Tess Owen

Slow news day for the right-wing grievance machine

This is absolutely horrific. To attack a synagogue and kill people, and that too on Yom Kippur. Vile and inexcusable.

My biggest takeaway from the last ten years is believe these people when they tell you what they want to do

hats going for $50 each via the official trump store, being advertised with the caption "the future looks bright! rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat"

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

though all part of the same story

sort of wild that the government shutting down is among the least shocking things that have happened in the last few weeks

fair

Feel slightly insane that elected dems just aren’t really doing or saying anything? shouldn’t they at least have a press conference saying “we are alarmed” at minimum?

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

An unprecedented violation of our civic and Constitutional traditions. Calling every military leader in the world back to the U.S. to hear a wildly inappropriate partisan campaign speech followed by a fascist call to use the military against Americans.

and the interplay of crisis pr with increasingly influential fandom culture

How the Crisis PR Machine Shapes What You Think About Celebrities The disinformation age has hit Hollywood, and the celebrity-industrial complex is armed to the teeth. Meet the crisis publicists, right-wing wranglers, and trolls for hire who are influencing what we ...

must read @annasilman.bsky.social's fascinating and delicious dive into the very curious world of crisis PR:

www.gq.com/story/how-th...

these are all symbolic targets...
Portland (and Berkeley) is where west coast neo nazi/ white wing/ right ring folks liked to go to do "violence" and provoke moments /images that could be framed as "violent" and "anti free speech" to play as propaganda on fox news and etc...

As well as an obvious effort to bait local activists into chaotic direct action

Portland hasn’t even really been a flashpoint for years. Sure it has a long tradition for leftist activism. But it’s also vilified by the right, and holds mythical significance. This is pure red meat for the base.

It’s 5 o clock somewhere !

Feels like calculated disrespect and erasure of the victims.

Immediate follow, thank you

smoking is starting to sound very good again

Great point.

And also: Patel didn't have to show this photo today. The FBI isn't seeking tips amid some massive manhunt.

The gunman is, by all accounts, dead in a suicide.

Oh man I can’t imagine - I have some friends who also got plunged into intense stress with that announcement. You hanging in there alright?

(Per NBC and other outlets, the victims were ice detainees)

What was incredible to me about this press conference is that nowhere did anyone mention that the victims were all detainees. Even if it turns out the suspect intended to target ICE employees, which we still don’t know is true, doesn’t that seem like important information?

how’s everyone’s anxiety levels

What is ‘antifa’ and why has Trump branded it a ‘terrorist organization’? There is no such formal entity called antifa, yet the US president has designated it an ‘anarchist enterprise’, raising concerns from civil liberties experts

I broke down Trump's executive order on "antifa"—which he describes as a “SICK, DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT DISASTER"—for @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Went to the pharmacy today and the pain meds aisle was teeming with pregnant women with blue hair and badges with their pronouns on them, just filling their baskets with Tylenol

raptured?

dumbest timeline

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.