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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 3h

I can't stress enough how young staffers working for Republicans are basically all groyper Nazis now. The leaked texts yesterday saying "I love Hitler" and now swastikas on congressional offices.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Capitol Police called to investigate swastika in GOP congressional office

An American flag altered to include an image of a swastika was found in Rep. Dave Taylor’s office.

www.politico.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2h

I think two things are true:

1. young republicans were always terrible and racist

2. young republicans become openly hitler-loving groypers is in fact a new and alarming development that is worth paying attention to

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 59m

Almost all the folks who actually know something have left that rag. Like Ed Yong.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 2h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

newrepublic.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 7h

I bet you’ll see a bunch of normal folks with patriotic signs and American flags whose collective protest embodies the foundational truths of this republic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Johnson: "We call it the Hate America Rally that will happen Saturday. Let's see who shows up for that. I bet you you'll see Hamas supporters, I bet you'll see antifa types, I bet you'll see Marxists on full display, people who don't want to stand and defend the foundational truths of this republic"

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 14h

Laser eyes = most ridiculous bullshit offered daily

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23h

Some of those people are currently on the staff of elected Republicans, in fact. They’re part of the present of the GOP.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Q: Politico reported on a group chat of young Republicans. Does this just reflect some bad apples?

HOCHUL: Some bad apples? These are the future of the GOP. This is so vile it's hard to find the words to put into context ... there's gotta be consequences ... this bullshit has to stop.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

every young Republican staffer is a Nazi, it's that simple www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘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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NPR @npr.org · 1d

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says. n.pr/4q87Jwb

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scenes and not accepting wholesale what any government or administration says.

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 1d

Uni administrators and trustees: We need viewpoint diversity.

Professor, outside of class: Working class should organize to overthrow capitalism

Uni administrators and trustees: No, not THAT kind of viewpoint diversity

Julie Greene @greeneland.bsky.social · 2d

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

Texas State upholds the firing of associate history professor Thomas Alter

Alter’s termination occurred on Sept. 10, stemming from his remarks at the Revolutionary Socialism Conference on Sept. 7.

spectrumlocalnews.com

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Joe 👻 BOO! 👻 dek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 1d

Precisely the person Justice Kavanaugh said would not be inconvenienced.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 1d

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 1d

It’s even worse. It’s reversing 400 years of Anglo-American constitutional development going back to Charles I’s personal rule when he refused to consult Parliament over spending and governance. Trump and his GOP lackeys are undoing stuff the Founders saw as fundamental to our system.

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 1d

We are living through the most consequential shift in the constitutional government of the United States in over a hundred and fifty years and nobody seems to have even noticed yet.

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

Congress no longer holds the power of the purse, the executive can just do whatever they want with federal monies

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 1d

There is a big market in telling nasty, bigoted people that they are actually on the correct side.

See Trump & Co.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 2d

I think tariffs hurt consumers, police shouldn't wear masks, and the President must obey the law - and shouldn't use his office to run personal profit-making schemes on the side.

This apparently makes me a radical Marxist.

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 2d

Primo Levi and Enrico Fermi

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 2d

It's exactly like when the anti-vaccine nutcases accuse everyone who tells the truth that vaccines are safe and effective of being "pharma shills".

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 2d

I wouldn't go that far. I sometimes find it very helpful in tracking down obscure results in the literature, which it sometimes does better than competing methods. But of course you have to double-check that the citations it produces are actually right.

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 2d

The writer you describe as "tremendous" actually used the phrase "Bari Weiss–derangement syndrome", a contemptible piece of drivel that (a) invents a nonexistent psychological condition and (b) implies that anyone who disagrees with Ms. Weiss is disturbed.

You are an embarrassment to journalism.

Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 2d

Well, that's certainly easier than doing some honest self-appraisal about yourself, as well as honest appraisal of Caitlin Flanagan and the Atlantic.

I ask again, since you didn't dare answer me: why are there so many actually competent writers--such as Ed Yong--who have left the Atlantic?

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 3d

I took what I thought was appropriate action, but I won't say any more about it.

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 3d

Today in the annals of LLM-generated academic paper stupidity: authors submit a paper clearly written by an LLM containing at least three hallucinated references that don't exist, of which two were allegedly written.... by me, the editor of the journal.

And the cover letter suggested I referee it!

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 3d

Yet among many people who study rhetoric, Orwell's Politics and the English Language doesn't have that great a reputation. There isn't a single simple language that is neutral and transparent, forbidding foreign phrases is too rigid, etc. See, for example,
www.nypl.org/blog/2017/06... .

Writers on Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” | The New York Public Library

If you’ve ever thought of yourself as a writer, chances are that you have opinions about George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language…

www.nypl.org

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 3d

You write for the Atlantic Monthly. That's comical right there.

The people who actually knew what they were talking about, like Ed Yong? All gone.

Why do you think all the good journalists left that rag?

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 3d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Jeffrey Shallit 🇺🇦 @shallit.bsky.social · 3d

So much winning, I can't take any more winning like this

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