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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 9h

None of this is particularly surprising if you've been paying attention. They are exactly who we thought they were. None of these people have any business being near government and politics.

Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 11h

Aw, damn. The wrong people keep dying.

OrdinaryBrotha @ordinarybrotha.bsky.social · 11h

www.tmz.com/2025/10/14/d...

D'Angelo Dead at 51

Grammy-winning R&B soul singer D'Angelo is dead from pancreatic cancer ... TMZ has learned.

www.tmz.com

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 23h

Corollary here is making it crystal clear that people will be held accountable when this is over.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 23h

…terrified by the thought that someone could see their face

The greatest power we have is shame. Most people would be ashamed to take a job with ICE, & we as a nation need to ensure those jobs are understood as sinful & as shameful. /12

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 23h

This is also an important thread. Very insightful.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important thread. There are probably several hundred Federal agents who were sent to Chicagoland last month. They have inflicted cruelty & misery, they’ve gassed, & even shot & killed people. Every person they kidnap is a tragedy

But they actually haven’t got man people considering…/1

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 1d

What Trump is doing is very bad. But I want to push back against some of the numbers here.

ICE did not hire 10,000 agents. It WANTS to. That it keeps running ads suggests it is struggling. And when it does, it seems to cannibalize local police, who don't like that.

More significantly:

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

In my more cynical moments, I ponder whether we may need to do more to appeal to the less bright among us.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

I can give you a ton of policy reasons why we should do more for working people. But what I can't say is that it will pay political dividends. The demographic most likely to vote Republican are white no college men. They're not our voters and many of them like the racism. This is the sad truth.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The future of the Democratic Party must be rooted in investing in the American people — not Wall St., corporations, and consultants.

Otherwise, Trumpism will continue to use cynicism, racism, and distrust to divide America.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Community is the way out of this mess. This kind of solidarity will defeat authoritarianism every time.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a key to the determined resistance to ICE in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago; it’s a racial plurality neighborhood (about a third white, about a third Latino, remaining third Black & Asian), & the non-Latinos have banded together to protect their neighbors from Kavanaugh sweeps.

Luigi de Guzman @ouij.bsky.social · 2d

The fact that protests now feature people who don’t normally have to worry about what might happen to them in an adverse encounter with security forces is a HUGE DEAL.

It means that the “real” victims don’t have to suffer alone. It means that some people care about something more than themselves

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Fixed. Must have been a system glitch.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Racist antisemites? My kind of enemies.

Jasmine @jasminerobinson90.bsky.social · 2d

This is my second account.
Suspended because racist & antisemitic leftists have nothing better to do than try to get people who don’t share their hatred suspended.
I’m going to give it another try

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Followed for the use of Hamassholes. 🙂

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Origin story for "Idiocracy" just dropped.

Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 2d

"COVID altered molecules in RNA in the fathers' sperm, which are involved in the regulation of genes that are known to be important in brain development, suggesting that the COVID-19 pandemic could have long-lasting effects on future generations."
www.sciencealert.com/covids-surpr...

COVID's Surprising Effect on Sperm May Impact Future Generations

COVID-19 infection causes changes to sperm in mice that may increase anxiety in their offspring, a study released Saturday said, suggesting the pandemic's possibly long-lasting effects on future gener...

www.sciencealert.com

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 1d

Could be chemo. Plenty of people out there with 3-4 week infusion cycles for maintenance/control. I know someone with multiple myeloma that's been in treatment for 10 years. Could also be infusion therapy for congestive heart failure, which would explain the swollen ankles.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Jesus. I just noticed the autocorrect typo in this. It should be "desegregated" not "desecrated". Aargh...

