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Millennial Maureen @millennialmaureen.bsky.social · 1h

This is what frustrates me so much! Not being rich and famous is not being forced to drink hemlock, be serious

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 1h

It also means that you, the Bluesky user, should read even MORE because being able to understand complex concepts makes you a wizard to people who can't.

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James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 2h

Increasingly we need candidates who'd be comfortable cutting a wrestling promo

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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Momo @heyheymomo.bsky.social · 2h

We all need to hear it sometimes 🥹

4 panel comic in which a cute bunny works all day until after sundown and when it’s late his friend brings a cup of tea and says ‘hey.. you’re doing great!’ and joins him for a bit while the moon comes out

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

essentially their idea is to create a desert and call it peace, primarily because they think where Bush went wrong was trying to build democracy instead of just breaking things

Kevin @kevjg.bsky.social · 2h

Vance and co. like to insist it’s not “regime change” because there’s no plan to shore up a successor government — the aim is to leave a vacuum that we periodically bomb into submission

Phil Klay @philklay.bsky.social · 2h

“The new authority would allow the C.I.A. to carry out lethal operations in Venezuela…The agency would be able to take covert action against Mr. Maduro or his government either unilaterally or in conjunction with a larger military operation.”

Regime change is back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 4h

Aside from losing many Democratic seats, Black representation in Congress will probably drop from around 14% of seats (nationally representative) to maybe 7 or 8% (not representative)?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 2h

He was at a wedding where they ritualistically stabbed pictures of a 4 year old palestinian boy that was murdered. he represented the murderer for free. Will not stop being pissed that he was removed from sanctions

LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 2h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Matylda Chmielewska @matylda-wro.bsky.social · 1h

Life is Gaza hasn’t been any easier since the ceasefire started - food prices are still very high, medicines are unavailable, and there’s only rubble everywhere 💔

If you can help my friend Motaz and make his life a bit easier, please donate today:

M.O.T.A.Z @motaz-aarchitect.bsky.social · 2h

I feel deep frustration about everything😭
The war ended but it still feels ongoing

Life here in Gaza is still difficult & I wish I could leave

No healthy food, no medicine, no clean water, NO DONATIONS & Everything is expensive💔

Pls help if you can🙏🏻
🔗 gofund.me/b82bb6d32

✅ @mommunism.bsky.social

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 5h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 2h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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"spooky simchas" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

the hell in which american jewry is now trapped — everything is antisemitism except actual antisemitism

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3h

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 3h

Next admin gotta put this fucker in a 9x7 for fara violations

Nathan Bernard @nathantbernard.bsky.social · 3h

the "kids" were mostly 30+ years old and said they love hitler

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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 3h

Judge grants temporary restraining order blocking Trump administration from administering reductions in force during the shutdown

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 4h

Federal judge in northern California starts hearing on injunction to block Trump administration from firing workers during the shutdown by stating she is inclined to grant motion

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 6h

There are two types of people on this. Those that believed these you g republicans when they told you they were "trolling" 8 years ago, and those who didn't believe they were trolling.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 7h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.
That's why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed -because Young Republicans weren't radical enough.

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 6h

"Were you someone these young Republicans desired to prey upon for social interaction or not" is a good metric as well.

I've got stories...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 10h

There's also the question of what made them like this.

I ask myself this all the time because I just never had this kind of belief system. I don't get it. I'm not pretending I didn't have any biases that i never did anything bigoted or sexist, but group texts dedicated to being awful is weird

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10h

Unlike with targeted killings conducted as part of actual armed conflicts under prior administrations, Trump 2.0 is both posting boastful videos of the U.S. strikes in the Caribbean AND refusing to disclose which specific entities and individuals are being targeted.

Propaganda plus secrecy.

Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 1d

Further premeditated, lawless killing in the Caribbean.

Making at least five such US strikes.

Against unidentified "narcoterrorists" affiliated w/ an unspecified "designated terrorist organization" allegedly trafficking unspecified narcotics.

POTUS is asserting a license to kill outside the law.

Under my Standing Authorities as Commander-in-Chief, this morning, the Secretary of War, ordered a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel affiliated with a Designated Terrorist Organization (DTO) conducting narcotrafficking in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility — just off the Coast of Venezuela. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was trafficking narcotics, was associated with illicit narcoterrorist networks, and was transiting along a known DTO route. The strike was conducted in International Waters, and six male narcoterrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike. No U.S. Forces were harmed. Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!!!!

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Evan @nerditry.myatproto.social · 6h

The "national unity" immediately post-9/11 was them being overtly racist to every Brown person from the Middle East to Bangladesh.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 5h

We should probably talk about AI being used as a tool to promote anti-Blackness across cultures.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 5h

• Prison was 40 degrees but no water was given to Greta and her friends for days

• People fell sick. Guards mocked them saying they would gas them, showing them cylinders

• She was kept in solitary confinement for hours with bugs

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Victor Von Doomscroll @redderbeanpaste.bsky.social · 5h

For my blog, I write about how conservatives find it pleasurable to use slurs and how they're going to keep training and rewarding younger GOP members that say this stuff the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io/how-american...

How American ethnonationalism is rewarded and encouraged

Support my Writing with a tip This post is going to contain some strong language and slurs from quoted text messages by bigots J.D. Vance knows what happened to Mike Pence. He knows that Mike Pence ...

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 4h

Friendly reminder that Tidal ($10.99) is now cheaper than Spotify ($11.99), delivers better audio quality, pays its artists 2x as much, and generally doesn't allow AI slop.

You can move your entire music library over in a matter of minutes.

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Pittie The Fool @pittiecommittee.bsky.social · 4h

My own university in California ended up on The Daily Show because the college Republicans hosted a "w**back race" across the quad. This was in like 2006.

Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 6h

I don’t know how to approach “Republicans weren’t racist in the early aughts” as someone who went to Texas during the early aughts and had to debate whether or not Black students were “stealing” people’s spots in class.

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