Kyle

@kyleshivers.bsky.social

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we used to be a proper country

Screenshot of headlines: WIRED Meta's New Reality: Record High Profits. Record Low Morale 12 hours ago Walmart cuts or relocates 1,000 corporate jobs Walmart NBC 5 Chicago Walmart announces major layoffs in effort to 'simplify' operations 7 hours ago Walmart: WSI WSJ Walmart Lays Off or Relocates About 1,000 Corporate Workers 1 day ago Walmart: Yahoo Finance UK Walmart layoffs bring attention to a reality about the retailer's stock price 1 day ago CNBC Laid-off GM employees tell of ominous email, severance and role of Al 2 days ago
Thread from Chuck Schumer: Last night was not America's State of the Union, it was Donald Trump's State of Delusion.
Thread from @guru_merc: MAGA conservatives backing themselves into a corner where they have to pretend to be excited to watch 55-year-old Kid Rock on their phone at halftime tonight is funnier than anything we could say or do to them
Accurate estimate of what JD Vance’s couch looks like in preparation of the big game’s alternative halftime show, floral and wrapped in plastic
Tweet from @MsMelChen: How come every VIP was in the Epstein files except Hunter Biden Reply from @gldivittorio: Because Hunter Biden liked crack and Latinas, not children
Thread from @gianmarcosoresi: Republicans would do anything for Trump except see Melania in theaters
Tweet from @jeremysmiles: sorry, but the Founding Fathers' original intent for the 2nd Amendment was always *just* to do school shootings
Thread from petezapitsa: If they can use possession of a gun as probable cause to kill you, you do not have a right to bear arms.
Thread from @renegadescienceteacher: "We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was "legal" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was "illegal." It was "illegal" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany." - Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail There are masked men with guns marching through the streets, rounding people up based on skin color, and shooting protesters in the face. They've already unlawfully detained hundreds of US citizens and "lost" thousands of immigrants at the concentration camps where Amnesty International has reported torture and other human rights violations. And some of you still worry about who's "illegal." Wake the fuck up.
Instagram post from Courier: Three Minnesota federal prosecutors resigned over the Justice Department's push to investigate the widow of a woman killed by an ICE agent and its reluctance to investigate the shooter, according to people with knowledge of their decision. Joseph H. Thompson, who was second in command at the U.S. attorney's office and oversaw a sprawling fraud investigation that has roiled Minnesota's political landscape, was among those who quit Tuesday, according to three people with knowledge of the decision. Mr. Thompson's resignation came after senior Justice Department officials pressed for a criminal investigation into the actions of the widow of Renee Nicole Good, the Minneapolis woman killed by an ICE agent last Wednesday. NEW YORK TIMES
Image of a Tesla bumper with a sticker that says “I BOUGHT THIS BEFORE THE CHILD PORN STUFF”
From Bloomberg: But that doesn't leave many options for the victims. Maddie, who said she's a 23-year-old pre-med student, woke up on New Year's Day to an image that horrified her. On X, she had previously published a picture of herself with her boyfriend at a local bar, which two strangers altered using Grok. One asked Grok to remove her boyfriend and put her in a bikini. The next asked Grok to replace the bikini with dental floss. Bloomberg reviewed the images. "My heart sank," said Maddie, who requested anonymity over concerns about future job prospects. "I felt hopeless, helpless and just disgusted." Maddie said she and her friends reported the images to X through its moderation systems. She never received a response. When she reported a different post from one of the users who prompted Grok to make them, X said it "determined that there were no violations of the X rules in the content you reported," according to a screenshot. The images were still up at the time of publication.
X post from @emica_forever: I STAND WITH ICE
Photo of Trump with caption: U.S. President Donald Trump gestures as he makes an impression of a transgender weightlifter during his address to House Republicans at their annual issues conference retreat at the Kennedy Center, renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center by the Trump-appointed board of directors, in Washington, D.C., U.S., January 6, 2026. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
"In a time when information is available at our fingertips and when conversation, study, and exploration are limitless, I'm through excusing supposed adults for not being able to make a decision that is based in reality, simply because they're in some hateful, self-righteous, nationalistic bubble. That's their fault, not ours."
Screenshot of the infamous Maureen Dowd NYT piece: Donald the Dove, Hillary the Hawk
Post from @sjacobs2020 on the other place: Diddlin' Don's hands are too small for those gloves. IF THE SEX GLOVES DON'T FIT, YOU MUST ACQUIT.
