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technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · 7h

“They referred to Black people as monkeys and “the watermelon people” and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies and driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.”

‘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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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 19h

REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE PLAN

If you're poor, don't get sick.

If you're sick, don't get poor.

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 18h

m.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQR...

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18h

This is a good point

Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 20h

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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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 18h

Taking a swipe at the white gamer bros who support the Republican party is an interesting choice.

But, while we're here, Medicaid is intened for people who CAN'T AFFORD PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE. What you do, or don't do, SHOULDN'T MATTER when it comes to getting health care.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Mike Johnson says Medicaid is "intended for vulnerable populations, the elderly, disabled, and young pregnant women, and not young able-bodied men without dependents who are playing video games."

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 18h

The good news is that the Supreme Court still refused to hear this case.

The bad news is that three justices seem eager to force every public school in the country to out trans kids to their parents, and it only takes one more vote to put a future case on the docket that lets the court do so.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 18h

should a black person appear on kkk tv? then why do democrats appear on fox news? because fox news has the same end goal for democrats as the kkk does for black people. thats the entire point of the network - to purge the democratic party.

calizaybak.bsky.social @calizaybak.bsky.social · 18h

I keep saying this.

If you appear on Fox News in ANY capacity be it being interview or liberal heel you are a cog in the fascist propaganda machine no matter how much one yells they're fighting the machine.

Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 19h

appearing on fox's airwaves validates them as a source of information to their audience. they lie all day and then they can tell their audience "see, we're not fake, we tell so much truth about dems that the party chair, house leader, major candidates, etc all have to come here and defend themself"

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18h

Rupert Murdoch is awful, but he was an actual newspaper person who understood that alienating your core audience is not good business. For Bezos, the Post was a vanity project, and is now a loss leader to protect his other interests.

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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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 1d

The notion that those who took part in slavery or conquest were merely abiding by the moral standards of their time necessary excludes those they targeted and kidnapped from those standards; *they* were never confused about this. But other white people were frequently disgusted by this stuff too!

George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · 18h

It Should Be Lower

Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 18h

Jeff Bezos and Thirsty Will are down to 97,000 daily paid subscribers, folks

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

technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · 20h

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Hamilton Nolan @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social · 21h

As the bull market turns 3 years old and becomes ever more concentrated in a handful of companies building a speculative technology, the Trump administration is systematically removing guardrails in every major risk category. Fun.

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/fragility-...

Fragility Is Getting Scary

The opposite of risk management.

www.hamiltonnolan.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

maybe this will help some realize that you don’t need access to cover the government effectively. in fact, it’s actually better.

Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

www.cnn.com

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 20h

Way to speak truth to power, Bari
www.thefp.com/p/donald-tru...

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Great thread on the distinctive political culture of Portland, by a US historian who is very much from Portland.

C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 1d

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 1d

"You obviously used them very well," says Trump of U.S. weapons given to Israel.

Column | Israel’s unprecedented slaughter of journalists in Gaza

Finding any sort of accountability for the deaths of Palestinian journalists will likely prove difficult.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Josh Zingher @zingherpolisci.bsky.social · 1d

I'm old enough to remember when the entire Chicago PD quit when Brandon Johnson was elected.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

CBS News would never put a thinly sourced 'story' by a rookie blogger like this on it's air. Until now. The Free Press isn't a journalism outlet, it's bloggers aren't reporters. This piece is more NYPost than Tiffany Network but I guess that's the goal.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming the NYC mayor, The Free Press reports

The Free Press spoke to several New York City Police Department officers who are worried about Zohran Mamdani becoming mayor. Olivia Reingold joins CBS News with more.

www.cbsnews.com

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technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · 1d

RFK Will Kill Us All

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 3d

Susan Collins is the chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which means she has considerable power to influence the administration but she prefers to mumble weak protestations to the media

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

Despite all of Susan Collins’s **concerns**, Russ Vought, who she voted to confirm, still went ahead and fired a boatload of hard-working Americans.

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4d

SUSAN COLLINS, Wednesday: "I've made very clear that I do not believe there should be firings of furloughed workers."

RUSS VOUGHT, Friday: "The RIFs have begun."

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Jeff Fecke @jkfecke.bsky.social · 3d

It's almost impossible for numbers to go that low.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 3d

Some good news: Most people don't trust Trump and RFK Jr.'s claims about autism.
Just four percent of respondents told a KFF poll they believed the claim was definitely true, while 30 percent said it was probably false and 35 percent said it was definitely false
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Only 4% of Americans think Trump claims about Tylenol and autism ‘definitely true’

Americans are largely divided on partisan lines on whether they trust the Trump administration’s health claims on autism and vaccines

www.independent.co.uk

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technomalinche @technomalinche.bsky.social · 3d

RFK Will Kill Us All

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 3d

Mr. President, is it you or your dusty little gnome who is sending in troops to provoke riots? The gnome said it was him.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 3d

And when they came for John Bolton, we were making fun of his mustache. Even really bad people need constitutional protections though, so just another red light flashing.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Trump critic and former national security adviser John Bolton to be charged soon, sources say

Bolton would be the third critic of the president to face federal charges. New York Attorney General Letitia James and former FBI Director James Comey were recently indicted.

www.nbcnews.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 4d

Man, a meager deputy chief of staff yields enormous power, who knew.

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 4d

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 4d

for a while, long ago, I wondered about a political party that catered to the desires of serial killers - getting basically 100% of the serial killer vote in order to run america

and now: that political daydream has become a reality

Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 4d

An endorsement’s an endorsement right?

Article about a serial killer’s last words before he was executed “Tell Trump to keep making America great.”

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Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Podcast @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 4d

It’s remarkable that people who work in the medium of TV think this works. People saw the image of a minister being brutalized, you’re not gonna counter that with words

Media Matters for America @mmfa.bsky.social · 4d

A Newsmax host defended ICE agents shooting a minister in the head with a pepper ball by falsely claiming he was “actually an antifa member masquerading as a pastor.”

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