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Colin @kolyin.bsky.social · 1d

Can you imagine what *didn't* get leaked? It has to be an incredibly ugly scene and a real political risk for even someone like Kris Kobach to cut one of the offenders loose.

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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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 1d

This is the FIFTH time Trump has carried out an illegal bombing in the Caribbean.

Using the military to execute alleged criminals with no due process or input from Congress is brazenly unconstitutional and damaging to our democracy.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

More of this, please.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Phil went full MAGA and tried to reinvent himself as a MAGA media mogul and culture warrior. Now his world is unraveling, his media company is laying off thousands and had to file for bankruptcy, and he's being sued for fraud. The whole plan is collapsing.

www.rawstory.com/dr-phil-trump/

Dr Phil faces 'total collapse' after MAGA alignment backfires massively: report

Dr. Phil McGraw's attempt to transition from daytime television personality to a politically aligned media mogul during Donald Trump's second presidential term has been marked by spectacular failure a...

www.rawstory.com

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Julie Kedzie (the veritable, venerable, verified julesk_fighter) @juliekedzie.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck ICE.

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Karlos the Frociaggine @karlosthefog.bsky.social · 2d

I still stand ten toes down on this statement even after I got death threats on Twitter about it. Writing off the south continues to birth resentment and a further divide that shouldn’t even be there. They want a division to make it easier to continue regressive bullshit. Stop. Falling. For. It.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.

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Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · 2d

In which John Oliver methodically unpacks how thin it is to claim you’re all about “the truth” when you’re only running essays don’t get properly fact-checked — and don’t hold up to even basic reporting scrutiny www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

my means are sane, my motive and my object mad

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 3d

Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 4d

“We can give $20 billion to Argentina but we can’t afford the CDC’s measles experts” is a hell of an argument

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3d

Every time someone makes me read something Peter Thiel said it’s like “Scrooge McDuck is Jesus Christ and Huey, Dewey, and Louie are Gabriel, Raphael, and Uriel and Daisy is Mary Magdalene and that’s why women voting has lowered American sperm count.”

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Julie Kedzie (the veritable, venerable, verified julesk_fighter) @juliekedzie.bsky.social · 3d

It really is the best, isn’t it? ❤️

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

History warned us about tyrants. Nobody warned us they’d be this dumb.

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Julie Kedzie (the veritable, venerable, verified julesk_fighter) @juliekedzie.bsky.social · 5d

Why does he care? He’ll be at his home in Florida.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 5d

Previous No Kings protests have been so peaceful that I've seen people on the far left complaining they're not actually accomplishing anything. They can send the guard out to "put down agitators," but if there aren't any, it's going to look really stupid and reactionary.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Sen. Roger Marshall: "October 18 is when the protest gets here. This will be a Soros paid-for protest for his professional protesters. The agitators show up. We'll have to get the National Guard out. Hopefully it will be peaceful. I doubt it."

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 5d

I will wreak that hate upon him.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6d

Okay this is a good headline

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Kayla B @queenofthesouth.bsky.social · 6d

Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 6d

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Victor @vicmrodriguez.bsky.social · 6d

I long for the day this shit ends, man. Every fucking day with these people. They flat out hate neurodivergent people, full stop.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

There’s a reason academics universally rejected the initial push to canonize Charlie Kirk as a saint devoted to free speech.

We know all too well that’s the exact opposite of reality.

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 6d

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6d

Are we great yet?

Mark Bray, a Rutgers University professor and expert on anti-fascist groups, is fleeing to Spain with his family due to death threats that stem from a campaign by Turning Point USA and other conservative groups to get him fired, falsely labeling him as an antifa member.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

Turn not thy back to the compass

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Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal @jayapal.house.gov · 6d

Last night, I received notification of the 19th death of a detained person in ICE custody since Trump took office.

ICE is detaining people, mostly in private, for-profit prisons that put profit over health. And now they have furloughed the safety inspectors. This is unacceptable.

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Constant Scream @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 7d

It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.

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