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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 11h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 11h

Old enough to remember when scenes like this would have been unthinkable in America. (It was 9 months ago)

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 12h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16h

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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

And they‘re all such overt creepy losers. Subormals.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 19h

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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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 18h

He believes in zip tying kids apparently, and not just with a porn monitoring app.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Veronica R. MSW, LICSW @tahoeboulder.bsky.social · 20h

something something 'left wing rhetoric' something something
#momsky

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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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 20h

Yikes. Looks like the bloated orange sociopath didn’t negotiate a ceasefire after all.
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

‘You cease, I fire’: Israel kills 9 Palestinians despite Gaza truce

Israeli army confirmed it opened fire saying a group of people approached soldiers before being targeted.

www.aljazeera.com

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Mark Ebenhoch aka INGLORIOUS BASTARD @realmarkebenhoch.bsky.social · 22h

Sounds like bribery to me.

World Leader Caught Asking Trump for a Family Favor on Hot Mic

The godfather of MAGA shared a not-so-discreet moment with his Indonesian counterpart at the Gaza summit in Egypt.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky.social · 1d

Jack Ciattarelli paints a real rosy picture of his upbringing.

Meet his brothers:

Felix:
- ran a major drug trafficking ring in Somerset/Middlesex NJ
- aggravated assault against police

Anthony III:
- suspected of murdering his wife & died by suicide prior to questioning

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

Me talking about art.

Track 16 @track16.bsky.social · 1d

Tour of Elyse Pignolet’s exhibition at Track 16 in East Hollywood.

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Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

A psychopath is the President of the United States.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

“I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They beat us while we were naked day and night.

Until our last day, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

We couldn’t even sleep. They told me they killed my children.”

- released Palestinian prisoner

Palestinian prisoner Shadi Abu Seed has given a harrowing account of life inside an Israeli prison after his release as part of the ceasefire deal.

“I went hungry for the past two years. I swear to God, they didn’t feed us. They kept us naked. They beat us while we were naked day and night. We were tortured,” Abu Seed said.

“Until our last day in Israeli prison, they cut us and hit us and abused us. We endured every kind of torture, emotional and physical.

“We couldn’t even sleep. They threatened us with our children. They told me they killed my children. They told us that Gaza was destroyed. I arrived here and found that everything was gone. It looked like the end of the world. Everything is different.”

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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 2d

New levels of hell: just got an email from our local AYSO cancelling today’s youth soccer games because ICE is at the Home Depot across from the soccer fields at James Park in Evanston.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

a foundational belief of the modern right is that there is no such thing as organic disagreement with their policies, it’s all directed from the top down

they just can’t conceive that ordinary people find them horrifying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Gore Vidal Sassoon @jimmyjazz1968.bsky.social · 2d

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 3d

WATCH: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

➡️ Read more: https://propub.li/4odsKnn

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David Zipper @davidzipper.bsky.social · 4d

Deep dive into the surge in US pedestrian deaths:

"It’s not that more pedestrians are getting hit by vehicles; it’s that the ones that are getting hit are more likely to die."

"[That] seems like fairly strong evidence for the theory that the rise in large SUVs is behind the uptick in ped deaths."

Why Are So Many Pedestrians Killed by Cars in the US?

It’s unfortunately not uncommon for pedestrians to be killed by cars in the US.

www.construction-physics.com

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Ketracel Black @ketracelblack.blacksky.app · 3d

Another example of why we need to replace the police with real emergency responders. People trained to provide medical care rather than pass racist judgement.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d

A lawsuit alleges a Black postal worker died after officers ignored clear signs he was suffering from a massive stroke, believing his medical emergency was drugs

The suit says guards left him helpless on a jail cell floor in his own urine for hours

KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment

Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours.

www.kare11.com

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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.bsky.social · 4d

Anti-vax onstage, Pfizer backstage.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4d

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 4d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Sean Meredith @seanmeredith.bsky.social · 4d

Dang! Newsom signed SB79. Now how do we get housing projects to pencil out? Cuz the projects approved in my town all got cancelled by the developers.

KTLA 5 @ktla.com · 4d

Newsom signs SB79, clearing path for California to build more housing near transit

SB79: Newsom signs bill to build more housing near transit

California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday signed several housing bills into law that are intended to streamline the building of new dwellings and tackle the state’s housing crisis. Among the bil…

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