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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 2h

young republicans didn't used to be like this! i know because they weren't racist to me, a white lady,

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 19h

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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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 2h

talk about someone who I'd love to have their group chat leak!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2h

“One day very soon Reingold is going to wake up and have to confront the fact that one of the few friends she has left in the world is an elderly colleague who is really excited about AI actresses because they will allow him to finally "see a virgin on-screen." That's tough.”

Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends | Defector

It can be hard to maintain friendships as an adult. People move to new cities, start families, and experience all sorts of other life events that make it difficult to keep in touch. Sometimes, you end...

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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 9h

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 · 16h

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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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2h

Hey, so this is a bit terrifying

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 2h

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments.

Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 14h

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

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15h

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 2h

very annoying that we had to endure about a month of these people going “calling us nazis hurts our feelings” to then immediately be revealed saying nazi shit and going “yup, we want gas chambers. so what libs”

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utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 23h

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

GQ @gqmagazine.bsky.social · 2d

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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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 22h

This is because the feds won't stop gassing our neighborhoods so they can flee and, by extension, are also repeatedly gassing the cops. What a moment to be alive

Peter Nickeas @peternickeas.bsky.social · 22h

CPD memo to officers today: helmet and gas mask available and accessible at all times, to be read at 7 days of roll calls. (For officers assigned masks.) Supervisors to ensure compliance acc to the memo. #chicago

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Ernest Penfold @penfoldsfiv.bsky.social · 3h

10 years ago, Amanda Marcotte was calling Bernie supporters a bunch of racist, sexist, spoiled rich kids and now she's trying to launder the history of the Young Republicans. el oh fucking el.

grimm ☀️ @mugrimm.bsky.social · 4h

They have 100% always been this way, though notably the transition from helicopter rides and referencing crushing minorities abroad humorlessly transitioned to nazi shit, but like that's basically a new layer of paint instead of a new perspective.

Amanda Marcotte
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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.

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 4h

www.bbc.com/news/article...

"I once met a former bodyguard of one billionaire with his own "bunker", who told me his security team's first priority, if this really did happen, would be to eliminate said boss and get in the bunker themselves. And he didn't seem to be joking."

Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried?

The debate is ramping up about what happens if - or when - computer intelligence overtakes humans

www.bbc.com

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 2h

Audible discomfort from the usually very staid and silent oral argument audience when Kavanaugh made this point. Lots of coughing and muttering.

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 3h

Brett Kavanaugh is basically arguing tha there have been "sufficient remedies" for racism.

This seems like a good time to bring up the @politico.com about how young Republicans have *remedied* racism.

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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BleedingGrey𓅗 @ginzhizhawizi.net · 3h

"this No Kings protest is going to be unhinged"

it's gonna be so chaotic that they're asking you to RSVP

and they'll be filing the proper paperwork on where they're standing and where they'll be marching

and even The Police are gonna show up and people will take selfies with them, totally tubular

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 3h

I’ll also add that after two years of genocide and Israeli hasbara and Zionist-disciplining American media, we have to understand that anticommunism/anti-stalinism served the same *exact* rhetorical purpose as “condemn Hamas”

thicc husband and father @lukeisamazing.bsky.social · 3h

they’re not going to invite you into the big tent or make exceptions for you just because you say you hate Stalin and Mao. the American left has been doing this same song and dance for over a century and has only received multiple Red Scares for their trouble

Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

At a certain point we have to address a fundamental problem amongst American socialists (who have accomplished very little in the last 60 years) wherein they feel the need to disavow every socialist country, condemn every socialist leader, and run away from any socialist policy or agenda.

