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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 5m

The party dedicated to fighting antisemitism, folks

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7m

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12m

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 1h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 8h

Immigration is good and we need to say so. It is in our best interest when people want to come to this country to make a better life for themselves. My family story is the shtelt to the American dream in three generations. Other people should have this opportunity, too.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump on immigrants: "They send up their worst people. They send up people that are criminals. They send up people from jails. And the best ones they send are people that don't work very hard and that are on a social form of welfare."

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Either we’re concerned about the lack of detailed policy answers & access to the media, or we’re not. But it can’t be that we only clutch pearls about these things for the one pro-democracy party we have left in 🇺🇸. Democracy can’t survive that. We need to do better.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Don’t. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers.

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 3h

Literally nothing coming from the Pentagon, DHS, or DOJ should be considered credible unless backed up by an independent source outside of government. (This, for the record, is a huge problem!)

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 4h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

I have resisted @mtsw.bsky.social’s theory. I want to believe most journalists are well-intentioned & this is not deliberate. But it’s very hard to maintain that position in light of the daily free passes Trump, Mike Johnson, John Thune, JD Vance, etc. keep getting. The double standard is glaring.

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 5d

When prices were going up under Biden there was a constant deluge of news stories about it because the media did not like Biden and wanted him to lose. Under Trump there is not a constant deluge of news stories about coffee prices because they like Trump and want him to win

delrayser @delrayser.bsky.social · 5d

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Once again, behold the unparalleled parsimony & explanatory power of the Dennis Green Unified Theory Of 🇺🇸 Politics

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

When you strip everything else away, the problem is that we have treated all of this as fine for only This One Special Boy. No one else, & certainly not a single Democrat anywhere in the country, would be permitted to do this stuff every day w/o it being a nonstop national scandal. Why is that? 🤷‍♂️

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Aug/Sep 2024 was consumed by obsessive complaining about how Kamala Harris wasn't doing enough media interviews & not answering enough detailed policy questions on tarmacs (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). Imagine the reaction if she had said, "I won't answer questions from biased media outlet" 🤷‍♂️🤔

Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Mar 13

👇🎯 Once again, isn’t everyone glad that the media spent August/September 2024 laser focused on the supposed problem that Kamala Harris was not answering enough questions about the detailed specifics of her economic policy positions?

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · Mar 13

just pointing out that when biden and obama were in office we didnt do dumb shit like this.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Folks, we have found the limits of Susan Collins’ “concern” 🤔

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4h

Susan Collins tells @frankthorp.bsky.social she is “not concerned at all” about Janet Mills running against her for Senate.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Happy week, everyone!

The next week is going to be yet another object lesson in how neither our media nor our

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 5h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 6h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 4h

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

Reminder that the median voter is a woman of a certain age who works in the non-tradable services sector and experiences international trade <only> as a consumer.

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Tom Pepinsky @tompepinsky.com · 7h

If the U.S. has all these extra soybeans, might as well make cooking oil out of them. But that would compete with other vegetables oils, harming those U.S. farmers. Could always make more margarine and Crisco, but those compete with Big Dairy and Big Hog

In conclusion, stupid tariff wars are stupid

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 7h

US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies

Trump Threatens China Cooking Oil Trade as Retaliation for Soybean Boycott

US President Donald Trump said he might stop trade in cooking oil with China, injecting fresh tensions into the trade relationship between the world’s two largest economies.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 7h

The entire first two months of the Biden administration were taken up by obsessive complaining about how he wouldn't do press conferences & wasn't taking policy questions (bsky.app/profile/mcop...).

This? Gone tomorrow. Totally different set of standards applied to two totally different parties.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Trump: "I don't take questions from ABC fake news after what you did with Stephanopoulos to the vice president of the United States."

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Dan Shafer @danshafer.bsky.social · 10h

Here is the Oct. 14 edition of Civic Media Today 👇

Featuring @chalipittman.bsky.social on data center debates in Caledonia, Port Washington and across Wisconsin.

Plus: More on the many, many bills coming before the Assembly and Senate today: civicmediatoday.substack.com/p/civic-medi...

Civic Media Today - Oct. 14, 2025

Why Wisconsin is a prime spot for data storage, exploring the state's scenic Rustic Roads, honoring first responders, and more from voices across the state.

civicmediatoday.substack.com

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 7h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

If you don’t know Zirinsky she was the inspiration for Holly Hunter’s character in Broadcast News

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 8h

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 8h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 8h

Federal officials telling social media companies to take down posts was supposedly a free speech crisis. It’s not even really hypocrisy, since the right was lying about much of it.
And this isn’t misinformation, foreign influence ops, or public health, just 1A-protected speech the govt doesn’t like.

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 9h

At the request of the U.S. Department of Justice, a Facebook group used by nearly 80,000 people to report sightings of federal immigration agents in the Chicago area has been taken down by the social media giant Meta, Facebook’s parent company.

Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request

The group, "ICE Sighting-Chicagoland," has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 8h

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Lee Drutman @leedrutman.bsky.social · 8h

There was a time when this would actually be a scandal. Now it's not even a surprise.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 9h

Oh hey, check this out. They talk the same way in their private chats as they do on Twitter www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 9h

Given the now fifth U.S. strike in the Caribbean, reposting my recent essay in @justsecurity.org.

There’s a word for premeditated killing outside of armed conflict.

www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...

Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”

An absence of credible legal basis for the Caribbean strike suggests the Trump admin is asserting a prerogative to kill outside the law.

www.justsecurity.org

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