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WowCoolRobot @wowcoolrobot.bsky.social · 1d

after 9/11 one of my Pakistani friends had his car tires slashed or window smashed every day until insurance stopped covering him.

he eventually killed himself

Republicans were always this racist, they just weren't stupid or bold enough to write this down until recently

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

As I note in this episode, I'm a woman so I'm used to people reflexively dismissing me as "stupid" or "ignorant." So not surprised that happened here.

But I was a young Republican in high school. I would have *never* said shit like this. Ever.

youtu.be/ZktofrLJNvY?...

Why Marjorie Taylor Greene makes Republicans miserable

YouTube video by Salon

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple 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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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 3d

This one feels way way harder to pull off, court of public opinion wise, because I think abortion is harder to demonise than trans people. But all they need to do is apply pressure and challenge how the Abortion Act is applied, to cause complete chaos and destruction. Horrifying

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pickwick @pickwick.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, this is sadly very naive. They've already done it to trans rights (which let them undermine basic principles of bodily autonomy) and made strides on anti-abortion rights - their "free speech protesters" outside abortion clinics regularly get to launder their views via the TV and print media

Tom Scott @tom--scott.bsky.social · 3d

Right-wingers who think tactics they've used to criminalize abortion in the US will have the same kind of traction in the UK fail to grasp that religious fundamentalism is widely viewed as nuts in the UK, & has been for many decades, if not centuries.

As much chance of abolishing UK gun controls.

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 3d

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf, he had nearly as much negative war that season for the Mets as Atlanta. But how did he manage -1.5 in like 30 games, my god

Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 3d

Robinson Canó had actual plate appearances with the 2022 Mets, after all...

Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 3d

How the hell are they rivalling the disgrace the Jets put this afternoon??

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4d

Fucking hell fire

Nicole Auerbach @nauerbach.com · 4d

Penn State has officially announced the firing of James Franklin.

Associate head coach Terry Smith will serve as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.

Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4d

That's where I got to very quickly. Tried to park the conversation, see the night out. But, not exactly tried to organise anything since, and that was Easter! A real shame but nothing to be done

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4d

I know (well knew) one who went properly mental, and then his GF began saying things they just didn't come close to a few months later. I just couldn't comprehend it, and no idea how to drag these guys back

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John @johnlk.bsky.social · 5d

This is the fucking Prussian constitutional crisis. If you let them fund the military without Congressional authorization you've just given up on constitutional government. Congress is a dead letter.

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4d

Combined with 'this 30 year old adviser was a politics student when Democracy 3 was released', horrifying mix

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 4d

Norvell being canned as Napier stays after the first 3 weeks of the season is easily the funniest outcome anyone could have thought of

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 5d

Americans just need to have fucking draws in all their sport and get on with it. 12 innings, draw. 5 minute 5-5 OT, draw. NBA 2 OTs, draw. Amazingly the only sport which has it right is the NFL with 10 minute OT

Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 5d

This is part of why I like the regular season extra runner because .. in theory, extra inning games that go on very long sounds fun, but in practice, they all just start to look like *this.*

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 6d

Unless they’re declaring him an anti-pope and installing their own guy in Avignon, they’re not “rejecting” him, they’re just bitching and moaning and forgetting who’s in charge of the church they’ve weirdly and ignorantly attempted to infiltrate. bsky.app/profile/wash...

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 7d

As Pope Leo begins to reveal some of his views on divisive issues, some conservative critics of his predecessor are rejecting the possible rise of another “liberal pope.”

As Pope Leo riles conservatives, some say ‘just focus on the church’

Conservatives who hoped that Leo, the first U.S.-born pope, would be more of a traditionalist instead hear echoes of his predecessor, Francis, in his public statements.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 7d

Where's the downside? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

However, critics are warning that the planned liberalisation of the alcohol licensing regime in England and Wales will erode local councils’ right to decide on opening hours, hand the drink industry unprecedented power and limit the ability of people affected by late night openings to object.

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Alex Kirshner @alexkirshner.com · 7d

The most stunning thing about Belichick's career collapsing and his reputation for anyone under 25 being recast as "horny old dude flaming out in six weeks at North Carolina" is that the football team that made the best decision to keep itself clean throughout this saga was the Atlanta Falcons

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 8d

The senior catcher is going to know some 19th round pitcher, pitching for the St Louis Cardinals' low A affiliate, and the catcher is likely making more money!

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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 8d

God bless The Church Times for their ongoing insistence on responding moderately but forcefully to the Reverend Canon Nigel Biggar’s nonsense. www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/202...

Even given all that Biggar writes about the universality of slavery and the complicity of Africans, three things might be said. First, Britain played a key part and, however others may want to respond to their own history, it is morally responsible to face up to our own heritage. Second, as a Tory, he might have made more of Burke’s view that society is a partnership not just between the living, but between the living, the dead, and those still to be born. Third, guilt is not the only spur to action. There are the obligations that we owe one another irrespective of any personal responsibility for atrocities in the past.

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Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social · 8d

One of my issues with Politico is that its jaunty, gossipy tone jars with the dangerous turn in UK politics.

A "mostly clanger free conference"? A recording of the Shadow Justice Secretary complaining about seeing "no white faces" surfaced and was the talking point in interviews and coverage...

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Defector @defector.com · 8d

Two months later, on July 12, the couple were in the area of Bristol, Conn., staying at a hotel. Hill had been yelling at Vaccaro all day because "she was not doing what he wanted her to do," the document said. Inside their hotel room, with some of Hill's other children and family waiting in the lobby, Vaccaro told Hill that she didn't want to go out because she was pregnant and didn't feel well. Hill responded by picking up Vaccaro's phone and throwing it at her face. He then "threw a punch and tried to hit her pregnant stomach, but she deflected it," the document said. Hill also "ripped at her hair and pulled some hair out, then grabbed her purse and flung it across the room," the record said.

Vaccaro was very far along in her pregnancy in November of 2024, when the couple along with some family were at their Sunny Isles Beach, Fla., condominium getting ready to leave for a Dolphins game. Hill got angry with Vaccaro while they were in the bedroom, with the rest of their family in the living area, and spat in her face, the document said. She gave birth to their daughter the next day.

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 8d

They've clearly been spooked by the early firings, and players potentially entering to keep their redshirt. Going to really fuck up players who's coach leaves after the usual winter portal closes

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 8d

All these people really want is to pay no taxes and be treated with floor scraping deference. Everything else is just bullshit in pursuit of that goal.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 9d

Party donor Nick Candy says "I cherish the values we grew up with here in the West. But today you are more likely to find the values we grew up with in Dubai and Abu Dhabi.’

Via Sam Leith in the Spectator
www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

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Matt @mr3402.bsky.social · 9d

As did the good burghers of Croydon and Manchester! Not that London should be blamed for the lack of Leeds tram though obviously at the same time. It's a both, not an either or question

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