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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 5h

Racist Young Republican Chat Leaves GOP Stumbling to Respond
www.thebulwark.com/p/racist-you...

Racist Young Republican Chat Leaves GOP Stumbling to Respond

Split over whether to discipline the offenders or just ignore the whole affair.

www.thebulwark.com

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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 6h

REAL HEROS:

Coast Guard and National Guard crews have now rescued 51 from Alaska floods

Roughly 90 members of Alaska Army and Air National Guard and Coast Guard units have scrambled to remote towns where homes have floated away.

taskandpurpose.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 9h

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Pablo @un5toppabl0.bsky.social · 7h

If it ain't white it ain't right according to this Nazi 😂😂😂😂

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7h

Just a Fox News host claiming that a New York City mayoral candidate is a Trojan horse dead set on destroying "Western civilization" -- in other words, white culture -- from the inside.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

Fox News host Will Cain warns that Mamdani is a ‘threat to Western civilization’

‘That brings us back to who's inside the gates of the Alamo. It is a man like Zohran Mamdani,’ the Fox News host breathlessly declared on Wednesday.

www.the-independent.com

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 1d

Everything about John Roberts's approach to the Voting Rights Act makes sense when you remember that John Roberts has has always been hostile to the Voting Rights Act, never believed it was appropriate, and has spent most of his 45-year legal career working to hollow it out.

One of the Biggest Cases of the Supreme Court’s Term Is John Roberts’ Decadeslong Pet Project

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this.

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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 6h

tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 7h

NOT SURPRISED:

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Read our exclusive story on the group chat here 👇

‘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

tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 7h

WELL OF COURSE HE DID

Politico @politico.com · 1d

JD Vance downplayed bigoted messages found in Young Republicans’ group chats from our exclusive reporting, suggesting they were nothing more than “edgy, offensive jokes.”

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

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

www.politico.com

tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 7h

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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 1d

When a Propaganda Stunt Collides with People Who Still Have a Spine

That’s not resistance theater. That’s professional integrity.

When a Propaganda Stunt Collides with People Who Still Have a Spine

Kristi Noem’s TSA video blaming Democrats for the shutdown was blocked by airports across the country. Here’s why that matters...and what it proves about America’s remaining guardrails

www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 2d

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51 www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/a...

D’Angelo, Acclaimed and Reclusive R&B Innovator, Dies at 51

www.nytimes.com

tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 2d

SO THE RUSSIANS KILLED HIM

The Farmers of Kherson - Documentary

YouTube video by Caolan Robertson

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tdillontx @tdillontx.bsky.social · 2d

The researchers’ work looked at only a small fraction of geostationary satellites whose signals they could pick up from San Diego—roughly 15 percent of those in operation, by the researchers’ estimate. This suggests vast amounts of data are likely still being exposed over satellite communications...

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...