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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 35m

as charming and whimsical as some will view this, it bears noting that absurdity—not militancy or might—are what people have chosen to repeat from the portland standoffs against ICE.

why is that?

what purpose does this serve?

a mini 🧵:

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 22h

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 23m

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 34m

I hate to be a killjoy but like the inflatable costumes at ICE protests do feel like they’re starting to distract from the reality that human beings are being brutally detained and kept in completely barbaric conditions. I don’t think it’s wrong to have some levity at these things but cmon

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 6h

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

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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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3d

They're talking about killing leftist activists. They're talking about murdering people organizing in defense of immigrant communities, doing mutual aid work, and protesting their violence. They are talking about murdering people like me and my friends. We must do more than acknowledge it's fascism.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 6d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 4h

Hahahahahahaahaha FUCK ME lmao

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6h

they actually called you a terrorist and hamas, which theyve put out orders to hunt down and eradicate. they expressly want to disenfranchise you even at your local government level. theyre sending "foreign" troops to your neighborhoods. they don't believe you deserve a say in who your dogcatcher is

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 6h

Because liberals tend not to directly insult conservatives on account of their humane and inclusive worldview so right wingers have to look back further for insults to GOP voters. Meanwhile this weekend every major Republican congressman said I hate America.

Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 7h

I'm generalizing, but why do conservatives remember political irritations for so much longer than liberals?

It's been 17 years since Obama said some voters "cling to their guns, to their religion" and I heard a senator denounce that last month.

Obvious theory: Media ecosystem puts it on repeat

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 18h

I think he’s much more gifted than Tucker at sounding totally sincere, Tucker sounds like a whiny fancy boy, he can’t hide it.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately https://theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-people-confirm-they-don-t-need-spec-1839033177/

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 1d

It’s to evil and fucked up ends and he should never be viewed with anything other than contempt, but he is by far the most frightening and effective person I’ve come across in the MAGA fascist movement.

Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 1d

This is true and any credible journalist should be able to see through Fuentes’ bullshit. But he is genuinely one of the most effective communicators I’ve come across, he’s incredibly talented at knowing what audience he’s speaking to and adapting his messaging to them.

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 1d

Y'all ain't getting free until Black people are getting free. Sorry, tough cookies! It's because you hate seeing us free so bad you're in such a pickle.

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

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 1d

Very excited to read more, you’ve really inspired me to go harder in my own fiction writing! Appreciate everything you do

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The LA Reporter @thelareporter.bsky.social · 1d

LAPD turns out in force to Westlake CARE+ operation: ‘We were raided, treated like criminals’

thelareporter.la/p/lapd-turns...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman (Horrifying) @josie.zone · 1d

CONSPIRACY THEORIST: If you watch the Zapruder FIlm closely, you'll see the truth

FILM SNOB: I thought the Zapruder Film had third-act problems, personally

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 1d

There were some really sharp folks on here when this place first started picking up traction but they all got shouted down or marginalized in favor of a lot of Blue MAGA types

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Carter Moon @cartermoon.bsky.social · 1d

@jordanharper.bsky.social captures what makes Southern California both terrifying and thrilling to live in. Give him a read!

Becoming Enthralled With Jordan Harper’s Southern California

Jordan Harper sees California for what it is: a sprawling mass of perfect sunsets and dangerous people; a vibrating, living organism of corruption and greed, but also a place where people routinely pu...

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 2d

If you haven't heard yet, stopice.org is a fake website made BY ice themselves and it would be a shame if they received thousands of submissions under Stephen Miller's name

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

We don't know how many people they took. The last update I got from a source I trust was between three and six, and they weren't even entirely sure about that range. ICE was also far more aggressive with our rapid responders today, pulling guns on at least three people and arresting one volunteer.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 2d

ICE hit our area hard again today. I spent the morning and afternoon on patrol, and then came home for Understory, the emotional and spiritual support group for activists I co-facilitate. @tanuja.bsky.social was going to cover for me, but I decided I needed to be there, for my sake. I was right.

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Faizah Malik (she/her) @faizahforla.bsky.social · 2d

The Westside was built by Latino families—on ranchos, along rail lines, and in neighborhoods that still carry that legacy. As national policies grow increasingly hostile towards our immigrant neighbors, it’s important to recognize the irreplaceable contributions of these communities.

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