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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 17h

I say crazy shit in texts all the time, but I live by one rule: Never write anything anywhere unless you are ready for the entire world to see it. Of course, I'm also not a Nazi or a racist so it's a little easier for me.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 20h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘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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Jason Wilson 🇺🇦 @whizzo.bsky.social · 17h

As recipes for disaster go this is quite comprehensive.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 17h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

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Ellie D @ellied5.bsky.social · 16h

NGL, did not have Newsmax on my anti-authoritarian bingo card.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d

Surely this will trickle down to workers, right?

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 4d

Corporate income taxes are $77 billion lower than last year, primarily due to the Republican tax cuts for the rich.

itep.org/trump-tax-la...

Well, That Was Fast: Trump Tax Law’s New Corporate Breaks are Already Worsening the Deficit

Corporate income taxes for the fiscal year that ended in September are $77 billion lower than in the previous year, a 15 percent drop.

itep.org

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 4d

This is a big deal.

TechCrunch @techcrunch.com · 4d

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors | TechCrunch

NSO Group confirmed to TechCrunch that an unnamed group of American investors has taken “controlling ownership” of the surveillance tech maker.

techcrunch.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Federal agents aren’t trying to keep the peace. They want violence to escalate so that Trump can declare martial law.

They shot a reverend in the head with pepper balls while he was praying in front of an ICE facility. If that doesn’t tell you where we are as a country, nothing will.

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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 4d

📌BREAKING: MIT just politely told Trump to go fuck himself:
"... the premise of (your) the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone."

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Ellie D @ellied5.bsky.social · 4d

And when this all comes crashing down and obliterates the stock market there will be cries of, "But how could we have known?" and "Nobody could have foreseen this" and everyone currently pointing and shouting about the obvious bubble/scam going on will be quietly ignored...again.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

AI companies are spending billions on deals with each other, which boost their value.

This has helped twenty billionaires tied to AI add $450B to their fortunes in 2025.

Meanwhile, an MIT study found that 95% of companies using AI haven't seen returns on investment.

Be warned.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 5d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Doug Gordon @brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 4d

Come for the criticism of Trump, stay for the brutal takedown of Cuomo.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Mamdani: "Trump ran on 3 promises - punishment of his political enemies, easing cost of living crisis, & mass deportation. It's that second promise that brought so many to his campaign. And yet he's unable & unwilling to deliver bc he's beholden to the very billionaires that are profiting off of it"

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Pam Keith @pamkeithdc.bsky.social · 8d

Greta Thunberg has more courage & moral clarity than any world leader I have ever seen.

Bar none.

Period.

That tiny 22 year old is often accused of being annoying, but what she is, is unyielding to moral ambiguity. If it’s wrong, she says so until someone listens.

She deserves the Nobel Prize

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Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 12d

Avery Brooks is 77 today

Will BOO-rows 🖖🍞🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · Nov 25

Fuckin love Avery Brooks

"People have referred to Deep Space Nine as this darker thing, in my mind it resembles us... Deep Space Nine was talking about homelessness and terrorism and all of these things. Gender identity. That's us." - Avery Brooks, The Fifty-Year Mission: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Star Trek

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13d

Two Senate Dems and one Independent voted with Republicans to pass the CR yesterday:

• Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nevada)

• John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania)

• Angus King (I-Maine, who caucuses with Democrats)

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Ellie D @ellied5.bsky.social · 13d

Just pledged, thanks for sharing this I never go on Kickstarter anymore and would've totally missed out!

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 14d

Good morning.

The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you.

Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 19d

Just a reminder: democrats can’t shut down the government. Republicans hold the majority.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 19d

It’s because so much social interaction is flattened to online spaces where that’s the worst you can be.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 19d

I feel like a lot of our political moment stems down to tens of millions of Americans literally incapable of imagining something worse than someone being annoying.

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 19d

I'll say it again: no good people still support him.

That's just how this is.

If this offends you, look in the mirror.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/no-good-pe...

No, Good People Don't Still Support Him

Everyone believes they're essentially a good human being.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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Ellie D @ellied5.bsky.social · 20d

Oh the ketchup is going to be flying in the White House tonight.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20d

Arizona just made Trump sweat: Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a razor-thin House seat and she’ll be the deciding signature to force a vote to release Jeffrey Epstein’s files 🔥

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES‼️

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Ari Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 20d

Can't help but notice that the media breathlessly reporting on the messages that shooters write on their bullets seems to have been followed by a surge of shooters writing messages on bullets

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 21d

Elias is always on “team fight”, he said, because “as long as there is a legal fight to be had, we are going to have it.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The Democratic superlawyer Trump can’t silence: ‘We are in the break-glass moment of American history’

Elias has long defended high-profile Democrats and election law, resisting Trump’s crackdown on his opponents

www.theguardian.com

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