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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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I’m Stephen Robinson. Years ago, my son once described me to his pre-school teacher as a “play typer guy,” which is the name of my Substack newsletter, where I write about art and politics, and my podcast, where I interview fun people.

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 2h

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 · 18h

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 · 18h

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 · 19h

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 · 6h

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 · 8h

/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 · 8h

/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 · 8h

/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 · 9h

/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 · 9h

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 · 9h

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 · 16h

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 · 16h

"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 · 16h

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 · 18h

"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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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 19h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

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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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 16h

Listen, a whole lot has happened between 2016 and now, a pandemic, a couple of recessions, 20202…. And I still absolutely know with a certainty that is not what I saw in 2012

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 16h

the never trumpers have repeated this bullshit so much that some people believe it

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 21h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 22h

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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