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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

Williamson can be funny sometimes:

we needed to give the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) an opportunity to respond to the claims, which I hadn’t done. I emailed DHS, and Tricia McLaughlin, an assistant secretary of homeland security, gave me the reply I was expecting, which was very close to verbatim the reply DHS had given to others. And so I produced the following parenthetical:

(Journalistic convention compels me to note that Assistant Homeland Security Secretary Tricia McLaughlin called these allegations “disgusting and categorically FALSE,” all-caps in the original. The fact that I live on Earth and am not mentally disabled compels me to note that McLaughlin works for a serial fabulist, Kristi Noem, who works for another serial fabulist, Donald Trump, who once created an imaginary friend to lie to the New York Post about his sex life, in an administration packed to the gills with pathological liars such as J.D. Vance, who has an especial penchant for lying about poor, non-white immigrants who have the bad taste to move to places where there are white people, such as Springfield, Ohio. I wouldn’t want to mislead Dispatch readers into believing that DHS denials of these claims—or of anything else—are worth taking seriously. Hooray for journalistic convention.)

That was the toned-down version. My original draft (which I did not trouble my editors with) was a bit hotter, but substantively identical, just with a few extra gerunds that Declan would probably feel obliged to bowdlerize in keeping with our family-friendly house style here at The Dispatch.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · Aug 18

“General strike otaku” is definitely a Kind of Guy (non-gendered).

We can’t even break a few million people showing up to protests on a Saturday afternoon.

What happens if 0.7% of Americans do a “general strike” on Thursday, other than 0.45% of Americans being fired on Friday?

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 2h

arguing there’s no point in anyone trying to expose the serial killer next door to me because he’s already killed a bunch of people and it really wouldn’t be a surprise to most people who know him because his vibes have always been kinda serial killery

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Dara Lind @daralind.bsky.social · 2h

This is not a dunk on Hamed, but if you are a European seeking to resettle as a refugee in the United States you by definition do not “oppose migration.”

Hamed Aleaziz @haleaziz.bsky.social · 4h

NEW: The Trump administration is considering a radical overhaul of the U.S. refugee system that would slash the program to its bare bones while giving preference to English speakers, white South Africans and Europeans who oppose migration, according to documents.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 3h

"trivial things like whether or not my actions are literally, actually evil should have no impact on what people think of me"

Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 8h

"disliking me is persecution" describes so incredibly many people's entire outlook these days defector.com/free-press-r...

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

congratulations—this is incredibly well deserved

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

hey this is fun

Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 4h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

www.historians.org

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 4h

No 👏 Kings 👏 includes 👏 Draft 👏 Kings

Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 6h

CNN is covering prediction market odds from an online casino as if it’s actual polling data

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

one of the few silver linings of the awfulness of trump II has been his awful children have mostly stayed out of the spotlight, at least as far as I've seen

now that they've firmaly installed the tubes running between the presidency and trump business interests, i guess they have more time for this

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

if we are going to have a deluge of republicans being outed as loving nazis and nazi symbolism, right before the biggest day of mass protest in recent history, i will not object to this media cycle

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

jesus fucking christ, man. hard to think anything but they know damn well they're just murdering whoever and don't care.

this is literal, actual terrorism.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Eric Trump: "Now every single time a boat goes out of Venezuela it's getting blown up into a million pieces. That's exactly what's happening every single day. I personally have 4 friends who have lost children to fentanyl."

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 4h

people just love to say this stuff so much!

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

at some point, it seems likely we'll find out that jd vance eats his neighbors' pets

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

I‘m out of witty commentary. Either literally anything at all matters or it doesn’t.

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 5h

They can be 27 year-old “kids“ or they can be political operatives, but the idea that they get to play contact sports but everyone else has to play flag football with them is transparent horseshit.

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

almost as though all of this is bad-faith twisting of norms to advance something else

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 5h

one week it's a credible assassination threat if a former fed posts "8647," then it's "boys will be boys" when their staff "joke" about wanting to genocide minorities, etc., the next it's that no one who reacts to an extremist pundit's death without solemnity deserves a livelihood or to be in the us

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 7h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 7h

the party of personal responsibility, folks

jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 7h

Mike “I don’t know the details” Johnson

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 9h

a fun thing is reading about how many global left movements in the 60s and 70s were also basically this

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