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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 34m

He still had this up *after* the story about the Young Republicans group chat with the Hitler praise was released.

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 37m

Agreed.

Although if you want to get real radical and generate a potentially even more durable solution (IMO), the answer is to draft a new governing document entirely.

Blake Emerson @blakeprof.bsky.social · 1h

Court reform is the only way out of this authoritarian trap. Expand, restructure jurisdiction, channel, new courts—the works.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

asylum but only for racists apparently www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Worldwide Annually @tkovach.bsky.social · 1h

This is more than the total amount in vehicle tax credits and EV charging in the IRA for FY2023-2027

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2h

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 44m

One of many.

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 51m

Also, if AI is conscious, then how do they deal with the idea that forcing it to respond to prompts endlessly is forced labor?

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 56m

“Otherwise you build intellectual sandcastles and think you’ve poured concrete.”

Now there’s a metaphor!

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Jonathon Booth @jboothhistory.bsky.social · 1h

"immigration has decreased social trust because we spend our days lying about immigrants and trying to decrease social trust"

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 5h

Sorry I’m gonna go back on my bullshit here: National Consersvatism’s entire ethos boils down to “this problem, that we created, exacerbated, and oppose any effort to combat, is very bad. We will solve it by making it worse”

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 5h

I suspect populist parties bootstrapped their own political support by weaponizing the residual, ambient distrust present in all societies & MAKING MORE OF IT, spreading & intensifying it, by propagating narratives of distrust & corruption. By repetition & uptake by other political actors, it rose.

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 1h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, all the settlements are bribes

The Verge @theverge.com · 2h

Senate Democrats want to know: was YouTube’s Trump settlement a bribe?

They’re warning the company “may have run afoul of the law.”

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Micah @rincewind.run · 3h

I have been to two No Kings protests and they are filled with normies and people with funny signs and families and they are just the most wholesome protests imaginable

that's all people are going to see, man - their friends and neighbors out there saying we don't want this

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

When they are in the majority, ICE shouldn’t exist.

This is a symbolic half measure at a time when full measures are needed.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 3h

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding.

"When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says.

This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/2018...

Trump ICE Raids Take Horrific Turn in Chicago, Handing Dems an Opening

There’s one simple pledge Democrats can make to voters about ICE that’s easy to understand and will have broad support.

newrepublic.com

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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 4h

this is a terrible idea, no Democrat should be acknowledging any semblance of Republican legitimacy right now

Politico @politico.com · 4h

Speaker Mike Johnson and Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries will debate Wednesday on C-SPAN.

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on “Ceasefire,” hosted by our Dasha Burns.

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries will debate on C-SPAN

The yet-to-be-scheduled showdown will take place on "Ceasefire," hosted by POLITICO's Dasha Burns.

www.politico.com

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

He sold his soul already, and if it wasn’t for power, then it’ll be an empty deal.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 6h

Fascinating. Politico notes that when notified of the texts, many state-level Republicans fired or condemned these cretins. Now Vance emerges to excuse the racism, and calls the reaction to it "pearl clutching."

He seems determined to purge the party of its last enclaves of decency.

‘College Group Chat’: JD Vance Dismisses ‘Pearl Clutching’ Over Young Republicans Leak to Attack Jay Jones

Liberals hit back at Vance's blunt dismissal of racist, antisemitic and misogynistic messages leaked from a Young Republicans group chat.

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, we live under a white supremacist authoritarian regime

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 2h

The federal government is just openly white supremacist, now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

The Supreme Court is illegitimate

Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social · 4h

If it's bad policy, a future Congress could repeal the law.

What you can't do is imagine away the text and original meaning of the 15th Amendment. You can't make Constitutional words mean whatever you want them to mean in the moment. That's not constitutional government. It's rule by judiciary.

kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, and soon, most of media will be

Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 2h

So has the Charlie Kirk Show now become state-run media?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3h

JD Vance dismisses Young Republicans who in a group chat said "I love Hitler" and joked about slavery and rape as "a bunch of kids" who "told stupid jokes" and adds that "most of the stupid things I did when I was a teenager and young adult, they're not on the internet."

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 12h

Describing the things that Republicans say and do makes one “partisan” and “extreme” to those who do not want to know about the exchange they are making for “lower taxes.”

Sam @samd.bsky.social · 21h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 1d

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

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kbsutt.bsky.social @kbsutt.bsky.social · 11h

If social media resembles a neurological catastrophe, is the technology inherently catastrophic, or does the blame lie with people like Zuck?

I’m going to go with the latter. Who’s in charge matters. If social media is a negative for society, it’s due to the menaces to society who have made it so.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 1d

The neurologist Oliver Sacks found that the social-media era resembles a neurological catastrophe on a gigantic scale.

The Machine Stops

The neurologist Oliver Sacks on steam engines, smartphones, and fearing the future.

www.newyorker.com

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 15h

Vance, miserable liar that he is, referred to these bigoted, Nazi-flavored Young Republican posts as a "college group chat."

But most of the quoted in the Politico article are GROWN ADULTS with JOBS.

ADULT REPUBLICANS RUNNING A REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION.

Filth.

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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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

Twitter account: Uncensored @HmanQuotes1945: Official border patrol Facebook page is posting with the banned lyrics of Michael Jackson's song.
"Jew me sue me... Kick me k*ke me."
Epic

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 13h

Thinking of all the people who insisted that this admin was serious about "ending antisemitism on college campuses."

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14h

I just checked and this is real. It's on Border Patrol's official Instagram (I don't see it on Facebook) and is being celebrated by Nazis on Twitter, as you can see in the screenshot.

The clip is just 13 seconds long too, so it's a very intentional thing. We've got a Nazi government.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 19h

Impeachable acts every day

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: The Trump administration has blocked or slowed almost $28 billion in federal aid since the shutdown began, largely harming Democratic-led cities, congressional districts and states, underscoring how the president has weaponized a fiscal stalemate

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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