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I was half-assed quoting the speaker from that meeting. I should have attributed him.

I don't identify as a Christian.

It's about god damned someone said it out loud!
Now will the message reach Dem leadership... that's the question.....

Christians are as Christians do.

“Christian” is not a synonym for either good OR bad.

Etc, etc, for the love of all things holy or unholy, whatever your jam is, please follow @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social and learn why “fake Christian” is inaccurate framing.

Every time something like the GOP chat leak occurs I hear smart people arguing that shame could be a useful tactic. But shame only works if the bad actors think their actions are bad. Hypocrisy, shame, these Victorian-ish norms are just that, norms, guardrails, and they don't work against fascism.

Good. Read it at home, not in public schools that are meant to be secular spaces per the Constitution (both the US and OK Constitutions).

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

The Pentagon Is Ordering Staff to Watch Hegseth’s ‘MAGA Garbage’ Speech… Or Else

Defense Department sources tell Zeteo that staff have been warned that if they don’t watch or read the speech, or if they speak negatively of it, they could face severe consequences.

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Major media outlets, including Hegseth’s former employer Fox News, decline to sign new Pentagon reporting rules The former employer of the Secretary of Defense joined CNN, ABC and NBC in refusing to sign the agreement.

From my perspective, the journalists seem to be careful with sensitive information from the Pentagon. It's not so sober Pete Hegseth who plays fast and loose with the information. He's the enemy within.

Major media outlets, decline to sign new Pentagon reporting rules
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“I love Hitler” Racist texts LEAKED from young Republicans group chat.

‘It’s revolting’: More Young Republican chat members out of jobs as condemnation intensifies POLITICO report on private Telegram chat filled with racist slurs and tropes ignites debate from New York to Washington.

Two more members of a Young Republican group chat strewn with racist epithets and hateful jokes stepped down from their jobs Tuesday after we published an exclusive report on the Telegram exchanges.

That’s not really an answer to the question tho.

Today the GOP Supreme Court will hear a case focused on the Voting Rights Act. We can expect the GOP justices to strike down what is left of the law because that is what the GOP wants. The GOP's goal is a return to whites only political power. That is what MAGA is about.

MAGA's fake Super Bowl halftime show reveals their real failures Turning Point USA's followers are pitifully out-of-touch with pop culture

Why read past headlines: I dug through the responses to the fake halftime show “announcement” so you din’t have to.

You deserve this laugh. Give it to yourself.

But also there is a serious and comforting point: MAGA is bad at this culture thing. It will hurt them.

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Kansas Young Republicans shut down after Politico report on racist, violent encrypted chat • Kansas Reflector Politico reports the chairman and vice chairman of Kansas Young Republicans participated in racist, antisemitic encrypted chats with GOP political peers.

Read all the disgusting details here: kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

Abortion Pill “Reversal” Is a Hoax. It's Also a Powerful Right-Wing Legal Strategy. Speakers at a crisis pregnancy center conference made rare admissions about the challenges of providing so-called abortion “reversal,” and indicate its importance as a litigation tool.

NEW: Recordings from a crisis pregnancy center conference, shared exclusively with Autonomy News, reveal that anti-abortion physicians are reluctant to prescribe abortion pill “reversal”—even as the conservative legal movement uses the supposed treatment to expand CPCs’ free speech rights.

OH MY YES!

Judge grants ex-girlfriend restraining order against Rep. Cory Mills A Florida judge said Rep. Cory Mills had cyberstalked an ex-girlfriend and barred the lawmaker from going near her residence or workplace or referencing her on social media.

Republican Rep. Cory Mills allegedly threatened to release nude images of a 26-year-old woman and to harm her future boyfriends after she ended their relationship.

Now, a judge just ordered Mills, 45, not to come within 500 feet of the defendant & ruled that she is “a victim of dating violence.”

A bunch of them do not, and they’re so thick good luck trying to convince them it’s not an organisation.

“Rent burdened” sounds a lot like people in OKC and Norman too.

Eviction crisis tied to low wages, housing shortage Nearly half of Oklahoma households struggled to afford basics in 2023. A new report links the state’s eviction crisis to low wages and a lack of housing.

Nearly half of Oklahoma households struggled to afford basics in 2023. A new report links the state’s eviction crisis to low wages and a lack of housing. | Jake Ramsey, Oklahoma Watch, reports: freepressokc.com/eviction-cri...

Also: Now would be a real good time to kill your Facebook profile. Instagram is bad enough, but Facebook is still the significantly worse of the Zuck/Meta-owned platforms. I quit FB 15 years ago and don't regret it for a second.

to recognise that 1A, and its edict that Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, applies to *every* religion, not just their own narrow, chokingly strict version of Christianity--that isn't shared by all Christians!

There was so much "projection" going on from the student TPUSA activists you could have screened an IMAX film. It was nauseating and atrocious. Also--the City Council chambers are meant to be a public--and secular--space. These kids, passionate as they are, don't have enough lived experience

White Christian Nationalists (like the Kirksters) are, I believe, the Pharisees Jesus was talking about in Matthew, which provides the context for that verse that admonishes Christians to pray in secret instead of with an audience for public relations purposes. Projection much?

Grant is a second-term councilor. In the last such election for that ward, they were re-elected comfortably, which tells me that most of my fellow Ward 4 residents feel seen and represented, as am I. The performative, overtly religious displays from the Kirksters was, in a word, offensive.

So First Amendment rights can now be snatched away if you [checks notes] celebrate?

YouTube video by Adam Parkhomenko She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

She marched to Mike Johnson’s office and will be the 218th vote to finally release the Epstein files

A lot of overtly religious rhetoric coming from the Kirksters.

The "death machines" Grant was referring to was *actual guns*.

The meeting is over, I am playing back what I missed.

A lot of the pro-Kirk speakers insist on saying prayers, whether spoken or silent.

One gentleman provided context for one of Grant's remarks in a Facebook conversation about gun violence that some of the Kirksters appear to have taken out of context and an attack on them.

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