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Meek (Spooky) 👻 @themeekwarrior.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Alaska's been hit by a typhoon and no one is talking about it. Indigenous towns are in need of aid. People are missing and the gov't is still shut down.

If any creators here are in affected areas, please drop links for aid.

#mutualaid #crisis #alaska #typhoonhalong #helpourcountrymen

Rescue and recovery efforts underway as remnants of Typhoon Halong hit western Alaska | Alaska Beacon

Rescue and recovery efforts began Sunday in western Alaska as a major storm caused by remnants of Typhoon Halong hit coastal communities with massive storm surge, flooding and hurricane-force winds up...

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 15m

Even the phrase “rootless cosmopolitan” rings strange in a world dominated by Australian media moguls who live in NY, Apartheid-era Pretorians whose grandparents fled Canada. All these old ghosts of the British Empire.

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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 39m

Republicans could target up to 28 Dem House seats—including these 9 seats if SCOTUS kills the Voting Rights Act—& solidify a vulnerable GOP seat.

Dems might gain just up to 12 seats from new maps.

Not all of these states are likely to redraw, but the GOP effort to rig the House is a major threat

The Downballot @the-downballot.com · 48m

SCOTUS could eviscerate the last pillar of the Voting Rights Act in a case it's hearing right now.

If it does, Southern states could target around 9 Dem seats before 2026, shown in dark red.

That's in addition to many other non-VRA seats the GOP could go after. Dems have fewer options to respond.

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1h

A fence outside the Broadview ICE facility was taken down late Tuesday night, in accordance with a federal judicial order issued last week.

ICE facility fence in Broadview has been removed, in compliance with federal judge's order

U.S. District Judge LaShonda A. Hunt of the Northern District of Illinois had set a deadline for 11:59 p.m. Tuesday for the removal after finding that ICE had placed the fence on city property without permission, exceeding its authority.

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PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 2h

Makes Nixon talking to the portraits look NBD.

"Donald Trump’s obsession with remaking the White House into something more like his Mar-a-Lago resort is interfering with his presidential duties..."

www.rawstory.com/white-house-...

Trump keeps wandering off the job to give tours of his White House remodel: report

Donald Trump’s obsession with remaking the White House into something more like his Mar-a-Lago resort is interfering with his presidential duties, as he sets aside time spent running the government to...

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 2h

I very much hope the CEO of Goya sees this and understands you can never kiss their asses enough that they won’t come for you eventually

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 2h

A Chicago teacher said tear gas deployed by ICE drifted toward a school playground, forcing students and recess indoors.
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Chicago teachers say immigration enforcement near schools is scaring kids and disrupting class

Staff members are reporting ICE activity and patrolling areas around their schools and, in some cases, escorting families to and from school.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2h

Coffee in the US is now 40% more expensive than before Trump.

The Drink That Americans Won’t Give Up Without a Fight — The Atlantic

Coffee has almost no nutritional value and lots of substitutes. It’s also, apparently, too important to lose.

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 2h

Shot in the dark, but saying “we” -everyone who hates America and is being paid by (((Soros))) - don’t really care about “them” (real Murkans) as a way of building esprit de corps, like when a football team says “It’s us against the world “

Appropriating a Black artist gives them an extra thrill

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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 2h

White people’s insistence that other white people—especially the ones exhibiting morally questionable behavior—deserve the benefit of the doubt is going to kill us all.

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 2h

Many of the older ones were raised believing this already. Standard seatbelts in cars were a major culture war issue in the late ‘70’s

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timscurtin.bsky.social @timscurtin.bsky.social · 2h

We did this a hundred years ago too. The Indiana Klan existed very cozily next to the Mayflower Society, DAR, Daughters of Confederate Veterans and all the other genealogical societies that existed to show who was REALLY white and who was “ethnic”

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Spud Lovr @spudlovr.bsky.social · 3h

Small-town Wisconsin gears up for #NoKings rallies

More than 80 protests against the Trump admin are planned for Oct. 18 around the state

isthmus.com/news/new... #wipolitics #wiresist

Small-town Wisconsin gears up for ‘No Kings’ rallies

Protests against Trump 2.0 aren’t limited to Wisconsin’s big cities — activist groups in smaller communities and rural towns will be demonstrating too.

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 2d

Trumps head of operations for the war being waged in Chicago is openly trying to channel the supposedly masculine imagery of the Nazis

Make no mistake these domestic enemies waging war against the states are Nazis.

Bovino is really trying to sell its aesthetic now.

Bovino standing in a Trenchcoat in a hallway lit red. It’s giving Temu fascism.

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 4h

It’s incredible that the VT State Senator wrapped up in this hasn’t resigned yet — every major GOP leader in the state has called for his resignation. Fixing democracy requires restoring shame to public life. And accountability. Lots of accountability. vtdigger.org/2025/10/14/v...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 9h

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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Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 11h

The fence on Beach Street in front of the ICE Processing Facility in Broadview has been taken down.

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

A musician, Oriana Korol, was peacefully playing clarinet with her protest band outside ICE facilities in Portland, OR.

When the band started playing “Ghostbusters,” ICE thugs suddenly poured outside, slammed her into the mud, arrested her and took her to a jail 9 miles away in Vancouver, WA.

Musician playing ‘Ghostbusters’ outside ICE facility is arrested by agents

‘Taking us citizens out of state to detain them without charge is a new action from the Feds and should be opposed,’ her band said

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 11h

I very much take them at their word. I mean, their “elders” and mentors and managers are currently governing like mass death is an important part of the platform.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 11h

One thing that’s probably getting overlooked here is: these folks are serious about this stuff.

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 20h

Thousands of posts from a private Young Republican Telegram chat reveal a culture of casual racism/antisemitism, rape jokes and celebration of Hitler/Nazism.

Some of the ringleaders are below: We live in a world where 4chan types now occupy positions of real power.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Peter Giunta, chair of the New York State Young Republicans

Bobby Walker, vice chair of the New York State Young Republicans

William Hendrix, communications assistant for Kansas’ Republican Attorney General Kris Kobach

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 15h

Anyway here's a picture of Mike Lawler hanging out with one of the Young Republicans who suggested putting their political opponents in gas chambers

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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12h

Yes. The appeal is never having to grow up or accommodate yourself to the needs or interests of others. It is enormously appealing, apparently. And not just to young people.

Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 13h

It truly appears that the desire to say this sort of stuff without being socially ostracized and so on has been a main driver of one side of our politics from the "anti-PC" 1990s all the way through the "anti-woke" / "anti-DEI" present.

A true political juggernaut, this desire certain people have.

Politico @politico.com · 22h

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👇

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 12h

JD Vance can dismiss the Young Republicans as a college group chat.

But let's be clear: the group chat includes a State Senator, a Trump Admin official, and multiple Republican staffers — and some of the worst comments came from folks associated with Mike Johnson, Elise Stefanik, and Mike Lawler.

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 15h

Lawler seems to know all these guys.

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