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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 1h

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Mike Johnson: "They berated a Capitol police officer, screamed at him. He was merely standing his post. It shows, again, their disdain for law enforcement, the Democrats, screaming, assaulting officers."

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2h

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 13h

The thing about the Nazi chat is these people turned the country upside down and got a lot of people fired to be able to say those things in comfort.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16h

Hey look, Israel broke the cease-fire, twice, in two different ways, within 24 hours - again.

Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 21h

NEW: Israel informed the UN it will permit only 300 aid trucks into Gaza daily, not the 600 mandated by the ceasefire it just signed.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 13h

“you can’t make fun of this” - famously an edict that the military obeys unquestioningly and would never disobey out of earshot of an officer

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 14h

A judge issued a protective order against a Republican congressman from Florida on Tuesday, forbidding him to contact a former girlfriend who in court proceedings said he had threatened her with revenge porn after she broke up with him.

Woman Is Granted a Protective Order Against Representative Cory Mills

Representative Cory Mills’s former girlfriend, Lindsey Langston, the reigning Miss United States, told a judge that he had threatened to release sexually explicit videos of her.

nyti.ms

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 10h

Spot on.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 9h

"republican staffers are all literal nazis" is less of a groupchat thing and more of a posting on main thing at this point

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 17h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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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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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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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14h

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 21h

Whether it's young Democrats expressing their support for DEI or young Republicans saying "I love Hitler,' both sides have expressed controversial opinions.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 12h

AZ AG Mayes: If I have to, I’ll take Speaker Johnson to court. There's no legitimate reason for him to refuse to swear her in right now. And it's not fair for Mike Johnson to be holding the state of Arizona hostage because he doesn't want to release the Epstein files.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 5h

“.. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) posted .. a potential [health insurance] premium increase, sent to him by a constituent, from $307 per month to $964 per month.

“.. The post has 6.5 million views.”

@axios.com
www.axios.com/newsletters/...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 5h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4h

MAGA: We are owning the libs by siding with Hegseth to let the military industrial complex keep us in the dark about everything doing on inside the Pentagon and DOD.

They actually want to simply accept govt propaganda on the military. The definition of blissful ignorance.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 15h

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 4h

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 3h

“Footage, obtained by the outlet, captured the musician face-down in the mud, with her instrument about two feet to her left, struggling as what appears to be a federal agent straddled her backside. A police officer stood next to the pair.”
The Feds then jailed her across state lines. For music.

David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 4h

“A clarinet player was arrested after playing her instrument to the tune of the ‘Ghostbusters’ theme song outside of a Portland ICE facility…”

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

www.independent.co.uk

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 5h

That’s crazy. I wonder what happened in January

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Mike Boylan-Kolchin @mbkplus.bsky.social · 3h

A defining feature of this admin is attacking as antisemitic everything they don’t like while constantly engaging in rank antisemitism.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 6h

3) Many students don’t want to associate with students who easily express hostility towards Black people & Jewish people. That’s completely understandable.

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