Governor of Utah Spencer Cox tells everyone to put their phones down and spend time with family. “Our adversaries want violence. We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”

If you're celebrating the killing of Charlie Kirk, you've failed basic love of country & basic human decency. If you're using the killing of Charlie Kirk to attack certain groups of people & to declare “war on the left,” you've failed basic love of country & basic human decency.

Such respect for Governor Cox for the heartfelt, thoughtful plea he just delivered to our frayed American community. We can continue to barrel down this path of increasing violence, or choose a better path and resist the siren song of hate and division.

.@JamesTalarico: Our division is not by accident. The social media platforms, the algorithms, and the news networks tear us apart. We have got to find our back to each other. That is the only way we can continue this experiment in democracy

I actually don’t think it’s at all besides the point, the core of free speech and a liberal society is precisely that I *don’t* need to agree with the hagiographic accounts of Kirk’s life and work to find his murder unacceptable and chilling.

CALIFORNIA OFFICIALLY PASSES SB 79, ONE OF THE LARGEST HOUSING BILLS IN STATE HISTORY - Legalizes multifamily near high-frequency transit statewide - Up to 9 stories when next to major transit, 7-8 stories within ¼ mile, 5-6 up to ½ mile - Min 60–120 units/acre + FAR minimums

European battery prices are plunging! Down 27% from 2022-2025 Down 28% from 2025-2027 Down 46% from 2025-2030 Cheaper & better batteries keep coming. EVs already have damaged global ICE sales and will finish off ICE likely faster than expected. transportenvironment.org/articles/ev-pr…

Repetitive negative thinking is associated with cognitive decline. Stay positive.

Absolutely disgraceful how the 47th administration handled this situation. A quick, respectful phone call to our South Korean partners would have avoided all this ugliness. If they did this to Americans in South Korea, we would be appalled. Do better.

I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor.  I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor. People across the political spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics.

As Jonathan Chait says, Republicans are being wildly dishonest in their effort to exaggerate the number of Democrats who are supportive of political violence. As G Elliott Morris says, the impact of misperceptions about this is to make people *more supportive of violence*

Social media elevates the least responsible reactions to basically everything that happens especially since people struggle with the basic math of “seventy thousand people doing something idiotic” is a small number in a country of 330 million.

Sen. Lankford: "We've had 14,000 threats against members of congress just this calendar year....We've had a home invasion of legislators in Minnesota where they were murdered. We've had the Democratic governor in Pennsylvania's home set on fire...Each person, if they're carrying

Mark Kelly: "We've seen the Governor of Utah, who I give a lot of credit to, who has tried to bring this country together. We have not seen that from POTUS, and I don't think we can expect to...I hope people go the individuals who are not trying to exploit this tragic event."

"The conflict entrepreneurs are taking advantage of us.”  Utah Gov. Spencer Cox compares social media to fentanyl.  “The people keep waiting for somebody to to lead us out of this,” he says. "And I think that's a mistake. I don't think any one person, certainly not a governor,

Update on the free speech era: Regime-aligned billionaire bought CBS to install Bari Weiss at the head of the news operation and now the White House wants to shut down the competing networks.

The first US-born leader of the Catholic church singled out the Tesla chief as an example of the kind of wealth he said was undermining 'the value of human life, of the family, of the value of society' on.ft.com/46bYi5C

Here’s Stephen Colbert's Emmys speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor!" 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

PETE BUTTIGIEG: "There is not a consistent pattern of left versus right among the shooters, but there is a pattern where we see so many of these people are men, usually young men, who seem to spend more and more of their time in dark and twisted corners of the internet."

this poll is so beautiful to me … the median american Shall come to understand tradeoffs in my lifetime