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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 5h

Correct

Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 8h

Posters don’t want a real political system, they want Woke Lee Kuan Yew

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 8h

Posters don’t want a real political system, they want Woke Lee Kuan Yew

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ceej @ceej.online · 10h

I think the leak of the incredibly racist young republican group chat only furthers the argument that millennials were the only generation able to use the computer without going insane, mostly because the computer was once a place separate from the real world. but now the real world is also computer

ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 9h

it's cool that south korea has its own version of ben carson (ihn yo-han) except that he's white (but still part of the PPP)

and yes, he's a doctor

ihn yo-han in the center next to two korean guys to his right and left

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 5h

Lmao

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Why would the cartels want to stop ICE and CBP activities that have been diverting resources away from drug interdiction?

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 6h

We have commissars now lmfao

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 5h

With reactionaries that drap themselves in leftist rhetoric, it’s a common play book to react defensively and hyperactively to people who doubt your authenticity

The fist thing most do, is ask their trolls to attack, it’s so common for a person who observes political communities online

8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 5h

You are literally doing exactly what I stated you are doing and you are acting out because you are smart enough to know better 🤷🏻‍♂️

No one is not ‘taking the heat’ I am simply not agreeing with you and it’s making you super mad and you are attempting to weaponize what little following you have

8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 5h

Fuck off

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

The running joke about Riot Games is "Pool Party Ahri" is their "break glass in case of financial insolvency" product and OpenAI is scrambling for gooner money like 3 years in

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Sam (ABeardedPanda) @abeardedpanda.bsky.social · 9h

Lmao they're giga broke

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 8h

These strikes on boats in the Carribean are normalising the claim from the US Right that it is acceptable for a President to deploy American military units as extrajudicial death squads

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 7h

You are an immature little troll of a person who shouldn’t hold office or govern anyone

Trying to deflect won’t change who you are, Breen.

8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 7h

You are not the type of personality that should hold office in Canada

Weaponizing your following to harass people that disagree with you is a trolls response to being criticized and it’s entirely unbecoming of anyone holding office in the country

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🧛‍♀️🎃~Bindi~🎃🧛‍♀️ @bindiatthebeach.bsky.social · 19h

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 8h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 7h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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Luigi is a folk hero! 🇵🇸 🇸🇩 @seriesjunkie.bsky.social · 21h

Hello everyone.

Antifa is not a real organization.

Proud Boys are.

Oath Keepers are.

Patriot Front is.

KKK is.

Heritage Foundation is.

Antifa is not.

Thanks for your attention.

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 20h

Bari was not accepted into liberal intelligensia circles

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 20h

Weiss sounds like an annoying know-it-all cousin at the kids table during the holidays

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8thDegreeSavage @actuallymossman.bsky.social · 20h

This article is too passive

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 1d

if newsmax can refuse to sign a loyalty pledge to pete hegseth then the nations colleges and universities can refuse to sign a binding settlement requiring them to do DEI for nazis and hasbarists

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 1d

Solidarity is the only way

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