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Themistocles Wall

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Resisting dictatorship is the disciplined thing to do (e.g. Aristogeiton and Harmodios).

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · Jan 19

those are the best damn wars to win

in 1776 a few small colonies w/no army or navy took on the greatest empire in history

in 1939 the US army was smaller than Romania’s

let’s roll👇🏼

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · Jan 17

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak.

The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership.

We can do this.

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On Organizing

time to level up / an early draft of a playbook

www.lifeisasacredtext.com

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CNN @cnn.com · 36m

Speaking on Air Force One, President Donald Trump said that he doesn't think he's "heaven-bound" in response to a question about previous statements he had made about how brokering a possible peace deal between Ukraine and Russia could help him get into heaven.

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 5h

The real problem, says the US Attorney who resigned after Trump blocked her prosecution of Eric Adams, isn't that Trump has turned the DOJ into an arm of his vengeance or favor, depending on his whim, but ... law schools canceling Ilya Shapiro 🤦‍♂️

Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 18h

Danielle Sassoon is right to call out universities for using “security” as a convenient justification for shutting down controversial speech. The notion that conservatives are the main victims of this practice is delusional, though. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/o...

Opinion | I Resigned as Manhattan’s U.S. Attorney. Law Schools Are Missing the Point of My Story.

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 5h

You can't put a price on this kind of friendship.
www.cnbc.com/2024/09/03/t...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 11h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 4h

Kavanaugh stop

Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 5h

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 1d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Today, Trump a new all-time low in favorables.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 4h

Tonight on Kremlin TV: Russian pundits say that Trump's threat of providing Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine is merely a part of the plan worked out with Putin in Anchorage, and after Trump's call with Putin, Trump will announce a change of plans and send nothing.

State TV pundits say Trump's call with Putin is a ploy not to provide Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 4h

The entire incident is infuriating and terrifying. She’s a Latina woman who was working a service job. On her way home late at night, with her headphones in, she was detained for an hour by masked federal agents who wouldn’t give her their names.

Maria Greeley, 44, had just finished working a double shift at the Beach Bar on Ohio Street
earlier this month when she said she was surrounded by three federal agents who grabbed her, forced her hands behind her back and zip tied her.
Headphones in, Greeley had been focused on getting home to her two dogs for a walk.
Instead, she said she was detained by masked agents who did not answer when she asked for names. They questioned her for an hour, she said.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 4h

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 265-266

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 265-266

October 11-12, 2025

trumptyrannytracker.substack.com

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 8h

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 9h

crucial & how jim crow gop games the system

in NC, gov has no veto power over election maps

& maps can be approved w/simple majority

gop is going to have a 40 seat gerrymander in house next year👇🏼

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 9h

🚨BREAKING: North Carolina became the latest GOP-controlled state to announce it will gerrymander its congressional map to please President Donald Trump. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

North Carolina Is Latest Gop-Controlled State To Announce a Gerrymander

Read more here.

www.democracydocket.com

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

Attorney General Letitia James to Headline Rally for Mamdani

www.nytimes.com

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 9h

what a lineup

be there

cuz new yorkers who know

don’t vote cuomo👇🏼

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 9h

TONIGHT @ 7:00pm:

Our Time Has Come
Rally Livestream on IG + YouTube

Feat.
Attorney General Tish James
Rep. Nydia Velázquez
Rep. Adriano Espaillat
CM Chi Ossé
@kristengonzalez.bsky.social
Lina Khan
Natasha Cloud
The Kid Mero

MC'd by @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social

Big colorful graphic of Zohran smiling that says, "Our Time Has Come: Rally Tonight" and a list of speakers.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility
By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago

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A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia.
A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo.

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview.

“My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese.

From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett.

The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

If you are in Massachusetts, LUCE (a coalition of immigrant-led, grassroots organizations) needs volunteers and donors to support their work.

And if you see ICE, call LUCE: 617-370-5023

www.lucemass.org

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 1d

According the article, the Everett Police still have not told the parents why they arrested their 13-year-old child, nor why they handed him over to ICE while his parents waited in the station to pick him up.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 21h

Overnight, Ukrainian SBU and SOF drones struck several military-linked targets in occupied Crimea. Hits included the Feodosia oil terminal, where at least five storage tanks were ignited, and two key substations: 220 kV “Kafa” in Feodosia and 330 kV “Simferopol”. Causing major power disruptions.

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"After the warning, neighbors showed up and formed a human chain outside the church to guide parishioners home. NBC Chicago found more organizers doing the same for the beginning of the 6 p.m. mass..."

www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

Chicago priest urges parishioners to leave mass with caution after ICE agents reported nearby

Chicago's Rogers Park community remained vigilant after reports of federal agents near a Catholic church during Sunday mass.

www.nbcchicago.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

Unsure how many times I have to repeat it, but health care shouldn’t be for-profit.

Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 1d

Drug Rehabs Lure In Patients for Insurance Money—Then Leave Them on the Street

Operators promise high-end treatment, help addicts sign up for insurance then pile on charges for little in return, say former patients and insurers.

www.wsj.com

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 9h

nah we’re less than 2 games in

7 game series

Blue Jays will win at least 2

Keep in mind blue jays won season series 4-2👇🏼

& imo are the better team

jays coming off emotional series, finally slaying the mighty yankee dragon

jays will win at least 2 yet, imo
😉👍🏼

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 9h

Selfishly I wanted a close series. This doesn’t bode well for me

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Themistocles Wall @themistocleswall.bsky.social · 9h

chances weiss succeeds at traditional job of top editor for all CBS News

for which she has almost no qualifications

& poor temperament

practically zero

chances she pleases garch owner & his large adult son by furthering destruction of once great org

high

google Refaat Alareer & what weiss did👇🏼