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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1m

So you're saying we must have kings if we want paychecks? Yeah, buddy, you might want to read about the American revolution.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 12m

No kings no paychecks is literally one of the dumbest political slogans I have ever heard.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 10m

I think one of the biggest cleavages in our society that no one talks about is the division between those that think powerful people must be held to a higher standard than non-powerful people and those who think powerful people should be flattered and sucked up to.

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ZorrolittoTheElder / Melissa @zorrolittotheelder.bsky.social · 44m

Lolz, ain’t no way he will beat her.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 4m

There's a 73% chance Vance was a lurker.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25m

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 6m

Not as much anymore, but it was very common in the mid-twentieth century when the stereotype was forged. And bluing agents are still available, even if people don't use them very often. mrsstewart.com/pages/whiten...

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 11m

Like they said, you don't want Dems to win. So fuck off. Enjoy fasicsm.

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Lux "Nightmare" Alptraum @luxalptraum.com · 23h

Something that a lot of people either missed or have forgotten is that over the past two years there's been a massive gap between what people *intended* to communicate and how their words were heard, and that contributed to the phenomenon discussed below.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 24m

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 18m

Also, as you get older your lenses tend to become more yellow, leading to colors getting washed out, especially once you reach your seventies. So a little bit of blue wouldn't look like enough; the hair would still look yellow. So you add a bit more until it looks right...to you.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 21m

a woman in a purple cape with the words second one on her face

ALT: a woman in a purple cape with the words second one on her face

media.tenor.com

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 3h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 24m

a spiral is shown on a black background with the words light processes below it .

ALT: a spiral is shown on a black background with the words light processes below it .

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 25m

Five whole years? Wow.

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Malcolm P. Johnson @admiralmpj.bsky.social · 22h

Not true. If people were merely calling for a Ceasefire, they would have been agreed with, 100% by supporters of Israel, 80% of whom hate Nethanyahu.

But people were using Zionism as an epithet.

People wanted Israel to cease to exist.

And that as the LEAST of it.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1h

Other examples exist but I do think Nuzzi is a prime candidate for the *media* figure who most exemplifies the total lack of shame in American elite culture circa 2025

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

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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Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 1h

It is interesting that this story came out ahead of a Supreme Court argument that is premised on the idea that Americans aren't racist any more.

Politico @politico.com · 21h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1h

Ah yes, Christ, the guy who famously said rich people were totes cool and being rich was awesome and good.

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Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1h

"the encyclical strains too hard to interpret the “poverty” and self-giving of Christ in terms of social class" genuinely reads like parody

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 1h

wild how he went from writing on Raymond Aron to deciding to go all in with Claremont

𝚂𝚝𝚎𝚟𝚎 𝙼𝚒𝚕𝚕𝚒𝚎𝚜 @stevenpmillies.com · 1h

Daniel J. Mahoney has the distinction of having been the speaker at the only academic event I've ever walked out of.

This is pretty much why.

Pope Leo wants unity. They don't.

americanmind.org/salvo/christ...

Christianity and the West, Part III

Pope Leo XIV needs to shun humanitarian progressivism in favor of the moral and political realism of a decidedly Augustinian character.

americanmind.org

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1h

Incidentally, RF2K is a *far* worse human being than Nuzzi on every conceivable metric. Including his long-documented history of infidelity to multiple partners. And again, I wouldn't care about that if he wasn't trying to murder humanity.

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 1h

I don't care that Nuzzi sexted RF2K. I mean, that's disgusting, but the heart knows what it wants. I care that Nuzzi wrote articles about Biden without disclosing that she was in an intimate relationship with RF2K. That's wildly inappropriate.

It's ethics, not sluttiness, that is the issue.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 12h

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...

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Lord Businessman II @lordbusinessman.bsky.social · 4h

Swear to God, after 2024 I don't want to fucking hear 'candidate OLD' ever fucking again

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Daniel Villar @daniel-a-villar.bsky.social · 2h

Polanski is the clearest example of this phenomenon, but I’m increasingly struck by how many in politics seem bereft of knowledge of their place in the history of what is, supposedly, their tradition. Staffers for Labour right MPs ignorant of Gaitskell, Tories ignorant of Tamworth, etc.

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 2h

Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5h

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 · 13h

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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