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Regardless, the killers political ideology is not something any of us on the "Left" should waste time on until the investigation is complete. Robinson is either a 4chan incel groyper or a discord-grown anarcho-leftist. Both of these factions hate the Democratic Party especially the discord leftists.
I don't know how to get stories like this to be everywhere. There are hundreds or thousands of them, and yet we're drowning in stories about Ka$h trying to find a trans person who winked at Charlie Kirk's killer.
Every single negative event or development in the past 9+ months would not have happened if this country had simply voted for President Biden or VP Harris.
Past few weeks: India.🇮🇳 Brazil.🇧🇷 Japan.🇯🇵 South Korea. 🇰🇷 @nytimes.com @politico.com
The only time political violence could be conducted by someone remotely associated to the Democratic Party would be if they used a rainbow hilt machete with the engravings, "control guns not girls" and "taco trucks on every corner."
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.
"You were supposed to deliver a trans gunman, and you give us THIS???"
If not for the father and the other people in the killers life, patel and the fbi really might not have been able find him for a couple more days/weeks. This could've been trump's Katrina.
Do you think this would be the headline if the shooter had actually turned out to be trans?
oh well, onward and upward
![REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible] How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely. And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cfy5rgqvohpdqxgu2geb5u2b/bafkreig42mujsiyxozvq3kiayszu47dbk6zds3icm5bwu34twt3d7vbo2q@jpeg "Click to view full size")
There are ideological reasons for why a right-winger would shoot Charlie Kirk - accelerate the race war, disloyalty to Trump (below). There are no ideological reasons for someone on the center-left to do so. We're fighting for democracy and rule of law. No one is calling for violence on our side.
There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power. The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.
One thing the media's reticence to label Kirk an extremist has made jarringly clear is how scared they are of the people in power now who share his extremist beliefs. In the space of nine months, they have internalized a fear of condemning racism, misogyny, homophobia and antisemiticism.
Today, we pause to remember the nearly 3,000 lives taken on September 11, 2001. We honor the victims, their families, and the first responders who bravely ran toward danger 24 years ago. We will never forget.
I don’t think the james comey of 2024 has been a liberal in the past decade+. He’s only a half-step to the left of bari weiss.
Someone recently said to me that things will get worse before they get better, but that is not true. There is no guarantee that anything gets better. Things can just continue getting worse and worse. I can't stop thinking about that today.
War on Terror, Great Recession, 24/7 cable "news", internet/social media, political and historical illiteracy.
These were Charlie’s final posts
Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
Seriously worrying that this could be our franz ferdinand moment.
Vance Boelter, a Trump, GOP voting Christian nationalist, was radicalized in part by QAnon, the same conspiracy promoted by Trump and Republicans, even though they knew it had radicalized others to commit violence. Boelter had a hit list of 70 liberals. He killed Melissa Hortmann and her husband.
This is a significant change.
we gave people a magic device in their pockets with access to all the knowledge in the world and they used it to cook their brains with racist memes.
All our deceased Presidents except for JFK, can rest well knowing that however history remembers their Presidential record, at least none of them have descendants as pathetically stupid, toxic, and embarrassing as rfk jr.
One by one, the old gatekeepers of the traditional news media are bending the knee to fascism and stomping any vestiges of journalistic integrity underfoot. The old guard has fallen.
The Trump administration’s decision to grant military-funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt is the latest move to turn the perpetrators of one of America’s darkest days into heroes, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily:
"This is an encroachment on everything we signed up for, and it feels like a violation." Buddy, let me tell you about the Iraq War and what it was like dodging snipers and roadside bombs for nonexistent "weapons of mass destruction." Republicans have treated the military this way for decades.
There are several major culprits for the shit system we have. But one culprit that slips under the radar 99.9% of the time is the dsa-types that contribute to disastrous political outcomes. If techbro/capitalist/politicans are parasites to the system, socialists are pebbles in the shoe.
A President Harris would never have proposed this.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Extremely expensive, inefficient clean up crew. Waste, fraud, and abuse
You know what's crazy? There have been no op-eds or editorial statements in major newspapers this year calling on Trump to resign. None calling for his impeachment. None asking if he's medically fit to be in office. Not one in any major newspaper all year.
KILMAR IN BALTIMORE: “Never lose hope. Promise me you’ll continue fight for freedom — not just for me, for everybody.” He was just taken into ICE custody.
