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Bryan Fichter

@bryanfichter.bsky.social

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Retired intelligence analyst. Russian speaker. Arabic speaker. Democracy enthusiast. Publisher of the Intelligencer newsletter on Substack.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 9d

We can do this, people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20h

ICE agents kidnapped a US citizen in Chicago because she didn’t “look” American to them. She even had her US passport on her. 🤬

ICE Detains Citizen After Saying She Doesn’t “Look Like” Her Last Name

She even had her U.S. passport on her.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1h

Did she wish for mass deportations ?

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 2h

Ricardo Fosado, a Latino Dodgers fan and war veteran, is America. But bigoted entitled asshole Shannon Kobylarczyk is America, too, and we‘re in this fix in part because we like to pretend she’s not.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 3h

Are they nuclear missiles ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 3h

Trump is looking increasingly disheveled.

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 3h

And it's not going to work.

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Supercut of comments from Republicans today alone about the No Kings rallies taking place this weekend. This has to be some of the worst, and most anti-American, coordinated messaging of all time.

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 4h

I've lost track of how many times Trump has told Hamas, "don't make me stop this car"

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 4h

"For these reasons today’s Republicans find themselves on the opposite side of No Kings, which after all is the most American of sentiments."
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Why Republicans Are Afraid of 'No Kings'

The authoritarian's fear of the people

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

One measure of America's creeping authoritarianism is that we may be about to go to war with Venezuela and the president hasn't even attempted to make a public case for it. L'etat c'est moi.
@jamellebouie.net @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

More helicopter ads !

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

A U.S. regime change war in Venezuela could create a Latin American version of Somalia
@dandrezner.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social
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The Media Is Blowing a Big Story in Venezuela

With the president and his cronies ratcheting up their belligerence, the political press is failing to grasp how close we are to another regime change war.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Not uncommon with people who have dementia

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Go anti-woke, go broke

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Kristi Noem's lips swelled with rage...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 1d

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 2d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

The Gravy Seals have arrived !

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

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

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Did Trump call 1-800-HAMAS ?

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

If you make fun of him, Pete will send you to the cornfield

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

The accompanying photos are even more brutal than the texts !

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Are they going to charge her with felony music ?