, then downplayed desperately when reality hit. That habit went supernova after 9/11.
And he did not act alone. Part of downplaying the white man angle was portraying him as a crazed lone wolf, rather than admitting that he was part of an extremely violent (and growing) white supremacist movement.
Think about how many individual, non-political murders are pinned on immigrants & minorities, only for the kiler to be revealed as a waspman. It's such a thing that waspmen who murder will tell investigators it was a PoC to take the heat of themselves, because they know that works.
Even accidents are blamed on outsiders. That goes back to at least 1844, when a brilliant Swedish immigrant naval engineer was unjustly blamed for the fatal cannon explosion on USS Princeton.
it really is astonishing how quickly it goes from “civil war” and “blood in the streets” to “wow guys it’s just a sad tragedy” when it becomes inconvenient
[the shooter is unidentified] the left must be purged with the sword [the shooter is, again, a compulsive masturbator who loved Hitler] I believe it was pascal who said that the heart has reasons that reason may not know
Lowering the flags on 9/11 at the Guantanamo Bay McDonald's for Charlie Kirk is the most dril tweet thing that's ever happened
“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism.” The Trump DOJ scrubbed this study from their website.
NEW: A timeline of how false “transgender ideology” claims spread in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing. By @hencarnell.bsky.social, @msjpauly.bsky.social, and me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
It is wildly unusual for lower-court judges to so publicly express frustration with the Supreme Court’s *behavior* (versus, say, a confusing ruling in a specific case). But the number of *different* examples is completely unprecedented—and pretty powerful evidence that something is seriously wrong.
Amazing voice. Too bad he's such an arsehole.
No, no, no - he pivoted from transphobic BS to blatant racism just before he got hit.
In that time, he might have managed to collect some commas to use in his post.
Governor of Utah, "I was praying that it was an immigrant." The USA is a hellhole, to smear immigrants like this on stage in front of the whole country when they had nothing to do with it. This is disgusting.
He's really broken up about it 😐
Charlie Kirk treated gratitude like it’s a hate crime.
It wasn't domestic terrorism, but there was the '93 WTC bombing, too.
one of my earliest memories was hearing the Oklahoma city bombing from miles away
American political violence
ICE says officers were conducting a "targeted law enforcement activity" when an officer shot a man during a traffic stop. via @wbez.org
Americans confused as Brazil convicts far right autocrat who attempted a coup
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
Now that Kirk's killer seems to be caught, maybe the news could spare a moment's attention for the right wing, from the commentariat up to the GOP and president, whose immediate reaction was not mourning, but to seize the opportunity to try to incite violence against groups they hate
White supremacy in a nutshell. www.qasimrashid.com/p/a-white-ma...
How about that.
This is the guy who is supposed to be in charge.
Let's Roll.
Just a reminder, for like... no reason at all that Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, BTK killer, Golden State Killer, Green River Killer, among many, many others had wives & children. It's almost as if being a husband & father doesn't make you inherently good or erase the harm you've caused? Wild!
Ngl, I popped back over to Twitter just for this cuz I knew it was gonna piss some people off.
This is also the exact vibe of Charlie Kirk obituaries. Nary a mention of how he said he’d hypothetically force his daughter to deliver her rapist’s baby at age 10
Lisa Murkowski is beyond pathetic.
Remember how CBC dedicated an entire call-in show to "The US is going to annex us. What are your thoughts on that?" and they had Kevin O'Leary on as an 'expert'? And they doubled and tripled down, defending their decision to do that? CBC, he does not respect you. Why do y'all respect him?!
JUST IN: Brazil’s top court sentences former President Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and 3 months in prison over his attempted coup
Witnesses Assumed Charlie Kirk Shooter Was Just Ordinary Gunman On School Campus
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Pretty god-damned rude to wear sunglasses at a memorial, isn't it? Even if your eyes are open behind them.
This is the person they are suspending people over btw
Someone shot up my kid's school today, and our governor is paying tribute to a guy who thought that is an acceptable price to pay for having the Second Amendment. Jared Polis has failed Colorado.
If you've experienced domestic violence or supported DV survivors, you'll recognize the walking on eggshells dynamic. SSHHHH be quiet, make yourself small, don't anger them so they don't lash out again or further...
Maybe fash influencers will now scramble to achieve martyrdom, as they perceive charlie to have done yesterday. No better way to fake a purity test, prove your bona fides, and gain the ultimate street cred than to arrange for someone to blow you away in front of a crowd.
He got a toofer! He died: 1) Spewing hatred - his last words amounting to "let me pivot from transphobic BS to racism." 2) Putting his money where his mouth was re: gun deaths being an acceptable price for keeping the 2nd amendment.
He's talking about how the nazis will react to this.
Damn I guess some dreams really do come true.
All their rivers come down from the Himalayas, so there's a good chance that water's ice cold.
Imperial Boomerang & whatnot.
"school shooting industry"
Gladys looks like a boxing coach watching her charges working on speed bags.