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The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”
Y'know that Guardian article which cited an anonymous friend of Tyler Robinson claiming he was the only "leftist" in his family? It just got updated after the "verified source" decided he couldn't remember his "relationship" with the accused shooter well enough to be quoted
This is the person claiming that she has contacted the employers of hundreds of random people that made mean posts about Charlie Kirk on Facebook.
How do you even describe this type of behavior?
August: “Cry about it.” September: “Call their employers.”
Congresswoman Nancy Mace is talking to herself on Twitter/X.
“What once kept us silent now fuels that fire and the power of our voice,” said Epstein survivor Jess Michaels. “We are not the footnotes in some infamous predator’s tabloid article. We are the experts and the subjects of this story. We are the proof that fear did not break us.”
Two people misidentified online as suspects in the fatal shooting of right-wing US activist Charlie Kirk told me today they were terrified by the misinformation targeting them, as the manhunt for the real killer continued. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
“King County prosecutors will not criminally charge a man who fatally shot a woman in October outside her West Seattle home, saying he fired in self-defense at the former doctor who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
The relative calm that included multiple assassinations of abortion providers and bombings of abortion clinics.
NEW: Former Cambridge Analytica executive Brittany Kaiser's latest gig is CEO of crypto firm AlphaTon Capital - new research shows multiple people linked to this business have connections to Russia, and a company co-founder was a Brexit supporter, my latest:
"We have let school shootings in America persist long enough that we have created a culture where kids grow up seeing them as a path towards fame and glory." www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...
“Newsrooms had either ignored previous online flare-ups or covered them clumsily. But Gamergate spilled far beyond niche pockets, seeping into the public consciousness and into the real world in ways that demanded sustained, mainstream coverage.”
"The 16-year-old who shot and wounded two students at his high school in Evergreen, Colorado, before turning the gun on himself was 'radicalized by an extremist network.' The office did not provide details on the so-called radicalization of the shooter…"
Instead of a public retraction, the Wall Street Journal quietly adjusted its headline. Neither Emma Tucker, the editor-in-chief, nor the two reporters who wrote the original piece responded to my requests for comment. www.advocate.com/news/wall-st...
have you been letting your teen try "bit of fun" because you think it makes you a cool parent? well what if they blow up a dam? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
NEW: The University of Mississippi has fired employee Lauren Stokes over a post she shared about Charlie Kirk that called him a white supremacist and criticized his support for forcing child and adult rape victims to carry pregnancies to term.
the shooter might only be ironically trafficking in Groyper memes, that's going to take time to (maybe) sort out. But so you know the history of conflict between them and Kirk: www.dailykos.com/stories/2019...
The truth is that we live in a world in which horrific acts of violence occur on a daily basis, and the vast majority of the perpetrators and victims are not the subject of our public discourse. Maybe there’s another question that we need to answer: How?
When horrific acts of violence occur, people immediately want to know the answer to a simple question: Why? However, the answer to that question is almost never simple, and often the motivations of the perpetrators of acts of horrific are incoherent and incomprehensible.
BREAKING: US President Donald Trump has told Fox News 'I think we have him' in relation to the suspect in the shooting on Charlie Kirk reut.rs/4n16n4D
🚨BREAKING: Suspected shooter arrested in Charlie Kirk killing, Trump says
Sometimes, you end up living in the world you worked so hard to create. And in that world, the bullets are flying
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...
BREAKING: The majority of a panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices voted to convict former president Jair Bolsonaro of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat.
I wrote about Charlie Kirk and what his murder and our reaction to it says about America right now. www.altrightdelete.news/p/half-mast
Important update from New York Times: Senior investigators on the case say that the "transgender/antifa ideology" reports are "unverified, did not match other summaries of the evidence and might turn out to have been misread or misinterpreted."
FBI investigators released limited details about the bolt-action rifle recovered in Utah. They're tracing a path the alleged shooter fled on.
BREAKING: Police release photo of "person of interest" in Charlie Kirk shooting death
That moment when Richard Hanania is somehow the voice of reason on the Right.
Just last month the FBI forced out its top agent in Salt Lake City, a Pakistani American woman whom a former FBI agent describes as a “legendary case agent who was involved in some of the most significant national security cases of the last two decades.” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/rc...
I don't know what comes next. But I do know after talking with Republicans that they have a bunch of unvarnished rage, they blame Democrats and they want to see something happen to them. This is... kind of scary. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Heck of a job, Kash.
Authorities are seeking a new person of interest in Charlie Kirk's assassination. No one is currently in custody, official says.