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BleedingGrey𓅗 @ginzhizhawizi.net · 3h

👇👇👇 I need everyone to look at this 👇👇👇

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 5h

🎃 October 15 🎃
Urban cowboy

Large tortoise wearing jorts and a tiny black cowboy hat

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UAE Exotic Falconry & Finance𓅃 @falconryfinance.bsky.social · 3h

Gianni Infantino, the president of FIFA was in Egypt at the ceasefire announcement, the only person there without a political role. weird bald bitch

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Gremlin 𓅷 McCoy @gremlinmccoy.bsky.social · 3h

Yeah can you imagine Republicans besieging an office of some kind, truly unthinkable.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

Lisa McClain: "We don't need to do political stunts and storm the Speaker's office -- we just have the facts on our side."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3h

Happy to block anyone whose contribution in this moment is to immediately police the language people are using to describe fed invasions of their cities. People are going to be imprecise. They are experiencing immense trauma. If you haven't had a gun pointed at you recently, maybe sit this one out

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 3h

When I asked ICE to comment on their abduction of a 13-year-old boy, a spokesperson just referred me to a screenshot of Tricia McLaughlin’s X post. They have not replied to multiple requests to clarify the lies in the post.

ICE took a 13-year-old they said had a gun. Local cops say he didn’t.

Now he's detained 500 miles away from his Massachusetts home.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 4h

An American journalist was brutalized while in Israeli custody and reports being threatened with pepper spray and rape.

Yet U.S. officials are silent about the abuse of their citizens by one of America's closest allies and Israel's utter disregard for press freedom. There's no excuse.

Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

Noa Avishag Schnall -- @noavi on IG -- a photojournalist who reported from the Conscience for @dropsitenews.com, has been released from Israeli detention.

Here she is just before her illegal abduction in international waters, and here she is after she was treated viciously in detention.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4h

Border Patrol propagandists filming their operation yesterday

📸 @mkaplanphoto.bsky.social

Feds in camo with tear gas launcher, rifle
One agent in olive has what looks like DSLR camera
Nondescript man in black shirt red hat with matching gas mask filming with larger camera

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 18h

For those curious this is a negative 5900% gross margin

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 19h

There's one person who pays them $250 a month who cost Augment $15,000. Amazing stuff. Can only imagine how bad things are for Cursor or Replit
www.augmentcode.com/blog/augment...

The user message model also isn’t sustainable for Augment Code as a business. For example, over the last 30 days, a user on our $250 Max plan has issued 335 requests per hour, every hour, for 30 days, and is approaching $15,000 per month in cost to Augment Code. This sort of use isn’t inherently bad, but as a business, we have to price our service in accordance with our costs.

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Marxist Lynchist 🇳🇬 🇵🇸 @dklmarxist.bsky.social · 2d

Boost me so I can find ppl on here pls

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Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins @wittywebhandle.bsky.social · 4h

"Market takes third-to-last hit of heroin and finishes of the rest of the food, meant to last a week; in a dissociative sigh lets out 'This will last forever'."

Dow gains more than 100 points as strong earnings overshadow China trade fight, Bank of America rises: Live updates

Stocks rose Wednesday following a tumultuous day of trading due to President Donald Trump's renewed trade feud with China.

www.cnbc.com

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She Guevara @sheg7.bsky.social · 5h

Youre right, and ive been singing this song for fucking years, nobody is gunna listen until its too late because they have way too much faith that we can just appeal to people's better nature and everything will be OK...

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · Aug 22

I can't help but believe that trans people in the UK are being set up to be the catalyst for liberals to join calls to leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

The first article headline is from The Independent, under the UK Politics section. The headline reads: "Britain’s first transgender judge takes UK to European court over Supreme Court ruling on biological sex." The subheading says lawyers for Dr. McCloud have filed an appeal in the European Court of Human Rights. The byline credits Millie Cooke, Political Correspondent, dated Monday 18 August 2025 at 20:27 BST.

The second article headline reads: "The Tories are set to commit to leaving the ECHR at their party conference" by Olivia Barber, published yesterday, with an estimated reading time of under one minute.

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Jessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 5h

for @slate.com I wrote about Joe Arpaio's view on the SCOTUS shadow docket decision in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo, the case in which Kavanaugh said it was okay to racially profile people.
“I was vindicated by the Supreme Court of all this shit.”
slate.com/news-and-pol...

He Was the Most Notorious Sheriff in America. He Says the Supreme Court Vindicated Him.

Thanks, SCOTUS.

slate.com

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