Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
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Extremist murders by ideology, 2013 to 2022. www.pbump.net/o/reassessin...
said it yesterday but the people who commit this violence increasingly show us that they deeply understand how our information ecosystems process it. It appears to be part of the appeal for them. And yet the response doesn't really change. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Scientists: It’s do or die time for America’s primacy exploring the Solar System arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
internet culture desks aren't just for cute meme trend stories. ever since gamergate, understanding how and why info moves online is critical to seeing how we got *here*
New life to the Frick Collection, the Waldorf, and the grand Lord & Taylor building on 5th (miss L&T!) nypost.com/2025/09/12/l...
stressed about the news lately? look at today’s gorgeous new hubble image of a nebula in the large magellanic cloud, the galaxy’s second-largest star-forming region 🌌
The MAGA right says Charlie Kirk is a martyr for freedom of expression, but still want people to lose their jobs for criticizing his rhetoric.
Just watched WOMEN OF WORLD WAR II (2025) on PBS Passport. The next time someone spouts off about “warrior culture," recommend this salute to the women who contributed to Victory. Kudos to filmmaker Eli Brown for addressing racism and Japanese-American incarceration, because truth isn’t tidy. #PBS
You know what’s a really big news story? That Trump and the far right declared war on the left last night. presswatchers.org/2025/09/top-...
This is a good read on the canonization of a racist bigot. Also this: “Every life lost to gun violence is a preventable tragedy. Our country refuses to prevent it. These shootings are not inevitable. We have chosen to live this way, under the oppressive threat of gun violence.”
Remembering Ian Holm on his birthday 🎂 📷 Trevor Leighton bromide fibre print, 19 August 1993 "He is a master of film technique. I’d heard the Ian Holm School of Acting described as follows: 'Anything you can do, I can do less of'." - Kenneth Branagh
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“Repugnant to decent people “ is well said.
“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Despite the fiction that Comcast and MSNBC execs are pushing, here is actually what happened prior to my termination at MSNBC: open.substack.com/pub/matthewd...
You’re kidding right, Lutnick? You let him fire all those people - act like a maniac with people’s lives the ability of our government to function - and just months later say, “that was wrong.” Unreal. wapo.st/462dsvz
Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.
Thank you @raskin.house.gov for the endorsement — and your courageous fight in Congress against Trump's authoritarianism. “In these times, the Democratic Party needs to stick together with the maximum solidarity and focus."
Judith Butler on being named to a list of UC Berkeley faculty & students provided to the Department of Education to be investigated for anti-semitism, w/ zero transparency about what they're being accused of or by whom. Pure McCarthyism & totally indefensible. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New: A federal judge is allowing ICE courthouse arrests in NYC to continue, denying a challenge brought by immigrant rights groups and @ACLU . But he DID block immigration judges from tossing cases to reduce caseload — a limited win for the groups. More coming @courthousenews.bsky.social
There has been a concerted effort over the last decade by newsrooms to destroy the capacity to correctly report on the unique threat of the deeply online right and their ties to the broader Republican fascist apparatus. It goes hand-in-hand with the institutional capture of media by the wealth class
This is a very dangerous WH. 🚩 “Stephen Miller just called the entire Dem Party a "domestic extremist organization." Miller is a close Kash Patel ally. It's likely Miller is pushing for a *much* more aggressive use of the state against the liberal left right now.” 🧵
This is why we need more experts, journalists, and researchers who understand white supremacy and radical-right wing extremism, the number one domestic terror threat in America. Also, why you need people who understand online culture. Alas. Oh, look, the woke! Get them!!
We developed these procedures and laws for a reason. They protect both the agent of the state and the citizen from the state.
Here’s I wrote about gamergate 11 years ago. Almost nobody major in the media got what this was or why it mattered. “Eh, it’s just nerdy Online Drama.” The difference now? The cluelessness remains, fewer publications & reporters—& gamergate took over the country. www.huffpost.com/entry/anita-...
