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priscilla page @priscillapage.bsky.social · 9h

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 11h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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‘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.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 5h

Blurry-eyed and blurry-brained at 3am, I misread your name as "a slice!" and now I want to buy a watermelon.

Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 11h

Out-pedant-ing the pedants? I like your style.

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 14h

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 15h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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BYCTOM @byctom.bsky.social · 21h

this is the most like a mike tyson's punch out guy i have ever seen anyone look

Brewers outfielder Sal Frelick making an intense face as he prepares to throw the ball

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 14h

All my Snoos, gone

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 14h

Me! Me! I controverse! Genocide IS a war crime, so, grammatically, that's similar to saying "yes, the movie Beethoven DOES star a dog, but it also stars a Saint Bernard." Your word choice of "but" is controversial because it is not the best conjunction to connect those two thoughts! J'accuse!

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 14h

Burying the lede here. He also said Charlie Kirk didn't love his enemies even though people kept telling him that and that he was quicker than Charlie Kirk when it came to dodging bullets.

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 14h

President Trump criticized what he cast as “radical left violence” as he awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

Trump Assails Violence From Left, Awards Kirk Medal of Freedom

President Donald Trump criticized what he cast as “radical left violence” as he awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, honoring the conservative activist whose death spurred an administration effort targeting left-leaning groups.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 19h

You might think Ryan is exaggerating but I used to go to a regular dinner that gradually got taken over by young Republican staffers and I promise you he is not.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 19h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Matt Orion @orionjack.bsky.social · 17h

Tuesdays aren’t the same without him

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 15h

If your definition of "tankie" doesn't involve a sweeping image of the Communists' tanks rolling into view across a hilly landscape at dawn while majestic music begins to soar then your definition sucks and I don't want it

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 16h

If neither of those men had died of heart attacks within eighteen months of the release of this tape they'd be VERY cross being written about in this way.

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 16h

Lads, I don’t think “We were fooled into doing genocide by mean fascists who outwitted us effortlessly” is a winner

JOE BIDEN HAD A PEACE DEAL IN PLACE, BUT THEN NETANYAHU AND TRUMP MET IN MAR-A-LAGO AND DECIDED THAT KEEPING THE WAR GOING WOULD BENEFIT THEM BOTH.
TEN MONTHS LATER, THEY'RE SIGNING THE EXACT DEAL BIDEN BROKERED.
DON'T BE FOOLED!

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 16h

Counter-offer: anyone complaining about use of the word "tankie" should be forced to get in a tank and liberate me from my fascist government.

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Adrian's Digital Basement @adriansdigitalbasement.com · 16h

I made this helpful picture to help you identify Mac 128/512/Plus keyboard cables.

How to identify a Macintosh keyboard cable

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 19h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 17h

(Point of that second sentence being that there's literally no advantage to FPGA over software emulation for those kinds of things)

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Oliver Ghingold @emceebois.bsky.social · 17h

I would accept going as far as more powerful arcade platforms based on that generation of gaming hardware, eg. Naomi, Naomi 2, PS2, GameCube, Triforce, etc.

Everything after that, including the OG XBox, used a USB stack for controller input and had an OS layer between the hardware and games anyways

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 23h

Janet Mills has announced a run for U.S. Senate. If elected, she would be 85 at the end of her first time.

If you care about democracy, generational renewal, and leadership that actually serves working people—You should want new leadership in Graham Platner.
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