JFK did not kill himself. He was murdered. The truth is coming for us all. theonion.info
Charlie Collier
@charliecollier.bsky.social
Editor, theology and ethics, Wipf and Stock Publishers
A significant number of Americans think that being racist should be free speech but calling someone racist should not be.
Solomon@solomonrmissouri.com · 6mo ago
Guys they are really, really not winning It sucks what they’re doing to our country, and my city especially God only knows how much damage they’ll do before they’re stopped, much of it irreversible But they are very much not winning
The testing ground for Bovino’s Operation At Large was Los Angeles. A California judge initially prohibited ICE/CBP’s most flagrant constitutional violations. SCOTUS overruled her 6–3, handing Bovino a blank check to inflict unspeakable brutality on Chicago and Minneapolis. The 6 bear so much blame.
Nick Miroff@nickmiroff.bsky.social · 7mo agoBREAKING Greg Bovino has been removed as Border Patrol "commander at large" and will return to El Centro Calif, where he is expected to retire soon. A stunning turnaround after Pretti killing. Bovino's traveling blue city crackdown is over www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
Joe Rogan calling ICE the gestapo is probably a sign of what other morons are starting to figure out. It only took a guy shooting a woman in the face on video and calling her a fucking bitch
On the patently unlawful boat strikes It's hard for USGs to claim ‘mistake of law’ or ‘advice of counsel’ – when they’re firing lawyers who wouldn't sign off on the strikes. WaPo's new revelations on firings or removals: 1) CIA General Counsel 2) NSC Legal Adviser 3) CIA Mission Center’s lawyer 🧵
White House blew past legal concerns in deadly strikes on drug boats
The Trump administration sidestepped skeptical lawyers across national security agencies as it pursued a military campaign against alleged narcotraffickers, officials say.
washingtonpost.com
My hometown absolutely floored me this past week. FLOORED. For safety reasons, I haven’t said much about it. But I’m so damn proud of my family and friends. So proud.
Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin@ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 9mo agoWe'll see if they actually mean it, but this announcement after one week confirms that Charlotte was impeccably well organized for this moment. www.cbsnews.com/news/charlot...
Is it a threat to free speech when the President of the United States threatens to yank the broadcast license of a channel whose reporters are asking him challenging questions? I ask because I feel like there used to be tons of pundits worried about free speech. Where'd they go?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 9mo agoTrump in response to an Epstein question: "ABC, your company, your crappy company is one of the perpetrators. I think the license should be taken away from ABC because your news is so fake and so wrong. And we have a great commissioner, a chairman, who should take a look at that."
They’ve lost the plot on tradition and therefore what is “traditional,” it’s very frustrating. Read ANY pope discussing THE POOR.
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 10mo agoAs Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”
"Pam Bondi doesn't think she's in an oversight hearing. She believes that she' the personal lawyer to the president." And that's OK with all the GOP senators—who overlook not oversee—as well elite media & culture in general. It's MASS public opinion, MASS MOBILIZED that will save us. #NoKings
🗽LOLGOP🗽@thefarce.org · 10mo ago"Where's everyone else?" Excellent point from Marc Elias on the complete lack of elite revulsion to Pam Bondi's sycophantic performance in the Senate yesterday.
France (and eventually Citibank) *getting* reparations from Haiti for losing their slaves is one of the biggest atrocities of the modern era, and...stiff competition there
What a perfect formulation: “This is, in many ways, the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
prospectmagazine.co.uk
We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.
Nolan Hicks@ndhapple.bsky.social · 11mo agoOMB Director Russell Voight says that US DOT will announce that the federal government is "pausing" funding for both Gateway and the Second Avenue Subway because of "unconstitutional DEI principles" -- x.com/russvought/s...
Our mistake when we wrote _Calling Bullshit_ was to assume that people would deliberately abuse the flexibility of quantitative metrics to mislead. We devoted inadequate attention to people making up complete and utter nonsense with no possible grounding in fact.
Absolute fucking hysteria from the free speech guys.
ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
Disney’s ABC is taking Jimmy Kimmel’s late night talk show off the air indefinitely amid a controversy over his recent comments about Charlie Kirk’s suspected killer.
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“None of us should celebrate political violence, because it’s a threat to all of us,” says Mehdi Hasan following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
Mehdi Hasan: Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left
President Trump announced on Friday that a suspect was in custody for the killing of far-right activist Charlie Kirk. Although the motive has not yet been established, Trump has escalated his attacks ...
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We’re frogs in the pot about this, I think. We’re so hardened to eliminationist, fascist rhetoric from the right that it hardly makes a dent when a prominent host on a major network suggests exterminating a large group of people. But he did. And nobody on modern Right gives a shit.
Popehat@kenwhite.bsky.social · 11mo agoBut don’t call them Nazis.
“I say I’m a pacifist because I am a violent son of a bitch.” I think about this Stanley Hauerwas quote a lot. I'm not a pacifist because I hate violence. I'm a pacifist because I can feel what a stranglehold violence has on me, and I need to fight against it with everything in me
The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo agoQ: My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. How are you holding up? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they've been trying to get for about 150 years.
Exactly. Conservative attacked critical race theorists not because said theorists were wrong but because their scholarship showed exactly how racist and classist the Court has tended.
Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · 11mo agoIn the minds of most Americans, we’ve tended to mythologize the Warren Court as most representative of the Supreme Court, when in truth, for most of our history the Court has ruled against minority rights, upheld the power of wealthy white men, and rarely protected the most vulnerable.
what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.
Exclusive: Jeffrey Epstein’s estate has given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book, including the letter with Trump’s signature that he has said doesn’t exist.
Epstein Birthday Letter With Trump’s Signature Revealed
Lawyers for Epstein’s estate have given Congress a copy of the 2003 birthday book.
on.wsj.com
"If a man has a little fight with the wife, they say 'this was a crime, see,' so now I can't claim 100%..." not that there's any additional context needed to make this sound bad, but Donald Trump's first wife is among those who have accused him of rape abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...
Trump questions whether 'lesser' crimes such as domestic violence should count toward DC crime statistics
Trump said "things that take place in the home" prevent crime from going down.
abcnews.go.com
got to hand a stranger some cop-demoralizing business cards yesterday after I gave a nearby cop one and told him to quit his job. cop-demoralizing business cards are for everyone! www.katiemcvay.com/s/Quit-your-...
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