BREAKING: Charlie Kirk's shooter remains at large after FBI Director Kash Patel says the "subject in custody" has been "released after an interrogation." Patel announced earlier in the evening that the "subject for the horrific shooting today that took the life of Charlie Kirk is now in custody."
Sometimes, you don’t have to click “post.”
The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...
Very, very bad stuff coming from leading right-wingers
We are not prepared for what comes next.
BREAKING: Authorities do not have a suspect in custody, according to a Utah Valley University spokesperson. The school previously said in an alert that police had a suspect detained.
Nothing good will come from today.
BREAKING Charlie Kirk is in critical condition at a hospital after being shot at Utah Valley University event, an AP source says.
A Batch of Undelivered WWII Letters Intended for Japanese Soldiers Ended Up in an Oregon Museum Decades Later. Now, Experts Are Returning the Lost Correspondence to Their Families
Prime Minister François Bayrou submitted his resignation Tuesday after losing a crushing confidence vote in parliament. https://to.pbs.org/47uY6AW
JUST IN: The Trump administration can withhold $4 billion in foreign aid while the Supreme Court considers its case, Chief Justice John Roberts ruled today.
Breaking news: The Supreme Court announced it will weigh the legality of most of Trump’s sweeping tariffs, a far-reaching case that could determine the fate of a cornerstone of the president’s agenda.
In the 30 days since President Trump’s D.C. takeover, daily life in the District has changed in ways big and small. Here's a timeline of what’s been going on:
"At least if you think the world is run by a cabal of dark forces, you can imagine that these evil doers could have not done that."
“What I'm really concerned about, one of the key flashpoints, would be an incident where a member of the Guard or U.S. military were to kill a protester under any circumstances whatsoever, and that would be caught on tape. That could be incredibly inflammatory.”
"The country we knew isn’t here anymore except to the extent that we knew it, and if anyone is going to remember what it meant or what it could have been, it will only be because people like you and me find a way to tell them." buttondown.com/theswordandt...
Here’s right wing internet media personality Ben Bergquam being effectively walled off from yesterday’s protest outside Naval Station Great Lakes in North Chicago by community members who have had enough of his questions about progressive caricatures.
Quentin Tarantino interviews Quentin Tarantino.
Sure seems like members of the American Academy of Pediatrics should be clearly disclosing potential conflicts when they publish research!
President Donald Trump’s “mass deportation” agenda has a surprising stakeholder: Bill Gates. The multibillionaire tech mogul and philanthropist owns a large portion of a key service provider for immigration flights. w/ @gnobes.huffpost.com www.huffpost.com/entry/bill-g...
"Scholars of Noh call it one of the oldest forms of theater still actively practiced today. Its roots go back to at least the eighth century, but Noh took its current form six centuries ago in an era of medieval warriors."
Inside the distillery crafting spirits on the edge of the world
The report indicated that the kinds of discrimination women face in ministry include gender bias, limited opportunities for leadership and adverse expectations related to work/family balance. religionnews.com/2025/09/03/w...
"The climate crisis will continue making lightning-sparked wildfires more frequent for decades to come, which could produce cascading effects and worsen public safety and public health, experts and new research suggest."
Wildfire Sweeps Through Historic California Gold Rush Town Settled by Chinese Miners
LATEST: The South Korean government is arranging for hundreds of its nationals to leave the U.S. voluntarily after they were detained in an immigration raid on a Hyundai facility, the South Korean foreign ministry say.
Breaking News: At least 12 people were killed in Nepal, officials said, during demonstrations against corruption and new government restrictions on social media platforms.
This sign is everything I needed this week.
Tiramisu might be the food equivalent of cocaine.
It was a long week. Tacos are my comfort food.
in which @zachrabiroff.com and i talk about art and authoritarianism, for the wonderful art collective @flaminghydra.com: flaminghydra.com/issue-397/?a...
Reading @michaelluo.bsky.social’s “Strangers in the Land” and was amazed to find an account of a person who arguably became the first immigration judge. After the first Chinese Exclusion Act, he heard thousands of habeas cases challenging the application of the law. This was proto-immigration law.
What about U.S. citizens Trump orders deported?
Justice Amy Coney Barrett tonight: "I don't think that we are currently in a constitutional crisis." www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...
One of the more interesting people in Oregon politics is Cyrus Javadi. He was that rarest of creatures in the Trumposcene, an actual moderate Republican. Well, he's just switched parties because he's discovered moderate Republicanism just isn't a viable thing anymore. substack.com/@cyrusjavadi...
