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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 50m

Why they look like extras from Wall-E before they got to the spaceship?

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 18h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Lennon @lennon-s.bsky.social · 18h

3 years ago this tech was going to change the world and the best use case they have is "I'm too lazy to read this email" and "porn bot"

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1h

Cause everybody's job is stilted sex chat?

We are evaporating drinking water and handing over 1/3 of domestic energy production to this guy?

The Verge @theverge.com · 19h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

buff.ly

OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 2h

Hidden Memory Unlocked.

youtu.be/zYKupOsaJmk?...

Was (Not Was) - Walk The Dinosaur

YouTube video by WasNotWasVEVO

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 3h

The DNC is a clearing house ffor corporate neoliberals. The DNC makes our elections less free and less fair. The DNC coerces candidates and elected officials to accept corporatism, neoliberalism thru campaign funding.

The DNC primaries progressive candidates!

The DNC has no solutions.

Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 11h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 20h

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 13h

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 · 13h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 3h

Play fascist games,
Win fascist prizes.

Pierce @pierceah66.bsky.social · 6h

Lol. These guys are fucking losers.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 23h

Important to note that this isn’t a problem for the billionaire buying media properties. If they make them into successful rightwing propaganda? Cool more money. If it fails? Cool they’ve destroyed one of the few outlets with the resources to investigate them. Either way they achieved their goal

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 21h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

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Clarence Okoh @clarenceokoh.bsky.social · 4h

Later today the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case to kill the voting rights act. The conservative justices will insist that racism doesn't exist in electoral politics & argue that the VRA is no longer needed to protect Black people from systemic racism in the US political system...

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

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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🎃🚨SEE PINNED🚨#ProtectJhordin🚨🎃 @blackapostate.blacksky.app · 13h

these are the events i think of when y'all brag about how easily you think you can handle what our people been through

Africana Studies at Penn @africanaupenn.bsky.social · 21h

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas after Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. #workersrights

106 years ago, one of the deadliest race massacres in American history took place in Elaine, Arkansas. Black farmers, seeking fair payment for their crops, organized through the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America.

When their meeting was attacked by a group of white men, the confrontation left one white man dead. In response, white mobs, joined by federal troops, launched a days-long assault on the Black community, killing well over 100 Black men and women.

The headlines below show the cost to Black families and how a disinformation campaign was used to justify the violence against Black Americans. The claim, all too familiar, was that the Black organizers were trying to start a socialist revolution.

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 13h

This is clearly hippopotamus meat. I can see one smiling back at me with his little hippopo-face.

HERbron James 🐐 @meekayelah.bsky.social · 14h

Y’all. What the fuck is this.

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 14h

Douglas Rushkof - he does a podcast called Team Human.

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 17h

Talking to some brothers today in the waiting room at car shop amd i think there is a lot of latent desire in Communities of Color to boycott the american economy.

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Strictly 4 My Navigators @lizzslockeroom.bsky.social · 21h

RIP D'Angelo🕊💙

He wrote this amazing song for the "Jason's Lyric" soundtrack #UWillKnow #BMU

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 19h

Young Fascists. The fascist party has had a maligned influence on american politics and we have to be vigilant for years to come.

We have to stand on principles and not personalities or we'll get duped by the normie-presenting fascists.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 19h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘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

OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 23h

Algorithmic price fixing runs this economy and is another coercive force in americans' lives.

California is setting the example in consumer protections atm.

youtube.com/shorts/ED_Uo...

How tech platforms are price-fixing everything you buy

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

The premise of this war, on releasing 7 hostages is bad-faith when thousands of Palestinians are jailed with out charges, including children. Israel has been an apartheid state this whole time.

youtube.com/shorts/YuQvu...

Over 11,000 Palestinians Are Still Being Detained By Israel

YouTube video by Novara Media

youtube.com

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

Fucking icloud. Why doesnt my shit back up to my computer over wifi?

OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

Of course it's YTs.

cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug @hnysuklchocolat.blacksky.app · 1d

more proof of their cognitive dissonance...

Black folks, pls retain (revive!!!!!!) your ability to call a spade, a spade

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

99% of racism is implied. It's all winks and nods and tones between YTs. So much so, a majority of them don't even know it's a large component of the air they breath, yet unable to grasp.

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OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

Kamala deserves boos, trying to sell us her book. Her responses to the protests are deflective, neo-liberal smarm.

She has no genuine policy beliefs and blames us for her loss. And after losing, she didnt rally people behind any CIVIC PRINCIPLES besides silence, "give me credit" and "buy my book"

OhGeez @ohgeez.bsky.social · 1d

We shoulda known fascism was OTW when they purposely misunderstood Kaep's protest.

They actively disinfo'd and mis-messaged BLM.

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