Alisha Kirby
@alishakirby.bsky.social
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In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.
And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"
And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"
Trump says he is ordering all U.S. flags lowered to half-mast in honor of Charlie Kirk
September 10, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot.
And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"
And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"
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no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
September 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
no offends if this is you but if you're thinking "this is going to make the right do fascism" they're already there. they blew up a boat with 11 people on it for being immigrants. they're kidnapping US citizens and trying to rendition them to Uganda. do you think we're on a trajectory to peace
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I think it’s cool that we made a machine that gives entire towns asthma so it can turn your uncle into the dad from Frailty
WSJ: ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.... On Aug. 5, Greenwich police discovered that Soelberg killed his mother and himself in the $2.7 million Dutch colonial-style home where they lived together.
A Troubled Man, His Chatbot and a Murder-Suicide in Old Greenwich
“Erik, you’re not crazy.” ChatGPT fueled a 56-year-old tech industry veteran’s paranoia, encouraging his suspicions that his mother was plotting against him.
www.wsj.com
August 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
I think it’s cool that we made a machine that gives entire towns asthma so it can turn your uncle into the dad from Frailty
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Trusting experts is not, in fact, a feature of religion or totalitarianism.
RFK Jr: We need to stop trusting the experts... Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy, it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism.
August 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Trusting experts is not, in fact, a feature of religion or totalitarianism.
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"we are human beings worthy of the same respect and dignity you'd extend to anyone else" vs "no you're not"
This from Riley Gaines is why trans people freak out when Democrats try to carve out some compromise over sports. The politicians and activists attacking trans people are not interested in compromise! They're interested in our eradication from public life and are exploiting sports to that end
August 27, 2025 at 5:51 PM
"we are human beings worthy of the same respect and dignity you'd extend to anyone else" vs "no you're not"
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There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
August 27, 2025 at 5:20 PM
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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I think this—the horror of mass shootings over the last 25 years and the response (the stiffening of opposition to any measures whatsoever to improve gun safety)—has broken us as a people in some fundamental way that is hard to quantify but plays a nontrivial role in where we are now.
I remember what a gigantic deal Columbine was when I was in school.
Now, I doubt it would even register. It's just a danger all children have to be aware of.
How mind-bogglingly cruel is that? How truly evil to simply accept it?
Now, I doubt it would even register. It's just a danger all children have to be aware of.
How mind-bogglingly cruel is that? How truly evil to simply accept it?
August 27, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I think this—the horror of mass shootings over the last 25 years and the response (the stiffening of opposition to any measures whatsoever to improve gun safety)—has broken us as a people in some fundamental way that is hard to quantify but plays a nontrivial role in where we are now.
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I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
August 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!
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if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
Thinking on this point and there really is maybe a golden opportunity in the near future to make immigration radically simpler. Clear out the queues, make green cards easier, etc. Public opinion is sort of pro immigration right now and it might only go up
3. However, this leads to centering punishing ICE rather than helping immigrants (through regularization of status, increasing visa quotas, etc.). There are viral posts here about the need to prosecute ICE members after Trump leaves office. There aren't any about giving immigrants green cards.
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
if we made immigration work how people think it works that would be the biggest liberalization of immigration in American history
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Another of my rules: accelerationism is bullshit. Bad place to hang your hopes. Build support, take gains where you can get them. Keep working to build support for more. Do the best you can to swat back backlash. But hoping for damage is a mistake.
The secret to the anti-liberal leftists might be that they kind of like Trump and want him to pioneer a fully autocratic presidency that a progressive can someday seize and deploy.
August 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Another of my rules: accelerationism is bullshit. Bad place to hang your hopes. Build support, take gains where you can get them. Keep working to build support for more. Do the best you can to swat back backlash. But hoping for damage is a mistake.
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this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
"The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today announced the beginning of a coordinated wind-down of its mRNA vaccine development activities...."
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
cc: Sen. Bill Cassidy
August 5, 2025 at 9:58 PM
this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025
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I wholeheartedly agree.
July 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
I wholeheartedly agree.
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cops did an uvalde again. they’re real brave when it’s unarmed protesters and workers and just the biggest pussies in the world the second there might be some actual danger.
July 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
cops did an uvalde again. they’re real brave when it’s unarmed protesters and workers and just the biggest pussies in the world the second there might be some actual danger.
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why can’t he just pretend Mamdani is Trump and do nothing
Hakeem Jeffries has reportedly told allies that if Zohran Mamdani wins, he can't become Speaker of the House.
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Leaders like Jeffries see this fight as existential for their control of the party:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/party-cont...
Party Control Is Dead
From Mamdani to Trump’s Epstein fiasco, Americans are turning on their leaders
www.kenklippenstein.com
July 21, 2025 at 10:35 PM
why can’t he just pretend Mamdani is Trump and do nothing
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Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!
July 4, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reality is now so internet poisoned you cannot say true things without appearing insane. “The New York Times ran a hit piece on Zohran purely so a minor race science blogger could place insider trades on Polymarket” sounds like you are a schizophrenic but it is straightforwardly factual!
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at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
June 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
at least he didn't do something truly reckless like try to forgive student loans
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They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
June 22, 2025 at 12:18 AM
They have made the world living hell for no reason whatsoever. People will ask why this happened in a decade and there will be tremendous effort to make it more complicated than “they were evil, stupid, and bored”
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I keep seeing people saying "everyone who voted for the Iraq war was disgraced" no they weren't! It worked out great for all of them! Bush got re-elected! The 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee voted for it!!!
if you are old enough to remember, at all, what was going on during the run-up to iraq, and fall for it again now, you are either vile beyond repair or such an enormous mark that you should be locked in a mcdonald's playplace for your own personal safety
June 19, 2025 at 12:27 PM
I keep seeing people saying "everyone who voted for the Iraq war was disgraced" no they weren't! It worked out great for all of them! Bush got re-elected! The 2016 Democratic Presidential nominee voted for it!!!
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being a conservative columnist at a major newspaper must rock so hard. an explicit mandate never to learn anything. approach every new day as though you just fired a roman candle directly up your own nose. that's the life
June 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
being a conservative columnist at a major newspaper must rock so hard. an explicit mandate never to learn anything. approach every new day as though you just fired a roman candle directly up your own nose. that's the life
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Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president
Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?
Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap
Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?
Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap
June 8, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Dem senator: Please, protestors, there are better ways to oppose the president
Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?
Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap
Voters: Like not voting for his nominees?
Dem senator: haha no no no. No. What I mean is we are writing a rap
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not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
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1 in 12 Americans live in California.
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates
June 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
1 in 12 Americans live in California.
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America
1 in 35 Americans live in LA County.
LA is America