Lauren King

@WESHfulThinking crazy work going on here

my dog accidentally purchased if i had legs i would kick you while sleeping on the tv remote this weekend

maybe trump just has vocal fry now

cinema

@WESHfulThinking one of the only good things from this year

Today, news broke that Charlie Kirk was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University. Let me be blunt: I will not pretend to feel sorry for Charlie Kirk. For years, he has profited off division, peddled conspiracy theories, and targeted marginalized groups with rhetoric so toxic it has made this country less safe. He has called for public executions, mocked trans people as “abominations,” treated politics like a holy war — and in 2023, he even said that gun deaths were an “unfortunate” but acceptable price to keep the Second Amendment. Today, he became part of the very toll he once dismissed. That doesn’t make him a martyr — it makes him a cautionary tale about what happens when leaders treat human lives as expendable. That doesn’t mean I condone what happened. Political violence is wrong — always. It poisons our democracy, no matter who the target is. If we go down that path, America as we know it collapses. But here’s the truth: when you spend years throwing gasoline on the fire, you don’t get to act shocked when flames break out. Charlie Kirk built a career out of incitement. He’s not a victim of political violence so much as he is one of its architects. This is a reminder that words have consequences. Leaders — real leaders — should be lowering the temperature, not raising it. They should be uniting people around solutions, not cashing in on fear and hate. I ran for Congress because I’m sick of this cycle — sick of watching extremists on the right and performative purists on the left treat America like their personal stage show while working-class families get crushed. Enough. Violence is not the answer. But neither is pretending that Charlie Kirk is some innocent casualty. He chose this path. He pushed this rhetoric. And now we’re all living in the world it created. — William Kory Amyx Democratic Candidate for U.S. Congress Indiana’s 6th Congressional District 📍 For Hoosiers. For Accountability. For All. 🔗 #AmyxForCongress | #TogetherWeRise | #IN06

@warmcottonsock reference to succession/shiv but I hear you lol

@WESHfulThinking we’re in a dry country rn

the bear season 4 is the worst thing I’ve seen in a while and I was just in vegas for a work trip for a week

@colemanjspilde It’s going to be cannon for a reason, beyond even this!!!

a star is born randomly having some of the best lighting of any studio film in the last decade

not me watching the pilots in front of the gate to see if they established a rapport

@WESHfulThinking I’m sorry g, I inadvertently had my megwakening last summer

You lost ugly @andrewcuomo

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

my boyfriend won’t stop singing the chilis baby back ribs jingle

Buy my jeep newyork.craigslist.org/brk/cto/d/broo…

I'm proud I don't have Andrew Cuomo's record of corruption, scandal and disgrace. And the name is M-A-M-D-A-N-I.

I was going to call this dumb, but former NTSB board member John Goglia just texted me and told me to reply with this instead: The issue raised in The Rehearsal is whether the authority gradient affects copilots' willingness to assert themselves at critical junctures and captains' willingness to hear copilots in those moments. Neither the question nor the answer dealt with this well-recognized cockpit issue. Nor the NTSB's analysis of the issue of what was lacking in current training and its recommendation of role-playing to ameliorate this situation.

@WhereisBrooklyn I need to unsee what I saw last night

I think the most embarrassing thing about being an elder millennial is watching the evolution of Arcade Fire. Yeesh!

@WESHfulThinking lollllll