"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
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"fear has already done its job, warping public memory of Kirk unrecognizably, to the point where nearly all liberal elites have chosen to beatify a person with awful values." www.offmessage.net/p/charlie-ki...
Free speech is fully underway folks www.nbcwashington.com/news/nationa...
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!
It's extremely alarming that "people on the Left" know more about smoldering hatred going on between Fuentes-style Groypers and older far-right provocateurs. There's a whole class of Gen Z men who instantly recognized what those bullets referenced and this guy's politics. The media? Doesn't.
Melissa and Mark Hortmanās assassination did not get this level of coverage from the BBC. Not even close. Insane
My mom asked me about Charlie Kirk tonight so I showed her some of his greatest hits online (I was fixing her Kobo account) and within a couple minutes she was like "Well why are people saying such nice things about him?"
nimby say what
no. you need to stop spreading misinformation and helping to increase the number of homeless
none of that is happening in any area affected by fires. you are either lying your teeth off or have fallen victim to disinformation
lmao, stop lying
final vote on 79 is TODAY have you called your state senator? www.streetsforall.org/sb79
If youāre a journalist writing about the Kirk murder and you donāt know what the Groyper Wars are, I beg you to find someone who knows what the Groyper Wars are before you write your article
Corporate media bravely continues Charlie Kirk's legacy by committing to destroy the careers of anyone who disagreed with him: www.404media.co/comcast-nbcu...
Whether it's Donald Trump threatening to "beat the hell" out of leftists or Bluesky user @chompy_463 making an off-color joke about Charlie Kirk, both sides often resort to threats of violence against their political enemies. @nytpitchbot.bsky.social
SoCal remains the absolute worst on land use.
Melissa Hortman's family didn't get this much sympathy. And the zealot shot her husband and her dog, too, in their home.
āEuropean cities, like Paris, were smart to focus on air pollution rather than climate change. Air pollution is more real for people. You can see it, smell it. People liked what @annehidalgo.bsky.social did.ā ā My comments on leadership & urban transformation To be clear, cities should do both.
I remember only 6 or 7 years ago, trips to Paris were a gridlocked nightmare where cycling was a death wish. It's totally amazing how much they've transformed it into a genuinely nice place for people to walk, cycle, eat outside - just to live. There is no reason this can't happen everywhere.
This is a tactic. A strategy. See what they are doing.
you show again why your magazine sucks
Charlie Kirk spewed so much hatred throughout his career it was impossible to include all of it in my story. And yet the mainstream media is largely whitewashing what he said and stood for. Stop supporting them. www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...
The reaction to Kirkās murder is a reminder that many prominent figures in mainstream journalism are the most bad faith people on the face of the planet.
If the shooter had killed a leftist podcaster, he would have a multi million dollar Go Fund Me to cover his legal fees tomorrow, and an interview lined up with Charlie Kirk.
Big sigh. Watch this. Can you see why the Yankeesā moment of silence, the lowered flags, the promise of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, feel like a gut punch to the very people he spent years targeting? No one wished death on this man, but what weāre seeing right now is too f*cking much.
Truly bizarre to see people attacked, shamed, and disciplined for saying things about Charlie Kirk that are 1000x less offensive than what Charlie Kirk said about people
New Orleans is on pace for the fewest murders in 55 years and nearly every major crime type is plunging.
"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...
#SB79 #caleg #cahousing #capol
i donāt think i can be a fan of this team anymore.
Earlier today, I was using ChatGPT to manually scrape fire incident data. It was going great, and everything was passing validation. Then suddenly, at some point it started making up data rather than actually getting it from the source šµāš«
i didnāt mourn at all for him
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirkās ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Really hate how precious liberal pundits are about all this. No matter how much you ball yourself up in the fetal position and mew like a defenseless toddler these people will still want to destroy you.
"Transgender ideology so simple you could fit it on a bullet!"* * (doesn't exist)
yesterday larry ellison became the richest man in the world. today heās helping his son grow his media empire.
I always roll my eyes when I see people talking about "political violence is *never* acceptable" because I know they dont really believe that. The 4th of July, one of our major holidays, is effectively a celebration of successful political violence.
When reporters that speak truths about the repulsive actions and rhetoric of an individual that met their end in a horrible way are fired for being truthful, we are assuring a terrible fate on society.
demonization is bad when the people who are not my supporters do it
"Charlie Kirk Assassinās Ammo Engraved With Transgender, Anti-Fascist Markings: WSJ' So a person flees but leaves a gun wrapped with ammo that has political messages on it this on the nose?! Smells more like false flag. But let's see "patsy," I mean suspect arrested www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
MSM is showing its whole ass right now. They know Kirk wasnāt a good dude, yet theyāre bending over backwards to sanitize him, leaving out his entire racist and white nationalist record. Mathew Dowd was fired by MSNBC for even the mildest of truths.
there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet... juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...
This is an important thread. It seems weirdly disrespectful to try to turn Kirk into something he clearly despised.
Itās very easy, in these moments, to see who has never had their right to exist peacefully in society on the ballot. The killing of Kirk is horrible. Thatās it. Nothing about the way he practiced politics was good.
