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Cao Cao Power Hour Enthusiast @statsboyandi.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone’s talking about Milpay, but reminder that USDA is currently using excess 25 funds to pay for WIC and School Lunch. They say they have like maybe a month of that left.

Red States are going to lose their fucking minds if they can’t draw those soon.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1h

it’s not even like they were *good* before but they were bad in meaningfully different ways, just like the rest of the republican party

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 32m

[low whistle]

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 52m

How much more illegal can we get? lets find out together!
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-f...

FBI agents will get paid despite government shutdown, Patel says

The Trump administration will continue paying FBI agents despite the ongoing government shutdown that has frozen paychecks for nearly all federal workers, FBI Director Kash Patel announced.

www.cbsnews.com

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Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

seriously, people do not understand just how much we subsidize the existence of rural America

remember when people criticized USAID for making up huge chunks of poor countries' government budgets?

anyways: wvpolicy.org/federal-fund...

Federal Funds Make Up Half of West Virginia's Budget; Cuts Would Shift Hundreds of Millions in Costs to State - West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy

Federal dollars support a wide array of public services and systems that touch the lives of all West Virginians — from health care and food assistance to child care and public schools. Under both the ...

wvpolicy.org

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 1d

this kind of rhetoric is used ALL THE TIME by conservatives (and ones in power!) to describe liberals but have you ever actually heard the reverse? like is anyone on msnbc making jokes about toothless hicks who sleep with their cousins? No!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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David Mack @davidmackau.bsky.social · 1d

this is definitely true but it’s also true that it’s only politically acceptable in this country to mock cities or blue states. mocking rural/red states is seen as elitist and out-of-touch, even tho most ppl live in cities! as such, i think these rare moments have more staying power.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans lose cities by massive margins and their response is to defund the cities

Democrats lose rural areas by massive margins and their response is to increase rural funding

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 4h

by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.

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collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · 3h

It quite literally represents the values of your staff

Politico @politico.com · 3h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 3h

I think @rickhasen.bsky.social is correct that we need a constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote, if only to keep democracy away from the claws of a judicial body that has consistently let undemocratic and authoritarian regimes exclude Americans from their governance.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 2h

Genuinely, proportionality makes the most sense, anyway, and it's something voters understand.

Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 3h

If the Supreme Court refuses to let Congress to outlaw Republicans' racial gerrymandering of single-member districts, the best remaining option becomes straightforward: update the Apportionment Act to ban single-member districts.

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 3h

Now, Dems hold 7 of 33 US house seats (21%) across AL, LA, MS, SC & TN. Dems won 37% of 2024 presidential vote in those states.

Now Supreme Court may allow those states to eliminate >all< Dem seats by undermining the VRA www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Our democracy being chipped away, bit by bit.

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 5h

The only question to me is if the ruling is written in such a way that this happens in 2026, 2028, or after the 2030 Census. The "solid South" is back, just with the color swapped.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 5h

damn

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1h

Indeed. One of the great moments in recent television.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1h

dozens and dozens of Cillizza brained people insisting they’re Not Surprised all day. congrats to them

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 6h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 3h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 3h

They’re gonna gut the voting rights act and I’m furious about it

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TRT 🇺🇦🇵🇸 @trt.bsky.social · 3h

A sickening and cruel reminder that Black people’s rights have always been a live question

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 2h

Interestingly, the guy on the left, Blake Neff, was fired by Tucker Carlson in 2020 because he was revealed to be gut bucket misogynist and white supremacist. www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/m...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

anyway every time someone argues that John Roberts is a Reasonable Moderate I want to scream

his lifelong goal is the reinstitution of segregation and he has almost achieved it, just because he doesn’t say the n word out loud during court arguments doesn’t make him any less of a racist

Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 7h

As a baby lawyer in the Reagan White House, John Roberts was writing memos arguing that violations of the Voting Rights Act should not be "too easy to prove." This is not just any legal issue that happens to come before him. This is his life's work. He just wants to finish what he started.

Inside John Roberts’ Decades-Long Crusade Against the Voting Rights Act

Roberts remains at the center of an impassioned debate about voting rights in America.

www.politico.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 7h

“the constitution not only prohibits addressing racial discrimination, it requires it” seems about where we’re going to end up here and it is the most unbelievably depressing thing in the world

dismantle this court

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 8h

The fight here with Gorsuch and Kav vs Nelson is whether the "use" of race automatically means "discrimination" on the basis of race.

That's interesting to me, because it's basically the white folks telling on themselves. They cannot see a "use" of race that isn't synonymous with discrimination.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 4h

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

my kingdom for an edit button on posts that start doing numbers before you see the mistake

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

like I just don't think "they were always like this" is a particularly useful framing for this stuff because the GOP of Trump is meaningfully different than the GOP of Romney even if both are awful and we need to actually deal with the real world consequences of what they're becoming

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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