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👉 Jean-Luc Brunel: Rape & sexual assault inc. of minors, some under 15yrs, sexual harassment & sex trafficking of minors. Close friend of Epstein & Maxwell. Procured women and underage girls for the sex-trafficking operation (2020) www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey...
"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”
Now THIS is art.
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
POLAND SCRAMBLES MILITARY JETS OVER DRONE THREAT Lublin Airport has been closed. Air defense units are on high alert on the ground.
Do the weird naive "centrist" contrarian pundits have a weekly lottery over who gets to write the article whining about how people on Bluesky are mean to them and the site doesn't matter even though they have to keep writing about it? This is like the 6th or 7th week in a row where that's happened.
Shame on you Mike Lee. Who is “they?” One 22yr old white young man from Utah is accused of killing Charlie Kirk. Who the hell is “they?” Shame on you. You are purposely inciting hate & division. Hiding behind “they.” Shame on you.
“I will never visit the United States again,” Mr. Jeong said. @nytimes.com #Hyundai www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
Super jarring and frustrating to roll up to my 8 year-old’s Little League game and hear the other team laughing and saying things like “if you don’t catch that, you’re gay!” For all of the talk about kids, we should probably spend more time talking about parents.
The Guardian has now completely retracted quotes from an anonymous high school source who had called Tyler Robinson a “leftist.” The source now says they couldn’t accurately recall details of their relationship.
Donald Trump will forever be Putin's bitch
Appeasement doesn’t work here. It only adds to the media machine.
Have these psychopaths offered *any* examples of the alleged radicalization that this shooter received from his one semester at Utah State? And he decided college wasn’t for him and dropped out. That’s the person whose life was allegedly immediately and radically transformed? The guy who left?
I’m curious. If an outspoken atheist was to set up tables outside churches on Sunday and on campuses of Christian colleges with a sign that said “God doesn’t exist, prove me wrong,” would that person be hailed as a figure who was trying to engage in good faith debate and heal our divisions?
this is weak whiny shit that neither understands nor attempts to understand the dynamics of 1) cancellation or 2) social media
Hey, we found a guy who says he knew Robinson in high school 6 years ago who said he was a leftist but he won’t let us use his name! Let’s run it - big story! Lots of clicks!
New in PN: Kash's FBI is a mess "Patel and Bongino have carried out a purge partly in fear of being fired by Trump, & under the influence — and sometimes direction — of their social media followings. In fact, they're so focused on clout that it could be affecting the FBI’s ability to solve crimes."
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...
Page One in Chicago @chicago.suntimes.com
Famously, Utah trade school instructors are raging Marxists.
The really telling thing about mainstream media outlets that are whitewashing Kirk's work down to "open dialogue" is that jaw dropping racism isn't a deal breaker for them.
“.. The day after Hortman’s killing, when Trump was asked if he had called Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, he said, ‘I could be nice and call, but why waste time?’” @msnbc.com www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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!
This Guardian quote from an anonymous person who said he knew Robinson in high school years ago, but hasn’t spoke to him in several years, who said he was supposedly a leftist, has been retracted. This single anonymous quote has been posted by thousands of right-wing accounts.
MSNBC fired Matthew Dowd for linking Charlie Kirk's murder to Kirk's hateful rhetoric, even though Dowd later apologized. Fox has taken no public action against Brian Kilmeade, who said mentally ill people who commit crimes should be killed by lethal injection – "Just kill them." No apology either.
The MSM whitewashing of Kirk is in full swing. They talk about his advocacy for civil debate, but they won’t play anything he said to stoke incivility. They talk about his opposition to violence, but nobody talks about his role in J6. We are watching Kirk’s history being rewritten in real time.
I regret to inform you that Thomas Chatterton Williams is at it again. Chris Rufo is "learning" to use cancel culture. What the fuck do you think his entire career is based on? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Absolutely psychopathic.
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
Remarkable how centrist pundits like Noah Smith are still prattling on about "cancel culture" and "Bluesky-ization" while people are getting fired for insufficient mourning of a bigoted liar who constantly directed hatred towards the majority of Americans.
