Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
Keeping people in poverty is political violence.
No sh*t, that's the idea One side is about violence through force from a few on high, and the other side is about peace through the cooperation of all too bad the violent side always keeps everyone blind to the other option
No, not controversial at all, very conventional, middling, imo
It’s not considered political violence to dehumanize people until they’re so ostracized by society that they take their own lives. It’s not considered political violence to make policy choices to intentionally kill people by depriving them of life saving healthcare.
This message from @jamestalarico.bsky.social is exactly what every leader in America should be saying.
Proof that THEY are are the fools, and those who believe in their lies are even more foolish
Powerful message!
No one cares about my take on shutdown politics but here it is anyway: To me everyone is talking around the central issue. I believe there is a world in which Dems could "win" the shutdown -- as @brianbeutler.bsky.social says, not by making it a negotiating tactic on side issues, but by ...
Expert Explains Why, Essentially, You’re Fucked
If this is considered "hard hitting," we are doomed. #journalismisdead
She stood up to him? I saw the opposite. She pathetically commented on his bs with politeness and deference Both are gross right-wing propaganda p*gs She helped prop up Trump in 2015 and has some blame for his crimes on her nepo-baby head
NO!!! Gross! Is this sarcasm or serious? Truthfully, I'm uh, confused? Either way, no credit to MB she's gross, really awful, so's Joe both legitimized and sucked up to Trump (15/16- present) and are partly to blame for every evil thing that his administration has done and will do
That says it all!
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Happy Birthday to a proud son of Brooklyn and the man who inspired so many of us, @sanders.senate.gov.
Thrilled to see growing consensus that Dems must step up in the Continuing Resolution fight. Key to doing so? Refuse to frame this as "shutting down government." Instead, call it what it is - refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the American people.
"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.
He ain't no hillbilly, he's a flatlander, and always comes across as uppity, a real "too big for his own britches" kinda sh*tstain faker than a 3 dollar bill
US coverage of Trump at US Open
Donald Trump returned to the scene of the crime at the US Open men's final today. In 1997 he groped former model Amy Dorris in a private suite -- one of countless women the felon has raped, groped or forcibly kissed.
Bootlickers everywhere
Conor, your vanity is blah
Your electricity bill is going up because data centers are raising demand, not because your utility started scaling out some renewables. Pass it on.
Greed is and has always been the name of the game, and the corporate overlords never lose Even when they can't avoid "justice" (lol) they get pampered in their "detention" maybe there should have been some sort of actual leftists in the country to DO actual opposition to the crime of crapitalism
US military protesting the US backing of Israel’s genocide of Gaza and the Trump regime’s fascism: “Rise up America, it is time to take back this country from these corrupt politicians.” #3E
I have basically become Ben’s barometer for this website. And no, I’m not happy about Bari Weiss possibly running CBS News. Because I care about standards in journalism. I care about reality. And I don’t want someone who frequently misrepresents reality heading up an institution like CBS.
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Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere
The biggest scandal in US public life *ought* to be that we are the richest country in history & yet our infrastructure sucks, our transportation choices suck, our cities suck, our healthcare sucks, our public administration sucks, & in dozens of little ways, our daily lives suck.
Words are magic
That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.
Innocent posts being labeled? What?
Thank you. So beautiful. Love the pictures. I wish I could gaze at and breathe in her scent Please tell your neighbor that whatever they did or did not do was excellent, I thank her, and if she would please thank her gorgeous garden lovelies for me too
I wish,,,
We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.
Our country is being destroyed. But hey, look at these eight Maine Coon kittens.
Excellent question.
Guys nothing happened. However, CEOs are still trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while planning on replacing you with a robot and charge you for the robot’s rent Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
you just know somebody’s being called by their full name right now
🪬🧿 There is no amount of money, oil, or gold in the world that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.
"Pretending to be a friend" Please stop giving it that level of agency. The response was horrible but software wasn't "pretending" anything. Just outputting the response prompted by awful programming.
It's Friday, any WV schools serving pepperoni rolls for lunch? I want a school pepperoni roll so bad.
