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Dr. Dave @drdave1999.bsky.social · 15h

As opposed to just eating and drinking out of a trough like other MAGAts?

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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 1d

Are We the Nazis Now?
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Are We the Nazis Now?

How do we meet this moment?

open.substack.com

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Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 16h

National Guard soldiers are a frequent sight in D.C.

Police reports tell some of the story of what they're doing.

On Sunday, soldiers saw a man who had started a small fire threatening firefighters who tried to extinguish it. He also threw a can. The Guard did not stop this, but witnessed it.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 16h

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 15h

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 16h

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 15h

I suppose this story makes my newsletter from last night even more timely joycevance.substack.com/p/are-we-the...

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

Saturday is going to be huge, boisterous and joyful: “It doesn’t matter if you’ve never protested before. This is a place for you if you believe we don’t do kings in this country.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social to @maddow.msnbc.com

Please join us on No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 15h

EXCLUSIVE: Apple plans to make new home hub devices and tabletop robots in Vietnam as it pivots away from China bloom.bg/4nbv3Xf

📷: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15h

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15h

Ukraine war briefing: Poland minister shows Shahed drone and warns of ‘deep’ Russian threat

Radoslaw Sikorski, speaking in London, urges drone wall and three-year plan to back Ukraine; Odesa mayor’s ‘citizenship suspended’. What we know on day 1,330 Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 15h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 15h

Can we pls talk about Epstein now?

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Liz G @lizzieworldgirl.bsky.social · 23h

Mamdani’s campaign in NYC has taught them nothing. Dem organizations need to be gutted and rebuilt from the bottom up…

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djpgreen.bsky.social @djpgreen.bsky.social · 23h

I'm in Maine and we are all in for Platner. Mills is 77...

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h

I have great respect for Gov. Janet Mills, but she is being advised very poorly on the contours of this political moment when it comes to what Democratic voters want to see.

I’ll be supporting Graham Platner in the primary.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h

This is a complete failure to read the room. It is incompetent. It is political malpractice. The DSCC has clearly learned nothing, and they would rather deploy the same tired, divisive strategies instead of empowering Democratic voters and earning our confidence in their process.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h

It is wildly inappropriate for the DSCC to jump into a competitive primary in such a brazen and shameless way, eight months before voters go to the polls.

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 23h

I had planned to stay out of the Maine Senate race for a while and respectfully consider the competing visions of both major candidates.

But I can’t do that now.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 23h

MAYBE "WINE-SOAKED" PETE KEGSTAND (BURP!) SHOULD WORRY MORE ABOUT BEING A CLOWNFUCKINGLY INCOMPETENT EMBARRASSMENT AND LESS ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS IN CHICAGO. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO MY VERY STRONG AND VERY POWERFUL POST. READ IT HERE: bit.ly/3KNMQGu

as military transport vehicles rolled onto the streets of Chicago, the worst people in the world all stood up and cheered — because fascists gonna fascist.

but there was one guy who was horrified by what he saw.

that one guy was Secretary of Defense Plastered Pete Kegstand, the five-time International Flip A Skateboard Into Your Own Nuts Champion.

was Piss-Drunk Pete horrified by Dear Leader’s fascist display of brutality? fuck no. he’s totally down with that shit. Pete loves hypermacho posturing almost as much as he loves guzzling champagne straight from the bottle.

Petey McFlipNuts was horrified because the troops who stepped off those transports in Chicago were not the lean, mean fighting machines of his dreams.

they were Meal Team Six.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 22h

'“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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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 22h

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘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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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 16h

Behind every self-described "ultra-masculine-racist-alpha" trolls online is an unfuckable obese dude who looks like these Nazi young Republicans.

This is why they never put their faces on their accounts. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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