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      Alexander Skobovβs closing statement at the trial. He is a Russian journalist opposing Putin's tyranny set to die in Russian gulag.
Source: Grani.Ru (Facebook), 15 January 2025. Translated by Thomas Campbell (aka the Russian Reader). π§΅
  Source: Grani.Ru (Facebook), 15 January 2025. Translated by Thomas Campbell (aka the Russian Reader). π§΅
        
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      Iβm partial to Seattleβs mayoral race as Seattle could become the model for the US in housing and 15-min cities
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      Peter Williams, A former executive with US defense contractor L3Harris has pleaded guilty to selling digital spy tools to a Russian broker, the Justice Department announced. Williams pleaded to two counts of theft of trade secrets reut.rs/49o7Q0I
    
        
      βͺβDo not accept brutality and cruelty as normal even if it is sanctioned. Protect the vulnerable and encourage the afraid. If you are brave, stand up for others. If you cannot be brave β and it is often hard to be brave β be kind.β
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Weβre heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump
          Having studied authoritarian states for over a decade, I would never exaggerate the severity of the threat we now face. But an American kleptocracy is exactly where president-elect Trump and his backe...
        
          
          https://thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-heading-into-dark-times-this-is-how-to-be-your-own-light-in-the-age-of-trump/1611114266432-e23ea1a6β¬
        
      
  
      Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
    
        
        
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      Good people. And role models, everyone should go to the beach and pick up trash. And then repeat, because it'll be back on the beach after the next high tide.
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Furloughed feds pick up Seattle beach trash to keep serving the public
          Furloughed federal employees were out in the rain picking up cigarette butts, bottle caps, and other trash at Seattleβs Golden Gardens Park on Friday.
        
          
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      WATCH: βA MASTER PLANβ
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regimeβs war profiteering in Gaza - theyβve been working on for βTWO YEARSβπ€
(But donβt worry, apparently $50 Billion is βnot a lot of moneyβ! π°π)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
        Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regimeβs war profiteering in Gaza - theyβve been working on for βTWO YEARSβπ€
(But donβt worry, apparently $50 Billion is βnot a lot of moneyβ! π°π)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
        
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      I think the thing that is hitting me most about the destruction of the East Wing of the White House is that it is the most physical manifestation of the fact that nobody who could stop him is stopping Trump from indulging his autocratic whims