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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 1d

I've said Platner still had some appeal for me because his reddit comments looks like someone who grew over time...

But since he never got ahead of this, the only way I could get past this is if he takes off his shirt on camera and shows the tattoo has been removed or covered up.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

Context: Graham Platner, the senate candidate for Maine was revealed to have a totenkopf tattoo (nazi SS symbol). bsky.app/profile/jane...

Maureen Jice @jane.meangirls.online · 1d

This whole time I’ve been talking about the Fetterman Particles radiating off this guy but it turns out they’re regular were regular ol’ Hitler Particles.

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 4d

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

Jonathan M. Katz @katz.theracket.news · 4d

Not a shitpost: #NoKings is feel-good performative activism for comfortable mostly upper and upper middle class white folks and that’s good, actually. Millions of people in the streets protesting a fascist regime is good. It is good for the normie baseline to be massive displays of public dissent.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 2d

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification.

I glanced down at the message.

“Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began.

So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies.

www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

"Anna, Lindsey Halligan Here."
Anna Bower
Monday, October 20, 2025, 5:40 PM
Share On: f X inK My Signal exchange with the interim U.S. attorney about
the Letitia James grand jury.

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 2d

...Wait, isn't "No Kings" in of itself a demand?

Part of why the federal government is shut down right now is because the Dems are fighting to get rid of pocket rescissions. A protest against the imbalance of power in our government is pretty relevant at the moment.

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 4d

It's because they can't realize that it's so much easier to have message discipline when you are being genuine.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 5d

genuinely wild the number of quote tweets that see this as an insult toward mamdani rather than as praise for his discipline and skill at translating personal charisma into political appeal

mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 6d

Zohran Mamdani is a trained performer who has an extremely disciplined and laser-focused ability to recite on-message talking points in response to any question, and yet voters overwhelming praise him as being especially "authentic" compared to other politicians. There's a lesson here!

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 4d

Gotta block them all! Block early, block often!

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 5d

If anything, this just made me more comfortable with the idea of an ex-merc in our Senate. Platner seems fuckin awesome.

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · 6d

There is someone on the debate stage who hates a certain religion and it’s adherence and that is Andrew Cuomo.

He has always been xenophobic towards Muslims. I, in fact, tried personally to get him to visit a mosque during his term in office and he would not.

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Climate Defiance @climatedefiance.bsky.social · 8d

Sex is cool, but have you ever heckled Andrew Cuomo for 10 minutes straight?

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @madycast.com · 7d

every Democrat (including McBride) who spread the baseless lie that trans issues hurt Dems in 2024 is contributing to this btw

the ironic part is the ads mostly harm trans people by otherizing and justifying state violence, actually harming not Democrats

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 7d

More than half of Republican ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials say they plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina’s Senate race.

www.theassemblync.co...

#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Republicans Go All In on Anti-Trans Messaging

More than half of GOP ads in Virginia are focused on trans issues. Officials plan to run similar attacks in North Carolina's Senate race.

www.theassemblync.com

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 9d

a fake quote being attributed to zohran mamdani is igniting the pro-palestine left.

he never said arresting netanyahu would make him a trumpian fascist. that phrase was posted by an account known for using extreme rhetoric to accuse mamdani of effectively saying that as a result of him softening.

image circulating claiming to attribute a fake quote to mamdani. text reads:
dec. 2024: “as mayor of nyc i would arrest benjamin netanyahu”
sept. 2025: “arresting netanyahu would make me a trumpian fascist.” - this second quote has in big letters over it the words “fake quote.”

post from the originator of the phrase. text reads:

@zei squirrel
here you have it side by side. Zohran in December 2024, when he was running in the primary, pledging that he will definitely arrest Netanyahu. Then fast forward to Zohran in September 2025, after he won the primary, and suddenly arresting Netanyahu makes you a Trumpian fascist:

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 8d

Another harebrained take from David Aipacman.

Next you'll try telling us that you don't know how to say Nick Fuentes when confronted with video after video of leftists dredging that motherfucker for filth.

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mk zariel {it/its} @mkzariel.bsky.social · 10d

It's the fifth day of #preorders and I'm realizing that I don't know how to promote a book. Do any other #indieauthors have this same issue? Let me know in the comments...oh and here's my book lol. It's totally a book. I'm tired. www.vinegarpress.org/store/p/boy-...

Boy Apparition by mk zariel — Vinegar Press

There are two transmasculine genders: the butch anarchist, and the tiny atemporal gremlin who really needs a hug. In BOY APPARITION, mk zariel tackles both. This chapbook is full of love letters to th...

www.vinegarpress.org

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 13d

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 11d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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The Dax Symbiont 🏴🏳️‍🌈🌲🇸🇩 @thedaxsymbiont.bsky.social · 11d

Biden spent the last functional years of his life participating in trans genocide and arming and allowing Gazan genocide only to die on estrogen from what is ostensibly ass cancer nearly immediately afterwards. You don’t get poetic justice like this anymore

kendra tacohut jr. 🏳️‍⚧️ she/they 🏳️‍⚧️ @freshlycrackedegg.bsky.social · 11d

OK so the estradiol valerate I take is actually labeled for use in cis men for prostate cancer, so what are the odds that Joe Biden is taking the same stuff? apnews.com/article/bide... Biden Big Naturals could be a real thing if he lives long enough

Biden is receiving radiation and hormone therapy to treat his prostate cancer

Former President Joe Biden's treatment for an aggressive form of prostate cancer has entered a new phase.

apnews.com

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 13d

A board of bigots.

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 14d

It's not a shock collar. Every day now there are out if context clips on here going after this guy.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 14d

Well that sucks for you. I guess your party is going to keep losing then

the tallest stone @talleststone.bsky.social · 14d

I hate to say it but the majority of the country is not going to die on the hill of trans rights. We can’t protect ANY groups if we can’t win a national election, so purity tests only serve to make specific groups feel triumphant. That’s not “erasing” them; it’s long-horizon strategy.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 14d

This whole app is full of these nuggets. Bad sign.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 14d

Chat, is it good that all the world's most powerful people are obsessed with the nazi jurist, Carl Schmitt?

Screenshot of a WIRED article titled “The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession” by Laura Bullard, published on September 30, 2025, at 12:05 PM. The subheading reads: “Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.”

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Screenshot of a text excerpt discussing legal scholars’ research on Carl Schmitt. The highlighted section reads: “But over time, Vermeule’s fascination grew. ‘I noticed that Adrian had moved away from just being interested in Schmitt to actually embracing all dimensions of Schmitt’s theory: both the political dimension and the legal dimension,’ Dyzenhaus says.”

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Zoronius @zoronius.bsky.social · 14d

Stephen Miller's insecurity over his height proves something:

Despite his grandstanding, he's truly a meek, insignificant, small man at heart.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 15d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15d

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

(RNS) — Last month, the Rev. David Black stood in front of a Chicago-area U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility and spread his arms wide. Adorned in all black and wearing a clerical collar, the pastor looked up at a group of masked, heavily armed ICE agents on the roof and began to pray.

“I invited them to repentance,” Black, a minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), said in an interview. “I basically offered an altar call. I invited them to come and receive that salvation, and be part of the kingdom that is coming.”

But when Black began to lower his arms a few seconds later, the agents responded to his spiritual plea by firing pepper balls, or chemical agents that cause eye irritation and respiratory distress, video footage shows. One struck Black in the head, exploding into a puff of white pepper smoke and forcing him to his knees. Fellow demonstrators rushed to his aid, and as the pastor rubbed his face in pain, the agents continued to fire.

“We could hear them laughing,” Black said.

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