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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 5m

People who work in public relations do

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 3h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'

‘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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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 4h

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

www.motherjones.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 7h

It's the story of the last ten years--kiss his ass in the most debased possible way, and this is what you get in return.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7h

Trump complains about his Time Magazine cover photo in new post:

"the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown... Really weird!"

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S.E.MacRae @semacrae.bsky.social · 7h

Agentic AI is a contradiction in terms here offering agency only to the wearer whilst riding roughshod over the consent of anyone in their vicinity.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

Today in luxury surveillance.

“They’ll [ai wearables] be embedded in what we already wear: glasses, jewellery, clothing. Fashion will play a critical role in normalizing them.”

Style Meets Surveillance as Agentic AI Redefines Wearables

Are we seeing the rise of smarter accessories—or sleepwalking into a future where data privacy is out of style?

threemagazine.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21h

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 22h

RIP king

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 23h

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

In LA, DC, and elsewhere, DHS officers are reportedly pulling over work vans without warning and detaining everyone inside.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

ICE is all over the city and burbs today, including Waukegan. Multiple reports on social media from people who have found empty work vans and are trying to locate family of their owners. This is a near daily occurrence now.

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 23h

I will thank you to leave me and my goddamn snacks alone

PR email with subject line: “New Research: Gen X Women More Addicted to Snacks”

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 23h

hey what we’re NOT doing is body commentary on these protestors. Thanks!

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José Sepúlveda @josesepulveda.bsky.social · 1d

ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the 94 million pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the #Trump administration’s cuts to The Emergency Food Assistance Program.

My latest video for @propublica.org.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Sam Adams @samadams.bsky.social · 1d

welcome to the new era of CBS News, where brave truth-telling takes precedence over spelling Zohran Mamdani’s name correctly

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Extremely satisfying and fact-filled takedown.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Absolutely brutal.

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

www.youtube.com

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Richard Lawson @rilaws.bsky.social · 1d

Peter Thiel’s veins coursing with twink blood as he gropes ever closer toward Opus Dei would be so funny if it wasn’t legitimately terrifying

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 1d

Everything is The Da Vinci Code.

Jake Flores @feraljokes.bsky.social · 2d

I can't believe this is real

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Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · 2d

Hard to believe the people who told me “have fun being poor” would make such bad risk management decisions.

warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

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Andi Zeisler @andizeisler.bsky.social · 1d

honestly props to the Emergency Naked Bike Riders, the weather was absolute shit today

Naked bike riders crossing an intersection

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 3d

“The administration did not like that CDC data did not support their narrative, so they got rid of them. They didn’t like that CDC policy groups would not rubber stamp their unscientific ideas, so they got rid of them”.

The damage to the CDC is “beyond repair”.

‘The damage is beyond repair’: The CDC faces another round of deep staff cuts | CNN

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suffered another round of deep staff cuts late Friday, with disease detectives, outbreak forecasters, policy and data offices among those impacted, ac...

edition.cnn.com

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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d

We will need Nuremberg-like trials

LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 3d

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3d

A library director in Wyoming who was fired two years ago because she refused to remove books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes from a library's children and young adult sections has just been awarded $700,000 in a settlement. t.co/EA5L1kOZfV

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/us/wyoming-library-settlement-book-bans-terri-lesley.html?smtyp=cur&smid=fb-nytimes&fbclid=IwdGRjcANWLXdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHhlnY6nKj_j4zuP3VjNSstXWBaV1t8-sPQ5C3b_jS6WN...

t.co

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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 3d

The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3d

New — Video shared with me shows ICE officers in DC detaining a man on Friday.

Bystander filming asks man for his name. ICE agent lies and says he’s not allowed to speak to him “by law” and another says “We’ve arrested American citizens for being too close…If he gets any closer, put him in cuffs.”

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