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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 22h

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 2h

“I was just following orders”

Wings & Strings@TomColetti
*Slaps buzzer*
"What is the Nuremberg Defense"

Newsweek @Newsweek • 2h
ICE agents complain about Nazi comparisons, say they're only enforcing the laws

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 2h

Between priests & pastors — I’d say the church has a pedophile problem

A WEST VIRGINIA MAGA PASTOR WHO WORE CHARLIE KIRK "FREEDOM" SHIRT DURING SERMON, KEVIN CURTIS JONES, HAS BEEN ARRESTED FOR SOLICITING A MINOR AND DISTRIBUTION OF CHILD SEX ABUSE IMAGES.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 1h

Seems like a great time to have a functioning govt to help coordinate rescue efforts and resources.

But #Republicans are really focused on taking away healthcare from millions of ppl

ALASKA EMERGENCY - MASSIVE FLOODING
WESTERN ALASKA DEVASTATED. TYPHON HALONG.
SEARCH & RESCUE UNDERWAY. POWER OITAGES. LIMITED COMMNC.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 30m

They arrested a giraffe.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1h

PORTLAND — Robby Roadsteamer grabbed by ICE for singing… 🎵

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Hey Cordeiro @heyacordeiro.bsky.social · 14m

What happened in January? 🧐🙄

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 40m

"Adding to the train wreck, Halligan’s appointment as US attorney may not even be legal, meaning that the indictment is a legal nullity … which may actually be the least embarrassing outcome here for the Justice Department." — @lizdye.bsky.social

The 1,287,923 defects in the Comey case ... so far

Welcome to the Rocket Docket, Lindsey Halligan!

www.publicnotice.co

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Hey Cordeiro @heyacordeiro.bsky.social · 4h

Bearded white guy’s a racist piece of shit. Go figure. 🙄

Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 5h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 4h

We'd better build more AI data centers, AI will fix this problem for us --

*waits five years*

The oceans have boiled and the drinking water is gone but at least all the intellectual property has been stolen and now I can use AI to create a really accurate representation of Batman fucking Pikachu

Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 4h

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

- CO2 in the air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening
@wmo-global.bsky.social

#climatecrisis
Story by me
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Record leap in CO2 fuels fears of accelerating global heating

CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

www.theguardian.com

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Here’s your reminder that one of DHS’s main jobs is disaster response, not cutting promos about terrorizing immigrants. Thousands have been displaced. Where’s Trump? Where’s Kristi Noem? Where’s FEMA?

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

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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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 7h

Tricia Squire, 19, knows that her sensitivity to her environment and unique perspective on the world may seem like autistic traits, but they are actually proof that she represents the next stage of human evolution.

Highly sensitive indigo child just glad she’s nothing like those autistics

A supernaturally gifted woman has expressed relief that her otherworldly powers can never be mistaken for something as mundane as autism, according to sources. Tricia Squire, 19, knows that her…

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The Steady State @steadystatevets.bsky.social · 11h

The rule of law means future accountability must always remain possible. DHS is implying that accountability itself is illegitimate - a stunning rejection of democratic norms.

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 6h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 4h

Talk about indoctrination…

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 7h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 15h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 4h

Remember when Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski told a room of nonprofit leaders “we are all afraid”? Then in July, she cast the crucial yes vote for Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” hoping to stay in his good graces. I wonder how she feels today, with Alaska underwater and no help coming.

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Race Bannon @racebannon.bsky.social · 1d

This is brilliant. I wonder how many frogs are going to show up on October 18th.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 21h

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle—we'd call that a kidnapping. Until an alleged ICE agent identifies themselves, that's what this is.

For all we know they're a rapist murderer stalker looking for their next victim. Indefensible. Dem leadership must act NOW.

2/2

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Churlayla 86.47 @churlayla.bsky.social · 23h

Only 79 yr old in history to have ear cartilage grow back.

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22h

BREAKING:

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Thomas Zeitzoff @zeitzoff.bsky.social · 17h

I think there’s a comfort in blaming our current politics on social media.

When I think a boring but more accurate story is that plutocratic tech elites and right-wingers *made a lot of choices*.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/o...

Edsall from NYT: “ The rise of the smartphone and the fall of western democracy”

In an Oct. 2 essay posted in Persuasion, “It’s the Internet, Stupid: What Caused the Global Populist Wave? Blame the Screens,” Fukuyama, after nearly a decade of examining the causes of rising global populism, wrote, “I have come to conclude that technology broadly and the internet in particular stand out as the most salient explanations for why global populism has arisen in this particular historical period, and why it has taken the particular form that it has.”

The advent of the internet, Fukuyama continued,

can explain both the timing of the rise of populism, as well as the curious conspiratorial character that it has taken. In today’s politics, the red and blue sides of America’s polarization contest not just values and policies, but factual information like who won the 2020 election or whether vaccines are safe.

The two sides inhabit completely different information spaces; both can believe that they are involved in an existential struggle for American democracy because they begin with different factual premises as to the nature of the threats to that order.

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