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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 11m

Jack Posobiec is criticizing Weimar Republic Germany the right way.

--Ezra Klein

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 14m

The president's antifa expert tells Holocaust jokes and uses neo-Nazi codes like 1488. www.splcenter.org/resources/ha...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10m

This does provide some insight into how the Truth Social sausage gets made.

The note in front of Trump says: "We need you to approve a Truth Social post soon so you can announce deal first."

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24m

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 10m

I've been saying this. It even checks out with the adulation of Melania as "the wisest among us all" (Energy Secretary Chris Wright) who led a recent AI summit - not unlike Elena Ceausescu, who was unable to pronounce "CO2" correctly, being dubbed "Doctor of Chemistry and Scientist of World Renown"

Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14m

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 14m

kinda wild how we're leaping straight to late Ceausescu

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24m

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 16m

lmao

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 24m

Good lord.

@apnews.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 16m

"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking of new ways to harm this country. And neither do we." (George W. Bush)

The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 29m

Bondi: “Their hatred for President Trump and for law and order agendas, fuels their violence…We’re deploying the full might of the federal law enforcement to crack down on Antifa and other domestic terrorist organizations, led by Stephen Miller.”

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 31m

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Neil Jackman @neiljackman.bsky.social · 22m

Here's my grandad and his mates training for the big antifa day out on 6th June 1944

Troops from the Royal Engineers and Royal Ulster Rifles training with a machine gun in advance of D Day, (my grandad is the fella holding the magazine)

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 5h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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The Ass is the father of the legs @internethippo.bsky.social · 57m

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 · 1h

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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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 39m

"We sometimes imagine that when authoritarians take power they do so baldly. That they say, 'We shall break these laws and impose our will and not care what you think.' But that’s not how it works." www.thebulwark.com/p/legal-orde...

“Legal Orders” and Trump’s Military

Authoritarians don’t take power by openly flouting the law. They look for pretexts and legal theories.

www.thebulwark.com

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 37m

Antifa leaders plotting. Colorized

Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin at Yalta, 1945

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Eyes on the Fright 🎃 @eyesontheright.bsky.social · 41m

So this is, what, anyone vaguely left-wing then?

Jordan Green @byjordangreen.bsky.social · 47m

At Jack Posobiec's request, Trump is agreeing to designate "antifa" as a foreign terrorist organization.

Unlike the "domestic terrorist organization" EO issued last month, the FTO designation has real teeth, allowing the government to prosecute for material support. www.youtube.com/live/G7hQH3o...

WATCH LIVE: Trump hosts talk on antifa after calling it a 'domestic terrorist organization'

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 40m

She's not a witch! She's you

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 40m

American and Soviet members of ANTIFA shaking hands at the Elbe river

American and Soviet soldiers shaking hands at the Elbe river

Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 43m

This is what a real "Antifa invasion" looks like

Allied soldiers landing in Normandy on D-Day

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Tom @dixitinsipiens.bsky.social · 1d

One of my most bespoke liturgical opinions that has formed over time: The RCC should finally drop the absolute lie that the LOTH is "The Official Prayer of the Church." It's a private devotional for priests, monks, nuns, and a few nerds. Everyone knows the real "common prayer" of Rome is the Rosary

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

"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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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 1h

The Emperor's new war. A complete fantasy presented in a room full of nodding sycophants who don't question a thing he says.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

genuinely think they are feeding him AI videos

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

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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Luke Steuber @lukesteuber.com · 2h

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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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1h

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 · 1h

"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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