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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 20h

There is a direct line from white supremacists protesting school integration in the 1950s and 60s holding signs that read: “Race Mixing is Communism” to the Trumpist attempts to demonize their political opponents as “communist” traitors

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 10h

Our tech boys are unwell.

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driftglass @driftglass.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Still out there peddling his vile "Both Sides" snake oil decades after the sell-by date on that lie expired. Still revered by the ossified media and treated as a sage by clueless, wealthy political shut-ins and cowards.

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 19h

Shane Gillis is miserable bc he is convinced there is a Woke reason that people don't like him when it's actually just that his soul is rancid and you can see and hear and smell it any time he speaks. you're not mad that women at the gym are whores, youre mad they cover their drinks when you walk in

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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/10/2026

elon musk has more empathy for lines of code than a majority of humanity

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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 21h

Hey California! Be careful this election because the big money creeps are trying to trick you (again).

There's a trap on your ballot in California. Here's how to get past it.
1. Prop 40: 250 billionaires pay with they owe so hospitals, schools, and food assistant survive the federal cuts. Vote yes.
2. Props 41 and 42: paid for by billionaires to cancel prop 40. Vote no.
3. Tell one person, because the confusion is the plan.
Yes I'm 40. No on 41 and 42.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 18h

the birther shit got so incredibly out of hand, but we've really memory holed it. I did a pair of episodes a while back on the time a group of oathkeepers tried to take a court clerk hostage to get an arrest warrant for Barack Obama.

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Arrested Democracy, Pt .1 - Weird Little Guys | iHeart

<p>In 2010, conspiracy theorists around the country were convinced that Barack Obama was not the rightful president. Some of them filed lawsuits. Some of them tried to have the President indicted. And...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 17h

This works for him career wise because conservatives have a terrible sense of humor that mostly involves being offensive for its own sake and punching down. For people with more than two brain cells, punching down is something you do if you're stupid, mean, and insecure

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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 20h

We need more men like Dan Levy and fewer men like Shane Gillis. Stop being complacent. Stand up and call this shit out when it happens. www.instagram.com/p/DeYSYNXMcbH/

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🎃Darin S Pumpkins🎃 @darinself.com · 12/10/2026

Several scholars of authoritarianism and even the Third Reich have, for years, pointed to the similarities between Trump's GOP and the NSDSP and fascism generally. So unless Brooks knows more about that than us, I'd suggest he be quiet and listen to the actual experts.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 11/10/2026

David Brooks is a clown whose business depends on not seeing the bigots cavorting directly in front of his face. Always ignore him and his terrible advice.

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just another thing that disqualifies him for the democratic nomination

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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Mike Collins IS a white supremacist! David Brooks has the luxury of not being a black person living in Georgia, so perhaps he isn't aware. And if he isn't aware, then he should shut up about what is going on in a state he doesn't live in.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Brooks for some reason seems to have it in for Ossoff. Perhaps because the Georgia senator doesn't traffic in both-sides claptrap, which has been Brooks' calling card for most or all of his career. www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2026/0...

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Back to Videos David Brooks: Ossoff Was Wrong To Raise Natalie Harp, It Was "Basically A Sexual Insinuation" Posted By Ian Schwartz On Date August 22, 2026

DAVID BROOKS. THE ATLANTIC: thought Ossoff was wrong to raise it in the way he did, because it was basically a sexual insinuation. And I just don't think you should do that.

I also - - when I look at her letters, I think that's inappropriate workplace behavior. And so there's fault on both sides, as we would say. But I think -- first, I don't know what's in her mind or in her heart. Either she is -- has a crush on the president or she understands the president and what he really likes to hear, because she's it laying it on thick, and people in the Trump administration are laying it on thick.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

A good summation of David Brooks and "civility" politics generally: no one on the right-wing can ever be described honestly, while everyone who isn't on the right-wing is always portrayed as a radical breaking cherished norms.

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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

My favorite part of things like this is the deliberate choice to ignore that one of Mike Collins' former staffers is, in fact, a neo Nazi, and I need us to stop with this kind of insane both sideism that insists swastikas and Seig Heils are totally normal because calling a Nazi a Nazi is... rude?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Uh oh, did someone’s website and personal account experience a big drop in activity after Ukraine hit a Russian data center?

Elon Musk: “Zelensky has gone too far”

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2109033017184338141

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I swear to god above if I could live the rest of my life without reading an article or seeing some motherfucking feckless quisling politician say "I think there's a chance he broke a law here and we ought to look into it" I will die in peace.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

need to find a clip of this

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026

question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

David Brooks contributed to this current fascist moment in the U.S. I don't know why people still give him a platform to spew his nonsense.

