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Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social · 10h

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Bill McCarthy @billmccarthy.bsky.social · 1d

NEW:

A dramatic voiceover video the White House and Donald Trump shared last week claiming to show "chaos" in Chicago is littered with outdated footage from Florida, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska, California and Arizona, an AFP investigation found.

factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

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Ellen Jæger 🌻 @gerellen.bsky.social · 10h

Chile er vel skoleeksemplet – men selv det blev de nødt til at tilstå – om end adskillige år senere.

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Jens Gammelgaard 🇵🇸🇲🇲🇬🇱 @jensgam.bsky.social · 10h

trump really wants a war to get him the peace prize ..

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Hey, Vance doesn't downplay Nazi group chats for no reason.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10h

The federal government is just openly white supremacist, now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Trump Considers Overhaul of Refugee System That Would Favor White People

www.nytimes.com

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 10h

Think racist MAGA Project 2025 guy

Think rewarding big fossil fuel donors

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Vought: "We're gonna keep those RIFs rolling throughout this shutdown ... think the Minority Business Development Agency that divvies up business grants on basis of race. Think Environment Justice at EPA ... "

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IamMe @theyellowpete.bsky.social · 14h

Selv racister ved godt at det at være racist er noget l.. og derfor vil de ikke kaldes racister, så nu skal ordet omdefineres…

En herlig tilgang til verden.. :-))

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 11h

Our economy is about to collapse so Republicans can protect their fellow pedophiles in the #EpsteinFiles.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 10h

(Looney Tunes voice)

“Roadsteamer, the ICE man is after you
Roadsteamer, if he catches you you’re through!…”

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 11h

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 10h

Apparently $20B of our taxpayer money wasn't enough to bail out Argentina.

Now Trump wants U.S. banks to divert ANOTHER $20B away from lending to American businesses, farmers, and families to prop up Milei's corrupt presidency and failing economy.

So much for America First.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 10h

Everything is retribution

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Halts Billions in Grants for Democratic Districts During Shutdown

The Trump administration has frozen or canceled nearly $28 billion primarily located in Democratic-led districts, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

www.nytimes.com

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Atticus Finch (of Georgia) @atticus59914029.bsky.social · 11h

Here's what this is, to put it bluntly: the Speaker of the House attempting to provoke violence against patriotic Americans for exercising their right to peacefully speak up for the Constitution and against a would be tyrant.

#NoKings

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 11h

Netanyahu tried to dodge his court appearance by claiming a major diplomatic visit was happening today. That turned out to be false. So he showed up in court and then claimed he needed to leave and rest due to bronchitis.

Confirmed by reporters who were there.

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Ellen Jæger 🌻 @gerellen.bsky.social · 11h

“Læg jeres våbenkøb hos os.”
Aner man et “ellers…”?

Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 11h

US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth:

Allies often say that #Ukraine's security is synonymous with European security. Now it is time for all NATO countries to turn words into action in the form of PURL investments. All countries around this table - no free riders.

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Margaret Kimberley @margaretkimberley.bsky.social · 12h

The peoples of the world know who is fighting for peace, and who, like this year’s "peace prize" winner, Maria Corina Machado, is an imperialist tool. Read my latest in @blackagendareport.bsky.social.

www.blackagendareport.com/index.php/no...

Nobel War Prize | Black Agenda Report

The Nobel Peace Prize is an anachronism and a compromised “honor” as the struggle against the U.S. and its collective west allies intensifies. The peoples of the world know who is fighting for peace, ...

www.blackagendareport.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 12h

The media are lying to you again

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 12h

They "stood" with them, then they beat them with metal poles.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Mike Johnson: "We've always stood with Capitol police and law enforcement. We've shown that in word and deed."

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 13h

President Donald Trump, Republican officials, and their right-wing media allies have laid the groundwork for a broadbased attack on core progressive and Democratic Party institutions in response to Saturday’s planned nationwide “No Kings” protests. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

The Trump administration is positioning the upcoming No Kings protests as an excuse for crushing dissent

www.mediamatters.org

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

Lasar's group has destroyed more than 2,000 tanks, 3,000 infantry fighting vehicles, thousands of artillery pieces, vehicles, engineering machines. The total is over 40,000 Russian targets struck (all confirmed by video).

You can read the full story of Lasar's unit

forbes.com/sites/forbesin…

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

About 1 in every 5 destroyed Russian tanks has been destroyed by Lasar's Group, a unit of heavy bomber drones. Pavlo has built an extremely effective unit and has helped many other Ukrainian commanders implement their approach. Pavlo's innovativeness has helped Ukraine a lot.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

I'd like to share a brilliant example of the asymmetrical warfare that has achieved astonishing results for Ukraine: about $12 billion destroyed Russian equipment.

Pavlo "Lasar" Yelizarov used to be a TV-show producer before the full-scale invasion. In February 2022, he started defending Ukraine.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 13h

‼️The UK has imposed sanctions on seven specialized LNG tankers and the Chinese Beihai LNG terminal. Beihai has been importing LNG from Arctic LNG2 - the severely disrupted flagship Russian LNG project, sanctioned by the UK in February 2024.

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Dr Noor Bari @njbbari3.bsky.social · 15h

COVID era world.

Not post-COVID world.

It’s still here.

#MedSky

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Rick Wilson @therickwilson.bsky.social · 15h

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Opinion | Trump’s war on ‘the enemy within’ keeps running into a legal buzzsaw

Lower courts are rejecting the president’s claims of rebellion to use the military on U.S. soil.

wapo.st

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Per Sicking @persicking.bsky.social · 21h

Blir verkligen illa berörd av det här. Behandlingen, UD:s svek, regeringens totala likgiltighet till och med när brutaliteten vänds mot egna medborgare.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte”

Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj

www.aftonbladet.se

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Tea Pain @teapainusa.bsky.social · 16h

The same folks that claim the only racism and hate is against white people.

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘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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