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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 6h

What kind of Discord servers is JD Vance in, and what is being posted in those Discord servers

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 6h

6-3 that majority-minority districts violate the VRA, every red state has its redistricting plan drawn up and ready to go as soon as its official, GOP slight favorites to retain the house with a D+5 generic ballot

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 6h

you say blue haired anthropomorphic experiment like it’s a bad thing

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 7h

Next time you watch Mr Bean, pay attention to his actions

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 7h

Fancy restaurants? In Manhattan? New York has fallen…

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 8h

listen guys, chatgpt porn will fail. it is not match from that one story from 12 years ago on fictionmania. you know the one.

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 7h

Good

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 7h

"I have been reliably informed that the Wallet Inspector has almost completed his work and is prepared to announce his findings."

Rep Luna tweet:

My office just received word from the @RusEmbUSA
that the ambassador from Russia to the United States will be hand delivering the @GovernmentRF
’s findings on who assassinated JFK to my office.

This is a 350 page document.

We will be uploading these documents as soon as we receive them working with @jeffersonmorley
to ensure that the American people have direct access to them immediately.

It is important to note that Congress attempted to obtain these files in the 90’s and was denied. We have been given access to them now for the first time in history.

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 7h

I mean. Probably

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Sick Hunt, Dracones @scalehelix.net · 8h

Inexcusable failure of journalism that Brian Stelter can get an interview where every question isn’t about why he quietly deleted his smug assertion we weren’t becoming like the handmaids tale immediately after the Dobbs ruling

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 8h

"No amount of appeasement of Trump will work short of turning yourself into a lapdog. So news outlets have to choose. And if you go halfway, you’re basically going to lose everyone."

On the pod, @brianbeutler.bsky.social is great on the failure of Trump appeasement:
newrepublic.com/article/2017...

Trump Erupts at ABC over Vance On-Air Fiasco as Presser Goes Off Rails

As Trump’s exchanges with reporters appear more power-crazed than usual, a sharp observer of our slide into authoritarianism explains why the Resistance must find a new kind of response before it’s to...

newrepublic.com

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 8h

Very cozy

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Lily Mason @lilymasonphd.bsky.social · 9h

Unfortunately, reality is only apparent *after* elections.

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dr mo 🇵🇸 @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 4d

Handy map of America for Australians wanting to know more about their culture

A map of the US hastily colour coded and labelled with Australian regions
Florida is Queensland
The south is Tasmania
Nevada + Arizona are the NT
California is Alice Springs
The PWN is Victoria
The Midwest is South Australia
The middle of the map is NSW
Washington DC is Canberra
The east coast is WA except for New York, which is Sydney + Melbourne annoying people
New England is SE Queensland
Hawaii is the Torres Strait
Alaska is Antarctica

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 9h

More of this

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awr @awr.bsky.social · Nov 17

old blood in the new world

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 9h

The relevant metric increasing by several percentiles within a year seems pretty ideal on a business level?

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 9h

You’re misrepresenting the data and I don’t understand why

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 13h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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NPR @npr.org · 9h

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a case that could strike down the last major part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that remains standing. n.pr/4n3yejC

Supreme Court hears case that questions major plank of voting rights

The Supreme Court on Wednesday hears a case that could strike down the last major part of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that remains standing.

n.pr

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 10h

I seriously don’t want to imagine the kind of shit they tell these guys to gas them up prior to embarking on these Sicario LARPs

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Sebastian Bae @sebastianbae.bsky.social · 10h

I love the idea of wargame design centered on China's perspective and decision space in a Taiwan contingency. So it's disappointing that they didn't discuss the design or execution more. Personally, I want to do a #wargame centered on TWN will to fight.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/a-wa...

A Wargame to Take Taiwan, from China’s Perspective

In August 2025, 25 international experts gathered at Syracuse University to do something unusual: plan China's invasion of Taiwan. For two days,

warontherocks.com

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Elon Green @elongreen.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, the 2000 election & the 2016 election

Karen Schwartz @pithywidow.bsky.social · 1d

Was there ever a more epic press failure than the 2024 election

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking fondly of all the pre-election fact-checks that said we couldn’t possibly know whether Republicans wanted to get rid of pre-existing condition protections.

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rimidar @rimidar.bsky.social · 11h

This is illegal

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devil on the loose @panzery25.bsky.social · Jul 1

i forgot about this ralsei i drew

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