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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 13h

The servicemembers who are conducting these strikes need to be told, explicitly, by Dems in Congress that they have criminal liability, because they do

Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 14h

Trump has no legal authority, "standing" or otherwise, to order the killing of people in international waters for unsubstantiated accusations of non-capital crimes.

Calling them "narcoterrorists" does not make it right or legal to order their deaths without any due process.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Trump announces another strike "just off the Coast of Venezuela" that killed 6 people

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CJ 🏳️‍🌈🤘 @nemoblue.bsky.social · 3h

extremely disturbing read. during this ceasefire, Hamas has launched an incredibly violent campaign against Palestinians it views as traitors or insufficiently loyal, including a series of public executions independently verified by journalists. no way in hell they are going to disarm next year.

After Israeli Withdrawal, Hamas Launches Violent Crackdown on Rivals in Gaza

Firefights and public executions have spread fear and raised concerns about a spiral of internecine violence. “I could hear gunfire all around.”

www.wsj.com

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 12h

right, but pelosi doesn’t even insinuate that

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

I don't think this is a big priority right now., though. We have far more basic and immediate issues to attend to

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

"Winning elections forever is not a strategy!" is correct. But the implication of this is that at some point in the future we need to have a reason that losing them isn't existential

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

"BlueSky political spectrum" of anarchist to Pelosi (or Bulwarkers at most) is not the US political spectrum

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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

and nope, Dem leadership are not going to be the center-right in America

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 19h

For example, this bullshit:

bsky.app/profile/nair...

Nairn McNuel 🛰️🇵🇸🇲🇳🏴‍☠️ @nairnmcnuel.bsky.social · 20h

Nazis always view a call for them to stop murdering as "hostile".

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 19h

The fact that she blocked replies makes it plain that she knows how full of shit she is, here.

No one called people antisemites for calling for a ceasefire.

It was the performative pretend care for a ceasefire as a reason to block Jews from classes and vandalize Jewish-owned property.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 19h

Jesus Christ, "neoliberal" has fully lost all connection to what the word actually fucking means when it's now used to mean "someone who hates coffee."

Gaius (from Tribunate) @gaius.bsky.social · 20h

This is the ultimate joyless “optimization” of life neoliberals keep falling into. Coffee tastes good and I enjoy it, simple as

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 16h

It fucking ASTOUNDS me that people will post this shit on linkedin.

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AZ Attorney General Kris Mayes @azagmayes.bsky.social · 17h

On behalf of Arizona, I am demanding Speaker Johnson seat Congresswoman Grijlva without delay. We are keeping every option open to us, including litigation, to make sure that Adelita is able to begin her work as Arizona's newest member of Congress.

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Chuck Schumer @schumer.senate.gov · 14h

Sickening. Revolting. Vile. This makes you want to throw up.

This is the kind of garbage that the worst kind of people say when they think nobody is watching.

And where are Republican leaders from Trump on down condemning these comments swiftly and unequivocally!?

I’m waiting to hear it.

A headline from POLITICO reads: "‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat"

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Sydney @amydbacklash.bsky.social · 12h

Democracies have multiple parties, that's a fact. We need opposition parties that respect democracy, not fascism. It wasn't endorsing or agreeing with Republican views. That is much closer to what she meant than anything the comments are claiming.

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CalmKitty @calmkitty.bsky.social · 13h

This is not what Nancy Pelosi meant, and is in fact EXACTLY THE FUCKING OPPOSITE of what she meant.

When Pelosi said that, she meant "strong" in the sense of actually being resistant to exactly this shit so that when they inevitably sometimes win they aren't literally electing Hitler.

Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 14h

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

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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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 12h

"it is necessary to have a sane conservative party for a democracy to survive" should not be an controversial opinion

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 13h

you can just read the interview, you know.

So I see this election as very critical to who we are as a nation - the character of America, democracy. And they may not like hearing that, but I don't like what they're saying either. And what they're - the assault that they are making on - no one is above the law. That's been what America has been about, except if you're Donald Trump.

KELLY: When you say they, you're talking about who? Republicans?

PELOSI: Yeah. I'm talking...

KELLY: People who support Trump?

PELOSI: ...About the cult that the Republican Party has become - a cult to a thug. And that thug would be Donald Trump. So I wish they'd take back their part of - the country needs a strong Republican Party. It has had a strong Republican Party with great leaders for America. And that is really not what we're seeing there. It's up to them, though.

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Astreia @redoubters.bsky.social · 12h

1) Conservatism, in an ideal world, serves a role similar to that of a defense attorney, by making those who want societal change argue/demonstrate/prove that it will be beneficial, not just change for change's sake
2) Conservative people exist
3) They need a sane non-fascist party to vote for

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 8h

This is like if a doctor lost his job for killing patients on purpose and then a year later got his license back for no good reason and then wrote a memoir called First, Do Harm.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 9h

Scoop: Olivia Nuzzi has written a book during her year in exile, in which she is set to in part address her relationship with RFK Jr. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/olivia-nuz...

Have I Got Nuzzi For You

Olivia Nuzzi is set to address her relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in a forthcoming book, galleys of which are circulating among a select group of readers, Status has learned.

www.status.news

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 29m

Whatever happened to the stolen valor crowd? Why does dressing up the secret police like they’re patrolling Fallujah not count?

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 30m

It should be illegal for non-military to wear fatigues. These guys are not soldiers and we should not see them as soldiers and they should not see themselves as soldiers.

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h

Wow. Trump's masked federal agents tear-gassed a crowd in Chicago and ended up gassing a bunch of local Chicago cops who were there to *deescalate tensions.* One local cop was captured on film washing out his eyes with a hose:

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 16m

I didn’t have a lot of college Republican friends; one of them was in my fraternity and came out of the closet a few years after college and is a wonderful progressive guy; most were assholes in the “nineteen year old who carries himself like he’s fifty” mode. None were open Hitler enthusiasts.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 19m

Maybe my school had a more chill chapter or maybe they kept it under wraps more or better then, or or or. But part of making things better has to be an honest assessment of where they’ve gotten appreciably worse, and I think this really is one of those places.

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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 21m

I know other people are saying this is what College Republicans always was, and I’m not trying to run interference for republicans, but my experience with friends who were members a quarter century ago was not this. This is much worse.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 18h

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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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 14m

To get a bit over my skis, the biggest problem our post-puritan culture has with sexuality is there's no middle ground between "it is your absolute right, even duty to instantiate this sexual desire" and "your sexual desire is wrong, evil, and perverted"

Which isn't very /post/ Puritan but shhhh

K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 26m

It's a good thing we have a society with a healthy relationship with our own sexuality and our social responsibilities hold on I'm being handed a note

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𝔻𝕒𝕟 [spooky pun] 🎃🍻🐦‍⬛ @danmynrd.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder who Robert Zemeckis was not a fan of in the mid to late 80s.

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