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Peter Howitt

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AI optimist (Iain M Banks / James Lovelock variety). Full time lawyer, part-time poet and fumbling philosopher - "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought" https://compossible.blog/

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

🧵In March, I published a summary of Project 2025. It is time to check in how Project 2025 is being effectively implemented. Paul Dans, the former director of Project 2025, stated that the administration's early agenda & implementation was "beyond my wildest dreams"

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Project 2025 – the Need for An Urgent Defence of American Democracy

American democracy is under attack from a profound and existential threat.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 1m

Rare Earth Cold War

China’s New Rare Earth and Magnet Restrictions Threaten U.S. Defense Supply Chains

China has imposed its most stringent rare earth and magnet export controls yet, restricting products with even trace Chinese content. This bolsters its leverage ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting and heigh...

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 29m

The reason why the lower levels of the GOP are infested with outright Nazis is because the highest echelons are as well.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1h

asylum but only for racists apparently 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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Nick Reeves #FBPE #NAFO @nickreeves.bsky.social · 3h

Starmer and Reeves are expected to argue that if it hadn’t been for Brexit, the economy would be about £120bn bigger by 2035 than current forecasts suggest it will be.

So, hopefully, we are about to see some honesty about the damage Brexit has inflicted.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 6h

In the month since I was elected leader of the Green Party, we have gained a new member equivalent of every single minute. 24/7.

We're all smiling. But we've also got a big job to do.

Let's make hope normal again.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Visibly enthusiastic, incredibly articulate and with a winning smile that never left his face, Zack seemed entirely at home

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Bruce Kiesel @bhkiesel.bsky.social · 1d

“Meteorologists and scientists worldwide rely on NOAA systems and data for weather forecasting and long-term climate predictions. Degrading NOAA will jeopardize the accurate and spatially detailed information that guides weather forecasting agencies around the world.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Free global access to climate and weather data must continue

Last month at the 80th session of the United Nations, the call to be “better together” was especially appropriate for discussions on the Early Warnings for All global initiative. About half the world’...

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

These far right and fascist forces in the USA, Israel & Russia are also deeply embedded across the European political, military and media establishments. We are running out of time to build democratic resilience and mount resistance.

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The Power Playbook Of The Right

Autocracy, Democratic Backsliding, and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism – The Forces Reshaping Europe

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

This not an an academic technical exercise. Millions of people's lives are on the line and the GOP is now effectively a neo-Nazi organisation.
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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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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

As noted in the blog, I created a public AI Notebook with hundreds of sources to collectively provide an extensive overview of how Project 2025 is impacting America and the rest of the world. Feel free to query it and shout if anything major is missing. #Resist

notebooklm.google.com/notebook/10b...

Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

Another community tracker 'Project 2025 Tracker', reported 119 objectives complete and 66 in progress across 34 agencies as of October 2025 and estimates that nearly 50% of the Project 2025 objectives are now completed

www.project2025.observer/en

Project 2025 Tracker: https://www.project2025.observer/en

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

Professor @chrischirp.bsky.social operates the Trump Action Tracker which groups the Trump admin's actions by key policy areas. This is the latest overview.

Snapshot from The Trump Action tracker: https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 8h

Project 2025 – the Need for An Urgent Defence of American Democracy

American democracy is under attack from a profound and existential threat.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13h

What do you think when you see this hand sign? Live long and prosper? Well this is a headstone in the Jewish cemetery in Frankfurt maybe 400 years old. It’s the sign of the kohanim priestly blessing, which Leonard Nimoy is said to have remembered from his childhood, and which he adopted for Spock.

A pair of hands both showing the characteristic four fingered V used in Star Trek.

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European Greens @europeangreens.eu · 13h

The EU is on track to do its part to protect the climate by 2050 but we can’t stop pushing for it!

🇪🇺 Next week, the European Council is discussing climate targets that they will bring at COP30.

We urge them to make them ambitious.
To protect the climate is to protect Europe.

