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Zoomer Antimillenarian ♨️ @surcomplicated.bsky.social · 11h

So this is horrific and utterly hilarious slop in so many ways, but what's really notable here is it looks like White nationalists are now incorporating Yakub into their pantheon.

Truly, the best evidence of conspiracy theory syncretism yet. Nazis guzzling down Nation of Islam nuttery like soda.

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 15h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 10h

From “did MeToo go too far?” to “the entire WH is rapist-coded.”

Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10h

the me too administration www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

practically a requirement for this administration to be a sex pest

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
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In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 14h

Stand up comedy has been the main cultural vector for our current rot for like twenty years. Abysmal art form and people involved and the way they were elevated to being modern philosophers and prophets over the previous decade was obscene

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

Portland protestor frog costume: What are you trying to tell me? That I can dodge pepper balls?

Morpheus from Matrix movie: No, Frog. I'm trying to tell you that when you're ready, you won't have to.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 15h

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous.

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Stephen Miller views the air strikes as an opportunity to paint immigrants as a dangerous menace, according to one of the White House officials.

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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 12h

you gotta understand this is just the cgi version of the protocols of the elders of zion

scaryssa walmart dog @meo.bsky.social · 15h

how do u even compete with this level of propaganda. and why tf do these vril guys love tatu so much

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Drew McKevitt @drewmckevitt.bsky.social · 11h

Years ago I was teaching my gun history class and at the end of the quarter one of the students said that he was in the campus TPUSA chapter and they put him up to taking the class to spy on me but he felt bad about that because he loved the class and learned a lot and had a great time

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Aaron Ross Powell ☸️ @aaronrosspowell.com · 20h

Democrats should demand the firing of Stephen Miller as a condition for reopening the government.

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Juniper @juniperbevensee.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa girlfriend" show's their ignorance. All senior positions are held by women. Their multiple husbands do housework as God intended. The president of antifa is changed yearly to whoever wins the Oppression Olympics.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20h

the latest effort to try to find the switch to turn off liberalism (also these people hate the idea of a free society)

Brad Heath @bradheath.bsky.social · 23h

President Donald Trump's threatened crackdown on the finances and activities of liberal non-profits and groups opposed to his agenda is a multi-agency effort with top White House aide Stephen Miller playing a central role, according to officials.

www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 22h

a classic fascist archetype is the failed and resentful artist, intellectual, professional, or entrepreneur, because the movement gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these mediocrities and nobodies to rise through party ranks and mass larp their grand delusions of a successful career

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 22h

a classic fascist archetype is the failed and resentful artist, intellectual, professional, or entrepreneur, because the movement gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for these mediocrities and nobodies to rise through party ranks and mass larp their grand delusions of a successful career

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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Anonymous Spooky Bureaucrat 💀 @charlesdeguava.bsky.social · 1d

The timeline where something “positive“ comes out of this shitshow is one where we probably super charge globalization and embrace total free trade, zero tariffs, all consumer mindset, and tell industrial unions to pound sand

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Basically this was the entire logic fo neoliberalism and globalization - yes lots of job destruction, but prices falling on all kinds of goods and new jobs in new areas. It was taken as gospel that all of it was a net benefit, but that's a bit harder argument to make these days.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened.

This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

Every single boot licking propagandist who spoke at that event was either someone who was fired for being a bad journalist, or is someone who never actually held a job with a non-propagandist media outlet.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d

The federal government is basically being run now by the algorithmically amplified, right wing grifter industrial complex, as exemplified by this weirdo from Washington state who was flown in for Trump’s Antifa round table.

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 1d

most notable about posobiec is not pizzagate but that he started out as a dimestore gamergate-style antisemitic troll "GoTfan"

he exemplifies how fascism elevates total nobodies, gives once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for pathetic losers to rise through party ranks to become movers of history

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 1d

"i decide who is criminal"--the state

David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Watching the way the Trump administration is using criminalization as a weapon ought to make clear how criminalization works even in normal times.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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ben chambers 🏴 @benjaminchambers.bsky.social · 1d

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Literally all they've got any more is KKK-style nativism, directed specifically at Latinos. Every single GOP message collapses back to this. They've become the Klan

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it’s such a sick joke that ICE is here to keep us safe. This was a video of a perfectly safe day in the city - couldn’t feel safer - until a bunch of armed thugs run out of nowhere to start a fight and kidnap random pedestrians, which is one of the most terrifying things I can imagine

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 1d

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

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J. Cardella @cardellaj.bsky.social · 1d

Not to minimize what’s already happened, but one of my core beliefs for Trump II is that Stephen Miller has genocidal intent. He’s going to push in that direction with whatever power he has. That’s his end goal.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller’s entire life has been building to the ecstatic moment where he gets to press a button and have some political dissident murdered. The ultimate power fantasy. He cannot be dissuaded from it, because he will always find his way back to it; it has the same magnetism as any other fetish.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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