Barbara Banfield

Explosive claim around Charlie Kirk’s killing sparks MAGA civil war While the killing of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk last month launched a flurry of conspiracy theories, an explosive new claim made Monday by one of Kirk’s former associates has sparked a civil w...

Candace Owens claims that Israel is behind Charlie Kirk's killing, in part because he had Tucker Carlson on his show. She offers as proof a group text chat where Charlie is complaining about losing a large Jewish donor and that it would cost him $2 million a year.

www.rawstory.com/charlie-kirk...

All those rural red states so great again, right?

glad to be born at a time when i got to see what life was like before the internet and will be dead before AI completely destroys humanity

⚡️ NEW: State Rep. Aftyn Behn has won the Democratic Primary in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District Special Election

@aftynbehn.bsky.social

Brown Stage Capitalism Cory Doctorow’s ‘Enshittification’ describes how tech platforms (and everything else) went down the sewer. Hint: It rhymes with ‘deshmegulation.’

Every tech product is getting shittier, and it’s making tech barons richer. Bezos and his peers have made themselves into post-risk tollbooth operators, skimming profits off the economic activity of others. Maureen Tkacik reviews “Enshittification.” trib.al/nyvLlbL

Any trans person who begins their transition today is exhibiting more courage than most people will in their entire lives.

You are thinking wrongly that "Democrats" are what might make or break them. THEY ARE GOING TO LOSE THEIR AUDIENCE, THEIR VIEWERS starting now and getting worse. It will take a long time to recover from that, if they ever do.

I'm sure this will stem the tide of air traffic controllers calling in sick

See also: people who say we must "restore trust in higher ed"

An underrated part of Gulf tourism is for sex. Incredible amount of high-end sex work out of Dubai - and a lot of human trafficking at the lower end as well.

COONS: How did you conclude that these strikes on boats in the open ocean are legal?

BONDI: I'm not going to discuss any legal advice that my department may or may not have issued

Lmaoooo sorry but that's amazing and kinda gives away the plan to, you know, not pay anyone

Rutgers professor moving to Europe after threats over antifa accusations Mark Bray says threats intensified after a Turning Point USA petition accused him of promoting political violence

A Rutgers professor has been forced to flee the country for his safety, after targeting by a far-right student group that was *checks notes* claiming they felt unsafe.

I'm horrified.
I'm angry.

A short 🧵 #AcademicFreedom #Rutgers #violence #antifa

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

I’m a career prosecutor who took a $25,000 check from an affiliated entity of Donald Trump’s while investigating Trump University and later left my lobbying firm to become Donald Trump’s personal impeachment lawyer, White House aide, and Attorney General. So don’t you DARE question my integrity.

It's not just that they're going to strike down a law against conversion therapy, it's that they're going to do it on behalf of made-up claims from a straw plaintiff who can't honestly show the law affected her at all

The United States as we knew it is gone. The rest of the world needs to pay attention. The Eagle has Fallen.

1765 Stamp Act, S.A. Congress, Townshend
1766 Declaratory Act
1768 UK troops Mass.
1770 Boston Massacre
1772 Pine Tree Revolt
1773 Tea Party
1774 Coercive Acts, 1st Congress, boycott
1775 Lexington & Concord, Bunker Hill, Olive Branch Petition
1776 Declaration

You don't skip straight to the end.

If you automatically assume that anything any media outlet reports is a lie if a cop is the source you’re likely to be far better informed than someone who automatically assumes it’s all true.

I feel like every day for the past month I have said to a new person that I hate living in a world where this man is genuinely dangerous and has way too much power, because he’s the goofiest loser alive and we deserve to be able to sincerely enjoy the comedy he’s providing

this feels like forty years ago but it was 2023

www.newsweek.com/nancy-pelosi...

Everyone who was raising alarm bells under Bush and Obama are shouting “I told you!” right now.

yeah, like, ACA subsidy extension is happening independent of the shutdown, pretty confident

If Trump et al can't provoke a civil war, they will simply declare one and start shooting.

If Trump et al can't provoke a civil war, they will simply declare one and start shooting.

Newsom says he’s on the verge of quitting the National Govs Association: “should not be difficult … regardless of partisan affiliation, to agree that politicizing our states’ Natl Guard and deploying… over the objections of the home-state Governor,harms the interests of states”

Well, it DOES get awfully cold up there in Canada.

There are 12 guys like this in every club in Delhi and you need to cover your drink every time you talk to one of them

Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.

From the people who brought you a fake case in 303 Creative and still got the justices to bulldoze protections for queer people………

I've been trying to put my finger on why ICE/DHS lies feel so much more outrageous than normal cop lies, and I think it's because they don't lie like cops, they lie like aggressively stupid criminals