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onion person @junlper.beer · 6h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1h

The subtext of this comment is that the Mayor of Boston is Asian-American, whereas the Mayor of Chicago (like almost everyone else that Trump refers to as “a low IQ person”) is Black.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "Boston had a bad mayor who at least is a reasonable IQ person. Most of them are low IQ. I mean, what's going on in Chicago ... "

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Block Club Chicago @blockclubchi.bsky.social · 1h

Block Club Chicago has launched a WhatsApp channel focused on Chicago immigration news. blockclubchi.co/47r4SXN

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 3h

One, these are people well over 30 with high-ranking professional jobs.

Two, white kids having a "Nazi phase" is not normal. Any kid who has one is a morally deranged freak due to **** parenting. Stop being racist against your own people just because you personally are spiritually substandard.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

JD Vance said today on the TPUSA podcast that these guys were “just a bunch of kids in a chat room.” bsky.app/profile/blue...

Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 5h

These are some of the leaked messages Young Republicans were sending in group chats.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 5h

J.D. Vance says it's OK to joke about gas chambers, rape, and "watermelon people", but if you quote Charlie Kirk you'll get your VISA revoked

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 5h

“Chicago’s been doing just fine, and then these guys showed up,” said one Chicago City Council member. “There is big concern about what these unidentified, masked men are doing in this city without accountability. Chicagoans are just trying to live their life.” www.commondreams.org/news/chicago...

'Terrifying Escalation' as Trump's Federal Troops Bring War-Like Scenes and Chaos to Chicago | Common Dreams

Federal immigration enforcement officials escalate operations in Chicago, sparking violent clashes with protesters. Gov. Pritzker demands accountability.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 5h

the entire conservative project these days is built off of making it illegal to dislike them or say rude things about them even in private

it is not enough to be in charge, or even feared, they must be adored

or else

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 6h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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the kat from HOUSE (1977) @dogunderwater.bsky.social · 5h

imho it's just a social split: the young republicans wanted to interact with the rest of society, and the people who joined YAF or TPUSA didn't care about alienating their peers and developed a persecution complex about no one liking them...but that doesn't mean the YRs weren't racist too

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 22h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 5h

protesting genocide: we need to purge antisemitism from college campuses

praising hitler and gas chambers: boys will be boys, cancel culture is out of control

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 5h

This young republican leader thinks he's superior based on one thing: his looks. Because he's white, he feels entitled to be a "supremacist." I respect that you disagree but in this context I believe his looks are fair game.

TheRealGChu @therealgchu.bsky.social · 5h

love you frank, but don't shame based on looks. there's a million other reasons to shame these POS, but looks shouldn't be one of them.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 6h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Mockingbird, MPH, CHES @amockingbird.bsky.social · 15h

Spoiler alert- it was a Catholic hospital. I’ve been reading stories about people being denied miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy care at Catholic hospitals for well over a decade now, and people have definitely died because of these policies, but maternal mortality data is imperfect.

Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 16h

“Please someone listen to me, I don’t want to die”

These are the words of a woman named Harmonie who had an ectopic pregnancy

Her obgyn refused to help, citing a
1% chance the fetus could survive

She lives in a blue state & still couldn’t access the life saving care she needed

Illinois Woman Denied Treatment for Ectopic Pregnancy

10.14.25

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. 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.

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Adam Reck @adamreck.bsky.social · 1d

"Ninja" is the third in a series of retro X-titles (Savage Land Rogue, White Queen) that have zero story reasons to exist beyond selling cheesecake variant covers of "sexy ladies." But Psylocke Ninja has the additional issue of an enormously problematic version of the character at its core.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 15h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 7h

King George III in early 1776

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 16h

It’s worth remembering that this was the explicit intention of many civil rights marches—regular Black southerners in their Sunday best, facing off against militarized police. It’s why those images of the children’s march in Birmingham (1963) or Bloody Sunday at Selma (1965) are so iconic.

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 20h

One person on this list is a school counselor at a high school down the street from me and she’s been purged from the website so fast Google cache doesn’t know about it yet

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 18h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 18h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 19h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

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Dave Weigel @daveweigel.bsky.social · 19h

You can say amazing things if you know that the follow-up question will be "wow."

(Smith didn't plant anything at Mar-a-Lago because he was hired months after it was searched.)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 18h

Chicago today

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