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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah

@unicorntickles.bsky.social

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Originally from FL, currently in Brooklyn. USF alum. Work in the financial industry, slightly schooled in psychology, general weirdo, fix your hearts or die ✌🏻

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · Jul 24

Updating my prediction for Trump’s death to dying just before mid terms.

Prior to this I predicted he wouldn’t see the end of his term. But I feel like we’re getting a lot closer.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 2h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 2h

I'm a bit of a dissent apologist for this reason

I understand the kinda nihilist dunks on them as meaningless, but i've seen too many dissents become majority opinions to think they don't have value--as doctrinal roadmaps, as mobilizing tools, as records of the truth when the majority lies, etc.

Aphrodite Void @aphroditevoid.bsky.social · 2h

If going forward we ever fulfill the actual promise of our Constitution, the dissents from this era of #SCOTUS are going to be very important and influential.

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Vic Mo 🦋🩷💜💙🌱 @itsvicmo.bsky.social · 15h

Joe Maligno has a @nycourts.gov email address because he worked as an Associate Court Attorney for Judge Mary Kavanagh on Staten Island. @fordhamlawnyc.bsky.social Class of 2018.

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 16h

oh double hm

11. For years, Rubio struggled with his personal finances, even while making $93,000 per year
Rubio describes trouble keeping up with finances while working at law firms in Florida: "My salary was $72,000, more than my parents had ever made combined. But it barely covered our basic expenses," he writes. Rubio found a job at another firm making $93,000, which he said matched his budget. Later, he says he did not feel
"financially secure" during his married life until he found another job earning $300,000
per year.

Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 16h

9. Rubio almost lost his future wife because he went to a South Beach 'foam party' with his friends against her wishes
"One night, near the end of the South Beach season, my friends and I made plans to attend one of our favorite South Beach haunts for a 'foam party, ' where oceans of white foam are dropped from the ceiling and you find yourself dancing in it up to your waist. Jeanette told me if I went out that night, there would be no turning back. We would be over forever. I went out anyway.
She had brought this on herself, I told myself. If we got back together, it would be on my terms, not hers. That night, near midnight, Hooked up and watched the foam descend from the ceiling. It was a sight to behold. Then my beeper buzzed. It was Jeanette's number. I knew she was calling to see if I had gone out....I waded out of the foam to find a quieter place to consider my options."
¿s a happy ending;

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 19h

rubio remains maybe the most shocking heel turn in the administration

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 17h

The cover of next issue is The Atlantic:

two men wearing suits and top hats are standing next to each other .

Alt: Charlie and Mac (it’s always sunny)wearing suits and top hats making crying gestures

media.tenor.com

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 17h

i like the baton guy behind the gun guy, watcha gonna do with that? hit the guy you just shot?

Oh right

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 18h

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.

Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 17h

I cackled as I read this out loud to my living room

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👹👻 boo-rit 👻👹 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 20h

we need to put a stop to men with this head shape until we can better study gourd phrenology & we need to invent a new size of caliper for this

that german AfD dude in the ICE shirt. he’s white & has reddish hair. hard to tell how much he has in relation to his forehead & his head shape is unique, like yakub himself added the rubber bands at the midpoint as if it was a watermelon being stress tested.

the twitter racist poster “captive dreamer”

he’s white & has reddish hair. hard to tell how much he has in relation to his forehead & his head shape is unique, like yakub himself added the rubber bands at the midpoint as if it was a watermelon being stress tested.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 18h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Notreal @susannyc.bsky.social · 21h

She is a school Counselor!!!!!!

From the school website identifying her.

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Politico @politico.com · 1d

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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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 19h

For the past at least five years, many of the world’s most prominent academics and journalists have been openly pushing the idea that people need to be “exposed” to bigoted ideas and taught by bigoted professors. Why are we then surprised when we find bigots in charge of our children?

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20h

One of the most messed up parts of the "nazis are sexy and funny now" GQ article about Nick Fuentes is that it doesn't cite a single source or data point. It's all just vibes. I have no idea how something like this made it past an editorial team unless it was clearly a story they wanted to tell

traced this rumor across TikTok and Tumblr. I watched fancam edits, mapped accounts, and interviewed a dozen people in their twenties and early thirties, both people who’d made posts about Fuentes and those whose fandom was more private.

TikTok is where most outsiders misread the signal. Fuentes is extremely shareable — he basically speaks in soundbites. Every other line is a joke, and many of those jokes land. When they don’t, that in itself can be funny. His thick Chicago accent, his cartoonish tone of voice—the man was made for broadcasting, for better or worse.

It’s true that he has inspired a viral “sound” several times, but on TikTok that doesn’t equate to fandom. A sound is just a short audio clip that users layer under their own videos. It might come from a movie, a podcast, or a livestream; it doesn’t matter who said it. What matters is how easily it can be reused to set a mood or deliver a punchline. Popularity here measures remixability, not admiration. Serial killers, pedophiles caught red-handed, and random bystanders could theoretically all go viral this way. Fuentes happens to clip well.

There is a dedicated and TikTok-native Fuentes fandom, but searching through the misspellings and alternate tags that users reference him with (to avoid the filter TikTok uses to suppress content about him), only a few prolific editors dominate the results. The rest is noise—ephemeral accounts spun up around attention spikes.

The interviews I conducted reflect what the feeds suggested. Several sources said their very online friends, regardless of politics, share Fuentes clips because he’s funny. The same people said no one they know actually watches his multi-hour streams. One woman described him as “weirdly unhateable,” and suggested he’s a bit of a meme—another way of saying the trend is more of a joke than a nascent political shift.

There is, however, a small female fandom orbiting Fuentes, many of whom identify as being on the left. On Tumblr, a community cal…

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, smart

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 20h

why are people acting like it’s advocating violence, who tf even knows where to get tar anyway?!

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 22h

Was it the British tax collectors fault, and was it a bad thing when we did that to them? Was this whole revolution thing a bad idea maybe?

This is why I'm not a patriot. Average American thinks their own revolution was just guys writing letters to each other.

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 20h

the fuck it ain’t. they had their chance to get out or get complicit and they made their choice

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jessdee.bsky.social @jessdee.bsky.social · 23h

Like... I'm not even a big ol American-patriot-love-the-founders person, but like... This is literally a "no taxation without representation" layup.

Start tarring and feathering IRS employees.

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 20h

oh, to open a nearly 200 page PDF (that I scanned in myself by hand) without having to manually close four different Adobe pop-ups saying, “wow, that’s a long document, do you want our AI wizard to summarize it for you?!”

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Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 22h

Trapped in the two party system binary of the antiblack settler state of America like the democrats, politics is your team winning against the other team, & you have to validate your opponent so the game goes on. I want politics not to be about winning games, but how we all agree we all can thrive.

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Bullwark @bullwark.bsky.social · 1d

Johannes Guttenberg would hate your guts

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Red (Currently Blurple) Savannah @unicorntickles.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think we needed an in depth investigation to know it either lol