I'm beginning to think that the Trump administration does not actually have a legal justification for the premeditated killing of the people aboard that vessel...
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I'm beginning to think that the Trump administration does not actually have a legal justification for the premeditated killing of the people aboard that vessel...
Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.
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I think the damage might already be done bro
You get better speed upwind than going with it, usually. (Happened today sailing in 8-10 knots...going with the wind, the wind speed in your sails drops...painfully slow downwind and near max hull speed on the upwind legs, as your own forward motion adds or subtracts from the wind in your sails.)
Can't believe they don't want to stay in a place that will put them in chains, parade them in front of cameras, then hold them in dirty overcrowded cells for over a week while threatening them and making racist jokes.
Troll..just block em and move on!
ICE threw me and other protestors to the ground on Friday because we dared to stand up for our neighbors. I’m okay, but our communities aren’t. We can't afford apathy or inaction from our leaders right now. Abolishing ICE is a moral necessity.
This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions
Interesting!
"When black parents petitioned for desegregated schools during the summer of 1955, for instance, [the local Citizens Council] published the names and publicly called for the petitioners to be placed on an employers' blacklist." Where Charlie Kirk and his fans got some of their ideas...
It’s horrific and inexplicable. Donald Trump and RFK Jr. are objectively pro-cancer. They’re destroying the entire infrastructure that has made so much progress and is poised to make much more. People will suffer and die because of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...
People have got to stop framing existential threats to our democracy in terms of simple policy disagreements
It'd be great if Dem leaders would say, "violence is never the answer...and it would really be nice if the Republicans and the right would also condemn political violence when it happens to us, too." And it would be great also if the media woke the eff up to this abuse of rhetoric by the right.
Sunday post: People are more likely to support partisan violence if they think the other party does too This gives us an incredibly powerful tool for reducing mass political violence: Sharing the real (very low) numbers on how many people actually support it www.gelliottmorris.com/p/people-are...
Depressing.
We really need a trans anti-defamation league that is laser focused on making the lives of people who make shit up about us as miserable as legally possible. The omnicause has enough organizations. One specifically for this purpose isn't going to make or break Middle East peace.
Is this who @jay.bsky.team is taking ban orders from?
I feel this thread. Sigh.
Ezra Klein, watch this.
"Racism is a system of oppression, but alongside that it is a system of enforced ignorance and delusion."
You will be totally unsurprised that @jamellebouie.net has written the most sensible & accurate take on all of this. We need to be able to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. Political violence is bad & should be condemned. And far right authoritarianism is bad & should be condemned.
Is it a good sign that Nvidia can't find enough customers for their cloud compute service? Also, pretty cool to sell GPUs to Amazon then immediately pay to rent them back, also shows a strong and healthy industry
maybe 2024 should have been a massive reagan like landslide but instead was extremely close because trump is a terrible candidate.
in which case we should seriously consider the possibility that trump didn't so much pull in minority men as he managed to alienate women who otherwise would have voted for him given how unpopular incumbents were.
*hard side-eye at gen X though* TG we're a tiny gen...
Numerous government and elected officials are taking their protection of Charlie Kirk’s legacy a step further, indicating they’ll use the power of their offices to discourage, punish, or, in some cases, fire anyone who speaks ill of him
I had this CD and practically wore it out (yes I know that's not how CDs work, it was a joke!). I have Counting Crow's playlists still on my streaming service. Also am an old.
The Charlie Kirk vigil in Huntington Beach tonight drew Neo-Nazis, GDL, and Patriot Front members who at first wanted to “Unite the Right” but then beat the crap out of a guy for not being far right enough.
Top *eight* articles on NYT devoted to Charlie Kirk, top one asks if he will be remembered like MLK. This is a man who only a tiny percent of Americans had even heard of before his death, whose views are too nasty for NYT to detail. But they are trying so hard to turn into martyr.
This is excellent advice.
I’m sure when they talk about “carrying on Charlie Kirk’s work” they mean all that feel-good stuff about reaching across the aisle that the pundits made up and not his record of pushing the racist great replacement theory or doxxing teachers for wrongthink, right? Right?
When the AI slop makes you look like a moronic piece of shit racist.
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
The White House Bid to Turn the Charlie Kirk Murder into Their Anti-Trans Jihad www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/14/t...
They look like they're plotting...
This post that a friend of my partner's shared on FB potentially explains the Kristin Chenoweth thing, and is frightening.
If it hasn't happened already, he's going to get someone KILLED. Never mind that many have already been fired. Often for just QUOTING Kirk's own disgusting words.
No law enforcement dept has EVER released photos and videos to the public to see if they can get any leads!
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
@kilmeade is what happens when a junior varsity stormtrooper makes a wish upon a can of bronzer to become a tongue in a world of unlicked boots
Cancel culture cool now
Am I feeling like this is the second time recently a FOX News host called for lethal injection for some group of people? Or am I going mad?
Wow has SHE really just...doubled and tripled down. "But that wasn't his exact quote!" yells the defeated Atlantic journalist. Over and over and over.
Failed at capitalism? We've got a final solution for that.
This week has really crushed my last dregs of hope that legacy news organizations can become capable of meeting the moment.
Miller is so, very hungry for a Reichstag fire he can use. He can *taste* it.
Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.
Ooooh who's doing cancel culture again? What a bunch of snowflakes. Every accusation is a confession.
