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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 8h

You have to understand, people who demonstrate peacefully for the restoration of democratic norms are insurrectionists while people who rioted at the Capitol to overturn an election are patriots.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 15h

Nah there’s no way this guy is a closet Hitler fan. (This is the actual Rep!)

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 15h

Yes, it’s inconceivable to think that the staffer would notice that a giant flag with a swastika right in the center of it would have magically appeared in his workspace overnight at eye-level carefully surrounded with pins.

Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 15h

And can and should be used for the same purpose.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

Shit's getting bad, man. Real bad.

Exclusive | Trump Team Plans IRS Overhaul to Enable Pursuit of Left-Leaning Groups

The effort would install a Trump ally at the IRS’s criminal unit who has drawn up a list of investigative targets.

www.wsj.com

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 18h

Pornography.

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

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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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23h

"i wasn't allowed to talk about replacement theory or any mainline immigration stance"

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1d

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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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 22h

And their defense is literally this.
bsky.app/profile/donm...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

Peacemaker looks at a mural embedding Hitler into American symbols

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 1d

As old Republicans try to shrug off the text Nazis as "college students" note that Stephen Miller is still considered a "Young Republican" until his next birthday.

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 22h

That is correct. You would only find ONE person on the right who *maybe* would celebrate the assassination of somebody on the left. Good show, JD. Now tell us how many right-wingers would celebrate it if this happened on Planet Earth.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Vance: "Political violence, it's just a statistical fact that it's a bigger problem on the left. If you had, god forbid, somebody on the left who was assassinated, I'm sure you could find one person who would maybe celebrate it, but the fact that it became mainstream to celebrate Charlie's death..."

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 1d

JD Vance (41) defending hate speech from 40 year olds by saying "kids will be kids" is some weapons-grade telling-on-yourself

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

Feels like this will be a useful meme for the next few years

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 23h

Reading the excerpts you kind of get the desperation from the powerful to make this story go away.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 1d

1/ The first excerpt of Virginia Giuffre's posthumus memoir is out and it is gutting: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Prince Andrew believed having sex with me was his birthright’: Virginia Giuffre on her abuse at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell and the king’s brother

In an extract from her posthumous memoir, Virginia Roberts Giuffre remembers the day an ‘apex predator’ recruited her from Mar-a-Lago, aged just 16; how she was trafficked to a succession of wealthy a...

www.theguardian.com

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 22h

(Just realizing the headline said "GOP". Oh well...the joke was made, and I stand by it.)

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 23h

Wait! Don't tell me which party he's in! Let me guess! Oohhh....I've got a 50/50 chance! Hope I don't blow it...

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 1d

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/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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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

Amy ‪@lolennui.bsky.social‬:

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 23h

Simple serifs would fix the problem.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

It's the worst thing watching resegregation happen in real time to please a bunch of white supremacist nazis in power.

www.thewrap.com/nbc-news-lay...

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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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 23h

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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 1d

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules
After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

Reporters leave Pentagon en masse after refusing to sign on to new rules

After turning in their press credentials, journalists covering the Defense Department walked out rather than comply with its restrictive new policies.

www.washingtonpost.com

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NPR @npr.org · 2d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Wes Thomas Skeleton @westhomasanderson.bsky.social · 1d

LOL

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

COLLINS: The Dept of Energy just canceled $1b for a hydrogen hub that covers Montana. Is that taking away good-paying jobs?

SHEEHY: Of course it is. We want govt to be open

C: But the Energy Secretary says he would've pulled that funding even if govt was open

S: ... Well, that's unfortunate

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Steve Benen @stevebenen.com · 1d

The leaked chats between Young Republican leaders were obviously disgusting.

JD Vance’s efforts to downplay the scandal and complain about “pearl clutching” made an awful story worse. www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

JD Vance tries to downplay leak of disgusting Young Republican chats

For the vice president to suggest it’s “pearl clutching” to condemn those who were part of a racist group chat says a great deal about his judgment.

www.msnbc.com

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