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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

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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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 33m

That's why the people running around in costumes in Portland are so effective. Or the priests in Chicago leading a prayer vigil/mass outside of ICE as another example.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 33m

Our job as freedom-loving Americans is to show the people who aren't paying attention how bullshit their optics are.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 33m

The president is a former TV host and social climber in NYC and seemingly half of the administration has/had a podcast or TV show. They live for optics.

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 3h

they don’t care about optics. They want to kill us regardless.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 52m

GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 53m

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 49m

Trump 🤝 BlueSky users "Charlie was a bigot"

Newspaper editors 🤝 Republican electeds "No he wasn't"

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

How many of these was JD in do we think

Politico @politico.com · 4h

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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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 2h

So they are your typical Republicans then?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 22h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 22h

I mean it's not like your average cop is some paragon of virtue but this stuff is still on another level.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 22h

The most bigoted and out-of-control people have been given an explicit ok by Trump/Republicans to brutalize the public. They found the worst person you went to school with gave them a gun and a badge and said run wild.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder if all the people braying about the "war on Christianity" might raise some objections if it were a *Democratic* administration who had its armed thugs shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and waiting outside Catholic Churches to disappear parishioners?

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 1d

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Calaca Byproduct @cacaobyproduct.bsky.social · 1d

I think Sam alt man’s job isn’t real and that we should take all his money away right now

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

futurism.com

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1d

Get out there this weekend folks even if it's just to spite these people.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 1d

There being a government without kings was supposed to be the point of this country, asshole.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1d

Also, Americans are some of the most you can't tell me what to do people in the world, which I think will also drive people to attend a March.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1d

We need to be much more blunt about telling people like this to get a life.
www.wfdd.org/books/2025-1...

At the library's Board of Trustees meeting on Thursday, Dorris Welborne, who made the complaint about the book, explained she had checked it out for her grandchild without realizing what it was about.
"It just bothered me as a grandmother, because I would not want any child to get this that was able to read, and read it on their own, Welborne said.

"The placement of this book in the children's room exposes the wrong material to the wrong age group and on the wrong developmental appropriateness," said
Jonathan Burris.

"Do not make it available. Do not push that agenda. It is wrong," said Clarice Johnson.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

By the time you get to the point where the Transportation Secretary is complaining about political protests, you know the administration is truly scared of the public backlash.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 1d

These guys are terrified of the numbers that are going to turn out on Saturday, and that's all the more reason to put down your "wine mom protest" objections and join them.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

the failure to engage even in modest speculation about what we are seeing is nothing less than an collective agreement to protect the president

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choo choo choose anger @ralphtheewiggum.bsky.social · 1d

The difference bet the way the press handled Biden’s vs Trump’s health issues, as well as the standard to which they hold his conduct is one of the greatest scandals in the history of journalism.

Their conduct, and the knowledge they’ve done tremendous damage to their profession, should shame them.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 1d

he has been talking obsessively about the afterlife for some time, he is missing for chunks of time, his aides are trying harder than usual to show he’s fit, his public appearances show someone in visible physical decline, and jd vance talked impromptu about being prepared to assume office

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Page Fortna @pagefortna.bsky.social · 1d

Portland frog with a founding fathers wig and the text “give me ribberty or give me death”

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Hockey Out of Context Loves Canada @nhloutofcontext.bsky.social · 1d

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 1d

Same goes for the "Genocide Joe" crowd.

Every leftist grifter and attention-seeker is a brave anti-fascist revolutionary until an actual fascist regime comes to power. Then they get awfully quiet.

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