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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 26m

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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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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River_Tam @rivertam.bsky.social · 37m

The solution is to not have schools suck.

Public education in this country is how every child and parent gets exposed to the idea that the government runs a Kafkaesque and labyrinthine bureaucracy that resists oversight and intervention.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 50m

Scott Bessent going “erm ackshually Tariffs aren’t a tax, they’re just a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions”

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I don't think I've seen a network TV news report more transparently full of shit since maybe 2003, right before we invaded Iraq

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 44m

"blue hair" is a somewhat anachronistic term for elderly ladies and I guess in that sense he's not wrong, there's a lot of normie grandparents at these things

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 56m

Rep. Pat Harrigan: "This No Kings rally -- that's the blue hair, anthropomorphic experiment that's gonna happen up here in Washington DC."

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 48m

One thing that's striking is how many comedians were willing to tell Riyadh to fuck off, and how many actors decided to take the Rowling project.

(VFP) Strategic Gravitas Reserve @braak.bsky.social · 49m

anyway I keep thinking about the Riyadh festival and also that new Harry Potter audiobook thing, and how the whole project these days seems to be to just streamline everyone so they don't have anything like ethics or morals or anything else that will get in the way of Producing or Consuming.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 42m

"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."

Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 52m

Spent my first three-ish years as US DOJ attorney going after the mountain of harm created by this guy & I am sad to report that he is making sense.

Kavanaugh stops are a destructive expansion of the discretion already afforded to police & are an affront to the 4th amendment & due process rights.

Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 1h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 41m

where have i heard this before

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 43m

"It’s getting worse. I mean this neither as an expression of hyperbole nor a cry of alarm. I mean this simply as a factual statement about where we are." And more than three quarters of Trump 2.0 left.

Today's Morning Shots from @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social:

It’s Getting Worse.

The Trump administration’s assault on the rest of us is intensifying.

www.thebulwark.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

lol

He may come to free himself from the worst of Francis’s legacy, one so full of doctrinal ambiguity and a unilateral progressivist interpretation of Catholic teaching. But at this point Leo seems to uncritically accept humanitarianism as his default position. His political theology is thus not in any decisive respect Augustinian.

This is on display in his Apostolic Exhortation Dilexi Te (“I Have Loved You”): On Love For the Poor. This is a document inherited from Pope Francis, but which no doubt has been marked by Leo’s own distinctive emphases and his more self-consciously theological and Christocentric approach. It contains a great deal of wisdom about the love of the poor that is central to the message of both Scripture and Tradition, without which the commandments “To love God” and “To love your neighbor as yourself” risk becoming very thin reeds, indeed.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 2h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 1h

And the professional ethics side of it!

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Buttadeus @thewanderingjew.bsky.social · 1h

oh COME THE FUCK ON Ezra

David Marx @digthatdata.bsky.social · 1h

jfc... now klein is platforming yud.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 17h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1h

I am begging the users of this site to learn how to read.

“Credit quality metrics were very strong with 30+ day delinquencies 12 bps lower than expected (*down 39 bps YoY*), charge-offs 4% lower than expected (*down 16% YoY*), provisions for credit losses 22% lower than expected (*down 28% YoY*)”

Jack Scrambo @scrambojambo.bsky.social · 1h

the qualifier “higher than expected” doing a lot of heavy lifting here. still sounds pretty fucking bleak to me

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 13h

This isn’t freedom.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 13h

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 · 14h

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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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 1h

this is 5000% correct. bring a couple friends and you'll run the joint.

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

I don’t know how many people have actually internalized this, but the vast majority of local Democratic operations are staffed and run by blue-haired little old ladies who have been doing this for 40 years and are funding it with bake sales, and are keeping the flame alive in a time when parties are as weak as they’ve ever been. If you are under the age of 50 and you show up and act normal for, like, 3 months, they will do whatever you want because they’re so excited to have a young person there. Parties are weak right now because of some factors that are outside of our control, but a lot of factors are within our control and the big one is that we just haven’t paid enough attention to the atomic-level units, and party infrastructure. If you strengthen those, then party identity as a whole will follow. Party strength as a whole will follow.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 10h

from my WIFL interview with @jdandeneau.bsky.social

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gzt aka zoidberg @giziti.bsky.social · 1h

a man with glasses and a beard is saying this is how i win

ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is saying this is how i win

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 2h

Not once have I seen an explanation for why teenagers must hear things that upset them in virtue of the unspecified speech-acts being upsetting, nor have I ever seen an explanation for why teenagers will be forbidden to express displeasure with upsetting things.

William Hague: Why I’ll banish ‘safe spaces’ at Oxford
The new chancellor tells Cheltenham Literature Festival that there will be no ‘cancel culture’ and students should expect to hear things that upset them
October 14 2025, The Times
The new chancellor of Oxford University has said there will be no safe spaces for students and warned would-be undergraduates that they will “hear things that will upset and offend them”.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 3d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Stephen C. Rea @stevierea.bsky.social · 21h

Fuentes’s media tour over the past ~6 months has been wild to witness. The podcast circuit is one thing—first it was Alex Jones, in the past week it’s been Dave Smith, Sneako, Red Scare, and Gavin McInnes—but the NYT and GQ is another, worse thing. Why give this guy the attention he craves?

Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 1d

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3h

The only reason I’m able to do the research I do is an NSF fellowship that let me take risks. The Trump admin has cut the number of these and restricted who can get them. Yet another unforced error.

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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 3h

Schutzstaffel.

ICE's use of full-body restraints during deportations raises concerns over inhumane treatment

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations.

apnews.com

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