Bryce Harper cleaning his blood or something
Marketing text from Godaddy: Feeling stuck? GoDaddy's Al will suggest domains similar to yours.
screenshot for pricing page of Keychron M6: - Stocked in the US warehouse. - Enjoy free shipping on orders over $69, no additional tarrifs!
All-time tweet from @screaminbutcalm: Me sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Thread from @lessyoulie: I never see a whole family driving in a cyber truck. It's always one man all alone.
JALEN HURTS ON EAGLES' SUCCESS AFTER BYE WEEKS: “YOU LIVE LIFE FORWARD, BUT YOU LEARN IT BACKWARDS”
Instagram post from ABC News: Rep. Lauren Boebert's Halloween costume sparks backlash Rep. Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend Kyle Pearcy attended a Halloween party in Colorado on Friday night, in costumes portraying a Mexican woman and an ICE agent, photos obtained by ABC News show.
Sickos
Drake meme with panel 1: Taxes. Panel 2: Bribes
Thread from teve_murns: Trump did to the White House what the taliban failed to do on 9/11. Image of East Wing of White House half demolished
Thread from thezachberger: START CALLING IT TBE EPSTEIN BALLROOM.
Local San Diego news broadcast featuring skater recalling the small passenger plane landing on Pacific Beach
What’s that hairline running from? What does it know?
ICE AGENTS KILL DOG DURING UNLAWFUL SEARCH, REFUSE TO RENDER AID, AND LEAVE WITHOUT IDENTIFYING THEMSELVES This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. Unsurprisingly, they did not care enough to help the family as they tried to save him. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these losers. Rest easy Chop CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 Jointintake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-585-1924 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso): 915-541-1400
Elon Musk being a Nazi
Car with a bumper sticker that says “Elon Musk is a Nazi”
Thread from Rep John Rose: The Democrats are withholding the pay of our brave Border Patrol agents so they can give illegal immigrants free healthcare. You can't make this stuff up. Reply from Pandareadsfantasy: Obviously you can because you just did. Undocumented immigrants do not qualify for free Healthcare. They don't have the proper documentation, like birth certificates and social security numbers.
Cartoon from Daylie Doodle: IF LIBERALS ARE WEAK LITTLE BITCHES... BUT WERE TERRIFIED OF THE CITIES THEY LIVE IN... WHAT DOES THAT MAKE US?
Post from the New Yorker: ICE wants YOU to put on a MASK to do your JOB. But NOT like during COVID when YOU didn't WANT to wear a MASK. This time, it's NOT for protecting OTHERS from HARM-it's for protecting your IDENTITY while YOU harm OTHERS.
Thread from @lillianclarkauthor: Antifa is the new DEl is the new woke is the new CRT, each a catch-all boogeyman M*AGA can't define and doesn't understand but can suddenly blame for everything.
Wheaten terrier aka the best breed
New California law turns down the volume on loud streaming ads: Gov. Gavin Newsom on Monday signed a new bill into law that prohibits streaming services like Netflix, Disney+ and Amazon Prime from suddenly increasing audio levels during commercial breaks.
Thread from @mikesington: Unaltered AP photo of how Trump appears, and photoshopped image of what he really looks like with the orange makeup removed.
Thread from @nateinthewild: I think what’s being missed in all this government shutdown stuff is that people and agencies can contribute to *society* without contributing to the economy. Stuff like libraries, USPS, USFS and social services don’t make the stock market go up, but they are inherently GREAT ideas for a healthy and happy populace. Things dont need to be profitable to be worthwhile and I wish more people understood that.
SAN reached out to a user listed in the leaked data and confirmed that they had in fact downloaded the app. The user, who asked to remain anonymous over fears of retribution, expressed concerns that Cancel the Hate might be a “scam” after receiving an influx of donation requests to their email.
Thread from calliopewpew_: This is 100x more disrespectful than anything the radical left said about him
The dark new America that Kirk dedicated his life to manifesting has finally arrived. A complete collapse of the online and the offline, where political violence is simply just another opportunity to grow your personal brand if you can turn your phone on fast enough and make it out alive.
