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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 1h

Homeschooling is basically banned in countries like Germany and Sweden.

A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 1h

Came out on Netflix yesterday

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1h

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Unprecedentedly good fiscal & monetary policy. Again, I hope everyone likes Lost Decades, because the lesson the Democrats have now learned, for at least a generation, is that you should never again try & avoid them, because you will be destroyed in the media & the court of public opinion.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 1h

That popular Hollywood movie depiction of Nazis usually skipped over how obsessed with weird ancient pagan cosplay batshit insane most senior Nazis were

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 10h

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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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 11h

Dear Ubisoft, please make more Splinter Cell.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 22h

god i love how wide the Free Press set of topics are and how you can tell *what* exact type of reactionary centrist they are

Antisemitism

Bari Weiss

California

Canada

Culture and Ideas

Education

Faith

Free Speech

Health and Self-Improvement

History

International

Israel

Jed Rubenfeld

Matthew Continetti

New York

Niall Ferguson

Parenting

Second Thought

Sex and Gender

Tech and Business

Tyler Cowen Must Know

U.S. Politics

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 16h

Democrats need to put the same extended media consuming outrage into the Young Republican Nazi chats as Republicans mustered for Biden going for ice cream.

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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 16h

These guys want their very own Dubai so fucking badly.

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · May 11

Anduril founder Palmer Luckey says the US should “expand our naval base on Guantanamo Bay into Liberty City [ie, a ‘freedom city’], an American Singapore of the Caribbean.” Anduril is backed by Tech Bros Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen who support aspiring “network states” via Pronomos Capital. 1/

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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 17h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 16h

On this, he’s not wrong. I got two texts from the Mills campaign today even though I live a thousand miles away from Maine.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 16h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

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.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Sam Eyler-Driscoll 🍉🌻🍁 @sameyler.bsky.social · 21h

The lesson, which we should already know, is that confining fascists behind a cordon sanitaire is a condition for the exercise of democracy. Authoritarians simply cannot be folded into electoral politics for all the reasons in this thread. They make it impossible for democracies to credibly commit

Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 22h

This is not to say that elections don't matter; they clearly do, and democracy requires them, and in every case I'd rather my side win than lose. But if I'm working on the question of what to do *while in power*, it's going to be heavily biased towards *how do we ensure electoral defeat isn't fatal*

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Alex Rikleen @rikleen.bsky.social · 20h

The SecDef has a Nazi tattoo*.
The President's biggest donor did a Nazi salute twice after referencing a famous Nazi slogan.
The VP intervened to make sure the admin rehired someone fired for pro-Nazi statements.

These kids are following the examples set by their leadership.

Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21h

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 21h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 21h

Not needing to win elections to hold power describes the US right now. According to GOP SCOTUS, Biden couldn’t enact student loan forgiveness but Trump can unilaterally tax and spend. We should try political reform—PR in the House, depowered Sen, weak Pres, responsible Cabinet, regularly renewed SC.

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A. fulgens ♨️🇨🇦 @alexandergruchala.bsky.social · 22h

That was fast.

AP
Breaking News
now
Israel plans to halve aid into Gaza, accusing Hamas of violating ceasefire with slow release of dead hostages, AP sources say.

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X-Men Don't Need Britches 💙💛 @rphutch1975.bsky.social · 22h

Rest in peace, Drew Struzan.
A titanic talent.

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 22h

Trump: *Illegally and unilaterally raises tariffs on basic goods*

The Atlantic: Hrm, instead of coffee have you tried meth?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23h

This is a sidebar but this is a form of manufactured consent of a more broader variety.

What is happening here is that elites enjoy finding everyday actions of the peons (you and me) that we insist a right to enjoy and, instead of taking a serious account of fault, find basis to ridicule.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 23h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 23h

one thing we can never allow to happen again is making someone president who is rich enough to fund endless frivolous lawsuits

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one response to this (correct) observation is to say “well, the cops will attack you no matter how you dress and behave.” that’s right. images of cops and ICE beating grandmas and kids in inflatable frog costumes is a win for the opposition.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Not the Governor of North Carolina; got the handle first @joshstein.bsky.social · 1d

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 1d

direct deposits hitting the checking accounts of active duty servicemen means article 1 of the constitution is basically a dead letter as of tonight, huh

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