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The reason every elite institution in the country is propping up pampered millionaire Ezra Klein is that his overarching response to the country’s plunge into tyranny is “Don’t fight the fascists, become a little more like them.”

“if you wish to see a virgin on-screen” thank u economics professor tyler cowen for that very cool and normal phrase

That's about "the French don't even have a word for entrepreneur" level.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

Ezra Klein on today’s podcast:

“The reaction to my article about Charlie Kirk was intense; it really made me think how America is in a dangerous place.

Anyhow here’s an interview with Ben Shapiro about how society is made of lions and scavengers and how Obama being too woke ruined the country.”

Me recuerda cuando cierto influencer español de la web 2.0 escribió hace años: «Si me documentara, escribiría mucho menos y esto no tendría tanto éxito».

Guy with a Dr. Strangelove avi who’s never heard of the Red Scare

Never been a more successful mass gaslighting campaign than telling you it's inciting violence to call someone racist or a fascist.

While those same people are like "we should mass execute millions of children and veterans if they don't own property or can afford rent"

Me desespera lo mucho que cierta banda culpa a las redes sociales e internet por todo. Breve recordatorio de que literalmente el en difundir la teoría de conspiración de que las balas del asesino de Kirk tenían mensaje de «ideología trans» fue el pinche WSJ.

Please don't forget, and don't let anyone else forget, they did this openly.

Left’s Dehumanization Of MAGA Behind Rising Support For Violence Decrying Charlie Kirk’s assassination isn’t enough

In an almost laughable parody, Shellenberger is working on a project examining the left’s “dehumanization” of the right.

The profound level of dishonesty and cynicism it requires to paint dehumanization of one’s political opponents as remotely a left-wing issue is staggering.

Unserious man.

In other news, do we think Jacobin knows about the Jacobins

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

#DavidsMonthOfMusic
#MusicChallenge
13 - a song featuring a featured artist

Little Trouble Girl ~ Sonic Youth feat. Kim Deal

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#SonicYouth #KimGordon #KimDeal

The attack continues further down in the Kirk article’s lead paragraphs, where editors said Kirk was controversial due to his "opposition to gun control, abortion, and LGBTQ rights; his criticism of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr.; and his promotion of Christian nationalism, COVID-19 misinformation, the Great Replacement conspiracy theory, and false claims of electoral fraud in 2020." COMPLETE COVERAGE OF CHARLIE KIRK The framing ensures that anyone searching for Kirk after his murder is met with a narrative designed to discredit him.

Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

I'm genuinely confused at so much of my feed being filled with "Don't celebrate Charlie Kirk being shot **because** this gives Trump the go ahead to violently crush opposition." Did you mean to add "faster" to the end of that sentence? Like, he wasn't waiting for an impetus. It's happening already

this is all true but it's also hard to say how much that matters given the fact that this is literally their rhetoric all the time now

This is your brain on techofascist billionaire money.

conservatives are increasingly going to deal with issues because they treat a man being murdered in broad daylight and a beloved character being recast with a black actor as the exact same level of severity. everything is a crisis and the only acceptable response is to "crush" the enemy

the website that lists Rachel first as someone allegedly celebrating Kirk's murder screenshots a tweet where she explicitly condemns violence & says she hopes he survives. for that she's receiving death & rape threats

Ezra Klein is trying in this column to argue that Kirk was doing politics correctly if you just ignore the content of what he was advocating. That he was contributing to American democracy by arguing civilly for the subjugation of women, gay people, trans people. It simply doesn’t work.

Just basic national hygiene

they didn't do this when democratic lawmakers were targeted by a gunman. the mainstream media barely peeped when a Kyle Rittenhouse fan did a mass shooting at a Portland protest. Democrats and the mainstream media are just terrified of conservatives to the point where no one else's lives matter

YouTube video by The Elephant Graveyard How Comedy Was Destroyed by an Anti-Reality Doomsday Cult

this is good and you should send it to the dumbest man you know (you know the one)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewvR...

What the absolute fuck is it with these shit heels and strongly worded letters.

Why Republicans Are Terrified of Nonexistent Crime They need an excuse to violently subjugate liberal cities.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

When Science Becomes the Enemy From funding cuts to violence: How mRNA became ground zero in the war on expertise

This piece is an extraordinary deep dive into mRNA vaccine technology, why it is critical, and the damage caused by RFK Jr. torpedoing funding for it.

Incredible work by @funsizeimmuninja.bsky.social and Dr. Jess Steier.

mRNA is indeed, as the authors say, a molecule of hope.

At this point in time, to fail to understand that Musk is not in fact a genius is a mark of one's own stupidity.

From the very beginning all he's had going for him is inherited wealth and the ability to invest it, then tell lies to inflate company valuations.

That's not genius. That's a con.