From Russia Today's Telegram channel, this morning
“With less they beat slavery. With less they beat Jim Crow… Harriet Tubman didn’t have email, Twitter, Texts, TikTok…”
Newsom: “Wake up, America. If he rigs this election, you won’t have a country anymore.”
mRNA vaccines are, without exaggeration, one of the greatest inventions in human history. We basically hacked our immune systems. “Here’s the secret code for this new virus, prep to fight exactly that.” A promising avenue for addressing some cancers too. And the US is throwing it away. For what?
Tacky, corrupt, disgusting, embarrassing. The people chose to turn our country into this.
And despite all that, a lot of people will still manufacture reasons not to vote for Democrats in 26 and 28. 🤦
“.. We are now in a new world. Even to trade nerds, the complexity of this is just bonkers,” said Chad Bown, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/9f64...
Is it though? They wouldn't have that power if voters in 2016 took seriously the warning and threat of a hard-right SCOTUS locked for decades. This was easily avoidable.
Finally, a united nation.
Wonder how sexual predator Brett Kavanaugh and sexual predator Clarence Thomas will vote on the fate of sexual predator Ghislaine Maxwell.
If President Biden had said anything remotely close to this during his time in office, I would've supported the Pelosi-led, corporate media-driven effort to retire him.
US manufacturing construction continues easing down as projects from the CHIPS Act & Inflation Reduction Act finish up—spending on new factories is now at the lowest level since late 2023
Thinking back to last year when social media was littered with morons spamming variations of "Hunter Biden"/"10% to the big guy".
you guys are still trying to redo Liberation Day. I'm telling you we can't do it. Now what we might be able to do is re-create it. We re-create it in the aggregate.
One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
one consequence of trump’s personal weakness and deference to authoritarians is to raise the likelihood of aggressive wars of conquest. but yeah yeah “trump will end the wars” sure.
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If you think that Kamala Harris sitting next to Liz Cheney and welcoming her endorsement in an effort to fight fascism is worse than ACTUAL FASCISM...then we have nothing to talk about. Like ever.
From the LinkedIn of the woman—a white lawyer from Carlsbad, CA—who filmed this encounter and shared the video:
I don’t disagree, Constitution is clearly outdated. Like the definition of “arms” from 230+ years ago vs today. That said, discussing constitutional amendments seriously is futile(imo) at a time when we still argue about good vs bad/not good enough, pandemic vs hoax, treason vs aggressive tourists.
It depends on what time scale you're looking at. In the last 30-50 years, alot of countries were not doing fine. 230+ years ago, 99% of all countries were not doing fine. No system is perfect, but our piece of paper protected us from alot of stuff.
Our loyalty to that "piece of paper" is what makes us unique compared to most countries. Given how entitled, idiotic, reactionary, and contrarian our people are, we'd be doing much worse today if our allegiance was to the usual stuff(people, families, government).
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Stewart's always been like this. Good at critiquing easy/well-known targets, great one-liners, getting sound bites, and vibes. But when it comes to deep topics that haven't marinated in public discourse long enough, he's got no substance. Always amusing when people call for Stewart to run for office
Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.
It was quite generous of Hunter that he didn’t tear into you @peterbakernyt.bsky.social and your colleagues. Would’ve been equally as deserved.
This is excellent. In three minutes she explains how democracies become dictatorships. It's happened so many times, yet in each country, most people said, 'it can't happen here'
Breaking from the Office of Pres. Obama: "Our office does not normally dignify the constant nonsense and misinformation flowing out of this White House with a response. But these claims are outrageous enough to merit one. These bizarre allegations are ridiculous and a weak attempt at distraction.
President Marco’s sitting there thinking..”Jesus Christ, the Chinese government might be complete assholes but at least they’re not this psychotic.”
A phoenix rises from the ashes of the biden crime family
Not as big of an asshole as the American electorate with even worse judgement, as shown over the course of ~50 years.
Thats such a unintelligent, reactionary take. This is Hunter's first reappearance in 6 months. Has the last 6 months of airtime been filled with content that changed anyones opinions on trump and the current government? Not really, no.
This is the greatest weakness of having a base thats mostly vibe-voters. They maybe more active, loud, and boost your popularity but once you mature as a legislator and focus on policy over vibes, your moronic base will loudly drag you for their nonsense.
One thing recent immigration discourse has really shown for me is that xenophobes can’t conceive of interacting with foreigners outside of food service settings. My primary personal benefit of Ethiopian immigration is *my friends who are from Ethiopia* not the food, which is just a side benefit
This survey is heartening because it shows that all democrats have to do to win durable victories is appeal to the dumbest fucking people on the planet who are completely unable to link the simplest cause and effect. No problem.
