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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 2h

Screenprinting to keep this live after LC deactivates (assume he's ok with that, if not let me know)

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Paul Tree @paultree10.bsky.social · 2h

The fact that — with only a tiny handful of exceptions — every athlete, celebrity, journalist, commentator, pundit, business person, company, and politician in the whole world still happily uses twitter after everything is…well, it is.

Cadence ”Port Game Use Crane” Andrysiak @supportourpoops.bsky.social · 3h

yeah we should probably cut the cord with folks who still post on there tbh

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 3h

This will happen, and it will largely require strident condemnation from the people to whom that word refers. We won't be able to really make it land unless the people affected by it are the ones leading the charge on that.

Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 3h

Feels grimly inevitable that one of these guys just says the n word in the open and whether they get away with it will be an inflection point.

Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3h

Hakeem Jeffries posted pictures of two Rep. Members posing with “Young Republicans” who were part of a racist text thread (as reported by Politico).

In response, Mike Davis (well-connected in Trump World & on the Hill) called Jeffries a “house slave” for George Soros - proving Jeffries’ point.

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 4h

It’s funny to see Olivia Reingold complain about her ex-friend who comes from “media royalty” when she herself is media royalty. Dad was NBC Asia top brass and then bought six local CBS stations. She’s a Columbia legacy, and Michael Barbaro interviewed her for a WaPo puff piece when she was 10.

By Michael Barbaro
Celia and Olivia Reingold, owners of a District-based toy company, registered for the world's biggest toy show this year, convinced they would make strong connections across the industry. With more than 80 products, their company, they reasoned, was ready to play ball with the toy business's biggest players.
The toy fair's organizers didn't see it that way.
It turns out Celia, 13, and Olivia, 10, are too young to attend. Citing a longstanding policy, organizers of American International Toy Fair said it does not allow anyone under 18 to enter the conference, which ended yesterday in New York.
The girls said they are baffled by the policy.
"I don't think it's very fair," Olivia said in an interview yesterday. "We are managing our own business."

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 5h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 5h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Adam @metallizard107.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t think horseshoe theory is a universal principle or anything, but the vaccine denialism from that crowd is a few steps away from RFK Jr shit

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 6h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 6h

Very forced flailing “lol”. You painted yourself into this corner where you are denying that the Nazism racism etc isn’t more overt now and that hasn’t lead to markedly worse consequences in materiel terms. You’re stuck.

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Damned Frightening Robot @supremerobo.bsky.social · 9h

If DHS logs from 2020 are reflective of anything it's that these guys are all on so many steroids and uppers that they'll hype themselves into believing anything. They probably are prepping for a mass armed uprising

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah that’s a distinction that actually leads to an immeasurably significant difference in material consequences lol. You weren’t seeing “US college student kidnapped off street by masked unidentified guys in van for writing op-ed criticizing Israel”. How do people not get that?

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 6h

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

Hey I wonder if things are significantly worse if people feel free enough to display a swastika in public. Also I’m gonna pretend I can’t tell the difference between someone pointing out this obvious thing and saying “the bush administration was good”

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Il Pomodoro @dabenner.bsky.social · 7h

[billy Joel voice] Ezra Klein, Polycule, Bari's got a pretend school.

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 9h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 1d

The potential for shit like this is one reason why groups like LUCE in Massachusetts urge people to report sightings to them so they and their partners can directly warn people. A decentralized network is a lot harder to shut down. No big tech company will be in ally in the fight against ICE.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

trib.al

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah agreed there were a lot of harbingers for the party getting worse.

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 8h

Lying about what people are doing and saying to defend your indefensibly shitty friend.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 21h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 9h

If we were saying “John Ashcroft was good actually” then yeah sure but no that too backs up the point we’re making in terms of contrast w the current govt etc

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

There’s a superstitious aspect to the idea of thinking in comparative terms somehow negates the aspirational.

InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

Hey I wonder if things are significantly worse if people feel free enough to display a swastika in public. Also I’m gonna pretend I can’t tell the difference between someone pointing out this obvious thing and saying “the bush administration was good”

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

Yeah that’s a distinction that actually leads to an immeasurably significant difference in material consequences lol. You weren’t seeing “US college student kidnapped off street by masked unidentified guys in van for writing op-ed criticizing Israel”. How do people not get that?

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 17h

Adorable lil doggy weighing in

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 19h

I mention this a lot because it sounds unbelievable now but I distinctly remember hearing Ashcroft do Islamophobia PSA on the radio.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 21h

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 21h

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, @status.news has learned www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 23h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 1d

performance of obedience to the regime is more valuable to Jeff Bezos’ business interests than a profitable newspaper is and he’s laughing his ass off that people haven’t figured that out yet

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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InternetTheo @internettheo.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve probably regressed in ways tbh lol

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