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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 1h

I don't think the racism of the Republican Party has changed in my lifetime, what I think is different is that Bob Dole is no longer around to bludgeon other party members with his dead arm if they say they like Hitler.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

No one is actually trying to defend Nuzzi as a professional or as a talented writer; just as someone who cheats on her fiancé with a walking toxic waste pit.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

Googling "Ron Paul Stormfront" is a much better time capsule than the nostalgia of Xers and elder millennials.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

It was too far for Kris fucking Kobach, whom I think of as one of America's most prominent neoconfederates.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

www.mediaite.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

It's barely been more than twenty years since Ron Paul was going through it for his longstanding ties to David Duke and Don Black; and I could not figure out why my fellow young Republicans did not think that was a big deal.

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 2h

If you were willing to accept Ron Paul's explanation that he didn't know that neo-Nazis were publishing his work, it seems that things have changed a lot in the last couple decades.

Not as much if you said "Why does Ron Paul's content look exactly like the other stuff in the neo-Nazi newsletters?"

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

Also: Don't take outdoor portraits at noon.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

When did "blue hair" stop referring to elderly women?

My grandparents circa ~1977. Grandpa has my hairline and white hair. Grandma has a very thick curly mop of purple hair thanks to a bottle of Mrs. Stewart's Liquid Bluing

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

The person who convinced me that the GOP was the white supremacist party was Ron Paul.

The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 5h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 5h

I was a Young Republican for a brief time in the 1980s (for real). I promise you they talked like this back then. They didn’t know I was Jewish, so the Holocaust jokes flowed freely. It all helped radicalize me against the right.

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23h

“Epithets like “f----t,” “retarded” and “n--ga” appeared more than 251 times combined”

If you ever had any doubt that the youth wing of the GOP is fully radicalized and proudly racist these days:

‘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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Yesterday, white nationalist paramilitary forces attacked another Chicago neighborhood with chemical weapons. Families and at least one infant were gassed. This morning, they are kidnapping more immigrants both here and in other metros (D.C., L.A. still being terrorized).

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Luke Russell @lukerussell.bsky.social · 3h

I honestly used to like Brad.

Now I assume he's fucked all of his clients.

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 4h

Everyone in my feed is shitting on Nuzzi. Meanwhile, the other person in the saga is now destroying the medical community and endangering public health.

But let’s slut shame Nuzzi.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 3h

Embarrassing take, Brad, even if Olivia Nuzzi were a talented writer despite her many, many professional failings.

But she isn't.

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Link Must Be Reinstated @kellysmcgonigal.bsky.social · 12h

No I don’t, you chucklefucks, I want Norma Jean to be able to rest in peace without a bunch of technoghouls turning her corpse into a marionette.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4h

Are there any AI boosters out there worth reading? Not innumerate types who insist that there is actually a potentially profitable product there under all the fraud; someone rational.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4h

Stuck to the side of the bowl, just mocking you and stinking up the bathroom as you repeatedly flush.

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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 4h

This lady is a real piece of shit

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 5h

Young Republicans have always been racist and sexist, but they haven't always been full-on groypers. It's the difference between having prejudices and making them your entire personality and politics.

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 18h

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

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👇

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4h

I would take a dead Democrat over right-wing trash like Seth Moulton.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 4h

*mass murderer Bibi Netanyahu

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 5h

Go. Away.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 5h

Republicans only want to kill Americans.

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 5h

Seth Moulton is the very first name on my list of worthless Democrats who should lose primaries. It is circled and underlined.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 5h

Nuzzi is in the club and when you’re in the club the other club members boost you no matter what

🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

I don't understand what it is about Olivia Nuzzi that makes people think "Olivia Nuzzi should continue to attempt to use language to convey ideas," much less "...and I should pay her to do it."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

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🎃sh McGonigal @ashmcgonigal.com · 13h

I don't understand what it is about Olivia Nuzzi that makes people think "Olivia Nuzzi should continue to attempt to use language to convey ideas," much less "...and I should pay her to do it."

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 15h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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