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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 11m

I also taught my grandson how to do it, and everyone loves me for it.

Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 13m

I just blow the paper off at someone. Two-fer

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1h

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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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 39m

I used to think if the racism was aimed at his wife, he would sing a different tune, but I think I’m wrong about that. I think he’d be fine with that too. He is just awful all the way through.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1h

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

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

/4 They are aided, in this, by their own factions (devoted overt bigots, unserious irony-poisoned permanent adolescents, and if-it-works-I-say-it sociopaths), as well as by a “free speech culture” movement that is weirdly obsessed with them being comfortable to do it.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 2h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 3h

Probably not a good idea to bash the only good hand I have right now.

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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 3h

My bad.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

/2 You’ve got true believers who consciously and overtly believe in this stuff, you’ve got the goatfuckers who believe it but are too chickenshit to say so so retreat behind “irony”, and you’ve got the neckbearded snort-laughing futon-stains who revel in fatuous adolescent shock.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

The thing is that the modern GOP (not to mention its basement-confined moron stepchild, the Mises Caucus libertarian “party”) is accurately depicted by this language and a critical mass of the party is absolutely fine with it.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Rich Wanket @richwanket.bsky.social · 4h

I couldn’t describe it any better than this.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 4h

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.