Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialPopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11/09/2025/7 So I question the proposition that just because Charlie Kirk didn't go around killing people, but went around belittling and demeaning and dehumanizing them instead, that he's inherently admirable. Would I be a hero if I said I will debate ANYONE about whether black people are human? No. 153162322
swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 11/09/2025And some of us did but we’re in the microgap generation of 1978-1981 so … there! I guess. 060
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Losing my goddamned mind. We can condemn political violence without valorizing a destructive, hateful bigot. 25076921603
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMiss Ivy @miss-ive.bsky.social · 11/09/2025True political violence is always awful. But let’s be clear, Kirk is no hero. He make a profitable career of spreading hate, lies, and conspiracies. 570143
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMichael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025I'm really having trouble processing the relative silence from Barack Obama about a colleague who he'd hosted at the White House, the Minnesota State House Speaker, being assassinated, but rushing to get out a weepy statement about Charlie fucking Kirk. 12262541091
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialStone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 11/09/2025MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence 91194805869
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialWajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 11/09/2025This is quite possibly the most sanitized, white-washed hagiography of Charlie Kirk. You can and should condemn his murder AND accurately describe his life devoted to hate, division and bigotry. It's all there. He didn't hide it. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...washingtonpost.comCharlie Kirk, fiery voice in conservative politics, killed at 31Charlie Kirk, 31, built one of the most influential organizations on the right, turning viral debate moments into fuel for Turning Point’s rapid growth. 621141209
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialConstant Screaming @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10/09/2025TBH, I find this really insulting, especially in light of them not being lowered for Minnesota. 17673131
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Holy fascist madness. 1198
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialBoo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11/09/2025We all can and should condemn political violence but doing a moment of silence is a very specific kind of choice given who he was 793537
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialGrudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/09/2025It’s because Republicans and Republicans alone drive coverage 35612
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files. 27839801639
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialAaron Stewart-Ahn @badideas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025David Rose was a Black Marine veteran with 2 children and a third on the way. He was shot and killed as a police officer responding to the attack on the CDC by an anti vaxxer lone gunman. This was what he got for his service & sacrifice: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 3369139
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialThe Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Wish the news outlets and baseball teams (lol???) rushing to eulogize a D-tier right wing mouthpiece would include some of their favorite inspirational quotes from the guy. Should be easy, right? Show me that soaring rhetoric and big thinking worthy of such veneration 81112259
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialKaren Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 10/09/2025For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on. 855245467024
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialandré, but scarier @andre-carlisle.bsky.social · 10/09/2025 6781292351
swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I know someone whose husband teaches there. He’s safe but it’s just so ever present. It will eventually directly impact us all. 010
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialDan Kennedy @dankennedy.net · 10/09/2025On the same day that Charlie Kirk was murdered, at least 3 teens, including the shooter, are reported to be in critical condition following a school shooting in Evergreen, Colorado. The only difference is that we've become numb to gun violence aimed at our children. coloradosun.com/2025/09/10/e...coloradosun.com3 teens, including suspected shooter, in critical condition after shooting at Evergreen High SchoolA fourth minor was also transported to a hospital, a spokesperson with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said 21675257
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.social Eric Blyler @ericblyler.bsky.social · 10/09/2025They've completely memory-holed the assassination and attempted assassination of two Dem legislators in Minnesota less than three months ago. 731463
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialsouthpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 10/09/2025settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off 11868663559
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialWelcomeToDot @welcometodot.bsky.social · 10/09/2025from r/boston if you see any of these vans on the road, they deserve whatever full blown masshole behavior they are asking for 1017679
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialCharlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 10/09/2025I wrote about what I think is a genuinely revealing document of elite depravity and impunity. It is shocking and sickening. But it's also a crucial moment. We're about to see what happens when conspiracy theorists actually get what they asked for but it turns out not to be what they want.theatlantic.comYou Really Need to See Epstein’s Birthday Book for YourselfThis time, the conspiracy theorists were right. 268104253717
