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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Are you worried about extremist pro-Hitler sentiment among young Republicans?

JOHNSON: No. I don't know who any of these people are. I've never heard of them. Somebody posted a photo of me standing next to these guys wearing tuxedos. It was at the inauguration, people were coming up for selfies

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 1h

Give that reporter a cookie!

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h

Neo-Confederacy planning moves.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Israel returned the bodies of 45 Palestinians, all marked with numbers rather than names.

The bodies reportedly arrived with their hands and legs cuffed. Some were still blindfolded. Some had been shot. Others appear to have been run over by tanks.

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Bodies of 45 deceased Palestinians transferred from Israel to Gaza remain unidentified, Nasser hospital says
From CNN's Abeer Salman and Mohammed Tawfeeq

[photo of Red Cross refrigerator truck]

A truck carrying the bodies of Palestinians who had been held in Israel during the war, arrives at Nasser hospital on Tuesday.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 21h

Game changer! #Mpls

Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 21h

🚨Big news on tomorrow's episode. We will be releasing the results of our official mayoral poll. It shows Frey trailing in distant 4th place among the most likely voters: Wedge LIVE readers who cheat on Google form submissions.

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geri katz @gerikatz.bsky.social · 21h

This would land you in jail in a civilized country. But so would inciting an insurrection…

Politico @politico.com · 22h

EXCLUSIVE: Capitol Police are investigating a swastika found in GOP Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

“The content of that image does not reflect the values or standards of this office, my staff, or myself, and I condemn it in the strongest terms," Taylor said in a statement.

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 21h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 22h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 21h

Nobody ever wants to talk about or admit this but it happened.

Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social · 21h

Taking in refugees isn't just a nice thing we do — we have a legal obligation. The 1951 Refugee Convention came about specifically because countries like the US refused entry to Jews who were trying to escape Germany, because the world didn't ever want that to happen again.

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Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 23h

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 4d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 5d

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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David Marshall @funmandave.bsky.social · 5d

Context: the Trump administration has also made deep cuts to support for food banks.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 5d

Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank

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Minneapolis for the Many @mplsforthemany.com · 5d

A court found that the “landlord broke the law when he blocked democratic socialists from door knocking.”

Evidence at the hearing included testimony of a Zoom call where former Frey campaign manager Joe Radinovich advised landlords how to “inconvenience and stall candidates.”

Title text: "Malcolm Yards Malcontents Broke the Law" over the text, "During that meeting, Patricia Wall and Joe Radinovich, Frey's former campaign manager, discussed ways to inconvenience and stall the candidates within the confined of the law, testified Kelly Rogers, another attendee. Radinovich did not respond to provide comment." Next to a photo of Joe Radinovich.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 5d

The Trump administration has been spreading anti-vaccine propaganda for months. Tonight, Trump's physician announced he just received a flu shot and a COVID booster.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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C.A. Pinkham @eyepatchguy.bsky.social · 6d

I’m not kidding when I say these weird ass costumes and antics are actually an extremely effective tactic from a media standpoint bc when enough people do them, the media can’t fully scrub them out

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 6d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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MPR News @mprnews.org · 6d

The Minneapolis City Council passed a new ordinance that will require landlords who own properties repeatedly flagged for health and safety violations to face a public hearing before their licenses are renewed.

Negligent landlords to face tighter scrutiny in Minneapolis

The Minneapolis City Council passed a new ordinance that will require landlords who own properties repeatedly flagged for health and safety violations to face a public hearing before their licenses ar...

www.mprnews.org

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 6d

Trump’s retaliation tour continues. If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 6d

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 6d

far-right european parties have gone after circumcision and other ritual practices that are part of the observance of judaism and islam, like kosher and halal slaughter, as a way to deter immigration and maintain white supremacy. it is unsurprising that they are now trying to sneak it in here.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 7d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Senator Ruben Gallego @gallego.senate.gov · 7d

If Republicans don’t act 24 million Americans will be devastated by sky rocketing health care costs.

Speaker Johnson needs to call his people back and stop covering up for pedophiles.

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spooky tim dewey @tjdfotographist.bsky.social · 6d

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

Can you hear the words coming out of your mouth, Megan?

Yes, the guy who received so many threats because of your own actions he had to flee to Europe isn’t the real victim. No. You are, because people called you out.

Megyn Doyle, a student at Rutgers and the treasurer for the Turning Point USA chapter who started the Change.org petition to remove Bray, told Fox News Digital in a statement that Di Filippo's petition is slanderous.
"The petition once again proves that Conservative students are always on the receiving end of hate when speaking about concerning issues," Doyle said.

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