From besskalb.substack.com: “There is, of course, no human life worth sacrificing to preserve a quill-scrawled line written three hundred years ago about forming a colonial militia. Charlie Kirk's grieving family joins the thousands of shattered American families each year in understanding the most obvious flaw to his argument: There are no acceptable gun deaths. If the cost of preserving a musket-specific amendment to an already-upended Constitution is Americans being slaughtered in public with harrowing regularity, then that amendment has run its course in the reality of modern America.”
Tweet from Elon: Time to drop the really big bomb: @realDonald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!
Screenshot of Facebook “Marketplace picks” showing 3 Teslas
Instagram reel from creator dellara captioned "don't be silly ..."
Instagram story from @geoffreyatm: If China deployed 1000s of heavily armed troops against 99.9% unarmed protestors it would be universally described as a "brutal anti-democratic crackdown by a fascist regime" but in 🇺🇸🇺🇸 it's just "law and order" baby Ifggg
Screenshot of post from @Weinsteinlaw: “The money being spent on Trump's ego parade could feed every single homeless veteran in America for more than four months.” Caption: "Army officials are preparing to display rocket launchers and missiles along with more than a hundred military aircraft and vehicles next weekend at the D.C. parade celebrating the Army's 250th anniversary, Axios has learned. President Trump has envisioned the June 14 parade — which is scheduled on his 79th birthday — as a show of U.S. military might. Such a display of military equipment is rare in the United States, and critics of the event have expressed concerns about that imagery as well as the damage that heavy military vehicles could pose to the city's streets."
Washington Post headline: Trump administration races to fix a big mistake: DOGE fired too many people. Across the government, the administration is rehiring federal workers who were forced out or encouraged to resign.
Ben Shapiro holding a plank of wood, being a beta
Elon Musk giving the Nazi-est salute
Elon Musk giving a Nazi salute and nothing else
Excerpt from Jason Pargin’s newsletter: “I don't even care how you're choosing to fight, everything requires cash-politics, activism, mutual assistance. "But we want a world where that isn't true!" I know, and accomplishing that will be the most expensive project in history. Wars cost billions, that kind of war will cost tens of trillions. Better get on that. Work more hours, take classes at night, learn how to invest, give the cash to the right causes. Get up earlier, work out, optimize everything, ditch anyone who drags you down. Make powerful friends. Become powerful yourself. The world is depending on you. That's what the liberal self-improvement guru would say, that the fascists love it when you sleep in, they celebrate when you waste your time on video games or dull your brain with weed and ruin your body with fast food. If future generations are suffering under climate disaster or right-wing authoritarians, they will not look kindly on how you chose to spend your time and energy. "But the game is rigged in the enemy's favor! Most of them just inherited their wealth!" Then you'll have to work even harder. Who told you this would be easy? Seriously, I want their names.”
That's Musk's true political legacy. He's not some political mastermind, he doesn't even have the conviction to be a true demagogue. He was an embarrassing clown that jumped around on stages like an idiot and posted edgy memes he stole from iFunny while truly evil men, happy to let him LARP as Second President, worked tirelessly on their plan to send America back a hundred years. And Democrats and the carcass of the mainstream media were easily dazzled by their favorite rich doofus hawking Teslas on the White House lawn because it was easier than facing the enormity and existential terror of Project 2025 head on. And even now, prominent liberals like Tesla defender Rep. Ro Khanna and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are still whining about Musk. Yeah, haul him before a subcommittee or something. Sure. But if I was a betting man, l'd say they'll keep going after Musk long after he's driven his burning Cybertruck out of DC because dealing with Vought would require actually engaging with Trump's coup. Which they are clearly afraid to acknowledge because they want to grab a handful of conservative voters in 2026. In fact, I checked the Project 2025 tracker this morning. They're nearly 50% of the way through their objectives and we're just over 100 days into Trump's second term. Maybe by the time they reach 100% the Democrats will start taking them seriously.
A majority of people at the event, this person said, did not have an opportunity to speak with or take a photo with Trump, who promptly left at the conclusion of his remarks. "He helicoptered in, he helicoptered out. We didn't really get to shake hands with him or anything, but it was a really interesting group of crypto people all in the same room," the person said. "It's about what I expected. I got the chance to be pretty close to the president when he was giving his speech." The dinner was advertised on its website as "intimate" and "the most EXCLUSIVE INVITATION in the World."
Rep. Riley Moore gleefully standing in a foreign concentration camp