@semcog.bsky.social
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he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
September 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest
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Been saying it since 2022. It was never about profitability -- it was about supercharging propaganda via armies of boosted Blue Checks while giving brainrot to a specific type of Caucasian media "professional" who would never be able to abandon that app because it was their entire identity.
Remember when everyone was making fun of Musk for losing money on Twitter? Profit was not the point of that purchase
I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.
September 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Been saying it since 2022. It was never about profitability -- it was about supercharging propaganda via armies of boosted Blue Checks while giving brainrot to a specific type of Caucasian media "professional" who would never be able to abandon that app because it was their entire identity.
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$44 billion is a lot, but he got the complete cessation of EVERY government legal/labor/environmental inquiry into his operations, bottomless tax cuts, countless subsidies and contracts, a massive right wing online propaganda machine, and a government that shares his white supremacist agenda
Remember when everyone was making fun of Musk for losing money on Twitter? Profit was not the point of that purchase
I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.
September 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
$44 billion is a lot, but he got the complete cessation of EVERY government legal/labor/environmental inquiry into his operations, bottomless tax cuts, countless subsidies and contracts, a massive right wing online propaganda machine, and a government that shares his white supremacist agenda
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Remember when everyone was making fun of Musk for losing money on Twitter? Profit was not the point of that purchase
I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.
September 12, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Remember when everyone was making fun of Musk for losing money on Twitter? Profit was not the point of that purchase
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The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology
September 12, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The past few days have been a really interesting chapter in my reawakening. Trying to brush away some of the most racist commentary of the past decade as “politics” or “differences of opinion” has really confirmed how poisoned the culture is. Nobody will ever cop to this particular type of pathology
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In middle school, I refused to support the US wars in Afghanistan & Iraq. I sat for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Classmates told me that I should be shot "because you hate America."
Our political moment did not appear from thin air. It is indicative of decades of nationalism, xenophobia, & misogyny.
Classmates told me that I should be shot "because you hate America."
Our political moment did not appear from thin air. It is indicative of decades of nationalism, xenophobia, & misogyny.
Politico - President Trump tells reporters "we just have to beat the hell" out of "radical left lunatics," following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.
Trump says ‘we have to beat the hell’ out of ‘radical left lunatics’ after Kirk killing
The conservative activist's killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting.
www.politico.com
September 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
In middle school, I refused to support the US wars in Afghanistan & Iraq. I sat for the Pledge of Allegiance.
Classmates told me that I should be shot "because you hate America."
Our political moment did not appear from thin air. It is indicative of decades of nationalism, xenophobia, & misogyny.
Classmates told me that I should be shot "because you hate America."
Our political moment did not appear from thin air. It is indicative of decades of nationalism, xenophobia, & misogyny.
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Publicly targeting one of the most prominent Jewish public intellectuals in the country right now is one way to "fight antisemitism," I suppose.
UC Berkeley has given the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty, and staff as part of an investigation into antisemitism on campus. One of them is Judith Butler. www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Publicly targeting one of the most prominent Jewish public intellectuals in the country right now is one way to "fight antisemitism," I suppose.
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To the Trump regime, “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t mean countering anti-Jewish bigotry and violence. Obviously not.
It means pressuring American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler to shut up, suppress other speech on campus, and install political commissars to oversee and distort higher education.
It means pressuring American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler to shut up, suppress other speech on campus, and install political commissars to oversee and distort higher education.
UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/arti...
UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe
UC Berkeley gave the Trump administration the names of 160 students, faculty and staff and info about their “potential connection to reports of alleged antisemitism” — sparking due-process...
www.sfchronicle.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
To the Trump regime, “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t mean countering anti-Jewish bigotry and violence. Obviously not.
It means pressuring American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler to shut up, suppress other speech on campus, and install political commissars to oversee and distort higher education.
It means pressuring American Jewish philosopher Judith Butler to shut up, suppress other speech on campus, and install political commissars to oversee and distort higher education.
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These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.
The MSNBC commentator saying that most political violence has historically come from the left just once again showed how we suffer from failing to learn history. Lynching, pogroms, race riots, the political violence that ended Reconstruction, and against the Civil Rights Movement. Come on.
September 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
These people genuinely know nothing of the history—white conservative state & vigilante violence has been arguably *the defining feature* of U.S. history. They apparently also know very little of the present, in which, again, the very opposite is the case.
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“We’re all supposed to just put up with it while the right unleashes nonstop vitriol and hate. But when a Democrat offers admittedly provocative pushback—albeit something that doesn’t come close to routine right-wing rhetoric—it’s taken as this enormous affront”
Rep Nancy Mace erupted in fury on the House floor after Rep Sara Jacobs gave a speech sharply criticizing GOP anti-trans viciousness.
