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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 45m

last i checked these young republicans were like 25 years old. but this is a classic case of infantilization to diminish the significance of the offense. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Vance downplays group chat messages: ‘Kids do stupid things, especially young boys.’

The vice president called the texts "edgy, offensive jokes."

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 2h

MOMMY, BUY ME A LICENSE PLATE! NO. COME ALONG, BORTAC. ARE YOU TALKING TO ME? NO. MY SON IS ALSO NAMED BORTAC.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 7h

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.

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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 3h

They are not children. These men are adults. If you care about children release the Epstein files.

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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 3h

who among us hasn't talked about loving Hitler or worked tirelessly on behalf of a person we called "America's Hitler" or talked about sending our political opponents to gas chambers or incited a wave of hatred of immigrants with vicious lies

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 3h

Picking up a bag of fun-size Unix bars

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

There is no evidence that the man who murdered Kirk had any ties to any progressive nonprofits.

Michael Feola @feolski.bsky.social · 3h

"Scott Bessent said that his department is launching a War on Terror-style campaign against progressive nonprofits."
“Charlie’s death is like a domestic 9/11,” Bessent said. “Just as after 9/11, and Osama bin Laden... was captured... we are going to track down who is responsible for this.”

Big Talk: Treasury Secretary Declares New War on Terror Against the Left

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday that his department is in...

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 3h

Good *and* Plenty? In this economy?

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Derek Fox @partialobserver.bsky.social · 4h

Is there a name for this phenomenon, when “prices change direction” and go higher instead of lower? Is this a thing that people get very angry at Democratic Presidents about?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10h

We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞

@sbmitche.bsky.social
www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 4h

By Presidential decree, all physics is now "low energy," perhaps downright "sleepy."

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Lizzie O'Leary @lizzieohreally.bsky.social · 4h

“I lost my son because of the funding cuts,” he says. “And it is not only me — many more children in other camps have also died helplessly from hunger, malnutrition and no medical treatment.”

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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 4h

[Me watching the Tom Holland "Umbrella" performance]: "This is peak masculinity."

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

Standing and defending the fundamental truths of the Republic means rejecting and opposing loathsome people like Johnson.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 4h

Might have to take a break, get a sandwich and a pint in a "no-go zone"

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5h

Just because I explain tear gas and it’s legal position, it does not mean I am in favor of using it. I’m literally on record, in the most prominent way in serious circles, calling for more restrictions on tear gas. Don’t yell at me for not doing enough

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The Dreaded Abighoul @popeguilty.bsky.social · 5h

Back on Twitter I used to occasionally post about how if you have conservative relatives they're spending their time immersed in propaganda designed to persuade them that your murder is not only a sad necessity but a wonderful thing, deserved and to be looked forward to

Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 6h

Now?

A mainstream Republican can spend 10+ hours a day immersed in that media, never really having to leave it.

They can make horrible shit their entire personality, the only thing they talk about, and spend all day every day immersed in it.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 22h

Next up on my reading list.

…I am already regretting this choice.

IF ANYONE BUILDSIT, EVERYONE DIES
WHY
SUPERHUMAN AI
WOULD
KILLUS ALL
ELIEZER
YUDKOWSKY &
NATE SOARES

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 6h

"Rationality" turns out to have an LD50

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 6h

This is a really good and really interesting thread from a person who knows what he’s talking about. You should go read it. I have some thoughts that it pings for me that I’m going to post below here, but please listen to the Yale lecturer before Just Some Guy.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 6h

I'm gonna try to articulate something I've been thinking about for a while, regarding *why* disillusionment, distrust, & dissatisfaction with democracy are rising.

Almost everything I read takes this phenomenon as an exogenous shock, assuming no one chose to make it so. I suspect that's incomplete.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 6h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Heidi Kitrosser @heidikitrosser.bsky.social · 6h

Pretty sure that *NO KINGS* is a "foundational truth[] of this republic."

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 7h

Them: So what do you have planned for today?

Me: I'm going to

youtu.be/zEgspxXa8d8?...

Puke and Cry

YouTube video by Dinosaur Jr. - Topic

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Rsquared @rsquared.bsky.social · 7h

He was terrific as Jason Segel's hardass military dad on FREAKS & GEEKS

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 7h

GOP’s labor market policy is market protectionism for white men.

Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 8h

"For the first time since the 1960s, the earnings gap between men and women has widened two years in a row...with women earning 80.9 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2024. That compares to women earning 84 cents for every dollar a man earned in 2022."

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office

Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.

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