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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 4h

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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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 3h

Breaking: Capitol Police have been called after a Republican congressional office was just caught displaying a swastika.

This comes one day after group chat messages were leaked of young GOP officials saying “I love Hitler” and calling to put Democrats in “gas chambers.”

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2h

JD Vance when people makes jokes about Charlie Kirk: "call their employer."

JD Vance when Republican staffers say "I love Hitler" and fantasize about throwing political opponents in gas chambers: "that's what kids do...we're not canceling kids because they did something stupid."

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1h

Each and every service anyone uses should have a different unique password of at least 16 characters and one each of Up/Low A-Z, numeric, symbol character classes (regardless of account importance! Low importance accounts can be used to boostrap escalation attacks). I like @proton.me 's pw manager.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · Aug 24

Today I wrote about a general tendency to accept atrocious premises, and the need to reject fascism's false choices in order to find expansive and imaginative paths forward.

Breaking the premise, embracing the obstacles, pursing everything.

www.the-reframe.com/there-is-no-...

There Is No Trolley Problem

We actually aren't constrained into atrocious premises by thought exercises. Obstacles are a reason to fight, not an excuse to quit. Our friends and neighbors aren't distractions..

www.the-reframe.com

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 3h

Once again, I ask - without trying to being overly alarmist - what anyone has seen since January to make them believe the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any meaningful definitions of the words.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 3h

Oopsie!

The Supreme Court Case That Could Hand the House to Republicans

www.nytimes.com

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 3h

this is the dumbest shit i have ever read

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 9h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15h

kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 7h

"If conservatives didn't have double standards, they'd have no standards at all" is a good quote I read earlier in the year and it applies way too often

ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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ElieNYC @elienyc.bsky.social · 9h

Roberts is saying that the court's own precedent from a couple of years ago, where it ruled that Alabama had to draw racial fair maps, doesn't apply to this (identical) case, essentially because the Alabama case was poorly argued.
It's a terrible argument, but the hill Roberts is gonna die on.

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 8h

All the household names in news (plus TikTok, which shouldn't count but it's how many consume news) are now owned by Murdoch and Trump allies now, and it's painful to watch the narrative construction to proactively squash dissent in real time.

Can't be angry if you never learn about it.

a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies

ALT: a man and a woman are standing next to each other with the words so this is how liberty dies

media.tenor.com

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 8h

It's worth noting that Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies into removing content in the past.

Trump admin pressured Facebook into removing ICE-tracking group

Pam Bondi claims Facebook group was used to “dox and target” ICE agents.

arstechnica.com

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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 19h

basic research on wacky things like Gila monster venom are what gave us GLP-1 drugs that are treating diabetes, obesity, & addiction in new ways

this piece from @whyy.org is great

an analogy: navigation apps are great but don't tell you how to climb Mt. Everest & survive

whyy.org/segments/oze...

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 23h

Despite him being probably the single human most responsible for this timeline, I'm glad that he's someone with deft enough legal footwork to wrongfoot the legal abuses of this...administration.

(I want to say regime, and do sometimes, but other times it feels childish. Normalcy bias is strong!)

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

California, this November 4th, the whole country is counting on you.

Prop 50 puts our elections back on a level playing field, preserves independent redistricting over the long term, and lets the people decide.

So return your ballot today. Vote yes on 50.

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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 1d

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

If men with guns and masks tried to pull me out of my car, I'd fight back. Courts should reject any claims by the government that this is aggression by the person being detained, resisting arrest, or that they're a flight risk.

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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

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

TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

Bioaccumulation from cheap ingredient sourcing rearing its ugly head:

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

TLDR: "The lead levels in plant-based products were, on average, nine times the amount found in those made with dairy proteins like whey, and twice as great as beef-based ones"

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

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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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TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

Between the same problem and not wanting Trump et al to vacuum up clear text messages, I just use @signal.org which has been reliable for me (and behaves well Android to iOS and back as a mixed household)

TigerhawkVok @tigerhawkvok.bsky.social · 1d

See bsky.app/profile/josh...

Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is online positively wailing about this picture, because he is weak and vain and cares exponentially more about himself than anything else. That said, if there is something Trump does not want America to see, that means it is probably something every American needs to see. Please share widely.

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Copey @ops4life.bsky.social · 2d

Nuff said

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