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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · Nov 11

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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 18h

This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.

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Republican Crimes Tracker @gopcrimes.bsky.social · 17h

#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

www.25newsnow.com

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 17h

The 6 legitimate viewers are us, two people from media matters and a future mass shooter

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 17h

Ben

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Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 17h

any notion that circumcision & autism are linked is laughable. Now please excuse me while I go shake this very particular set of four plants in an extremely specific way next to this hut I build every year following a painstaking set of minute guidelines

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 19h

RFK JR: There are many other confirmations -- there are two studies that show children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism. It’s highly likely because they are given Tylenol

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LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 17h

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

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 19h

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

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Michelle 🪷🇲🇽🇺🇸🌵 @chicana74.bsky.social · 1d

This headline 🤣🤣🤣

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 22h

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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Brooke @brooklynmarie.bsky.social · 19h

Go woke, go Pope

Pope Leo says faith and love for migrants are connected

In his first major document as leader of the Catholic Church, Pope Leo urges nations and believers to care for the poorest in society.

www.npr.org

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Not Your Grandmother's Book Club Podcast @nygbcpod.bsky.social · 20h

The flapping fascist maw:

"We will be making cuts that will be permanent, and we're only going to cut Democrat Programs I hate to tell you..."

"We'll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs that aren't very popular with republicans frankly because that's the way it works"

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h

I complained earlier that WaPo's story on Trump inviting PizzaGate guy to the White House was insane. Not so this Independent story.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Not to be outdone, in came Jack Posobiec, one of the right’s weirdest hangers-on, who is perhaps most famous for the time he spread the “Pizzagate” theory and then got removed from the pizzeria in question by police for filming a child’s birthday party. Running with the major theme of the hour — that Antifa is definitely, certainly, really real despite all evidence to the contrary, and that everybody needs to stop saying it’s not real — Posobiec made a startling claim: Antifa is so clearly real that it “has been going on for almost 100 years ... going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany.”

And look, yes, it is absolutely true that there were anti-fascist protesters in the Weimar Republic. If you’ll remember, those were the people taking issue with the early versions of the Nazis. But it’s sort of difficult to position yourself as the good guys if you’re aligning yourself with the Nazis in your historical analogy. I’m just saying that, if I was Posobiec’s publicity guy, I might ask him to drop that soundbite from future public appearances.

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kate conger @kateconger.com · 1d

Jonathan Rinderknecht, a white man, was charged with starting the Palisades Fire. But on X, the company's news summary tab shows a photo of a black man.

Screenshot depicting posts on X, one showing the suspect accused of starting the Palisades Fire, a white man. The X news tab reports on the suspect's arrest, but shows a photo of a black man instead.

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Meg @prayingmantis.bsky.social · 21h

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

www.theguardian.com

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 1d

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope urges news agencies to stand as bulwark against lies, manipulation and post-truths

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the “ancient art of lying” and manipulation.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Jerod MacDonald-Evoy @jerodmacevoy.com · 21h

Wow, its almost like police want to try to work with people protesting in order to make sure there is a safe environment and so there are open lines of communication in case there are emergencies. What a conspiracy!

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Anita Wadhwani @anitawadhwani.bsky.social · 21h

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/u... @nytimes.com

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d

Chat is it a good sign that it took national reporters an entire month to finally pay attention to the third largest metro in the country being invaded

Second Great Bisexual Awakening @suesswassersee.bsky.social · 2d

I'm really glad more people are realizing how brutal ICE has been in Chicago but it's really weird to see people talking about Rev Black getting attacked like it happened yesterday and not 3 weeks ago. Like, I'm glad people are catching up! But it's very weird.

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Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

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Mr. Spock 🖖 @spockresists.bsky.social · 1d

A “new breed of Christianity (NAR)” describes how “churches will start being thought of more as military bases than congregations.”

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Charlie Kirk and the ‘Third Great Awakening’

MAGA is embracing the language of a rising Christian movement.

www.theatlantic.com

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Ali Winston @awinston.bsky.social · 1d

The 1488 Project

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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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 2d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 2d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Arizona fRight Watch 🎃 @azrww.bsky.social · 1d

Posobiec, who works for TPUSA, saying this shit while he and multiple others at this so-called “antifa roundtable” are further using Charlie Kirk’s death, which had nothing to do with "Antifa," to go after their political enemies.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 1d

Jack Posobiec explicitly says that "Antifa" dates back to the Weimar Republic, explicitly acknowledging that this administration is opposed to those who resisted the arrival of Adolf Hitler in Power.

A screenshot of C-Span showing Jack Posobiec speaking during a panel on "Antifa."

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