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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1h

What a great run of albums.

Superdrag's first three full-length albums

Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 2h

Defended in the past tense?

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 3h

Johnson: That is not the principles of the Republican Party. You want me to articulate them? We fought the Nazis, we defended that evil ideology.

Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 6h

Nobody loves defending Nazis and racists more than JD Vance.

"...I don’t think stupid social media activity should ruin a kid’s life,” wrote Vance. “We shouldn’t reward journalists who try to destroy people. Ever. So I say bring him back.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Elon Musk reinstates ‘Doge’ worker linked to openly racist social media account

Marko Elez, 25, has been granted access to US government payment system containing sensitive personal data

www.theguardian.com

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 7h

Superdrag got wrongly cast as a one-hit-wonder but Regretfully Yours is a killer indie-pop album, a lofi mix of the Beatles, MBV, Big Star, Replacements, etc. youtu.be/IAYsXTnX4ck?...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 22h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 22h

So strange that this keeps happening. Oddest of ongoing coincidences. A real head-scratcher here.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 23h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

ICE thugs are fragile cowards. You could not find bigger adult babies if you tried.

Robby Roadsteamer @roadsteamer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 *Breaking News* Robby Roadsteamer has been detained by ICE Portland after singing Rod Stewart with the Portland Frog! We need your help!

Please support Robby's campaign and lawyer fees at robbyroadsteamer.com link on bio 💙🦒🦒🦒

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: a 300lb crystal chandelier in the new White House ballroom has fallen on Donald Trump. A eyewitness has described him as "lookin' like some half-dead Liberace Pokemon or something"

Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

I really agree with you on this one, Bart

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

Man, 1995 was a helluva year for music and just an excellent time to be a 15 year old Tyler. Also, I'm being told that 1995 was 30 years ago but pretty sure that's not true at all.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

Still up, I just checked.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

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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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 1d

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

Jake and Elwood Blues discussing their hated of Nazis

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 1d

Couple of classy Vermonters show up in these chat leaks.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d

POLITICO: “.. 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 lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

@politico.com
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 2d

Everyone loves and trusts Olivia Reingold, writer of the Free Press article "some of the thousands of starving kids in Gaza are also sick so not really 'starving' "

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 3d

Update: After Bari Weiss was made Editor-in-Chief, CBS News is now uplifting stories from Weiss’s The Free Press.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 3d

The Free Press sucks in many ways but one under appreciated way is on the design front. Gigantic dominant THE, squashed at the bottom of the pile PRESS. Just a godawful logo.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 3d

Not a political strategist but my gut feeling is that someone running on a platform of “hold all these fuckers accountable for all they’ve done” would win the presidency

Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 3d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Django Wexler @djangowexler.bsky.social · 5d

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 5d

Didn't realize that Nine Line made a video response to my dumb Spirit Halloween meme but thanks?

youtu.be/ircYkq0Z0u8?...

Conservative Guy Scared Of Cities | Halloween Costume

YouTube video by Nine Line Apparel

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 5d

Also folks, it's time we appreciate that the Beatles were "pretty good at the music"

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 6d

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 6d

“Whatever can happen at any time can happen today.”
- Seneca

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 7d

President Trump is going to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday morning for what the White House says is his "routine yearly checkup," just six months after undergoing what the White House at the time described as his "annual physical examination" at the same facility.

Trump to visit Walter Reed for "routine yearly checkup" 6 months after annual physical exam

President Trump's annual physical examination in April showed his vital statistics were all within normal limits.

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 6d

Fascist monsters. Completely soulless.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 7d

Rand Paul do you like the Blue Album

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Tyler Littwin @tylerlittwin.bsky.social · 7d

After casting the vote, Fetterman growled "fire bad!" and ambled up a rocky path to an abandoned castle

The Intercept @theintercept.com · 7d

Republican Senators, with an assist from Sen. John Fetterman, voted down an attempt to block the Trump administration’s missile strikes on alleged Venezuelan drug boats. interc.pt/4o9CBur

A photo of Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., sits on the steps of the U.S. Capitol on Oct. 1, 2025, in Washington, overlaid with the headline, "Fetterman Is Sole Democrat to Vote Against Blocking Caribbean Drug Boat Attacks," and the DEK, "It was the first time members of Congress were put on record about whether they supported or opposed the president’s war in the Caribbean."

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