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Bryan Fichter

@bryanfichter.bsky.social

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Retired intelligence analyst. Russian speaker. Arabic speaker. Democracy enthusiast. Publisher of the Intelligencer newsletter on Substack.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 9d

We can do this, people
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/o...

Opinion | This Is What Autocrats Dread

www.nytimes.com

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 13h

One measure of America's creeping authoritarianism is that we may be about to go to war with Venezuela and the president hasn't even attempted to make a public case for it. L'etat c'est moi.
@jamellebouie.net @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 13h

More helicopter ads !

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

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

ICE Is Cracking Down on Chicago. Some Chicagoans Are Fighting Back.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

A U.S. regime change war in Venezuela could create a Latin American version of Somalia
@dandrezner.bsky.social @timmiller.bsky.social
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The Media Is Blowing a Big Story in Venezuela

With the president and his cronies ratcheting up their belligerence, the political press is failing to grasp how close we are to another regime change war.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

Not uncommon with people who have dementia

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

Go anti-woke, go broke

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

Kristi Noem's lips swelled with rage...

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 16h

They're the ones making our neighborhoods unsafe. They're the danger to our children. They're the threat to law and order.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 16h

Agent lobs a gas canister into a residential neighborhood in Illinois for no discernible reason, gassing dozens of neighbors including a baby. The comfort with which they deploy weapons of war is unreal.

Source: www.reddit.com/r/illinois/s...

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Full of Contempt @m-theory3.bsky.social · 1d

This is the nation that we are now. This nation is unbelievably sick.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

The Gravy Seals have arrived !

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

That's twenty-seven flat-out murders. That's twenty-seven lives taken without even a semblance of a legal justification under domestic or international law.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d

It's really not about politics anymore. The apparatus of the Republican Party has simply become a haven for bad people.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

Did Trump call 1-800-HAMAS ?

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Leah Millis @leahmillis.bsky.social · 1d

The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 1d

Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.

Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

If you make fun of him, Pete will send you to the cornfield

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

The accompanying photos are even more brutal than the texts !

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 15h

Are they going to charge her with felony music ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Did you tell them the golden age is just around the corner ?

Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Simply shocking to find racism in a YR chat room

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

Turns out your assumptions about what republican group chats are like is correct www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

This just bolsters my hunch that Trump is seriously ill.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

They don’t see themselves as enforcing immigration laws. They see themselves as deciding who gets to be American

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2d

"During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she 'doesn’t look like' a Greeley."

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

Chicago Tribune: Greeley, who was born at Illinois Masonic hospital and is adopted, carries a copy of her passport just in case she runs into federal agents.

“I am Latina and I am a service worker,” Greeley said. “I fit the description of what they’re looking for now.”

During the encounter, Greeley said they told her she “doesn’t look like” a Greeley.

“They said this isn’t real, they kept telling me I’m lying, I’m a liar,” Greeley recalled. “I told them to look in the rest of my wallet, I have my credit cards, my insurance.”

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 1d

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Emmer: "We call it the 'Hate America' rally because you'll see the hate for America all over this thing when they show up. The rumor is that they can't end this shutdown because this small but very violent and vocal group is the only one that's happy about this."

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Bryan Fichter @bryanfichter.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, the Nobel committee always responds to a little strong-arming

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

the broad public does not like chaos and disorder and everything you can do to emphasize that it is the federal government that is responsible for chaos and disorder is a point in your favor. it’s classic nonviolent confrontation!

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