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Karin Wanderer @karinwanderer.bsky.social · 15h

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Ink drawn outline of Usagi Yojimbo looking determined.

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 11h

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

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 5h

"The period of time during which White youth are not expected to be fully responsible for their actions can extend well into their late 20s. By contrast, Black children are often treated as adults by age 13, if not well before."

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Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.social · 12h

I do not think that will go as they think.

Folks in frog suits, people in Sunday Best, religious leaders in formal garb, and your mom/grandmother do not a clean pretext make.

And ICE brutality is pretty well established now.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 6h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Wilford Brimless @ordinarylunch.bsky.social · 12h

That’s their m.o. it’s nearly guaranteed if cops show up that’s when “the violence” starts.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 5h

"a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority"

The phrasing you're looking for is that he's suspending parts of the Constitution by decree.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 5h

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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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 6d

NEW: A federal judge has issued a temporary restraining order barring Chicago-area fed agents from several violent actions they’ve taken against journalists, activists and “religious practitioners” protesting ICE — including Rev. Black, a plaintiff in the case. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

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Karin Wanderer @karinwanderer.bsky.social · 6h

Before Trump's first term, the US was at the top of the list. Before his second term, we were in 7th place. Less than one year into his second term, we have fallen all the way to 12th place. Are we great again yet?

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 10h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Lee Wind @leewind.bsky.social · 6h

a win for the freedom to read! (and yes, don't be silent in the face of book banning!)

Preeti Chhibber @runwithskizzers.bsky.social · 8h

They restored all the titles & I want to point out that the reasoning was (stars are mine lol):

"... and in light of the *****overwhelming feedback from our community****** the Georgia HRRB State Steering Committee has voted to reinstate all 20..."

so, BE LOUD AS HELL & PROTECT THE RIGHT TO READ

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Spliff Star @baylynrose.bsky.social · 8h

First time I was ever threatened by a cop, I was 13. We were playing manhunt and I was it. Was looking under a car for my friends and the cop thought I was running from her. Threatened to tase me if I didn’t produce and ID.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 9h

The adultification of Black kids is the criminalization of Black kids, they see Black babies as full grown threats to justify coming down on them hard.

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Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayanadiamcdonald.com · 11h

I hate to be this person (lol no I don't) but ... we told you.

Like, a lot.

‘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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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

Suffice it to say, these are not kids. These are full grown ass adults, many of them in their late 20's and early 30's. At least one was a elected state senator in Vermont. And even if they were, it's never ok to make antisemitic and racist jokes like that.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 8h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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Misty K Snow @mistyksnow.bsky.social · 8h

He wants to start a war in Venezuela for no other reason than racism. This is some Hitler shit.

Anyone who thought Trump was anti war is a sucker.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 8h

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.

Trump threatens land strikes in Venezuela after blowing up boats

President Donald Trump said he was looking at military strikes on land in Venezuela after weeks of targeting boats off the country's coast.While speaking to reporters at the White House on Wednesday, Trump insisted that the U.S. Coast Guard could not effectively stop drug traffickers."We've been doi...

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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 8h

This is exactly why I started researching how we introduce each successive generation to the fact that this was a slaveholding nation through picturebooks and elementary curriculum.

I was going to write a book about it (still may), but Nikole Hannah-Jones' 1619 Project did SUCH great work on this.

Jules of Liberty @greeneyedmonster13.bsky.social · 8h

For real. I honestly think a lot of that is because of how the Civil Rights Movement was taught in schools. “Rosa Parks, MLK, and Malcolm X marched and made some speeches, then the Civil Rights Act was passed and racism went away” basically sums up how we were taught in the ‘80s. Heads, meet sand.

Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 8h

It's really weird to have been a teenager or 20-something in the 1990s and then say in middle age with your entire chest "racism was solved back then, then it was brought back."

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 8h

the government needs to stay shut down until the authoritarianism is meaningfully constrained or Republicans break the filibuster

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h

NEW: With Attorney General Pam Bondi next to him, Trump declares “deranged” former Special Counsel Jack Smith — who investigated the president’s role in the Jan. 6 attack — a “criminal” and said he hoped someone would investigate him, as well as other former DOJ officials.

With AG Bondi Next To Him, Trump Says ‘Deranged’ Jack Smith Must be Investigated

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

this ballroom is the best evidence that trump doesn’t intend to leave

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 8h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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Joshua Moore @joshuamoore.com · 10h

This is a really fucking good and thorough read on such an asinine incident. I only know of Piker (I have zero interest in political/culture streamers, even progressive ones) but the fact that this became such “a thing” is troubling.

TL;DR: No amount of truth will ever stop determined liars.

Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 10h

The Hasan Piker dog collar incident shows that proponents of the surveillance state, like Larry Ellison, who claimed that mass video surveillance would lead to more accountability, are catastrophically wrong.

Hasan Piker and the Future No One Is Ready For

The backlash that Piker is facing shows the consequences of a world where everyone is constantly being recorded and our internet is built to reward outrage and controversy.

www.usermag.co

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 7h

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 9h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 7h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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