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May all beings be free, safe and protected, and know peace and joy! We need to wake up and rise up for the wellbeing of all living beings and act from the wisdom of inter-being to dislodge the fascist capture of the US government.

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MassiveCivilResistance @wildoneness.bsky.social · Dec 15

Part of a joint statement by Martin Luther King, Jr., and my teacher Thich Nhat Hanh, May 31, 1966.

"The enemies of those struggling for freedom and democracy are not man. They are discrimination, dictatorship, greed, hatred and violence, which lie within the heart of man".

a statue of a buddha is sitting on top of a hill looking at the sunset .

ALT: a statue of a buddha is sitting on top of a hill looking at the sunset .

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5h

A testimonial of a Young Republican from the 1960s who quickly found his way into a heavily armed, right wing domestic terror group called The Minutemen.

"MINUTEMEN"
P. O. BOX 68
NORBORNE, MISSOURI
AdditiónAl INFORMAtIÓN:
AND
I hAVE BEEN ACTiVE IN Pohitics AND
the ANTi-COMMUNiST MOVEMENT SiNCE I WAS
14 pEnAS oF AGE, How did my iNtEREst StrAt?
My FAthER is violeNthy ANti-Jaw, NEGRo, AND Communist, I KNEW At thAt timE whAt A NEG-Ro, WAS AND WhAt A NEW WAS, but the CommUNisT puzzlEd mE, My FAthER RAVE ME MARI AND LENiN TO READ...
I JOINED (AtI4) the yoUnG REpuBlicANs than YouNG AmERiChNs FOR Freedom, thAN the PitRick HenRy Group, there the John BikcH Society, And Finally the Minuterson, My HisH School yongs found me totally.
ShandeRed by othER pupils (2700 iN M.S.)
DECAuSE oF my ANti-cOmmuNist LECtURES
AND MY VIEWS dURiNE dEBAtES. my psycholosy And Sociohony chnsses left. mE discusted, AND WhAt I didNe dEsm
"KosHER"I usuAlly dEt my tenchERs know, ABOUT. THE dEbRE OF INFiLtRAtIoN by COmm-
WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER
OVER,

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 10h

Insane story out of India

Why is India prosecuting Muslims who said ‘I love Muhammad’?

More than 2,500 people have been charged as an initial crackdown on the expression has spawned broader protests.

www.aljazeera.com

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10h

Trump claims ICE’s reign of terror in Chicago is targeting the “worst of the worst.”

But out of the 1,000 undocumented immigrants that have swept up, the agency has only cited 10 men with a criminal background.

Don’t believe his lies for a second.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Trump says migrants drive violent crime in Illinois. But ICE can’t find many violent criminals.

Masked ICE agents and other federal forces showed up in Chicago to go after gangsters. Instead, they keep catching people who are just living their lives.

www.msnbc.com

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 11h

Great business model! They have to turn a profit somewhere, right? Get the audience (of lonely and poorly socialized males) addicted on an investor-subsidized product (of personalized porn) and then, slowly but inevitably, turn up the cost.

The Verge @theverge.com · 14h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 10h

Y’all think romance scams are scary now? Just wait until your AI “girlfriend” starts blackmailing you…

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Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 10h

Ha! Also my first thought... bsky.app/profile/emma...

Dr Emma L Briant 🐸🎃 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 11h

Jesus Christ this is a surveillance and compromat risk nightmare.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 12h

ChatGPT will soon allow sexting with verified adults

• Erotica and 'mature conversations' will be permitted

• Change arrives in December alongside new age verification tools

(via Sama | TW)

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10h

Remember when Stephen Miller claimed the Chicago apartment raid was on a building “filled with Tren de Aragua terrorists”?

Well, DHS has now dropped the number of alleged TdA members arrested in the building from 2 to 1.

Just one "verified" Tren de Aragua member and one U.S. citizen with an active warrant were among the 37, DHS said, without saying how it had verified that gang affiliation. Others taken that day, the agency said, were "illegal aliens."

