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Birgitta Jonsdottir

@birgittaj.bsky.social

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Poetician and Antifa from Iceland. Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. Spent 8 years in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · Feb 28

Dark enlightenment & other crazy Thiel pet projects are unfolding. It's critical that people understand that the brownshirts hacking the entire USA infrastructure and dismantling it are his and Elon minions. Thiel sees himself as some sort of Saruman, while he fondles his Palantír.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 23

What’s happening now is part of a plan to end democracy:

“It is clear that Thiel sees corporations as the governments of the future and capitalists such as himself as the kings, and it is also clear that this is a shockingly common view in Thiel’s cohort.”

thebaffler.com/latest/mouth...

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich | Corey Pein

Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.

thebaffler.com

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Paul Beckwith @paulhbeckwith.bsky.social · 3d

My new video…

How Ongoing Ocean Stratification is Already a Really HUGE Deal and Will Mess Up Our Future
youtu.be/MO2VTLgNNxY?...

#climate #ClimateCatastrophe #weather #oceans #seas #humanity #Future #FutureTech #FutureReady

How Ongoing Ocean Stratification is Already a Really HUGE Deal and Will Mess Up Our Future Prospects

YouTube video by Paul Beckwith

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 10h

“I’m a cop. I am not supposed to feel dread. He’s a brown person. HE’S supposed to feel dread!”

Bari nods sympathetically.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 9h

Israel’s defense minister says the bombing will continue after they get their hostages back.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 9h

Who cares? God you act like you’re proclaiming how we turn water into wine. So you’re rooting for Bari Weiss. How daring! How bold! Such raw bravery! I bet you wear a hat that says “the NASDAQ” on it

Sally Jenkins @sallyjenx.bsky.social · 10h

Ratio me. Please. It's a badge of honor. If you don't like a link, go follow some chicken-heart who needs the approval of the thought-police. Caitlin Flanagan of @theatlantic.com is a tremendous writer and this piece is an excellent read. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss

The new editor in chief of CBS News triumphs over her critics.

www.theatlantic.com

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 11h

JFC

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

"Why can't Trump murder civilians indiscriminately at home like he does abroad" - Ross Douthat

Why Can't Trump's Domestic Policy Be More Like His Foreign Policy?

Three keys to his success on the world stage could be applied at home.
By ROSS DOUTHAT

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Barbara Rybolt @barbararybolt.bsky.social · 11h

#ProudBlue #Resist #IceAbusesKids

This ice agent is out of control. Abuse is not acceptable under any circumstance, but especially against women & children!
If we saw this happening in any other country in the world we would be outraged!
Have we learned nothing from George Floyd’s death in 2020?

Laguna Beach Democratic Club @lagunabeachdems.bsky.social · 1d

Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 1d

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 19h

Every day is a good day to point out that 92% of Reform's donations were found to come from figures and groups linked to the fossil fuel industry. @desmog.com

Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election

Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations...

www.desmog.com

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 1d

Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites are falling to Earth at an alarming rate. An average of one to two Starlink satellites are deorbiting each day in 2025.

There are currently around 20,000 objects being tracked in low-Earth orbit, including 12,000 working satellites – 8,500 of which are Starlinks

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Dab Zombieson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 1d

I remember having a discussion with someone who simply could not wrap their head around the idea that an NFT has no legal standing whatsoever, nor any content.

It’s just a short string attached to a blockchain.

Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 1d

The crash is going to be brutal when it comes.

Robinhood says "it might offer "tokenized" equity in OpenAI. By "tokenized," Business Insider reports, Robinhood means "blockchain-enabled representations of securities like stocks." In reality, they have no connection to OpenAI equity whatsoever."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote a book about January 6, 2021.

Want to know when the Trump administration began its systematized lying about antifa and the FBI being behind MAGAs' attack on the Capitol?

January 6, 2021.

Rudy Giuliani had a suite at the Willard Hotel that was the command center for broadcasting that lie.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

ROFL

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 1d

The best and the brightest

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 2d

Someone gonna get fired …. @kenwhite.bsky.social @annabower.bsky.social

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 2d

Pay strict attention to this when considering forthcoming US elections.

Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Why has Dominion Voting Systems been settling defamation lawsuits with Trump allies who falsely claimed the company stole the 2020 election?

Because Dominion has just been bought by a company run by a former GOP election official.

Be warned.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

But, of course, he did.

The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 1d

Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged

Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister

www.thenational.scot

Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

This looks absolutely ridiculous 🤣

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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 1d

A classic case of irresponsible both-sidesism from the NYT. The story is that Trump and MAGA propagandists are lying about Portland to incite a conflict, not that there are different views of the matter.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

💗❤️‍🩹💗 crying in a good way. My trans daughter lives in constant fear and every little thing like this makes me a little bit more hopeful for everyone like her. He is a bright light in all this hateful darkness.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

Despite the pause in the relentless bombing: famine is still the reality for the people in Gaza. It won’t be fixed in a day, month, years. It’s a generational destruction of a body and soul.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · Jul 27

What would you do if this was your child? The inhumanity and cruelty we’re seeing in Gaza is beyond unacceptable, and history will rightfully denounce the warmongers responsible for these atrocities.

Enough with the headlines replacing “mass starvation & genocide” with “famine & conflict”.

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

Wow: powerful and hauntingly beautiful: all at the same time.

Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 1d

Art at its best: powerful reflection of reality at the exact right angle.

Nikkolas Smith @4nikkolas.bsky.social · 2d

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US.
𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕.
𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 4d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Miller, acting President

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 2d

A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwide—even in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.

This Bay Area County Says It Cut Ties with ICE. This Program Says Otherwise.

A widespread data-sharing program highlights financial ties between local police and immigration enforcement—and how even sanctuary jurisdictions still feed “the deportation machine.”

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 2d

Facts

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 2d

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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