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The conservative project always makes much more sense when you realize it's just run by upper middle class American christian nationalist who are basically completely fine in material position but furious the entire country doesn't bow to their weird cultural preferences.

one thing that is true for everyone reading this: unless something changes dramatically the number of people who agree with you on what basic facts constitute "reality" will shrink every year for the rest of your life

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

"I can abhor the violence that took your life, but I don't have to celebrate how you chose to live."

Pastor Howard-John Wesley

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.

The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

Emmett Till’s Cousin Is Running for US Senate in Mississippi Priscilla Williams-Till, a cousin of Emmett Till, is running for U.S. Senate in Mississippi against incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith.

“We have a (senator) … who made the comment, ‘If I was invited to a public hanging, I’d be on the front row.’ And she represents this state,” Priscilla Williams-Till said. “Well, I represent this state, too, and God has directed my path. We will change the hate that’s come out of Mississippi.”

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way

I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) on the shooting of Charlie Kirk:

"Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it."

[i have like 25 rants re: being southern and how both (white) southerners AND non-southerners fetishize and demonize this place, its people, and its things, but i didn't win powerball so i can't write a dissertation. it's a nice place w/a lot of problems & bad govt. yknow, like the whole country rn]

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.”

— Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

We can’t work from the old playbook. It’s time for a new generation of unapologetically progressive leadership.

anyway the choice america faces going forward is live in the confederacy or do reconstruction for real and purge those motherfuckers from all of public life. and there isn’t really an in-between.

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

Sign the Petition Demand the Release of Giovanna Hernandez

ICE arrested a woman in Bham this morning on her way to work. She’s been here since she was 7, got her Master’s in social work from Jacksonville State, has no criminal record, and works at the Hispanic and Immigrant Center of Alabama. And now she’ll likely be deported. www.change.org/p/demand-the...

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i know there are bigger takeaways but i am dying at "this seems right." what do you mean it seems right, it's a memey venn diagram you fucking idiot

The Media Will Never Stop Falling For It Trump's fake plan to tax the rich shows how little the mainstream media has learned

I wrote about Trump's ostensible plan to tax the rich, and how the media bites on his propaganda.

$4,029,000,000 for classified military space superiority programs;

inside the defense reconciliation bill is what will probably turn into a $4 billion giveaway to elon musk

I won't speak for others but I want candidates who won't just win the next election but aggressively, unapologetically destroy trumpism and rebuild everything he's broken. If you're too afraid of a 51-49 poll to even talk about an issue I have no faith that will be you

(stoically chopping wood at a remote cabin)
Subway franchise manager: strange place to find the world's best sandwich artist
me: ..that's the past. I left that life behind

Here's the real kick about how Trump's tariffs are going to hike prices for everything: Once that happens, even if the tariffs go away, the prices are never, ever going back down again.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

Yellowhammer Fund won its lawsuit against Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall. The court made it clear: Alabama’s laws do not extend beyond state lines to penalize people for getting or assisting with legal healthcare elsewhere.

Fairhope Public Library supporters raise money to replace funds state plans to withhold • Alabama Reflector As of Tuesday morning, supporters raised almost $40,000 of the $42,000 that APLS plans to withhold from the Fairhope Public Library.

Via @rchapoco.bsky.social: A nonprofit said Tuesday it had raised $40,000 of the estimated $42,000 the Alabama Public Library Service Board voted to withhold from Fairhope Public Library amid allegations of inappropriate content in the library.

we believe we are special and we simply are not

Schumer's crime is he lied to us and told Republicans the truth.

Fundamentally, unfit for these times.