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Mr. Chau @srirachachau.bsky.social · 3h

It’s funny how the old media depiction of Nazis was always that they’re evil but dignified gentleman and now they’re openly just like “Hello. I’m the Anime Pedophile”

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 6h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

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JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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Tonya Song 🪶 @tonyasong.bsky.social · 6h

No one should be surprised by Tr*mp giving presidential medals of honor to insidious men when no politician, Democrat or Republican, ever had the courage to rescind the Medals of Honor to the men who slaughtered unarmed innocents at the Wounded Knee Massacre.

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 8h

I knew someone would bring this into existence, lol.

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Razzle Bathbone's Bones @razzlebathbone.bsky.social · 12h

low quality mspaint versions of leo dicaprio and benicio del toro from one battle after another

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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 1d

This is some of the best political news I've seen in a very long time.

There's a clear a way to end the Citizens United precedent by changing state incorporation laws - and now luminaries in both parties are forcing a vote on it in the 2026 election.

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Keesa McKoy @kmacsthoughts.bsky.social · 9h

Looking back, Trump saying at a national debate that Haitians were eating people’s pets was not shunned enough.

I cannot believe so many people let Trump, Vance et al get away with that level of racism.

I dunno I’m retroactively disgusted and pissed.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 13h

Young Republicans joke about rape and gas chambers, use slurs, and talk about how much they love Hitler.

This isn't an exaggeration. These are the current and future leaders of the Republican Party, all who have 10x the funding of Dem youth orgs.

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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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 9h

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 13h

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

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 9h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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skáld @danglinghemmie.bsky.social · 10h

they don't make right wing freaks like this anymore, that pie would've put andy ngo into the ICU

gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 10h

Happy Anita Bryant Humiliation Day

A four-panel image of Anita Bryant being pied in her sanctimonious face by gay rights activist Thom Higgins, 1977.

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Phoenix Calida @phoenixcalida.bsky.social · 9h

This is the who the gop is

They cannot be negotiated with. They cannot be compromised with. Anyone still arguing to reach across the aisle needs to be primaried and forgotten. Any pundits or columnists arguing for bipartisanship need to be ignored

These people are hostile, act like you have sense

Politico @politico.com · 13h

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

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone who’s been online in the past decade could tell you this is how they talk.

Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

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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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 12h

One of the craziest stories I've seen in a long time. If you think Trump and his administration are extreme and depraved, just wait until you learn about the young guns who are positioning themselves to take over the reigns in the next few decades

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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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

It really bugs me when some leftists lump him in with the others. If you want to set up a liberal to leftist pipeline, John Oliver's a perfect place to start.

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Laika L. Gagarin @laikalgagarin.bsky.social · 1d

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Nice argument, unfortunately I have already depicted you as the soyjak doomscroller Bob and myself as the chad organizer Sensei Sergio.

Bob Ferguson from One Battle After Another

Sensei Sergio from One Battle After Another

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Oregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 1d

A Black Serval Feline

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

2021 was such a weird year for film, somehow even weirder than 2020.

Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever the hell Jared Leto was doing in House of Gucci, still more worthy than Columbus.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 1d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

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CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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beajea.bsky.social @beajea.bsky.social · 1d

Wanted to take a moment to say thanks for posting the lists you have been and to say I’ve been sharing the info and redirecting my spending because of it. If a lot of us alter our spending behavior, it’s gonna be felt and acknowledged. Big time. But meanwhile, it’s just the right thing to do.

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 2d

We should be asking this
c o n s t a n t l y.

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Mythy the Kitty @mythiot.bsky.social · 1d

My reaction to seeing Matt Yglesias say something wrong is wrong.

Page from Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Mr. Heffley says "Roderick, I want your dirty underwear off the kitchen table before I get home from work." Roderick grunts in response. Next panel shows Mr. Heffley coming home and looking impressed when the underwear is off the table.

Greg Heffley narrates this as an example of how you should set people's expectations really low so you can impress them by barely doing anything at all.

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