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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 2h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 10h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 5m

Donny's succeeded in making 1600 Pennsylvania Ave a tear-down only valuable for the land it sits on.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 8m

Companies that avoid hiring junior employees because they think the chatbot can do that work are not going to be solvent long term.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 7h

Garfield and Foes

Sam G. Howard @samghoward.riliberator.com · Apr 29

Learned last night that we’re getting a Netflix miniseries on the Garfield assassination with Michael Shannon as Garfield and Nick Offerman as Chester A. Arthur, and how are we not all talking about this? www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 7h

I don't understand what it is about Olivia Nuzzi that makes people think "Olivia Nuzzi should continue to attempt to use language to convey ideas," much less "...and I should pay her to do it."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 9h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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correcting typo and derailing riff @stefanheck.bsky.social · 7h

I would honestly rather read a handwritten note from my parents in which they say they regret ever adopting me

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 9h

TL;DR: Indiana University Media School Dean David Tolchinsky fired the student media director for printing news in the newspaper against orders. Any news. Tolchinsky ordered them to print no news in the newspaper, instead they did journalism, and Jim Rodenbush was fired for it.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 8h

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 9h

Doc showing off her very flexible ears

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 9h

RUNNING DOWN THE GUTTER WITH A PIECE OF BREAD AND BUTTER

Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 16h

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 12h

Before FoxNews my dad watched NASCAR, golf, Kansas City-area major sports, movies about airplanes, and TV shows produced by Donald P. Bellisario.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

Best book he introduced me to was probably something by Tom Clancy. Best movie... pass. The only movies I remember him introducing me to were Always (1989) and Memphis Belle (1990).

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

Trying to answer this and...my dad has the worst taste in books, movies, and TV of anyone I know.

Magnum PI (1980) maybe?

Amber Sparks @ambersparks.bsky.social · Jun 15

Okay you guys, what’s the best book, movie, or TV show your dad introduced you to

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

*what would have been the dead Nazi's 32nd birthday

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 14h

This is the Republican Party and has been for at least two decades.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 14h

Next month they'll announce that you'll be able to sext with your favorite historical figure. Then you'll be able to get Abe Lincoln to ASMR at you, and after that obviously comes the omniscient godlike AGI.

The Verge @theverge.com · 17h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 17h

Silverware with tines coming from nowhere. Barbie with seven fingers on the left and three on the right. Get your sloppy eldritch nightmare today at Wal-Marr.

CNN @cnn.com · 17h

Walmart is partnering with OpenAI to let users browse and make purchases through the artificial intelligence https://cnn.it/4n3r5zK

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 17h

Cool I always wanted a product that doesn't exist

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 17h

I left the right wing and the GOP over 20 years ago because of all the fucking Nazis and it's not like things have improved.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

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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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 17h

I'm always confused when something on the internet is referred to as "rare." What, are they rationing the bits on that one?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18h

Anyone familiar with the political culture of the Trumpian GOP will not be surprised by this reporting on today's Young Republicans, but all decent human beings will be appalled by it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

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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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 18h

This is actually true. Steve Scalise never shuts up about how much he hates America and Americans.

Daniel J. Willis (That’s already a scary name.) @bayareadata.press · 18h

You know, Democrats could do this too. Anyone can claim that anybody hates America. Watch: Steve Scalise hates America.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Scalise: "Chuck Schumer is throwing a temper tantrum here at home just to appease the most radical elements of his base so that on the 18th when they have the Hate America Rally that everybody knows is coming ... "

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 20h

Chef Gruel is on the nose even for us.

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