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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1h

The evidence piles up day in and day out that ICE and the admin at large hate the Nazi label. It's a gut punch to their psychic image of themselves as "real American patriots."

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 2h

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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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 2h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Michaël Jarjour @jarjour.bsky.social · 1h

A new study shows what we know: Journalism is failing on trans rights coverage.

70% of stories about Trump’s executive orders affecting trans people didn’t quote trans people.

They’re talking ABOUT trans people not with them.

Story / study here: www.transjournalists.org/tja-bmsg-exe...

Graph that shows that trans people and their representatives were quoted infrequently: 70% of articles did not feature even a single trans person.

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 2h

Sam wrote a really good story about how a trans woman in Florida is stepping up, even as her state's government - and now also the federal government too - try desperately to act as if people like her don't exist.

sam @wisconsam.bsky.social · 3h

this story has done better on social than any other story I've ever published, and yet it has one of the lowest page views. i hate social media lol.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/10/when...

When a hurricane hits, she shows up for those left behind » Yale Climate Connections

Trans advocate Jasmine McKenzie is building a lifeline for Black and trans Floridians who often can’t safely access disaster services from FEMA or religious organizations.

yaleclimateconnections.org

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 15h

Here, I'll model it for you:

Vice President @jd-vance-1.bsky.social, why do you like to follow Nazis and other gutter racists on social media and defend people who praise Hitler? Is it because you also like Hitler?

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 15h

I posted this before I learned about the Nazi group chat leak btw. Might be a good pretext for legacy media to stop being garbo and maybe ask JD Vance some hard questions. Pretend he's a Democrat if you have to.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

JD Vance follows several open Nazis on Twitter and as far as I know still has never gotten much scrutiny over it. Perks to having an R next to your name in America, I guess!

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h

Let's go @rebeccaforwi.bsky.social baby

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h

My representative is currently threatening to withhold federal funding for Mayo Clinic - a major healthcare provider in my city + his district. Our city had a major hospital closure last year, and this is what he's doing. Just over a year till we fire Derrick Van Orden and elect Rebecca Cooke.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 16h

Prestige journalism really deserves the agonizing decades long death it's suffering through, it just sucks we have to live in the rubble of their hubris and maliciousness

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h

Meanwhile journalists who actually do good, honest, and necessary work are forced to scrape by on Patreon subs. Not great.

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h

One thing that the return of Trump and the complete failure of legacy media to cover his fascistic 2024 campaign accurately has made me realize: a LOT of people who work in high level media are like Nuzzi; she's just more open about how she will sell herself for power.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 17h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 16h

My representative is currently threatening to withhold federal funding for Mayo Clinic - a major healthcare provider in my city + his district. Our city had a major hospital closure last year, and this is what he's doing. Just over a year till we fire Derrick Van Orden and elect Rebecca Cooke.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

JD Vance follows several open Nazis on Twitter and as far as I know still has never gotten much scrutiny over it. Perks to having an R next to your name in America, I guess!

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

lol can you *imagine* the kind of stuff in JD Vance group chats. (i mean, yes very easily)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, issued a stay on the order by a judge in Chicago that ICE "could not beat old ladies selling tamales." When told in an interview that the ruling could cause the public to view the Court negatively, John Roberts said he found the assertion "outrageous."

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 18h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

If you do not spend time around kids this post may be inscrutable to you

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 18h

Casually said "in 6 or 7 minutes" (very much intentionally) to the kids I work with today and they went NUTS

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

(For those who don't know, mannequins these days are often a lot more high tech - a lot of them you can give them pulses, breathing sounds, make them scream bloody murder, etc)

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

It's always a jarring experience when and your squad mates are practicing on a lifeless test mannequin and then it starts screaming in pain

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

One thing being in EMS teaches you is that there are a lot of different words for lung sounds. Stridor, rales, rhonci... are we making some sort of Italian French soup or what

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The Wicker Dan (1973) @danlehner.bsky.social · 1d

“dressing up as animals is insulting, this is war” is kind of a particularly bad complaint for Portland because they’ve been doing black bloc streetfighting shit for like, years at this point and the feds clearly aren’t scared to come back. might as well give “embarrass them” a shot.

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

1982! And it was our only appearance in one.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982_Wo...

1982 World Series - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

Will these baseball boys go all the way? When was the last we were in a world series anyway??? 1990 or something?

Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading stuff about the Brewers right now and it is my understanding that they are baseballing quite well rn

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 1d

I am reading stuff about the Brewers right now and it is my understanding that they are baseballing quite well rn

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