WTF? Does āthe right wayā to āpractice politicsā include lying re factual matters (eg saying Black Women have too little brainpower to be ātaken seriouslyā)? Mourning Kirkās murder & defending his right to make his wild claims doesnāt excuse praising his political MO www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
He was an advocate of violence against his political opponents and took positions like āthe civil rights act should be repealed,ā āthe Jews are replacing white people,ā and āUkraine is an evil country and we should let them die.ā Kirkās entire career played a nontrivial role in getting us here.
he helped break it and continues to support those who broke it
This was LITERALLY last month. I feel like I'm losing my mind seeing rightwing posts over on Twitter tonight. nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...
stop reporting so much on this story. cover something that matters
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fuck your for firing matthew dowd. he told the truth. you are a bunch of cowards
Why is transit oriented so important? NIMBY s are right that CA housing is such a big problem, this one bill can't solve them. But YIMBYs are right that doing nothing will make it worse. š§µ about why passing SB 79 is so desperately needed
Starting later this month, companies like X, Discord and Netflix will be legally required to use a face scan or other method to verify Ohioans age and/or identity before allowing them to go online They passed it by claiming it was just about porn.
Speaking of condemning political violence, does anyone remember last year when the Governor of Texas pardoned Daniel Perry, the right-wing vigilante who murdered a Black Lives Matter protester in July 2020?
I had no wish for him to be murdered, but Iāll harshly judge anyone who flies their flag at half staff for that hateful extremist or talks about honoring his memory. There was no honor in his life.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
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wtf is wrong with you. no one should honor his work
This was just last month and we have already memoryholed it. A cop killed by an antivaxxer.
I also think it's fine to point out that when you advocate for violence against other people, as Kirk did nearly every day of his adult life, you're playing with a fire that can't be contained.
condemnations of political violence are well taken but it does feel as if some prominent political commentators are of the view that violence isnāt a part of the history of American politics and that is very much not true.
š” even if we're just looking at the modern era, the largest *domestic* terror attack in the last 50 years was Oklahoma City!
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
This explains it better than I can
Utah recently enacted a law to make it clear that it's perfectly OK to carry a gun on a college campus, as long as you have a concealed weapon permit dailyutahchronicle.com/2025/08/18/o...
If I'm reading this right Charlie Kirk's last words were him trying to downplay the significance of mass shootings in America by conflating them with gang violence? www.bbc.com/news/live/c2...
When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didnāt expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.
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Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.
One of the things that Charlie Kirk did with his short life is create the Professor Watchlist, which surveils professors and turns students into a posse to police professor wrongthink. RIP. www.professorwatchlist.org?_gl=1*ziz5a6...
This is extremely concerning escalatory rhetoric.
Sigh.
When a right-wing man murdered Democratic lawmakers in Minnesota, progressives asked MAGA to tone down the rhetoric to prevent more violence. Within hours of Kirkās murder, motive still unknown, the right is demanding that the government wage a campaign of violence against their enemies.
lol
2018: Protesters at a Charlie Kirk campus event are confronted by masked attackers wielding poles and metal flashlights while chanting Nazi slogans
We must stand resolutely against political assassination and political violence of all kinds, and just as resolutely against everyone who exploits acts of violence as the pretext or excuse for political repression of political opponents.
there was never going to be a world in which the right didnāt claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.
It was only last month that a guy mad about covid vaccines fired 500 rounds into the CDC building in Atlanta, btw
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No clear answers on whether mommy disappeared entirely behind hands during game of peekaboo Mommy's face was not visible from behind hands, and experts say they can't be sure
it honestly seems pretty bad that the incoming California Senate leader is already sneaking poison pills into legislation to block housing in her district
Our bill to cap insulin co-pays at $35/month has passed the Legislature & now heads to the Governor. People should never have to choose between insulin & food. SB 40 will help.
they need to stop voting for Republicans
Holding local elections off-cycle seriously depresses turnout. A super underrated factor in American politics, and one of our favorite topics at @boltsmag.org. Great new @taniel.bsky.social story out on NYC election timing: boltsmag.org/new-york-cit...
I read through this, and I'm so confused, why is "now" supposedly not the time for people discuss political disagreements?
Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.
it's the "our president's laws" that i find the most chilling part of this. the president does not make the law all by himself.
GOP greatly overestimates the number of fucks GenX and younger give about Bill Clinton.
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Just the nationās highest court saying itās ok for masked secret police to grab people off the streets & disappear them simply because theyāre Latino. The Supreme Court once again has abandoned the Constitution & the idea of a democracy where everyone has to follow the law.
no surprised that brett āalmost certainly flunked his remedial classesā kavanaugh thinks the constitution authorizes a race-based federal āpapers pleaseā regime. quick, someone ask him what he thinks of the fugitive slave act.
It's not the most important part of the issue but Kavanaugh saying "well they should just sue if they're the victims of excessive force from ICE" when he himself has previously voted to bar lawsuits against federal officers for violations of the 4th Amendment in immigration cases takes chutzpah.
Wow. New NBC poll finds 78% support vaccines, including 72% of independents and 67% of Republicans. As I keep trying to argue, Democrats should polarize the shit out of the vaccine/public health debate. Make people take sides. It will split Republicans and MAGA. See this:
1. āVacant homesā in the census can include apartments between tenants, under renovation, etc. 2. Homeless people are the tip of the iceberg of unmet housing need. Consider also people who canāt move out of their parentsā place, stuck living with roommates they donāt like, an abusive spouse, etc.
uggh, this has been proven wrong multiple times in that there are not 16 million just sitting vacant. i urge you to learn about the housing market before posting something like this and embarrassing yourself
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the failure of civil society right now is just absurd. Trump is unpopular and enacting increasingly fascist policies meanwhile major corporations are sycophantically praising Trump, and major universities & law firms are ācutting dealsā to give him unprecedented control over private institutions