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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 5h

I like how antifa existing in Weimar era Germany is now considered a bad thing by the US government.

This certainly does not portend any problems for us in the future.

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JP Collins @profjpc.bsky.social · 5h

“Who” is, objectively, the funniest possible response here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 5h

american labor liberalism just does not really chart onto european politics because its effectively a blended traffic light coalition

politiBOO! @politiburb.bsky.social · 8h

MAKE IT STOP

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 5h

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 5h

I have watched people I've cut off stumble across to a shop and drink until they passed out, at which point they became my problem *again*

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 6h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 7h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 5h

God, that'd be a long list actually

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 23h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 6h

The biggest objection I have to this is the lack of late night transport: 1am licenses are good but only if the staff can get home at 2!

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6h

Where's the downside? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

However, critics are warning that the planned liberalisation of the alcohol licensing regime in England and Wales will erode local councils’ right to decide on opening hours, hand the drink industry unprecedented power and limit the ability of people affected by late night openings to object.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 6h

Well at least that had a satisfying ending

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 6h

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7h

Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 20h

This is my basic theory for a lot of what is going on with the centre right atm

The ideas failed utterly and now there is a total crisis of intellectual confidence

Indy @indy.bsky.social · 2d

It nags at me that people are dancing around the fact that one reason centre-right think-tanks are in an intellectual crisis moment is because we've spent over a decade where lots of their ideas were tried out and didn't pan out as advertised.

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

This is honestly not surprising because Ubi's c-suite is famously a bunch of bizarro cowards

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 8h

YOURE FUCKING KIDDING ME

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 8h

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 8h

“Pope Leo XIV’s eyes grew misty Wednesday as an El Paso delegation led by Bishop Mark Seitz presented him letters and a video that captured the fears and anxieties of people facing mass deportation in the United States …”

The church “cannot be silent,” Pope Leo said.

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 9h

Oh — new reporting on Pope Leo from El Paso Matters, citing footage they have of yesterday's meeting.

Sounds like the pope was even *more* forceful in urging U.S. bishops to speak out about immigration than first reported.

I mean, that's…not subtle. elpasomatters.org/2025/10/08/e...

“I was struck at the beginning (of the video), it talks about the feeling of powerlessness, which I think is so much. I think it’s so important that we as a church give a message of hope in the midst of these horrible struggles, what’s going on in so many cities in the United States right now. At least the church cannot be silent,” the pope told the El Pasoans, according to a video of the meeting provided to El Paso Matters by Hope Border Institute.

Seitz responded: “You’ve spoken very strongly. We’re trying to do the same in our country and yet not get into the political fray the best that we can.”

Pope Leo told Seitz that he’d like to see the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops become more vocal on immigration issues.

“I mean, even within the conference, there are challenges. That’s one place they should be … I wish they were stronger in their own voice,” Leo said, adding that Archbishop Timothy Broglio, the president of the conference, should speak out more on immigration.

“There’s been some good movement in that sense, but I certainly intend to continue to encourage” U.S. bishops to address immigration, Leo said.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

Despite getting whatever anti-trans narrative they wanted out of the Charlie Kirk shooting, the American right is now blaming the Jews instead, because content must be created. It is almost like the "first they came for" thing is not hypothetical!

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 11h

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 12h

These guys are evil and deluded, and will lose, but for a while they will continue to emmiersate millions like twisted villains in a children's book

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 12h

This is because they think gayness is caused by talking about it.

If this sounds stupid, its because it is.

Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 12h

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 15h

Something grimly predictable about the way that the conversation about 'ripoff degrees' in the UK is always about degrees that aren't rip-offs, but are instead fairly obvious 'this student has chosen something unlikely to pay off economically' rather than the short tail of crap business degrees:

Everyone needs educating in the fight over university degrees

Political confusion over the purpose of these institutions means the obvious fixes are being neglected

www.ft.com

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Ste Johnson @steillustrates.bsky.social · 12h

Dreaming Gods Illustration idea for @wolf359project.bsky.social #startrek #wolf359

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 12h

Sorry what do you mean the Tax Office got it's sums wrong and by a margin of £2 BILLION

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

I mean at least they haven't gutted the world's largest and most accessible pool of postgraduate and postdoctoral funding

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The Alternate Historian @althistorian.bsky.social · 13h

I think someone from Ohio is about to get excommunicated...

Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 16h

Pope Leo tells US bishops to address Trump's immigration crackdown

www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

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Doctor Charlton Cussans PhD @charltoncussans.bsky.social · 13h

Destroying Higher Education (and British Culture) to own the libs.

The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 23h

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

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Airship Chronos says TRANS RIGHTS @airshipchronos.bsky.social · 13h

PRIDE is such fucking great propaganda (laudatory). We need more movies like PRIDE. Y'all gotta be PRIDE-maxing. Cringe propaganda about solidarity is how we win. God bless PRIDE. Lib out on PRIDE.

Dr Alex Cruikshanks @alexsaysstuff.bsky.social · 13h

Happy International Lesbian Day! 🏳️‍🌈

Where Are My Lesbians? - Pride (2014) - Movie Clip

YouTube video by duckpoof

youtu.be

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 13h

There is no reason to ever qualify the statement "Britain churns out the best writers and actors in the english speaking world like it's nobody's business" because it's...just true. And we do it with a political culture that actively dislikes that fact!

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