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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

It should be a litmus test for Democratic presidential primary candidates whether they will restore the White House and DC public properties to exactly the way they were before the Palm Beach lounge lizard decided to turn it into Mar-a-Lago meets 1936 Nuremberg.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 43m

THIS 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 1h

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 49m

Indeed @dwillner.bsky.social is correct

Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 1h

The thing that always gets me is that Tolkien obviously would have hated Silicon Valley generally, and these particular guys specifically.

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Renée Graham 🏳️‍🌈 @rygraham.bsky.social · 2h

Black and brown boys are routinely seen and treated like adults and Black girls are sexualized as promiscuous. Meanwhile, grown-ass white men are forever infantilized.

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 2h

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2h

These. Were. Men. In. Their. 30s.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 9h

"they've always been like this" is always a tempting savvy take but it is just not true that Republican staffers were 100 percent open Nazis back in 2004, or hell even 2014. they just weren't

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 9h

there have been a lot of responses to this arguing that young Republicans were motivated by such feelings but didn't express them openly

and I think a crucial lesson of the Trump era is that there is great value in people not expressing these things openly! that's a big and decisive change!

Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 1d

For those tempted to say Young Republicans have always been this way, they really have not. When I worked on campus and did bipartisan college events after, they were very much not like this.

That’s why groups like YCT and eventually TPUSA formed — because Young Republicans weren’t radical enough.

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Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 6h

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor.

According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 6h

I am obligated to inform you that in the original Hebrew, it is a plague of Frog. One. Singular. Giant. Frog.

Do with the knowledge what you will.

Holly Anderson 🍇 @hollyanderson.bsky.social · 9h

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 10h

“the constitution forbids race conscious remedies” would be news to the people who wrote the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 10h

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you for this, by the way. I loved this show so much.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 11h

I wonder whether this clip was an inspiration. The whole CD was brilliant. There were others: Rhinoceros Tap, Dog Train. Every one a gem. Best children’s music in the universe.

Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 12h

When my son was a toddler we traveled with a CD by Sandra Boynton called Philadelphia Chickens. It kept him happy, and parents could listen to it repeatedly without wanting to dive out the window of a moving car.
Kevin Bacon sang the title song, a swing number. I still love it.

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John @localcelebrity.bsky.social · 14d

Welcome to being Sandra Boynton pilled.

Everything she does is golden.

She can do no wrong.

We must protect her at all costs.

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Flying Mezerkis @bananapantz.bsky.social · 23h

Loose Bostonian translation.

Fuh q

Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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

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Spiro’s Ghost @antitoxicpeople.bsky.social · 1d

Happy 87th birthday to John Dean, who is living history. 52 years ago, he stood up to an out of control POTUS whose behavior seems quaint to what we are dealing with now. He admitted his own mistakes and did the right thing. Ever since he has spoken out loudly about authoritarianism & so much more.

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Michelle Wu 吳弭 @wutrain.bsky.social · 1d

Boston looks forward to welcoming the world to our beautiful city, the cradle of liberty and city of champions.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

They're trying to prevent the student newspaper from printing news, period. Not just a particular story.

"The Media School directed us to print no news in the paper... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 1d

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

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The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.

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Hallie Speight @halliespeight.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t believe it!
There she goes again!
She’s tidied up and I can’t FIND anything!

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Alex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 1d

Trump really just bragged at a Charlie Kirk memorial event that he’s better at dodging assassin’s bullets than Charlie Kirk.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

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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Guardrails of Democracy @demguardrails.bsky.social · 1d

ICE on Walgreens Property in Chicago grabbing another BLACK citizen! This isn’t about deporting criminals.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

NEW: Adrian Fontes has CERTIFIED the results of the AZ-07 election of Adelita Grijalva. Mike Johnson is OUT of EXCUSES and should swear her in.

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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

(idk about you but I'm ready for Americans to stop using the dismissive & misogynistic term "wine moms," even ironically)

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Rick Caruso’s Private Fire Crew @amandasmith.bsky.social · 1d

Wine moms is funny because they’re women and therefore their labor (raising kids, running a household) is inherently not of any value and they know it so they drink a lot. They’d rather be brunching, a frivolous social bonding ritual. Also Dems should take the male loneliness epidemic seriously.

Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 1d

(idk about you but I'm ready for Americans to stop using the dismissive & misogynistic term "wine moms," even ironically)

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no ‘both sides’ here, media.

Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 1d

"Together, the messages reveal a culture where racist, antisemitic and violent rhetoric circulate freely — and where the Trump-era loosening of political norms has made such talk feel less taboo among those positioning themselves as the party’s next leaders."

Can't call them fascists?

‘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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[email protected] @keepingtherepublic.bsky.social · 1d

Appreciate him speaking out, but the voice of Mr. “Traffic Problems in Fort Lee” probably doesn’t carry too much moral authority these days

Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 2d

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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