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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It's clear that Ukraine's attacks have rattled Russia -- you can tell by the tone their ambassador to the United States is striking here:

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Kennedy would never be able to do the trial in the US because of its significant ethical concerns, Offit added. “He’s taking advantage of a developing country … Is it because children in Africa are more expendable than children here?”" Yes. That is evident. That and the fact "Bobby" is an evil man.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The right wing crash out over asian students celebrating at a UT football game reveals that all along the true goal of reactionary colorblindness was never “meritocracy” but resegregation. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

Color-blind meritocracy was, for many years, a successful rhetorical strategy for undermining antidiscrimination law and excluding Black people from selective schools and prominent positions. That’s why so many former segregationists seemed to suddenly embrace the concept in the 1970s. For them, resegregation—not color-blindness—was always the goal. As long as the success of some immigrants could be used to paint Black students as undeserving, color-blind meritocracy was good. But now many on the right see a new problem: too many Asian Americans in elite spaces. Their success, therefore, must be portrayed as a sinister theft of real (white) Americans’ birthright.

The declining “social trust” that the administration warned against is, of course, not the fault of these students. The problem is bigots like Bo French who cannot accept into their community people who do not share their race and religion, and those who monetize or otherwise profit from that bigotry by spreading it through social media. Like the proverbial child who kills their parents and asks for mercy as an orphan, they are responsible for the problem they are decrying.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

It’s even funnier coming from someone who sacrificed his own stated principles for a job with a guy who humiliated him. Whatever else he is, we know death over dishonor isn’t Rubio’s thing

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

idk man you’ve been blowing up a lot of fishermen and school girls for a guy worried about innocent life

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I converted to Catholicism two weeks ago. Here’s why I think Jesus would’ve supported live streaming executions.

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Oisín McGann @oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The question must be asked: Does he *look* evil because that is his character, or was he steered towards evil, because he kept seeing *that face* in the mirror every day? www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

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Peter Thiel slams Obama, Pope Leo in new ‘Antichrist’ lectures

The tech billionaire accused them of using AI concerns to “boost their own popularity,” according to recordings obtained by POLITICO.

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Br. Dr. Ken Homan, SJ @kenhomansj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

All these bros trying to tell the Pope that he's wrong on the death penalty seem to think that there's no Church history from Paul to the Council of Trent. "The Church has ALWAYS..." No, it hasn't, you goofballs. Because the Church as you want to define it didn't even exist until after Trent.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 08/10/2026

Phenomenal reporting on an absolute ghoul.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s not crazy or alarmist or naive of me to think this more about speech prohibition than good manners considering *waves hand* alladis

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Televising the execution of Nidal Hasan is about more than voyeuristic violence Authoritarianism requires rituals of death that seek to transform secular oppression into religious orthodoxy while communicating the need to murderously purge “the other.” jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/descent-in...

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Descent Into Madness: The Ritualization of Death and Fascism

The public execution of Nidal Hasan is a potent milestone

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Sydney @amadeaur.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

(even just more recently, they've posted *hundreds* of videos of their summary executions of random fishermen in South/Central America and bombing farms there too, public execution of Foreigners has just been the norm for the US government for the entirety of this presidency, just not of Americans)

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this dovetails with Thiel's weird appropriation of Rene Girard; he takes Girard's (legitimate) warning that empathy for the victimized can turn into competitive narcissism and turns it into a general belief that all concern for the victimized is invariably self-interested and manipulative (2/2)

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

People are too obsessed with Nazi Germany as their fascism template. Well, this is US Federal fascism in 2026. Yesterday's Livestream execution Pay Per View edition is U.S. fascism 2026 style. We're here now. We have to internalize this.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

this country will not be transformed without addressing policing, prisons, surveillance and militarism. Sorry. Cannot get around it. The carceral socialists may make incremental progress but they will ALWAYS come up against state violence.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ICE prevented a woman I know from seeing her kidnapped uncle in a hospital in New Jersey for EIGHT DAYS last month. The uncle cannot read or write, and they forbade hospital staff from even telling her what was wrong with him. ICE are death squads.

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Mindy Weisberger @laminda.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

SHOT BY WHOMST, ABC

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Coureur de FemboOoo[Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.northsky.social · 08/10/2026

we need to kill the passive voice for cops, it didn't just happen person shot, like another person didn't do the shooting

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

There’s always some mysterious foreign land that is so much more authoritarian than the place that’s happily publicly executed minorities for 400 years

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The Ken In Yellow @kenlowery.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Soft men living frictionless lives will commit untold barbarism to avoid acknowledging the truth of who they are

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Mac It Look Like An Accident @macrogers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Okay so we have a number now: the Onion is officially 6 months ahead of reality.

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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

So it’s slave ships except they’re trying to reduce the number of laborers in this country

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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 08/10/2026

Between the botched execution and the military planning to livestream another execution, this weeks been a brutal and grotesque reminder that the supposed compassionate conservative doesn’t actually exist. Where is the outrage re: sanctity of life? It was never about “values” but power and control.

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