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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 3h

GOP hypocrisy really isn't. Their lies are always to fuel their goals, and they are fascists. And their goals are white supremacy.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 22h

John Roberts: Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Brett Kavanaugh: Totes.

*immigrants being profiled by ICE enter the chat*

Roberts Court: Yeah but I didn't mean like that. The cops can definitely still arrest you because you're brown.

Kav: *chugs beer in agreement*

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Michael P. Breen @mpbreen21.bsky.social · 4d

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4d

While Vought traces the “leftwing revolution” back a hundred years, to the progressive era, there is no question that the election of Barack Obama was a radicalizing moment for him and many key thinkers on the radical Right - as were the multiracial protests in the summer of 2020.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

It's not just a lifelong prejudice. It's that the media has a documented bias against left wing protest for at least half a century. When they can't frame them as violent or inconvenient they frame them as infective

Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · 21h

For one thing, these protests have been happening in every state from small towns to suburbs to big cities.

Pundudes like Brooks can't let go of their lifelong prejudices even when they see it's an emergency. He'd turn down a lifeboat in a flood if it was piloted by someone registered Democratic.

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 12h

i'd be a bit annoyed if I heard that there was a Hamas SuperLair under a hospital which required bombing the hospital and then later I found out there was no SuperLair at all. Has one prominent person written a "shit, that wasn't nice, lying about the hospital SuperLair" piece?

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 16h

Republicans: “Stop calling us Nazis just because you disagree with us.”

*Elon Musk Nazi salutes*

Young Republican group: “I love Hitler.”

This Congressman’s office:

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21h

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 · 21h

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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 21h

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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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 19h

I'm so sorry. It's fucked up.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 20h

The idea that the Reconstruction Amendments were for everybody is asinine.

They’re all lives matter-ing Reconstruction.

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 1d

I think my brain is broken now.

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 1d

The actual fuck!? Really?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 1d

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

What they’d like to happen is for Black people to remain negatively polarized by Republican racism and maintain their support without doing anything to address the racism substantively.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to keep posting this 2017 Pareene article till it stops being relevant (forever?) www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jul 20

The Supreme Court rewrote the 14th Amendment so that it's no longer the pro-Black amendment it was intended to be, but rather bans all racial classification to the benefit of white people and detriment of everyone else.

We're about to undergo a wholesale rewriting of the Equal Protection Clause.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

For about three years now, I've been ranting to anyone who will listen that the Equal Protection Clause is being rewritten so that it protects white people from so-called anti-white discrimination.

That's what's happening here.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

THEY ARE BLACK ASS AMENDMENTS.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 2d

They love to pretend not to know why the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments exist.

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2d

The worst stupid fucking times.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2d

Lol

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2d

This fucking part.

Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 2d

I don't think I've ever received a single communication from the DNC that isn't a solicitation.

Nothing about what their positions are, what their agenda is, their accomplishments... Anything to make me want to give them money.

I guess when you don't have results to talk about...

Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 2d

I'm very sorry for your loss.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 2d

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 3d

Not every mainstream outlet is prostrating itself for the genociders.

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