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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 5h

Hey. Hi. Tom Homan is on camera taking a $50k bribe and no one knows where the money went. If this was any other administration, this would be non-stop on the news. Why are we normalizing this stuff?

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Ruth @poofer.bsky.social · 16h

That's the truth right there 👊💙

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 14h

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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 17h

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

Just now— @SpeakerJohnson announces he will lead a global pressure campaign to get the narcissist-in-chief a Nobel Prize next year

(Also revealing he doesn’t understand what “objective facts” are)

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 8h

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about this back when "The Verge" came out for Defector. Loved writing this essay. defector.com/christopher-...

Christopher Columbus And The Replacement-Level Historical Figure | Defector

It’s easy to tell Columbus’s story as one of a determined innovator, triumphing over the backwardness and ignorance of medieval Europe to usher in a new era of global exploration, trade, colonization,...

defector.com

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 11h

Cartoon by @edwexler.bsky.social.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 7h

There comes a time when the tolerant left has to become WE’RE NOT GOING TO TOLERATE ANY MORE OF YOUR NAZI PIGSHIT left

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 8h

Can confirm that is def SLC. Looks like the Home Depot parking lot

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 11h

Man escapes ICE while handcuffed, bystanders use pliers to free him.
Salt Lake City, UT

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🟧🌊still-Rusty🗽🟧 @still-rusty.bsky.social · 3d

Mike Lee on SCOTUS??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 3d

I hear Sen Mike Lee is butthurt about this depiction of his slavish devotion to a dictator because he so wants a seat on SCOTUS that he’s willing to sell us all out to a wannabe dictator and he hates people pointing that out

Geez. Should be illegal

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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social · 12h

Just spoke to a lifelong friend in Canada, who is selling their winter home in America and refuses to spend another dollar here as it would be supporting terrorism. She views our government as a terrorist organization and refuses to buy any American products of any sort.

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Bryan Schott @schotthappens.com · 8h

New poll: 55% of Utahns, including 68% of Republican voters, approve of Gov. Spencer Cox.

GOP convention delegates: "BOOOOOOO!"

Regular GOP voters: "Actually, he's fine."

Full breakdown at the link:

www.utahpoliticalwatch.news/the-two-utah...

Utah poll: Cox approval at 55%

New Utah poll shows Gov. Spencer Cox enjoys 55% approval, 68% GOP support, while two Republicans aiming to replace him struggle with name recognition and favorability.

www.utahpoliticalwatch.news

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 8h

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 8h

In 2023, a program connecting Utah farmers and ranchers to free therapy vouchers was so successful, the federal money ran out in four months.

“I want you to know,” the program director recalled one recipient telling him, “that this saved my life.”

(Published April with @sltrib.com)

Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.

Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

www.propublica.org

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ccb2025.bsky.social @ccb2025.bsky.social · 3d

👇🏻THIS

Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 3d

I believe in Trump bringing a peace deal to Gaza just as much as I believed him bringing a peace deal and nuclear disarmament to the Korean Peninsula in 2018

Jesus. Journalists do your fucking job

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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 10h

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Bryan Toporek @btoporek.bsky.social · 12h

Frankly, it'd be more surprising if these freaks *didn't* talk like this privately.

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 Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

ZOHRAN: “We are an existential threat to billionaires who think their money can buy our democracy.” 🇺🇸

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iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social @iwanttobecanadian.bsky.social · 14h

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Jesse Dollemore @dollemore.com · 10h

Currently on a flight to Japan watching a Pentagon Assistant Press Secretary (Riley Podleski) work on a document in the open on her laptop. She spent the last hour copy and pasting headlines from articles critical of the Administration’s hostility toward the 1st amendment.

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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 9h

Like I’ve said since 2012:

Fascism is macho bullshit

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 9h

Himes: You know, it's the Pete Hegseth insecurity that requires a constant marination in testosterone and fraternity-boy macho bullshit that, at the end of the day, would be funny if it weren't both lethal and counterproductive to actually dealing with the nation's drug problem.

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