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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 18m

Looking forward to the congressional hearings in which Republicans demand that the president of an Ivy League school resign over this.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

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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LOLGOP ❌👑❌ @thefarce.org · 11m

Nazis who get to destroy people's careers over lies about antisemitism. Ideal situation!

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 6h

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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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 5m

Yep

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 29m

We need to talk about how social media algorithms push moms down a slippery slope of distrust.

From "Are my kids getting enough support in school?" To "Maybe I should homeschool." To "Maybe modern medicine is bad."

I've seen this first-hand in research I'm doing on parenting apps. 1/🧵

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 13m

Scene: As you're walking down the street, you see a professional locksmith trying to open a locked storefront door to help the store owner who accidentally locked their keys inside.

You shout out "hey, my high school locker combination started with 27, I hope that helps" and keep walking.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 7m

go to sea as a passenger

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Tess Bridgeman @tessbridgeman.bsky.social · 18h

The President is announcing more extrajudicial killings today.

A reminder that the administration has provided no limiting principles and these killings are completely untethered from the law (there was no "armed attack," there's no "armed conflict," and these aren't "unlawful combatants").

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 46m

If only FIFA didn't suck complete ass too.

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 10h

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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 11h

The official government account for DHS appears to be run by far-right trolls deliberately trying to provoke a response by using a term openly associated with ethnic cleansing. They will attack anyone who points this out and express faux outrage at the suggestion. They know what they are doing.

Remigration Wikipedia Page.

Not to be confused with Return migration.
Remigration is an originally European far-right proposal of ethnic cleansing via the mass deportation of non-white immigrants and their descendants, sometimes including those born in Europe, to their place of racial ancestry.
It is popular especially within the Identitarian movement. Some proponents of remigration suggest excluding some persons with non-European background from such a mass deportation, based on a varyingly defined degree of assimilation into European culture.

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1h

Where I am from (FL Panhandle) this is just who Republicans are. This is what drives them. This is what brings them together. This is why I have so little patience with being told to build bridges. To where?

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19h

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 1h

Remember how under Biden the press said this was the biggest issue ever but how now under Trump it’s barely mentioned? Yeah.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1h

A grocery store clerk in Chicago says shoppers see prices “and say, ‘What the f—? .. It happens all the time.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1h

I kinda thought so. However, she isn't exactly wrong.

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1h

I told my wife I had lost a little weight. She responded with: "It would be impossible for a white person to be as sexy as D'Angelo."
🤷‍♂️

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Adam Rothman enjoys a good sandwich @adamrothman.bsky.social · 11h

Incredible scenes.

Thompson, 43, said federal agents had just exited the fortified facility and appeared to be chasing a protester when the protester and officer collided with band members, most of whom were wearing banana costumes.

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wesin-🎃a spooky version of 🎃-japan @wesinjapan.bsky.social · 1h

Lost in this discussion: The stadium is in a mall parking lot out in the middle of nowhere. Very dangerous.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on moving World Cup games from Boston: "We could take them away. Your mayor is not good."

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4d

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 4d

A new Noem video is being played at airports trashing Democrats.

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Joel D. Anderson @joelanderson.bsky.social · 9h

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

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

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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Liverpool Comrade ☭ @liverpoolcomrade.bsky.social · 1h

The next time someone asks why the Greens have gone all anti-capitalist lately, remind them that the biggest obstacle to better climate policy is capitalism itself.

Darren @dirk1978.uk · 5h

It's inescapable that we all need to ditch cars and meat and live in eco houses away from rivers and that crony capitalism is a barrier to that. Otherwise capitalism will implode with much greater ferocity.

Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050
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Government told to prepare for 2C warming by 2050

The Climate Change Committee said the UK should make climate change adaptions beyond the Paris Agreement.

www.bbc.com

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2h

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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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 18h

Republicans' embrace of Hitler raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's willingness to combat antisemitism.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 1h

The thing about these guys is they're awful. And while there's always a subset of humans that are awful, the question to ask is why do they keep getting access to power

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 17h

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...

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 12h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

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Liquid Jade @liquidjade.bsky.social · 17h

The DoD’s weekly payroll is roughly $3.7 billion.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump: "I had a very wealthy person who called -- a donor, a great gentleman -- and he said, 'if there's any money necessary, shortfall, for the paying of the troops, then I will pay it.' Meaning he will pay it. How about that?"

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Feds seized 127,271 bitcoin, currently valued at ~ $15 billion 😯

Feds seize $15 billion in crypto from ‘pig butchering’ scheme involving forced labor camps | CNN Politics

Federal prosecutors seized $15 billion in cryptocurrency from an investment scheme known as “pig butchering” that they allege emanated from forced labor camps in Cambodia.

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