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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 5h

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10h

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 4h

The owner of Twitter just reinstated the accounts of several Nazi who had been suspending for violating Twitter's rules about doxxing other users. Now here's another piece on Bluesky's intellectual diversity problem.

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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 17h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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Jeremy Forbing @jeremyforbing.bsky.social · 16h

Anything to keep the Epstein files from coming out...

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 20h

Boyle: Mike Johnson and House Republicans have decided to do their own version of quiet quitting — they canceled session three weeks ago, they canceled session two weeks ago, and they’ve now canceled it last week and this week.

There is clearly no strategy there other than pure, sheer laziness

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers reut.rs/4qjMIyT

White House budget director Vought plans to shut down CFPB within months, says it's no longer protecting consumers

White House budget director Russell Vought said he wants to close the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and expects to do so within the next two to three months.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 20h

I refuse to tolerate negging in my personal life, and I’d really like more of my fellow Democrats to realize that it’s not actually their civic duty to subject themselves to reading columns by writers that do the same thing

whet moser @whetmoser.com · 20h

it's remarkable how negging is practically the price of admission for thinkfluencers. i started reading a piece in the argument — a blog explicitly *for liberals* — about rfk jr today and the thesis was "he's dangerous but elite liberals just don't get it, man."

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Kurtbert Barlowko @albertburneko.bsky.social · 1d

"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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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 19h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No one in the GOP Hitler chat was a "kid"

We checked. Sorry, JD Vance.

www.motherjones.com

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 18h

Don't get me wrong. Under the First Amendment, you have the right to say you love Hitler. You have the right to call Black people by a word we all know.

And the rest of us have the right to think you're a Nazi piece of shit. And we will. And we'll fire your sorry ass, too, fuckface.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 18h

I write this for a few reasons.

1) Accountability on something specific.

2) To model to swaths of Jewish leadership that *it's possible* to take accountability for genocide complicity.

3) To talk about repentance & repair work post-genocide.

It all still matters. It doesn't stop mattering now.

Gaza's Annihilation Can Never Be Forgiven

Revisiting On Repentance and Repair

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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Zach Hazard Vaupen @emo-sludge.com · 17h

Remember the quaint days of yore when it was all “you call everyone you disagree with a Nazi” and yet now it’s all “oh so now we’re Nazis for loving Hitler?” What an incredible age of newspeak we live in.

Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18h

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‐admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as "kids" and argued people were overreacting.

'Sorry, JD Vance': VP's claim 'Hitlergate' chat was just 'kids' promptly smacked down

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‑admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as “kids” and argued people were overreacting.But Mother Jones' Julianne McShane issued a searing...

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Raw Story @rawstory.com · 18h

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‐admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as "kids" and argued people were overreacting.

'Sorry, JD Vance': VP's claim 'Hitlergate' chat was just 'kids' promptly smacked down

A new analysis shredded Vice President JD Vance's dismissal of outrage over a leaked Young Republicans group chat containing racist and Hitler‑admiring messages, in which he referred to the participants as “kids” and argued people were overreacting.But Mother Jones' Julianne McShane issued a searing...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 17h

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals

You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing

If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

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Jeremy Forbing @jeremyforbing.bsky.social · 1d

I think it'd be okay for Dex to be the stat added to the attack roll but to also have a minimum Strength requirement to fire the bow at all.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 1d

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

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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Micah @rincewind.run · 1d

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Shannon Appelcline 🌮 @shannonappelcline.bsky.social · 1d

I just published my visual contents for Designers & Dragons Origins Vol. III + IV, which you can see in full at:

timeline.designers-and-dragons.com/origins2.html

As it happens, this is also a timeline for the entire run of Basic Dungeons & Dragons and the AD&D 2e Mystara products that followed

A thumbnail of a timeline for Basic D&D. This spans 1977-1983 and shows rules, supplements, accessories, adventures, and setting books for each year.

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Somebody wake up Hicks @jonmarkhicks.bsky.social · 1d

After spending ages trying to be clever or subversive with my fantasy TTRPG settings, going back to a pseudo-medieval world with the standard human-dwarf-elf-halfling races feels almost refreshing.

I was trying to make my world different when I should have focused on just making it fun.

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Chaosium @chaosium.bsky.social · 1d

A very nice appreciation of Chaosium founder Greg Stafford, who passed away 7 years ago this month, but whose influence rates him as "one of the best modern fantasists, worthy of being mentioned in the same breath as Moorcock, Leiber, McCaffrey, Martin, and others." open.substack.com/pub/someanci...

Meet Greg Stafford, the best modern fantasy author you don’t know

Game designer, shaman, and inspiration.

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Molly Shah @mommunism.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rana. Rana was studying to work in a medical laboratory before the war and her husband owned a small gift shop. Their home and shop were destroyed. They have two children Hamoud, 3 and Tota, 7. Hamoud’s eyes were injured and needs treatment.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

When I said we weren't here to be disappointed with Labour but to replace them. I meant it.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

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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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

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