New, from me: It was a terrible week, one that inspired some truly awful takes. The worst was the effort by Bari Weiss and The Free Press to smear universities as "the biggest culprits" to blame American political violence, with faculty training "jihadis." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...
ALL of this is about white people taking their venom out and stepping on the necks of Black people. It's racist as hell, and every white person who sees it needs to call it out.
(CNN) - President Donald Trump shelved his plans to target Chicago as the next city for his domestic crime push after advisers warned him that sending in troops .. could create legal headaches they want to avoid, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/p...
The right's grip on power is tenuous and if you believe—as I do—that in 2024 millions of people voted Trump out of idiocy rather than love of right-wing ideology, then an economic contraction will undermine them in ways they can't wash away no matter how friendly the media environment is for them.
Yeah, I'm not going to be bullied or silenced by right-wing hacks and MAGA and other folks who want to police our response to Kirk. I'll be live talking about my tweets on Kirk, Turning Point, MAGA, and Erika Kirk's disturbing and strange address. Live. No paywalls. Thelefthook.substack.com
a rational person would look at a political party who tried to lie us into a civil war over a podcaster until they found out the shooter was one of them and run the other way. a healthy media would look at the last 24 hours as a gut check to make sure they don't lie us into more tragedies.
'Lord of the Rings' star Sean Astin elected SAG-AFTRA president
Charlie Kirk clearly holds more significance for most Republicans than the lives of every child lost in school shootings across the USA.
#medsky
I almost can’t believe bari blamed universities for the Kirk shooting. She is truly committed to being the dumbest motherfucker alive. Just head empty no thoughts 24/7
MAGA worships their Daddy & King who mocked Pelosi after surviving an assassination attempt, refused to call Melissa Hortman's family after she was killed, & pardoned violent insurrectionists. All the criminals mentioned are Trump supporters by the way. Cruelty for us, civility for them. Nah.
“Our employers told us it was ok… I will never visit 🇺🇸 again. It feels good to be free.” Hundreds of South Korean workers detained in shackles landed home, met by family who tearfully hugged them. Arrested building a factory to employ thousands. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
"US court won't allow Trump to shut down museum, labor, small business agencies" THAT’S the power of Dem AGs. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/us-court-wont-allow-trump-shut-down-museum-labor-small-business-agencies-2025-09-11/
You’d think he might sit this one out.
I LOVE that Matthew Dowd is trending! MSNBC is TRASH for firing him because he spoke the TRUTH! #SheShed
Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive.
Once again, the Theys are vexing the right.
Am I missing something? The Governor of Utah, Kash Patel and the others who spoke at this morning’s presser were congratulating each other like it was some big law enforcement effort that caught the suspect, when he was turned in by his own family.
Join @asharangappa.bsky.social and me on Substack live tomorrow night at 8PM ET/5PM PT as we discuss *gestures broadly*.
Fox is anti-journalism. The more you watch, the less you know.
AXIOS: Inflation ticks up to the highest since '21. Manufacturing shrank 6 months running. Unemployed workers exceeding jobs. If Biden had numbers like that, you'd be on Fox saying, 'What's going on'? LUTNICK: So, the economy that Trump owns starts at the end of this year A: Doesn't work that way!
A sneering midwit with inherited wealth got the facts wrong, and accused an honest public servant—Lisa Cook—of fraud. His meddling created a crisis well beyond his portfolio, undermining the Fed. Bill Pulte can do the right thing and resign. If merit still matters, he should be fired.
Pulte should be sued into oblivion for defamation.
Seems way more inflammatory than anything Matthew Dowd said over on MSNBC, yet I haven’t heard any outcry over this. www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/...
MAGA Republicans are such hypocrites.
Time for a defamation suit
Will Erika Kirk ask Republicans to unleash fire against the Groypers if it's shown that Tyler Robinson was radicalized by that movement?
Erika Kirk is using her husband's death to promote Kirk's vehicle of hate, Turning Points USA. Fascinating to watch this right now.
The rabbit hole of truth.
