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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19m

The thing about these guys is they're awful. And while there's always a subset of humans that are awful, the question to ask is why do they keep getting access to power

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

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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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 17m

Is he trying to get other people to start day drinking

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 9h

If his skin were any thinner it wouldn’t be compatible with life

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

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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Jay King @jay-king-art.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve read “Tale of a Wall”… his certainty that he would be in prison forever - I can’t imagine how this must feel…

ArabLit & ArabLit Quarterly @arablit.bsky.social · 1h

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

Two Prize-winning Palestinian Authors Freed from Israeli Prisons

Two award-winning Palestinian authors serving life sentences in Israeli prisons were released on October 13 as part of the exchange for Israeli captives held in Gaza.

arablit.org

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 9h

"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

Same time that Pritzker is telling city and state officials to start arresting and prosecuting federal officials for assaulting Illinois citizens.

OT1H, this is clearly really bad.

OTOH, our federalized design might end up being an absolute godsend.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 9h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 7h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 16h

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...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 7h

Me: can you just win me the coconut at the ufo catcher

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 7h

He refers to u as kitten in English I was like

Oh

Lmfao

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 7h

Observing 19th century fat bear week

Atsu from ghost of yotei feeding a bear some salmon. The bears name is Shino

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 8h

Lolll I refer to him as the booktok one

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 9h

One interesting subtle way ghost of yotei handles grief is that over time you can see that Atsu is fixing up her childhood home. There’s tea leaves set out to dry and vegetables planted in the fields. She’s caring for herself

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 10h

This looks like Pokémon food

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 11h

:)

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 11h

Aw he’ll yea four more years

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Chuck Tingle @chucktingle.bsky.social · 21h

MANY ARE UPSET THAT I THINK MY REELECTION IS LOCKED UP

lonevoice.bsky.social @lonevoice.bsky.social · 21h

Why @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, @chucktingle.bsky.social et al won't is clear: they THINK their reelection is locked up. They know the Americans who care don't have another option. And the second level leadership in the party is doing what they did with Biden: pretending nothing is wrong!

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David Burbach 🌹 @dburbach.bsky.social · 12h

For those unfamiliar -- the term is more common w far right movements in Europe than here -- "remigrate" implies not deporting migrants here illegally, which DHS does. It implies pushing legal migrants, naturalized citizens, even people born here to give up US citizenship and go 'home' [sic]

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 12h

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna start being more verbally hostile to people discussing illegals omg

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 12h

I’m seeing a lot of commercial art work just get crappy AI generated images for menus , signs , food trucks etc. it sucks

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 12h

Gonna head to the gym to do a little ellipticals instead of frying my brain on the internet

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 12h

Doesn’t even have to leak I got called ‘George Floyd ‘ for dying in a shooting video game in the chat logs like people are not right

Politico @politico.com · 18h

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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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 12h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

Politico @politico.com · 18h

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12h

For the past at least five years, many of the world’s most prominent academics and journalists have been openly pushing the idea that people need to be “exposed” to bigoted ideas and taught by bigoted professors. Why are we then surprised when we find bigots in charge of our children?

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