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Why are some liberals turning Charlie Kirk into a martyr for liberal democracy?
Holding him up as a champion of dialogue paints him in a false light to millions who might only know him in death, writes Lindsay Beyerstein.
www.editorialboard.com
My latest: Charlie Kirk was a gutter bigot who built his career on censorship and bussed insurrectionists to the Capitol on J6. Why are liberals like Ezra Klein trying to paint him as a paragon of reason and dialogue?
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2025 recapped
December 29, 2025 at 5:46 PM
2025 recapped
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Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Speaking of typos, someone should direct Ms. Dhillon to U.S. v. Murphy, 406 F.3d 857, 859 n.1 (7th Cir. 2005), aka the greatest footnote in appellate court history.
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
scholar.google.com/scholar_case...
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I’m not buying MTG’s repentance shtick but I’ll happily take the dirt she’s dishing in hopes we’ll buy it.
December 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
I’m not buying MTG’s repentance shtick but I’ll happily take the dirt she’s dishing in hopes we’ll buy it.
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How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.
December 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
How stochastic terrorism works - Trump leverages the threats he induces against even Marjorie Taylor Greene's family www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/m... One important reason that so many Rs are scared to challenge him.
Going to the Pearl Harbor memorial today. Hope the 24th Infantry gets a shout-out on the tour.
December 29, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Going to the Pearl Harbor memorial today. Hope the 24th Infantry gets a shout-out on the tour.
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I appreciate the forthright acknowledgement of the mistake from the author, and look forward to decisive action by @princetonupress.bsky.social to correct this error, and any others, that made it past their robust editorial process.
December 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I appreciate the forthright acknowledgement of the mistake from the author, and look forward to decisive action by @princetonupress.bsky.social to correct this error, and any others, that made it past their robust editorial process.
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a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
December 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
a lot of dumb dumbs at the Atlantic, but man, Caitlin Flanagan is on another level
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this dude is incapable of shutting the fuck up
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman says in 10 years time college graduates will be working 'some completely new, exciting, super well-paid' job in space | Fortune
While Bill Gates has said the 2-day workweek could come within the next decade, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says Gen Alpha college graduates will be too busy planet-hopping.
fortune.com
December 29, 2025 at 4:51 PM
this dude is incapable of shutting the fuck up
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
and the garbage U.S. press is pathologically compelled to parrot and stenograph every last brain fart he has until we've all gone mad and tapped out
Or sunscreen
just one of my petty joys but it amazes me when a rich person can't access a good blowout
“Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you’re wrong.” Read the inside story of how Marjorie Taylor Greene went from zealous Trump cheerleader to his loudest Republican critic: nyti.ms/3Lbzi88
December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Or sunscreen
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What is the actual plan for this? AI magically starts producing new industries that don’t exist in the next three months? The unemployed who have never done construction work start doing construction work? Nothing is pointing in this direction, except for elite spending on tennis seats and gambling.
Rep. Michael Rulli: "I think we're really gonna see an economy hopefully by Easter that is roaring"
December 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
What is the actual plan for this? AI magically starts producing new industries that don’t exist in the next three months? The unemployed who have never done construction work start doing construction work? Nothing is pointing in this direction, except for elite spending on tennis seats and gambling.
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shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
Yeah, this dum dum is talking about chicken pox.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
Anyway, it's very cool and awesome that he has so much cultural and political influence.
December 28, 2025 at 5:55 PM
shit like this is the core of the damage the social internet has done to us
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
we have replaced actual expertise with "some dude with a podcast who makes you feel like his buddy while he bullshits into a microphone" and now a ton of people think that measles and chicken pox are the same
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and the ability to do such vaccine research was impossible. In 1918 it was not known what caused influenza; the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933. The bottom line is that a vaccine virus could never have been imagined in 1918. The influenza virus arose in
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
and the ability to do such vaccine research was impossible. In 1918 it was not known what caused influenza; the influenza virus was not discovered until 1933. The bottom line is that a vaccine virus could never have been imagined in 1918. The influenza virus arose in
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
December 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy
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It IS scandalous that immigrants are still coming to this country to do jobs native born Americans don’t want, at wages no one wants their child to work for. There is still no path to citizenship for these unsung heroes who make independent living possible for our growing elderly population.
The largest generation in U.S. history is in their 70s now. And Stephen Miller’s podcaster wife thinks it’s suspicious that there’s a huge surge in home health aides.
December 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It IS scandalous that immigrants are still coming to this country to do jobs native born Americans don’t want, at wages no one wants their child to work for. There is still no path to citizenship for these unsung heroes who make independent living possible for our growing elderly population.
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December 29, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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You may think our ancestors felt emotions, given their extensive documentation of feeling emotions like we do, but what this article presupposes is...maybe they didn't?
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
December 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
You may think our ancestors felt emotions, given their extensive documentation of feeling emotions like we do, but what this article presupposes is...maybe they didn't?
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I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
asking the sommelier which wine pairs best with swedish fish
December 29, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I used to manage wine programs for movie theaters and I am in the extremely unique position to say with professional certainty that the answer here is a crisp Albariño.
He came within 600 votes of winning. It was a perfectly credible campaign. Kat hasn't won anything yet, but a lot of people are ready to take her advice on what all Democratic campaigns should be doing.
December 29, 2025 at 8:03 AM
He came within 600 votes of winning. It was a perfectly credible campaign. Kat hasn't won anything yet, but a lot of people are ready to take her advice on what all Democratic campaigns should be doing.
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modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 28, 2025 at 10:08 PM
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
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A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
December 28, 2025 at 5:57 PM
A pair of happy hammerhead sharks
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
(ca. 1735 Edo period Japan)
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“I wish I knew what Rockwell might have said about Trump’s theft of his life’s work in service of state-sponsored terror. But even more than that, I wonder what he would have painted.”
By @crampell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
By @crampell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
The MAGAfication of Norman Rockwell
Trump uses the artist’s work—like other cultural icons—to promote Gestapo tactics and nativist ideas.
open.substack.com
December 29, 2025 at 2:08 AM
“I wish I knew what Rockwell might have said about Trump’s theft of his life’s work in service of state-sponsored terror. But even more than that, I wonder what he would have painted.”
By @crampell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
By @crampell.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT)
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
December 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Peter Thiel’s Christmas party had an odd theme this year: “all things Britain.” (per NYT)
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
As Trump sunsets and backlash builds, expect a focus shift to the UK—where some see brighter possibilities for fascism,network states, and monarchies.
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She wasn't done, apparently.
December 29, 2025 at 5:47 AM
She wasn't done, apparently.