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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 7h

"We are a decade into Trumpism. These Young Republicans have never known any other type of Republicanism....We’re talking about a full generation of Republicans who *only* understand politics in the context of an authoritarian project."
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All the Pretty Little Nazis

The shape of things to come.

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 6h

"One evolution of authoritarian governments in larger and more industrialized countries in the last half-century has been to target minority groups and dissenters surgically, to leave as much of the population as possible able to go about their regular lives..."

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about how all the beautiful dumb stuff really does matter, and why you should come out for No Kings Day on Saturday.

The opposite of complicity

Why showing up matters and what it can actually do.

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Justin Vasel @justinvasel.phd · 9h

President Whitten has cracked down on all forms of dissent at IU, including trustees. It contradicts her narrative that IU has never been stronger, and all is well.

The last thing she wants is for wealthy alumni to hold real campus news in their hands when they arrive this week for Homecoming.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

Indiana University cuts IDS print entirely, hours after firing student media director
By IDS staff
Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm · Updated Oct 15, 2025 1:23 pm

IU previously directed the Indiana Daily Student to stop printing news coverage in our newspaper. Upon pushback, the university fully cut print, including our special editions. The IDS was not involved in the decision.

Media School Dean David Tolchinsky sent the order to IDS leadership in an email responding to its appeal that the school not censor the newspaper. And the dean attributed the decision to “the campus.” He has not yet responded to a message for clarification.

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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 9h

After 158 years of publication.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 11h

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely.

www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

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Alan Cernobite @alancerny.bsky.social · 9h

Every day. I’ll never give them up.

Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 13h

You ever just think about how cool it is that there are movie theaters?

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dangerrangerrabbit.bsky.social @dangerrangerrabbit.bsky.social · Sep 5

I can't stop thinking about all the ill-informed 80 year-olds who voted to make the next 5 to 7 years of their life comfortable while making the next 35 to 50 of mine borderline unlivable.

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Very Old Pic of D. Gray @blurbette.blacksky.app · 2d

Giancarlo Esposito

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

It's time again as a notable Italian-American to note Christopher Columbus was an absolute piece of shit human who didn't land anywhere near this actual country so why the fuck should he stop the mail for the whole day

Anyway, Happy Indigenous People's Day, y'all

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 6d

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them.

They should feel bad.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 12d

On October 3rd, I’m asking you to register to vote.

zohranfornyc.com/register

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keefe murren @keefemurren.bsky.social · 12d

There are "GenZ" protests in Kenya, Bangladesh, Nepal and now Morocco.

These deliberately leaderless youth movements share the same message: Stop stealing our future! Start respecting our human rights!

Authoritarianism is on the rise, but it seems, so are the youth!

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Candice Fortin @candicefortin.bsky.social · 12d

No accountability for the MOVE bombing in Philly was one of the stepping stones for what’s happening in DC, Chicago, LA, Memphis right now.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 12d

And it’s not a coincidence both came to prominence through the liberal media by offering “necessary correctives” to imagined liberal bubbles.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13d

Bari Weiss and JD Vance are very similar figures with very similar skills.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 15d

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE

YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS

PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

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Steven Santos @stevensantos.bsky.social · 16d

“I have seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence,” Herzog said. “Story and acting and everything, they look completely dead. There are stories, but they have no soul. They are empty and soulless.”

Get their ass, Werner.

Werner Herzog gazed upon the "empty and soulless" abyss of AI-generated movies

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 18d

We don’t talk enough about how racists and authoritarians are the ones who actually genuinely hate this country.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18d

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Tucker May
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My name is Tucker May. In April I married the love of my life, Barbara Marques. Right now I fear for her life.
A week and a half ago she was taken by ICE at our properly scheduled green card meeting at the Federal Building downtown. At the end of what we were told was a successful meeting, the officer used the excuse of a broken copier to trick her into walking away from our lawyer. Once separated from her legal counsel, she was arrested. The reason for her detention was a missed court date from 2019 which my wife was never notified about.
We have been working with lawyers since that time to correct the situation. The Adelanto detention center has actively been keeping my wife from correspondence with her lawyer by delaying in giving her documents that were mailed to the facility.
راال

Last night, she was taken from the Adelanto facility to an undisclosed destination despite our lawyer having filed a temporary restraining order to stop this from happening. They could be sending her anywhere in the world and we have no way of knowing.
I'm asking for help in bringing to the attention of media and authorities these multiple lapses in due process and proper procedure through the unwarranted deportation of a woman whose legal marriage has been duly recognized as legitimate by immigration through the 1130 petition process.
Please, if you have any contacts who could help, send them this information.

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Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 18d

The Right is nakedly trying to make it illegal to call them fascists which is about the most obviously fascist thing you could come up with.

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Ryan McTague @piscadork.bsky.social · 18d

Grotesque wealth creates grotesque people

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 17d

Amid an ongoing wave of conspiracy theories and bogus claims about Jan 6, I’ll note this from our reporting:

Rioters made all kinds of claims and defenses in court … and jurors convicted 100% of the defendants who went to trial

100%

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Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 18d

Please, if you have the privilege of not being an obvious and immediate target for state violence...

Call them fascists, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

Call yourself an antifascist, loudly, ESPECIALLY right now.

We all need to be Spartacus on this one.

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Brit Freeze @midwesttisbest.bsky.social · 18d

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Brit Freeze @midwesttisbest.bsky.social · 18d

Joel is far and away one of my favorite @iucinema patrons. Support this incredibly kind and talented human. He is a damn good person. And he has fantastic taste in movies.

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Donate to Help Joel Washington Stay Housed, organized by Ella Flynn

For over 40 years Joel has worked full time for Indiana University, diligently he has trie… Ella Flynn needs your support for Help Joel Washington Stay Housed

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18d

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

Robert Black @hurricanexyz.bsky.social · 18d

Again, this is what I mean when I say the Constitution is broken

Which of the institutions it establishes, exactly, ISN'T broken?? Which is acting to maintain the constitutional order?

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 18d

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats.

The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 18d

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

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