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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 5h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 13h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

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

‘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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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 14h

It must have been traumatic for Speaker Mike to see naughty bits without having to circumvent his porn filter first.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 15h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 13h

And those who don't get charged need to be bankrupt and living under a bridge.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 13h

I want usto build new prisons just for this.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 13h

The higher the better!

T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 14h

My vote in the 2028 D primary for POTUS will hinge almost entirely on the % of this Administration they promise to imprison

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 13h

This is what I like to hear! Time for these jackboots to face some consequences for terrorizing people.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16h

Good. Even if this doesn’t work, it’s time to go on offense.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

by this time next year, we want ICE agent to be one of the most miserable, soul destroying, hated jobs in america, we want parking enforcement to look like a dream job by comparison

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 14h

the thing is, all that knock off amazon operator gear you bought to look tough and scary just looks fucking silly when you are being gyrated at by someone wearing an inflatable frog costume and being mooned by a naked bagpiper on a unicycle, it just doesn’t work, the self image cannot hold

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 14h

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 19h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 14h

Might put that on my sign for this weekend.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 14h

“This bullshit has to stop” is a quote for the ages.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 15h

The basic premise of effective protesting is that you want your movement to draw from as many corners of culture as possible, and the best way to do that is harmless jubilance.

Centrist grandmas don’t want to march next to shifty anarchists in balaclavas, but a big goofy frog works just fine.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 15h

I’m sorry I have been informed that this is cringe and therefore does not work.

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 15h

I always knew an effective protest movement would need to be nonviolent but given a lifetime I wouldn’t have guessed ours would be led by inflatable frogs. People remain endlessly beautiful.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces.

This is truly terrifying.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 15h

They really are eugenicists.

Democrats @democrats.org · 15h

7.5 million children with disabilities will be affected.

Graphic featuring Donald Trump with the following text:

UPDATE

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17h

So like this is funnier and more offensive than anything anyone else said about Kirk that got them fired

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump at the Charlie Kirk memorial event: "They fired sniper rifles at ICE agents, and me. But I made a turn at a good time. I made a turn at a good time. Charlie couldn't believe it, actually."

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21h

a real water is wet scenario here

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21h

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
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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 17h

That's why the people running around in costumes in Portland are so effective. Or the priests in Chicago leading a prayer vigil/mass outside of ICE as another example.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 17h

Our job as freedom-loving Americans is to show the people who aren't paying attention how bullshit their optics are.

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 17h

The president is a former TV host and social climber in NYC and seemingly half of the administration has/had a podcast or TV show. They live for optics.

Ricci Sergienko, Esq. @riccisergienko.bsky.social · 21h

they don’t care about optics. They want to kill us regardless.

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 18h

GAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18h

Trump on Charlie Kirk: "He was able to fight people that were enemies. And he didn't necessarily love those enemies so much. You know, I heard 'he loved his enemies' and I said, 'Wait a minute, is that the same Charlie that I knew? I'm not sure.' But I didn't want to get into it."

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Foghorn Leghorn 🇺🇸♨️ @foghorn453.bsky.social · 17h

Trump 🤝 BlueSky users "Charlie was a bigot"

Newspaper editors 🤝 Republican electeds "No he wasn't"

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 21h

How many of these was JD in do we think

Politico @politico.com · 21h

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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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 20h

So they are your typical Republicans then?

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

POLITICO: “Leaders of Young Republican groups worried if their Telegram chat got leaked, but kept typing… referred to Black people as monkeys, mused about putting political opponents in gas chambers... lauded Republicans they believed support slavery…” www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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☀️ Starshine @starshine.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wait that wasn’t even an embellishment huh they’re really wylin out

Nicholas Kristof
@NickKristof
In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the
ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear
how he was injured). But when the patient was
loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the
ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the
ambulance driver:

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Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it's not like your average cop is some paragon of virtue but this stuff is still on another level.

Star Marshall of NC 🇺🇸 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇨🇦 @andrewtravler.bsky.social · 1d

The most bigoted and out-of-control people have been given an explicit ok by Trump/Republicans to brutalize the public. They found the worst person you went to school with gave them a gun and a badge and said run wild.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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