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Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 10h

I just watched this whole clip and oh my god Kathy??? The way she also takes the opportunity to boost Zohran and drag Mike Lawler????

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 9h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13h

Lawler seems to know all these guys.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 10h

"The United States struck another small boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela, killing six people...It’s the fifth deadly strike in the Caribbean"

again, merely political consequences for wanton murder aren't enough.

apnews.com/article/trum...

US kills 6 people in strike on boat accused of carrying drugs near Venezuela, Trump says

President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another boat accused of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

apnews.com

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 13h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 16h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 19h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Hmmm...

Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 13h

And there’s this guy. I’ll keep adding as I find more…

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 1d

one of the reasons they're so mad at "no kings" is that they thought they were going to get a different kind of protest. they *want* the black bloc to be out there fighting with the cops. those are the images they've been trying to generate from "go." instead--

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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BikeLoudPDX @bikeloudpdx.bsky.social · 6h

We ❤️ Portland so much.
Here's iconic photos of people outside of the PDX ICE building.

The only thing missing is frogs on bikes.

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A line of people next to the ICE building in Portland, all wearing full costumes. A SpongeBob, potato head, big baby, cat, bear, banana and lobster.

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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 6h

I might draw the slightest of distinctions between these guys and every Republican *voter* but if republican party politics is your life and/or career this is invariably true. what I call 'professional' Republicans.

Eagle Beaver Man @eaglebeaverman.bsky.social · 17h

Every Republican under 30 is a Nazi. Every single one. No exceptions. No, not even that guy who you think is your friend. He’s being nice to you in person but talks about how you shouldn’t have rights in his discord chat.

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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 18h

Something that I don’t think most non-terminally online liberals are aware of is the degree to which young Republicans are basically unrecoverably feral men, a generation of Oskar Dirlewangers who all speak like Instagram influencers and Twitch streamers

Matt Gabriele @profgabriele.com · 19h

this reminds me of the almost exact same racist content that was in the TPUSA at Virginia Tech chats

www.collegiatetimes.com/news/student...

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Indivisible Charleston Chapter @chsindivisible.bsky.social · 2d

See you Saturday in Columbia! #nokings #indivisible

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

2012 is when Republicans developed the unbreakable intuition that they were entitled to win elections notwithstanding what the voters said.

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 14h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 4h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 11h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 11h

@grayathena.bsky.social said it better

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

curious to know what text chats our vice president is in

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 13h

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 14h

NEW: As ICE presence increases in Chicago — home to the third-largest Catholic diocese in the U.S. — Catholics and allies are pushing back.

Over the weekend, a priest warned parishioners to leave Mass carefully.

Locals formed a human chain to protect them from ICE. religionnews.com/2025/10/14/a...

As ICE rocks Chicago, Catholics respond with prayer — and protest

(RNS) — ‘As a person of faith, as a leader of faith, to not speak of it is simply unethical — and sinful,’ said the Rev. Brendan Curran, a Dominican priest.

religionnews.com

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smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social · 3d

Lemony, light and ever-so-crisp at the edges, these ricotta pancakes are finished with sauéed apples and I can hardly express how little I’d mind if someone came over and made them for me right now.

smittenkitchen.com/2007/11/lemo...

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smitten kitchen @smittenkitchen.bsky.social · 16d

What happens when American-style tomato soup and French-style onion soup get together? Blissfully: this, with an open-faced grilled cheese sandwich broiled over the top. Don't miss this one.

smittenkitchen.com/2011/09/roas...

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Melting Sweet Potatoes

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"Melting Sweet Potatoes" Are So Good, I Want to Make Them for Dinner Every Night

Crispy outside + ultra-creamy inside = your new signature sweet potato.

www.thekitchn.com

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hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 13h

Gotta remember none of them will repudiate the comments and fix their hearts

This is who they are and they only sorry they got caught

The Lawrence Times @lawrencekstimes.com · 14h

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of today after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.
Via Kansas News Service: lawrenceks.news/4ooiPf2

Kansas Young Republicans group now inactive after racist chat messages get exposed

The Kansas GOP said the Kansas Young Republicans organization is inactive as of Tuesday after leaked messages showed the group’s leaders making racist and antisemitic remarks.

lawrenceks.news

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18h

i'm sorry but i'm so goddamn tired of all these old weird tech twitter/postrat etc people getting random sinecures for what is nothing more than dressing up fascists as lurid and fascinating individuals who, half of the time, they're openly friends with.

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 18h

it helps to know that dee dated a notorious alt right guy who was obsessed with porn culture.

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 1d

Is hard-right streamer Nick Fuentes winning over women on the left? Writer Katherine Dee investigates www.gq.com/story/nick-f...

Is Nick Fuentes Winning Over Women on the Left?

There are the Tumblr “Nickstorians” and sincere fanfics. But are young, liberal, possibly irony-poisoned women fetishizing or even falling for the hard-right streamer with the “groyper” following? Wri...

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 14h

And every JAG who's kept their head down while concocting excuses instead of stating this should resign their commission in shame and be disbarred; absent that they need to be on the list for housecleaning when the next Dem Admin takes office

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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 15h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 15h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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