I know it's not exactly breaking news that some "free speech" warriors are total hypocrites, but I still feel it's important to call it out when it happens.
Tragic situation, and I hope for a swift recovery by the officer, who was reportedly struck and sustained "severe injuries." But this raises the obvious question; were the officers in uniforms and driving marked vehicles, or were they wearing plainclothes and facemasks and driving unmarked cars?
Something that being a scientist, a skeptic, or hell even a progressive, teaches you is to embrace subtlety. Context. Not everything is black/white, left/right, binary. But media has hammered "it's either this or that" for so long I'm not sure they can even understand nuance any more.
She-Ra looks like a wonderful, sweet dog, already house trained. At Humane Society of Westchester, where we got Ella and Darwin. Good with other dogs. My building doesn’t allow pit bulls. www.petfinder.com/dog/she-ra-7...
JUST IN: A federal judge in New York has blocked a Trump administration policy advising immigration judges to dismiss deportation cases from the bench — which advocates say has been a precursor to courthouse arrests. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The fringe is now the mainstream, and we can watch in real time, as the rhetoric moves from social media bleats into Trump’s inner circle, then into the Oval Office itself, and finally into official policies. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
how dare he be from a rural white conservative Christian gun-loving family.
There's a reason that, 11 years later, I still teach about Gamergate.
Remembering H. L. Mencken on his birthday 🎂 📷 Edward Steichen Vanity Fair, 1927 "Nature abhors a moron."
Taps the sign
Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot
The only way anyone could possibly read this as suggesting “trans ideology” is if they were predetermined to reach that conclusion. Which suggests pressure to conform ideologically is making law enforcement worse at their jobs.
Did any of these people actually read or listen to what Kirk actually said or did? I don’t know how you can portray someone who created a “professor watchlist” as a free speech champion or how someone who said vile things about minorities and immigrants was being civil.
He was white. He was Christian. He was from a conservative law enforcement family. He was raised with guns. IT IS TIME FOR THE VIOLENT RHETORIC AND THREATS OF FUTURE VIOLENCE TO END.
Not all Americans of Indian origin are cringeworthy idiots without dignity like Kash Patel. He gives us all a bad image.
looks like we need epstein's dad to release the client list
Seems like another case of a young white guy whose brain was soaked in a melange of internet muck.
What does it mean when the US media deifies a person who thought ending racial segregation was a mistake?
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.
A man in South Korea displays a literal and metaphorical sign of the growing global backlash to Trump's anti-immigrant crusade.
It is hard to think of a more explicit directive to the radical right than “I don’t care what you do, and in fact I agree with your motivation.” He’s already pardoned violent extremists and this is a promise to pardon more.
This is another 25th Amendment interview. Dangerous, batshit crazy, encouraging political violence and law breaking. Old man, in declining health, just shitting all over the country.....
Remind me, when Trump himself was on trial, did he want it all rushed through as quickly as possible or did he demand due process be applied to him?
Wow, what a clever procedure. I also did not know ibuprofen can be that harmful to some people.
Did not have this on my medical miracle bingo card. WOW. www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...
This is such a beautiful piece--and somehow seems particularly relevant in a moment where people think AI can replicate anything even close to the human brain.
The country has really gone to the beasts. Humanity, morality, kindness, curiosity, just plain thinking, all so easily thrown out in favor of cruelty to all but their own kind. Making lists of deviants. Dehumanizing others. “Is man no more than this? Consider him well.” (King Lear 3.4)
🔭 IRAS 04302: Butterfly Disk Planet Formation Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Webb; Processing: M. Villenave et al. apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25090...
Standing Avalokitesvara, Korea, Unified Silla period (668-935), 8th century. Gilt-bronze. Overall: 18.5 x 6.5 x 4.5 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1998.80.
