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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 2h

They'll lie in public, but don't feel comfortable yet lying in court.

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

DHS claims a “high-ranking Latin Kings member” from Chicago, solicited the murder of top Border Patrol chief.

But at his indictment, there was no mention of gang ties. His lawyers & family say DHS’s narrative of Juan Espinoza Martinez, is false.

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/10/15/c...

Chicago man indicted for allegedly soliciting killing of Gregory Bovino, but without contention of gang involvement

A Chicago man has been indicted on charges he solicited the murder of U.S. Border Patrol field boss Gregory Bovino, but the bare-bones document makes no mention of previous allegations that he is a…

www.chicagotribune.com

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 2h

This is why in person multilayer games are superior to online multilayer. Like if you said shit about another player you'd get hit. Hard.

And then you'd learn not to say that shit again real fast.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 5h

The evolution of InfantryDork continues to play out in the most predictable of ways… @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social

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Josh Rudolph @voltron64.bsky.social · 1h

Really can't blame 'em.

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1h

Everybody wants to skip to the end of the movement where society retroactively agrees that it all worth it and everyone secretly supported it all along without actually spending any time in the trenches.

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 6h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 4h

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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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 3h

Medicare has stopped paying physicians due to the shut down. Standing right on the third rail www.statnews.com/2025/10/15/c...

Medicare payments to doctors paused as government shutdown drags on

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is pausing Medicare payments to doctors, as negotiations tied to the government shutdown drag on.

www.statnews.com

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Sophie Labelle @assignedmale.bsky.social · 4h

Extreme censorship in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's death.

4 frame comic. 1st frame shows the silhouette of Charlie Kirk; 2nd frame, Gretchen Felker-Martin; 3rd frame, murder victims Maria Niotis and Isabella Salas; 4th frame, author Mark Bray. Text reads : one month after charlie kirk's
assassination by someone who we
were told was a trans radical
leftist but who turned out to be
a cis nihilist, his murder is now
being used to deploy extreme
censorship in the united states.
silencing. jimmy kimmel lost
his tribune until public outcry
got the decision reversed. famous
trans writer gretchen felker-
martin got her contract with
dc comics canceled and her books
pulled from the shelves for not
mourning properly.
violence. after stalking
them for months, a 17 year old
in n.j. killed two schoolmates
by ramming into them with a
car because one of them shared a
video critical of kirk.
persecution. at least 40
professors have been fired after
being targeted by turning point
usa. mark bray, an historian of
anti-fascism, had to flee the u.s.
because of threats. 300 d.o.d.
employees are being investigated
for social media posts about kirk.
the dept. of state is revoking
visas of people who criticized kirk.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 7h

these metrics are not meaningfully connected to the claim

Eric Daugherty: JUST IN: Stunning data reveals Christianity is SURGING in the United States

Bible sale: +41.6%
App downloads: +79.5%
Christian music streaming: +50%

What an amazing sight to see.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

this administration is held up and together by negative polarization, but they're also basically running a natural experiment in trying to break negative polarization so we get to find out just exactly how far it'll carry them ig

Distinguished Herbert West Fellow, Miskatonic Institute Gigan @gigansprogress.bsky.social · 4h

I really can't get over how its held together by negative polarization and nothing else, and if that starts to go they're in freefall

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 6h

I read the piece. You shouldn't. He dismisses the "No Kings" protests as liberals in blue cities. He invokes Rosa Parks, as if rural white people in the 60s loved everything that the movement then was doing. "We need a movement but not this one" is a core centrist tact these days.

Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 6h

Is this a joke. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 4h

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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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 3h

It's honestly funny as fuck that the US government is being run by podcasters so they also have Discord server drama

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 4h

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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3h

When this regime is over and buried, I don't want to hear about oh it's not worth the money or it's too petty to worry about. The order to bulldoze this illegal and unconstitutional monstrosity should be signed on Day 1.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 5h

Exclusive: More than three dozen organizations and individuals are expected to attend a dinner with Trump on Wednesday after opening their checkbooks to support a $250 million White House ballroom.

Trump Invites Ballroom Donors to Glitzy White House Dinner

The dinner is set to include representatives from Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Meta Platforms, Alphabet’s Google, Amazon and Palantir Technologies.

on.wsj.com

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 3h

White House budget director Vought SAYS HE WANTS TO shut down the CFPB within months, EVEN THO HE HAS NO AUTHORITY TO SHUT DOWN A CONGRESSIONALLY-CREATED AGENCY, saying, LIKELY WITH ZERO EVIDENCE, it’s no longer protecting customers.

How are we STILL doing such terrible headlines 10 months in.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8h

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Adam @adam35.bsky.social · 3h

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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 9h

Long story short, an actual Nazi doxxing ring. Enough people reported them that they went away for like 12 hours and then Elon personally brought them back. The site is dead. If you’re still on there, go lock your account right now

chris @knightscrest.bsky.social · 9h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Sean McKnight @ynot1989.bsky.social · 4h

Who could have seen this coming?

Oh right, anyone with basic pattern recognition.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 6h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 5h

What do I know and I'm not saying it's a magic bullet or anything like that but it sure seems to me that Dems should run hard on the Argentina bailout. Not anywhere near the worst thing Trump has done, but i suspect it's unusually clarifying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Jeffries: "It's perplexing to us that Rs refuse to spend a dime to protect the healthcare of the American people, but somehow the Trump admin found $40b to bail out a right-wing wannabe dictator in Argentina in ways that are also going to continue to hurt our soybean farmers in Iowa & the Midwest"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 11h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 12h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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FREE LEONID BAEZHNEV 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔰 @khartsun.bsky.social · 8h

any non-swing-district Democrat who supports "investing in rural communities" should be expelled from the party

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 8h

by my count there are four vague proposals offered: national service, investing in rural communities, reform the supreme court, repeal citizens' united via constitutional amendment

one of these is profoundly important. the other three are memes.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 12h

cancel culture was a desperate rearguard action in defense of shared norms whose obsolescence was revealed via the backlash to cancel culture.

ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 7h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 9h

Another good way to think of this moment is that the American secret police are increasingly comfortable black bagging American citizens on camera and in broad daylight with no basis of detention. The mere act of criticism, no matter how petty and silly, is its own justification for brutality.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 11h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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PMC Vanguardist @tylerboschert.bsky.social · 5h

The fact that it was the leathery undulations of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., specifically, that Olivia Nuzzi submitted herself to *is* relevant.

He is straightforwardly a eugenicist! Probably the most powerful eugenicist in American history! Sleeping with a eugenicist makes me question your judgment!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 5h

Democrats, elected or otherwise, should organize relief funds for fuloughed workers and people not receiving their government benefits

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