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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d

To everyone who says, "But this won't matter": *MAKE IT MATTER.*

You have that power! This is not inside baseball and your friends and neighbors will likely be appalled. And if they're *not* appalled, don't be cynical yourself. Take the lead, give the cue.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

New first question for the next time anybody interviews Doug Wilson or Al Mohler or …

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

Reposting because A) it’s a good piece, and B) it may help others find my real-world neighbor’s new Internet address.

Martin Longman @booman23.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps no one in American letters has killed his father and married his mother as many times as David Brooks. @driftglass.bsky.social

martinlongman.substack.com/p/david-broo...

David Brooks Wants to Lead the Revolution

The Republican Party gave him everything, but now he wants a popular uprising to overthrow the Trump regime.

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neotoma.bsky.social @neotoma.bsky.social · 1d

This is rapidly devolving into “what does God need with a starship?” territory.

SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re saving God.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 1d

“We’re saving God.”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Eric Trump: "We're saving Christianity. We've saving God. We've saving the family unit. We're saving this nation. I mean, DEI is out of the window, Benny. You no longer have Colin Kaepernick kneeling for the national anthem. You no longer have Budweiser going woke as hell. All of this is dead."

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Meg Elison @megelison.bsky.social · 9d

This month's Tales from the Underpaid is about the haunted Home Depot where I used to work. Ghost story time!

My newsletter is free, and 2025 has been stories from shitty jobs.

Next year's theme will be announced soon! buttondown.com/megelison/ar...

Tales from the Underpaid: the Haunting of Home Depot

Everybody said that my first Home Depot had a ghost. I’ve lived in places that I felt were haunted, but free-floating dread is plentiful in apartment...

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Elf M. Sternberg @elfsternberg.bsky.social · 1d

@slacktivistfred.bsky.social recently lamented that "Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch In The Early Modern Era No Matter What I Would Like To Believe About Myself And Would Have In Fact Been Among The Witch-Burners" has vanished. However!

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Reasons I Would Not Have Been Burned As A Witch

If I'm honest. Which I do not want to be.

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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 3d

We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.

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eviŁrooster @evilrooster.bsky.social · 3d

I have seen Him in the refugees arriving on our shores
And I’ve seen His Pontius Pilates on the House and Senate floors.
Let us build Him up an altar before ICE’s prison doors.

lauraadrian2.bsky.social @lauraadrian2.bsky.social · 4d

Wow. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the lord

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah I think people here have unrealistic expectations for like jailing all ICE agents and that’s just almost certainly not going to happen even in extremely cool zone scenarios. But they should 100% have to lie for the rest of their lives about their employment history in conversation with everyone

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

Also: if you work for ICE, even if you’re not one of the ones arresting citizens or tackling 15-year-olds or zip-tying kids together and segregating them by race, you’re part of the mechanism making it happen, and you should suffer long-term social and post-regime-change consequences.

Ari Cohn @aricohn.com · 4d

Some weirdo on Twitter has been absolutely melting down for like 36 straight hours because I posted:

When this is over, do not forget what ICE did, and what ICE is. And do not make room for them in society. Make sure they know that they are, and will continue to be, reviled and beneath contempt.

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Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 3d

Trump claims the “Biden FBI” placed 274 agents at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

Trump was president on Jan. 6.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

get in losers we're repenting

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 4d

Liberation theology in the USA. More please.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 5d

Union-blue ‘69 Dodge Charger with an American flag painted on top. “76” painted on the doors. Horn plays “Hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree …”

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 5d

I have a soft spot for the National Indignation Convention — a far-right movement of voluntarily aggrieved white people based in Dallas in the early ‘60s — just because of the hilariously confessional nature of their chosen name.

Anyway, their big issue was the US training of Yugoslavian pilots.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 5d

www.ncronline.org/news/sr-jean...

Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, Loyola Chicago's beloved chaplain, dies at 106

Sr. Jean Dolores Schmidt, the chaplain for the men's basketball team at Loyola Chicago who became a beloved international celebrity during the school's fairy-tale run to the Final Four of the NCAA Tou...

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 6d

Cops wearing riot gear all the time, everywhere is just SO WEIRD. It’s the equivalent of walking around in a wet suit or, like, wearing a football helmet in the supermarket. Outside of an extremely specific context, it’s just a ridiculous outfit.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 6d

RFK Jr. pulls back his hood.

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 6d

Penn’s Woods are lovely, dark, and deep …

Juliette Rihl @julietterihl.bsky.social · 6d

I don’t usually cover breaking news, but this story is truly wild.

A pastor in central PA brought an AR-15 to church and pointed it at people during his sermon. Gun safety experts and internet commentators are, predictably, not happy!

(Paywall free link below)

www.pennlive.com/news/2025/10...

Dauphin County pastor under fire for pointing assault-style rifle during sermon

In a move experts called a serious safety violation, he pointed the unloaded weapon at churchgoers, while asking for a 'violent action of faith.'

www.pennlive.com

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 6d

Keep in mind that Corey Lewandowski was a top aide in Trump’s 2016 campaign, so Kristi Noem probably thinks of herself as “the girlfriend of one of the founders of Fa.”

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 6d

I loved “Agent Carter,” but they should’ve just called the show “The Girlfriend of One of the Founders of Antifa.”

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 7d

The girlfriend of the founder of antifa

Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd - Wikipedia

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 7d

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 7d

I’m fond of the annual first-snowfall tradition involving footprints leading from the crime scene to the suspect’s residence.

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SlacktivistFred @slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 7d

Marco Rubio is the only member of this administration who is not constantly lying to the public. He is instead, constantly lying to himself, and sometimes does this out loud in public.

He knows. And some part of him is tracking his massive body count. He’s a mass murderer and he KNOWS it.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio insisted “no one has died” as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts. In Myanmar, the grieving father of a 2-year-old boy who died after their food rations were cut calls such claims a lie.

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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