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Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.
The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?
We're hearing a lot of moral reckoning over the murder of a GOP activist that wasn't heard a few weeks back when an ELECTED State Legislator and her spouse and dog were murdered. Murder is either wrong, or it isn't. You don't get to have it both ways.
The U.S. government actually paid American farmers not to grow food for many decades. (Not saying it's a good thing - quite the contrary, but deliberate food waste on many levels is a Very American Thing.)
Tofu is actually not "super processed."
40% of Missourians voted for Kamala Harris last year and we get only one representative in Congress.
Stephen Miller: You will live in exile. The power of law enforcement under President Trump's leadership will be used to find you, will be used to take away your money, take away your power and if you have broken the law, take away your freedom Sounds like a typical fascist
This exchange says it all.
US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.
You're still expecting logical consistency?! I'm old enough to remember Phyllis Schlafly touring the country, preaching that a woman's place is in the home. (And her gay son, who was devoted to her & was her lifelong assistant while she preached about the "sin of homosexuality.")
"Let's put [Liz Cheney] with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her, okay? Let's see how she feels about it, you know, when the guns are trained on her face." — Donald Trump, October 31, 2024
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.
I've never had a reaction to any vaccination, other than a somewhat sore arm from the 1st shingles vax (not yet due for the second).
It's a really superficial thing, IMO.
Oh, don't you look GREAT!
Grok is being sent to the reeducation camp
I've decided to root for two colors instead of just one, and I still can't do any good.😭
She is gorgeous in that kimono.
It's not "learned" as such. As with most things, it's a combination of genetic predisposition & experiences (generally in early childhood).
I wonder what percentage of us don't have any reaction at all to vaccinations? I'm one of the lucky ones.
korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in
Frederick the Great. Freddy for short.
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How priceless is this?! 😂 #CharlieKirk
Missy had the most beautiful eyes, and was such a presence. My sincere condolences.
I find it depressing that Obama did everything right in terms of always reaching out and trying to unite and we got Trump. The contrast between Obama singing "Amazing Grace" for the victims of the Charleston church shooting and Trump and MAGA promising retaliation for Kirk couldn't be more stark.
one of the most interesting facts about russ vought’s life, to me, is that NIH research is the reason his daughter had access to life changing drug to treat her cystic fibrosis. vought, of course, is the architect of the administration’s war on science. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
Meghan wants so badly to be Important.😭
His comments were made Wednesday The apology came four days later? Only after he was caught? Brian Kilmeade has been saying hateful, incendiary, unforgivable things on the same show since 1998 Fox and Rupert Murdoch did nothing about this, or him Verdict? Fraud apology. Fraud person. Fraud Fox
Oh, Bill. 😑
You might want to use a photo of the current SCOTUS, rather than one from years ago.
This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.
He seems pissed off that he was forced to "apologize."
Charlie Kirk isn’t a martyr. He’s a casualty of the violence he incited.
People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police
Isn't it drawn in with a magic marker?! I could swear it was drawn in with a magic marker. Also, I think he is sexually conflicted, judging from the pose in the tiny shorts & hoodie where he looks like a pubescent girl trying awkwardly to be alluring.
Not surprising, is it, when one thinks about it?! All that obsession with other people's genitalia. Also, I would assume, discomfort with their own sexuality.
Ha! I wasn't the only one who saw that!
How, exactly, was he "growing"? Were any of his views evolving to be less hateful? Being willing to talk at people because he felt confident in his ability to talk over them & score what his fans considered "points" does not constitute "engagement." Interesting that this needs to be explained.
The Valhalla comment was just the cherry on top. (I had to explain to my sister how white supremacists hijacked the whole Norse mythology for their own purposes.)
When someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death.
It's interesting that the assassination of a Democratic legislator & her husband, and the attempted assassination of another Democratic legislator & his wife just a coup!e of months ago didn't constitute a "really big test."
I just think if your definition of civility is about the volume and tone of speech and ignores the content of the speech you probably need to start over
I'm so sorry! It's something I've always been paranoid about too.
That was amazing!
They thought they had their excuse to start a civil war, and now they won't give up on it. Against all evidence, they're still claiming the shooter was a leftist/liberal. Their hatred and racism trumps reality.
OMD! Look at you MOVE!!!
