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bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 38m

here’s how much the obama campaign—which drove the majority of romney’s bad press—held back: his church that banned black people until the 70s baptized obama’s dead mom and they didn’t say shit

Dan in Kansas City @daninkc.bsky.social · 5h

The media smeared Mitt Romney as Hitler. Then Republicans thought, well we might as well run Hitler.

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Wes Flinn (but spooky) @wesflinn.bsky.social · 51m

The winner of that race, Donald “Buz” Lukens, represented the 8th District of Ohio in the late 1980s. He resigned after being charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. He slept with a 16-year-old girl.

He was followed in office by John Boehner.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1h

One of many alarmed reports from the 1963 Young Republicans convention where John Birchers seemed to be in ascendancy.

Minneapolis Sunday Tribune, July 7, 1963
'MOB RULE' TACTICS CITED
YGOP Convention
Shocked Ex-Leader
By MERCER CROSS
Minneapolls Tribune Staff Writer
Leonard Nadasdy said Sat-
rushes at the podium to take
urday he is "still in a state
the gavel away from me."
of shock"
because
of the
"There
Young Repub-
the floor!" Were fistfights on
lican
Nation-
At one point the national
al Federation
anthem had to be played to
convention
in
make the delegates sit down.
San Francisco,
and police were summoned to
Calif.
keep order.
"The whole
Radicals distributed scurri-
thing has been
lous printed matter attacking
very
disillu-
Nadasdy.
sioning. for
McDevitt's hotel room was
me,"
said the
immediate
Nadasdy•
broken into
and campaign
past president of the 500,000-
literature, two typewriters
member federation.
and some
briefcases: were
elected. to suc-
ceed Nadasdy for the two -years was Donald Lu;
Washington, D.C.,
who campaigned as
porter of Sen. Barry Goldwa-er R-Ariz., for president. beleated was Charles.Me Devitt, 30, Boise, Idaho, who took no stand on a GOP presidential candidate. McDevitt had the unantmous support of the 15-member Minnesota
McDevitt had the edge go: ing into the YGOP conven-tion, said Nadasdy,
32,
General Mills public rélations san who lives in Plymouth.
But, he said, Lukens' supporters
"used the old Communist technique of causing a lot of dissension and a lot of furor, at which they were eminently successful."
THEIR PURPOSE, said Na-
dasdy,
"was to completely
ensnarl the convention and confuse everyone.
All this
was accompanied by scream-oing and hollering."'
At the center of the confu-
sion
were members of the John Birch Society and the radical right, Nadasdy said.
Two years ago the Minnesotan was elected chairman as a member of the Young Republicans'
moderate fac-
tion. As convention chairman this year, he said:
Right-wing delegates shouted at him to "go back to Russia."
"They made a couple of
• "Tve never seen such violence at a Young Republican affair," s…

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Return of the Cmonstermacques @cmonmaque.bsky.social · 1h

I love how analysts and governments are beginning to ring an alarm bell of economic crisis 4 times the size of the subprime collapse and Sam Altman is like “who else is horny for computer?”

Lupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.bsky.social · 1h

I've been quietly suffering ever since I saw Sam Altman use the word 'erotica' this morning.

I've just been occasionally making the kinds of faces he makes naturally.

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1h

This is real. Chicago today.

Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1h

Yeah, that is a tear gas canister being fired toward the retreating couple holding the baby

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Karl (sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyet.bsky.social · 6h

Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence.

When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die

It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 6h

X post today from Homeland Security @DHSgov that says "Remigrate."
3:06 PM · Oct 14, 2025

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 4h

There is no conceivable argument that these ships, even if we assume they were carrying narcotics, could not be dealt with in some other way. I think we can just drop the caveats and say: This is mass murder.

Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 8h

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 9h

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not the first person to raise this but one of the fascinating things about American politics and political reporting is how much a follow-up question short circuits the brains of the politicians (and is a shocking thrill to the audience)

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

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frank @panndder.bsky.social · 1h

you can wad it up and toss it under the elastic strap

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Kate Ross @kateross.bsky.social · 2h

“Free speech zone after curfew”

Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere @tylerplariviere.bsky.social · 5h

Broadview police in conjunction with ISP has arrested a protester for not dispersing from the free speech zone after curfew.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 2h

If you leave one magazine job and go write a book, apparently for a major publisher, and you deliver your manuscript and take another magazine job less than a year later, when did the exile part happen, exactly?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

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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onion person @junlper.beer · 3h

jd vance is currently defending this

Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 3h

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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frank @panndder.bsky.social · 3h

(if you see her, say hello voice)

Gizmodo @gizmodo.com · 1d

If You Can Read This, You're About to Get Scammed

Scammers are pretending to be Elon Musk. They're stealing millions from hard-working people.

gizmodo.com

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 3h

no surprise here, jd vance has a vested interest in being able to be an open nazi in american politics

Ghostin this Hell @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 4h

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 3h

where we are as a society: former chief prosecutor hints at pressure to bring a meritless prosecution by posting an anchorman meme

Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 3h

It turns out that what Todd Gilbert meant by "that escalated quickly" is that he was unwilling to support a grand jury investigation into the origins of the Trump/Russia case. I'm surprised and impressed that Gilbert took this stand. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 4h

An honor to receive the endorsement of
of nearly a dozen Black clergy leaders in Crown Heights today, including Bishop Orlando Findlayter.

I’m grateful for their support, and this powerful and humbling prayer.

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 5h

“many prominent young republicans are actual Nazis” is a self-censoring fact at this point

normie swing voters will literally refuse to believe it and the media refuses to report it because it would call everything else they’ve done into question

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Kasey Kagawa @punkey.org · 4h

It very much is worth investigating how much of the arc from techo-feudalist libertarians to right wing ethnonationalist fascists are on unsafe self-prescribed medications while also pursuing dangerous self-destructive behaviors, and pushing each other to double down on both

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Nikki 'Samyazan Scion' Ophan @nikkiophan.bsky.social · 4h

im tired of living in an extended cumtown bit tbh

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 4h

Current and former Trump admin ambassadors to Israel—Mike Huckabee and David Friedman—performed a "Sweet Home Alabama" cover titled "Sweet Home Yerushalayim.”

The performance took place in Israel at a benefit for United Hatzalah, whose members spread the "baby baked in oven" hoax about October 7th.

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Taylor Carik @taylorcarik.bsky.social · 4h

News media operates through narratives not information, which is why the GOP has been positioned as a policy-based collection of politicians, not a voter suppression apparatus manned by ultra-greedy psychos and violent racists

BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 8h

while 'young republicans are literal nazis' is well known to folks here, the extent of it is surprisingly not that commonly known even in media and analyst circles, let alone normal people.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11h

a real water is wet scenario here

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Mekka Okereke @mekka.mekka-tech.com · 4h

A common pattern I hear again and again, is "Most people in the USA want [good thing]!"

Sure! That would be great! If we hadn't intentionally designed a system of government to give outsized political power to the subset of US white voters that consistently and repeatedly want "[bad thing]."

Oops!

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2d

it is mind-boggling to try and figure out how most white americans think the immigration system works

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Jody Avirgan @jodyavirgan.com · 8h

Kind of amazing that the photo Politico used of one of these folks -- the one who made a joke about gas chambers -- is from an event that Politico sponsored last summer.

Peter Giunta participates in a CNN-POLITICO Grill discussion at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, July 16, 2024. | Rod Lamkey Jr. for POLITICO

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frank @panndder.bsky.social · 5h

they all seem to think fusion and quantum computing will be both solved and deployed at scale in the coming years

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josh (oldfriend99) @oldfriend99.bsky.social · 6h

Caillou's dad: (texting) caillou is freaking the fuck out

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Apr 3

If you understand that the endless accumulation of capital and an increase in profit is impossible in a climate change world you understand that we need to change the economy away from profit to people to survive. You know we need to end capitalism.

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