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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 30m

Elon’s Twitter is losing its shit about the multitude of statements from GOP organizations condemning the Young Republicans.

They didn’t realize the “overton window shift” was an illusion maintained by the national media not making normies aware of what freaks they are

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 1h

Vance on firing randoms who made Charlie Kirk jokes: Call them out, and hell, call their employer. We don't believe in political violence, but we do believe in civility."

Vance on Hitler worship, rape fantasies, and gas chamber hopes: “People who are upset are clutching at pearls.”

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 3h

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3h

Trump really said “guess I’m built different” at the memorial for one of his supporters who was assassinated 😭😭😭

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3h

This is especially funny considering someone who works for the Trump administration leaked the messages

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 9h

“If we ever had a leak of this chat we would be cooked fr fr” is Gen Z for “We are currently clean on OPSEC”

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 9h

Your annual reminder that Politico is owned by a German billionaire who asked his execs to pray for a Trump victory

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 9h

How dare anyone call the racist, Hitler worshippers “Nazis”!!! Don’t you know you are inciting violence when you call the person who wants to put their enemies in a gas chamber a “fascist”!!

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

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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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 13h

American Christians: Thank you, Trump, the greatest Christian President of all!

Trump, unprompted, repeatedly: They're saying it's hard for a rich man to get into Heaven, folks. Like a camel through a needle's eye. And camels are the biggest—you've never seen something so big. It's not happening.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump: "I don't think there's anything that's gonna get me in heaven. I think I'm not maybe heaven bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One. I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven."

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

The Augustinian Pope quoted Hannah Arendt? Yeah, that makes sense.

#amormundi

Saw the Augustinian Pope quoting Arendt?

anon pls

Likely place for him to be

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 2d

According to point 4, Trump, John Eastman, other co-conspirators, and the January 6th rioters are domestic terrorists

onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

this is the list of ideological identifiers laid out in the NSPM-7 that would predict violence, and are all of course, incredibly reasonable positions or just ridiculous framing, like “extremism on gender” which is just being pro-trans:

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3d

Unfortunately this is holding up

@classicvirtues.bsky.social
Maybe the defining film image of our current moment:

“FIRST REFORMED CHURCH
EST. 1767 -
WILL GOD FORGIVE US?” on church sign in Paul Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 3d

Agree. Both are true.

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Ryan Nanni @celebrityhottub.bsky.social · 4d

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

Operation Warp Speed is one of the best things Trump ever did (an unqualified good) but putting RFKjr in charge of HHS will undo that good a hundred fold.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

Trump got a Covid vaccine today.

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Erin Lockwood @erinkaylockwood.bsky.social · 4d

God has no body but yours
No hands, no feet on earth but yours
No plague of frogs to condemn tyrannical rule but yours

- St. Teresa of Avila

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Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 4d

You need a lot more than *just* street raves in goofy costumes to stop fascism, but it should be a go to strategy whenever fascists are trying to portray some place as a terrifying war zone.

Fun, effective counter-propaganda.

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mbbendt @bendts2cents.bsky.social · 4d

Pretty sure that when you have giant frogs everywhere, God is very disappointed in how you are treating immigrants.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 4d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

Agree.

I just know some charismatic prophecy preacher will point to this as fulfilling the scriptures lol

Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

[Hyperventilating because the internet is being deceived into thinking the trans antifa frogs are not dangerous]

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 4d

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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ustadh 🔒 @dragoman.bsky.social · 4d

In the first century we called this the "Johannine community"

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Chanting, "we are the body of Christ! The body of Christ will be free!"

This crowd has swelled considerably. Few hundred here now.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

She’s such a strange woman…

One of my favorites takes of her involves her posting about how Martin Luther never drove over anyone with a car:

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · Jan 4

“Martin Luther might have been antisemitic but he didn’t drive a car over anyone trying to have fun” is a “well, actually” take that only a writer at The Atlantic could come up with.

Amazing.

Caitlin Flanagan: You never hear of a radicalized Lutheran causing any trouble.

@mwelch62: Well, the first one — Martin — was a handful.

Caitlin Flanagan: True but he didn't drive over people trying to have some fun

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

I, for one, do not want to be “like a daughter” to, of all people, Woody Allen…

@CaitlinPacific

I've missed hearing Woody Allen's voice - l'd been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self.
@bariweiss is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are.

Order Life with Baum!

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 4d

In this recent short story from Nobel Prize winner, László Krasznahorkai, one wounded Ukrainian preaches the gospel of a brave new digital world to another wounded Ukrainian, as Russian rockets fly overhead (Benjamin’s ‘Angel of History’ lingers in the subtext): yalereview.org/article/kras...

László Krasznahorkai: “An Angel Passed Above Us”

A short story by László Krasznahorkai: “I’m open to anything, he said, pushing the AK-74 a bit farther away and reaching under his bulletproof vest to…

yalereview.org

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