Saboteurs, traitors, trash
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
I sorta think he ought to be in a really bad prison doing menial back-breaking slave labor and starving to death, that would be just, like, that's what those who are capitalist war mongers (bombing and starving babies to death) really deserve But shame on me for thinking that way, I guess
wannabe not see
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.
Centrists: Woke leftists in the Democratic Party need to STOP talking about cultural issues no one likes, and start talking about affordability Leftists: Billionaires and corporate interests get rich at our expense; we can afford everything we need if we take our money back Centrists: Wait
The Subway is his for the Slammin'
Charlie Kirk knows how to submit to men, Taylor Swift. Every time he opens his gummy mouth, he gives Donald Trump a blow job.
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Update: it got funny again
1. The president is cheating. His tariffs are pushing up the price of everything, which means inflation remains high, which means interest rates remain high. But instead of rethinking a ruinous national sales tax, which is what tariffs are, he’s bullying those who set interest rates.
GRAND JURY NULLIFICATION! Prosecutors Fail to Secure Indictment Against Man Who Threw Sandwich at Federal Agent www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
A lot of people are conflating anti-fascist with Democrat. But a lot of these Democrats are not anti-fascist.
For that business is an exceedingly laborious one; is not very soon completed; and requires all hands to set about it.
If I’m the CEO of a currently struggling American brand I’m announcing a sleek redesign of our logo with no intent to actually change it just to rile up a base of easy to bait culture warriors that increasingly confuse pop social purchase for control over their own lives
Antifa is everywhere.
But why did they have to pick such an evil, treasonous, nepo-baby dullard? Why???
Yup, he's a pedophile, rapist, thief, and an energy vampire Evil POS
This isn’t a working cabinet meeting this is worshipping a false idol.
Eww I can't even watch this. They're all just sitting around licking his asshole. 🤮
YEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRR
CNN/KC is gross, not sorry, I cannot stand her, like, really do not want to see her stupid conservative err... fashy propagandist condescending face anymore either
You are now one of three: A fascist. A revolutionary. Useless.
I’ve been reading a lot of military theory & history lately and one of the themes everyone keeps coming back is the idea of initiative - The initiative is being the actor, not the reactor, and the Dems just treat the gop as a force of nature to react to instead of one you can pummel
They are fucked in the head to begin with, and that's the issue!
After 8 years with #reuters a veteran stringer #valeriezink resigns in protest, accusing the agency of enabling Israel’s genocide and justifying the systematic assassination of 245 journalists in Gaza, including its own reporters. #JournalismIsNotACrime
Immigrants aren’t stealing your jobs. But employers are stealing $50 billion in wages from workers each year.
So a picture IS a thousand words.
No brush, no pencil. Just a typewriter. Artist James, using a 1930s Smith Premier typewriter, typed out this painting. #art #printer #unique #typewriter #illustration
Since selfishness and greed are synonyms I submit, “greed, apathy, and willful ignorance,” as the top three offenders.
Gus Speth: "I used to think that top environmental problems were biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and climate change. I thought that 30 years of good science could address these problems. I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed and apathy...”
For all the dog lovers. This is a classic. Worth seeing again.
Trump just halted a nearly completed wind project that was set to power 350K homes at a stable rate for 20 years. Over 1,000 jobs—gone. Electric bills—up. All to protect Big Oil. This isn’t "national security." It’s political sabotage. They'd rather destroy our future than build a better one.
Democratic leaders need to resign. Lord, this is depressing. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky
Just after SCOTUS granted it access to Social Security, DOGE uploaded a database containing the private information of hundreds of millions of Americans to an unsecure cloud. DOGE isn't fighting fraud — it's potentially exposing Americans to more of it. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/u...
"A whistleblower says that a former senior DOGE official copied the Social Security numbers, names, and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private server accessible by other former DOGE employees" www.npr.org/2025/08/26/n...
i remain convinced the corporate class fully understands and accepts that donald trump will destroy their businesses but they also know their personal accounts are going to balloon and theyve made their choice
In the olden days, when there was a coup, one of the first things the usurpers did was take over the national broadcasting apparatus. Now, there's no need. It's already on board, due to the capital-overton-ratings-fear-donor nexus. This is what the silent global coup looks and sounds like.
It's also a good time to realize that there are actually only two classes A thieving class and a victimized class
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
