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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Prescott Rossi @prescottrossi.bsky.social · 1h

Keon Coleman, my man, do something.

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 3h

How many of these was JD in do we think

Politico @politico.com · 4h

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👇

‘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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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 1h

Agreed. Michelle Wu is great

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 1h

Because the media is fine with this.

Chance Phillips @chancephillips.bsky.social · 3h

A genuinely good piece of reportage in Politico today sheds some light on young Republicans’ love of racial epithets and other slurs. I definitely recommend reading it, but as I’ve explained before, I doubt this will lead to any sort of a reckoning for Republicans.

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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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

what

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“No one should live in the desert” bitch the desert southwest is home to many of the oldest continuously lived in communities in US.
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My hometown is believed to have been lived in for over 4,000 years. People find ways to live here.
Teeth‽‽‽
@localtoothfae
I feel like the rhetoric that deserts aren’t livable is super rooted in colonial ideals of living and ignores the multitudes of indigenous groups that call deserts their home
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Deserts are inherently unsuitable for long-term human settlement, which is NOT a “colonial ideal of living.”

Populations who live and succeed in living in deserts, such as the Bedouin, are small in population and nomadic.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

Hey, I wonder if CBS News has ever had a Jewish woman as president before?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Z...

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 1h

Right you used a slur to lie about stuff trying to sound edgy for...I have no idea.

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 1h

Is this dummy talking about Caesar salads?

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 1h

a man holding a microphone with the words what are you talking about behind him

ALT: a man holding a microphone with the words what are you talking about behind him

media.tenor.com

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · Sep 6

Basically, what we have here is a situation where you had China hawks and race war hawks and it turns out the latter outnumbered the former about 30:1 and them not realizing this fact was kinda loadbearing for the entirety of traditional establishment national security thought.

Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · Sep 6

The 2025 National Defense Strategy proves once and for all that the GOP China Hawks were who we thought they were: Complete and Total Frauds

The Final Evolution of the GOP China Hawk Frauds

They Are Who We Thought They Were

secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 2h

Walmart alert!

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 3h

it's deeply sad that certain parts of the Pro-Pali Left would rather lie and smear the second-most openly pro-Palastinian prominent elected political figure after Rashida Tlaib than concede an inch rhetorically.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

wow. bezos has destroyed this paper.

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 23h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 6h

Exactly

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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 18h

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 18h

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 11h

Sounds like you are fine with genocide under specific circumstances. We are not aligned.

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Sasho Todorov @sashotodorov.bsky.social · 18h

I get the impulse, but I want everyone to please seriously consider the chances of Biden actually being able to cut US support for Israeli anti-ballistic missile defense right at the peak of the Israel-Iran war of the cities.

He would have faced a revolt both within DoD and the Democratic party.

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 1d

There are literally hundreds of clearly labeled levers to pull, they exist on a spectrum and the State Department's job is to keep lists of them in filing cabinets. Not only did Biden fail to impose consequences, he was actively giving them scarce assets like THAAD

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Tron's evil twin brother Troff @tonygoldmark.bsky.social · 12h

i mean when you're running against authoritarians every time it's kinda the only possible strategy

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 1d

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 19h

What really also annoys me is there’s also a variant of this that seem to think that there’s some magic secret trick the national movement will play that will solve politics, possibly forever, that somehow isn’t also mass violence.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

the thing that annoys me about the 'elections won't save us' shit is that it's just a permission structure to wait for a powerful national social movement, and in their want a violent one, that *will never fucking exist*.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 1d

winning elections is pretty much the only way to solidify the gains of social movements though. and winning them often enough that they can't be immediately repealed.

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 20h

The voters demand poverty

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 20h

3M is antifa now

Kimberly Vega

@caligurlluv

Replying to @MrAndyNgo and @patrioticmouse

Interesting same pink gas mask as those whose them in Portland, Oregon!!!!!

Who's supplying them?!!!

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greenbirds.bsky.social @greenbirds.bsky.social · 20h

Stupid state

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