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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 14h

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 · 21h

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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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 1d

This list really drives home how few legitimately good movies Burton has directed. Everything below #5 only looks good in comparison to “The other ones.”

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Dave Newhouse @davenewhouse.bsky.social · 2d

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Just now discovering the music of Jim McNeely! Holy crap!

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 2d

I thought this was lovely.

"A few years ago I received a DM from Zohran Kwame Mamdani. Only recently did I discover its existence. It was a very unusual DM—especially coming from a local assemblyman who would soon be running for higher office. He had very little name recognition at the time, and could have benefited from publicity. But unlike the thousands of messages I’ve received from people with something to promote, Zohran did not ask to be featured on Humans of New York. Instead he asked if he could introduce me to taxi drivers that were struggling beneath the burden of debt. Coming from a man with political ambitions, this self-denying request was so strange as to be almost singular. I don’t endorse politicians on Humans of New York. But I’ll endorse a good man. And it was a good man who cleared 30 minutes from his schedule yesterday to swing by Grand Central and visit Dear New York’s Vanderbilt Hall Exhibition. Nearly fifty-student artists were visiting that day with their families, and I thought a surprise visit from this widely-loved future mayor would be a special memory for all of them. Before Zohran’s arrival I was convinced I’d made a terrible mistake. The exhibit was filled to capacity with adult visitors. Dear New York is self-funded so there was very little staff and security for crowd control. In the crush of people I was almost certain this special day for the kids would devolve into thirty minutes of selfie requests. But everyone rose to the occasion."

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"Hundreds of adults quickly cleared the room and stood outside the exhibit. Eleven very notable adult photographers are also featured in the show, but even they took a step back, so that these students could briefly have the stage to themselves. Each child stood by their work and Zohran was able to meet all of them, one at a time, and honor their contributions to the most-visited art show in New York City. Thanks to everyone who ceded the stage yesterday to make this moment possible. Thank you Zohran for literally sitting down on the floor so that these young artists could feel so tall. Thanks for continually centering other people in your life and work. And thank you, for being such an important part of Dear New York."

A large group of children and adults pose together indoors in front of a sign reading "DEAR." A man in a suit sits cross-legged in front, surrounded by smiling kids. The background features an ornate architectural detail.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Also, using “thought police” to describe the *critics* of someone who literally launched her career by trying to police the thoughts of her pro-Palestinian professors at Columbia is AMAZING

Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 3d

I know it's basically just bait so whatever but if you use "thought police" unironically you should be forced to sit in a corner without your phone for a full hour

Sally Jenkins post with a link to whatever awful Atlantic piece about Bari Weiss reading "Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of
@theatlantic.com
is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. "

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Noamar Garciachomsky @kduffchicago.bsky.social · 3d

Oh so now when a woman raises $15 million to write Mein Kampf dot com and earns $14.5 million in revenue the left doesn't think that's good?

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 3d

Seen in Chicago

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Bryan Edward Stone (שָׁלוֹם) @bestonetx.bsky.social · 4d

Diane Keaton had an amazing career, but this, to me, is her best scene, and also Beatty's best as a director.

And hey, now that we're talking about it, Reds is a movie screaming for a revival.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Mt...

Reds - train station scene

YouTube video by sniem

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Isaac! At the Butler! @isaacbutler.bsky.social · 4d

Few actors exemplify the delightful wildness and mess that was the hallmark of Meisner technique better than Diane Keaton. What an incredible actor and career. impossible to imagine Reds, Godfather II, or Annie Hall, three of the best American films of the new Hollywood era, without her. RIP!

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 4d

There are so many Diane Keaton performances to remember, but a lot of people haven't seen Reds, and A) my God, see it, it is a masterpiece and B) her performance as Louise Bryant is one of the bravest, toughest, least sympathy-courting pieces of work by an American actress in the last 50 years.

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Christian Lehmann @lehmanndrc.bsky.social · 4d

Fuck

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Justin LaLiberty @jlalibs.com · 4d

What an absolute treasure Diane Keaton was. Her wit never tired, nor did her style.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5d

About to launch OnlyFathers where a priest will give a sermon while he mows the lawn shirtless

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 3d

It’s a fantastic film, of course! But I think it’s fair to say that its critical reputation over the years has been decidedly mixed.

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Dylan Buffum @dylanjcb.bsky.social · 3d

“Reds” has been in my queue for a few months. Tonight I’ll watch it, right after I finish my re-watch of Manhattan.

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine if you did this in any other journalistic context

"Did the Tigers or Mariners Win Game 5? In Detroit, Depends on the Narrator."

David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 4d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 4d

RIP Diane Keaton. If you haven’t seen her portrayal of Louise Bryant in Warren Beatty’s criminally underrated Reds, it’s a phenomenal performance in a brilliant picture.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 4d

“Single-Cell Jitterbug” is particularly requested by band directors, since it has no woodwind doubles and is playable by a good college or high school big band.

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 4d

Newly added to my website, darcyjamesargue.com: scores & parts for:

All In
Last Waltz for Levon
Single-Cell Jitterbug
The Enemy Within

Study scores are also newly available for all of the above, on a name-your-price basis.

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d

Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out!

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 5d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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