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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 9m

i've said for a while that Trump's whole selling point is basically giving people permission to be their worst selves

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 4h

two big things happened imo: Trump winning in 2016 apparently proved they could utterly wallow in all their worst instincts and still win, and Elon buying Twitter and turning it into a) the default conservative comms platform b) an openly Nazi sewer

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mapchick.bsky.social @mapchick.bsky.social · 1h

Too many GenXers kept their mouths shut to “keep the peace” and not “stir the pot” while some of our parents or friends said some shitty things. Or, they didn’t care because it didn’t affect them.

I don’t think that strategy turned out very well.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 48m

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 1h

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 2h

I see y'all arguing with Amanda Marcotte & let me crank up the wayback machine...she hung out with a bevy of white feminists who didn't think they were racist, they just thought BIPOC women should wait until all the other issues were solved. She's one of the reasons #solidarityisforwhitewomen exists

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 2h

One of them was a Catholic high school guidance counselor!

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 2h

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

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 1h

The young Republicans I remember were the ones calling me and my queer friends a disease that needed to be eradicated, and stuck by a party that tacitly condoned bombing healthcare clinics which provided abortions

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 8h

No one said these specific people. Jesus. But the argument was “all young Republicans were always exactly like this forever”.

That is false. It soothes your ego, but hurts the cause.

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 1h

Genocide denial is fundamentally no different than being a Holocaust revisionist

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 1h

I guess the infants that were left to die in incubators were "future Hamas terrorists"

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Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social · 1h

Remember: when white professionals in their 20s do bad things, they're "kids." When PoC teens are accused of wrongdoing, they are hardened criminals unworthy of mercy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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cluesan al-gaib @clueless.bsky.social · 2h

welcome to the chronic illness community, now get ready to make choices every day that rip ur heart into a billion little pieces

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 2h

Many diseases can be spread without showing symptoms - COVID is one of them

Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 3h

Act with maturity get treated as such 🤷‍♂️

Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 3h

I wouldn't insult you if you weren't having a temper tantrum in response to people suggesting that you should be considerate of the well being of people more vulnerable than you

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15h

I understand that there are right ways and wrong ways to have the age conversation about Dem leadership and I don’t know how I feel about specific solutions like age and term limits. I do know THIS PART HERE is a problem bigger than any one individual 78-year-old and it’s making us all furious

Ghostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 16h

I think my biggest betrayal is that it feels like they have not nurtured upcoming generations. we've watched them cut the knees out from people who get the base excited instead of mentoring them, it's aggravating as fuck.

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 15h

Said with a "Stand With Ukraine" avatar, hilarious

Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 15h

How recently was she a registered Republican. As a Progressive I've got nothing in common with this creepy woman. Harping on the mess in Israel when we have big problems here seems disingenuous.

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Karl Keyton @karlkeyton.bsky.social · 15h

Damn good point, no one should ever ask powerful Democrats tough questions

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