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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1h

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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All In with Chris Hayes @allinwithchris.bsky.social · 12h

WATCH: A new Politico report reveals young GOP leaders across several states trading racist, antisemitic, and hateful messages in leaked private chats. “People who are running the Republican Party at the ground level are immersed in this cesspit of bigotry,” says Chris Hayes.

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked texts EXPOSE Young Republicans’ racist chat, Politico reports

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 18h

watching the government's social media accounts spit out groyper stuff on main this whole last year, this is how i imagined the behind the scenes chats were going

Politico @politico.com · 20h

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.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 19h

the chat logs leaked clearly show members are aware they’re posting compromising messages, they’re even talking about how cooked they be if it leaked

bc the social function of extremist rhetoric is that in-group members bond and attain status by transgressing with one another as witnesses

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Ian Gordon @idgordon.bsky.social · 19h

NEW from @h-lev.bsky.social: As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

The attack dog targeting Trump opponents over their paperwork hasn’t even filed his own

As chairman of the board of Fannie Mae, Bill Pulte was required to file a disclosure form with the SEC. He didn’t.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

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Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Anna Clark @annaleighclark.bsky.social · 6d

"Asked what percentage of children she imagines should be in public schools going forward, Justice told ProPublica: 'I hope zero. I hope to get to zero.'”

by @megomatz.bsky.social / @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

These Activists Want to Dismantle Public Schools. Now They Run the Education Department.

Under Trump, the Department of Education has been bringing in activists hostile to public schools. It could mean a new era of private and religious schools boosted by tax dollars — and the end of publ...

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 1d

Me, but about everything

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 1d

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

BIB L I OGRAPH Y
STAN DARD - A N TI-NEGRO
(These authors believe the Negro to be sub-human and congenitally un-
fitted for citizenship and the suffrage.)
Burgess, John W., Reconstruction and the Constitution, 1 866-1 876.
Coulter, E. Merton, Civil War and Reconstruction in Kentucky.
Davis, William W ., The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida.
Dunning, William A., Reconstruction, Political and Economic .
Eckenrode, F. Hamilton, Political History of Virginia During Reconstruc·
tion.
Fertig, James Walter, The Secession and Reconstruction of Tennessee.
Ficklen, John R., History of Reconstruction in Louisiana.
Fleming, Walter F., Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama.
--, Documentary History of Reconstruction, 1 906, 1907.
Hamilton, Joseph G. de R., Reconstruction in North Carolina.
Hollis, John Porter, The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina.
Lonn, Ella, Reconstruction in Louisiana after 1 868 .
Ramsdell, Charles W., Reconstruction in Texas .
Rhodes, James F., History of United States from the Compromise of 1 850.
Scott, Eben G., Reconstruction During the Civil War.
Staples, Thomas S ., Reconstruction in Arkansas .
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Dunning.
Carpet-Baggers in the United States Senate. By C. Mildred Thompson.
The Literary Movement for Secession. By Ulrich B. Phillips.
Negro Suffrage in the South. By W. Roy Smith.
Some Phases of Educational History in the South Since 1 865. By Wil-
liam K. Boyd.
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Roulhac Hamilton.
The Federal Enforcement Acts . By William Watson Davis.
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Grant's Southern Policy. By Edwin C. Woolley.
Taylor, Richard, Destruction and Reconstruction.
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litical, l 805-1 872.
Wooley, Edwin C., The Reconstruction of Georgia.

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Tisiphone @tisiphone.bsky.social · 1d

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

Federal officers delayed, threatened to ‘shoot and arrest’ ambulance crew at Portland ICE facility, report says

Willamette Week reported federal agents allegedly blocked an ambulance from quickly leaving with an injured protester on Oct. 5.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Wake up babe, new Radiohead EP just dropped

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

Reps for CNN, Reuters, The AP, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlantic and NPR all say that journalists from their newsrooms are not signing the new paperwork about Pentagon access. Newsmax says it doesn't intend to sign, either — a potentially significant sign of MAGA dissension.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 1d

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will not sign. Here's my latest >>> www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/m...

Media outlets, including MAGA channel Newsmax, refuse to sign Pentagon’s press access rules | CNN Business

The Pentagon is telling beat reporters to sign restrictive new rules by Tuesday or surrender their press passes by Wednesday. Many news organizations are rejecting the ultimatum and saying they will n...

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

It's incredible, they could both be standalone album covers. Lose Your Illusion I and Lose Your Illusion II

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Even other right-wing leaders!

Giorgia Meloni being as relatable as she ever will be

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

The American president speaking while flanked by the British and Italian leaders, who appear to be bored or horrified or both

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

Winnie the Pooh tuxedo meme about how best to express Trumpism's similarity to the German politico-bureaucratic theories that enabled the imposition of Führerprinzip on a constitutional republic

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

I increasingly incline toward taking the "Trumpism/Voughtism is a Carl Schmitt fever dream" pill

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

and then of course with *other* people it always becomes

~~*Soros* money!!!~~

or, you know, something like it

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 1d

A consistent thing about Trumpists in power is how they want everyone else to believe that people only do things for money

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

"brassica oleracea" is the new
"6 7"

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

The more Ryan Murphy expresses cartoonish contempt for an amoral, exploitive media industry in his "nonfiction" projects... the less confident I am that he appreciates the irony

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

Tired: Property rights are the cornerstone of liberty

Wired: We need guns to defend our property rights

Inspired: We are armed and demand access to your property

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 2d

SCOTUS has announced it will review a Hawaii law that forbids gun owners from bringing firearms on private property without the property owner’s explicit permission.

If it falls, the court could make it harder for states and cities to keep guns out of everyday life. trib.al/lrF0Sqm

The Supreme Court Could Make It Easier to Bring a Gun Everywhere

The justices just took up a challenge to a Hawaii law that bars people from carrying guns on private property against the owner’s wishes.

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Adam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 2d

Now hang on a damn minute

Home Depot selling Cleveland... *Indians*... keys?

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