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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 1d

Calling Young Republicans the “youth wing“ of the party doesn’t capture how bad this is.

No excuse at any age but some might be tempted to chalk it up to age. Membership age for this org. is 18 to *40*. Some have jobs in government. We’re not talking abt high schoolers.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘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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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 20h

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 23h

Hi from the Boston Federal Courthouse for the class certification hearing in Guerrero Orellana v. Hyde, the ACLU's class action case about applicability of the mandatory detention statute for aliens.

For background, see: bsky.app/profile/john...

John Hawkinson @johnhawkinson.bsky.social · 22d

The @aclum.bsky.social has raised a new challenge to immigration bond procedures by converting an existing case (Jose Arnulfo GUERRERO ORELLANA) to a class action.
Their press release below, Courtlistener docket (restricted) is www.courtlistener.com/docket/71384....

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 20h

Oh yes, it goes without saying that you should not trust the agencies determination of whether someone is a member of that gang. They have gotten it wrong so many times that their assertions on this point are not trustworthy without independent validation.

TCamp @tcampb.bsky.social · 21h

So how did they 'verify' it? Oh, I see, he had a tatoo and was born in the Venezuelan state of Aragua (there really is an Araguan state in Venezuela). This whole stupid idea about Venezuelan gangs is a ruse. The thousands of dollars ICE and Federal government wasted on this. Good Lord have mercy.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 20h

As I've noted, central to Stephen Miller's propaganda is the claim that the Chicago complex targeted by ICE was "filled" with Tren de Aragua "terrorists."

Now @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social reports that the number of TdA members netted in that raid is down to *one.*

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20h

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

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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balderdasher.bsky.social @balderdasher.bsky.social · 23h

Why would the founders have concerns with non-state funding for military forces? I mean other than the rise of Pompey, Crassus, Caesar, Cataline, Lepidus, Mark Anthony, the crisis of the third century, Charles I's ship money, James II, George III's German mercs, the Stamp Act, The Townshend acts, th

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 23h

NEW: Jim Jordan wants to question Jack Smith about his search of Mar-a-Lago, but Merrick Garland executed that search months before Jack Smith was even appointed. One of several lies in this letter demanding Jack Smith's testimony. judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 17h

Let’s see, we’ve got:
-sorry if you were offended;
-there were lots of non-Nazi messages;
-it’s probably fake; AND
-they set me up

By golly, I think this might be nonpology bingo!

"I am so sorry to those offended by the insensitive and inexcusable language found within the more than 28,000 messages of a private group chat that I created during my campaign to lead the Young Republican National Federation. While I take complete responsibility, I have had no way of verifying their accuracy and am deeply concerned that the message logs in question may have been deceptively doctored," he said.
Giunta alleged that people have been conspiring against him "in what appears to be a highly-coordinated year-long character assassination" by members of the New York City Young Republican Club.
"I have withstood a constant barrage of slanderous accusations as well as the dissemination of ai-generated social media posts to falsify past statements I've been accused of making..."

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

NEWS: The Supreme Court will not stop Missouri from killing Lance Shockley today. There were no noted dissents.

CORDER LIST:
607 U.S.)
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 2025
25-5869
(25A418)
CERTIORARI DENIED
SHOCKLEY, LANCE V. ADAMS, WARDEN, ET AL.
The application for stay of execution of sentence of death
presented to Justice Kavanaugh and by him referred to the Court
is denied. The petition for a writ of certiorari is denied.
Respondents' motion for leave to file a supplemental appendix
under seal is granted.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 19h

Recall Judge William Young’s decision regarding the First Amendment challenge to the student visa revocation efforts: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Ultimately, Young ruled that the administration's actions violate the First Amendment, as well as
- on related grounds - the Administrative Procedure Act. In summing up part of the constitutional ruling, Young wrote:

“[T]his Court rules that here the Plaintiffs have shown that Secretaries Noem and Rubio are engaged in a mode of enforcement leading to detaining, deporting, and revoking noncitizens' visas solely on the basis of political speech, and with the intent of chilling such speech and that of others similarly situated. Such conduct is not only unconstitutional, but a thing virtually unknown to our constitutional tradition.”

