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soonergrunt
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Retired Soldier, Union guy, public lands lover. Capybara fan. Servant to Freddie the Rescue Pup. Utah Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. -Mencken Bluesky Fauxscialists fuck off.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · Nov 9
I was reading earlier about a feudal uprising where a Duke's son was killed early on by the rebels. They used trebuchet they'd captured to knock him off the battlements. They were trying to toss the decapitated heads of castle guards and loyal serfs over the wall.
This was a common tactic back then-
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 1h
Of all the things that never happened, that never happened the most.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 2h
Your semi-daily Freddie says Hi!
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Brynn Tannehill @brynntannehill.bsky.social · 4h
Please, tell me again how I'm wrong when I say that the GOP isn't just racist, they're genuinely fascist when they think no one is in the room with them.

I'm not paranoid: I just understand the GOP better than the people who tell me I'm wrong. 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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liz 🍉 ليز @lizardry.bsky.social · 4h
"You call everyone you don't like a Nazi!"
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 4h
'“Can we fix the showers? Gas chambers don’t fit the Hitler aesthetic,” Joe Maligno...wrote'

'Many of the chat members already work inside government or party politics, and one serves as a state senator.'
‘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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Politico @politico.com · 4h
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.
www.politico.com
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 5h
"The richest man in the world and the owner of the most influential social media site in US politics is a nazi who openly supports and amplifies other nazis" would, on its face, seem to be rather newsworthy!
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 5h
Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 9h
the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 5h
95% of the files are not subject to privacy restrictions, as the Federal Court that DOJ tried to blame has repeatedly said.
Grand Jury transcripts are sealed by the Court. Not the vast majority of the documents the government holds.
www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Judge won't unseal transcripts of grand jury that indicted Epstein ex-girlfriend Maxwell
The judge says releasing the transcripts would risk unraveling the foundations of secrecy upon which the grand jury is premised.
www.pbs.org
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 5h
The big thing is that these employers think the labor market should only work one way and that jobseekers shouldn't have requirements for salary or workplace life or whatever.
And younger people don't agree with them on that score.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 6h
"In response to the findings, one CEO said: 'This explains exactly why we can’t hire.'"

Bullshit. If you need people you hire, and if you want young employees that you want to stick around you find the ones who share your values or you PAY MORE.

Sick to death of this Young People Today crap.
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Michael Paulauski♨️ @mike10010100.com · 8h
They did that because the desire to hate Democrats for Not Being Perfect is greater than the desire to hate fascists for being evil incarnate.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 9h
The many media outlets, politicians, and commentators who rushed to declare “a great peace, glory to the king!” should ask themselves why they did that, and figure out how to not make the same mistake again.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11h
(ABC) - The Israel Defense Forces said its troops opened fire on Palestinians, killing five, after they allegedly violated the terms of the ceasefire agreement.

abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 8h
You cannot capitulate enough to satisfy an audience that actively demands to be lied to, and has abundant eager suppliers for that demand, while also retaining the audience that wants real reporting. You can very easily try to go halfsies and lose both, though.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 8h
Lots of comments saying Bezos did this on purpose, which is absolutely part of it. But billionaires also have insane egos and think they're smarter than everyone else and assume everyone agrees with their viewpoints, so there's some of that in here too
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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 1d
Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...
The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay
Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.
www.forbes.com
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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 20h
So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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Defense News @defensenews.bsky.social · 10h
To deter Russian aggression, the U.S. and NATO are rapidly building an Eastern Flank defense network focused on counter-drone tech and data integration.
How the US Army, NATO are creating a new Eastern Flank Deterrence Line
To deter Russian aggression, the U.S. and NATO are rapidly building an Eastern Flank defense network focused on counter-drone tech and data integration.
www.defensenews.com
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Al Swearengen @al-swearengen.bsky.social · 8h
“Many fear they’re more violent”.

More weasel words, because journalism isn’t witnessing and reporting truth any more, it’s dutifully recording opposing views and reporting nothing.
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NPR @npr.org · 11h
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
Tackles, projectiles and gunfire: Many fear ICE tactics are growing more violent
Videos taken by eye witnesses of federal agent encounters with immigrants in Chicago and elsewhere have shown increasingly tense incidents. Immigrant advocates and observers say they're indicative of a larger trend of aggression among federal immigration officers.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 8h
NEW: Statement from Cardinal Blaise Cupich, Archbishop of Chicago, on ICE activities in the city.

Implicitly refers to tactics used by ICE/DHS as “unnecessarily aggressive” and “seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement.”
Here's Cardinal Cupich's statement: In this moment it is important to state clearly that keeping the nation safe and respecting human dignity are not mutually exclusive. In fact one cannot exist without the other. The safety of a nation cannot come at the expense of violations of human dignity and surely the dignity of the undocumented can never be violated by unnecessarily aggressive tactics that go far beyond the task of apprehending people and which seem to be intended to terrorize and cause chaos, rather than fulfilling the noble calling of law enforcement. No one working in this noble calling should be put in the position of acting this way. Not only do they risk violating the dignity of others but such activity is beneath their own dignity.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 8h
If she likes what Trump is doing with ICE, then she should be able to articulate that in her own terms.
Saying *you can't say that because it's disrespectful to xxx" is about trying to shutdown discussion of xxx.
It's an intellectually and morally dishonest tactic.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 8h
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10h
Reshma Ramachandran “said the sequence of events is the antithesis of how the FDA is supposed to function.

“What we’re seeing here is, ‘We believe this and we’re going to find the evidence to support that’ …That’s just inherently wrong in terms of how a scientific agency like the FDA operates.”
Inside FDA, career staffers describe how political pressure is influencing their work
Current and former FDA staff said the level of involvement of political officials in nitty-gritty regulatory matters is unprecedented.
www.statnews.com
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h
Major airports are refusing to air Kristi Noem’s propaganda video blaming Democrats for the shutdown, and there’s a reason: it violates the Hatch Act

You can’t use taxpayer resources for partisan attacks. Period.
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 8h
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 9h
This is a really important point.

They want “meme authoritarianism.”

They want rage.

They’re getting frogs & aging hippies.

Not great optics—for them.

But great for us: you build a movement by showing folks that they’re part of an energized and hopeful “us.”

Let’s go!
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 10h
one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...
MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump
As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.
newrepublic.com
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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 9h
The other thing here is that nobody gets to decide anything on behalf of holocaust survivors.
They'll decide how they feel about it and her trying to infantilize them for political points is wildly disrespectful.
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