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I used to be on the other site now I’m here. For some reason not really interested in divulging personal information online these days. GOOD TIMES. Thoughts are my own. I don't care if you follow me or not. I just need to vent

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday I asked my wife if she’d write a song about my ding-dong and discovered she was unaware of the Taylor Swift song or any of the discourse around it. I really wish people could’ve seen the look on her face

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 4h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 6h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 4h

I will note Holland Taylor took my side and I will always appreciate her for it. social media is weird and bad

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 4h

I still loved you on boyhood and severance is great!

foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 4h

I once criticized Cheryl Hines for being not very much ideologically different from her husband on the old site and somehow it got to Patricia Arquette who called me out and kinda ruined my life for a week. Anyway Patricia if you see this I’m waiting for my apology. www.thecut.com/article/cher....

Cheryl Hines Thinks RFK Jr. Is Doing a Great Job

During an appearance on The View to promote her new memoir, she insisted her husband spent many years “studying people’s health.”

www.thecut.com

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

I'm using healthy here to mean well enough to do that job. Not you know the eugenicist meaning.

They've had several politicians die in office and it fucked them. Why keep rolling that dice?

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 6h

I swear to god the politicians in this country are making me aegist. She turns 79 in December. If she won she'd be 80 when she took office. If she served her full term she'd leave office at 86. Why the fuck are they gambling that she'll live that long and be healthy and lucid?

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 4h

Every young republican i knew growing up talked exactly like this and guess what they still talk like that now

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 6h

I very much take them at their word. I mean, their “elders” and mentors and managers are currently governing like mass death is an important part of the platform.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 6h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 14h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 6h

Remember when you tried to tell us “the younger generations don’t think that way.” And “the young people will save us.” There are a lot of great, humane, decent, bright young people out there. But there are also a lot of these young people. And they’re not going anywhere.

Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 15h

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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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 5h

romney campaigned with trump and arpaio and made his whole message about how obama was the “other,” down to birther jokes and an entirely shameless, racist attack lying about welfare reform. is that not hitler-y enough for the hitler club

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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 5h

here’s how much the obama campaign—which drove the majority of romney’s bad press—held back: his church that banned black people until the 70s baptized obama’s dead mom and they didn’t say shit

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 11h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 5h

Nobody likes this shit

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

You don't have to think Harris hates LGBT people to realize that, by her own admission, she committed a homophobic act.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

as Kate Manne (and others) have pointed out, it's important to look at prejudice *from the viewpoint of the person being targeted.*

Pete was kept off the ticket because he's gay. from his perspective, that's homophobia. he lost out on an opportunity because of his identity.

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

a lot of the way homophobia works is by preemptively attributing homophobia to others. "I would love to sell you this house because I'm not racist, but the neighbors would object."

If you're LGBT identity keeps you off the ticket, that's homophobia. it doesn't matter what was in Harris' heart. 1

Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 21d

Seriously, if you actually believe (falsely) that @KamalaHarris is homophobic, as opposed to simply making a pure political calculation re: her analysis of the best running mate in order to optimize her chances of defeating Trump, just...WTF? bluevirginia.us/2025/09/tues... h/t @magi_jay

Magdi Jacobs: "Harris was describing the nation as she sees it, not the way she wants it to be. We all need to put a stop to these forced conflations; They put us on a path where we cannot tell the truth in pure descriptive terms w/out fearing moral condemnation of our normative values."

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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 9h

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 9h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 9h

I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 12h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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foofahrah.bsky.social @foofahrah.bsky.social · 9h

All my apes gone!!!

web3 is going just great @web3isgoinggreat.com · 11h

Reddit shuts down its NFT avatars project

August 28, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=reddit-shuts-down-nft-avatars

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 10h

THE DUMBEST ASSHOLE YOU EVER HEARD IN YOUR LIFE: Artificial general intelligence is just around the corner. I’m going to develop it. I’m afraid of it.

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ceej @ceej.online · 11h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Zach Rabiroff @zachrabiroff.com · 11h

Great news! We have built the Blackmail Machine from the classic sci-fi short story, "Help, The Blackmail Machine Is Selling My Sex Dreams to Stephen Miller"

The Verge @theverge.com · 16h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

Just trying to imagine what Republicans would’ve done if, say, the head of the California Democratic Party were accused of rape, while one of the state’s Democratic congressmen has his career ended by sex trafficking allegations and a second juggled multiple allegations of sexual harassment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

(taps mic)

“Florida Keys Party”

Florida's GOP power couple is embroiled in scandal

House report on former Rep.
Matt Gaetz reveals rampant sexual misconduct, drug use

Exclusive: Top Florida
GOP official was convicted in probe into his romantic involvement with
inmate during his time as jail employee

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against
Rep. Cory Mills

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 10h

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