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indepinla.bsky.social @indepinla.bsky.social · 4h

they all seem to be of a particular size, too.

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Rob Tracinski @tracinski.bsky.social · 8h

Great googly-moogly, these guys look like cartoon caricatures of what you would expect.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 12h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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indepinla.bsky.social @indepinla.bsky.social · 4h

How brave these Nazis are. Threatening an EMT crew doing their job, and unable to deal with dancing ppl dressed in inflatable costumes. Every time they pull these stunts, they look like the idiots they really are.

Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 5h

ICE agents interfered with—and even threatened to “shoot and arrest”—emergency personnel rescuing an injured protester last week in Portland.

The agent “pointed his finger at me in a threatening manner,” the driver recalled, “and began viciously yelling in my face.

newrepublic.com/post/201774/...

ICE Agent Threatens to Shoot Ambulance Driver Helping Protester

Federal agents swarmed an ambulance crew to prevent them from taking an injured protester to the hospital.

newrepublic.com

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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 7h

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Teri G @terilg.bsky.social · 9h

This administration keeps torching the Hatch Act—propaganda videos in airports, partisan emails on federal servers, even mass firings. It’s corruption with a flag pin. See something? Say something. Expose it through the whistleblower tip line.
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#HatchAct

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 9h

Wild how the so-called "America First" president found money for a $20 billion bailout to Argentina…

But somehow we can't afford to help Americans keep their healthcare.

FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13h

Reporter: Trump is hosting Argentina's president on the heels of a controversial $20 billion bailout. American soybean farmers have struggled ever since the administration kicked off its trade wars. Soybeans are tied to this because China has been buying more soybeans from Argentina than US farmers

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indepinla.bsky.social @indepinla.bsky.social · 4h

I hope that a lot of these ppl decide that they don't need this kind of shit any longer, and leave the military.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: Pentagon officials are forcing staff to watch Pete Hegseth's "Warrior" speech he forced generals to listen to.

Officials are even "testing" staff to see if they watched — and are threatening consequences if they lie about watching it or if they mock it, sources tell @swin24.bsky.social and I.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

zeteo.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 20h

8/ But Trump doesn't want to end the shutdown. Because he thinks he's a king and he doesn't believe the law applies to him. He thinks he has extra powers in a shutdown. He doesn't.

But the longer Republicans boycott talks, the more the shutdown will hurt. So it's their move.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 11h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 11h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 11h

It always fits

Video from The Onion titled, “GOP maintains solid hold on youth that already look like old men”

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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 11h

This is the right kind of energy.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

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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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13h

Shocked, just shocked, that the Young Republicans group chat would be a bunch of Nazism and slurs

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13h

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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Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 16h

The Trump administration is now ticketing LEGAL residents for failing to carry their papers.

We're at the "papers, please" stage of fascism.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 17h

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Vincent Zimmerman @zimmermanv66.bsky.social · 16h

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Baby planet photographed forming in a dust disk, while orbiting a star, for the first time ever

Astronomers spotted a young planet, WISPIT 2b, forming within a dusty ring around its star system, offering clues about the birth of planets.

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RoseMarie @rosesbloom24.bsky.social · 16h

“Portlanders are demonstrating with joy and whimsy, which is proving very irritating to Trump and his Cabinet members, because they came here to provoke violence and use that violence as a foundation for increasing authoritarian control.”

#Pinks
www.huffpost.com/entry/portla...

Portland Protesters Use Inflatable Animal Outfits To Counter Trump’s Grim Narrative

Demonstrators have leaned into the city's quirkiness while speaking out against ICE.

www.huffpost.com

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indepinla.bsky.social @indepinla.bsky.social · 1d

Just an FYI for those fawning over Newsom, he just vetoed a bill to phase out forever chemicals in cookware and children’s products.

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🇺🇸𝕀𝕟𝕕𝕪 ℝ𝕖𝕗𝕦𝕘𝕖𝕖🇺🇸 𝚍𝚋𝚊 𝙱𝚊𝚍 𝙱𝚞𝚗𝚗𝚢 @indyrefugee.bsky.social · 1d

I would like a paid position similar to Mike Johnson’s, for which knowing anything about the position, work being done around the position, or work completed which affects the position, isn’t a job requirement.

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Casey @mamasissiesays.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Johnson: “We’re barreling toward one of the longest shutdowns in American history”

Oh man, if only the party that controls EVERY branch of government could do something like oh idk not let our insurance prices triple?? 🧐

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indepinla.bsky.social @indepinla.bsky.social · 1d

They’ve already done that, and it’s changed nothing.

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Lucia Romano, MBA @luciaromano.bsky.social · 1d

Spotted: member of ANTIFA!

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👣COCA👣 🇺🇦 🐸 @nortygirl.bsky.social · 1d

A very happy birthday to AOC ....we all appreciate you so much....

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