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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 8h

This is just how Republicans are behind closed doors, especially in the south. High income, low income, it doesn’t matter.

Ask me how I know.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 11h

Love it when Republicans try to tell me that I’m exaggerating about what Republicans are actually like behind closed doors.

No. They’re just pissed when people break their trust — AKA their white supremacist bro code — by telling the truth about what they’re like.

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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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 12h

Hahahahaha wait, was there a test?

"What did Secretary Shitfaced say about improving the military?"

"Um, something weird and homoerotic about manly perfection and warfighters?"

Ding ding ding!

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 12h

Hearing about the top down orders at DoD that everyone, civilians and uniforms had a certain period of time in which to either watch or read the transcript of Pete’s quantified speech.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 12h

MAGA Manbabies Getting REAL Scared Of ‘No Kings’ Day, Y’all www.wonkette.com/p/maga-manba...

MAGA Manbabies Getting REAL Scared Of ‘No Kings’ Day, Y’all

Hey, what if there was a No Kings protest every night?

www.wonkette.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 14h

It's because conservative Christian men are the prototypical Nazi bitches.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 17h

Only One Network Has Signed Hegseth's Knob-Slobbing Journalist Pledge, Three Guesses www.wonkette.com/p/only-one-n...

Only One Network Has Signed Hegseth's Knob-Slobbing Journalist Pledge, Three Guesses

Not. Even. Newsmax.

www.wonkette.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

He fucks her. She fucks him. They both fuck humanity.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 1d

What’s the word for an adulterous relationship involving a man, a woman and a federal department? nymag.com/press/articl...

On the Cover: Kristi Noem, Corey Lewandowski, and Trump’s Police State

Washington correspondent Ben Terris writes the definitive account of the Department of Homeland Security under Secretary Noem.

nymag.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 1d

How does one distinguish between Trump‘s feds and common rapists?

Trick question, I reckon?

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

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 2d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2d

There’s basically one set of conditions where shining lasers at aircraft is a good idea, and that’s when the aircraft in question is actively attempting to kill you and the laser is the best thing you’ve got. We aren’t there yet, you do not want us to get there. Don’t shine lasers at aircraft.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

He’s not wrong

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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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 2d

Exactly. The entire conservative Christian life and worldview — especially for their men — are governed by institutionalized daddy issues. So they can’t imagine any conflict outside of the idea that somebody else’s daddy is trying to attack their daddy.

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 3d

And also 45-year-old Republican men who … wish their suburban parents would get off their back

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 3d

Is Pam Bondi the most debased, amoral liar in the country? Yeah probably.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 4d

When Russell Vought pushes something into the news on Friday night of a long weekend, is that a sign of strength — of a battle for public opinion he thinks he can win?

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 4d

The people who voted for Trump didn’t think they were driving a truck over a street full of people, but in effect they were. Many, many Americans will die because of the Trump regime’s destruction of our public health system.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

My God, Doug Wilson is a sick pervert.

(Remember, this is the religious leader who soothes Pete Hegseth’s bottomless masculine insecurities.)

Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 4d

Spending your time talking to someone who wants to relitigate slavery is definitely a choice you can make

Opinion | He Believes America Should Be a Theocracy. He Says His Influence Is Growing.

www.nytimes.com

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Julie DiCaro @juliedicaro.bsky.social · 4d

This opinion is clear and concise, and easily readable for laymen. Here's the link again if you want to go through it yourself.

www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

memorandum opinion and order – #70 in State of Illinois v. Trump (N.D. Ill., 1:25-cv-12174) – CourtListener.com

OPINION and Order. Signed by the Honorable April M. Perry on 10/10/2025. Mailed notice. (jcc,) (Entered: 10/10/2025)

www.courtlistener.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

Hey @indivisible.org is it too late to change the name from No Kings to “an outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes”?

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

“An outrageous gathering for outrageous purposes!”

Big HOW VERY DARE YOU! energy from the milquetoast little troll who calls himself speaker.

www.joemygod.com/2025/10/john...

Johnson: No Kings Day Will Be An "Outrageous Hate America Rally" Attended By Antifa, Marxists, Pro-Hamas - Joe.My.God.

“We’ve heard and many of have reported already that this hate America rally that they have coming up for October 18? The antifa crowd, the pro-Hamas crowd, and the Marxists, they’re all gonna gather o...

www.joemygod.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks

Not shedding that 'these people are fucking perverts' reputation anytime soon.

www.wonkette.com/p/trump-and-...

Trump And RFK Jr. Can Tell If Kids Are Autistic Just By Looking At Their Dicks

Not shedding that 'these people are fucking perverts' reputation anytime soon.

www.wonkette.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

Congratulations to Maria Corina Machado, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize - her incredible optimism has already changed her country. I spoke to her, and wrote about her, at the beginning of this year:
www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

The ‘Anthropological Change’ Happening in Venezuela

Maduro is still in place, but a pro-democracy movement is transforming the beleaguered country.

www.theatlantic.com

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

And now Venezuelan democracy activist gets the Nobel peace prize.

A. Mazing.

And congratulations to her!

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Evan Hurst @evanhurst.substack.com · 4d

He murders random Venezuelans in the middle of the sea on a regular basis now. (Sorry, I mean “drug cartels” in fishing boats from Venezuela, which supplies 0% of the United States’s fentanyl.)

He has been disappearing innocent Venezuelan men, claiming they’re in gangs because they have tattoos.

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