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Christofascism and Extremism researcher Fluent in Sean Feucht Breast cancer community organizer and survivor. Taungurung [-o-] 📍LA ✍🏼 https://leftcoastrightwatch.org/authors/kate-burns/ More https://linktr.ee/kateburnschad

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · Aug 28

New from me for @thestranger.com With Feucht coming to Seattle this weekend I took some time to lay out his playbook, in detail. Understanding how the rage machine works will help folks respond while keeping those most vulnerable safe www.thestranger.com/news/2025/08...

Decoding Christian Supremacists' Playbook Before Sean Feucht Takes Over Gas Works Park

Christian Supremacist worship leader Sean Feucht is heading back to Seattle for Revive in 25, and anyone paying attention should recognize this isn't just another stop on his revival tour. It's a calc...

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2h

Threatening war because you didn't get the Peace Prize just shows you're committed to peace

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 5h

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize

US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 2h

but I was told #metoo made men so afraid they wouldn't even talk to women

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room.

Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 2h

I don't know who he likes but I hope they lose.

Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 2h

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

they can see the polling

Alex Wayne @aawayne.bsky.social · 9h

“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”

The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...

Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago

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Willamette Week @wweek.com · 3h

Jack Dickinson, 26, says “we’re winning this.”

An Interview With the Portland Chicken

Rachel Saslow

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 5h

“The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza…”

US sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor ceasefire deal in Gaza

The United States is sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor the ceasefire deal in Gaza as part of a team that includes partner nations, nongovernmental organizations and privat...

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 3h

Perfect

Right Wing Watch @rightwingwatch.bsky.social · 10h

A tearful Kim Robinson reports that God showed her that Charlie Kirk was rewarded with a horse ranch in Heaven and she saw "Charlie riding on a horse, with Jesus."

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talia jane ❤️‍🔥 @taliajane.bsky.social · 4h

the epstein files aren’t dropping & this isn’t a distraction from them.

this is a fascist setting up the field to eliminate every point of friction that might impede an attempt to seize absolute power.

quippy posts about epstein are delaying your realization of, & motivation to fight, that fact.

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5h

i feel like everything bari weiss does is treated like she's a network exec in 1973 when she's really just a LARPer at the helm of a particularly irrelevant brand while TV news is dying.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 5h

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 8h

A meme that says “if you laugh you go to Guantanamo

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Republican Crimes Tracker @gopcrimes.bsky.social · 8h

#116/2025
Conservative evangelical pastor and former elementary school teacher Michael Ritchason was charged with a felony for providing harmful material to a minor.

MAGA world shows us time and again they are the real "groomers" we need to protect our kids from.

Peoria pastor arrested, accused of crimes involving a juvenile

A Peoria pastor has been arrested for dissemination of harmful materials to a juvenile

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 5h

Do yourself a favor and check this out @mudratmp3.bsky.social 🔥🔥 (for non Australian’s Triple J is part of the ABC)

Hassaan Ahmed حسان احمد @ancienthydra.bsky.social · 7d

What a performance. Australian broadcasting has no idea what to do with artists like Mudrat. Genuinely surprised the video is still up. #FreePalestine

www.youtube.com/watch?v=g528...

MUDRAT | BARS

YouTube video by triple j

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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 10h

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 8h

Video is circulating of some significant spontaneous community resistance to ICE in Aurora, IL today. (Simultaneously—another video is circulating of feds chasing and tasing a man in Bolingbrook.)

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 8h

Calling it now: the Christian singers from the Kirk memorial and like Hillsong shit, Kid Rock, 1/2 of Metro Station, Gold Bless the USA guy, Scott Stapp, O’Keefe does a dance performance, Forgiato and Bryson Grey get snubbed for Tom MacDonald and crash over it. It gets like 6 genuine viewers.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 11h

An outspoken antifascist US-born citizen was stopped from leaving the US. This should terrify you.

(BTW, this is not to imply this is ok for non-citizens or naturalized citizens.)

US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13h

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope!

and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

NYT headline: "Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats"

subheadline: "Mark Bray was teaching courses on antifascism. Turning Point USA accused him of belonging to antifa, which he denies. His flight to Spain was canceled abruptly on Wednesday night."

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 10h

So this is a pretty wild part of the TRO: mandating agents wear visible identification. Taking bets on how long before they violate it, lol

It is further ORDERED that all Federal Agents, excepting those who do not wear a uniform or other distinguishing clothing or equipment in the regular performance of their official

duties or are engaged in undercover operations in the regular performance of their official duties, must have visible identification (for which a unique recognizable alphanumeric identifier sequence will suffice) affixed to their uniforms or helmets and prominently displayed, including when wearing riot gear.

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Kate Burns @katerqburns.bsky.social · 10h

Hey- thanks!

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 1d

According to the criminal complaint, the man accused of setting the flames used ChatGPT while calling 911 to ask if you’re at fault if you set a fire with your lit cigarette.

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Sean Beckner-Carmitchel @acatwithnews.bsky.social · 1d

Still new for The Ten Four, but with significant updates and details on the ignition of the flames which eventually turned into the Palisades Fire. I've also embedded the federal criminal complaint.

latenfour.com/2025/10/08/a...

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s an angle for a journalist looking for a fresh take on the White House “Antifa” roundtable — most of the people who participated are employed by or have a direct financial connection to Turning Point USA. I think that’s pretty telling, no?

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

The relentless @djbyrnes1.bsky.social has spent day after day in court this week tracking what's happening with suits against DHS filed (disclaimer: we're plaintiffs in one of them), as well as protesters facing charges.

Get up to speed now:

Trump’s ‘Midway Blitz’ hits the courts in Chicago • The TRiiBE

The legal impacts of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts landed hard in Chicago’s federal courthouse this week, with more developments expected in the coming days.

thetriibe.com

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah they’re Nazis what else is there to say

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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