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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4h

What group?

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 4h

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 6h

Holy lying-with-stats. Murray averaged less than 1 steal per game, less than one block per game and shoots below league average from three

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 6h

Murray is one of three players to record 500 3-pointers, 150 blocks and 150 steals over the last three seasons, along with Anthony Edwards and Derrick White, per ESPN Research. He becomes the sixth player to ink a rookie extension this year ahead of the Oct. 20 deadline.

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 6h

Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray has agreed to a five-year, $140 million rookie contract extension with the franchise, Mark Bartelstein and Kyle McAlarney of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Massive new deal for the Kings to lock in their 2022 No. 4 overall pick through 2030-31.

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 6h

I don’t understand NBA money anymore, but this seems like a lot for a guy with a PER of 12 and negative BPM

Shams Charania Tweets @shamsbot.bsky.social · 6h

Sacramento Kings forward Keegan Murray has agreed to a five-year, $140 million rookie contract extension with the franchise, Mark Bartelstein and Kyle McAlarney of @PrioritySports tell ESPN. Massive new deal for the Kings to lock in their 2022 No. 4 overall pick through 2030-31.

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 8h

MLK’s nonviolence only worked because it was book ended by violent uprisings in places like Harlem, Watts, Newark and Detroit. Also, his brand of non-violence was disruptive, not these planned parades that liberals love throwing

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 15h

“You can’t call everyone you disagree with Nazis”-

People who call everyone who disagree with them terrorists

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Emmer: "Clearly, the Democrat Party of today is not your grandfather's Democrat Party. They care about one thing and one thing only -- appeasing the radical pro-terrorist wing of their party."

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 19h

“There’s these Russian triplets who look like they’ve had a lot of plastic surgery and they’re always in the hallway yelling and vaping”-

My daughter, describing high school

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 1d

It's wild that when Trump talks about how they're getting rid of Democrat Programs and keeping Republican Programs he means "public health" and "Sicario Fantasy Camp: Chicagoland." Full polarization, to the point where anything aimed at keeping people alive or alleviating suffering is woke bullshit.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.medsky.social · 1d

Ugh... This study has existed for decades, providing valuable health data for all sorts of topics and publications. This is just more awful news. 🛟😷 Sociology medsky

CDC team running top survey on health and nutrition is laid off

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

www.statnews.com

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

I mean also, he made all our ongoing military engagements much worse. His drone warfare program was so far out of control they stopped keeping records

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

No US president will ever release the Epstein files, because that will mark the end of the Zionist project

jimmychoo1191.bsky.social @jimmychoo1191.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck that !! .. release the Epstein files godamnit !

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

No American president will ever release the team files because that will mark the end of the Zionist project

jimmychoo1191.bsky.social @jimmychoo1191.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck that !! .. release the Epstein files godamnit !

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t tell you how many leftists I heard say “at least Trump didn’t get us into another war” as an attempt to dunk on the Dems, completely ignoring all the times he TRIED to start a war.

Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 1d

Yes! People didn’t remember what Trump did *during his first term!* He dropped the MOAB to hear it go boom! He tried to nuke a hurricane! He met the grieving families of murder victims and signed photos of their dead loved ones!

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1d

in the last decade and a half, very few of us on the liberal side even bring up george w bush -- which is why im not optimistic about liberalism collectively remembering everything trump has done to us. we've already reduced reagan and bush to "not so bad" and you even see people praise goldwater

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

yOu cAn’T cAlL eVeRyOnE yOu dIsAgReE wITh nAzIs

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👇

‘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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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings is a rally, not a protest.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 1d

As beloved as D’Angelo was, he STILL didn’t get all he deserved. “Black Messiah” is one of the best albums this century.

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

Listening to audiobooks isn’t reading and we should start pretending they’re even remotely similar

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

White people need to do better and shaming these fucking dweebs out of polite society

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 3d

This is really smart. Amazed at the hysteria over the ascendance of a woman entrepreneur who clearly knows how to cover and sell news and who's not afraid to take on a mob. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

Italian Americans claim it as theirs because it IS theirs. They made that shit up. Columbus was not a revered figure in America until Italian Americans went a full scale PR blitz.

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 2d

That’s literally why Columbus Day exists. It was a pet project of the Knights of Columbus and other Italian-American groups to tie Italians to America’s origin story, thereby attaining full ownership of the whiteness that had long eluded them

Andrew G. Haubner @aghaubner.bsky.social · 2d

I think Italian-Americans, in this case, really took an aesthetic gesture as evidence that they were welcomed by the elite class of white American society.

Columbus Day, to them, isn't necessarily about Columbus. It's about the holiday being a status symbol of their inclusion in that strata.

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

I used to think people just didn’t understand what Columbus did but now I think some are really attached to him (as opposed to other worthy italians to celebrate) because their whole thing is not only getting away with doing horrible things but forcing everyone to praise them for being horrible

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 2d

employing the phrase 'virtue signaling' is bitchless bitchmade loser signaling btw

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4d

MTG understands what made Trump 2016 work better than the other Republicans, and she is positioning herself to be the successor when he inevitably dies. The Heritage Foundation thinks they can just hand it to Vance, but it might not work that way

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4d

She knows the Heritage Foundation isn’t going to advance her career and politically savvy enough to realize that no other republican is doing right-wing populism.

Home of the Brave @ofthebraveusa.bsky.social · 4d

Marjorie Taylor Greene : "Prices have not come down at all. The job market is extremely difficult. Wages have not gone up. Health insurance premiums are going to go up. Homeowner's insurance goes up every year. Rent is going up. Young people have no hope of buying a home."

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4d

Something about the Savannah bananas does not sit right with my soul. It feels like an alt-right pipeline

Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4d

A lot of you don’t have the cardio for what’s to come

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Two-piece Advocate @ytpjason.bsky.social · 4d

There is nothing Blacker than having your Blackness questioned

Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 4d

Posting this for anyone- myself included- who gets questioned for doing “white people stuff.” No, it’s our stuff. How do you think our ancestors survived, not just in the colonial diaspora, but in our ancestral homelands?
Being in nature is returning to our native roots also. 🍄 🌱

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Mr Autumn Man @pnwnwa.myatproto.social · 4d

Posting this for anyone- myself included- who gets questioned for doing “white people stuff.” No, it’s our stuff. How do you think our ancestors survived, not just in the colonial diaspora, but in our ancestral homelands?
Being in nature is returning to our native roots also. 🍄 🌱

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