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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 4h

‘The strong man has cankles’: Jennifer Welch on MAGA overcompensating for Trump’s decline
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‘The strong man has cankles’: Jennifer Welch on MAGA overcompensating for Trump’s decline

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 4h

No.. there is no extra radicalization of the Republican Party. White nationalists have ALWAYS been a part of the Republican Party. the GOP just realizes they no longer have to hide it shamefully.

Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 4h

‘The strong man has cankles’: Jennifer Welch on MAGA overcompensating for Trump’s decline
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cbu1...

‘The strong man has cankles’: Jennifer Welch on MAGA overcompensating for Trump’s decline

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 4h

Cheech Marin’s mission to elevate Chicano art
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Cheech Marin’s mission to elevate Chicano art

YouTube video by CNN

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 8h

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end.
In the meantime:
• Figure out a small way to help someone
• Figure out a small way to fight back
• Figure out a small place to find joy
• Figure out a small way to grow and thrive

And do it often.

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 16h

The president said something sexually inappropriate to a journalist yesterday and the only person who reported it was @atrupar.com. So spare me the pearl clutching over Katie right now. I fucking can’t. We have got to stop taking the bait fed to us by MSM who is treating the parties differently. 😒😒

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h

The antifa concept can be traced to Arditi del Popolo movement, an Italian anti-fascist group that was founded in 1921 for the purpose of defending working-class people and institutions from the assault of Mussolini’s blackshirts.

From 1920s Italy to 1930s Palestine to 1980s Ska Scenes, Antifa Has Many Faces

A historian discusses past anti-fascist organizations and practices in light of Trump’s effort to criminalize “antifa.”…

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aunt witchy @witchywomin.bsky.social · 10h

Not just seniors- I enrolled in one of these plans only to find out AFTER I paid them that whoops, they don’t actually cover specialty meds for folks like me- housebound & disabled.

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 15h

You’ll notice that new developments in generative AI are always accompanied by new ways of depicting women without their consent—undermining their autonomy and harassing them—almost like it’s a pillar of the technology and its evolution

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10h

Brown University has rejected the Trump administration’s compact, saying it would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance”

Brown University rejects Trump administration compact

President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 said that the compact would “restrict academic freedom and undermine the autonomy of Brown’s governance.”

www.browndailyherald.com

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13h

Mike Johnson has now had the House adjourned for 72 of the last 84 days.

Epstein Shutdown.

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 10h

Employee uploads 187,000 explicit images to US Department of Energy network intending to create 'robot porn', gets caught and loses his security clearance, complains he's facing 'the Spanish Inquisition
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Employee uploads 187,000 explicit images to US Department of Energy network intending to create 'robot porn', gets caught and loses his security clearance, complains he's facing 'the Spanish Inquisiti...

Let he who is without 187,000 pornographic images cast the first stone.

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 11h

And congratulations to @jamellebouie.net for winning the American Historical Association's Tikkun Olam Prize for promoting public historical literacy www.historians.org/award-grant/...

Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy – AHA

The Tikkun Olam Prize for Promoting Public Historical Literacy honors individuals whose work has promoted literacy in public culture.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 11h

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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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 11h

More images from what was just reported in Politico (www.politico.com/news/2025/10...)

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 11h

🚨IRS, FBI, Federal Marshals, MPD, DEA, ICE, HLS, and ATF here to “investigate” this woman. Suspicious for being black? The regime has made their white supremacism clear. The time for us to reject it is NOW!

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Spooky Scott Kelley Ernest, BSPH 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ #mtpol @mxscottkernest.bsky.social · 11h

Cory Mills slapped with restraining order after Florida judge sides with accuser
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Cory Mills slapped with restraining order after Florida judge sides with accuser

The restraining order against Mills comes amid a swirl of controversies this year for the second-term Republican.

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Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social · 11h

For some prescient thoughts on how this would come to pass, read @alfatau.bsky.social's July piece @inthesetimes.com on how "MAGA’s obsession with reverse racism is the glue binding together" all of Trump's policies.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

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Social Security Works @socialsecurityworks.org · 11h

A couple making $88,000 in my district is going to see their [ACA] premiums double.

In Mike Johnson's district, that same couple will see their premiums triple.

The choices Republicans are making will hurt their own constituents. - @whipkclark.bsky.social

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aunt witchy @witchywomin.bsky.social · 11h

Who appointed that judge? I’d read the article but it’s paywalled.

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Fair Share America @fairshareamerica.bsky.social · 11h

"Constituents are trying everything possible to get the GOP trifecta to do right by working people. Meanwhile, House Republicans are MIA, Senate Republicans are refusing to vote further on the Democrats’ CR, and the White House is launching illegal RIFs instead of coming to the negotiating table."

Scared Americans Speak Out as Republicans Sit it Out

It’s not Halloween yet, but things are getting scary for Americans as they are pushed closer and closer to skyrocketing health care premiums amidst a prolonged government shutdown.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

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

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

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aunt witchy @witchywomin.bsky.social · 11h

Look, I’m just an asshole who has read a LOT of history- so no expert- but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who knows more about this country than the entire Republican Party. Sure, they “know” slavery was “bad” but they don’t really believe that because they’re all racist pieces of shit.

aunt witchy @witchywomin.bsky.social · 11h

That’s what I’ve said on every damn voicemail I’ve left at Republican offices. If you’re NOT a child-rapist why protect child rapists?

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