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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 5m

Jon Glaser coaches Delaware?

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

This is a great microcosm of the mainstream media's inability to accurately depict conditions

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Q: Are we in for a sustained trade war with China?

TRUMP: Well, you're in one now

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

wait his what?

Nick Turse @nickturse.bsky.social · 5h

SCOOP: Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com/2025/10/15/t...

Trump Fabricates Story of Hand-to-Hand Combat Between Troops and Child Gangsters in D.C.

Trump’s claim that National Guard members beat child gang members on the streets of Washington was disputed even by the military.

theintercept.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2h

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

this makes the ppl on Mad Men seem normal (I'm rewatching Mad Men with my wife)

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 2h

reading a biography of the naval officer-turned-leftist historian William Appleman Williams and man would i never admit this happened to me

In the most extraordinary passages of his memoir, Williams describes his mother (“a full-bodied, handsome woman”) overinterpreting the courtship as a threat to chaste youth. Calling him to her room as she dressed, she put on her bra and her silky step-ins trimmed with lace, then the rest of her clothes in front of him. She warned him not to “play” with the sensitive part of a woman’s body, and through sobs urged him to hold the line at some modest petting. “How she did it,” he reflects, her son “will never quite understand. It was surely one of her bravest, most magnificent moments.” A different interpretation would see a woman so desperate that she engaged unconsciously in borderline seductive behavior toward him. A half-century later, he claimed to hear the sound of her rustling silk in the rush of the Oregon tides.

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

what the hell did I just read

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

I really do have a wide taste of music, I went right from listening to Street Survivors by Lynyrd Skynyrd to listening to Mississippi: The Album by David Banner

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3h

you will never guess who wrote this and maybe it’s better if you don’t try. Hell of a piece. thedispatch.com/article/john...

John Brown died a martyr's death. Abraham Lincoln, too. Frederick Douglass, who had endured life as a slave, surely had earned the right to die in his bed. And I suppose that the question John Brown's defiant face on my wall at home really raises for me is whether I have earned that
right and, if not, what I have to do to earn it. There are no answers here in Charles Town, and not even John Brown's body, only the wagon they
hauled him away to the gallows in.

Ok Kevin Williamson. https://thedispatch.com/article/john-brown-harpers-ferry-slavery/

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 16h

What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.

A pair of hands both showing the characteristic four fingered V used in Star Trek.

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Not the Guy @notnotnuanced.bsky.social · 2h

realest moment of the chair company was tim robinson commenting on the youtube link of I got a name with "it really does go by so fast...." #real

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

Doesn't it sort of defeat the purpose of a "covert" operation to publicly announce it?

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 3h

i do firmly believe in the end, we will win, but the dread and the loss of watching this nightmare unfold is really something. These assholes are undermining everything we've taken for granted as a democratic and open society (however imperfect) with such vile hubris

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 4h

SCOTUS killing VRA would really be the culmination of a Second Redemption

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 2h

Idk if I should have used asterisks for that word or not. The only time I ever heard it was in the context of George Allen saying it. Anyway I apologize if I didn't properly censor it. But you know who would call me "gay" for apologizing like this and caring? A contemporary Republican.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 3h

Watch, they're gonna show it on TV now cuz the big boy wants it

Lawrence Hurley @lawrencehurley.bsky.social · 3h

Trump just said he might attend the Supreme Court tariffs oral argument next month.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 3h

Thank you!

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 3h

19 years ago a Republican senator lost a race for calling a person of color a "macaca" - if that happened now, they would make merchandise with the word and they would all wear it and double, triple down. It really is different.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7h

"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 · 7h

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!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7h

"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 · 7h

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 · 1d

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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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 3h

there’s a subset of people who, if you point out something bad happening now, will basically reply “it was always like this and anyone who disagrees is just privileged.” it parades as savvy but nine times out of ten it’s just an ahistorical oversimplification.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 7h

"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 · 7h

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!

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 3h

They keep saying this and not doing it. I'll believe it when I see it on 43rd and 7th.

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 4h

The Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven is betting billions of dollars that it can expand its business in the U.S. by making its convenience stores more like the food meccas they are in Japan. nyti.ms/3KTwGve

A photo shows a 7-Eleven store with the headline: Is America Ready for Japanese-Style 7-Elevens?

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 3h

They make this article every six months about 7/11. It never happens.

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 4h

uh yeah I am also getting a ton of new followers.

'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 4h

the way he adds in "like Andrew Cuomo" after he mentions corrupt politicians at the end is top tier stuff.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mamdani: "I just want to speak directly to the president. I will not be a mayor like Mayor Adams who will call you to stay out of jail. I won't be a disgraced governor like Andrew Cuomo who will call you to ask how to win this election. I can do those things on my own."

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 4h

oh my bad!

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 4h

did MWC change it so you can't just watch on their website anymore?

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'viktor shtrum' @viktorshtrum.bsky.social · 4h

oh mein Gott, wen interessiert ein Gruppenchat für Teenager?

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