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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 4h

This is from Autocracy, Inc, about how modern autocratic propaganda works.

I consider this every time I decide what to share and how to frame it.

Many of the propagandists of Autocracy, Inc., have learned from the mistakes of the twentieth century. They don’t offer their fellow citizens a vision of utopia, and they don’t inspire them to build a better world. Instead, they teach people to be cynical and passive, because there is no better world to build. Their goal is to persuade people to mind their own business, stay out of politics, and never hope for a democratic alternative: Our state may be corrupt, but everyone else is corrupt too. You may not like our leader, but the others are worse. You may not like our society, but at least we are strong and the democratic world is weak, degenerate, divided, dying.

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Jordan Davis @jordandavis.bsky.social · 4h

It would be good to have a reliable, ungameable search engine again. When the dust settles we ought to give some thought and energy to that.

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The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 23h

From MeidasTouch Legal AF: The Convicted FElon DOJ is now deleting court documents on J6 terrorists who have been in trouble with law repeatedly. The DOJ was caught when a judge noticed a document missing on a J6'er, who wanted to bomb Obama's home & was convicted for it. I bet these are ICE now.

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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 20h

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 22h

What he said: 💯 🎯

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George Tsakraklides @tsakraklides.bsky.social · 4h

“The diversity of our ecosystems pales in comparison to what it was, and any remaining life forms we see give us the false impression that we are looking at “an ecosystem“. We are actually looking at the remnants of one”

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 3h

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3h

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LisaBeth @brokendemocracy.bsky.social · 2d

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LisaBeth @brokendemocracy.bsky.social · 22h

Los Angeles superior civil court discriminates against people with disabilities

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 1d

Best treat of the night.

#HappierHAMILLWEEN 🎃 😋

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Paul Myers @pulmyears.bsky.social · 3d

Speaker Johnson needs to stop being on vacation, admit that Americans need healthcare assistance, strike the draconian health cuts from the ugly budget bill, and get back to work so he can swear in Arizona's newly elected Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 3d

“Mom, what’s for Thanksgiving?”

“We’ll find out when we get to the soup kitchen. Jeffrey Epstein’s ballroom isn’t going to pay for itself.”

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d

Bunkering down in military housing. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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Bookshop.org @bookshop.org · 3d

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 3d

If he wasn't in the #EPSTEIN_Files, a hardbound copy embossed in gaudy gold would be readily available for sale at his MAGA Merch site for the low, low price of $500, or IF YOU ACT NOW, a personally signed copy for the more-than-reasonable price of $1K: Courtesy of the gross greedy #GrifterInChief.💰

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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 3d

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Sheepstealer @sheepstealers.bsky.social · 4d

Never underestimate the stupidity of weak and desperate men

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Kenn Pike @thutigger.bsky.social · 4d

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Still awaiting my George $oros payment for showing up at #NoKINGS_Day & staying until noon.

Somebody slipped this 20 under my door, but something about it seems fake.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 4d

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

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Sophie Molly @sophiemolly.co.uk · 4d

www.attitude.co.uk/news/us-virg...

US Virgin Islands becomes first American territory allowing trans and intersex people to legally change their gender

The US Virgin Islands has become the first territory to recognise transgender and intersex people by allowing them to change legal documents.

www.attitude.co.uk

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Rhuta Bhayga @rhutabhayga.bsky.social · 4d

Karoline Leavitt officially announced the "Launch of a large-scale investigation to find the people behind 'No Kings.'"

I've saved her some time.

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gloryxanthe.bsky.social @gloryxanthe.bsky.social · 4d

"The first thing we should Renationalise is the Government.

MPs should not receive a penny from any 'donors', they should work only for you."

Quote from BladeoftheSun, a user on Twitter.

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 9d

Obsequiousness has a new name… Wait, no, it doesn’t, it’s still Stephen Miller.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9d

Stephen Miller: "Let me just say Mr President that this country was going to die without you. This country was going to actually die without you ... you alone saved it."

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