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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

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 · 8h

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 · 8h

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

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ellie lockhart (she/they) @eleanor.lockhart.contact · 6h

at some point the country is going to wake up to the fact that most people in it live in cities, and that we are real america, and that we won’t subsidize the people who abuse and try to dominate us forever, and we will demand we be given the respect we have been denied by the rurals

First Wordle Problems @fwordleproblems.bsky.social · 6h

I mean, it won't ONLY be city folk protesting. I'm sure some people will drive in from the suburbs or the exurbs or the countryside to be a part of this. But again, they will drive TO the city, because THAT'S WHERE EVERYBODY IS. We're not gonna go out to THEIR place! That'd be stupid!

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 7h

4 months apart

Official ICE government account
June 6, 2025:
"To call us 'Nazis' - to compare us to one of the worst groups in history - is disgusting and just outright wrong.
"What the men and women of ICE are doing in Massachusetts and all over this country is making communities safer."
—ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons

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Haydon is reading The Uncertain Center, Arthur C McGill @haydonmp.bsky.social · 18h

I have trouble reading things like this and not seeing it as tantamount to right wing agitprop tbh.

“Large scale popular protest with growing participation across society is just superficial activism.”

talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 1d

it is no wonder that 50501, a movement of radlibs who are very upset but don’t want to get in trouble, would be boosting superficial activism.

superficial activism has its place, but if that place is front and center, it kills whatever movement it is skimming off the top of.

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 7h

4/ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

benefits of their power.

Don’t be fooled by those in Epstein’s circle who say they didn’t know what he was doing. Epstein not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch. And people did watch – scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League and other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched and they didn’t care.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 8h

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 11h

Yeah, what Buttigieg is doing here is low-key Trump apologia

bropez.bsky.social @bropez.bsky.social · 11h

More of a post-DOGE “build back better”

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 8h

Politico received an initial tip that a Taylor staffer had a swastika neatly pinned to his cubicle during a zoom call. When confronted, the congressman’s press office pretty implausibly sought to present the situation as a police matter, and Politico went along with that in its headline and lede.

Zach D Roberts @zdroberts.bsky.social · 9h

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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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 11h

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 · 11h

what even happened on the other site this time

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Deep State Nepo Baby 🐸 @ambiguouswoman.bsky.social · 7h

Sending his kids thoughts, prayers, and DBT worksheets because oh God they’re gonna need them.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 12h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 11h

They can be 27 year-old “kids“ or they can be political operatives, but the idea that they get to play contact sports but everyone else has to play flag football with them is transparent horseshit.

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jenny_tightpants🪑 @jtp.bsky.social · 13h

everyone on here seems to think that there's just one feature you can add or remove from social media to make people not go insane on here. this belief, i think, is itself a form of madness

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah keep the shutdown going forever. Not paying for this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

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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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 9h

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 9h

Look, this whole presidency is void. Get out the megawatt woodchipper and reset to June 30, 2024.

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Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 13h

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

Be cool goes for all sides here - we don't have to give a shit where they came from, but that also means that they don't get to come in here and say "There's gotta be some changes to keep me here". We were doing just fine without you, we could completely take or leave your posts.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

Like, if your complaint is that Bluesky is the website for scolds, why are you coming here and trying to pick a fight? Fuckin' chill out, man.

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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 11h

Man, I really don't like people coming to Bluesky from X, The Everything App because of a Nazi doxxing ring and deciding that their first act should be to start telling people how to act

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 9h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 10h

again, it’s an open secret in DC that basically all of the GOP staff class are unabashed (literal swastika flags in their cubicles!) Nazis

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"I think the Democratic base feels like there is a disconnect. We hear you, when you did your 25-hour speech, I was like go Cory, I love this, that is amazing.

And then there's a photo shoot with you with Benjamin Netanyahu, and I was just like, what in the actual fuck? It was heartbreaking."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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