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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 15h

This is the GOP brand now.
This and the Young Republicans chat.

A brand this tarnished, smeared with this much shit of ugliness and cruelty and hate and spite should be slinking into extinction. Yet they wield enormous power and millions support it.

My brain cannot process.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 19h

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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BronSays @bronsays.bsky.social · 3d

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"A prominent anti-DEI campaigner appointed by Meta in August as an adviser on AI bias has spent the weeks since his appointment spreading disinformation about shootings, transgender people, vaccines, crime, and protests."

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 11d

Thank you for writing with such clarity on this. Brilliant.

E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 11d

Such a clear eyed piece. Brilliant. If only more politicians and legacy media could think speak and write this way we may be in a better place.

E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 23d

"Find me one!" -you know. who.

E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 23d

Yup. (JM has actually been more vocal on this during DT 2.0 than previously.) It's astonishing to watch what corporate media has done / become in the past 10 yrs. I hope now, w all the hoopla abt the latest takes of that journalist who shall not be named, it's becoming more apparent to the masses.

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jpharris2.bsky.social @jpharris2.bsky.social · 25d

Saturday morning thoughts from Josh Marshall

The Age of Monsters talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-a...

The Age of Monsters

We live in an age of monsters: Elon Musk, Donald Trump, the...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you!!! Ezra Klein does not represent the majority of D voters or D party. Maybe he represents some older establishment type leading members, or the DNC think tanks, but I'm not even sure about that.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 27d

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 14

Even a broken clock....

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 14

What are traditional values?

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thank you for doing this work.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 12

Wow.

E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 12

Thanks a lot father of so and so for foiling the plan to botch this investigation for a bit longer. At least until the figure of a transgender black person wearing an Ultra Woke Radical Antifa Fighting for Open Borders t-shirt is forever etched in people's minds.

Damn you!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Sep 10

General reminder that people who engage in political assassinations often have pretty muddled world views.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · Sep 12

Remember: If it turns out he’s a leftist, that indicates a pervasive problem of violence on the left. If it turns out he’s a groyper, that means nothing whatsoever and he will disappear from the news cycle immediately.

Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · Sep 12

the suspected Charlie Kirk shooter has been identified as 22 year old Tyler Robinson from Utah

very little in his family socials other than that Tyler was very online and dressed up on Halloween specifically to emulate this meme

knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultur...

Facebook post by Tyler Robinson's mother of him dressed as a gopnik meme, wearing a track suit and squatting on the ground

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Kim McCauley @kimischilling.bsky.social · Sep 10

Extremely irresponsible for the governor of Utah to say in a press conference that he has no doubt Kirk's murder was a political assassination when the police do not have a suspect in custody and have not named a primary suspect

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 9

It's AI, apparently. Half the "featured guests" listed are The King's court jesters in fact, so I guess AI messed that up. (Em HAS been outspoken about hating that degenerate though.)

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 9

At this point nothing would be convincing ever again out of the mouths of any R as far as I'm concerned. They have collectively agreed to bury America under a vomit of nonstop lying 24/7. This is their strategy. W media's help they succeeded in creating an alternate world made up entirely of lies.

E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 9

That's what I'm talking about.

Buy one get one free.

NYT takedown and Mamdani ad all for one low price.

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · Sep 8

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Sep 8

Couldn't read after a few excerpts, made queasy by the dripping arrogance, nonstop hyperbole & self indulgent punditry of the whole thing. These types are not serious thinkers. They're sm creations driven strictly by a desperate need to show off their own "cleverness." Not a trace of humanity here.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Jul 29

Yep. Printing garbage in serious font. Contributing to harming the world.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Jul 27

Ok, so another fascism appeaser. Next.

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E. Balint @eb77.bsky.social · Jul 14

10 years of this shit. Cancel the NYT.

Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · Jul 14

I'm so sick of these gaslighting op-eds. They recur like clockwork specifically because rich turds with agendas hire out PR firms to get this shit "placed" to make it appear like there's popular interest in it. See also those articles about creepy "pronatalist" couples. It's all just marketing

A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · Jul 13

Wild that right-wing families somehow aren’t to blame for their longstanding and systematic snubbing of queer and lefty children.