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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2d

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 2d

Rarely in the wild does one see a phrase so perfectly capture the essence of someone as perfectly as "this sweaty twerp."

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

aaron from queens from twitter @aaronnarraph.bsky.social · 2d

the background on zohran's colbert appearance is jaw-droppingly disgusting

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting.

Larry Ferlazzo @larryferlazzo.bsky.social · 2d

Oklahoma’s Republican governor criticizes guard deployment. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma, a Republican and the chairman of the National Governors Association, on Thursday criticized the deployment of Texas National Guard troops to Illinois as a violation of his beliefs in federalism and “states’ rights.”

His comments, in an interview with The New York Times, marked the first time a Republican governor has questioned the interstate deployment of National Guard troops over a governor’s objections. Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and other Democratic elected officials have been strongly critical of the move and have implored Republican governors to join the opposition.

Mr. Stitt on Thursday said, “We believe in the federalist system — that’s states’ rights,” adding, “Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

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David Darmofal @daviddarmofal.bsky.social · 2d

Our university is home to the Anne Frank Center, the official partner of the Anne Frank House for the United States & Canada. Our Anne Frank Center is hosting an exhibit at this year’s SC State Fair.
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Exploring the Anne Frank Exhibit at the SC State Fair

WIS's Intisar Faulkner explores the new Anne Frank exhibit at this year's SC State Fair.

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Democrats @democrats.org · 2d

Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away.”

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

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Alex Steed @alexsteed.bsky.social · 4d

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I suspect that's right, but the (unintentional) easier breakdown of components might be "dick" and "traumatized," which I don't think is what she's going for.

Sigh. Portmanteau-ing is hard.

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

I remain convinced that in a better world posts like this would be about 80% of social media

WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 4d

This is Boksil. She is reaching levels of cozy previously unheard of. 12/10 a trailblazer (IG: with_bokdanji)

a small cream colored dog stares up at us. this is Boksil, swaddled in a grey robe, and tucked underneath a thick blanket on a bed. her little paws poke out of the robe's sleeves, and her toe beans are in full view. her tiny pink tongue mlems from her grinning mouth.

a higher angle of Boksil. a small yellow pillow rests beside her for scale, and her eyes are closed peacefully as she rests swaddled under a white blanket, looking very cozy.

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Alison Grinter Allen @alisongrinter.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know who it’s going to be, but it will NEVER be this sellout cornball bitch.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 4d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

ooooooffff....that there is a preposterous list

Natalie Weiner @natalieweiner.bsky.social · 4d

lmao a list of the top 20 blues artists of all time where the top 5 are all white guys... hellorayo.co.uk/planet-rock/...

The Top 20 Greatest Blues Artists of All Time

Here at Planet Rock, our resident blues expert Bernard Doherty brings you the...

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

fwiw, I wholeheartedly agree. Those taking the "It's not yet fascism here" line are, in a narrow and technical sense, correct, but the point isn't "OK, we're good then" but "OK, but what will keep it that way? In what ways do we reverse the trend toward an (as yet) unfinished project"?

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Craig Smith @craigmsmith.bsky.social · 4d

Legacy media has done a lot to earn this level of mistrust, an am not especially hopeful of them earning trust back; at the same time, I think too few people are sufficiently mistrustful of people whose entire ethos is instinctive, unwavering, and unvarying mistrust of legacy media.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 4d

Gallup has been surveying Americans' trust in legacy media since 1972. This year, a mere 28 percent of the public have "a great deal" or "a fair amount" of trust in legacy media, its lowest level in more than five decades of tracking.

news.gallup.com/poll/695762/...

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Dave Parisi @daveparisi.bsky.social · 4d

It's The Matrix week in my class, one big takeaway: only 2 of 18 had seen the film before, but everyone else knew it through memes & vague references to "living in the matrix". Memification of the film's central moments kinda trivialized them, they were watching through the lens of memes.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 4d

Do you even hear yourselves?

NPR @npr.org · 4d

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

Trump's power to deploy National Guard, explained

President Trump is bucking tradition and legal precedent in pushing to deploy the National Guard to Democratic-led cities like Portland, Oregon, and Chicago due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration.

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 5d

25% of the political and social culture of the modern American Right is being upset at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 5d

Bad Bunny rolling into the Super Bowl with a demonic sexual performance in Spanish.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 5d

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 6d

A Texas megachurch pastor and GOP leader has been arrested for crimes against children. Not Robert Morris, a different one. Not Josiah Anthony, a different one. Not Luke Cunningham, a different one. Not Tony Evans, a different one. Not Scott Crenshaw, a different one. Not Steve Lawson, a different o

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8d

How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?

Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI."

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 8d

I should also note that like pretty much all of the self-proclaimed "rationalist" types, Cowen does not do debates with people who criticize him strongly. He's a coward who cannot support his ideas in argumentation--while also pretending to care about open debate.