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AuldDragon @aulddragon.bsky.social · 5m

Lego Wednesday returns with the Restaurants of the World set French Café (10362)!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 1h

Every time you see Mike Davis do Mike Davis things, think about Gorsuch reportedly helping land Davis a job at DOJ, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the 10th Circuit, then choosing him as a clerk when he was on the Supreme Court.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

“.. POLITICO obtained an image taken during a virtual meeting that shows the flag pinned to what appears to be a cubicle wall behind Angelo Elia, one of Taylor’s staffers.”

@politico.com #OH02
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 1h

“i have always been a shitty person i was just more careful not to leave evidence behind”

-the vice president

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 1h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 1h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 6h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 23h

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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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 4h

Judge grants temporary restraining order blocking Trump administration from administering reductions in force during the shutdown

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 5h

Federal judge in northern California starts hearing on injunction to block Trump administration from firing workers during the shutdown by stating she is inclined to grant motion

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 7h

Some RIFs will kill legislation, e.g the Ed office that oversees disability. IDEA was passed 50 yrs ago, when there was broad bipartisan agreement that a more inclusive educational system was a good thing.
It was repealed last Friday. No law was passed. Trump simply made IDEA a dead letter.

If you have had any interaction with education at the state and local level, you will know there are strong incentives for school systems to shortchange students with disabilities by skirting the IDEA mandates. That is why the law exists. Without a federal cop on the beat, states will know that it will be safer for them to ignore it. People at state governments see it this way also. One state director of special education told NPR:

I’m fearful. I think it’s good for states to know there’s federal oversight and that they’ll be held accountable. The concept of leaving special education up to states sounds great, but it’s scary. What happens if one state decides to interpret the law one way, but another state disagrees and interprets it differently?

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 7h

It’s important to understand what Republicans mean by this I think.

They mean no one gets any accommodation so if the state is oppressing black voters and privileging white voters, that’s like a natural state and attempts to fix that are UNEQUAL.

Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 7h

Kavanaugh: "I want to note some common ground bc I think it's important in disputes like this one to identify common ground. Justice Jackson said the goal is equal opportunity for all Americans & I think we all agree on that, completely"

man shut your bitchass up with this conscience assuaging bs

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 7h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

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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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 8h

As I was saying about Vance aping the rhetoric (and engaging with the posts) of online Nazis:

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

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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Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 8h

He is 100% correct — the current Supreme Justices have fully vindicated the man who went on television in 2007 and said, “Well, you know, they call you KKK. They did me. I think it’s an honor, right? Means we’re doing something.”

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 9h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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타라 Tahra art @tahraart.bsky.social · 15h

Look in a mirror after meal
Photoshop work

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りこぴん@illustrator @kuzuno-ha.bsky.social · 15h

ルイーダ #DQ3

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VeryBerry🐰🎨 @veryberry24.bsky.social · 15h

🐰うさぎさんのHalloween🎃

おやつくれるって…

きいてきました

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🐇モイちゃんとたまこ🍺 @toytama.bsky.social · 14h

ミニモイちゃんのお背中の愛くるしさ……

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 20h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

there are a couple of ways to think about this, one is that no one should be running for their first senate race at this age, and the other is that if platner can’t beat her, he definitely can’t beat collins. i think he can. everybody needs to stop crying and start fighting.

Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19h

Janet Mills going to the Senate at 79 would make her the oldest elected freshman senator in history — but just as old as or younger than 1 in 9 senators serving in this congress. www.pbump.net/o/a-79-year-...

A 79 year-old freshman senator would be … unusual

Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) has announced her intention to run for Senate against the state's well-known — ahem — incumbent, Susan Collins. When the next Senate term begins in January 2027, Collins wil...

www.pbump.net

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 18h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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What’s the Hold Up Pod Dan @jacketdan.bsky.social · 1d

He did it again for the 5 year anniversary

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 19h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 21h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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