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🇬🇧Gyn 🍸 🇺🇸Gynarchynow🇺🇦 @gnarchynow.bsky.social · 12d

It's no coincidence that Trump's cabinet is a cesspool of sex criminals...mark my words...trump will decriminalize sex crimes against women and make them infractions that can be expunged for a nominal fine of $5!

Too crazy? SCROTUS decriminalized bribery! Interesting that they're eyeballs in bribes

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2h

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

Worrying about microaggressions was the fetal position the left went into after getting its ass kicked for generations, for lack of any sugar daddies in a world where money equals speech.

They had to manufacture victories in "identities," because they had nothing to show in the real world.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

Worrying about microaggressions was the fetal position the left went into after getting its ass kicked for generations, for lack of any sugar daddies in a world where money equals speech.

They had to manufacture victories in "identities," because they had nothing to show in the real world.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

There is no "transition," only mutilation.

Corporate America is laughing all the way to the bank.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

"The fraud of the gaps"?

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 19h

Joking in your Young Republican group chat about the mass murder of 6 million people who'd been scapegoated for decades as morally degenerate ethnic/religious outsiders is just locker room talk. Speaking lightly of the murder of Charlie Kirk to your 400 friends on Facebook is a fireable offense.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

You cannot appeal to the "humanity" of someone who doesn't have any.

You can only Pavlovize them, like animals.

Arrange consequences. Make examples.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

"And yet Táíwò’s own position misses something fundamental about the world we now inhabit. Shame does not operate in a vacuum...today, the sturdy ground that once formed shame’s foundation has collapsed."

Helpful response by @eric-reinhart.com in @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2015...

Why Shame No Longer Works in American Politics

While it once played a role in binding society, shame has lost its power—and so have the liberal tools that depend on it.

newrepublic.com

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 1h

White people hate you too, Karen.

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 1d

ICE Detains Leaves as They Turn Brown: tinyurl.com/37euaejk

Masked ICE agents throwing bags of brown leaves in unmarked van

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 13h

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone.

And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

26 U.S. Code § 7217 - Prohibition on executive branch influence over taxpayer audits and other investigations
U.S. Code
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(a)Prohibition
It shall be unlawful for any applicable person to request, directly or indirectly, any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service to conduct or terminate an audit or other investigation of any particular taxpayer with respect to the tax liability of such taxpayer.

(b)Reporting requirement
Any officer or employee of the Internal Revenue Service receiving any request prohibited by subsection (a) shall report the receipt of such request to the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration.

(c)Exceptions
Subsection (a) shall not apply to any written request made—
(1)to an applicable person by or on behalf of the taxpayer and forwarded by such applicable person to the Internal Revenue Service;
(2)by an applicable person for disclosure of return or return information under section 6103 if such request is made in accordance with the requirements of such section; or
(3)by the Secretary of the Treasury as a consequence of the implementation of a change in tax policy.
(d)Penalty
Any person who willfully violates subsection (a) or fails to report under subsection (b) shall be punished upon conviction by a fine in any amount not exceeding $5,000, or imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or both, together with the costs of prosecution.

(e)Applicable person
For purposes of this section, the term “applicable person” means—
(1)the President, the Vice President, any employee of the executive office of the President, and any employee of the executive office of the Vice President; and
(2)any individual (other than the Attorney General of the United States) serving in a position specified in section 5312 of title 5, United States Code.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 1h

wrote about this in my book, but the first time i saw/heard Americans use the term "remigrate" it was in the leaked private chats of the white supremacists who organized the deadly Charlottesville rally in 2017 — including Thomas Rousseau (now head of Patriot Front) & the leaders of Identity Evropa

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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Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social · 1h

Here's the opinion. It's a rout. Too often, courts address only the actual malice question and do not reach falsity. This court correctly says there's no actual malice *and* the plaintiff did not show there were any false statements. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 2h

In 2024, I wrote a story for Texas Monthly about Michelle Haas, whose complaints resulted in the removal of books about slavery from historic Texas slave plantations. Haas sued us, alleging defamation, and was represented by the preferred lawyer of billionaire J.P. Bryan. Today, we won on appeal.

