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Jake_Vig @jakevig.bsky.social · 14h

"We have a rising new Dem star who really engages with people, and is sure to win their next election."

DEM LEADERSHIP: That's fantastic.

"What are the next steps?"

DEM LEADERSHIP: Simple. Force them to step aside and throw their support behind this 80-year-old lifetime politician.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 9h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 9h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 9h

sometimes i find myself vocal stimming without even realizing it, and i've got some weird shit in the rotation.

more than once i've caught myself saying "heavens to murder-droid" in the pink panther voice in public and felt shame.

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 9h

it has the holy grail

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Osaka: None/bun - A sack of nuns @osakanone.bsky.social · 11h

remigrate is not a dog whistle, and is open nazi language

Remigration

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing[1] via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.[2][3] It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement.[4][5] Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.[6][7][8]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remigration

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The Louvre of Bluesky @thelouvreof.bsky.social · 9h

i goddamn knew it

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@dopestatistics... • 2h
I cant believe the president really said
"lol should have turned his head like me"

astarionx.bsky.social @astarion... • 55m
Kirk is alive. And so is Epstein.
They will be back as soon as Trump eliminates the two party system.

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Rowan Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 9h

You're telling me one episode is about someone complicit in a concentration camp attempting to make and example of himself to try and redeem the soul of his people and the very next episode is about religious fundamentalist terrorism???

this is what speculative fiction can DO

Rowan Zeoli @rowanzeoli.bsky.social · 10h

I'm watching Deep Space 9 for the first time and oh my GOD it's so fucking good

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👻 Pablo Hidalghost 👻 @infinata.bsky.social · 10h

My most dedicated stalker is using X: The Everything App to tell the Department of Homeland Security that I'm a violent left-wing extremist. 🧠✨

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

By reporting on how the new trustees have changed policies in ways that take power away from faculty and push more power to university administrators. 4/

And so much more...
www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Updated IU policy shifts faculty academic decision-making power toward administrators

A new policy changes the role of IU faculty on campus.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

By reporting on the governor's dismissal of Indiana University's elected Trustees, who he then replaced with his own appointees. 3/

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

‘Culture of fear’: Dismissed trustee Vivian Winston calls for change at IU

Indiana University's independent student newspaper.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

By reporting on the Indiana University faculty's overwhelming no-confidence vote in the (still serving) university president. 2/

www.idsnews.com/article/2024...

‘A vote is not a temper tantrum’: No confidence movement comes from years of tension

Faculty will decide whether to vote no confidence in Whitten and other administrators Tuesday.

www.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 10h

It doesn't surprise me that Indiana University is going after the student newspaper. The IDS has played a key role in holding the university administration accountable.

Including by reporting on the administration's investigation and intimidation of faculty 1/

specials.idsnews.com/steve-sander...

The pursuit of light and truth

Law Professor Steve Sanders’s battle with IU over reporting on presidential search process

specials.idsnews.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

This isn’t freedom.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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Brigitte @bptt.bsky.social · 10h

I think this picture from the article says a LOT about the kind of people the Federal government has brought in to brutalize protesters. More than a little excited to stop on people’s rights

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Alissa Azar @alissaazar.bsky.social · 11h

Members of the Unpresidented Brass Band were bull rushed & brutalized in the middle of playing "Ghostbusters." One was sent to the hospital and another tackled, arrested, and taken across state lines where she is still being detained.

Read more about Sunday's protest in Portland here:

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 12h

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

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Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 10h

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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 12h

California just became the latest state to require device-level age verification. Under AB 1043, users must verify their age when setting up a phone or downloading apps, forcing Apple & Google to build age-check systems into devices.
avn.com/news/legal/c...

California Governor Adopts Device-Level Age Verification Law AVN

California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, signed into law Assembly Bill (AB) 1043 on Monday, implementing an age verification regime that requires users' ages to be verified at the device operating…

avn.com

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 10h

This is no more lawful than if Iran / North Korea / whoever blew up a couple American yachts in the Mediterranean for suspected drug trafficking. On the legal spectrum it sits in the middle of a Venn diagram between overt acts of military aggression, state-sponsored terrorism, and simple murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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bring on the headless horses @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 11h

sincere question: do you think there will ever be a time when this administration is held responsible for its actions and punished accordingly?

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 15h

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.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 15h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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c.e. chant/hades 💀🐊 💬 too many comics @portaltohades.bsky.social · 1d

Im late but happy indigenous peoples day

"Is there any pro-native statue at badass as this inca warrior beating a conquistador in coica canyon, peru"

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cole1312💖💜💙 @cole1114.bsky.social · 11h

quick fix is toasting some bread, make patty melts.

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