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10/09/2025lol fuck off 1835095665
swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Oh I am a scientist and many many years ago I used to have to make very thin slices of a fetal mouse brain on a slide for an experiment we did and those slices looked EXACTLY like an alien head. The big eyed, big head take me to your leader version from the 50s and 60s 010
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialSharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/09/2025oh so we're referring to the biden era as a boom now, huh 242836481
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialJulian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 09/09/2025Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse. 71909275
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMax Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Congressional Democrats can’t decide if they should cut a deal with the pedophile dictator who is trying to militarily invade their cities. Seems like a fairly obvious choice to me, but what do I know. 362295403
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.social☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It's also always funny when "Southerners" means exclusively "white Southerners." You have to keep your eye on people like this when they start using words. 2735
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.social☀️ Jon Schwarz ☀️ @schwarz.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I feel like your political movement may have gone off the rails if it requires you to hate To Kill a Mockingbird and Tom Hanks 32771144
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialRaptorama @raptorama.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Sorry to make it worse but there's a part of the WSJ article that no one is talking about that I had to share with someone. 763082996
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialMolly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards. 953536509288
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.social🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 08/09/2025It's important to give a guy who accused Barack Obama of faking his own birth the benefit of the doubt when covering his loving connection to the one of the most vile sex traffickers in human history 012926
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialgeoffrey 💀 (scary now) @parsnip.bsky.social · 08/09/2025chuck if you're going to make me tease out riddles to figure out what the fuck you're saying i'm just going to assume you're folding like last time, i do not have time for this 417239
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialChris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I mean what on earth are district court judges supposed to do at this point other than get the message from SCOTUS to let Trump do whatever he wants to no matter what the law says. 29476311558
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialDavid Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Under this Supreme Court, Joe Biden couldn't forgive student debt because that would be a presidential overreach, but Trump can demand that anyone who looks like they may be an immigrant show their papers. 820973
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialSteve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Here's my updated chart of #SCOTUS's rulings to date on emergency applications from the Trump administration. See if you can spot the pattern... 631306564
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialScott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Beating women is man's God given right, says Trump. After all, I beat Ivana. 094
swimman79.bsky.social @swimman79.bsky.social · 08/09/2025I guess this is what being an originalist really is - a firm commitment to the 3/5th compromise 0192
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialOliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Biden spent almost all four years calling a partisan democratic infrastructure law the “bipartisan infrastructure law” in one of the dumbest fucking branding moves I’ve ever seen in politics. Democrats earned this L 492782547
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialPaul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 07/09/2025If you're a reporter, please stop referring to RFK Jr and his cronies as "vaccine skeptics." They're not skeptical. Skepticism would be fine. Skeptics look at evidence and can be persuaded. These people are extremist anti-vaccine cranks, and that's how news organizations should describe them. 229106502868
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialrob c. @rcolonna.bsky.social · 07/09/2025we took a disney cruise to alaska and didn’t go insane or get capsized by orcas or eaten by bears. vuvuzle.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/i...vuvuzle.wordpress.comIt’s A Hell Of A Day At Sea, Sir!Or, why our cruise to Alaska was great, but we’d probably never do it again until we’re old and rich. The thing is, it was excellent. We have nearly nothing bad to say about the Disney cruise *2. O… 021
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialJames @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 07/09/2025The founding fathers ranged from "weirdest religious beliefs you could imagine" to "agnostic" to the 18th century equivalent of "I'll go to Church on Sunday, but only if it means I don't miss the kickoff." It was, as best, a tertiary influence. 748439
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025its just mind boggling that a president can get away with hating his constituents this much, i just cant even comprehend this shit its so beyond the pale 632726
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025there is a deep rot in the soul of this country that delights in the misery of others for no reason other than their perceived “non traditional” way of life its sick and it needs to be addressed 325826
Reposted by @swimman79.bsky.socialAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 07/09/2025but cracker barrel changing their logo is an attack by woke on half the country? we need new elites, we’ve given the wrong people money and power and influence and we need to take it away from them 935521