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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump says he's now "looking at land" strikes on Venezuela

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

Journalists spent months documenting Stephen Miller's affinities for white nationalism and Trump just goes and tweets it out.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1h

Trump: I want to thank Stephen Miller I would love to have him come up and explain his true feelings. Maybe not his truest feelings. That might be going a little too far

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1h

Zohran Mamdani uses his appearance on Fox News to "speak directly to the president," since "he might be watching right now."

Mamdani looks straight into the Fox camera as he says this >>>

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Katharine Gerbner @ktgerbs.bsky.social · 6h

Also, what he writes about the humanities is SO IMPORTANT TO HEAR!

"The true value of a liberal arts education is not learning a collection of facts, but learning how to learn."

Thank you David.

www.startribune.com/david-m-perr...

Meet David M. Perry, our new contributing columnist focused on history, disabilities and education

He moved back to Minnesota because it is a state that believes in serving the public good. But, he writes, Minnesota is not always at its best.

www.startribune.com

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 3h

Chicago, LA, etc. have already become something that to me is more worrying than Trump’s “training ground for the military”: training grounds for a rapidly expanding parallel domestic paramilitary force—CBP—that lacks the military’s guardrails and is eager to do what the military is reluctant to.

Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 1d

"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social

The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now

A training ground for the military?

www.ifyoucankeepit.org

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Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

CBP/ICE is going out of their way to create media spectacles of raids and putting guys in cool gear out in public as part of a recruiting push.

bsky.app/profile/neve...

Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

If youre a 18-20 something apolitical dude who plays video games and wants to prove yourself and you have your social media consumption making BORTAC look cool as hell while also hearing about how the military is “woke”/effeminate and SFAS/RASP/BRC/BUDS is hard, CBP suddenly becomes attractive.

Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

To @wesleymorgan.bsky.social’s point, this is a video from a major SOF centered VetBro lifestyle brand which routinely features the Border Patrol’s tactical team BORTAC in the same breath as Army SF and Rangers.
youtu.be/8ciC58EOOOU

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Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

If youre a 18-20 something apolitical dude who plays video games and wants to prove yourself and you have your social media consumption making BORTAC look cool as hell while also hearing about how the military is “woke”/effeminate and SFAS/RASP/BRC/BUDS is hard, CBP suddenly becomes attractive.

Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

To @wesleymorgan.bsky.social’s point, this is a video from a major SOF centered VetBro lifestyle brand which routinely features the Border Patrol’s tactical team BORTAC in the same breath as Army SF and Rangers.
youtu.be/8ciC58EOOOU

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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 1h

I've called the confluence of mass shootings/assassinations coinciding with the feds sending armored cool guys after roofers & sandwich slingers a 'National Uvalde.' Reaches new heights upon learning BORTAC (fed team that actually stopped the Uvalde shooter) was on the South Shore segregation raid.

Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

CBP/ICE is going out of their way to create media spectacles of raids and putting guys in cool gear out in public as part of a recruiting push.

bsky.app/profile/neve...

Nathan (TBI era)🌲 @never-say-die.bsky.social · 2h

If youre a 18-20 something apolitical dude who plays video games and wants to prove yourself and you have your social media consumption making BORTAC look cool as hell while also hearing about how the military is “woke”/effeminate and SFAS/RASP/BRC/BUDS is hard, CBP suddenly becomes attractive.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1h

a swastika? in a republicans office? of the republican party who all explicitely endorse fascism? no way this could have been predicted

Politico @politico.com · 2h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1h

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Standplaats Kraków @standplaatskrk.pl · 1h

petfinder post for two kittens: "Felony and Misdemeanor"

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 59m

@tolkoto.com here’s the Star Trek game you wanted to remember the name of:

Cover to Star Trek: Judgment Rites for PC

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 1h

Of course.

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

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 17h

www.twitch.tv/lanzalentzia we're back with more #AlanWake II on #Twitch!

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HALLOWEEN FRIGHT FEST: Alan Wake II Part 2

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 20h

WATCH: A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ racist chat, Politico reports

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h

Right wing nationalism is an effort to divide and conquer globally connected humanity back into fiefdoms they can more readily control and shape to undo decades and centuries of hard fought social progress and human connection so we can be exploited en masse by self-appointed Lords and Masters.

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Synthminded @synthminded.bsky.social · 19h

There is an international right wing movement and they are coordinating their evil, hateful bullshit to demonize the most vulnerable and harmless among us in every country because we represent everything they hate.

Unseen Japan @unseenjapan.com · 20h

ICYMI: Another member of the far-right Sanseitō party in Japan has stirred controversy with her comments. Wada Keiko claimed that identifying as transgender could “spread contagiously,” likening it to a disease.

Sanseitō Rep Likens Being Transgender to a "Contagious" Disease - Unseen Japan

Wada Keiko further stated she believed transgender people needed medical treatment instead of accommodation and understanding.

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sq🎃🎃ky from:me @skeet.best · 22h

(chanting, clapping, stomping feet) BRING! BACK! SHAME!

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 22h

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.