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That group chat was tame.
They have no idea what is coming.
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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Super mad

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

Debating whether this is worth investigating further with my burner

Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 6h

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 · 6h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 1h

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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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9m

Still find it wild how they shut down USAID with no Congressional approval

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 5h

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

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 10m

As a disabled person, seeing Mr. Beast aggressively pushing for masturbating to George Will videos scares me.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 1h

this would end us up with a democracy more rigged than Hungary's. actually, between 2010 and 2020, our democracy WAS more rigged than Hungary's. there isn't any international example of elections as rigged as Wisconsin's.

Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 8h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Travis Mason-Bushman @snarkranger.bsky.social · 12m

He doesn't have that authority, and The New York Fucking Times won't tell it like it is, because they like Trump and want him to rule us like a king.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 33m

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 12m

really interesting what does and doesn’t get the view from nowhere treatment

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 33m

President Trump on Wednesday signed a memorandum expanding his administration’s authority to repurpose unspent federal funds to pay members of the military during the government shutdown, escalating his challenge to the authority of Congress on spending matters.

Trump Signs Memo Expanding His Authority to Spend Federal Money

The president gave Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wide authority to repurpose funds to pay members of the military without approval from Congress, which has the sole constitutional authority to decide federal spending.

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Emily Badger @emmbadger.bsky.social · 8h

If Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

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 · 3h

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 · 3h

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

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

“the protests don’t count if they happen in blue cities.” so, what, they aren’t americans? their voices don’t matter?

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

like I just don't think "they were always like this" is a particularly useful framing for this stuff because the GOP of Trump is meaningfully different than the GOP of Romney even if both are awful and we need to actually deal with the real world consequences of what they're becoming

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

Jim Crow 2: John Roberts Revenge

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 4h

My god

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4h

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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Cai @annenotation.bsky.social · 3h

Obvious racial dogwhistle.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 4h

im not one to throw around the 'imperial boomerang' phrasing much but hearing out president talk about a Troop Surge for US cities not even 20 years after the OG Troop Surge in iraq hits pretty hard.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 4h

absolutely unthinkable to help pass a budget as long as he feels comfortable saying this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Trump: "We're just at the start. We're going to go into other cities that we're not talking about purposely. We're getting ready to go in."

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4h

essentially their idea is to create a desert and call it peace, primarily because they think where Bush went wrong was trying to build democracy instead of just breaking things

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 5h

Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission

Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 5h

“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela…The agency would be able to take covert action against Mr. Maduro or his government either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”

Regime change is back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Nick Kodama 🌲👻 @nickkodama.bsky.social · 9h

why is treasury commenting on art 5 again

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Bessent: "All I hear from the Europeans is that Putin is coming to Warsaw. There are very few things in life I am sure about. I am sure he's not coming to Boston."

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whoops, excuse me. oh man, my bad. @whoopsexcuseme.bsky.social · 4h

I'm sure we won't. Given how TV and spectacle focused this admin is, I'm sure we'll do a big, dumb, loud action in Venezuela.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

Trump doubling the bailout to Argentina to $40 BILLION (while they steal market from our farmers and Americans lose health care)

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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 4h

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