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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1h

Quite a day.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 10h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Jenny YES! HA HA HA...YES! @jennyhayes.bsky.social · 1h

Call the Capitol Police

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1h

That’s weird. I wonder how that got there

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 3h

Border Patrol Posts Instagram Propaganda Video Featuring Antisemitic Slurs

The video was pinned to Border Patrol's Instagram Reels.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 1h

we know MIller's truest feelings

but he definitely should share them

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

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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Ward Q. Normal (he/him) @wardqnormal.bsky.social · 1h

I miss the days of my youth, back when there was an unspoken universal agreement that we all hated Nazis.

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Kathryn BrightBOO! 👻 @kebrightbill.bsky.social · 1h

The staffer is for sure the one who put it up in his cubicle, and they're all playing dumb now that it was discovered.

Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 1h

the right is accusing the clarinetist of all kinds of stuff. she just played clarinet. and they hauled her off to vancouver for some reason

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

Korol is a US citizen. Her family hasn’t heard from her since she was taken, public charges haven’t been released—what crime did she even commit? 2nd-Degree Woodwinding?—and there has been no explanation for her “renditioning” across state lines.

We’ve moved into a new phase of Trump lawlessness.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 3h

Funny, it sounds like she knows exactly how it works around there.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

FOX: Grijalva says you're afraid of her being the 218th signer to the Epstein petition, that if she was a Republican you would've sworn her in. What do you say?

MIKE JOHNSON: I say bless her heart. She's a representative-elect, she doesn't know how it works around here.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler.com · 2h

It presumably reflects the values of at least one of his staff.

Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 2h

my thoughts on the nazi GOP text group are roughly what i mentioned in the 1st part of this essay. identity with the GOP has become increasingly correlated w/ "ethnic antagonism" — this type of rhetoric is sadly to be expected as you make GOP identity stronger

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/how-trump-...

When identity politics Trumps the Constitution

The First Amendment is the latest casualty of the Republican Party's identity politics, and Trump's cult of personality. What can stop him?

www.gelliottmorris.com

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 2h

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h

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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Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 2h

"A federal judge ruled Wednesday to temporarily block the Trump administration from laying off workers during the shutdown."

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Trump Administration Temporarily Blocked From Government Layoffs During Shutdown

The ruling came after the government revealed it had mistakenly laid off thousands more employees than intended.

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charlie 'BATbrain' SPOOKghetti 🐀 @chrrlie.bsky.social · 2h

my MOM talks to me about the frog

every time i talk to her she will have some new story about the portland frog man she saw on Facebook or something

and then she'll turn her phone around to me and there is a video of the frog dancing under a hail of pepperballs

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 2h

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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ghost malone ergo propter malone @proptermalone.bsky.social · 2h

we're going to have to prosecute this stuff

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

The mechanism through which Trump is paying the troops is the most blatant large Antideficiency Act (ADA) violation in US history. It's also clearly willful. No one has been charged under the ADA before, but violations carry a two-year jail term. The statute of limitations is five years.

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 3h

What the fuck are we doing?

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Kate Riga @kateriga.bsky.social · 2h

Funny moment as they're now talking discovery. Oregon says we need records of internal WH discussions if they helped Trump decide to mobilize Guard. DOJ tries to say politely there were no internal discussions, the extent of Trump's 'deliberation' was totally public

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ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 4h

The secret weapon of all 50something white lib moms is that the opposition often mistake us for one of them and it’s horribly embarrassing for them when they discover how fiercely we oppose everything they stand for. Use that power, ladies.

ClutchScience (Jen Phillips) @clutchscience.bsky.social · 4h

My 57 year old white mom ass is going to be out in the thick of it all day so feel free to come at me for being antifa because I AM

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

Dawg _what_

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 4h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 2h

Core to playing this down is pretending that "Young Republicans" aren't 40 years old with top positions in both the party and government. One's a state senator.

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 3h

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 9h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4h

some colleagues have suggested to me that shame is irrelevant because the people on the "other side" don't know or care what "we" (on whatever "this side") think of them. I have...not gotten that impression

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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