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Spenglernot

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Massive fan of Our Flag Means Death, good trouble, and the oxford comma. Slava Ukraini! Fuck plutocracy! Keep Canada Canadian! 🧜‍♂️🏴‍☠️🌈💙🇺🇦

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Spenglernot @spenglernot.bsky.social · Nov 12

Ever wonder why the music in Our Flag Means Death hits so hard?

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How Recurring Music in Our Flag Means Death Causes Mental Devastation in the Very Best Way

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 5h

There’s more of us than there are of them. They can’t control us. They can’t stop us from voicing our dissent. Thugs and thuggery is not a winning future, even if they think so. See you at No Kings.

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1h

I'm pretty sure there's a term for creating a circular market for your products...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 1h

To save our democracy, we all have a part to play. Millions of little, consistent acts add up. Our team has 6 suggestions to get you started. https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-introverts-guide-to-fighting

The introvert’s guide to fighting for democracy
Six ways to protect democracy — without attending a protest

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3h

Oh they mad

Aidan @aidanxitter
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A friend of mine got blackmailed into leaking these chats. A total fucking coward and a useless piece of shit
One of the people in here, he attended his wedding with me and still sold him over to the devil
All over some useless YR beef
And then the GOP condemned them
Fuck these people
The GOP treated to fire my friend and vice chairman from his AG job because of tiktoks I posted about immigration
I wasn't allowed to talk about "replacement theory" or any mainline immigration stans They asked me to resign over Trump's gr card diploma mill comments

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Julianne McShane @juliannemcshane.bsky.social · 2h

NEW @motherjones.com: Nobody in that GOP group chat praising Hitler or making racist comments was a “kid,” as JD Vance claimed today

I tracked down their ages. (Weirdly, it seems nobody else did.)

Eight of the 11 in the group chat range from 24 to 35. Ages of others are unclear.

But… no “kids”!

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 4h

"It is ridiculous that antifa has become this boogeyman. If they're going to tell us they are going to find the founder of Antifa, isn't the founder of Antifa...Winston Churchill? FDR? Didn't they lead a war against fascism? Wasn't that anti-fascism?" - me
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

“.. Journalists from the undersigned defense trade publications will not sign this new policy.”

Military Times
Defense News
Aviation Week
Breaking Defense
Defense Daily
Defense One
Inside Defense
USNI News.

@militarytimes.bsky.social
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

www.yahoo.com

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Spenglernot @spenglernot.bsky.social · 3h

Wow. Colossus is a truly nightmare publication. Propaganda masquerading as quality prose.

Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 5h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 3h

Angelo Elia, a congressional staffer for Rep Dave Taylor (R-OH), appeared on Zoom with an swastika American flag behind him—just a day after thousands of antisemitic & racist GOP staffer texts surfaced.

Republicans have a Nazi problem & they don’t care.

Tip of the iceberg.

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tandigi @tandigi.bsky.social · 23h

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Brook Taylor @brooklovesbunnies.bsky.social · 3d

Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another In Chicago

NYT gift article link

opinion by Vic Mensa

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Pitting Us Against One Another in Chicago

www.nytimes.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23h

🔥 @vicmensa.bsky.social : “I see a lot of you still drinking the kool-aid of racial division… The same motherf**kers running detention centers own private prisons (Core Civic & Geo Group). They maxed out Trump’s campaign, and they’re making billions from this, bruh. Be informed.”

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 20h

Trump didn’t light the fire overnight. He’s been turning up the heat slowly, hoping we won’t notice until we’re already cooked.

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 9h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

defector.com

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job.

Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees.

Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 6h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Charlie Jane "Lessons in Magic and Disaster" Anders 🏳️‍⚧ @charliejane.bsky.social · 7h

Still the greatest and most relevant Onion headline

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Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In

WASHINGTON—A panel of top business leaders testified before Congress about the worsening recession Monday, demanding the government provide Americans with a new irresponsible and largely illusory econ...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 6h

“white people who claim they’re being persecuted” is pretty much the entire GOP brand (gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...)

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People
The proposals would transform a program aimed at helping the most vulnerable people in the world into one that gives preference to mostly white people who say they are being persecuted.

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 7h

Justice JACKSON standing up for voting rights. 🔥

Louisiana: Plaintiffs said 'we want another majority-black district.'

Jackson: No. They said 'we aren't receiving equal electoral opportunity because our votes are being diluted.'

Louisiana: Same thing.

Jackson: No, it’s not.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 8h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 9h

When parents get rightfully upset about Turning Point USA bringing clubs into high schools across the country, it’s because the people that were caught in that young Republicans chat are the same people who will join a TP USA chapter in high school.

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angie banshee 🌈🏴‍☠️🦄 @korps.bsky.social · 11h

So what I'm hearing is FAN ART HARDER

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Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 9h

For Scientific American’s 180th birthday, we’ve updated a classic graphic comparing different forms of animal locomotion, first published in this magazine in 1973.

The Most Efficient Traveler Isn’t a Bird or a Fish—It’s You on a Bike

A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom

www.scientificamerican.com

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