"Conscience" doesn't extend to allegedly handing the alleged weapon to the alleged killer. Why let her drive the radicalization narrative and not call her out on irresponsible gun ownership?
A Note, a Gun and a Mother’s Conscience Led to an Arrest in Kirk’s Killing www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...
/19 Moreover SCOTUS is relentlessly blocking federal courts’ ability to enforce injunctions against the administration, so Carr has that going for him, which is nice.
And Congress either supports this or is pathologically ineffective in addressing it.
Last year, when people wanted to talk about Gaza? Definitely the wrong time.
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The responsible gun owners forgot to lock away grandpas rifle. But there might not have been a serial number, anyway.
Key point about the Trump administration’s military strikes on “narcoterrorists”:
Even if Congress authorized these performative attacks, they would still be terrible & absurd.
Terrible b/c these are premeditated killings of civilians.
Absurd b/c there’s no military victory in the War on Drugs.
Early View of Fall 2025 issue examines dehumanization in Gaza, what’s next after the US-Israel war on Iran, pan-Arab corporate elite, regional trade and conflict. Analyses by Yagil Levy, @banafshkeynoush.bsky.social, @hannesbaumann.bsky.social, many others.
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I am aware Spencer cox is an individual improvement over Darin Hitler or whoever is running other nearby red states but he is a 2024 trump endorser less than four years after saying Trump should resign for getting several people killed during a coup attempt.
Cox isn’t a deviation from the problem…
My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.
The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.
/3 Trumpists and most of the new Right are shitty people with shitty values from a shitty culture. Responding to their violence with violence may not solve a damn thing. There are good arguments against it. But don’t let them pose for a millisecond as anything but the gleeful thug trash they are.
Audacious to say this shit before the shooter has even been caught. We do not know their identity or motive, let alone whether any organization funded their violence.
Releasing this now is a declaration of indifference to the truth about Kirk's murder
And on cue, the invocation of "terrorism" in connection with domestic political opponents.
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I have serious doubts as to whether, after all of its politically-motivated firings, the FBI has the capacity and expertise to actually investigate Kirk’s murder. The lawsuit filed today against Patel and the Bureau describes a complete clown show that leaves all of us less safe
My review compares Achcar's Gaza Catastrophe to @erikskare.no's Road to October 7. Skare offers a compelling list of Hamas's reasons. Achcar is adamant that Hamas's Islamism has led it to adopt irrational strategies, not just in launching al-Aqsa Flood but in many actions after taking power in Gaza.
Gaza Catastrophe by Gilbert Achcar lays bare “Israel’s path toward maximalist aims, alleged war crimes, and perpetual conflict,” says our review. Achcar differs with @erikskare.no’s Road to October 7 on Hamas’s rationality. Early view:
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Free to read in our special issue, review by @mepeditor.bsky.social of Reagan by @maxboot.bsky.social: “Only if Trump can muster the courage to defy Netanyahu...will he possibly be remembered for achieving anything like Reagan’s deals with the Soviet Union.”
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Netanyahu was warned at least twice before the Hamas onslaught of October 7, 2023, that the terror group’s military chief Muhammad Deif was appropriating funds provided by Qatar to Gaza with the premier’s approval.
WITH HIS APPROVAL!
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An odd choice since others were in the Kremlin.
A mistake I fear many are making right now is assuming that most of America knows about the Signal chat. Studies show most people consume no news at all. Rightwing news—which is biggest—is either spinning or ignoring.
Weaponizing starvation, Israel seeks full control over Gaza aid distribution - https://www.972mag.com/starvation-gaza-israel-humanitarian-aid/
Buying votes.
Michael Waltz set disappearing message time to 4 weeks. M Michael Waltz VP. building collapsed. Had multiple positive ID. Pete, Kurilla, the IC, amazing job. 17m O New Messages JV JD Vance What? 12m O M Michael Waltz Typing too fast. The first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed. 5m O JV JD Vance Excellent 5m O Michael Waltz M 30m O
Excerpt from Guardian story on the airstrikes: “Most of the casualties in the US strikes were women and children, said Anees al-Asbahi, the spokesperson for the Houthi-run health ministry, on Sunday. The Houthis' political bureau described the attacks as a "war crime". "Our Yemeni armed forces are fully prepared to respond to escalation with escalation," it said in a statement. People in Sana'a said the strikes hit a building in a Houthi stronghold. A man who gave his name as Abdullah Yahia told Reuters: "The explosions were violent and shook the neighbourhood like an earthquake. They terrified our women and children."”
There was one singular person the Trump team wanted to kill. They thought they tracked him to his girlfriend’s place, presumably in a civilian apartment building in Sana’a. So they dropped bombs on the neighborhood and leveled the building. Reactions from the group:
“amazing job”
“Excellent”
“👊🇺🇸💥”
the war crime piece of it is being totally underplayed. like yea, the way they talked about it is fucked up. but WHAT they talked about was just as fucked up!!
"Dozens of innocent Yemenis are dead and many more are maimed so that Trump and his allies could congratulate themselves for being “tougher” than Biden." daniellarison.substack.com/p/the-real-s...
Is this confirmation that the first PC was on Signal?
This is just one anecdote relating to a common and correct assumption that the United States routinely kills innocent Arabs and Muslims, occasionally even if they are American citizens. It won't be reported because it's not news and we didn't need a "secret" chat to have a ream of evidence.
