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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 36m

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2h

when you open the text messages of any Republican under the age of 45

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 3h

One thing is for sure: these losers always look exactly like you think they would.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 21h

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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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 14h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 15h

All the Nazis seeing their Nazi chats get exposed

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19h

He really put a "but I'm different" in his eulogy. What a mind.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

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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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 18h

I really hope I don’t have a narcissistic sociopath speak at my memorial.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 22h

This is during the same meeting where he’s talking about giving a $20B bailout to Argentina because their president is a Trump fanboy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump: "The funding for New York, and for every place, comes through the White House. And I'm very generous, and I was always very generous with New York. But I wouldn't be generous to a communist that's gonna take the money and throw it out the window."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23h

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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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Craig Biggio ties that game 100 times out of 100

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s easy to say someone should take an 85 mph pitch off the thigh but come on man you have to there

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 1d

dear me

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Ducky (Maybe) 🦆 @justducky.bsky.social · 1d

A comparative breakdown of professional wrestling legend Bruno Sammartino and all around piece of shit Christopher Columbus

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 1d

It’s fun to imagine the media coverage if Joe Biden was caught on a hot mic talking about setting up meetings between world leaders and Hunter.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Obamacare was designed to fail, which is why we’ve been attempting to repeal and/or sabotage it for the better part of two decades now.

James Downie @jamescdownie.bsky.social · 2d

Mike Johnson: It's Obama's fault that we can't repeal Obamacare.

Jake Sherman: "JOHNSON this AM: 'Can we completely repeal and replace Obamacare? Many of us are skeptical about that now, because the roots are so deep, it was really sinister, the way it was created. I believe Obamacare was created to implode upon itself, to collapse upon itself.'”

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KedricKillian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Jack Smith was appointed special counsel more than two months after the Mar-a-Lago raid.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Eric Trump: "Sure enough, we find out that Jack Smith is planting manilla folders on the office of my father ... "

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2d

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Trump is pulling a reverse Scrooge (visited by three ghosts, realized he’s already going to Hell, doubling down on being a bastard).

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

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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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 2d

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Chris Jackson @chriscjackson.bsky.social · 2d

ICE is a domestic terrorist organization.

dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 3d

Wow, so it’s illegal to make plans with friends now

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