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Texas Krusty @texaskrusty.bsky.social · 5h

For some reason, this ‘Young Republicans discovered to be total racists’ makes me think of this classic.

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Why Do All These Homosexuals Keep Sucking My Cock?

Look, I’m not a hateful person or anything–I believe we should all live and let live. But lately, I’ve been having a real problem with these homosexuals. You see, just about wherever I go these days, ...

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RI Smith @rismith.bsky.social · 6h

No one can say no to being my friend

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 6h

If I have to use the cat to promote public scholarly resources, I will.

Biscuits lives for public scholarship. She loves when you get your work and voice out there. She loves it more than sleeping on her back like a little freak while looking up to you for sharing your expertise with the world.

A mackerel tabby cat lying on her back on the carpet with white paws and belly face up.

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

oh good I was worried the utterly unearned Vanity Fair editor job was all she got for violating the most basic rules of journalism

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

Journalists should ask every Republican they encounter whether they consider the things said by these Young Republicans to be deplorable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 7h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 14h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 8h

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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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

FOX: You said last week that you would swear in Grijalva whenever she wants. She has written a letter to your office. You have not sworn her in. Doesn't your resistance add fuel to the fire that this is about Epstein?

MIKE JOHNSON: No. This is another partisan manufactured thing

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 8h

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents.

ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities.

The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

An ICE agent throws a tear gas canister at protesters at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

Federal immigration enforcement agents detain a protester during a skirmish at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent points a crowd control weapon at a protester Tuesday at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

A Chicago Police Department officer washes his face after being exposed to tear gas during a protest at East 105th Street and South Avenue N in East Side.

Photo Credit: Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times

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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 7h

Launched last year by the Chicago Department of Transportation and the Department of Finance, the Smart Streets pilot program uses camera technology on City vehicles – and now CTA buses – to enforce parking and standing violations in bus and bike lanes and bus stops.

Starting October 15, the City of Chicago will use camera technology installed on CTA buses to issue warnings via mail to vehicles parked in bus lanes, bike lanes, and bus stops. All images will be reviewed by enforcement personnel before warnings are issued.

Following this 30-day warning period, fines will be issued to vehicles parked illegally in bus lanes, bus stops, and bike lanes.

Help us keep transportation in Chicago safe, reliable, and accessible for all!
Learn more at Chicago.gov/SmartStreets

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R. Eric VanNewkirk @sotsogm.bsky.social · 7h

Your regular reminder that what's behind the saying "a few rotten apples" isn't that a few rotten apples in a barrel is a small problem, it's that rotting apples generate chemicals that trigger identical reactions in adjacent apples, quickly spoiling the entire barrel.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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David Austin Walsh @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social · 9h

If only someone had written a book warning about this…

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 12h

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...

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 8h

At this point I assume they are all a danger to women

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

I hereby coin a Perlstein's law: when a movement flushes out a critical mass of never-before activists-- like the Christian Right and BLM both did--serious possibilities for change open up.

We shall overcome.

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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 9h

This is what I've had the privilege to watch happening in Chicago:

A genuine social moment, so new and spontaneous (though not without antecedents and seedbeds) it doesn't even yet have a theory or "ideology." Just: people doing....

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 8h

"those young republicans were practicing politics the right way"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 9h

super smart to share your sexual fantasies with technofascists in a country too corrupt to pass a baseline internet privacy law

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Justin Sherin @wychstreet.bsky.social · 9h

If you took a job in 1880 as a rich person's amanuensis, you could at least do visiting cards, letters to The Times, bank manager, son in India, etc. Time to work on your penny-a-word novel, probably. This person seems to believe they're George S. Kaufman.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

I’m pretty sure they don’t even let you *run* for Congress as a Republican unless you’ve got at least one (1) restraining order from a former girlfriend half your age.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 9h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 9h

fits right in with

The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything

The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Mitch Wolfe @whrwlfthrwlf85v.bsky.social · 1d

Altman's dad was a real estate broker & his mom was a dermatologist. He went to a private prep school & dropped out of Stanford after 2 years. Since age 19, all he's done is get investors for tech companies he co-found then later sold, or invest in other people's work. He's never done real work.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 1d

don't worry, Sam Altman is confident that his efforts to eliminate vast numbers of jobs will all just sort of work out for the unemployed, eventually, possibly after they starve to death, which is technically a form of having it work out

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Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren't Even "Real Work" to Start With

Worried that AI will destroy work? Well, Sam Altman asks if you've considered what a farmer from half a century ago thinks of your job, first.

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