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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 59m

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

/2 You’ve got true believers who consciously and overtly believe in this stuff, you’ve got the goatfuckers who believe it but are too chickenshit to say so so retreat behind “irony”, and you’ve got the neckbearded snort-laughing futon-stains who revel in fatuous adolescent shock.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 17m

Young Republicans have always been racist and sexist, but they haven't always been full-on groypers. It's the difference between having prejudices and making them your entire personality and politics.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 13h

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.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 20m

A defining feature of this admin is attacking as antisemitic everything they don’t like while constantly engaging in rank antisemitism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 3h

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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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 12h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 12h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 1d

Barack Obama had this and used it to defund ACORN

To pass your agenda a Dem will need 60 votes in the Senate & a majority in the house. In every battleground state voters need to show up to give a Dem President the power to deliver without negotiating. If we fail to do that, we cant complain when what's delivered is watered down

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 11h

activists are doing a lot of good work to try to help the people being brutalized but the biggest and most important thing that needs to be done is to break the regime, by any means necessary, and absurdist mockery is proving to be an extremely effective part of the arsenal

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 13h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Keith Law @keithlaw.bsky.social · 12h

YIKES

"The couple started dating in November 2021, when she was 22 years old and Mills was 41, married and the father of a young child."

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Cory Mills, boy I dunno

www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/10/14/j...

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · 12h

Cavs had some 1-guard lineups in the first half. hunter at the two

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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 20h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 16h

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

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CJ Ciaramella @cjciaramella.bsky.social · 14h

Over at Reason we have a "puppycide" tag for cop-shoots-dog stories going back to 2012. Easiest way to get a normie 4th Amendment-pilled against the cops is to show them this stuff reason.com/tag/puppycide/

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 14h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
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El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
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Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
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https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 15h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 15h

at this point it would be interesting journalism if someone could locate a Young Republican groupchat that was not full of overt Nazis

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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 14h

“Treat these GOP chats like you would if a random person with vaguely with lefty politics posted them on the internet” challenge.

Politico @politico.com · 19h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 15h

I think people are missing the point.

It’s not because “Trump is bad” like other tyrants they tolerate.

It’s because the Trump regime is specifically and intentionally violent towards people traveling internationally unlike other tyrants.

Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 15h

the orgs running these events should run screaming from the US right now

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 16h

President Trump said he would seek to move 2026 World Cup games out of Boston and shift the 2028 Olympics out of Los Angeles if he thought the cities weren’t properly prepared or if conditions were unsafe

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Ben @coxsportsohio.bsky.social · 15h

molly hemingway AND scott walker???

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Sen. Pumpkin Gogurt @ugarles.bsky.social · 16h

this is the dynamic of every asshole. invent a reason someone deserves a hittin' then crying when they have the nerve to hit back.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 16h

are these people aware of what they themselves are doing??

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 18h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

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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