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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 12h

Exactly. A Russian saying goes "Give us a person and we'll find the infraction."

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 16h

Rounding up immigrants in American cities by the thousands is the story of 2025. “It is also a story from a century ago, when zealous officials pursued immigrants in an uncannily similar fashion, a little-remembered episode that didn’t end well for the federal government,” Gerald F. Seib writes.

Opinion | Today’s Immigration Raids Echo Across a Century

Lessons from previous anti-immigrant sweeps don’t look good for the Trump administration.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 17h

Cognitive dissonance: discomfort when a person holds two or more conflicting beliefs. E.g., people resolve this dissonance by changing their behaviors, their beliefs, or their rationalizations, like justifying smoking by claiming it reduces stress while ignoring the impact on their health.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 17h

"Peace Deal" - does it recognize a 2-state solution? Does it return stolen land by settlers in the West Bank? Does it address the Gaza genocide?

Didn't think so.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 18h

I believe that my father, a WWII veteran, became an acholic due to PTSD. He delt with achoholism throughout his life dying at the age of 56 of cancer. The taurma on me and my sibling continues to this day.

#shared #addiction #GLP-1 #treatment #mentalhealth

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

Opinion | The Drug That Took Away More Than Her Appetite

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

She just kicked off her bid to be the 2028 GOP Presidential candidate.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

My wife and I are voting today for Abigail, Gahzala, and Jay. Yes, even Jay. Those were personal texts that he never acted on and he has apologized.

Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22h

Looking forward to hitting the campaign trail next week with my friend & Virginia’s next governor, @abigailspanberger.com.

Pete Buttigieg to appear with Spanberger in Charlottesville

With the election for governor three weeks away, Democrat Abigail Spanberger is getting some outside help to get out the vote. Former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg will appear with t...

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 22h

Richmond VA removed the Columbus statute along with ALL of the confederate satutes. If Richmond VA did it, so can NYC!

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Zooming Great Blue Heron

#nature #birds 🦉

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you Robert. Nice shout out to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social

zeteo.com

Zeteo | Substack

Zeteo is a new media organization that seeks to answer the questions that really matter, while always striving for the truth. Founded by Mehdi Hasan, Zeteo is a movement for media accountability, unfi...

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Everlasting peace? So Israel agreed to a two-state solution? Didn't think so.

Like everything the orange führer does: fanfare and no substance.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

The National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, “NSPM-7”. It's a real life Minority Report.

"law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies BEFORE they result in violent political acts"

#NoKings #fightfascism #resist

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

It's going to get far more violent after this weekend's mass protest. The National Security Presidential Memorandum 7, “NSPM-7”. It's the Minority Report.

"law enforcement can intervene in criminal conspiracies BEFORE they result in violent political acts"

www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trumps-nsp...

Trump’s NSPM-7 Labels Common Beliefs As Terrorism “Indicators”

New directive targets “anti-Christian,” “anti-American,” and “anti-capitalism” opinions

www.kenklippenstein.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Don't get me wrong, I'm not seating on the sidelines. I am constantly protesting and communicating with my VA representives.

Read this and let me know what you think.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...

The Outgoing Ambassador to Hungary Is Alarmed by What He Has Seen

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

No sleep till Portland!

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

If this is so, then why did DJT pardon approximately 1,200 J6'ers many of whom plead guilty?

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

Unfortunately, I don't share your optimism. Project 2025 will see the end of our constitutional republic.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

I truly admire the work of both Abigail and Ghazala. Jay Jones is the wildcard in this race. I don't support the surfaced comments, but that doesn't dissuade me from voting for him. He admitted and apologized for send the offensive texts. Keep in mind that these were private.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow, the way paper folds and the way particles collide produce the same geometric shape.

#math 🧪 #physics #Feynman

www.quantamagazine.org/origami-patt...

Origami Patterns Solve a Major Physics Riddle | Quanta Magazine

The amplituhedron, a shape at the heart of particle physics, appears to be deeply connected to the mathematics of paper folding.

www.quantamagazine.org

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

Not necessarily save us, but provide selfless leadership that empowers and liberates all of us, include the lost souls of MAGA.

The wealth gap is unpresident in the history of civilization.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

Few people are like Zohran. He is the future.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

I have a complicated family history - father Jewish Ukrarinian and mother Catholic Brasilian Syrian Homs. I feel pain in the suffering of Palestines in Gaza as well as the Israelis who fight the current Netanyahu regime.

Bibi nurtured Hamas.

www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne...

For years, Netanyahu propped up Hamas. Now it’s blown up in our faces

The premier's policy of treating the terror group as a partner, at the expense of Abbas and Palestinian statehood, has resulted in wounds that will take Israel years to heal from

www.timesofisrael.com

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

I believe that it an emotional connection. In the case of MAGA, a manipulated falsehood.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

But at least the NIH is fully funded. Oh, wait. Forget I said that. Resume your queue.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 3d

It gets better: BBB suspended an effort to enroll more low-income older Americans in programs that assist them with rising health care costs.

The Biden-era plan to increase enrollment in state-run Medicaid programs that help seniors who qualify get a hand paying for out-of-pocket Medicare costs.