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ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 6h

the proper comparison isn't between these leaked private chats and the public statements of republicans in 2007, but between leaked private chats and the email forwards of 2007 which where absolutely fucking like this.

Micah @rincewind.run · 11h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 6h

As people have pointed out, these data aren't really saying what he pretends they do, so even if you think he's a good faith actor, he's clearly an incompetent one and should be frozen out of discourse for that reason alone

ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 6h

People reveal a lot about themselves in who they make excuses for, so if you are still saying Yglesias is just an unobjectionable blogger, I'm coming to a pretty rapid conclusion about you

Guy Trivago @convolutedname.bsky.social · 1d

Frying brains online

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 6h

MARKED SAFE from having an opinion on primaries in Maine

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 6h

DEI is wrong and immoral. Here's why our immigration system should give preference to white refugees.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 8h

In October 1962 Barry Goldwater insisted that the editor of the University of Colorado student newspaper be fired, even after that student apologized for printing a piece critical of the Arizona senator, and self-proclaimed staunch advocate of individual liberty.

Dismiss Colorado Daily Editor
B. Goldwater
Althen's firing came after a con- then wrote another letter to New-fused series of charges and coun-
ton, attacking the alleged freedom
In Controversy
ter-charges
between himself,
the
with what he called "socialists and
university, Sen. Barry, Goldwater
other
un-Americans"
could
get
and the Rocky Mountain News.
their views heard at Colorado.
BOULDER, Colo. (Special)-The
Earlier in the controversy, pres-
-Newton counter-attacked in the
editor of the Colorado Daily was
ident Newton attacked Goldwater
letter which said true freedom of
fired late Wednesday, setting off as "... a symbol of the repressive expression existed at Colorado. a major controversy on the Uni-
forces on the march in America'
"Senator, I shall not silence them
versity of Colorado campus.
today..." and said he "would not
..." he wrote.
Gary Althen, a senior, was dis-
silence" freedom of speech at the
missed as editor of the student
Colorado campus.
-On Oct. 3, the Daily printed
daily after he printed attacks on
another Mitcham article, attacking
Sen. Barry Goldwater and former
But Althen said he was called
ex-President Eisenhower as a "fut-
President Dwignt D. Eisenhower.
out of class Wednesday and asked
zer" and incompetent.
The firing — which was made to go to the
where Newton handed him a one-
by Colorado President Quigg Newton despite faculty and student
paragraph letter saying that he was fired.
protests-followed nearly a month of heated and sometimes bitter con-
Immediately
after the firing,
pickets started to march in front
troversy at the university and throughout Colorado.
of the president's house, and the Colorado Student Senate met in a
Editorial Irresponsibility
special session to write a resolution
In announcing the firing of Al-
censuring and
condemning the
then, Newton said the editor "dis-
president, according to a Roosevelt
played a pattern of editorial irre-
Torch reporter who spoke with Al-
sponsibility that required his re- then.
moval"
…

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 8h

A lot of them actively resent their colleagues and think allying with politicians will give them the power to punish other faculty.

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 10h

My personal experience is that guys talk shit but there are always boundaries that you do not cross. What those boundaries are says a lot about you and your friends.

Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 10h

The evolution of InfantryDork continues to play out in the most predictable of ways… @mikeblack114.bsky.social @sharonk.bsky.social

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 10h

It's genuinely impressive how anti-woke people are determined to prove that the most extreme claims of the wokists were, in fact, correct

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 12h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 12h

When you realize you must have lost a couple of pounds because your lifting belt feels a little loose

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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 13h

When conservatives say "we're not a democracy, we're a republic," they mean it. And what they mean by "a republic" is that not only is there no direct democracy, they mean there's no truly representative democracy, either. Citizens become merely an advisory body, if that.

Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 16h

Alito goes further, arguing that protecting partisan gerrymanders is a "traditional redistricting principle" that must be respected. Remember that the Court in Rucho said "This is lamentable, but we don't know how to measure it." That's a long ways from the state interest Alito implies it is today

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 15h

Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14h

Like, for a fascist movement, it's quite bereft of any energy beyond "people like me should never be questioned". They want to indulge their worst bigotries but that's literally all they've got, they can't be bothered to do anything more, or even have the imagination to think of anything more

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 14h

It's part of a general project where these people are just too exhausted by the mental gymnastics they engaged in for ages to keep pretending

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 15h

On some level, it's genuinely hilarious that Republicans have gone from making these nuanced arguments about how wokeism stifles free thought, or how racially disparate outcomes aren't indicative of racism, etc. . . . to just straight up defending weird dudes who say "I love Hitler."

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 15h

I'm probably the guy who gets talked shit about (upside is I miss this tesseract)

Ryan Wiley @rdubwiley.bsky.social · 15h

Nothing makes you go anti-social faster than the tesseract of group chats that form so you can increasingly talk shit about the one guy you don't like in the group.

ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 16h

ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 17h

is it ILLEGAL to have a RELATIONSHIP now????

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 19h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 19h

Well, the good news is that we can throw money at AI in time for that bubble to pop

Ray Collins @eraycollins.bsky.social · 20h

The most obvious example of Trump’s war on a critical sector, and the most consequential for the next decade, is his vendetta against renewable energy. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/china-has-...

China Has Overtaken America

And Trump’s policies guarantee that we will never catch up

paulkrugman.substack.com

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 23h

The Inuit just haven't heard of Florida, you see

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 23h

Oh good, time to have Discourse about how stupid a political tendency is that is really about aggressively differing on the implications of words

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 1d

Obviously this is a particular left-wing species of it, but I think this is a reflection of a very real Online trend found all over the political spectrum where people don't understand some aspect of the world and so assume their ignorance must reflect a conspiracy by The Powers That Be

ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 1d

Errotica

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Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

October 2025
AI gooning is the master of the Internet
Only Claude stands against it
Waifus are now battlefields

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

what this can teach us is that we do not have to spend our energy engaging with these behaviors on a belief level, because they aren’t rooted in belief, even though if challenged within their social in-group they would all immediately defend their statements as being their genuine beliefs

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 1d

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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ATXRambler @rambleratx.bsky.social · 1d

Actually surprised how long ago it was when I took the photo

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