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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 3h

ICE is kidnapping people off the streets. I can't imagine anything that matters less than this box color bimbo with a bad dye job, no class and zero ethics.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 4h

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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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 4h

Jacob Soboroff is very brave for this reporting. At a time when other news outlets are cowering in fear, he's fulfilling the highest order of journalism, which is truth telling and holding the powerful accountable.
bsky.app/profile/jaco...

Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 6h

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 6h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 5h

JFC. Chicago WGN Producer Debbie Brockman was assaulted and detained by ICE *as she was walking to her regular bus stop on her way to work*.

wgntv.com/news/chicago...

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 5h

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/c...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 6h

Flashing back to the time I was on a campaign and the candidate's son & several friends mooned the rest of us on the highway during a road trip. We referred to it as the Pressed Ham Incident.
Mike Johnson would have driven off the road.
bsky.app/profile/oreg...

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 6h

Props to the social/digital team at The Oregonian for this 😂

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 6h

This used to be grounds for resignation/dismissal from the Party.
But as we saw from the GOP chat messages, it's just a day ending in y for Republicans.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

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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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 8h

The media continues to give Trumpers the benefit of a doubt and make excuses for them because they refuse to grok that so many Americans are actually horrible people.
The media needs to start operating from that reality rather than denying it.

Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me again how I or any Democrat are supposed to 'find common ground' or 'moderate' with these people. 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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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 10h

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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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 9h

There's a reason there's no female loneliness epidemic.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 10h

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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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 10h

We Rate Dogs has joined the frogs.

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 14h

this is extremely smart and should be the checkbox all future D candidates have to clear to be taken seriously

Ritchie Torres, the Bronx Democrat and frequent critic of progressives, said Mamdani is “a once-in-a-generation communicator” who has mastered what he called the “three threes”: A candidate in today’s day and age needs to be able to explain ideas in a 30-second vertical social media video, a three-minute television hit and a three-hour long-form podcast.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11h

Tell me again how I or any Democrat are supposed to 'find common ground' or 'moderate' with these people. 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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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

It’s been fun being attacked for years for saying bigotry motivates these people more than low taxes and small government

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 12h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct 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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 15h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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zooleegoo.bsky.social @zooleegoo.bsky.social · 12h

Same. Never will understand why so many wanted a president without dignity, class, or etiquette. The president should represent the best of us. I wouldn't pick a surgeon because she 'talks like me' & is dumber than me. I want the smartest motherfucker you got.

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

* or she

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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 12h

@carlquintanilla.bsky.social Colorado.
www.cpr.org/2025/08/06/c...

In private group chat, GOP lawmakers made crude jokes about a Democratic colleague's clothing

The thread was sparked by a photo that was later posted to social media, unleashing online harassment.

www.cpr.org

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