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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 23h

The Republican Party will simultaneously claim that they are prioritizing fighting antisemitism above all else, when it allows them to crack down on higher education and foreign students, and also that the Jewish puppet master is pulling the strings behind all progressive social movements in the US.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Ernst: "I think it is extremely important that we look at who is funding these protests. We have to get to the bottom of this. It could be the usual suspect -- George Soros."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 21h

As far as I can tell, the ADL and AJC have yet to comment on this.

The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social · 21h

Border Patrol posted a video with antisemitic slurs to their Instagram.

The 13-second video used the lyrics "Jew me, sue me" and "kike me" from Michael Jackson's 'They Don't Care About Us.'

They pinned it. It got 3.4 million views.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14h

Not that it should matter, but Kat Abughazaleh is actually Palestinian and Daniel Biss is actually Israeli, which means they both have a lot more personally at stake than most American politicians. But AIPAC doesn't care, of course.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 14h

Haven't seen anyone comment on it yet but this local Illinois journalist has revealed that internal AIPAC fundraising emails call both Kat Abu and Daniel Biss anti-American for their opposition to Israeli apartheid.

Matthew Eadie @mattheweadie.bsky.social · 16h

The second email on Sept. 15, also sent by AIPAC, encourages donations to Angie Craig in MN, Haley Stevens in MI and Laura Fine in IL-09

Links to all three of these candidates lead to the same "Pro-Israel Network" donation page using Democracy Engine as the vendor

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

This is how the Trumpist right ties together their ostensible philosemitic campaign for Jewish safety on campuses with their disdain for most actual American Jews. "We care so much about your safety, but you Jews who vote Democratic obviously don't care about your own safety, so we can't help you."

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

It's so telling that a Christian Fox News host is essentially saying, "I care so much about the safety of you Jews, but you people are too stupid to care about your own safety, so I cannot help you." Christian philosemitism is so very close to antisemitism.

"Jones urged the Jewish community, where voters are reportedly split on Mamdani, to reject the Queens assemblyman.

“I would say to the rabbi, you have to go out there and talk with some of the Jews in New York,” Jones said. “Have you seen the polling that’s supporting Mamdani within the Jewish community? It is shocking to me. I can’t fight for you harder than you fight for yourself. He wants to eliminate your entire community. Doesn’t even believe in a Jewish state. Yet, he still has a lot of support within the community.”"

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2h

I do not think this is in fact what he wants to do. Moreover, I think rhetoric like this will ultimately be harmful for American Jews in the long run. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Fox’s Lawrence Jones Proclaims Zohran Mamdani Wants to ‘Eliminate’ Entire NYC Jewish Community

Fox News host Lawrence Jones has shockingly declared that New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani wishes to "eliminate" the Big Apple's Jewish community.

www.yahoo.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 6h

could do with a lot less open advocacy for ethnic cleansing in global politics tbh

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 23h

A Conservative MP tipped as a future party leader has been condemned for saying large numbers of legally settled families must be deported, in order to ensure the UK is mostly “culturally coherent”.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Tory MP criticised after demanding legally settled families be deported

Katie Lam said move would make UK ‘culturally coherent’ and that a large number of people ‘need to go home’

www.theguardian.com

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Alexander C. Kaufman @alexckaufman.bsky.social · 5h

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 2h

Just want to add that it is worth reading about the specific massacres the totenkopf division were involved in: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_SS_...

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ICE must be destroyed 🏳️‍⚧️🏴 @miawong.bsky.social · 1h

Just going to say this the easiest way to avoid learning your candidate has a Totenkopf tattoo is to build real movements that aren't centered around electoral microcelebrities

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Laura Rodríguez Presa @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social · 3h

In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government has provided no public accounting of how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children who were living in the building before the blitz.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/19/i...

They were already living in one of Chicago’s worst apartment buildings. Then came the ICE raid.

In what appears to have been a warrantless operation, the federal government will not say how many people were detained, who remains in custody and what happened to the children.

www.chicagotribune.com

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine if it had been the Ustaše U.

Like yeah no this random American Oyster Farmer has Ante Pavelić's dumbass face tattooed on his back. "I swear I thought he was some random Croatian pop singer!"

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Also yeah no that seems like something that would happen in Croatia.

They got some weird guys in Croatia.

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently he got the tattoo when he was drunk on shore leave in Croatia. Claims he didn't know what it meant at the time.

HEY BUDDY DID YOU THINK MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN THE FUCKING SS TATTOO REMOVED BEFORE RUNNING???

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Like even if he didn't know what it meant (debatable if he's being honest) he should have gotten it removed before running.

At this point the only reasonable thing to do would be to drop out. Nobody is coming back from this kind of thing. Also says something about his judgment.

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Ok drunk Marine unknowingly gets Nazi tattoo while on shore leave in Croatia isn't that unexpected tbh.

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

I knew about the reddit posts but not this!

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

EXCUSE ME HIS WHAT!?!?

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Just to clarify the original post was about the Oyster Farmer guy running against Susan Collins right?

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Or how fishing will literally kill you

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

And how fishing is fun for the whole family?

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Isn't most of Hemingway's work about how being a soldier sucks?

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

And some were like "Hey maybe we shouldn't have killed all those Iraqis!"

Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Something about the military makes Americans fucking weird.

Also I can't remember if you're American or not so you might already know all this lmao.

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Sirloinofice @sirloinofice.bsky.social · 2h

Something something manufactured consent.

A lot of people who should have known better got swept up in post 9/11 nationalist nonsense and it took some of them getting home and finding out how shit VA is to think for a second and ask "Hey are we the bad guys?"

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