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Senior Botanist at Antifa Botanic Garden 🌵 @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 24m

The official Republican position is that Trump IS America

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 34m

Mike Johnson: "I don't think it will end before the Hate America Rally on the Mall on Saturday, where all the Marxists and antifa people and all the people who hate Trump and hate America will be there."

Senior Botanist at Antifa Botanic Garden 🌵 @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 26m

We should be calling it the cage Maga rally

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 34m

Mike Johnson: "I don't think it will end before the Hate America Rally on the Mall on Saturday, where all the Marxists and antifa people and all the people who hate Trump and hate America will be there."

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 33m

Ah, yes, the double standard.

Kids do edgy things like saying "I love Hitler." Just ignore it.

Oh, also, my admin is getting people fired and pulling their visas for saying mean things about Charlie Kirk.

Someone should ask Vance why its only the shitheads who support him who get to be "edgy"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 57m

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

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 47m

Also a reminder these weren’t “Kids”! Some of these “Young Republicans,” which includes ages up to 40, were elected officials or government appointees.

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Senior Botanist at Antifa Botanic Garden 🌵 @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 29m

Least conservative government in the history of the country

John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

What the fuck are we doing?

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 1h

What the fuck are we doing?

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 3h

This administration’s policy of serial open murders on the high seas is starting to make some members of Congress mildly uncomfortable. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

Members of Congress growing concerned over lack of information from administration about Venezuela strikes, sources say

Republicans and Democrats say the administration is failing to share basic information with Congress about the intelligence, rationale and goals of its war on drug trafficking.

www.nbcnews.com

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

The Arizona Young Republicans chairman mentioned in this, Luke Mosiman, was one of the Turning Point affiliates demanding that Phoenix Suns sports writer be fired for not properly mourning Kirk to their liking

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

There's a big list of evil driving this administration, but insisting that domestic violence is no big deal has to be up there.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 3h

Trump’s power depends on maintaining the illusion that he’s all-powerful, and that Americans adore him.

But that illusion is harder to maintain if millions of people are in the streets protesting.

This is why Republicans are trying to discredit No Kings Day rallies before they've even happened.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 6h

He would rather shut down our government than have you see the truth. It's not complicated.

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Senior Botanist at Antifa Botanic Garden 🌵 @newsprintmafia.bsky.social · 1h

Mike Johnson is a very good Christian 🙏

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Kristin Wilson 📎 @kristin-wilson.bsky.social · 3h

Would seem to me that a Congressman beating his girlfriend and having a judge order a restraining order against him is "really serious..."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 23h

Pretending to the world that you are the president of peace while waging war at home is diabolical.

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 3h

Republicans are almost as good at making mountains out of molehills as making molehills out of mountains.

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Jason "Red5" Lyall @jaylyall.bsky.social · 20h

These strikes are illegal for about 7 reasons:
1. Not self-defense
2. No (or any) Congressional authorization
3. No evidence of criminal wrongdoing
4. Occurred in int'l waters
5. No open state of hostilities
6. Criminal groups are not terrorists legally
7. No id on people killed or group targeted

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3h

Topics Mike Johnson thinks are serious:

- Super Bowl halftime entertainer
- getting a Nobel Prize for Trump
- terrifying naked bike riders

Topics he thinks are not serious:

- Epstein Files
- domestic violence
- being able to keep the govt open
- the neutering of Congress

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Q: This has been reported for a while. Cory Mills was accused of beating a girlfriend in his DC apt. Are you concerned about these allegations?

JOHNSON: You have to ask Rep. Mills about that. He's been a faithful colleague. I don't know the details. Let's talk about things that are really serious

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

What could be worse than screaming at a Capitol police officer?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 3h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 3h

It's somehow both wildly underreported and just out in the open that the vice president is either a neo-Nazi or, at a bare minimum, a neo-Nazi fellow traveler.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 4h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 4h

everyone on that stage went along with pardons for jan 6 participants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 2h

We Should Have Finished Reconstruction: A Brief History Of American Politics, 1865-2025

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 3h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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