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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah, but Hitler won is the real problem in this fake ass framing. Who cares why they did it, when the result was winning the trifecta twice?

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 3h

sorry, i know it’s an annoying catch phrase, but that’s kind of the point:

THEY DO NOT BREAK US, THEY BREAK UPON US.

we win this together, there are far more of us than them, and we want it more than they do.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 9h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 4h

Looks like a good read, but that guy blocks me and I have no idea why. What did I ever do to offend the Vermont Democratic Party??

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Omri Marian @omrimarian.bsky.social · 5h

When I said months ago that ICE is going to be filled soon with J6ers and proud boys people told me I'm just being alarmist.

Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: I took a long look at the Proud Boys and found some of their most extreme chapters are sharing ICE recruiting materials on encrypted apps and even suggesting members have joined up. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/in-the-...

The first
Antifa
Counter Terrorism
Task Force
Trump already gave so many of us jobs with ICE. We may have to start recruiting soon to fill all these spots.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 5h

Neoliberalism requires that police arrest you for not expressing your first amendment rights at the correct time while fascists wage a terror campaign around them.

And people try to claim neoliberalism isn’t authoritarian

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 9h

Broadview police in conjunction with ISP has arrested a protester for not dispersing from the free speech zone after curfew.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 13h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · Nov 23

Over and over again, all around the world

A black-and-white cartoon of a flock of sheep in a field with a billboard showing a wolf in a suit, and the words "I AM GOING TO EAT YOU" censored. One sheep comments to another at the bottom, "He tells it like it is." The scene humorously depicts a straightforward, if grim, political message. Cartoon by Paul Noth.

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 5h

WE'RE GOING TO REVOLUTIONIZE THE BUSINESS WORLD, REPLACING MANY OF YOUR EMPLOYEES AND SUPERCHARGING THE REST. WE ARE A SERIOUS BUSINESS PRODUCT.

also we're going to be a text only phone sex line. But anyway, can we focus on the enterprise business applications that will be coming out any day now.

Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 5h

Those long walks through the showroom would be a lot more tolerable if you kept wandering into porno shoots.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 7h

Do you do this if your business is going well?

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 7h

OpenAI CEO announces they will soon allow verified adults to use ChatGPT to generate erotic content.

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 6h

a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

ALT: a man wearing glasses and a black suit stands in front of a green field

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 15h

a couple of people have criticized this "but what if you do bad things with all that power" but like. look around you. the right has already grasped the power at hand and is using it. "republicans use the state to advance their goals; democrats unilaterally disarm" is not a sustainable equilibrium!

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

one thing that has been obvious for a while is this aspect of the authoritarian internationale: they recognize that their allies abroad are not *countries* but *political movements* within foreign countries.

time we liberals woke up and recognized this--because it's the truth.

Rigorous, Fred-based Reporting @thefred.bsky.social · 1d

Or maybe, just maybe, what was obvious in 2024 was correct: Netanyahu fully backed Trump and would not deal with Biden because Trump would give him a free hand to escalate the starvation, bombing, and do full ethnic cleansing. Which he then did, until Netanyahu embarrassed him by bombing Qatar.

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Chris Miller @iamcurious.bsky.social · 7h

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Con Flambers @themagicconch19.bsky.social · 8h

The Supreme Court, in an unsigned opinion, issued a stay on the order by a judge in Chicago that ICE "could not beat old ladies selling tamales." When told in an interview that the ruling could cause the public to view the Court negatively, John Roberts said he found the assertion "outrageous."

Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 8h

every ruling out of chicago is like, "federal judge rules ICE agents cannot desecrate graves; must not deploy nuclear weapons against journalists and faith leaders."

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Alex Degen (Magic Serple 2025) @adactivity.bsky.social · 15h

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 16h

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 8h

This is an abandonment of the most vulnerable trans youth, for whom Fenway Health was often a provider of last resort, and signals Fenway’s willingness to abandon all trans patients.

They must be pressured over this capitulation. We need your help - reach out, call, demand answers!

kitt kogut @himdianajones.bsky.social · 17h

Let them know what you think.

Gov. Healey: 617-725-4005
AG Campbell: 617-727-2200
Fenway: 617-267-0900

cis Bostonians specifically, we need you to step up. I'm already seeing my local trans circles raise hell about this, but we need you, too. I wrote a phone script. Use it and spread it:

Hello, my name is [name] and I'm a [transgender] constituent living in [City], Massachusetts. I'm calling to bring to Gov. Healey's attention the deeply alarming development coming from Fenway Health, in which they've recently announced they will no longer provide gender affirming healthcare to patients under the age of 19 in order to retain their federally recognized status. This is in utter direct violation of our state constitution, specifically Chapter 127, in which quote, "Access to reproductive health care services and gender-affirming health care services is a right secured by the constitution and laws of the commonwealth. Interference with this right, whether or not under the color of law, is against the public policy of the commonwealth." This is also in contradiction of Boston declaring itself a sanctuary city for transgender people, the resolution which states Boston has, quote, "a specific commitment to protecting transgender and gender-diverse individuals. Taxpayer-funded agencies shall not comply with federal efforts to strip resources that safeguard their rights. Boston will not cooperate with federal or state policies that harm transgender and gender-diverse people and remains committed to ensuring their access to healthcare...without fear or discrimination."

As Massachusetts' first openly gay Governor, I'm aware that this past August Gov. Healey signed updated Shield laws protecting gender affirming healthcare in Massachusetts. Jordina Shanks, the CEO of Fenway Health herself, said these protections are quote, "a landmark victory for health care, human dignity... and that Massachusetts stands as a national beacon of equity and compassion." I am in complete and utter disgust, yet unsurprised, that a leading institution in gender affirming healthcare is capitulating to federal threats that are not law, and acting in direct opposition to the city of Boston and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. This is a deep betrayal of their transgender patients. I urge Gov. Healey to bring all powers of the state to investigate and reverse this gross over-compliance on the part of Fenway Health.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 9h

Re: Booker's non-answer about Netanyahu on I've Had It

excited for every ambitious
corporate dem to go on this podcast expecting softballs from wine moms and instead absolutely disqualifying themselves in front of the 2028 primary electorate
I've Had It Podcast & @iveh... • 3h
It's a simple yes or no question

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 8h

Yep another U.S. attorney who Trump HANDPICKED this time around who team trump quickly determined: nope sorry not authoritarian enough, next

Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 9h

Extraordinary NYT story:

Trump’s DOJ pressured out another US Attorney in WESTERN Virginia for finding that a grand jury probe his bosses demanded was unwarranted.

They wanted a case discrediting the Russia probe — evidence be damned. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Attorney Was Forced Out After Clashes Over How to Handle Russia Inquiry

www.nytimes.com

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 9h

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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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 8h

"“How do we frame that, you know, in a way that's not seen as censorship?” Ron McFall, assistant dean of strategy and administration at the Media School, asked in that meeting."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 8h

And here's a link to a letter from the IDS editors about the firing of the student newspaper director.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

LETTER FROM THE EDITORS: IU fires student media director after he refused to censor the IDS

Indiana University directed the IDS to stop printing news.

www.idsnews.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 9h

I love this so much. Funny, sweet, hopeful, and kind of bad-ass.

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 8h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 9h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16h

“Under communism we will have no bananas anymore and it will be good”-ass Atlantic article.

The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17h

Tariffs have rapidly increased the price of coffee—a drink with almost no nutritional value and lots of functional substitutes. Yet coffee may also be the one thing Americans can’t live without, @elcush.bsky.social writes:

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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