Trump in public: If SCOTUS takes away my illegal tariffs it'll be the Great Depression all over again!!! Trump's White House in private: We'll be lucky if they do. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
It's telling that something like UBI is way more popular than things like food assistance etc. There was an article I reread on occasion about liberal vs conservative concepts of fairness that comes into play here...
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NASA workers were told to "drop everything" and spend their time scrubbing mentions of women in leadership, indigenous people, and environmental justice from the web: www.404media.co/nasa-dei-dro...
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
And we are all one twist of fate away from becoming vulnerable.
This is very good, though a hard read.
instructors! today is a good day to ask yourself this question again
But lets get to Weiss and The Free Press. Here is their key claim. Universities are the main culprits behind American political violence - no other potential sources mentioned - akin to radical madrassas training terrorist. This is truly insane rhetoric from an outfit about to take over CBS News.
Well, that's a sum-up for sure. And... "A machinery of government control — of speech, cities, civil society — is being built, and is being built to be used." I think this was practice run. They're desperate for a Reichstag fire, that much is plain.
From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!
There's a Target literally around the corner from me, with grocery, it was always "oh crap need X, let me just zip over to the Target" and now...nope. I'm white, but I live in a majority-minority city. Dude. Foot, shot.
So many toilets!
This kind of shit is why I no longer am on FB (I mean my account still exists but I don't go there). So much slop, misinformation, just all over the place.
*husband and father
She could have kept that shit out of it. Just talked about him as husband father. The fact she didn't...she's USING his death as much as the rest of them are! Disgusting.
You cannot understand politics in the United States in 2025 without understanding Gamergate. It is the Rosetta Stone for our current nightmare.
One does not need to believe in the supernatural/invisible sky man spying on you for meaning, deep or otherwise. 🙄
"the arts and hobbies aren’t substitute for most when the deeper questions of meaning creep in" Eff off with that crap. Knock it off. Atheist here. I have PLENTY of deep meaning in my life with "art and hobbies." And the friends I share them with. It doesn't result in nihilism FFS.
The Dark Ages (1314-2262)
Fuuuuuuuuuuck. Can states (the good ones anyway) step in? At some level?
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.
Chris Rufo has spent his entire career railing against "principled, legal, nonpartisan" institutional processes. Most recently he directly facilitated the purge of trans intelligence analysts from government. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...
going from "transgender ideology" to "look at the poor misguided white kid" without even taking a breath, unconscionable
I obviously have nothing but contempt for how Kirk lived his life, but he was a human being. Tyler Robinson allegedly violated his humanity by killing him and now his erstwhile allies are violating his humanity again by kicking him to the curb once his carcass serves no purpose to them.
Reagan was the target of a horrific assassination attempt in the 80s. numerous murders of abortion doctors and clinic personnel in the 90s. one of the (many) problems w/ the pundit class is that the core demand for treating everything as a trend piece requires a systematic erasure of history.
Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked...
Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work
Queue another firing...
I mean, hell, Dems already (bizarrely) backed themselves into being (too) nice about Kirk. Demanding condemnation of the groypers from Rs is both a moral imperative and actually doing right by the dead. When they don't, it exposes the hollowness of the right's initial response to Kirk's murder.
What if the real treasure was the pronouns we made along the way? I'm sorry, it's dark humor all the way down today. I'm mentally broken.
On X everyone misread this part of the arrest report and thinks it means Tyler Robinson said Charlie Kirk spread hate. The relative said that, not the shooter himself.
It's that time of year...open the forward hatch for airflow, close the forward hatch cuz it's chilly, then open it again...🙄 Next weekend I'm doing an overnight and the nights are CHILLY and the heater only works on shore power so, extra blankets it'll be! Like fall camping. #sailing #sailboats
Bomb threats against three Oregon State Senators. A bomb threat against an Everett (MA) City Council member. A bomb threat against the DNC headquarters in DC. All this in 24 hours. Need I go on? This is what MAGA is after Kirk—exactly the same mob as it was before yesterday.
And that wasn't a full list—not even close. Bomb threat against the Rhode Island Senate President. Bomb threat against the Rhode Island Majority Leader. Bomb threat against the New Mexico Senate Majority Leader. Once again, all Democratic victims, all suspected MAGA perpetrators.
Just, damn.
Since we got round one, 12 years ago, I've watched as many neighbors have added them over the years. I'm happy to see new installs, it's gratifying.
(The better efficiency at capturing solar is why the last spot that gets a half day of sun even has an ROI!!)
In about 8-10 years I'll replace the SSE facing roof with new panels, cuz omg they've gotten SO MUCH BETTER since we got them 12 years ago.
Two rounds of panels on my roof, 1st on the optimal SSE roof I have, 2nd round on E/W roofs...TG I have them. Air source heat pumps for AC/heat. Considering another round of solar but unsure the payback is worth it...tho the quote we got calculated it would have ROI, just slower.
WTF? That language. Horrific.
Interesting thread/theory, and would fall in the “intra-faction conflict” part of my MAGA Map analysis open.substack.com/pub/asharang...
That...that's exactly it.
One task I wanted to do on the boat today was unstick the rusting pin holding the anchor on the roller... it's BAD not to be able to deploy the anchor in emergency. Took a wire brush to it. Wiggles out now. Also stabbed myself with said wire brush 2x. Also knees on bowsprit HURT. #sailing #sailboat
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