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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 4h

Democrats manage to reinvent these meme proposals every single election cycle AND NEVER NOTICE THEY DON'T WORK. It's astounding. Biden really did invest hundreds of billions of dollars into Rust Belt economies... and for his efforts was rewarded with searing unpopularity

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 5h

by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 4h

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

We constantly talk about Dems' struggles to reach deeper into the culture and access people who ignore politics.

You know what issue is penetrating deep into the culture? ICE's masked raids and kidnappings! It's on Rogan and in country music. In the Manosphere!

newrepublic.com/article/2018...

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 3h

Two things are true. 1) This kind of messaging skill is such an asset to advancing progressive policy. 2) National Democrats are spending a lot of money trying to shut him up, or failing to spend money supporting him.

Do with those truths what you will.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

MacCALLUM: Margaret Thatcher said socialism is great until you run out of other people's money

MAMDANI: Well, what Andrew Cuomo said is that if you have $957m you give it to Elon Musk in tax credits

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 3h

Someone needs to organize a rally in Charlottesville at which a diverse group of American citizens chant "Nazis will not replace us."

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 4h

So Nazis. They want to give refugee status to Nazis.

OK, maybe not JUST Nazis. Also certain other white people who hate non-white immigration. But Nazis can definitely come.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The proposals also advise Mr. Trump to prioritize Europeans who have been “targeted for peaceful expression of views online such as opposition to mass migration or support for ‘populist’ political parties.”

That appeared to be a reference to the European far-right political party Alternative for Germany, whose leaders have trivialized the Holocaust, revived Nazi slogans and denigrated foreigners. Vice President JD Vance has criticized Germany for trying to suppress the views of the group, which is known as the AfD.

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 3h

This is the kind of high quality anti Zohran memes you’re going to be seeing online between now and November’s election.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 3h

Hmmmm what’s that? Getting nervous that people are seeing through your “socialist games” Zohran?

A meme that confuses king of the hill with American dad and has Steve (Bobby) realize that voting for Zohran is a bad idea

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 3h

“Mission Accomplished”

Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 6h

If you wanted to design a politics that was easily defeated and vanishingly small, you’d start by making that politics required human perfection, or the perception thereof.

Great writing here - “all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose”

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 8h

this week's post is something i've been thinking about for a long time. it's called "all of us imperfect comrades: or, an army of fuckups cannot lose"

margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/each-of-us...

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 19h

I’m a Yang Han-stan

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

This is not morally or legally different than lining up two dozen men and shooting them in the face.

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FURRY GENOCIDAIRE @bsky.app.darkwo.ke · 1d

real friends are the homies who fight like dogs and clown on each other when they think the other is wrong, but still care about and wish each other well in the end

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

I’m gonna write a whole book about this

Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

It's really simple

Voters want an opposition party that will fight for them, and democracy, like there's no tomorrow

Dem elites want a members-only social club where polite, dues-paying members who they like to see at cocktail parties get rewarded with plum roles www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Chuck Schumer gets his preferred candidate, Janet Mills, in crowded Maine Senate race

Schumer had been aggressively recruiting Mills to challenge Republican Susan Collins.

www.politico.com

Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

The “I declare peace in the Middle East” Gaza Ceasefire is Trump’s “mission accomplished” moment, right?

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

One thing that I’ve come around on in comics is it used to seem corny and childish that a bunch of guys would call themselves the Legion of Doom and meet in an old castle where they’d be like ”hiss let us defeat the ideas of hope and love hiss” but that’s what they’re actually doing in real life lol

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julio 🤙 @juliocan2.bsky.social · 1d

You can’t keep doing this, man.
You gotta let go of this crutch.
It’s not healthy. It’s no good.
Face the reality.
Stop running from this ass whoopin.
Turn off My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
My Big Fat Greek Wedding isn’t the answer.
Stop watching My Big Fat Greek Wedding every time shit gets hard, man.

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

Portland is Burning? Singe-ing? Singing.

Are we having the time of our lives?

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 1d

Portland is a hellscape (standing room only at the Elbow concert and I’m the youngest person here except @hannahfleek.bsky.social )

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Giovanni Tiso @gtiso.bsky.social · 2d

Their hostages. Our detainees.

Cartoon by Tom Gault, showing two people in medieval times on opposite sides of a river. The text reads: "Our blessed Homeland - Their barbarous wates. Our glorious leader - Their wicked despot. Our great religion - Their primitive superstition. Our noble populace - their backward savages. Our heroic adventurers - their brutish invaders."

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 2d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.com · 3d

Sometimes I really hate living here. But “fierce, unruly joy” basically describes my ideal political conditions and social context. Screaming righteous songs of liberation. Proud of my city today (my family is sick at home, glad those who could, showed up).

Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 3d

Fierce, unruly joy in Portland at the emergency naked bike ride

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Robert Mackey @robertmackey.bsky.social · 8d

The Oregon Republican Party tried to help Donald Trump make the case for military intervention in Portland with an image of a fiery protest — but since Portland is calm, they had to fabricate one by merging old photos of police in Ecuador and protesters in Brazil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Republicans post fake image of Oregon protest – using photos of South America

A federal judge had blocked Trump’s request to deploy California national guard to Portland

www.theguardian.com

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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 3d

Checking out my war-ravaged neighborhood here in SE Portland this morning. Everyone stay safe out there.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 3d

I read Peter Thiel’s essay on Alan Moore’s Watchmen and it unquestionably proves that piss poor media literacy is foundational to this recent rise of fascism.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 3d

Listen to the response to this and look how easy it is to say it.

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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