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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 25m

I think about this a lot.

jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 14h

when all is said and done it looks reasonably likely that bin laden will have taken down not just the us but the entire west

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 45m

Much like Tim Walz did before a bunch of six-figure consultants told him to STFU.

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 50m

But that's not what Tobin and Squee said!

Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 54m

Hey baby, do you "like the vehicle"?

/wink wink
//nudge nudge

Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 1h

DON'T GIVE IT AWAY!

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1h

the brunchlords were so so immeasurably butthurt by a tiny fractional percentage shift in power toward labor during covid they decided the only sensible course of action was to wage scorched earth warfare against the the entirety of progress

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 1h

Call home on your sister's birthday.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 15h

“This stuff doesn't just permeate the culture of conservatism at this moment. It is the culture, by and large. These are ‘JD Vance Republicans,’” says Chris Hayes on the leaked GOP text messages praising Hitler—and the vice president downplaying it.

'Kids telling edgy jokes’? Hayes SHREDS Vance’s defense of racist GOP group chat

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 1h

Don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy man's paint.

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Eric Klinenberg @ericklinenberg.bsky.social · 2h

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill.

Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

JD Vance brushes off racist texts by adults in Republican group chat as ‘what kids do’

Vice-president downplays messages such as ‘I love Hitler’ in chat by 24 to 35-year-olds to ‘stupid jokes’

www.theguardian.com

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 2h

NEW: The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did.

We found more than 170 such incidents since the start of the second Trump administration. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes nearly 20 children, two of whom have cancer.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1h

Trying to imagine the furor if Democratic leadership had called the Tea Party protests "Hate America" protests. Every day a new lesson in how different the rules really are.

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 2h

I'm having the opposite experience. Sadness with no proximate cause.

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Nick Fleisher @nickfleisher.bsky.social · 6h

If the partisan shoe were on the other foot, removal of the OMB director would be a central demand for ending the shutdown

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 22h

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend.

What we have is an appropriations king.

Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING from PP

We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens*

The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied:

Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer

More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado

www.propublica.org/article/immi...

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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.

The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

www.propublica.org

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 2h

I'm up for the Hal convo. He sucks!

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Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 3h

As a Yankees fan, I've come to find this clip deeply depressing.

Jeremy @jabooby.bsky.social · 3h

Things are dire but at least we have this record.

Weathervanes

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

it hadn't even occurred to me, but: is Elon giving the Nazi data theft criminals access to government records DOGE stole? bsky.app/profile/tedd...

james @teddybrosevelt.bsky.social · 4h

giving the range of points of attack, you gotta wonder what sort of identity graph the doxxers have been given access to

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 5h

I mean, we don't have to guess how an outlet that sees this regime as a massive breach of public faith would cover it from the right. But pretty much every media outlet has moved to the right of Drudge.

NYT: White House Overhaul of Refugee System to Favor White People...
Swastika Flag in MAGA Rep's Office Sparks Probe...
UPDATE: 'I Love Hitler' Texts...

CHICAGO FIGHTS BACK
LA STATE OF EMERGENCY
ICE SLAUGHTERS FAMILY DOG
AGENTS HUNT IN WALGREENS
DOJ PUSHES FACEBOOK TO CENSOR
DRUGE REPORT

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 7h

ICE's military raids and masked kidnappings are resonating deeply/negatively in the cultural spaces we keep hearing Dems need to reach: Manosphere, Joe Rogan, country music, disengaged voters. That's rare and it gives Dems a big opening to engage.

Thoughts on this:

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 6h

Saw some folks saying they didn’t believe Greta Thunberg had been tortured by the Israelis so here is her account. Itamar Ben-Gvir personally oversaw it.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 18h

The idea that the Reconstruction Amendments were for everybody is asinine.

They’re all lives matter-ing Reconstruction.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 20h

The Supreme Court’s majority right wing indicated in oral arguments that they think racism is over on the same day that the vice president defended the “I love Hitler” guy, and that the NYT reported that the current administration plans to accept only white, English-speaking refugees.

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