A lot of lone nuts with no coherent political philosophy seem to be very closely related to one specific political philosophy
I know these “interviews” with Justice Barrett are carefully scripted. But if she’s going to keeping urging Americans to “read the opinions,” and not just commentary, it sure would be nice if someone would ask her what we should do when—as is so often the case these days—there’s no opinion to read…
Russian and Chinese Bots Fueling Online ‘Violence’ After Kirk Shooting "Official warns of a 'tremendous amount' of [foreign] online activity after the shooting www.thedailybeast.com/russian-chin... via @thedailybeast.bsky.social
If you have a screenshot of a US politician or leader blaming the left, or declaring some war, or anything before we knew who the shooter was, please post in the comments. We will need to keep these
It’s Friday! It’s been a hell of a year over the past few days! I have to ask you for campaign contributions now! (we’re literally covering it *right now* in the training) If you don’t want to contribute, or already have, please make sure to signup on the website so we can get you info about stuff!
It's official. RIP #MSNBC Matthew Dowd Rips MSNBC For Caving To a ‘Right Wing Media Mob’ In Firing Him Over Kirk Commentary
Nice to see Matthew Dowd trending here, with everyone agreeing that @msnbc.com were fools and cowards to fire him for stating the obvious. I’ve deleted their app and hope he finds a new gig soon, I’ll follow 👍🏼
Everytime someone starts a sentence with "I usually dont do politics but..." My hand is hovering over the STFU button because ughh
Hyundai battery plant faces at least 2-3 month startup delay following US raid, CEO says - www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Hey @nytimes.com, your story today is misleading and deeply incomplete. You need to update and correct it. Right-wingers aren't trying to expose people using dehumanizing rhetoric. They are trying to use this moment to get their opponents harmed and killed. I know because I'm one!
lol
Why????
“.. The document appears to counter other documentation that Cook’s critics have cited in support of their claims that she committed mortgage fraud ..” @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...
Kash Patel was dining at NYC restaurant Rao’s when he posted—and later walked back—a claim that a “subject” in Charlie Kirk’s killing was in custody, @ryanjreilly.com reports.
Incredible and devastating stories coming from farm country, daily. Trump is destroying the country with his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs so he and his friends can pay less in income taxes.
I feel like i want to subscribe but…. No? Right?
Wow. "A hybrid threat network of disaffected people that can include Columbine obsessives, neo-Nazis, child groomers, and trolls. They perform for one another through acts of violence and cheer their community on to commit murder... and they want to be remembered for it."
Shameful. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
NEW: The inscriptions on bullets recovered near the scene of Charlie Kirk's murder appear to reference video games like Helldivers 2 and online furry roleplay, not a legible political ideology.
And generally they should be.
We knew it was coming. And now it’s here.
We have failed our children.
This can’t be accurate because Trump said we took in like $17 trillion in tariffs.
I have looked at this Kirk/Robinson situation from every conceivable angle and I have come to the conclusion that Donald tRUmp is all over the Epstein files and they should be released post-haste.
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
Pro Tip: when your FBI Director is a little cosplay bitch who says things like ‘see you in Valhalla’ your country is in trouble. This ain’t a f*cking episode of ‘Son’s of Anarchy’.
"Skydance, however, is seeking to acquire all of Warner Bros Discovery's media assets, including its Warner Bros film studio, HBO, and CNN, in a mostly cash deal, the WSJ reported."
🧵!!!!!
When they thought he was on the left they blamed the entire left, but now that they know he is on the right they’re … blaming the entire left.
Dem AGs’ lawsuit against Trump’s destructive tariffs is headed to the Supreme Court. Three courts and eleven judges have already sided with Dem AGs. @danrayfield.bsky.social
There is a reason why open competition between academics who must make their case via peer review is better than relying on the government's hand-picked scientists.
The White House this week: “No inflation!” Everyone else: 🤡
⚡️EU renews Russia sanctions despite pushback from Hungary, Slovakia. The sanctions list includes Russian President Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, top military officials, lawmakers, oligarchs, mercenaries, and individuals responsible for the abduction of Ukrainian children.
Pulte should resign
Trump Administration: We Are Training A Generation of WARFIGHTERS, that's what soldiers are Also Trump Administration: It Is Unacceptable For A Soldier To Be Crass Or Crude
Another firing for daring to talk about the anointed one.