On the pod, Rep Jacobs talks to us about the dust-up and about Mace's "cruel" politics. Jacobs is great, don't miss this one:
newrepublic.com/article/2002...
On the pod, Rep Jacobs talks to us about the dust-up and about Mace's "cruel" politics. Jacobs is great, don't miss this one:
newrepublic.com/article/2002...
Nancy Mace Erupts in Fury on House Floor after Dem’s Speech Hits Home
Mace flew into a rage in response to Democratic Representative Sara Jacobs’s sharp criticism of GOP anti-trans rhetoric. In this episode, Jacobs talks to us about what can be learned from this fraught...
newrepublic.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
“We’re all supposed to just put up with it while the right unleashes nonstop vitriol and hate. But when a Democrat offers admittedly provocative pushback—albeit something that doesn’t come close to routine right-wing rhetoric—it’s taken as this enormous affront”
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i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
September 11, 2025 at 11:47 AM
i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is
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Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
September 11, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Here are some tweets from Charlie Kirk over just the last few days. They are an impressive mix of hatred towards: Blacks, immigrants, women, immigrants, Muslims, LGBTQ, academics.
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I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.
September 11, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I agree this is a moment when we all need to work together in getting the temperature down, but that doesn't mean excusing hate speech. Charlie Kirk did not support free and open debate. He supported engaging in bad faith as a monetization strategy and otherwise suppressing free speech.
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I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Charlie Kirk’s ultimate goal, which he said time and time again, would have been the suppression, through threat of violence and the use of state power, of the rights of those he disagreed with, including freedom of expression.
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o...
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Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.
Opinion | Charlie Kirk Was Practicing Politics the Right Way
www.nytimes.com
September 11, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Not comprehending how the same @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social who interviewed me wrote this. I support the instinct to turn down the volume. But you can't simultaneously warn that we're the brink of authoritarianism while valorizing one of authoritarianism's most influential architects and supporters.
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Today is also a day to remember Melissa Hortman and reject the skewed narrative that fools like Klein and opportunists like Newsom are helping build www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...
Melissa Hortman: Who was the Minnesota state representative assassinated in her home? | CNN
A dedicated volunteer who taught Sunday school and loved dogs. A lawyer who served as a Girl Scout Leader and worked at her dad’s auto parts store. A mother and wife whose husband was killed alongside...
www.cnn.com
September 11, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Today is also a day to remember Melissa Hortman and reject the skewed narrative that fools like Klein and opportunists like Newsom are helping build www.cnn.com/2025/06/14/u...
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They saw Charlie Kirk as a peer, and they stand by their own.
It's an exclusive club, and you're not in it.
Bouncers will be checking race and gender at the door.
It's an exclusive club, and you're not in it.
Bouncers will be checking race and gender at the door.
September 11, 2025 at 1:24 PM
They saw Charlie Kirk as a peer, and they stand by their own.
It's an exclusive club, and you're not in it.
Bouncers will be checking race and gender at the door.
It's an exclusive club, and you're not in it.
Bouncers will be checking race and gender at the door.
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If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.
September 11, 2025 at 1:16 PM
If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.
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If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
September 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
If you hate political violence, you should hate Charlie Kirk.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
He was not “practicing politics the right way”—he was a very well paid henchman for the same guys who are trying to make it illegal to oppose them.
He bussed people to J6. He encouraged political violence against his enemies.
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They are falling over themselves about kirks murder because it threatens the current political project of the US and they are dedicated to protecting the current US regime no matter what it is or what else they say and the sooner u learn it the less confused you'll be about who your real friends are
September 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
They are falling over themselves about kirks murder because it threatens the current political project of the US and they are dedicated to protecting the current US regime no matter what it is or what else they say and the sooner u learn it the less confused you'll be about who your real friends are
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I don’t recall prominent Democrats demanding violent retribution for the assassination of Melissa Hortman.
But Republicans everywhere are calling for violence today.
The parties might not be the same.
But Republicans everywhere are calling for violence today.
The parties might not be the same.
September 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I don’t recall prominent Democrats demanding violent retribution for the assassination of Melissa Hortman.
But Republicans everywhere are calling for violence today.
The parties might not be the same.
But Republicans everywhere are calling for violence today.
The parties might not be the same.
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I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
I was trying to remember when Melissa Hortman was assassinated. So I Googled it. This is what I saw. Utter madness.
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The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.
September 10, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The truth of the matter is that if anyone but Charlie Kirk had been killed at today’s shooting, then Charlie Kirk would be out there right now using the shooting as pretext to deliver arguments designed to make sure that the next shooting would happen, and the next one, and the next, and the next.
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Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.
September 10, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.