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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 23m

Labor Day was a month ago, weird that NBC is wearing all white

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 30m

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

www.thewrap.com

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 24m

Again, I don’t know who needs to hear this but - it’s back

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 1h

Reminder: the House recess isn't because of the budget, the House adjourned before the shutdown because the GOP doesn't want to hold a vote to release government files on a pedophile because everyone knows those files implicate Trump. Republicans are doing this to protect their pedophile President.

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 1h

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything.

It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in.

Long thread.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/10/national-security-presidential-memorandum-nspm-8/

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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 3h

They’re testing our resolve to speak out against illegal military acts overseas to see if we will resist illegal military acts at home.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 2h

Meanwhile they are positioning themselves to profit off the chaos.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2h

In the Inverted world of the fascist unreality millions of job losses are actually a good thing because they prove that the vaporware being touted as AI is actually doing its job.

The Republicans know the economy is going to collapse, and they are building The narratives needed to shift attention.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3h

Some straight talk out of Waller. Less and less sugar-coating as we go on.

#NFP 👀

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17h

The thing about young republicans is they grow up into old republicans

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 20h

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 9h

One of the most painful truths is we can only defeat evil in others when we overcome it in ourselves.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 10h

“It was President Woodrow Wilson, not Adolf Hitler, who first condemned foreign-born residents for pouring "the poison of disloyalty into the very arteries" of American life.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-politics...

The Politics of Fear in American History

The precedents for the violence and overt use of state power we are now experiencing can be found in the 1910s and 1920s rather than the 1930s and 1940s.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 16h

Every one of these "If only it were possible to..." plugs for AI is animated by an incredibly deep resentment of either talent or authorship.

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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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 18h

I’m fine with this.

Still rooting for Flash

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 19h

it wasn't enough that our cities and states already paid far more than they receive from the federal government. the people who elected trump want to steal more from us, to give to Argentina, to give to ICE, to give to billionaires. Intolerable

Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 21h

Trump admin has frozen or cancelled $28 b for projects, almost all in Dem districts. Small amount of frozen funds in GOP districts are in predominately Dem states (CA, OR, WA, CO, MN, IL, NY, MD), or in predominately Dem cities (St Louis, Atlanta, Greenville) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump admin is freezing or cancelling billions of dollars in funding for projects in Democratic areas.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 21h

The AL Central is the easiest division in baseball to win and Skubal’s presence alone makes the Tigers competitive doing nothing else.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 21h

This is how I know all the outrage over people saying awful things about Kirk was fake.

This is insensitive, ghoulish, and nasty, and this guy is the president of the United States.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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Mikki Kendall @karnythia.bsky.social · 21h

I just want you all to know that when we told you that they wanted to destroy everything and you thought Black women were exaggerating? This was the "ironic" racism you said we were overreacting to 10 years ago. Racism has never had generational limits

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👇

‘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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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 21h

21 year age difference.

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 21h

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills

A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

www.orlandosentinel.com

Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 21h

NARRATOR: …the bullshit did not stop

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

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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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 21h

Yeah but a private school counselor. So there ya go.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 22h

This is why those “who’s surprised?” comments really don’t move me because we act as if this is sectioned off into “politics” or “culture wars” and don’t affect the bedrock institutions in the society.

Notreal @susannyc.bsky.social · 1d

She is a school Counselor!!!!!!

From the school website identifying her.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 21h

GOP: we will keep killing hostages until you allow us to kill hostages.

Cindy 📎🇨🇦⚢🏳️‍🌈 @bilbow.bsky.social · 1d

Hundreds of federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by Trump admin’s mass firings over the weekend, aimed to pressure Dems to give in to Reps demands and end the government shutdown.
#Pinks

apnews.com/article/trum...

Federal employees in mental health and disease control were among targets in weekend firings

Federal employees working on mental health services, disease outbreaks and disaster preparedness were among those hit by the Trump administration’s mass firings over the weekend.

apnews.com

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 22h

Like - none of this is surprising. American conservatism is infected with this racist edgelord shit. They have been inculcating this shit for decades now.

Every Republican will now clutch their pearls, wait 6 weeks, then give them a job after they “find Jesus,” or whatever.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung.bsky.social · 23h

wow... young republicans are nazis..?

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WIRED @wired.com · 1d

"This was surprising and new information for us. We have not approved the use of the IKEA logo in this context," IKEA spokesperson Arvid Stigland tells WIRED.

Tesla and Amazon did not respond to requests for comment.

A Plan to Rebuild Gaza Lists Nearly 30 Companies. Many Say They're Not Involved

A presentation that has been shared with the Trump administration references Tesla, Ikea, TSMC, and more in its plan to rebuild Gaza. Some of these companies say they had no idea they were mentioned.

www.wired.com

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 1d

God, the root of all of this, the end goal of evertything, is so men can have a woman they completely control and can’t say “no”

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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