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Owen Barcala @obarcala.bsky.social · 4h

The "don't call us Nazis" crowd sure has a lot of swastikas

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

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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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 4h

The problem with political prediction markers in general is that participation in them is primary restricted to the sort of people who participate in political prediction markets, who are people I am regularly able to make money off of

Donald Trump Jr. is an advisor to this specific one

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 6h

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

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 9h

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 8h

Chaz Ebert, the widow of Roger Ebert, said "nominations are officially open for the inaugural FECK Awards -- a groundbreaking new initiative celebrating individuals and organizations who elevate humanity through Forgiveness, Empathy, Compassion, and Kindness."

www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

www.businesswire.com

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 7h

Don't Rs also have less Superdelegates? So if a faction wants to take over the party, with the DNC it'd take a few cycles to line up the ducks vs the immediacy of overwhelming the RNC? (in theory)

I recall talking to my father-in-law about it at the time but don't know how it truly shook out.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 11h

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 17h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 9h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 1d

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

motherjones.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

RIP Drew Struzan 💔

“.. Spielberg once called him ‘my favorite movie artist’ and later added, ‘I had to almost live up to the art that we later were going to ask Drew to create for the poster.’”

@thr.com
www.Hollywood reporter.com/movies/movie-news/drew-struzan-dies-movie-posters-1236400361/

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 1d

DeLillo, “Underworld.”

They filled the tank and bought charcoal, food and bottled water.
They found the office of the refuge manager at the far end of town and Matt went in and received a permit and signed a liability release.
This was called a hold harmless form and it basically pointed out that if they were killed and/or injured during live-fire exercises while they were in the refuge, it would be the giddiest sort of childlike illusion for either or both of them and/or their survivors to think for even a minute about receiving compensation.

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 1d

Woody Guthrie wrote a song called "Old Man Trump" that, shall we say, resonates today

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 2d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Botts Dots @astrobotts.bsky.social · 2d

Me trying to explain to my mother how her Apple TV device is different from the Apple TV app on her TV.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2d

/25 The receptionist had been there for decades — back, I am sure, to the era of reform-school boys. I am confident she had seen far more troubling hijinks. She didn’t have to help. But she smoothly saved me. And I remember her, 45 years later — a life ago. No doubt she’s gone now, but I remember.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 2d

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 2d

Also as a Youth I didn't understand that it took place on Bloomsday. I wouldn't've thought about that at all until after reading Ulysses in College, but now it makes it all the more meaningful to me, loving both of these things separately and only realizing now how one was conversing with the other.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2d

We should have ended it all when he started openly monetizing the presidency at his DC hotel & sending his kids to represent the 🇺🇸 government at official international events. But he is One Special Boy and we appear to no longer be a serious country interested in the rule of law or the Constitution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 2d

Such great dialogue. Media being the new fascism. Fears about feminism being used to reassert the male pov. Soul dilution. The "saved time" from technology not actually giving us back time. The Quaker wedding/"picture". The nature of people. Just a quiet little meditation of a film that lives in me.

a woman is talking to a man and says `` not you or me but just this little space in between . ''

Alt: Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise, gesturing between her and her male companion, saying, "Not you or me, but just this little space in between."

media.tenor.com

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Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 2d

Man. Their talk about transitory spaces, god being in the spaces between/where people are trying to understand each other, underlined after by all the shots of people talking, culminating in all the liminal night spaces where they communicated but without them in the daylight. "He is learning."

Kym In A Can @kymtastic.bsky.social · 6d

So true. I went a little Criterion-crazy over the weekend and finally pulled the trigger on The Before Series. Criterion releases are, themselves, art. I will say that if one were to rip their collection for personal use, one might watch the special features MORE than when using the disc!

Letterboxd @letterboxd.social · 6d

As a major new @criterion.bsky.social box set of his work hits shelves, Wes Anderson tells Isaac Feldberg about a quarter-century of ﬁlmmaking: via Rushmore, Moonrise Kingdom, The Grand Budapest Hotel and more. boxd.it/2Lc

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

A consistent thing about Trumpists in power is how they want everyone else to believe that people only do things for money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 2d

You don't have to judge Columbus by the standards of today. His tenure as governor of Hispaniola was so horrific that he was dragged back to Spain in chains to answer for his many crimes.

Plus he never set foot on any land that would ever be a part of the United States of America.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 2d

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 2d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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