Bill Clift

I hadn't actually watched this clip until now but Kilmeade doesn't say "euthanize" or anything like that.

there's no reason to euphemize his language, the man is talking about murder.

This you? Just two hours later?

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

That msnbc guy got fired for saying these words

The people that risk their lives defending our country don’t enjoy freedom of speech.

Cool little Constitution you’ve got there, America.

scrub all you want, lady macbeth, that stain you voted for ain’t coming out

How about that.

WSJ owes an explanation, as does the FBI. Who dumped that crap into their bulletins? If not the same person, who leaked it? Why does either person still have a job? Congress should demand answers immediately.

Too bad the GOP effectively criminalized studying how information moves online and news orgs laid off and demonized all the reporters who covered the burgeoning online accelerationist performative death cults. All of that work was somehow "censorship" that needed to be stopped. Now we're here.

The real issue isn’t left vs right.

It’s not white vs black.

It’s not citizen vs immigrant.

It’s not gay vs straight.

The real issue is that a lot of powerful people have a vested interest — and a lot of money invested — in dividing us, and it’s working.

the packers have 25 individual QB seasons that would break the record for the most passing yards in a year by a bears quarterback

My dad first signed up for Twitter to follow live sports and he’s a freak about U of I. One day he said to me “Twitter is abuzz about Illini golf,” and I was like dude you only follow Illini sports accounts. And that’s how every reporter feels Charlie Kirk was the most important person in the world.

It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible The task of reporting is not a simple one. Each and every day, reporters and editors at publications like The Onion make difficult decisions about which issues should receive attention, knowing that o...

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Pablo has contributed more to NBA reporting in a week than Simmons did for however long he sat on the Countdown desk.

It’s not that I don’t care, it’s that I remember Uvalde, Sandy Hook, and Annunciation. I remember the photos of their aftermaths and we as a nation did nothing.

If we did nothing for the kids, why should we expect more for someone who believed in making life worse for so many?

#tbt

This happened yesterday as well.

We can all agree, no matter who is in it- #ReleaseAllTheEpsteinFiles

I have a couple of comments about the "free speech hero" narrative about Charlie Kirk.

First, was Charlie Kirk really notable for supporting the free speech of people he disagreed with? I haven't noticed that, though I could have missed it.

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Shelter-in-place ordered as Boulder police investigate reports of man with gun near Fairview High Fairview High School and the Southern Hills Middle School in South Boulder are on lockdown, and a shelter-in-place order is in effect for the neighborhood.

New: Fairview High School and the Southern Hills Middle School in South Boulder are on lockdown, and a shelter-in-place order is in effect for the neighborhood. The Boulder Police Department is investigating a report of a man with a gun near the school

The policing of "tone" and "civility" and "incitement" is always completely one-sided.

As someone who spent many hours listening to Kirk’s show on AM radio, I would say that he made Rush Limbaugh seem like Walter Cronkite by comparison, in terms of rhetorical tone and empirical rigor. The subtext of every show was “You don’t hate the left enough.”

California's first solar-covered canal is now fully online The 1.6-MW pilot system is among a growing number of initiatives to put solar over waterways. The approach could generate gigawatts of power nationwide.

"Putting solar arrays above water can help keep panels cool, in turn improving their efficiency and electricity output. Shade from the panels can also prevent water loss through evaporation in drought-prone regions and can limit algae growth in waterways." Looks good too!

These are all people who wanted to kill their enemies before Charlie Kirk was shot, are more vocal about it now, and will keep lusting for it long after Charlie Kirk has been buried. Today’s biggest event could have been a dog farting and they would have reacted by wanting you dead.

Thomas Massie now has 217 of the 218 signatures needed for his discharge petition to force a vote on releasing the Epstein files.
Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw who was just sworn in after winning a special election in Virginia became the 217 person to sign.

It is possible to hold both of these things true at the same time:

1) political violence is never an appropriate choice in a civilized society

2) Charlie Kirk’s dream is to create exactly the kind of society he currently lives in, as spoken from his own mouth

Pundits are focusing on Kirk’s willingness to debate people while studiously ignoring the people whose basic humanity he was willing to debate