marc pietrzykowski

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

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.

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 theintercept.com/2021/11/10/pro…

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”

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%.

@MattWalshBlog You turd.

The shooter in Colorado Springs was arrested a year ago for felony menacing and first degree kidnapping. The DA decided not to pursue charges. This is yet another case of a violent criminal set free to cause more harm. But the Left has no interest in taking about this problem.

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.

@Teri_Kanefield That is hard for people who want a king

A lot of the criticism I am seeing of Mastodon is from people who assume that Mastodon is like Twitter or Facebook. It isn't. There is no corporate or billionaire owner. Mastodon is basically a bunch of servers that interact with each other. It's like getting rid of the king.

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:

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."

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: heavy.com/news/anderson-…

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. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/5…

Senate Judiciary Committee chair to review "serious allegations" of 2014 Supreme Court leak trib.al/tOZD20j

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. nytimes.com/2022/11/19/us/…

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. thedailybeast.com/ex-employee-of…

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. january6th.house.gov/legislation/he…

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

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. nytimes.com/2022/11/19/us/…

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.

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

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. mediamatters.org/fox-news/foxs-…