“These are not attacks; it is almost certainly a game. The goal is to break the rudder. It's not to sink the boat. It's not to hurt anybody. It's not revenge. Believe me: if they wanted to sink the boats, they'd be sinking the boat. They are really smart.”
New Species Identified On Antarctic Seafloor that was Once Covered By a Massive Ice Sheet
Navy SEALs killed three guys diving for shellfish, knifed their lungs to sink their bodies, scuttled a secret mission against a country with 50 nuclear warheads, and then many of those involved got promoted www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u...
CBS News is giving up the power it has to hold “Face the Nation” interviewees to account. Following pressure from Trump, it has agreed not to edit interviews, even to remove false statements or propaganda uttered by political operatives and officials, or add explanatory context.
This week, I made the decision to publicly share my experience with mental health and illness, because it felt like an important step in my process of recovery and healing. I never imagined receiving the astonishing amount of love in response — I am overwhelmed by your support and generosity.
“I think that the way [HB 15] went down is a really good sign. We’re hopeful that it means it doesn’t come back again, and that we can preserve some level of transparency for all Texans, because they deserve it.”
“I really think this is an issue of politics at play, not what’s best for kids. This is clearly the governor’s political agenda, not doing what’s best for kids based on what the medical experts [say]."
Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans 20 years ago. In the years after the storm, the city became a laboratory of Frankenstein proportions for the most extreme forms of privatization and deregulation.
"From the tense exchanges during the hearing, it was apparent that senators from both parties have realized that Kennedy is living in a world defined by activists who crusade against vaccines and, for that matter, the entire enterprise of public health science."
"While these challenges are complex and daunting and we do not have solutions for many of them, we do know that young people crippled with despair and anxiety are far more likely to withdraw from society. Restoring hope is not a guaranteed solution, but it is a critical first step."
How the Brain Tells Imagination from Reality
In 2021, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely said the COVID-19 vaccine was the “deadliest vaccine ever made.” In the Sept. 4 hearing, Kennedy said that Operation Warp Speed was “genius.” (via @politifact.bsky.social) to.pbs.org/46bV6Hv
The change would return the department to a name that it carried for much of its history, until it became the Department of Defense in the wake of World War II.
Between the doctor’s appointments, tests, and medication, I now have about $500 in medical bills. If you want to help and provide support, any amount would be appreciated:
"Texas leads the nation with the most kindergartners — more than 25,000 —who were not fully vaccinated against measles..."
What could go wrong?
Lenacapavir has the potential to end the HIV epidemic, researchers say. The Trump administration says backing this kind of effort will be a model for how it does global health work in the future.
“Workaholics are addicted to the solace they find in extreme fatigue; it’s like the high that a marathon runner might get in her last mile,” Weike Wang writes, in an essay on work.
“People don’t cry as they did in the early days; instead, they look at you with empty eyes, as if saying goodbye to life without leaving it.”
ChatGPT to get parental controls after teen user’s death by suicide
A heavily armed Alabama man who called himself the "Angel of Death" allegedly threatened a Southern California monastery and made a cross-country trip to that Catholic abbey last month, authorities say.
Employees of large and small companies in the U.S. are likely to face higher health care costs, with increases in premiums, bigger deductibles or co-pays, and will possibly lose some benefits next year, according to a large survey that was released on Thursday, according to a new survey.
“We can no longer think of existence as something organised towards our flourishing. Reality is not good for us… Instead, existence is fundamentally antagonistic and is actively working against itself in pursuit of total extinction. This is no kind of good.”
ADHD Is Difficult to Diagnose, But Getting the Right Treatment Is Crucial
Folks are reveling in the joyful news that Texas lawmakers ended another special session without outlawing hemp-derived cannabis. For now. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/04/t...
Look all I want to do is move into this geodesic dome and for everyone to stop bothering me about literally anything, is that so much to ask (I don't know why living in a dome = dropping out of society but it just does, don't at me) racketmn.com/wanna-buy-an...
The right type and right dosage of medication can be literally life saving.
To fill vacancies left behind from the Trump administration’s overhaul of the federal government, agencies are reassigning people to new jobs they know little about. The result, employees said, is that work is being done less efficiently.
College Station was simply not prepared for that amount of bird poop. . . https://www.texasmonthly.com/travel/purple-martin-bird-poop-college-station/
"Speculation that eliminating road prohibitions would improve forest health is not supported by nearly twenty years of monitoring."
