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Independent journalist. I write words for Public Notice, the AV Club, and elsewhere. Subscribe to my newsletter The Play Typer Guy for more content (https://www.playtyperguy.com/subscribe)

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · Nov 12

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Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 6h

Go head Madam Speaker. She is me right now! 🔥🔥

Distill Social @distillsocial.bsky.social · 8h

Rep. Nancy Pelosi has had enough of the right wing-lies. As Dems continue to show up to try and make a deal to reopen the government, Pelosi was confronted by a reporter asking about January 6th. Pelosi snapped back telling her to "shut up".

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

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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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 6h

Edolf is busy today.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 7h

Musk is having another manic posting day, and today he’s leaning into a Musk classic: disgusting racism.

More than 12 posts, reposts, replies in the past 8 hours accusing Black people of being violent criminals who are racist against white people - punctuated by random highlights of his businesses.

Elon musk posted racist things about a racist judge

More racist posting from the world’s richest man

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 13h

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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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

as conservatives, the party of selfish shitheads, they were indeed shitheads, often racist to boot. but the GOP used to have some taboos. "I love Hitler" would have been FAR over the line even for Dixiecrats bsky.app/profile/bill...

BillThePony @billthepony.bsky.social · 14h

There is a double game at play tho among the people saying what marcotte is.

Its true not "every" Republican was like this but what's also true is.... A whole lot of them have been!

They were in the reagan and GWB coalition too.

The "not everyone" crowd needs to accept that "a lot" of them were

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 14h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 14h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 11h

Trump wants even more white extremists in the US including these neo-Nazis: “European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers
Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Brando Garcia @brandogarcia.bsky.social · 12h

They’re just so edgy until their fragile feelings get hurt!

Main thing to remember is that people like Vance always feel like losers regardless of how far they get in life.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 12h

But if those edgy offensive jokes are about Charlie Kirk, Vance suggests you call their employer to have them fired

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h

I could not have more contempt for this human being. He's a scumbag of the lowest order.

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Joe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 12h

He's really justifying this. Rape jokes, anti-Semitism, blatant racism.

There's no low he won't sink to. A dangerous, shameless liar.

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 1d

I say “probably” or “likely” when I think something is right but don’t have hard evidence, and drop those qualifiers when I have good evidence.

Got multiple replies and quotes focused on criticizing my use of “probably” from people who agree with the point I was making.

That made me think of this.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d

going viral here is worse than it used to be on twitter because half of the replies will just be pure pedantry

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 1d

"Anytime you arrive at an event dressed similarly to another guest, things can feel a bit awkward. But the Vatican is notoriously secretive. You had no way of knowing what kind of huge hat the pope would be wearing tonight. Nevertheless, here’s what to do..."

So, You and the Pope Both Showed Up to This Party Wearing the Same Hat

Anytime you arrive at an event dressed similarly to another guest, things can feel a bit awkward. But the Vatican is notoriously secretive. You had...

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 1d

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 16h

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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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

/5 And unlike JD Vance, apparently, I think it’s perfectly possible to think Jay Jones is a creepy weirdo unsuitable for public office while also thinking that these people are bigoted assholes.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

/4 They are aided, in this, by their own factions (devoted overt bigots, unserious irony-poisoned permanent adolescents, and if-it-works-I-say-it sociopaths), as well as by a “free speech culture” movement that is weirdly obsessed with them being comfortable to do it.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 18h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

/2 You’ve got true believers who consciously and overtly believe in this stuff, you’ve got the goatfuckers who believe it but are too chickenshit to say so so retreat behind “irony”, and you’ve got the neckbearded snort-laughing futon-stains who revel in fatuous adolescent shock.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 19h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 19h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, it indicates we've made some progress as a country that this is now on the gaslighting menu by powerful people so I guess we got that going for us.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

"It is racist to ask me why I take money from Israel while they commit genocide," has got to be one of the most hilarious evasions of all time.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 1d

Also one more thing.

"I will never forget when some progressives from the suburbs came to protest me and my neighbors defended me".

@corybooker.com, if you want me to find some of your Black neighbors in Newark (that's what you are getting at right?) who hate your guts we can work it out.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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