The header of the appeals court decision:

NUMBER 13-25-00005-CV

COURT OF APPEALS

THIRTEENTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

The conclusion of the appeals court decision, which states: The trial court's judgment is reversed. We remand the cause to the trial court with

instructions to (1) grant appellants' TCPA motion to dismiss, (2) award court costs and reasonable attorney's fees to appellants in accordance with the statute, (3) consider whether to assess sanctions against Haas in accordance with the statute. See TEX. Civ. PRAC. & REM. CODE ANN. § 27.009(a).

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3h

The only person who didn’t leave Twitter too late was the one who never joined.

Diane Galloway @adgwatches.bsky.social · 14h

In a nutshell, an actual Nazi group was doxxing left-leaning accounts and got banned for ~a day or less before Musk personally readmitted them

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

See also: Argentina

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

Hilarious. Trump is sabotaging this guy daily right before the election with his policy pronouncements and all he can do is plead with voters not to notice he’s a Trump ally. I’m sure NJ voters can REALLY count on Jack to stand up to Trump!

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

All my life, the supposedly liberal media has maintained the dumb white trash are the only real Americans.

Only now, they don't have to pretend otherwise, in any context

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20h

NBC News has reportedly eliminated its NBC BLK, NBC Asian America, NBC Latino and NBC OUT teams

NBC News’ 150 Layoffs Gut Black, Latino, Asian American and LGBTQ+ Diversity Teams

The cuts affected teams across the NBC News operation and came as the network no longer needed to support two different news operations. MSNBC has begun growing its own newsroom, hiring swaths of tale...

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 19h

"Why doesn't Chicago want us to zip-tie more naked children in the middle of the night and shove them, screaming, into vans? So ungrateful for refusing our kind, helpful offer to help!"

Pamela Jo Bondi

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3h

Basically, Hegseth is creating an environment that denies the Trump admin easy access to the reporters rather than the other way around.

The situation is paradoxically producing conditions that *encourage* leaking.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If State Farm is truly interested in being a good neighbor, it should be transparent and let the numbers speak for themselves.

Other insurance companies work with us on this, but State Farm has refused.

Without the data, homeowners have no assurance.

Illinois sues State Farm for not releasing homeowners’ insurance data

State Farm responds to lawsuit filed by the Illinois Attorney General's Office

www.25newsnow.com

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

It's up to $40bn, now.

Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 5h

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

Eventually, somebody has to pay the bills for the libertarian fantasy.

Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 18h

20 billion dollars from the US Treasury **was not enough**. So now it's 40 billion dollars! And why stop there?

All while the US government is shut down.

"America First," amirite?

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Bessent says bailout for Argentina will double to boost U.S. influence in region

The Trump administration is working to arrange private sector financing for Argentina that would double the total U.S. financial lifeline for the embattled Latin nation.

www.washingtonpost.com

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

... which probably explains why the authoritarian regime is full of rapists.

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

I swear, the tabloid model in media and culture, which is the corollary of the authoritarian model in politics, consists of little more than weaponizing the grievances of males rejected by female sexual selection, in a culture that is in denial of the very existence of female sexual selection.

Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

Social goods deprive predatory males of the leverage they use to overcome female sexual selection.

www.dissentmagazine.org/article/cock...

Cockblocked by Redistribution: A Pick-up Artist in Denmark - Dissent Magazine

As infamous pick-up artist Roosh himself admits in "Don’t Bang Denmark," Nordic social democracy doesn’t support his kind.

www.dissentmagazine.org

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 3h

I swear, the tabloid model in media and culture, which is the corollary of the authoritarian model in politics, consists of little more than weaponizing the grievances of males rejected by female sexual selection, in a culture that is in denial of the very existence of female sexual selection.

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Peyton Farquhar @peytonfarquhar.bsky.social · 4h

A generation from now, people will assume that the expression "trumped up charges" comes from donald being full of shit and abusing law enforcement as his personal thug force.

Maxine Bernstein @maxbernstein.bsky.social · 18h

Feds accuse clarinet player of interfering with federal arrest of another outside Portland’s ICE building Sun night

Her father said he believes his daughter will prevail in challenging her arrest, calling the allegation an “extremely Trump-ed up assault charge.”

www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

Band member accused of interfering with federal arrest of another, feds allege

"Who’s assaulting who is the real question?” said Oriana Korol's dad. “She was on the sidewalk playing music when the federal officers just bumrushed the band.”

www.oregonlive.com