Thomas Chatterton Williams

What does cancel culture mean in the year 2025? Michael Moynihan chats with @chatterton.bsky.social and John Wood Jr. at #freespeechsummit2025

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MAGA Finds Its George Floyd Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.

“Just as the left used [George] Floyd’s death to justify and hasten all manner of political ends, the right is invoking [Charlie] Kirk’s name to advance illiberal aims and silence opponents,” @chatterton.bsky.social argues:

MAGA Finds Its George Floyd Charlie Kirk isn’t the first martyr to be used as a cudgel.

I wrote about Charlie Kirk and George Floyd: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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He lost the popular vote in 24?

How was he a nobody?

Switch search to “latest” and you’ll see it’s all the same thing. It hasn’t stopped. There is a meltdown on Bluesky about Klein.

Search his name for yourself. Just endless examples without a single dissenting statement between them. You can scroll and see dozens and dozens of responses that all come to the same conclusion. As toxic as Twitter really is, I’ve never seen a dozen posts in a row with zero disagreement.

Very hard to understand Trump and MAGA’s animus towards Comey. He’s the decisive factor in there ever even being a president Trump. You’d think he’d never have to buy a drink for the rest of his life in MAGAland.

That would be “an overly”

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lol you sound like you’re really well-connected in that world and in the know

In my experience doing his show, judging by the responses, I think a lot of people are still listening to him.

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Excellent

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It's easier to win an argument with a genius than an idiot.

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I feel more at home in spots where I can’t read the road signs than here.

I’ve spent half of my adult life living in one foreign country or another and I don’t think I’ve ever felt so estranged from the surrounding culture as I am from the aesthetics and sensibilities of this movement. Not even a criticism, I just feel more at home in Greece than in these images.

The effort to turn Kirk into a saint is genuinely bizarre. And it should go without saying that the impulse to resist this propaganda in no way excuses or condones the horrific violence.

"25 percent of the black male vote he got. This is the least racially polarized election since the 1970s. He has a multiethnic coalition behind him." And at least some of it is driven by the toxicity of the Democratic brand and not love of Trump.

@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social

"It's one of the most hair-raising things I've heard from an elected politician, the vice president telling Americans to inform on each other....things are moving so fast."

@chatterton.bsky.social joins @timmiller.bsky.social on today's Bulwark Podcast:

Yes

I'm so proud of my husband @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, who puts up with a lot of unmerited criticism but also has moments like this.

He writes the truth, which resonates with reasonable people across partisan lines. May we all one day be united again.

(gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...)

We had a great evening last night with @chatterton.bsky.social and @oblongbooks.bsky.social discussing “Summer of our Discontent” with @rogerberkowitz.bsky.social

Join us again at the JOY conference @bardcollege.bsky.social October 16-17! hac.bard.edu/joy-2025

JD Vance goes to Munich and the United Kingdom to lecture Europeans on free speech and then addresses Americans asking them to inform on each other: "When you see someone celebrating Charlie's murder, call them out — and, hell, call their employer." The hypocrisy is the point.