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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist

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OκULTRA XP🧿, writer for The Economist @0kultra.bsky.social · Feb 26

I have come to accept a simpler and more general argument against billionaires: by their very nature they impose centralized planning over economy they infest, becoming de-facto communist planners, and thus impose upon their habitat all the pathologies that rise from impossibility of planned econ

Boo Jank @billjank.bsky.social · Feb 25

It may be finally sinking in that a world of radical wealth inequality is unstable, actually.

There should be reward for good work, yes. There should not be outsize reward for being born rich.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 49m

Surely Antifa’s Tier One special forces staged a covert raid on this congressional office. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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thank u, hexed @lindsaykingmiller.bsky.social · 1d

Sex scenes are almost never "gratuitous" or "unnecessary." You learn things about characters and relationships during sex that you can't really learn any other way, such as whether they're into fisting.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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DatNoFact @datnofact.bsky.social · 39m

Vance is prepping himself for Trumpism 2.0. Trump sucks but he'll never be him because every time he talks he sounds like a miserable scolding pissbaby.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1h

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Greta Thunberg: “Israeli soldiers hit, kicked, starved, and tortured me”

• They placed a flag next to me, and anytime the flag touched me, they kicked me
• Whenever I raised my head to look at Ben-Gvir, I was kicked
• She was filmed while stripped naked

Aftonbladet: tinyurl.com/a33vxatc

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

One consequence of maintaining a social circle of fellow ideologues in the age of algorithmic reinforcement and closed app ecosystems is that you gradually lose any perspective on how mainstream your ideas really are.

I don’t think these Nazis understand how much they’re hated.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 1h

The optimistic interpretation of the group chat leaks is that these guys feel so aggrieved and emboldened that they go out of their way to prove they’re Nazis, a type of person who, you know, remains almost uniquely reviled.

WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 1h

The hoods are all the way off over on the hellsite

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 16h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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💋 𝕡𝕒𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕜𝕒 • ♱ @ladypaprika.bsky.social · Sep 4

Casual fits Girlfriends!! 😊💗

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Leah Tigers @leahtigers.bsky.social · 3h

these quotes are from the 1880s!

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 2h

New South Park tonight is about Peter Thiel!

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 17h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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wargarurumon.bsky.social @wargarurumon.bsky.social · 4h

Nah, she's right. There used to be more discipline during the paul ryan days, nor did their lameness attract the kind of brutal nihilistic channers that now make up the gop.

But real funny how she of all people is defending them

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 7h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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Andrea @valkyrie.hacker.gf · 7h

Despite the cold, damp weather, every single one of those bicyclists managed to make Mike Johnson feel threatened with genital inadequacy

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 21h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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MAKS 25 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h

🔥 The marine oil terminal in Feodosiya has been burning for over two and a half days.

16 fuel tanks, which had survived the initial strike, were damaged.

The total volume of petroleum products stored in the tanks is approximately 193,000 cubic meters.

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KINDAFREE | IRI @denofsin.bsky.social · 5h

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 3h

i hope this guy is ok but also this imagery is perfect to undermine the fascists

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Eli Erlick @elierlick.bsky.social · 3h

This is a real DHS statement from earlier this month. Their officials need to read more Arendt (although perhaps that would get them to quit ICE in the first place).

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

Can Trump's afterlife anxiety be used for good in this life, right now? @saletan.bsky.social on his latest piece: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-is-w...

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sasha ↙︎↙︎↙︎ 🌹🏴 @2damntrans.bsky.social · 5h

I want an anarchist society.

But, in the meantime, I want to see Rachel Reeves cry again. In fact I want to see every Labour frontbencher reduced to tears of bottomless despair because their party, their careers, their reputations and their dreams have been smashed into a billion pieces.

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Hal 10000 @hal10000.bsky.social · 3h

A Ukrainian friend once described being next door to Putin as like living next to a monkey with a grenade. You know he's going to throw it at some point and just hope it misses.

The description might now be apt for the US and the Caribbean. www.bbc.com/news/article...

US strikes another vessel off Venezuela coast, killing six

President Trump said the vessel belonged to "narcoterrorists" and that it was "trafficking narcotics." US officials have not provided evidence to this claim.

www.bbc.com

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 1d

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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Sawyer Hackett @sawyerhackett.bsky.social · 1d

ICE agents cosplaying as soldiers are assaulting and detaining veterans who served in actual combat

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 5h

I actually think "radlib" is a pretty good term for myself, and I feel like appropriating it. Like I've referred to myself sarcastically as a "neolib" but that's *actually inaccurate*; I think "radlib" 100% describes my views. I am radically in favor of freedom

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S. A. Hunt @sahuntbooks.com · 4h

One of the things that baffles and pisses me off the most about this ICE shit is how many Black and brown faces I keep seeing wearing the Nazis' uniforms.

Like what the fuck is wrong with you? Have you not considered who's going in the oven when they're done with the rest of us?

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