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Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds
September 15, 2025
MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Charlie Kirk’s murder will break the left’s hateful cancel tactics.
48 EXPLAINS IT:
Really recommend you watch this whole thing in full when you have an uninterrupted 15 minutes. It’s powerful and accurately represents the pulse of at least half the nation. https://t.co/dnbjxCwAD7
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) September 15, 2025
EVERYTHING IS RISKY: Scientists Reveal The Hidden Danger of Deflecting Asteroids.
THAT WOULD BE NICE, BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT IS A 1970S WASHING MACHINE AND DETERGENTS WITH PHOSPHATES. What if Your Refrigerator Was Twice As Efficient and Completely Silent?
CRAZINESS ABOUNDS ON THE LEFT:
This is so goddamn depressing. I've been saying for years that our problems with epistemic hygiene have been getting worse on the left, and here, arguably *the* most successful left-of-center public intellectual makes my point for me https://t.co/7lSth9WDXy
— Jesse Singal (@jessesingal) September 15, 2025
Related:
I see this on bluesky.
They think this is just another blip on the timeline.
They don’t understand the entire thing just branched hard. https://t.co/VqQ1V2rEqo
— Grummz (@Grummz) September 15, 2025
TRUE:
Repeat: the answer isn’t “pick up the microphone that Charlie Kirk was holding.” The answer is to use the full authority and force of the law to restore conditions in which people can speak without fearing for their lives. https://t.co/AE7lweRteY
— Adrian Vermeule (@Vermeullarmine) September 15, 2025
THE E.V. BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Ram Confirms Its Full-Size Electric Truck Is Now Officially Dead. “Ram blames slowing demand in North America for its decision to sign the pickup’s death certificate.”
NEW FRONTIERS IN DESPERATE FALSE EQUIVALENCY:
We “cancelled” the Dixie Chicks by not buying their music or going to their concerts.
You canceled Charlie Kirk by assassinating him.
We are not the same. https://t.co/KSEWhvxEXF
— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) September 15, 2025
AS THEY SHOULD: After Wayne, MI Church Shooting, Other Local Churches are Taking Security Far More Seriously.
Helen and I were walking and cut through the parking lot of a local baptist church, to be met by a rather large and formidable woman openly carrying a holstered Glock. She was friendly enough, and clearly decided we were not a threat to the kids in the church daycare playground, but she was on guard, and rightly so.
ALL THE BEST PEOPLE ASSURED ME IT WAS UTTERLY SAFE: Cannabis use associated with quadrupled risk of developing type 2 diabetes, finds study of over 4 million adults.
WELL: After Kirk shooting, Utah governor calls social media a “cancer.” Will we treat it like one?
If only there had been some sort of warning.
WELL, HE’S A 21ST CENTURY PRESIDENT, YOU KNOW: Trump administration launches flying taxi program.
UPI’s link has been removed, but here’s Sean Duffy’s announcement.
RISE OF THE MACHINES: First gallbladder surgery performed with help of AI-guided robot.
MY CONGRESSMAN TIM BURCHETT ON THE WARPATH:
🔥🔥WOW. Hell Yeah Senator Burchett calling out CNN to its face as if THEY weren’t relentlessly attacking Trump.
“Well what are YOU ALL doing about it..if you really wanted this to change
YOUR EDITORIAL BOARD WOULD SAY WERE NOT GONNA PUT THIS STUFF OUT” –@timburchett
He… pic.twitter.com/SRd6Ace0fc— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) September 15, 2025
HIGHER EDUCATION AS HATE: NYU adjunct: Charlie Kirk not a ‘victim,’ MAGA = ‘liars’ who should be ‘excluded from public discourse.’
ANOTHER HIGHER EDUCATION BRAND BITES THE DUST:
When I was 18, my biggest dream was to study Classics at Oxford.
Nevermind. pic.twitter.com/70rsmBI8OQ
— Learn Latin (@latinedisce) September 14, 2025
ICYMI: MY LATEST SUBSTACK ESSAY: When the Preference Cascade Becomes a Flood: Everything is becoming clear.
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THIS:
Sit down, Neera. https://t.co/WiOCPT6seA pic.twitter.com/wpG7XuAggC
— Jason Howerton (@jason_howerton) September 15, 2025
UPDATE:
You called it “a war” the day before the assassination and said your side should use “any means necessary.”
So STFU about unity you two-faced cheerleader for violence https://t.co/kvAkO7DE2s
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) September 15, 2025
*young man gets murdered in front of his family; tons of psychos celebrate his murder*
“What if this leads to something dark?” https://t.co/wMsazOSf1s
— Frank J. Fleming (@IMAO_) September 15, 2025
You made up a quote to dehumanize a man who was just murdered
I'm so happy you were fired!
And I hope you never find gainful employment again!
Stop dehumanizing conservatives
Our society can't tolerate people who celebrate the murder of innocent people anymore. https://t.co/nDltUIFJ78
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) September 15, 2025
SOME, BUT NOT ENOUGH:
Wait until the haters of Charlie Kirk find out their anger is based entirely on quotes taken out of context and flat-out lies about what he said.
Cognitive dissonance will glue most of the haters to their original positions, with word-salad explanations of how they have been…
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) September 14, 2025
ADVICE FOR CONSERVATIVES FROM MARK JUDGE: “Don’t enter a kill zone where you’re an easy target.”