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

There's a whole history of why Truman desecrated the Armed Forces in 1948. Part of it was politics, spelled out in a memo from Clark Clifford and part of it was Truman's revulsion over mistreatment of returning Black GIs. It's undervalued as a catalyst to what came later.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Rural voters are getting exactly what they voted for. They are a core part of the Republican base and rural counties consistently voted 70-80% for Trump.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Baldwin: Our farmers are facing incredible headwinds. A lot of the fertilizer inputs come from Canada. Those have shot up because of tariffs. About a quarter of all farmers use the ACA for their health care coverage. This president is just contributing to the headwinds that our farmers are facing.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

She was very specific in what she said he'd do and she was correct in every respect.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 2d

She called it. Kamala Harris laid out Trump’s vengeance agenda before it even happened.

One line that stuck with me most from 107 Days was when she wrote that during the debate, Trump was “unburdened by the truth.”

He’s also unburdened by threat of accountability, thanks to the Supreme Court.

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and Vance are violating their oaths daily. Sounds pretty criminal to me.

This is not an argument they really want to be making.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

STEPHANOPOULOS: Trump said Pritzker should be in jail. Do you think he has committed a crime?

VANCE: I think Pritzker has certainly failed to keep the people of Illinois safe

S: It's a yes or no question

V: I certainly think he has violated his fundamental oath. That seems pretty criminal to me

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 2d

There's a whole history of why Truman desecrated the Armed Forces in 1948. Part of it was politics, spelled out in a memo from Clark Clifford and part of it was Truman's revulsion over mistreatment of returning Black GIs. It's undervalued as a catalyst to what came later.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

There is little need for superlawyers when the rule of law is gone. When that happens, all that matters is fealty to the regime.

Clay Jackson @clayjak.substack.com · 3d

yep. and most of the bar couldn’t give a shit. completely fine w/ being actors in an authoritarian play as long as they get on the super lawyers list and can pay the note on their lake house open.substack.com/pub/clayjak/...

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 3d

No, it's more like the Regency Era under George III. Miller is the Prince Regent and Trump is the mad King.

Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.bsky.social · 3d

So Steven Miller is obviously the president. Trump is yet again, second in command, kind of, more like the comms director.

Does he have any companies or anything that we can protest in front of? Cause that worked really well with kicking Musk out of the government and maybe it would work here?

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 4d

This is a danger, that the disillusioned Trumpers become even more radicalized.

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d

It’s true that some MAGA supporters are losing faith in Trump and expressing frustration. But evidence and trends suggest they’re flocking to explicit Fascists and growing more radicalized.

We can’t just sit back and hope. We have to fight.

jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/where-its-...

Where It's All Heading: The Fascist Right Post-Trump

Watching parts of the Right grow weary of Trump might be hopeful, but without needed change the situation will only worsen

jaredyatessexton.substack.com

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 4d

Hitler juiced up the German economy early on, which paid dividends as he consolidated power leading up to the Anschluss of Austria and the territorial expansion into Czechoslovakia. These morons are tanking the economy for most Americans, which is just plain stupid.

David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 4d

Poor economic performance is one of the greatest threats to authoritarianism. Trump & Vance are seeing that right now.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 4d

I am so damn sick of these Hamassholes. Good on her for telling them to get out.

Sinner Representative @irepresentsinners.bsky.social · 4d

“Pro-pal” protestors at MVP’s 9:30 Washington, DC book tour stop last night.

Ms. Devi is absolutely done with their bullshit and held her own 👏🏼

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 5d

Creeps, perverts, sex pests and pedos.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5d

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 5d

Elite lawyers and firms just aren't built for this moment. It's a small world that runs on civility and conciliation and you wind up working with the same people and firms over and over. This moment requires a willingness to burn bridges and send people to prison. Different skill set.

Dana Houle @danahoule.bsky.social · 5d

Oh FFS Jeh Johnson saying “we have to find a way to rise above it” rather than go after Trump people who are breaking the law.

It’s not universal, but in general elite law has been a failure.

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Matt Seyfang @mseyfang.bsky.social · 5d

Every villain slithered out from under all rock last November. I hate it here...

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