“Increasingly Extreme Viewpoints”

Misstating the facts is a convenient way to get clicks, but The Times has been documenting the increasingly extreme viewpoints on both sides of the political spectrum for years. Here are just a few examples from as recently as yesterday🧵 https://t.co/3B46vp0VZh

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) June 27, 2026

As someone who remembers the (state, not federal) supported violence against Americans of the ‘60’s, and the continued political violence of the ‘70’s, handwringing about “extreme viewpoints”

https://t.co/uGqVFyMcdI

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) June 27, 2026

This post should have read "as recently as last month."

— NYTimes Communications (@NYTimesPR) June 27, 2026

in recent times is a bit rich. 

I’ll reiterate Jules Verne’s wry commentary on life in these United States when Phineas Fogg crossed the continent in his journey around the world. He came upon a riot in a small American town that turned out to be a political campaign… for the office of town dog catcher.

“Extreme viewpoints” is the tut-tutting of the would-be ruling class, dismayed that the servants are not quietly dusting the items in the drawing room and making sure the tradespeople use the servant’s entrance. And the temerity to complain about the Grey Lady! When it can be shown she is aware of how unruly the workers are!

Well, I mean! It’s so hard to get good help these days!

(Maybe this concerned apologist could spare a word about the violence of ICE, the Nazi spew of Stephen Miller, the blunt ignorance and threats of the Secretary of DHS, the random mutterings of the President against his perceived political enemies? Or is that kind of mention just not done?)

In many parts of the country now, ICE pays state police set up immigration checkpoints in the interior of the United States. The assault on our freedom as Americans is unrelenting. pic.twitter.com/GtPHZa3k3k

— David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) June 26, 2026

(Another “extreme viewpoint.”)