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Independent journalist. I write words for Public Notice, the AV Club, and elsewhere. Subscribe to my newsletter The Play Typer Guy for more content (https://www.playtyperguy.com/subscribe)

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · Nov 12

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 4h

On the other hand, it indicates we've made some progress as a country that this is now on the gaslighting menu by powerful people so I guess we got that going for us.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 4h

"It is racist to ask me why I take money from Israel while they commit genocide," has got to be one of the most hilarious evasions of all time.

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 4h

Also one more thing.

"I will never forget when some progressives from the suburbs came to protest me and my neighbors defended me".

@corybooker.com, if you want me to find some of your Black neighbors in Newark (that's what you are getting at right?) who hate your guts we can work it out.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

"Look, I'm one of a handful of people that don't take corporate PAC money."

"What about AIPAC money? You take AIPAC money, don't you?"

"A minuscule percentage of my resources come from..."

"I read it's like $800,000...."

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 7h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 14h

To be clear: these are the exact same folks who have been doxxing & putting people on must-fire lists for simply posting innocuous Charlie Kirk comments…

“the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely”

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14h

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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Atima Omara @atimaomara.bsky.social · 3h

Listen, a whole lot has happened between 2016 and now, a pandemic, a couple of recessions, 20202…. And I still absolutely know with a certainty that is not what I saw in 2012

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 4h

the never trumpers have repeated this bullshit so much that some people believe it

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 9h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 9h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 1d

Today's newsletter is all about this brilliant ad www.readtpa.com/p/a-politici...

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 8h

I can also confirm that many white people care more about harm to dogs than harm to Black/brown people, so this is not a bad way to draw them in to the evils being done by this regime.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 10h

“This heckin’ pupperino fucking hates La Migra,” to paraphrase from @weratedogs.com

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This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers.
According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place.
Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop
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CBP Office of Professional Responsibility:
202-344-1808
JointIntake@cbp.dhs.gov
El Paso Border Patrol Sector:
915-834-8400
fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov
Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):
915-541-1400
veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov
https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/el-paso-family-claims-border-patrol-killed-their-dog-during-search-cbp-

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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 6h

Extremely fine that the Vice President is minimizing racist, genocidal, pro-Hitler group chats among GOP staffers 🙃

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14h

(also funny that nikole’s post is just a straightforward statement of fact!)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 6h

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 17h

*10/14/2025 noncooperation thread*

A daily-ish thread of acts of noncooperation, noncompliance, & defiance by individuals, communities, &/or institutions.

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"The right to protest is what America's about."

Have you found your event? Do you know how & w/ whom you'll go? 💪

Now: What will you wear?

Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 3d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 7h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 8h

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6h

He keeps saying this, even though Jack Smith didn't join the classified docs case until a few months after the raid.

But since he keeps doing this on Fox News, where they are on the same team, he won't get called out on it.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Eric Trump: "We found out that Jack Smith was actually planting classified folders in Mar-a-Lago"

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 14h

in the last decade and a half, very few of us on the liberal side even bring up george w bush -- which is why im not optimistic about liberalism collectively remembering everything trump has done to us. we've already reduced reagan and bush to "not so bad" and you even see people praise goldwater

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

maybe im an outlier, cause im fucking good at it

Thomas Beck @tomfodw.bsky.social · 14h

liberals don’t do hate and grudge very well. it’s just not in us.

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 9h

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.

Politico @politico.com · 14h

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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Andrew @ajvanv.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, you’ve got a lot of increasingly unpopular figures lining up behind Mills. Schumer and Gillibrand aren’t exactly the ringing endorsement a primary candidate needs at this moment.

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Stephen Robinson @playtyperguy.com · 9h

In fact, right now, having establishment support is more likely to hurt Mills and help Platner.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

as republicans who backed trump in 2016 can also tell you -- the party establishment aint all its cracked up to be. most of the time you just bop them on the nose and they fold

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 10h

back in 2008 one candidate had the support of the party establishment while another had the support of actual voters. one candidate, the underdog, hustled, while the establishment candidate surrounded themselves with yes men and women who assured them the nomination was theirs.

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Jane Roe Has Hope - Pro-choice Adoptee @janeroehopeful.bsky.social · 11h

Fucking all the men at that table laughed.

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