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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 5h

“at the last moment, someone had canceled our reservation…around the same time that Andy Ngo and Jack Posobiec, two of the far-right provocateurs who had been harassing me online, were meeting in the White House with President Trump to discuss antifa. I just can’t believe it’s a coincidence.”

Anti-Fascism Scholar Flees U.S. Fearing for His Family’s Safety Amid Trump’s “Antifa” Fearmongering

We speak with Rutgers University professor Mark Bray, who fled from the U.S. to Spain with his family after receiving death threats over his scholarship. He is the author of the 2017 book Antifa: The ...

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 23h

The "founder of antifa" was the trade unions of 1930s Germany.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 1d

"It is comforting to think we can just sit back and passively wait for this corruption nightmare to pass when the Trump presidency ends... But conservatives, their oligarch benefactors, and the Supreme Court clearly have a master plan to try to lock in the kleptocratic status quo."

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The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like the witches are batting a thousand this year

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

It's AI slop. It's meant to destroy everything, not be accurate.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

Did the exact same thing to a clarinet player in Portland:

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

Federal agents barrel into band at Portland ICE protest, arrest clarinetist, accuse her of assault

Oriana Korol, a 38-year-old child and family therapist, remains in Clark County Jail.

www.oregonlive.com

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 1d

97% collateral arrests sounds bad but I'm no expert

Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 2d

Black bloc walked so that inflatable animals could run

#DiversityOfTactics

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 2d

I need ppl to understand that no matter how well meaning someone running as a democrat is, when they are absorbed and become somewhat dependent on the party, they will make concessions and use language they provide etc

It’s like how capitalists, no matter how well meaning, need to increase profit

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2d

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

Trump just murdered six more people off the coast of Venezuela.

Donald J. Trump
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Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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Genderless Rodent, but Halloween Themed @genderlessrodent.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder: you shouldn't be using AI.

No, not even for that.

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Bix F. @bixfrankonis.bsky.social · 2d

Crying.

A Message From The Frog Resistance

YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 3d

This is true, and…

It also reflects the assymetry in media. RW media trumpet every GOP/Trump achievement as a glorious success, because that is their job.

Actual journalists see puffing up those in power as the opposite of their job.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 3d

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

They didn't get much but what they did take were things I care about, like my little Garmin GPS I used for my foraging and dispersed camping trips ☹️

Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

Somebody got into my car and took my stuff and that makes sad

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 3d

Somebody got into my car and took my stuff and that makes sad

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Tom Bogert @tombogert.bsky.social · 4d

This sucks. A lot.

I know from my own experience doing it— it is NOT expensive to pay humans to do this. I got invaluable development working there. As did countless others.

But hey look at that, here’s a feedback form in case you also think it sucks www.mlssoccer.com/feedback/rec...

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ᴄʜᴀʀʟᴇʏ★ᴘɪʀᴏᴛʜ @charlespiroth.bsky.social · 12d

You'll have a Sandwich
Annie Rémich

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 4d

Not me yelling WHAT ARE YOU DOING YOU'RE NOT IN THIS ONE every time I see Liv Tyler in The Fellowship of the Ring

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 4d

Trump take ag!

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 5d

You let the magic smoke out??

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 5d

Just assume every surveillance tool available is being used in Portland right now

Alex Baumhardt @alexbaumhardt.bsky.social · 5d

“Although warrants are required to operate cell-site simulators, the devices can be used without judicial authorization in certain circumstances, such as when there is an immediate threat to national security.”
san.com/cc/exclusive...

Exclusive: Fake cellphone tower likely surveilled protesters at Portland ICE facility

Law enforcement officials may have deployed a secretive cellphone surveillance technology last weekend at Portland’s ICE facility.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Andrew Sorg @andrewsorg.bsky.social · 5d

That's what the cointreau is for!

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