The only President in history who explicitly does not consider it his job to care for all the states
Deeply cruel and enormously wasteful. About 1.5 million women & couples could have used these supplies to avoid unintended pregnancy. Instead, at taxpayer expense, the Trump administration incinerated nearly $10M worth of contraceptive supplies, despite offers from multiple orgs to distribute.
"Cuomo, genuinely friendless, has no landing spot if he loses. His political career will end. His supporters in the primary were only with him because they thought he’d win. Absent power, he offers nothing to them." Brutal take from Ross Barkan: nymag.com/intelligence...
Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/o...
have to say that i liked this one quite a bit
Troops shouldn’t be props for religious theater. Forcing service members to pray on camera — especially in service of political propaganda — is an insult to their freedom of conscience and to the Constitution they swore to uphold.
The thing that really gets me is that in addition to this not being in Volpe’s fitness and health, Boone’s basically hung him out to dry till now with Yankees fans believing Volpe’s just been inexcusably awful
Indeed. Patriarchy and toxic masculinity. Kirk then gets murdered in Utah 🤦♀️ #yankees #kirk
We had cupcakes and coffee today. Too much going on, plus 9/11. Just trying to get through the day. ☕️🧁❤️ #NYC
Monsters
#trump seeing #Yankees #Tigers #Game tonight. Let's give him a good #Bronxcheer
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what we need in this moment is a President who can speak to the nation and call for the temperature to be turned down, to unite us together, and to propose bipartisan gun reform to help stem the tide of violence. The exact wrong person is the White House to do this.
Always read @errollouis.bsky.social
Visit From JD Vance Last Thing Utah Needs Right Now
Oh come on, now. Have we now created a class of people and ideas that our nation mandates are above reproach? Is the idea of free speech dead? Are we creating a new class of MAGA saints and a new definition of political sacrilege?
You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...
Evergreen:
I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk. First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it. /1
Shameful. The award means nothing now.
what the actual f--- who the hell would take leaks from the administration at face value at this point?
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You know what would be good FBI experience for identifying violent criminals in a large crowd? The agents who investigated January 6. Who have been/are being fired.
This is a very Nazi thing to say, actually.
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.
We remember 9/11 not only on this day, but every day—in the empty seats at our tables, in the loved ones still suffering from illness, in a skyline forever changed. And we recommit ourselves to building a future worthy of the courage and sacrifice of those we lost.
Mourn and condemn all gun deaths. The victims are not to blame. I grieve the children victims, who at their death still had a promising future to live anonymous, ordinary lives or rise to achieve good for all humanity, not just a narrow few.
Eulogies are communal, they're about values. We praise a person for how they lived their life because they embodied the values that we cherish. The person has died, but our values live on. Equally when we condemn how a person failed to live up to our communal values. They become a lesson, abject.
Quite a first story. Great, careful reporting.
EXCLUSIVE/BOMBSHELL: @bloomberg.com has obtained **18K** previously unreported emails from Jeffery Epstein's personal Yahoo account. The emails are disturbing & revelatory & reveal new details about Ghilaine Maxwell's role FREE to read www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
You know who DJT did not want to lower the US Flag at the WH for? Senator John McCain President Jimmy Carter
Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was
Oh no. Stop this horror.
Producer/animator Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972)
You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.
The WTC is part of our neighborhood, this morning the safest place on the planet. NYPD, FDNY everywhere, streets blocked off. Luckily they left open Ella’s 🐶 favorite strip of grass across from ground zero. A young man asked an officer “What’s going on?” He replied “9/11.” #NYC
Ella and I stopped to gaze at the Hudson River, where on 9/11 all the ferries and boats converged to rescue people fleeing from the attack. This morning, an NYPD boat patrols. #NYC #LowerManhattan
Not gonna lie, would read the romance novel with this story in it.
I love this dog. 🩷
I’d think what you’d want during a highly volatile, politically polarized time marked by violence is a president who can appeal to our common values and humanity and inspire calm and unity, rather than promising revenge. If you cared about the collective well-being of the country, that is