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VoteVets @votevets.org · 10h

BREAKING: VoteVets Endorses @zachdembo.bsky.social for Congress in #KY06 🇺🇸

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10h

Here’s a suggested comment to get you started:

Half of all Americans don’t have a passport, and if you make this change, you’ll make it harder for eligible citizens like me to vote — and block millions of other Americans from voting too. Do not go through with this!

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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 10h

The anti-voter SAVE Act failed in Congress thanks to widespread opposition. Now, its proponents are pressuring the Election Assistance Commission to enact a similar “show-your-papers” requirement for voting. Will you speak out against this attack on the freedom to vote? bit.ly/4ngSyyl

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MassiveCivilResistance @wildoneness.bsky.social · 10h

Not sure exactly is in this flyer and it may be accusing the GOP candidate unfairly but if he is protecting Trump, among the things that Trump is, is a rapist.

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piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 12h

I highly recommend subscribing to @gregsargent.bsky.social 's podcast for TNR, The Daily Blast. Every one is short & articulate conversation with none of the filler that makes for too many, too long podcasts. If you're a fellow "antifa terrorist" you will like it.

newrepublic.com/article/2016...

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 10h

Thank you! We try to minimize the chit chat and make it fun and fast!

piquedpensioner.bsky.social @piquedpensioner.bsky.social · 12h

MAGA Rage at “No Kings” Boils Over—and It Quickly Backfires on Trump

As Trump allies smear the coming protests, a good writer on MAGA skewers the absurdity of these attacks on large swaths of Americans—and explains why our best recourse will be to turn out in force.

newrepublic.com

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 10h

Seeing multiple news orgs join together to reject the Pentagon's gag rules and now multiple airports refuse to air partisan govt propaganda.

There've been weeks when the wind is at authoritarians' backs. Let's hope these suggest a different wind direction this week. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

O'Hare and Midway airports won't show Kristi Noem video criticizing Democrats for government shutdown

O'Hare and Midway airports in Chicago have decided not to show travelers a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticizing Democrats for the ongoing federal government shutdown.

www.cbsnews.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h

Israel is reportedly forcing 154 Palestinians freed from Israeli prisons as part of the ceasefire deal into exile and deporting them to an unknown country. Experts say the move is a violation of international law.

154 Freed Palestinian Prisoners Reportedly Being Forced Into Exile by Israel

“Exiling Palestinian prisoners is the continuation of captivity by other means,” one legal expert said.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 10h

Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump.

As SCOTUS Enters a New Term, These Cases May Grant Trump Unbridled Authority

Rulings on the Supreme Court’s “emergency docket” foreshadow its abiding deference to Trump.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 12h

Me: “Why do you think ‘Succession’ was such a big show?

Arian Moayed/'Stewy': "Because the truth of ‘Succession’ dials into what we’re witnessing every day in our news cycles. There’s an elite group of 10 to 15 people that run everything."

Watch the full interview: zeteo.com/p/succession...

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 13h

When someone shows you who they are, believe them.

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MassiveCivilResistance @wildoneness.bsky.social · 12h

Chats are not just racist, they are also rabidly misogynistic and antisemitic

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 12h

"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 driving them to suicide and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery."

Politico @politico.com · 14h

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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Tom Carter @thcarter123.bsky.social · 17h

Surprise, surprise! The Leonard Leo Supreme Court is not “originalist.” Who knew?

Originalism was always a cover, a Leo feint for Catholic Integralism - no separation of church and state, divine right (immunity) of kings. Democracy is wrongly decided heresy.

archive.ph/VivHA

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MassiveCivilResistance @wildoneness.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 267

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 267

October 13, 2025

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com

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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 22h

What do you think about Dominion being bought by some Republican
Operative. Can’t be for a good reason. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/domin...

abcnews.go.com

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