Erick Erickson was intellectually dishonest even before Trump's political rise, but he's really ramped up the dishonesty since.
musk is a man baby who feels victimized by everything, even though he's the richest man in the world. He & trump, nominally the most powerful man in the world, are the same in this regard. It's truly amazing how pathetic they both are.
There's a tendency to automatically assume that women who are married to bad men are victims, rather than that they chose those men.(Strangely, that benefit of the doubt is seldom extended to men in similar situations.) I tend to see women as fully actualized individuals, much like men are.
The obvious gun worship is a huge clue that this was not a family of happy, healthy, well adjusted people. But Megyn can't see beyond the white, solidly upper middle class facade.
For the sake of their children, I hope that you're right about what kind of person she is, and that I'm wrong.
You're moving out into the country? He'll love that!
What makes you think she's being used?! Her husband made many millions peddling hate; she knows what makes money.
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.
Regarding the Fox News crisis in which its morning show host Brian Kilmeade called for mass murder of the homeless This was early Wednesday morning. This PRECEDED the Utah shooting. This preceded the orgy on the right claiming the left is violent www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
what we’ve seen from the right is the most insane case of cancel culture i’ve ever witnessed. the left has never even done close to a fraction of a fraction of what they want to do now
NIH funding cuts could have far-reaching consequences beyond individual researchers. Reduced funding may slow innovation, weaken the scientific workforce and increase long-term health care costs, according to health policy researchers 🩺 🧪 theconversation.com/proposed-cut...
🧪You don’t have to be surprised but you do have to keep up: In a shift of longstanding precedent, political appointees, not scientists, will ultimately decide who gets grant money from the world’s largest biomedical research funder: National Institutes of Health. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
And, in the meantime, Brian Kilmeade on Fox 'news' advocates for the wholesale murder of homeless people without any pushback from his co-hosts, much less any disciplinary action being taken against him. What a country.
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
This is one of the first things the Nazis did. And yet these people are offended when we call them Nazis.
They don't get clothes clean. I work outside, so my clothes get dirty, but not to the extent that my parents' (farmers) clothes got dirty. Those simple machines back then did their job; today's machines do not.
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...
She really does spend most of her time attacking Democrats. I guess it gets her clicks.
Remember that this was happening just as the right (and the useful idiots of the non-right) was swollen with performative celebrations of how Charlie Kirk was the hero of free speech
When someone quotes Leviticus saying gay people should be stoned to death, and calls that "God's perfect law," it's accurate to say they called for gay people to be stoned to death.
It's so awesome that you can literally make a list of professors to be fired and call for people like Medhi Hasan to be deported and the entire media will memorialize you as someone who believed in the spirit of disagreement
I am sure legacy media will whitewash this too.
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem
But don’t call them Nazis.
"Involuntary lethal injection" of the homeless?! This Fox host is calling for the mass murder of homeless people, and he remains on air?!?!
The more of these I watch, the more I can understand dedicating a sizeable portion of one's life to building these runs.
OMD!!!
We've moved backwards to 1490.
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
JB Pritzker: “Do you carry with you citizenship papers? How do you prove to somebody that you’re a US citizen? Your accent? The color or your skin? That’s not the country we live in. You shouldn’t have to walk around with papers the way they did in Nazi Germany”
No, no, no. It's not about the white guy who shot the white guy. It's about the white guy who got shot. Any time a white guy who hates Black people gets shot, it's the fault of Black people. That's even/especially true if the white guy who shot the white guy also hates Black people.
Ah, the Evita of the far right.
Is Momma carrying you, or pulling you in the wagon?
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds Dangerous times
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"
It's understandable that a white guy killing another white guy is the final straw for white guys, after all those centuries of oppression white guys have had to suffer.
If I were your parent I would have gotten back at you by being somewhat graphic about how much we were enjoying the toys we purchased from the "book." THAT would have taught you a lesson.
Grifters gotta grift.
Japan Times Editorial: "The fact that only the U.S. suffers this level of firearm-related violence renders specious the claim that this problem cannot be addressed through gun control." www.japantimes.co.jp/editorials/2...
Yesterday, Adam from South Dakota called my SiriusXM show to say Charlie Kirk was unalived b/c people on the left use words like racism or facism to describe folks like Charlie. That call did not end the way he thought it would. #TrollSlay: Words Hold Power youtu.be/BEcoVzaEOP4
I wish I had even a third of your ability to formulate & express rational, cohesive arguments on the fly.
So, completely fabricated accusations.
Pulte should resign
