Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

The New Deal and the Popular Front Gave Us Superman The real Man of Steel wasn’t woke, but he was radical.

The original Superman wasn't woke -- he was radical. He attacked arms dealers, slum lords, abusive husbands and exploitive mine owners. www.thenation.com/article/cult...

Something that doesn’t get written about a lot is JD Vance’s frequently use of the term “normal” to describe things in a way a sheltered college freshman in a dorm would.

CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off so can their parent company Paramount

here's today's post: "CBS can pretty much fuck all the way off" — so can their parent company Paramount.
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This is what integrity looks like.

Matt Haig @matthaig1
We have no control over who people think we are. So don't worry. If they want to hate a fictional version of you that lives in their mind, let them.
Don't drain yourself trying to be understood by people who insist on not understanding you. Keep your cup full. Go to the kindness

When did this go out of style? When did kindness fall out of favor?? What caused relatively normal people to become vicious predators? HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?????

Democrats feed 100 so none starve Republicans starve 100 to punish the 1 they claim doesn’t “deserve” help The Big Beautiful Bill made that cruelty law This isn’t fiscal discipline It’s fear, control, and punishment We are not the same Do you get it now? Full Article www.facebook.com/share/p/19Mv...

The Republicans are building concentration camps to carry out ethnic cleansing.

what. the. fuck. is. this. is there a gas leak in the Tapper household? there’s really no other rational explanation for this Hall-of-Fame-level tone-deaffery. I’m going to let Threads user Toby Morton do my work for me here, because I could not have said it any better than this. Reason #47 why jaketapper is a piece of shit: He looked at a collapsing democracy, women losing rights, climate hell, people being kidnapped off the streets, and thought: “You know what this moment needs? A cartoon Uncle Sam on a surfboard, high-fiving an eagle with a burger and Jack Daniels.” Jake Tapper: The human equivalent of a sparkler. Briefly impressive to toddlers, completely useless in a crisis.

from 'this week on stupid,' on Jake Tapper's idiotic 4th-of-July tweet, and all the other dumbfuck shit that happened.
please read the whole thing, thanks!
link is here: bit.ly/45UJ2vJ
(and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

You can see a marked Border Patrol vehicle

an orange cat is inside but sitting in a pet stroller like he wants to go outside in a controlled manner

Today I saw a super small hummingbird and I was like WOW a friend, let’s exchange ideas. Then I looked closer and realized it was actually a moth and I was like whoah… snack? Friend or snack: the hummingbird moth

Lots to think about

One of several.

a tortoiseshell cat is staring right at you. she isn’t exactly relaxed but her beautiful multicolor paws are politely resting and touching each other, waiting for you to fuck up

She’s ready.
She’s ready for y’all

Given KAG's filing outlining torture in El Salvador, *anyone* being removed to El Salvador should, under both domestic and international law, have an opportunity to file a claim showing that they have a credible fear of being tortured if removed to that country (in addition to other due process)

July 2, 2025 The Senate’s passage of its version of the budget reconciliation bill yesterday sent House members rushing back to Washington today to debate passing what the Senate had sent them.

July 2, 2025

WATCH: NYC comptroller Brad Lander says he sat in a detention room for 3.5 hours without hearing a word about why he was arrested.


"They knew who I was. There's no doubt they knew I was the comptroller."

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘People are going to die’: Jasmine Crockett sounds off on GOP cuts to health care

“The reality is that people are going to die,” says Rep. Jasmine Crockett on the cuts to Medicaid proposed in the Trump/GOP budget bill. “We're talking about rich people just keeping more money in their pockets while literally other people are going to die.”

MY CARD. MR. GEO. PUSHEM, EFFICIENCY EXPERT. AND STAY OUT! I HAVE NO USE FOR THE SHARP BOYS THAT GO AROUND SHOWING EMPLOYERS HOW THEY CAN KILL OFF THEIR HELP QUICKER BY SHIFTING TUO MEN'S WORK ONTO ONE!!!

The Evansville Press, April 10,1916

GOOD!

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FEMA at 'high risk' of disrupting 'life-saving' disaster relief, per internal memo The agency in charge of mitigating disasters is in the midst of its own.

SCOOP— FEMA essential functions are at "high risk" of not functioning properly just days before hurricane season because of staffing shortages, per a recent internal memo obtained by The Handbasket.

These deficiencies "may disrupt life-saving and life-sustaining program delivery."

Full story here:

Ghosts in the Transcript, Ghosts in the Machine Trump at a podium dissolving into static, a courtroom gavel wrapped in circuit board wiring, and a tearful soldier stepping off a bus, three Americas colliding.

Trump’s West Point speech? Scrubbed. His AI-loving prison lawyers? Caught citing fake cases. A billionaire tax bonanza sails through Congress. And somehow, 45% still approve. #ukraine #westpoint
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Three years ago, 376 officers stood outside Robb Elementary while 21 lives were lost No rescue No courage No accountability. The courts trained them to fear more than serve. The politicians funded the cowardice. And we keep burying the cost #Uvalde #QualifiedImmunity www.facebook.com/share/p/1FvA...

4 new words added to the script. I want my lawyer. Every day is shut the fuck up Friday

befuddled old man is Big Sad because presidenting is just too hard why won’t Putin just let Donny win?

here's today's post: "befuddled old man is Big Sad because presidenting is just too hard"
Donny Convict is what would happen if Dunning and Kruger had a baby — and then dropped it on its head.
thanks for reading: bit.ly/3S2eikd

Duffy’s full of it. Pete Buttigieg and Dems pushed to modernize our air traffic control system under Biden—Republicans in Congress blocked it.

The Trump administration’s been too busy blaming DEI instead of fixing the real problems.

Inspector General Probes Whether Trump, DOGE Sought Private Taxpayer Information or Sensitive IRS Material The request, spelled out in an email obtained by ProPublica, comes amid concerns that DOGE has overstepped its bounds in seeking highly restricted private information about taxpayers, public…

The request, spelled out in an email obtained by ProPublica, comes amid concerns that DOGE has overstepped its bounds in seeking highly restricted private information about taxpayers, public employees or federal agencies.

It bears repeating: EVEN IF there WERE a mountain of evidence tying KAG to MS-13, he would STILL be entitled to due process, and the current deportation would STILL be illegal.

This is where JD's other argument comes into play. 7/

One Justice Department Office Is Key to Trump’s Authoritarian Plans The Civil Rights Division used to be the “crown jewel” of the department. Not anymore.

"The petty tyranny of local law enforcement could, particularly in places with Republican-dominated state and local governments, reverse more than six decades of gradual progress under the civil rights regime." ICYMI @blanksslate.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/justice-de...