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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 11h

Don't get me wrong. Under the First Amendment, you have the right to say you love Hitler. You have the right to call Black people by a word we all know.

And the rest of us have the right to think you're a Nazi piece of shit. And we will. And we'll fire your sorry ass, too, fuckface.

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 35m

Morning.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

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 · 18h

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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Mnmeditor @mnmeditor.bsky.social · 14h

More outrageousness. Founded in 1867 and important. Here”s mission, charter, etc

“and re-affirms the independence and freedom of these student media”

www.idsnews.com/page/about-us

About Us - Indiana Daily Student

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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Robert Blaszkiewicz @robertblaszk.bsky.social · 15h

Ernie Pyle wept.

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 11h

He’s either a coward or…

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

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

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 11h

I spent nearly 6 years at IU. I walked away without my PhD. - that involved a complex set of personal history and decision making - but I had immense respect for many of its departments, faculty, my peers, its libraries, etc. This, to me is immensely angering: www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you for the laughter. And the deep insightful critique.

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Josh Johnson @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social · 1d

New Stand Up Set youtu.be/mX85JmYVswQ?...

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 11h

Evil kakistocracy

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Dr. Jack Brown @drjackbrown.bsky.social · 17h

Hey Mike Johnson – the more you facilitate a cover-up and do everything in your power to prevent the release of the Epstein files – the more your constituents, the American public, and the whole world are going to believe you are guilty of the exact same types of crimes as Jeffrey Epstein.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 12h

Vance telling people to “grow up” about Young Republicans joking about gas chambers and r**e says it all. The bare minimum of decency is to say, “Yes, this is wrong.” If you can’t, you’re the one who needs to grow up. America has a child for a VP.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

It really is bizarre to me that every single member of GOP House leadership & the admin has decided their coordinated talking point this week is that the No Kings demonstrations this Sat are essentially acts of domestic terrorism. Are they that afraid of free & peaceful assembly?

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 16h

Good to see!

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Dan Hirschman @asociologist.bsky.social · 16h

Brown rejects the Compact! www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Brown University president declines invitation for Brown to join federal Compact

In a letter to the White House, President Christina H. Paxson wrote that Compact provisions restricting academic freedom and undermining autonomy would impede the University’s ability to fulfill its m...

www.brown.edu

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

"why do you keep calling us Nazis?"

Because you're Nazis.

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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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

Given the DHS talk of "remigration" and private chats revealing the overtly Nazi stances of the NY Young Republicans, it would be really good for those opposed to show up October 18 then continue to collaborate in their communities, because all this will get worse and worse until we act to stop it.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 1d

I just read Platner's platform; they're scared shitless.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Everybody in my mentions over the weekend pretending that Mills was just running in a primary and not that she isn't a party-backed spoiler: GFYS

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

Everybody in my mentions over the weekend pretending that Mills was just running in a primary and not that she isn't a party-backed spoiler: GFYS

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills.

Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

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Bruce Bouček @bboucek.bsky.social · 1d

Pieces of my city.

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Tony Donatelli @brotherd66.bsky.social · 1d

I still want to know what happened with those hard drives DOGE connected to the computers at Dod and DSS

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