Kyle Ritsema

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@MemeDitka Yes

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@MemeDitka $3,522 happy to be wrong!

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@MemeDitka Considering 5 people already posted the winner replying to this it feels like it may be less than 2k

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

I respect @ezraklein a lot, but this is dead wrong and frankly a baffling thing to say.

Charlie Kirk was the *epitome* of our modern brand of poisonous politics. Ezra tries to make the point that he went around to college campuses to debate people. And that's true, for a very tortured version of the word 'debate'.

But Charlie Kirk was not trying to build bridges. He was not trying to reach a common understanding with his opponents in the way that Ezra himself does. He was not operating in good faith, and his goal was not respectful two-way conversations where both sides can grow and change.

Kirk's goal at his college 'debates' was not to find experts on tricky issues of culture and policy and then have a Socratic dialogues and learn from them. His goal was to find a purple haired nineteen year-old sociology major with more feelings than sense, and then dunk on them. He wanted to farm clips he could use on social media to make his opponents look ridiculous, and he was good at it. When I think about how social media has changed politics for the worse, Charlie Kirk and his style of engagement is one of the main protagonists.

We live in a heavily polarized era where the parties hate each other more than they have in decades and political violence is on the rise. And while it might be distasteful to say it directly after he was murdered, Kirk was one of the people driving that hatred and that polarization. He taught his audiences to hate and fear their opponents. He egged on the public's worst and basest instincts. He flirted heavily and repeatedly with the idea of political violence.

It should obviously be said that none of that justifies killing him. Anyone who advocates for political violence is no friend or ally of mine. But for a man who wrote a book called "Why We're Polarized" to look at Charlie Kirk and say that he practiced politics the right way is delusional.

[Dina Titus @repdinatitus]

Buried within the BS Republican Budget bill is a provision that harms poker players and those who gamble by limiting loss deductions. I’m working on a legislative fix that fairly treats gaming losses in the tax code.

[Alex Drain @Alex_Drain]

Only three teams in history have gone 15-0:

- 2018 Clemson
- 2019 LSU
- 2023 Michigan

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@SolidVerbal @EricPetee2 the ND fan then

[Michigan Football @UMichFootball]

IT’S GREAT TO BE A MICHIGAN WOLVERINE!

#GoBlue

[Dan Wetzel @DanWetzel]

Michigan and Purdue broke the exact same rule - they used advanced scouting to steal a future opponent’s signals.

Why does the NCAA and B10 only care about one of them?

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Congrats to @KaptinKauf17 for his first Major League win 👏

[Michigan Baseball @umichbaseball]

The 81st Wolverine!!!

Karl Kauffmann has been promoted to the @Rockies and will make his major league debut tonight!

#GoBlue | #ProBlue

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@BarstoolBigCat 3

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@Boomdude111LoL @BarstoolBigCat L

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Santa comin’

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@PromoGuyMI @LDoebel Lol did they snitch tag

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@PromoGuyMI Went to +366, I added Trae O21.5 points

[Kyle Ritsema @kyle_ritsema]

@PromoGuyMI Go blue