The EU must stay on track." It shows a line graph of EU net greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2050. The pink line represents actual emissions from 1990 to 2020, showing a steady decline, with the 2020 actual emissions slightly below the 2020 target (marked with a yellow dot). A dotted blue line projects further reductions toward the EU’s climate goals: the 2030 target, the 2040 target, and the 2050 target, which reaches net zero. Text at the top says, “We’re halfway, we can’t stop now.” The source is the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 2d

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23h

Remember they have a target of the mass deportation of over 20m people (Project 2025)

Radical Reports @radicalreports.bsky.social · 1d

The Vast, Terrifying Scale of Trump’s Detention State

The vast, terrifying scale of Trump’s detention state

With $75 billion and thousands of masked agents, ICE is just getting started.

www.motherjones.com

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23h

"We cannot rest until every last Gazan medical professional has been wiped from the face of the earth—their families, too, as we can’t take the chance that the son or daughter of one of these doctors is inspired to one day become a doctor themselves.”

The Onion @theonion.com · 1d

Israel Warns Gaza Still Harboring Hundreds Of Doctors https://theonion.com/israel-warns-gaza-still-harboring-hundreds-of-doctors-1850964439/

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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 1d

WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE! nokings.org

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 7d

Twitter BANNED the creator of this ad because it moves voters 7 pts toward Dems.

Voters are DISGUSTED by Trump’s gestapo kidnapping US citizens in Portland and Chicago.

SPREAD THIS EVERYWHERE

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23h

Thanks Teddy, great article. Have added to my Project 2025 and Far Right Playbook public notebooklms

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Teddy Wilson @reportbywilson.bsky.social · 1d

How the International Far Right is Getting on Board With Trump’s Antifa Terrorist Designation

Trump’s baseless “Antifa” terrorist designation has sparked a global echo, with Hungary, Poland, and the Netherlands moving to replicate it. The coordinated effort reframes dissent as terrorism—part o...

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 23h

"The belief that Israel’s actions amount to apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide are “worthy of respect in a democratic society”, an employment tribunal has concluded in a landmark decision."
(120 page judgment.. presumably their lawyers will know if it)

Anti-Zionist beliefs ‘worthy of respect’, UK tribunal finds

Judges say unfairly dismissed academic David Miller’s views on Israel should be protected by antidiscrimination laws

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Saskia W. @saskiaw.bsky.social · 1d

This image was taken near Mount Iwo on Satsuma-Iojima Island, where the underwater aurora can be seen, says Hitomi Tsuchiya, 2025 Ocean Photographer of the Year finalist. The volcano spews out iron-rich substances not only from above ground but also from the ocean floor, creating these rich colors.

The image is a photograph of a sea turtle swimming through water with a vibrant, colorful glow. The upper part of the image is dominated by shades of yellow and orange, which transition into a luminous green towards the bottom. The turtle is a dark silhouette against this bright backdrop.
This photograph, titled "Underwater Aurora" by Hitomi Tsuchiya, was a finalist in the Fine Art category of the Ocean Photographer of the Year 2025 competition.

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Peter Howitt @peterhowitt.bsky.social · 1d

As Sarah Kendzior has been saying for years, His intention is to crash the economy, cause riots, print money and then he and his billionaire friends can buy up assets cheaply in the fire sale.
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Hiding in Plain Sight (Kendzior book) - Wikipedia

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 1d

Israel’s Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a related case next week, “but there is no reason to wait that long,” the group added. “Enough with the excuses and delay tactics. The restrictions on press freedom must come to an end.” #auspol media #Gaza

Ceasefire sparks fresh calls for global media access to Gaza

Press groups are also demanding justice for the more than 200 journalists slaughtered in Palestinian territory over the past two years.

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euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 1d

The Várhelyi affair: When an EU member state spies on Brussels

The Várhelyi spying allegations pose a question the European Union has never had to answer so starkly: what happens when a member state treats the institutions it helped create not as a common project, but as hostile territory to be infiltrated and undermined? asks Alberto Alemanno.

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