The level of ignorance from these survey results, many of the brain dead responses in this thread, and the fact that op is a polisci professor from Stanford tells me we are probably gonna lost in 26 and 28.
KLUTH: “.. Never has a country blessed with such an abundance of ‘soft power’ forfeited so much of it with so little justification.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Tragic irony that the Biden admin responded to an economic crash by prioritizing wages and employment over profits more than previous US govts, the Harris campaign proposed big new benefits (eg covering elder home care), then many voters who say they want that stayed home, or voted for the opposite.
Its no surprise that many online leftists/communists have a glass half full perspective on our dumpster fire president.
Praying for him…. To have pancreatic and/or lung cancer.
Another one. Screenshot this for when the online idiots tell you both parties are the same.
The administration will incinerate enough food to feed 1.5 million children for a week. When it burns, its label will read: THIS PRODUCT IS A GIFT FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. 500 tons, from us, to no one. www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Evil
Dalian Polytechnic University provoked widespread outrage for expelling a female student on the ground of "improper relationship with foreigners; disgracing the nation's dignity"(有损国格). the female student is a victim of non-consensual image abuse and doxxing, as the guy she dated put her image
Remarkable take on MAGA fury over Jeffrey Epstein from historian Nicole Hemmer: She roots it in pathologies on the right that go back a half century, to McCarthy, the Birchers, through the idea that Civil Rights was a commie conspiracy to the present. Transcript: newrepublic.com/article/1979...
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President Biden brought wealth tax into the mainstream and laid the foundations for after the 2017 tax cuts expired. musk/bezos saw the threat and are buying to influence every corner of society in their favor. Meanwhile, the M4A/eat-the-rich-types betrayed Biden and missed the forest for the trees.
Democrats are a side issue. The bigger issue is the majority of the country not giving a shit about January 2021. Thats what makes me less hopeful.
He sold vaccine cards and injected kids with saline so they thought they were vaccinated. There are no rules anymore
this shouldn't just prompt a resignation, it's almost like negligent homicide if any of those people died
republicans are on the path to creating a social credit system like China's. The criteria for positive and negative scores might be different, but the ethos and operation is the same.
A bit more background on Elbridge Colby to complement @radiofreetom.bsky.social piece. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...
Its not just that President Biden gave no gossip, leaks, or drama to an industry addicted to the content farm that was the 1st trump administration. But more importantly, President Biden's wealth tax would've hit the owners and senior leadership of these media organizations.
honestly if there is any single idea i could get people to understand it is this one. or to put it differently, the same features of the american party system that allows a mamdani to win a prize like the NYC mayoral primary also makes any top down control or disciplining very difficult
I mean what can you even say anymore, NYT is dead, WaPo is dead, do I hate that we have to get all our news from newsletters and individual reporters and blogs called Boozy Hamster and vet all that shit individually? Yes absolutely it’s very inconvenient, but how can you trust any other way nowadays
NEW: "Some policymakers believe that Ukraine is a distraction, and that somehow the war in Ukraine & a potential conflict with China exist in separate universes. This belief is a form of Flat Earthism in its obstinate refusal to acknowledge that every part of the world is connected to every other."
Thats too bad. Have a good week.
Easier said than done, when most people are so gullible. President Biden quite literally made the media lose their shit for 3 years. So the entire media apparatus jumped on him the moment they smelled a milliliter of blood and the people consumed that bullshit like piranhas.
(1/X) There are things about Mamdani's platform that I think are bad ideas (rent freezes, city-run grocery stores) and he would not have been my first choice in the primary (I like Lander better), so I don't say this as a Mamdani superfan...... The anti-Mamdani dialogue is completely unhinged
Is there a single cause on the left or right, regardless of the issue, that doesn't eventually churn out psychos in the post-cambridge analytica world of social media and internet activism?
You are blind or delusional
Will/has
Someone who apparently follows me here on Bluesky is very, very, very mad at me in the comments on Techdirt because I have suggested that fixing society is a long, difficult process with no easy answers, and they say we don't have time for that. I say: pining for magic wands will make things worse
He got a taste of true power and will likely chase after it till he gets what he wants. Hard to say if he will be more or less destructive than today’s republicans, but it sure as hell won’t improve the lives of regular people.
This is unfortunately reminiscent of early camps in Nazi Germany, which were also widely lauded by politicians (they were by no means a secret), treated as tourist curiosities, and featured in glossy magazine spreads. It’s unfathomable to me how so many people can take such joy in human suffering.
“Do something!” is white people’s way of saying “fix this mess I made that I refuse to acknowledge!”