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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 1m

No one is saying RFK isn’t also an evil eugenicist, we’re just not buying that Nuzzi isn’t just trying to cash out on her access “journalism” and its inevitable pro-fascism bias

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Irma Dimitrdze @irmadimitradze.bsky.social · 11m

🔴When your country and freedom are at stake, you don’t calculate chances - you fight.
That’s what we are doing.
We need support in this fight, not measurement of our chances.
✊My first visit to EP came with a wish - that the promise I made there is fulfilled sooner than anyone can imagine: #FreeMzia

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Peronism with American Characteristics @olenargy.bsky.social · 6m

The Supreme Court has been illegitimate since July 1, 2024.

That’s the date they abandoned their oath.

Michael R. Ulrich @michaelrulrich.bsky.social · 14m

The questioning from some justices of whether protecting equitable racial representation is a compelling interest is quite telling and completely ignores the purpose of the Reconstruction Amendments that are—whether they like it or not—a part of the Constitution

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 6m

Nazifascist propagandist class solidarity:

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 13h

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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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 9h

we have the rest of this week to rally every fucking person all of us knows to hit the streets, i have ten people i am bringing out, repost this with better numbers than mine, you competitive people, beat my numbers

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 49m

in hindsight it makes sense to see cancel culture as a harbinger of the end of shame rather than an excess of it. "shame" presupposes stable social norms and a sense of what one did wrong and how it could have been avoided. not suddenly a thunderbolt from zeus thrown at random people

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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 2h

I remain steadfast in my conviction that even accidentally targeting a UN aid vehicle should be one of the most terrifying realizations in the human experience. *Deliberately* doing so should promise such a world of hurt that most people would rather jump in front of a jet engine.

🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 3h

Russians themselves proudly published a video of a drone attack on a UN humanitarian convoy in the Kherson region — openly boasting about their “achievements” and celebrating another war crimes.

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 17h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Anne Trubek @atrubek.bsky.social · 14h

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

2covet @2covet.bsky.social · 14h

www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/rare-whit...

Locals stunned by world-famous white whale sighting off NZ coast

Locals near Kaikōura captured rare footage of a white humpback whale.

www.nzherald.co.nz

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 10h

i think one very clear lesson of 2024 is necessity of having media infrastructure to reach public. right now legacy media is either passively or actively complicit and social media increasingly owned by allies of administration

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 15h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

Grad school is a shitshow that I think is most comparable to the world Anthony Bourdain wrote about in Kitchen Confidential

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

The highest dose I probably got was “just” X-rays we accidentally generated in the lab when someone sent us radiophosporus instead of radioiodine which was actually kind of a relief cause we were all worried that the gamma counter was dying and those things are expensive

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

Well I say that but my highest confirmed dose happened cause my advisor was already drunk at 9 am on a Tuesday …

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

Unventilated … at least theoretically we were taking appropriate precautions with the radioiodine

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 10h

No but it’s probably at least as good as some of my radiation stories

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Zombie Ostrich and 12.5k others @justostrich.com · 11h

Reporters should be asking Republicans every day what they think of the SOTH's staffers' statements. But they won't.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 11h

I will never get over the fact that the deeply unsubtle train wreck that was Megalopolis is so painfully relevant to the Trump regime

Joel @snufkinlib.bsky.social · 16h

Somehow, Marcus Licinius Crassus returned

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Andrew. @g026r.leftblank.org · 18h

This is like, the takeaway of a baby's first history of the Romans: do not make the troops more loyal to someone other than the government.

So of course a movement obsessed with the Romans would make noise about ignoring it.

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Classics & Virtues @classicvirtues.bsky.social · 14h

Woke 2.0 is going to hit like 80s crack

@loganclarkhall

Trump won. You don't have to do this anymore.

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Young Republicans

We are appalled by the vile and inexcusable language revealed in the Politico article published today. Such behavior is disgraceful, unbecoming of any Republican, and stands in direct opposition to the values our movement...

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 12h

Horrifying reporting from @politico.com on Young Republicans group chats. (Not just a few outliers; people in leadership around the country).
Racism.
Misogyny.
Antisemitism.
These are not bugs but FEATURES of today’s GOP. Revolting.
Join #NoKings 10/18
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 13h

I’m reading a biography of Aleister Crowley and if there’s one thing I know it’s that Crowley would have figured out how to fuck the chatbot

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 17h

Also, the Praetorians were widely despised by the residents of Rome itself for their casual cruelty and generally shit behavior towards just about everyone they considered beneath them

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Mallory 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇵🇸🇬🇱🇵🇦🇨🇦🇲🇽🇪🇺 @sadboots.bsky.social · 17h

It’s not an exaggeration to say the Praetorians were a major factor in the Roman Empire’s decline and ultimate fall

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 17h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 17h

U.S. police kill roughly 25 pet dogs a day, the majority of which pose no threat to them.

scholars.unh.edu/unh_lr/vol17...

trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss...

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