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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

To sustain his rage against "Antifa," Trump summons a team of proven fabulists and conspiracy theorists including the notorious inventor of the Pizzagate conspiracy.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

SORTOR: I took this flag from the man that was burning it in the street

TRUMP: Do you know who he is?

SORTOR: Oh yeah

TRUMP: So why don't you give it to Pam. Give it to the attorney general and we'll start prosecutions

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16h

Dems can just clip the "we took the freedom of speech away" and make an ad

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 15h

It's awesome how "center concedes to right wing framing, loses to right wing anyway" is a story you can find everywhere ever

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Queer Satanic @queersatanic.bsky.social · 15h

Minneapolis cops, in the middle of protests against their history of police brutality, claimed that they had identified a guy doing property damage as an "outside agitator", but not just any outside agitator, an "Aryan Cowboy" prison gang member

They announced it loudly based on a tip, and then...?

Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 16h

The very first riot after a George Floyd protest was started by a white supremacist nicknamed "Umbrella Man."

He spraypainted "free shit" on an AutoZone, broke the windows, and encouraged others to come in. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/man-h...

Man who helped ignite George Floyd riots identified as white supremacist: Police

A masked umbrella-wielding man helped incite riots and looting in the immediate aftermath of George Floyd's death, police said.

abcnews.go.com

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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 17h

This is hilarious. Now I want to watch this show

A rightwing late-night show may have bombed – but the funding behind it is no laughing matter

Conservative donors spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to make a rightwing Stephen Colbert-style talkshow

www.theguardian.com

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 15h

Unironically, you can see how these guys’ Twitter brainrot has progressed to this stage where they have trouble remembering that you’re supposed to talk about the Nazis as the bad guys. It’s not a winking nod to neo-Nazis so much as them genuinely forgetting which way is supposed to be up

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 15h

AYO SUPREMACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SinnamonS @sinnamonscouture.bsky.social · 15h

Ayo Edebiri Covers Vogue US, November 2025

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Parker Molloy @parkermolloy.com · 15h

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

POLITICO
"They killed Charlie Kirk — the least that we can do is go through a legal process and redistrict Indiana into a nine to zero map," Sen. Jim Banks, the Republican of Indiana, told POLITICO last month.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15h

Posobiec isn't a nazi in some generic rhetorical sense of having fascistic impulses or simply being far-right. He is a full-blown Hitler-loving Jew-hating mask-off literal capital-N Nazi, with a longstanding public record to match.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 15h

They created a fairy tale land for one grandpa and he's having the time of his life. His entire reality is like that thing where the brain releases a bunch of euphoric chemicals when it's dying

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15h

Q: There's compelling proof that antifa did infiltrate on January 6 dressed up like Trump supporters and incited violence. Is that something you'd like the new J6 committee to look at?

TRUMP: Well I've heard that. Yeah. We will be acting on some of that.

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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 15h

For MAGA "Christians," the only true pastors have a TV show and a YouTube channel and never attended seminary or have any ordination

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h

A lot going on here, but a religion note: DHS Assistant Sec. Tricia McLaughlin refers to Rev. Black as a "pastor" here — using quotation marks.

It's a notable slight against a faith leader's status, as Black is, in fact, an ordained minister of a church operating within the Presbytery of Chicago.

This footage is from almost a month ago. What this clipped video doesn’t show is that these agitators were blocking an ICE vehicle from leaving the federal facility—impeding operations.

Over and over again, law enforcement ordered these agitators to move off of federal property so the vehicle could move. Law enforcement verbally warned these agitators that they would use force if they did not move and stop impeding operations. They did not comply.

Shortly after, rioters began throwing rocks, bottles and launching fireworks at the law enforcement officers on the roof.

At the time of this incident, this facility held criminal illegal aliens including gang members, drug traffickers, and other violent criminals. Obstructing law enforcement puts officers, detainees and the public at risk. If you are obstructing law enforcement you can expect to be met with force.

And, as an aside, this is the same “pastor” who flipped
@Sec_Noem
and our team the bird when we were there last week.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 16h

Bondi claiming they arrested [checks notes] "the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa" has me in stitches

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Bondi: "Bondi: "Just like we did with cartels, we are going to take the same approach, President Trump, with antifa -- destroy the entire organization from top to bottom. We are going to take them apart."

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 15h

The White House Antifa Roundtable is one of the best displays I’ve seen of this-is-how-bad-it’s-gotten — just a sewer of open fascism, dementia, morons and freaks, and incoherent rage.

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bot16278263789.bsky.social @bot16278263789.bsky.social · May 27

- I made a new market innovation.
- Real or labor exploitation?
- Labor exploitation.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15h

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 16h

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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belugatooth.bsky.social @belugatooth.bsky.social · 14h

this is art 🥹

McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 17h

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief

“[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

archive.ph/2025.10.08-1...

A woman saying “OpenAl, Nvidia Fuel $1
Trillion Al Market With Web of Circular Deals” and a man opening a calendar to Ed Zitron the smiling man

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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 20h

Gavin Newsom isn’t trolling Trump, he is not actually the one posting, the person you love is the anonymous underpaid staffer who runs his social media

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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 20h

Still thinking about the rubes who were all like "at least Trump will do anti-trust right" a few months ago. There's no universe where Paramount Skydance should also own Warner Brothers Discovery.

George Pearkes @peark.es · 20h

Chucky has sauces inside Paramount Skydance, which is not at all surprising.

Anyhow, they're looking to get PE involved in the WBD bid.

Exclusive | Paramount Skydance talking to Apollo, buyout firms to join possible $60B Warner Bros. Discovery bid: sources

“These companies bring a lot to the table since they own stakes in Hollywood properties and have a lot of money,” said one source.

nypost.com

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · Sep 8

working on a new unified theory of american reality i'm calling "everyone is twelve now"

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 20h

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 20h

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 21h

I am so tired of our media letting weaselly little shits like Mike Johnson slide on these evasions.

Why *aren’t* you aware of blatant violations of the Constitution, Mike?! What makes you at all capable of holding this job?? Why should anyone believe a word coming out of your shitty little mouth??

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Jacob Weindling @jakeweindling.bsky.social · 20h

There is actually an important divide between Speaker Johnson's perpetual liars wing of the GOP and the marks like MTG who think professional wrestling is real, and I think we're seeing that split emerge. www.splinter.com/marjorie-tay...

Marjorie Taylor Greene Is Now One of the Sanest Republicans

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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