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Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · 18h

🚨The war on Antifa has begun, with the FBI canvassing informants for insights on the group, scrutinizing financial records and gathering intelligence on left-wing affinity groups, sources tell me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/inside-the...

Inside the War on Antifa

Feds target "affinity" groups, informant networks, the Tides Foundation, and more.

www.kenklippenstein.com

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 2h

post-911 tuscan revival opulence 😭 -> sterility

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 5h

i really hope that when we finally remove these assholes, we'll be able to have a proper creative renaissance & cultural revitalization.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 5h

fascism's goal is to "tighten the herd" and remove anything that deviates from homogeneity.

the uniform design style does that, too. at the expense of quality of life, charm, artistry of places.

i hate it here.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 5h

i hope historians will look back & recognize the ugly new build, millennial grey, box-looking apartments as the fascist, homogeneous, lazy, cheap architecture & design they are.

just as fascism tries to make everyone alike, this design style is stripping cities of their uniqueness & authenticity.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

literally 😭

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Trans Journalists Association @transjournalists.org · 1d

What journalists can learn from how we covered the attack on trans rights in Trump's first 100 days.

Big takeway: based on analysis of a representative sample of articles, 70% of news stories about anti-trans executive orders didn’t quote a single trans person.

bit.ly/TJA_visible

How journalists covered Trump's first 100 days

Trans perspectives were rarely present in articles about the consequences federal actions would have on their lives, according to an analysis conducted by Berkeley Media Studies Group in partnership w...

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

bruv, he shouldn't be making the list at all 😭

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Kaine: "We should not be allowing the president to create a secret enemies list and make the unilateral decision about whether to kill people without sharing that information at least with the Armed Service and Intel committees. So this is very troubling."

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La Cuenta de Crunchyroll de Sandra Cuevas @julieofthespirits.bsky.social · 1d

yeah it was really this wasn't it

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

😂😂😂 exactly.

"does music make you cool? or pomade, a mustache & being a ~gentleman~?" 💀💀💀

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

student says: "genocide bad! free palestine!"
right says: "they're a terrorist! they are advocating for death."

right says: "those deserve gas chambers!!"
right also says: "they're just kidding! they don't mean it!!"

🫥

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

the most reaching, compassionate part of me sees a clear link between shame & "doubling down," between the right's ability to shepherd in even the most awful people & the escalation of this stuff. but. y'know.

people are responsible for their horrible choices & views! so it's still bad.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

i'm not just being mean when i call them uncool. it's worth noting that part of being uncool is about not being adaptable, not "getting" the joke, not moving on, taking things too far & making it weird / awkward / truly offensive / sincerely racist / dangerous / vile. 😵‍💫

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

that offensive irony x core social goop (seen, for example, in "cards against humanity") went super out of hand when co-opted by a bunch of mean, horny, misogynistic, territorial nerds.

the same things happened with early memes, like pepe.

.... and now we have the modern alt-reich.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

it always felt to me like the original 4chan v tumblr wars were, in essence :: uncool people just jumping onto irony x core & cooler people who realized irony x core had gone too far.

instead of the uncool people reflecting & course correcting to do better, they doubled down and became ✨ worse ✨

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

you can't understand the young racist republicans without understanding the early hipster irony x core era, where people thought it was ~cool~ to be as offensive as possible.

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Evil Orc Heart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 1d

I'm going to try to write the newsletter this week on my deep sense of commentary fatigue. A little ironic I suppose, but I feel we're spending too much effort trying to interpret and explain our time to one another and not enough effort accepting it and meeting the moment on it's own terms.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

i wld gladly pay in if it meant things like.... healthcare for all, childcare for all, reliable public education & higher ed, WIC & SNAP weren't defunded, roads were actually good.... but what the *fuck* am i getting out of this?

the knowledge my $$ is used to terrorize my neighbors? aw, hell no.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

my job made me salary this week (i have been a freelancer for years) & damn i did not realize that approximately 40% of my earnings went to funding, uh, police, ICE, trump's stupid plane & virtually no social services at all 🤮

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

graffiti today.

graffiti saying "beware of controlled opposition" shot through a chain link fence

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

nearly every single thing the united states accuses others of doing... it does.

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

the united states government is actually five atrocities in a trench coat, repeating "brutality for me, not for thee."

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jen by. @jenbyers.com · 1d

the deepest irony here is that the U.S. government offered bounties for killing indigenous people beginning in the 1600s at least through the civil war.

and... bounty hunting for alleged criminals was declared legitimate through a supreme court ruling (Taylor v. Taintor) in 1872.

MFordTheRiver @prynnford.bsky.social · 1d

Of all the things that didn’t happen

Screen shot of ABC article with the headline “cartels issuing bounties up to 50k for hits on ICE and CBP agents, DHS says.”

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

The State of Illinois is documenting the criminal misconduct of Trump secret police agents in order to bring charges against those who engaged in acts ranging from assault to reckless endangerment and negligent operation of motor vehicles in the near future, Newsweek reveals.

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 1d

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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