Emily

Why is the press brainstorming dictatorship ideas with a fascist

trump constantly says black women in leadership positions have "low iq" but the mainstream media refuses to say trump is a racist

WSJ and others doing a bang-up job this week in particular

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

all of these categories completely overlap

like this is the most irresponsible level of hysteria i’ve ever seen. most of these people are either paid by the republican party, or are high level advisors and allies. this is insane

The legacy media is so out of its depth it’s borderline irresponsible

Every major publication in this country needs to have dedicated staffers or correspondents reporting on gaming, streamers, podcasts, and TikTok. Not as a once in a while thing. As standard beats. These are massive segments of American culture. No excuses for it anymore.

Watching the cable news commentary on the bullet engravings is wild because none of these people seem to realize that the content of the engravings are indicative of extremely online meme brain rot

Like seeing the messages I can kind of see where they came up with “trans/antifa” (still a stretch) but with even a smidgen of context it’s so clear what these messages were

Literally, if a single gamer or even just an extremely online person had seen those engravings they’d have been able to clock those as memes. I’m not a gamer but these phrases have the cadence of memes

I’m so fucking tired

Yesterday: No suspect in custody. "We will jump to the conclusion it was a radical trans leftist, we should persecute all people like this person"

Today: Suspect in custody is from Utah, his dad is a Christian pastor. "We can't jump to any conclusions about this person's background or ideology".

trump literally joked about her dad dying.

"Since when have American flags been lowered to half-mast for a ragebait YouTuber? Why would a podcaster who never held office deserve a Capitol monument? And why are elected Democrats and institutions participating in and encouraging this?"

Every journalist who rushed to link this murder to trans people is bad at their job and needs to retract their shit & then be fired. Y'all really went with a rumor that would help you demonize us and make money off the ongoing fascist campaign to destroy us rather than doing your motherfucking job.

if this shooter winds up being a red-pilled groyper the Kirk newscycle length will be mysteriously cut from two months to two days

a friend and I have been debating whether the alleged Kirk shooter was either a "dirtbag left cumtown chapo stupidpol poster" or if he was an "irony poisoned, terminally online, neonazi groyper type" given the gun casings, which shows just how impenetrable this is going to be for MSM

American politics has sides. There is no use pretending it doesn’t. But both sides are meant to be on the same side of a larger project — we are all, or most of us, anyway, trying to maintain the viability of the American experiment. We can live with losing an election because we believe in the promise of the next election; we can live with losing an argument because we believe that there will be another argument. Political violence imperils that.

ezra klein is a leading voice on modern politics who doesn't fucking remember the violent aftermath of the 2020 election that was stoked by charlie kirk himself

THANK YOU

Headline and lede from Time magazine (did not make the magazine cover) with a generic headshot of Minnesota House speaker Melissa Hortman that reads Minnesota Lawmaker Melissa Hortman Killed, FBI Hunt Suspect Jun 15, 2025 — Democratic state Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, were killed by an individual impersonating a police officer. -- Hortman was assassinated by a far right extremist along with her husband and dog. The man had a long list of Democrats he planned to kill, and was caught after shooting Minnesota Democrat John Hoffman and his wife Yvette who thankfully survived

Headline from time with a photo of Charlie Kirk at the event where he was murdered, smiling and waving at the crowd. The preview time has shared indicates that this will be the cover story of the next magazine. The headline reads The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

The asymmetrical media response to political violence in America is, in itself, one of the most important contributing factors to how we arrived at this place of escalating political violence.

the complaint is basically that unidentified people are reacting to Charlie Kirk dying like Charlie Kirk would

there was never going to be a world in which the right didn’t claim the left was celebrating the death of charlie kirk, no matter how respectable anyone tried to be.

my entire bluesky feed is people speaking out against political violence, meanwhile right wingers are foaming at the mouth calling for blood

This is the line that Dems need to push. It can't be simply. "Political violence is bad" it MUST be "Political violence is bad and Trump and his ilk are responsible for creating conditions ripe for political violence"

This is beyond parody