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Politico @politico.com · 10h

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 3h

it's getting rapidly memory-holed that in 2012 kennedy claimed to a divorce judge that the brainworm affected his brain function and therefore future earning potential
www.politico.com/news/2024/05...

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 7h

Lisa Simpson addressing on audience: Colonialism historically erased trans existence from every culture it came across and now has the audacity to claim that being trans is a modern creation

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

I may have developed a little eye strain.

pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

So, after writing an entire chapter of my new RPG yesterday, shopping for cover art from among about 3000 candidates, speed-reading Daggerheart, reading half of a self-help book, and staying up past 2 am doing this and that before going to my 9 am dentist appointment,

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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 2d

When are we going to say enough?

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Sasha the Furious Ghost 👻 @sashafury.blackskycomra.de · 1d

Saying you hate virtue signalling is also virtue signalling.

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

The frogs will come up on you and your people and all your officials.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Portland continues to amaze me 👏

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 1d

"Joseph Ducreux (1735-1802), known for his lively and unconventional self-portraits," will never not be a hilarious phrase to me.

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Miranda 🖤🤍💜 @doomscroling.bsky.social · 3d

Hundreds of children in multiple states are in quarantine and on remote learning due to measles outbreaks.

The decline in MMR vaccinations has resulted in the US experiencing an increase of measles cases with 1563 total cases & 3 deaths since January.

#Pinks

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Adia Benton @ethnography911.bsky.social · 3d

TIL that ICE tried to detain a colleague’s teenaged son, asked him about his “color,” held a gun on him as he produced ID

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 4d

For the people who have guessed that I and @chucktingle.bsky.social are the same person, here are the two of us in the same place at the same time. Two buckaroos proving love is real!

Meg Frank @peripateticmeg.bsky.social · 4d

nerds (affectionate)

A picture of two men standing together in a pink lit bar. One is wearing a mask that says “Love Is Real” and a sequin jacket. The other wears an “alpha Male” tshirt in pink with jeans.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Republicans feel empowered by their leader's autocratic coup against the Constitution to pursue their most cartoonishly evil agenda items, like literally making it easier to kill seals and whales

abcnews.go.com/Politics/wir...

Republicans try to weaken 50-year-old law protecting whales, seals and polar bears

One of the U.S.’s longest standing pieces of environmental legislation, credited with helping save rare whales from extinction, is the subject of an effort for cutbacks from Republican lawmakers who now feel they have the political will to do so

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 3d

This is just so very, very illegal. And Republicans in Congress aren’t the least bit interested in controlling the purse. They’re just employees of trump org at taxpayer expense. This is a dictatorship.

Task & Purpose @taskandpurpose.com · 3d

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops trib.al/G0HMywT

Pentagon moves $8 billion from research to pay troops

Left over R&D funds will be used to pay military members on Oct. 15, the Department of Defense said, following orders from President Trump.

trib.al

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Lynn Becker @cmgiulini.bsky.social · 3d

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

He was wrongfully imprisoned for 43 years. Moments after being released, ICE took him

Subramanyam “Subu” Vedam now faces deportation.

www.miamiherald.com

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 3d

Hyper dimensionally queer!

Just a reminder that you don't have to come out today. Today is the day we come out, for you!!!

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 3d

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Tori Foote @toriatheisttori.bsky.social · 3d

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TTownSue @ttownsue.bsky.social · 3d

This! Troy is 100% correct.

Troy Tassier @troytassier.bsky.social · 7d

The GOP says the USDA food insecurity survey is “redundant, costly, politicized, and extraneous."

I say cutting it is “remarkably convenient” just as the GOP cuts SNAP benefits.

It’s a lot easier to hide the damage when you don’t collect the statistics!

USDA cancels survey tracking how many Americans struggle to get enough food

The Department of Agriculture said it will end a longstanding annual food insecurity survey. Experts say the move will obscure the effects of recent changes that will lead to people losing food aid.

www.npr.org

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 3d

The nation’s largest private prison company is asking the Supreme Court to give federal contractors blanket immunity from lawsuits — including human trafficking claims.

If they win, private contractors could operate with even less accountability than they do now.

The Human Trafficking Case That Could Hand Government Contractors Blanket Immunity

In a little-noticed Supreme Court case, the country’s largest private prison operator argues companies should be shielded from lawsuits when doing the government’s dirty work.

www.levernews.com

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 3d

Tonight, in Broadview — a suburb outside of Chicago where Illinois state troopers are doing crowd control near the ICE detention center.

Read the thread from @unraveledpress.com

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 3d

Troopers just violently attacked protesters, tackled several, several arrests, shoving activists and press with batons.

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pawsplay.bsky.social @pawsplay.bsky.social · 4d

It's funny noticing that the Adventure Time writers definitely played Vampire: The Masquerade.

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Zoe TunnHELL @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 6d

You ever see a character design and immediately know there are going to be 1000 cosplays of it at cons next year?

Picture very much related

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