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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

After the war, the US imported a whole bunch of Nazis.

Operation Paperclip - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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alec karakatsanis @equalityalec.bsky.social · 1h

That’s one way to put it…

But the C.I.A.’s history of covert action in Latin America and the Caribbean is mixed at best.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

I guess it's nice for him to just admit it, but the CIA has been conducting covert operations in Latin America for decades.

The CIA should not be in Latin America today, but they should not have been there this whole time.

Seriously though, what is the purpose of the CIA besides foreign coups?

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

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DB Maggi @dbmaggi.bsky.social · 1h

Davide Mastracci created a database containing profiles of 206 Canadians who have served in the Israeli military. This is the largest such collection of names and profiles in Canada, by far, and is a major expansion on the earlier version.

Find IDF Soldiers

A database from The Maple documenting Canadians that have served in the Israeli military.

findidfsoldiers.net

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 1h

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LOWρUF🐸 🇵🇦🇬🇱🇨🇦🇲🇽 @lowrhoufo.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like Ben Gvir personally being in the room when Greta Thunberg was being tortured should be bigger news

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

I'm not familiar with forest schools, and I don't have a specific vision, apart from something like a parent-teacher association that actually makes direct decisions. More like the dynamic of a worker-owned business than a regular corporate institutional structure.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 1h

It wouldn't be hard for someone with Mamdani's policy ideas to win, but it would be difficult for someone to try to mimic his tone and personality while running on policies that help wealthy people and hurt everyone else.

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Philip Bite Marks @philipmarks87.bsky.social · 3h

Nature vs nurture.

In a purely capitalist society with as tight of a grip as this one has, we are too overcome by outside oppression to even allow for human instinct to prevail.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

I think this is the reason Indigenous communities were able to survive for thousands of years in the same place while empires were rising and falling all around them. Empires (and even modern states) are simply unsustainable because of physical/natural constraints.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

Imagine a wolf pack with 10,000 wolves. How do they hunt? How do they share their food?

Impossible. They would split into multiple packs until they were able to hunt and share food effectively.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

There is a physical maximum size for bee hive/population. There is a maximum size for a wolf pack. There is a maximum size for a herd of deer.

There is a maximum size for a human community, and it is much, much smaller than a nation. Perhaps it is only the size of a single city.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

Pelosi wants a "strong" Republican party knowing full well that they are racist because she's racist too, and wants to shift the conversation by saying they're more overtly racist than she is. People who support Pelosi are doing the same.

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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 1d

everyone needs to internalize that this is just how all republicans are and when nancy pelosi said "the country needs a strong republican party" she meant that more people like this should be powerful. they are all like this! they all think just like this and like trump and they love it and it's fun

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery.

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

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LuluLeninist @lululenin.bsky.social · 21h

Are you suggesting that the Republican Party isn’t full of racists? Because if you agree that the Republican Party is full of racists, and Pelosi wants a strong Republican Party, then she is advocating for more racists in power.

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 2h

Why did you avoid mentioning the fact that Israel is committing genocide?

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erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · 2h

every time i order falafel i remember words could be fun if they wanted to

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 3h

i have seen the post about wanting "small governmnent", but not being racist, and unfortunately, this is an admission to racism being so deeply ingrained that a person doesn't even realize it

this is why it's good to be able to listen and to introspect our unconscious biases

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Susan Kiddie 🍉 @susankiddie.bsky.social · 3h

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Adv Adham Madi 🍉🇵🇸 @mr-adham.bsky.social · 6h

What the world must remember about the genocide that occurred and continues in Gaza is not only the horror of the scene, but the truth it revealed: that the international system is fundamentally corrupt and in need of radical restructuring..
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#Gaza

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Eric Rogers @ericrogers.org · 4h

Another victim-blaming campaign from a state DOT instead of investing in safer infrastructure that slows down car drivers.

Maryland Department of Transportation @marylanddot.bsky.social · 1d

Hey Marylanders! Darker evenings don’t mean more danger on our roads. Just a little extra caution — bright clothes, headlights on — can make a huge difference.

Let’s keep each other safe. Be the difference!

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Daniel 🦁 @eikonos.bsky.social · 3h

It's up to drivers to drive safely, and bright colors don't make a difference when drivers aren't paying attention.

screenshot of a post by the Surrey Road Policing Unit (UK), which has an attached photo showing a police car with hi-viz yellow paint, and the rear wheel has been crushed into the side of the car by another driver. the post text reads:
How have you turned this into a discussion about high viz?
We have cars covered in it and big flashy lights and drivers STILL don't see us.

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alice says Palestinians in Gaza aren’t scammers! @bluwhalien.bsky.social · 1d

Israel has found two ways to break the ceasefire agreement before it really began today - first by killing Palestinians and second by not letting the required aid in the agreement states they should.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

Israel imposes new Gaza aid restrictions as truce comes under strain

Israeli forces kill several Palestinians in Gaza as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire comes under growing strain.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 11h

Emancipate yourselves from the authoritarian idea that you cannot criticize the Democrats because the Republicans exist

pat12311.bsky.social @pat12311.bsky.social · 11h

Question…you’d rather support the racist, sexist, misogynistic, bigoted, anti-science, anti-freedom white supremacy GOP? Make it make sense…

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🇲🇽🐸rustbelt rebel🐸🇲🇽 @rustbeltrebel.bsky.social · 10h

Just like the foundation of all the violence communities are seeing now is anti-blackness. If any of us wants this to end we 1000% can NOT end it without addressing and dismantling anti blackness. It’s that simple. It’s not that all of our fates are tied together-

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