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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 16h

The actual fuck!? Really?

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 17h

only surprising thing about the racist young republican groupchat is that jd vance wasn't in there dropping crylaugh emoji reacts

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 18h

What they’d like to happen is for Black people to remain negatively polarized by Republican racism and maintain their support without doing anything to address the racism substantively.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 18h

I'm going to keep posting this 2017 Pareene article till it stops being relevant (forever?) www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

Charlottesville Was a Preview of the Future of the Republican Party

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22h

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · Jul 20

The Supreme Court rewrote the 14th Amendment so that it's no longer the pro-Black amendment it was intended to be, but rather bans all racial classification to the benefit of white people and detriment of everyone else.

We're about to undergo a wholesale rewriting of the Equal Protection Clause.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

For about three years now, I've been ranting to anyone who will listen that the Equal Protection Clause is being rewritten so that it protects white people from so-called anti-white discrimination.

That's what's happening here.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

THEY ARE BLACK ASS AMENDMENTS.

Tuttle Tuttle Toil & Trouble 🎃 @katekilla.bsky.social · 23h

They love to pretend not to know why the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments exist.

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 23h

The worst stupid fucking times.

Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 23h

Just so everyone is clear, the main issue in the Supreme Court voting rights case tomorrow is whether it's racist against white people to enforce the Voting Rights Act.

I'm dead serious. We live in incredibly stupid times.

Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 23h

Lol

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 23h

This fucking part.

Shai Hulud 🇺🇸 & 🇳🇬 & 🇮🇳 @sardarji.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think I've ever received a single communication from the DNC that isn't a solicitation.

Nothing about what their positions are, what their agenda is, their accomplishments... Anything to make me want to give them money.

I guess when you don't have results to talk about...

Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 1d

I'm very sorry for your loss.

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 1d

I was having an emotion, and I hate that.

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TG42Birder🇵🇸 @tg42birder.bsky.social · 2d

Not every mainstream outlet is prostrating itself for the genociders.

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Irim Sarwar @irimtated.bsky.social · 1d

Via you know who you are and can tag yourself if you like, 100% this:

Red background. Christian Nationalism is looking at Jesus' three temptations and thinking he made the wrong choices. -William Youngblood

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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 1d

We’re one day closer to Trump leaving office (one way or another).

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 2d

Luigi

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 2d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdWr...

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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hey there, benji. @benjaminfaye.bsky.social · 1d

The thing about the debate of whether the Bible does or doesn’t condone slavery is that it kinda doesn’t matter.

Ultimately, if you need an invisible deity to tell you that the buying, selling, or ownership of other humans is wrong, you have much bigger fish to fry than the errancy of the Bible.

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 1d

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

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Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 1d

My girlfriend made me gumbo!

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

They know all they have to do is shout crime and the criticisms will be muted even when they’re kidnapping young children.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

every asshole on this website loudly braying that elections either won’t happen or won’t be fair in 2026 had better be buying an inflatable costume and sturdy walking shoes for this saturday, because if truly believe that, you’re not gonna like what the next step is

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Chris Crofton @thecroftonshow.bsky.social · 1d

BEAUTIFUL BAY

I wrote a letter to
the bay

Dear Bay,
how do you look so nice, without
trying? I feel like such a mess all the time, you know?
-Chris

the bay can’t answer
stuff like that

but I recommend
writing letters to the bay

anyway

Spikes @witchyspikes.bsky.social · 3d

@thecroftonshow.bsky.social
Found this beautiful bay and thought you might like it for poetry window sometime.

A sandy beach, marred by many footprints, leads to a deep blue bay with storm clouds hanging low overhead casting shadows on the water.

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