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Phil Seiler

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Phil Seiler @javamanphil.bsky.social · Apr 14

Really enjoying living in a time when all those people that assured me for years they "would've done something" about Nazi totalitarianism continue to do nothing at all.

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 2h

"House slave."
Think about this for a brief moment. Think of just how fecal and vicious a man has to use such a term in this context. This is leadership by the absolute worst of us, the most vile trash that we could scrape from the gutter and elevate to govern a nation.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16h

😡😡😡😡

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Phil Seiler @javamanphil.bsky.social · 1h

I see what you did there.

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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 · 9h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Jesse Mostipak @kierisi.bsky.social · 2h

one of the most memorable experiences I had in college was asking my organic chemistry professor a question and him saying "I don't know - let's find out!" and then talking me through a lab experiment.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education.

We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 17h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18h

The New York Times should hire someone who understands how laws work.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18h

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

nyti.ms

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 19h

between this and the papers please news i am starting to wonder just a bit what is going on

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 20h

3/ Really think the royals need to kick Andrew all the way out: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t know exactly when I had sex with Prince Andrew for the third time, but I do know the location: a 72-acre island Epstein owned in the US Virgin Islands. The private sanctuary, right next to Saint Thomas island, was called Little Saint James, but Epstein liked to call it “Little Saint Jeff’s”. I also know that it was not just the two of us this time; it was an orgy. “I was around 18,” I said in a sworn declaration in 2015. “Epstein, Andy, and approximately eight other young girls and I had sex together. The other girls all appeared to be under the age of 18 and didn’t really speak English. Epstein laughed about how they couldn’t really communicate, saying they are the easiest girls to get along with.”

Since I gave that account, Epstein’s pilot has said in a deposition that a coded notation (“AP”) that he made on his flight log for 4 July 2001, referred to Prince Andrew. He said that Epstein, the prince, another woman and I flew from Saint Thomas that day back to Palm Beach. I guess it’s possible that the orgy I remember occurred in the days leading up to that flight, which would mean I was still 17. I’ll probably never know the date for certain. What I do know, because Epstein told me, is that Jean-Luc Brunel, the French modelling agent who was also in attendance, supplied the other girls who took part.

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Steven W. Thrasher is finishing The Overseer Class @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 21h

Something I have noticed and enjoyed about Diane Keaton and Patricia Routledge, who both recently passed: neither married, and didn’t seem to think less of herself for it. Keaton adopted kids, Routledge did not—but in reflections on her life, neither woman is judged as a wife or mother—very rare!

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 1d

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 1d

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Phil Seiler @javamanphil.bsky.social · 22h

Or maybe she meant he'd like to own and rape slaves? Because that seems possible.

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23h

look at these fuckin losers

ICE in full military cosplay arresting a guy in giraffe cosplay

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Phil Seiler @javamanphil.bsky.social · 22h

These people are so incredibly weird and we should never stop pointing that out.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Brooke Rollins: "Charlie Kirk is in a way the modern day Thomas Jefferson."

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 23h

I am 100% certain that J.D. Vance's own chat history is filled with pro-Hitler shit. Would bet my life on it. bsky.app/profile/theb...

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 1d

Eric Trump, in three different right-wing media interviews over the past week, accused Jack Smith of "planting" evidence obtained in the Aug. 2023 Mar-a-Lago raid.

Problem: Smith didn't become special counsel until three months after that search. www.mediamatters.org/eric-trump/e...

Eric Trump attacks Jack Smith for “planting” evidence during Mar-a-Lago search that predated Smith’s service as special counsel

www.mediamatters.org

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Phil Seiler @javamanphil.bsky.social · 1d

a man in a suit and tie says i don t think about you at all

Alt: Don Draper from Mad Men, in a suit and tie, says i don’t think about you at all

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 1d

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

broooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Link Must Be Reinstated @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 1d

No I don’t, you chucklefucks, I want Norma Jean to be able to rest in peace without a bunch of technoghouls turning her corpse into a marionette.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

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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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 1d

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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