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

These issues have been a part of litigation already this year — over the student visa revocation efforts.

This statement essentially admits that the State Department is engaging viewpoint discrimination in revoking these visas.

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An Argentine national said that Kirk "devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric" and deserves to burn in hell.
Visa revoked.

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just came on here to say charlie kirk can rest in f|
piss and yet again if you have any
empathy at all for people like this you can ahead and remove yourself as my friend. i do not give a f about the death of a person who devoted his entire life spreading racist, xenophobic, misogynistic rhetoric. it's hot as fut where this man currently is and it's deserved

Department of State V @StateDept • 21m
A South African national mocked Americans grieving the loss of Kirk, saying
"they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom" and alleging "he was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash."
Visa revoked.
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Neanderthals can't have their cake & eat it... This weekend they went openly anti-black racist & now they're hurt that the racist rally ended in attempted martyrdom? Charlie Kirk won't be remembered as a hero. He was used to astroturf a movement of white nationalist trailer trash!
3:39 AM - Sep 11, 2025 - 2,434 Views

Department of State @StateDept • 21m
A Mexican national said that Kirk "died being a racist, he died being a misogynist" and stated that "there are people who deserve to die. There are people who would make the world better off dead."
Visa revoked.
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A Brazilian national charged that "Charlie Kirk was the reason for a Nazi rally where they marched in homage to him" and that Kirk "DIED TOO LATE."
Visa revoked.
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A German national celebrated Kirk's death and attempted to justify his murder, writing "when fascists die, democrats don't complain."
Visa revoked.
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Wenn Faschisten sterben, jammern
Demokraten nicht.

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A Paraguayan national charged that "Charlie Kirk was a son of a b**** and he died by his own rules."
Visa revoked.
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•@POTUS and @SecRubio will defend our borders, our culture, and our citizens by enforcing our immigration laws.
Aliens who take advantage of America's hospitality while celebrating the assassination of our citizens will be removed.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 18h

If you know of any litigation resulting from/related to this, please reach out. Email and Signal are in my bio.

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

Department of State v
@StateDept
g..
The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
5:55 PM • Oct 14, 2025 • 34.1K Views

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 17h

I am not sure they were even criminal suspects given the apparent lack of any evidence.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 23h

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 · 23h

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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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 17h

Heinous. And what a bizarre factor to consider when granting visas.

But it makes me wonder—was Kirk really well known internationally? I don’t even think he was as widely known in the U.S. as Republicans seem to insist.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h

The woman who has secured a restraining order is *different* than the woman who called the cops on Mills back in February and accused him of physical abuse before recanting.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 17h

Is she talking about the young children missing because her goon squad dragged them naked & crying from their apartment complex or the 15-yr old girl they tackled & threw into an unmarked van the other day?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Pam Bondi repeatedly claims that finding one missing child "makes it all worthwhile" when it comes to military occupations of American cities and adds that "Pritzker should be begging Donald Trump to come in."

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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 20h

BREAKING: James Comey to file a motion to dismiss due to Felon Trump’s illegal appointment of Lindsay Halligan as US Attorney in the EDVA.

I’ve got the details on the latest, incl. the judge agreeing Comey should have access to certain info as he prepares his defense.

youtu.be/S3CppzjhE8w?...

OMG! Trump DOJ UNDER FIRE as Comey PREPARES Defense

YouTube video by Katie Phang

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katefromnyc.bsky.social @katefromnyc.bsky.social · 17h

Which is kind of funny. In return for all their donations and ass-kissing, they’re being asked to donate inestimably more.

But yes, it’s illegal, and plus, that conversation never happened. Most of the conversations Trump describes never happened.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19h

I’ve been thinking about it all day and I still haven’t figured out how the Trump family saved God. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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