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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 5m

[Nuremberg trials] "They're just children."

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 8m

12 year-old Black kids are put on trial as adults

35 year-old raving Nazis are "kids"

Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 1h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Ward Sutton @wardsutton.bsky.social · 17m

FREE DOWNLOAD of my artworks for the NO KINGS protests this weekend! Print your own signs!
I also have signed prints and shirts, etc, available.
All links at my linktree: linktr.ee/wardsutton

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 16m

their school's only three years so there's huge gaps in their education

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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 6h

“The video is very short, making it clear that the choice of lyrics was the intentional focus. Viewers are obviously meant to hear the antisemitic aspects, since it’s more or less the only audio in the 13 seconds being presented. “

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 6h

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

gizmodo.com

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 30m

my phone autocorrected “our government” to “known enemy” and that feels right.

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Samhain Goldstein @goldstein.bsky.social · 22m

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 21m

insane the merit badges you earn in my job

Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 28m

a boy found a piece of glass poking through his shoe into his foot. I couldn't pull it through the bottom -couldn't even find it in the sole- so I tried to pull it through the inside. That didn't work, so I looked for tools in the teacher's stuff

had a hammer - used it to sand the glass shard dull.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 27m

I spent like 15-20 minutes walking around the class with my hand in his shoe trying to fix it. It was the morning, and I really didn't want him walking on that sharp glass all day.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 28m

a boy found a piece of glass poking through his shoe into his foot. I couldn't pull it through the bottom -couldn't even find it in the sole- so I tried to pull it through the inside. That didn't work, so I looked for tools in the teacher's stuff

had a hammer - used it to sand the glass shard dull.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 55m

I remember those, when the Action Cats were loosed on us all www.youtube.com/watch?v=6484...

Action Cats - Saturday Night Live

YouTube video by Saturday Night Live

www.youtube.com

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 56m

my favorite song Matt Berry has ever done, fwiw

Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 58m

that's when america was great again

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

I thought the 'net runs on demons

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

from the scene, when Berry's character is paid to play a part in the film - and can't refuse bc his ex-wife is ruthlessly demanding a pile of money from him. but Bill Burr would apparently have no problems doing it www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJGO...

Toast of London - Beneath Me

YouTube video by Daryl Brown

www.youtube.com

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

Matt Berry's "Toast of London" having an episode where an oil oligarch pays Brits to make a movie about the prosecution and hanging of Prince Philip

seems more likely to happen in America now, but about Jimmy Carter or something

🔪🔪🔪bryan 🔪 🔪 🔪 @murderxbryan.bsky.social · 1h

Bill Burr and Whitney Cummings are about to get a sitcom

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Toronto Star @thestar.com · 2h

The leaked Young Republican group chat included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers.

The U.S. vice president accused those pushing for consequences of “pearl clutching.”

JD Vance dismisses bipartisan outrage over racist and offensive Young Republican group chat

The leaked group chat included racist language, jokes about rape and flippant commentary on gas chambers. The U.S. vice president accused those pushing for consequences of "pearl clutching."

www.thestar.com

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

this hits different as it becomes increasingly likely that I go to prison (or get killed) for peacefully resisting.

"sooner or later god's gonna cut you down". yeah.

getting hit by the system for resisting needs to be a badge of honor, or at least a rite of passage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJlN...

Johnny Cash - God's Gonna Cut You Down (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO

www.youtube.com

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

being a dedicated civil servant in a dystopia means getting multiple voices in your head representing different points-of-view like Harry Du Bois

Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

"wait - why am I not hearbroken rn??" "oh, right, because I'm still just in problem-solving mode. I'll probably be fucked-up this evening"

but then there it was, 100' further back, where I'd forgotten I'd parked it

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

I hope you're not claustrophobic because the walls are closing in on us

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1h

Man in High Castle vibes

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

most of the ghosts in Ghostbusters were harmless, unlike ice terrorists

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Hunter @hunterub.bsky.social · 1h

There's literally no reason for Congress to exist if any random freak in the presidential orbit can nullify laws and seize federal funds. All of this is plainly illegal, but Mike Johnson leads the most corrupt Congress in US history (and by a wide margin.)

Reuters @reuters.com · 6h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

they couldn't imagine automatic weapons, let alone either World War, the Cold War, TV, the internet, smart phones (I mean, or even just phones, but y'know)

or all the shit that made the gop go insane

or the totalitarianism that would inform everyone in & behind maga

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 1h

"wait - why am I not hearbroken rn??" "oh, right, because I'm still just in problem-solving mode. I'll probably be fucked-up this evening"

but then there it was, 100' further back, where I'd forgotten I'd parked it

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