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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

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👇

‘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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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7h

Advanced age is one (lesser!) problem with the Young Republicans, generally.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7h

Lol the hiring freeze has been extended into January

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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 1d

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Milei: "If he loses, we will not be generous with Argentina."

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 1d

A rare opportunity to applaud the Charlotte airport.

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 1d

You can make a 1984-style propaganda video, but it doesn’t mean people have to see it.

Airports refuse to show DHS Sec. Kristi Noem video blaming Democrats for government shutdown

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates three major airports, said, its "policies prevent airing of politically partisan messages."

www.cnbc.com

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 4d

This is beyond bad. All of our disease defenses are down now. We are sitting ducks. This is #RussellVought #DonaldTrump #RFKJr. They are endangering American lives with their insane crusade. These men are hazardous to your health and dangerous to the republic. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 4d

This was made by some underpaid staffer who was told to "whip up a rendering real quick" and not provided CAD training or tools.

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 4d

So a quick Google shows that Harrison Design is based out of Atlanta and doesn't specialize in this, uh, style.

More interestingly, the renderings on its website look nothing like this. Eg, this sketch looks like something you'd make with architectural software. What this does look like? Chat GPT.

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 4d

Oh no this is from ChatGPT

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 5d

ok i'm sorry and i'm honestly not trying to be petty but is this a photo of a printout of a web article

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 6d

Happy OCD Awareness Month to gas pump handles

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 6d

Oh, you are so wrong. I do not care why. I think smoking a cigarette in a bra with clear plastic straps will cure my depression in a way nothing else can.

slate.com/life/2025/10...

Victoria’s Secret Is Returning to “Sexy.” You’re Not Going to Like Why.

I hate to be the person who brings up Donald Trump in conversations about thongs, but ...

slate.com

ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7d

To be fair, it is truly what he would've wanted.

Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 7d

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 7d

Followup, what the fuck are you talking about

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Q: How will you decide which workers get backpay and which do not?

TRUMP: Most of them are gonna get backpay. Some of them are being hurt very badly by the Democrats and they therefore won't qualify

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Sexy CHOAM Nomsky costume @samthielman.com · 7d

thanks to mike here and his buddies the odds are pretty good that if you’re a young pregnant woman who shows up at an ER you’re not going to get treated at all

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Mike Johnson: "If you're a young, pregnant American citizen women who shows up in an ER and you get treated and they pay the hospital less for treating you than some illegal rabble rouser who came in from some South American country to do us harm, that is wrong."

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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 7d

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7d

Rarely do I get a chance to cry discrimination, but I do think it's a problem that these people consider Presbyterianism – which came to the US in 1706 and whose leaders undergo more education than any major American denomination save Catholicism – to be a "religion" religion.

Rob Schmitt being an asshole like always

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 7d

Today, Senator Kaine and I will force the Senate to vote on the administration’s decision to blow up ships in the Caribbean.

If a president can unilaterally put people or groups on a list and kill them, there is no meaningful limit to his use of force.

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7d

Obviously not the main problem, but "if you criticize us, we will bastardize your art for our nefarious means" is a policy straight out of the Why Doesn't Anyone Like Us playbook.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 7d

More propaganda with painfully normal people zip-tied at the side of the road please, this will for sure convince the American people that you're the good guys

Homeland Security @DHSgov

We're having an All Night Revival

Still frame from a video: Painfully normal people zip tied on the side of the road, sitting on a guardrail in a row

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 7d

I'm hoping someone smarter than me may know: where is the rest of the world? With the US hobbled, is there simply not an effort to rebuild aid capacity in places like Myanmar, or is it truly a logistical impossibility?

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 8d

"VA typically pays veterans diagnosed with sleep apnea...more than a combat vet with a leg amputated below the knee."

Maybe UBI for veterans is a good thing. But the VA's current system is, pay 1/3 of everyone–and pay the most to the vets who are best at paperwork. Reform is a valid goal here.

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Keith Boykin @keithboykin.bsky.social · 8d

Trump plans to deny back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers when the government reopens, according to a draft memo from
the White House. The denIal of back pay would violate the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019.

As we all know, Trump never pays his bills.

White House Signals It May Try to Deny Back Pay to Furloughed Federal Workers

www.nytimes.com

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ohheyLK @laurenkarch.bsky.social · 8d

It's a recession on purposeeee

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 10d

History lesson: the best way to stop farm consolidation is stop doing bailouts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD50...

AcreTrader, Bailouts, & The Future of US Farms

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

www.youtube.com

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