marc pietrzykowski

on the roof of hell, looking at the flowers

[marc pietrzykowski @Marcpski]

A bath when you're born
A bath when you die--
How stupid.

--Issa

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

So here are the two charts you need to win any argument over whether gun laws matter.

1. America, with more guns than any other high income nation, is a wild outlier of gun violence.

2. States with stronger gun laws have much less gun crime.

[Robert Mackey @RobertMackey]

Elon Musk's Twitter just suspended the account of antifascist researcher @chadloder likely to suppress reporting on right-wing extremists. As I reported, Loder's painstaking research identifying a Proud Boy who attacked police on Jan 6 was cited by the DOJ https://t.co/TagSTpsNkT

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

The entirety of Musk’s feed now is him interacting with right wing trolls, often antisemitic and racist accounts, validating each conspiracy theory they toss out about how all the algos were never “used on liberals”

[Caroline Orr Bueno, Ph.D @RVAwonk]

I want to engage this question earnestly, b/c it’s a legit question. The answer is yes, I do look at left, too.

Left-wing activists are responsible for 2% of murders committed by political extremists in the US over the past decade; right-wing activists are responsible for 74%.

[marc pietrzykowski @Marcpski]

@MattWalshBlog You turd.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

In all seriousness, you can already see that Musk is careening toward his story, which is that Twitter cratering was the fault of Black people, Jews, Latinos, gay people and everyone else from the "woke mob". He's just said he cut a deal with their reps and they betrayed him.

[marc pietrzykowski @Marcpski]

@Teri_Kanefield That is hard for people who want a king

[Kat Abughazaleh @KatAbughazaleh]

This is from literally one minute ago. He has been working with rightwing media to carefully create a narrative that equates LGBTQ people with pedophilia. It's dangerous, cruel, and completely on purpose.

@AriDrennen compiled some of these examples about back in September:

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

We are one day removed from a shooting at an LGBTQ club where five people are dead, and Tucker's first segment is him saying the LGBTQ "cult" is "sexualizing children."

Weeks ago, he told his viewers to "fight back" against the LGBTQ community "no matter what the law says."

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

New: The Colorado Springs gay nightclub shooter is reportedly the grandson of MAGA Republican representative Randy Voepel, who supported the January 6 insurrection and compared it to the Revolutionary War.

Source: https://t.co/f5PonSQKVP

[Brandy Zadrozny @BrandyZadrozny]

Hateful and violent online rhetoric targeting LGBTQ people has been ratcheting up for months. Now, just hours after a deadly mass shooting at #ClubQ, the worst of these hate accounts, LibsofTikTok is targeting another drag event in Colorado.
https://t.co/K7vDqVvHvK

[Axios @axios]

Senate Judiciary Committee chair to review "serious allegations" of 2014 Supreme Court leak https://t.co/Q3n8q74mgl

[Matthew Chapman @fawfulfan]

This story is stunning.

In short: Alito himself leaked the Dobbs decision, and not only that, he's leaked his own opinions before, to right-wing litigants, so they could wine and dine other justices, and donate to their causes, to secure their vote. https://t.co/0LobfuibNu

[Will Sommer @willsommer]

Right-wing operative James O’Keefe has a big new problem: a former employee turned porn performer has gone rogue, revealing the names and tactics of O’Keefe’s undercover agents at Project Veritas. https://t.co/EQ999yTAMi

[Rep. Liz Cheney @RepLizCheney]

With Trump back on Twitter,
it’s a good time to watch this Jan 6 hearing. It covers each of Trump’s tweets that day, including those that have been deleted, and features multiple Trump WH staff describing his inexcusable conduct during the violence. https://t.co/pVSGKf5q0P

[Katie Paris @katiebparis]

People need to know what’s happening in OH.

The GOP is trying raise the threshold for passing CITIZEN-led ballot proposals from a simple majority to a SUPERMAJORITY.

They want to make it harder to pass repro rights, voting rights, & min wage like MI has.

But wait, there’s more

[southpaw @nycsouthpaw]

A letter to Chief Justice Roberts that the NYT has had for months accuses Justice Alito of leaking the outcome of the Hobby Lobby decision to anti-abortion donors who dined at his house. Contemporaneous emails corroborate the story; Alito denies it. https://t.co/KoA7q6XN5l

[Simon Rosenberg @SimonWDC]

Amazing stat.

Dems have outperformed Rs in statewide elections in both AZ and WI in the last 2 elections. Here's the Congressional delegation in the next Congress for each:

AZ: 3 Ds, 6 Rs
WI: 2 Ds, 6 Rs

That's the House R majority.

[Dan Rather @DanRather]

I remember the old saying, “Better to be thought a fool than to buy Twitter and remove all doubt.”

[Matthew Gertz @MattGertz]

Great news everyone, "America's Crime Crisis" (trademark Fox News) is over!

All it took was Election Day eliminating the perceived political benefit of talking about crime all the time, go figure. https://t.co/0Ofdxgpdcu