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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 11m

I’ll add that many of the arguments that conservative legal movement luminaries are making now would not have flown even in FedSoc circles a decade ago. It matters that they are comfortable saying this stuff in public, and that the conservative lawyers who reject these arguments are now irrelevant.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 48m

"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 · 1h

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!

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

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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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 12h

I tell ya, I get no respect! I’m in my easy chair reading a book about the fae, so I ask my wife, hey sweetheart, which court would you want us to be in? Seelie or Unseelie? She says honey, the only court I wanna be in with you is divorce court!!

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 2h

So Unseelie

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

This is the result of a lot of people pretending racism is one of the greatest taboos in our culture while failing to address racism substantively. People are appalled by the idea of being called racist while being totally committed to upholding racism throughout society.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 5h

Every time a Democrat gets caught on tape saying like “Some Trump voters are racist” we have a national scandal and JD Vance demands an entirely new kind of apology and meanwhile every Republican group chat is like “Good morning fellow SS members. Who’s ready to respect Hitler today?”

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 2h

"The president is illegitimate and should be removed from office" is the minimum pitch for anyone nominally opposing him

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts.
We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown (Gift Article)

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 16h

Nahhhh I just am in denial about my own, cooler shit

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 16h

Unfortunately there’s a lot of white folks who will continue to be surprised and then continue to minimize it.

Harry Dunn @libradunn1.bsky.social · 16h

Is anyone really surprised by the racism running rampant in the young republican group chat? The future just imitating the current 😕🥴

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 16h

Am I unusual in that I feel like I’ve been in a million rooms with guys like this throughout my life & do not understand why people would doubt these dudes are pretty common? Because it makes me feel nuts that ppl pretend guys like this are super rare (they’re a small minority but I’ve met so many)

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 23h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 16h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 21h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 17h

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

As another Jewish woman in the industry, I can clear this up: It's due to her being an asshole.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News host Emily Compagno claims that the backlash to Bari Weiss being named CBS News editor-in-chief is due to her being Jewish:

"This kind of thing would make me laugh if there was not an antisemitic thread in there."

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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, if you weren’t writing on Stormfront in 2018 can you even get an interview with GOP leaders?

Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 21h

Worth stepping back and just recognizing that one now expects young R staff to be outright Nazis

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A.J. Bauer @ajbauer.bsky.social · 23h

Conservatism is fundamentally a fan culture. It has lore and is invested in long-term character development and canonical debates within their ideological universe in ways that aren't quite the same among liberals or the left.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine caring about Kaepernick in the year of our lord 2025

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve said it a million times (and many have said it better) but so much of internet tech and innovation is driven by non-explicitly stated pornographic uses - which I honestly wouldn’t have an issue with if it wasn’t for the utter dishonesty & manipulation & disrespect to actual SWers it came with

Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 23h

Sam Altman went from “AI will cure cancer" to "ChatGPT porn" in less than a month

ChatGPT boss predicts when AI could cure cancer

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

It is at least *interesting* that the people making this supposedly world-changing technology think its most profitable use cases are: social media videos and sexting.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 23h

It seems inevitable this is all crashing down soon

britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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britt hayes @britthates.bsky.social · 1d

studio execs & major outlets claim AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over Hollywood. the reality is much different. i spoke with filmmakers, producers, and editors about how AI is actually showing up in productions – and what it still can't do:

Hollywood Has a Major AI Hype Problem

Studio execs and major media outlets claim that AI is "inevitable" and poised to take over film and TV. The reality is much different.

movieweb.com

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 23h

What a fuckin cover!!!

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 1d

On a lighter note, pretty sure the How Does It Feel? music video was the first time I saw the girls in my classes act completely feral - I remember groups of ppl would sneak into the computer lab to watch it lol

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Michael Meir Saltzman @saltzman.bsky.social · 1d

This one really got me. Just a profoundly talented and original artist. Discovered the Soulquarians when I was like 14 and it utterly changed my life

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

D'Angelo has died after a battle with pancreatic cancer, his former manager says. He was 51

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

A lawyer was explaining to court why he used AI when he was then caught using AI in that explanation of why he was using AI (earlier)

www.404media.co/lawyer-using...

Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI

The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion fo...

www.404media.co

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