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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 1m

They absolutely did. Young Americans for Freedom is the one I encountered most in the College Dems at Penn State, but I’m sure there were others. The YAFers are running things now. The Republican Party is irredeemable at this point.

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Concrete Cowboy @damanfu.bsky.social · 10m

ICE is throwing tear gas at infants; we are long past rehabilitation.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 9m

Yeah, that’s true. I’m in about thirty different servers.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 11m

Fair.

Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 25m

If they’re not reading news, watching news, watching tv, or using social media, what are they doing?

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 31m

Given the importance of social media in reaching that age cohort, and the fact that most influencers only talk about things that get them paid in some way, I’d say it’s the lack of paid influencers.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 36m

I was always glad to see him show up in a role because you knew you’d be getting something good. He showed up as the big bad at the end of the first season of Leverage and just knocked it out of the park.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 1h

Nvidia is paying OpenAI to buy Nvidia chips. The money is going out of one pocket and into another.
This "vendor financing" is what has analysts concerned about AI reaching bubble territory. Bryan McMahon explains what's going on.
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 21h

This story ends with some of the first concrete indications right wing extremists are responding to DHS' ICE recruitment drive. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

In the New Trump Era, the Proud Boys Are ‘Not Apologizing Anymore’

To hear him tell it, Gavin McInnes’ recent return to the site...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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Ken Burnside @kenburnside.bsky.social · 2h

This is why you never vote for Republicans at the state level.

Philadelphia Inquirer @inquirer.com · 2h

Public schools across Pennsylvania have missed more than $3 billion in payments from the state as the budget impasse stretches into its fourth month.

It’s led to layoffs and dwindling reserves.

Loans and layoffs: Missing $3 billion in state payments, Pa.’s public schools implore lawmakers to end budget impasse

Without a state budget, no money can flow to Pennsylvania's 500 districts, including the billions in federal dollars that first pass through the state’s coffers before being sent to districts.

www.inquirer.com

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 2h

Honestly, keep it up. I think the conversation may be useful for people.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 2h

Oh, the White House absolutely lied. And the justices may have varied in their thoughts on effectuate, but it wasn’t part of the decision. All that said, Schumer should have set the red line at defying the courts generally. I suspect he didn’t so he wouldn’t be forced to act.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 2h

How much weapons production for Ukraine has yet to come online?

Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 2h

It wasn’t. The ruling was largely around the meaning of the word “effectuate” and the White House ran with that. That was why they kept insisting that he wasn’t in U.S. custody, so the best they could do to effectuate his release was to ask nicely. SCOTUS has been complicit, so no defiance.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 3h

The full ruling left the order in place, but sent it back to the district court for clarification. No deadline or demand was actually made by SCOTUS. SCOTUSBlog has a pretty good summary of it. www.scotusblog.com/cases/case-f...

Noem v. Abrego Garcia

www.scotusblog.com

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 4h

Has he defied the Supreme Court? He’s defied other courts, but the hacks on the Supreme Court have given him essentially everything he asks for. No need to defy something you’ve captured.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 11h

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

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

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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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 14h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 15h

an american citizen, mother of three, who was playing the clarinet in a peaceful protest outside the city has been nabbed by ICE, held in a jail across state lines, without bail nor any specific charges.

i mean, yikes?

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 11h

And it never happens. Here in Philly, our incumbent progressive District Attorney, Larry Krasner won his primary in a walk. His opponent, Pat Dugan, accepted the endorsement of Republicans from a write-in effort and is running again in the general right now.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 12h

Feds have got until midnight tonight to take down the fence in front of the Broadview ICE facility, per a recent ruling from district judge LaShonda Hunt.

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 12h

Not sure what’s up but this flatbed with what appears like more fence materials has pulled up outside Broadview.

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Jared Cram @jscram3254.bsky.social · 12h

As do the centrists. For example, when are we getting the Mamdani endorsement from Jeffries?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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