Music Festival Washington DC. National Mall. September 19, 2025

@ezraklein.bsky.social In your Kirk opinion piece, you gush with jealousy about the power of the platform of persuasion that Kirk built while associating the voices who "wrap his death around his views" with the dangers of rising political violence. You demand pacifism to sustain violent platforms?

Klein has mistaken our closely cherished belief that people should be free to express their views and beliefs without fear of violence for the idea that people at the top of media empires should be free to manipulate the masses into violence without carrying any of the culpability.

There is obviously some play going on with Section 740. This is not like a way-extreme authoritarian response to an event. Literally nothing happened. This is a chess move. It seems clear he’s going around amassing as much para-military power as he can grab.

Worst. Episode. EVER.

@washingtonpost.com Democracy dies behind a paywall

Zuck is absolutely despicable. This is the last place we have that’s semi-public and not a Nazi-glorification platform.

Search in ChatGPT is a huge win for Bing, honestly. This has the potential to wreck Google. @caseynewton.bsky.social

The point of bringing in Hegseth, Gaetz and Gabbard is to burn it all to the ground. Senate: You must recognize this and stop it.

They absolutely revel in their ability to do this to people and are going to keep doing it. They cannot alter reality but they
can raise the social cost of acknowledging it https://bsky.app/profile/robertmaguire.bsky.social/post/3jyhil2c2tm2z

The thing about Elon is that he’s going down a completely familiar radicalization pathway for dumb men who spend too much time online but because he’s got seventy quintillion dollars people assume it must be something else

Trying some creative writing