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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 5h

i pay amtrak $200 a month when a one-way ticket costs $30 folks trains aren't gonna work out

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 5h

watched the John Oliver segment and thought: "she's gonna go really far"

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 5h

Olivia Reingold may be one of the ugliest people on the inside I've ever come across. Nothing but pure malice and spite, reveling in being unpleasant. Incredibly offputting person.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

okay first off I need to call one Sigmund freud

I have found the inner life of these islands to be difficult to penetrate, partly because this is not one place but many, but most of all because of the fragile and floral way in which it is structured.

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 7h

"Designed with gamers in mind" with a picture of the Nazi German Tiger tank, and "Designed with activists in mind" with a picture of the American Sherman tank.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

what the hell man

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

ah yeah the two genders:

LGBT identity causes mental illness
mental illness causes LGBT identity

ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

you can see it seeping out through the cracks in the trump administration, Nate Hochman Sonnenrad posting, the AI-generated defend the homeland pictures, they're all cooking in nazi shit and they're moving up through the party apparatus. I don't think this is even going to be the worst of it.

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

i actually think normal people and even a lot of professional democrats don't understand how depraved young republicans have become

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

they definitely love doing that by the way, making the guacamole

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 7h

worlds only hyperpower voluntarily self destructing for this guy

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 8h

I have prepared my entire life (almost over) for this fight

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 8h

starting to see money not come in on grants pray for mojo

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 8h

Charlie shoulda ducked, what can you say, serpentine, serpentine, you know how it is

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 9h

the texture is just atrocious and the flavor is I think worse as well

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 9h

god this goes so hard

rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 11h

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 9h

the master race is here hold up everyone

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 10h

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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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 9h

ah did I miss when they mitigated the serious mental health issues

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 10h

they got rid of some fascists one time

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 11h

the apologies from the named participants are crazy it’s like “ah shit I’m sorry about my hurtful language and also I promise to not get caught in the future”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 12h

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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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 12h

Huel Jesus chist

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lamorak.bsky.social @lamorak.bsky.social · 13h

The interesting thing is that Trump himself seems to understand that he’s not good enough to go to heaven and is afraid. He’s the only one in his circle that’s even coming close to understanding the gravity of the situation according to traditional Christianity

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 13h

May I not hear it?

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ghostdoctoral researcher @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 13h

that’s the fucking news baybee