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Anders Åslund @andersaslund.bsky.social · 1h

Europe, the UK, Canada, Japan and Ukraine need to cut out Trump from any further negotiations about Ukraine, because Trump represents Putin & not the West.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 1h

Explosions also reported tonight in Pavlohrad, Dnipropetrovsk region, and in Sumy region.

But the heaviest strikes remain near the frontline in free Donetsk.

Another drone swarm has hit Sloviansk. There are fires at the impact sites. No official news yet.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2h

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence.

If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 2h

Russians started a human safari in Pokrovsk too. Videos are just civilians getting slaughtered under the surveillance of a drone. This will obviously not make it to headlines but please don’t let russians kill in silence

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1h

BREAKING: Live munitions from a Trump-Vance “military demo” flew over I-5 and struck a CHP vehicle. The White House wanted the highway open—but Gov. Newsom shut it down for safety. That decision likely prevented injuries or worse.

We have obtained these photos:

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · Sep 1

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale co-founded the University of Austin Texas (UATX) in 2021. UATX’s recent “Convocation Address” was titled, “In Defense of Inequality.”

“To the class of 2029: you have chosen to rebel. Not against hierarchy, but against its abandonment.” 1/ x.com/uaustinorg/s...

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h

21/ More “parallel finance.” bsky.app/profile/jenn...

Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1d

Holy “parallel establishment”. “Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., is sounding the alarm about the Trump administration’s approval of a new bank backed by two GOP megadonors, tech billionaires Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey” … 1/ www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...

Trump administration gives initial approval to bank backed by GOP megadonors

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the approval of Erebor Bank, which is linked to Peter Thiel and Palmer Luckey, is a classic example of crony capitalism.

www.msnbc.com

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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 1h

Why isn’t every large account warning about the “network state” movement? In August, “network state” leader Balaji Srinivassan—a close ally of Peter Thiel & Marc Andreessen—wrote that, “When Bitcoin wins,” it “ends the Fed,” the “battle begins,” & “it's time to build”. 1/

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 1h

Multiple explosions in Odesa region.

A swarm of drones attacked the port of Pivdenne, about 30-40km north-east, along the coast from Odesa city.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 2h

22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 6h

It sounds like Friday’s meeting went disastrously for Zelensky, with Trump continuing to swear like a middle schooler on the blacktop, seeming fully taken in by Putin’s war narrative.

https://www.ft.com/content/7960c6aa-dbfa-4a55-91e8-ae44601842ec

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 6h

“We fight for life until the very end,” says Ptakha, a surgeon of the 37th Brigade, who has saved more than 6,000 lives.

📹 Ukrainian Witness

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 5h

This was Los Angeles, California on October 18th, showing the regime that they will not be subservient to fascism or corrupt wannabe kings. #3E #NoKings #50501Movement #indivisible #wearetheflood

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Peter Jelinek @peterjelinek.bsky.social · 3h

Aus Gründen! #WirSindDasStadtbild

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Thorsten Munk🇪🇺🇺🇦🇵🇸🇮🇱 @thorstenmunk.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Demo gegen die Normalisierung rechter Sprache und Narrative und für ein buntes Stadtbild und die Würde jedes Menschen!

Gute Reden, gute Musik, nette Menschen. Gute das trotz kurzfristiger Mobilisierung und Ferien ein paar Tausend gekommen sind, das tut […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]

Foto von Demo vor Brandenburger Tor. Halbdunkel und das Brandenburger Tor wird angestrahlt, manche Menschen mit Schildern und Lichtern.

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Martin Michel @applescripter.bsky.social · 6h

Kurzer Eindruck von der »Wir sind das #Stadtbild« -Demo auf dem Pariser Platz in Berlin, die kurzfristig am heutigen Abend stattfand.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

Hi Americans your president is siding with a war criminal and threatening Ukrainians with annihilation if they fight back, just fyi, if that even bothers someone

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

Zelenskyy: "I instructed our diplomats - and have already spoken about this with many leaders - to prepare a meeting of the coalition of the willing in the near future. We need strong joint positions in Europe. And this will happen. Thank you to everyone who is with us."

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cindyunger.bsky.social @cindyunger.bsky.social · 11h

Why did the chickens cross the road? To save democracy, of course! St. Paul, Mn!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4h

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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 5h

Vielleicht war nicht Merkel Schuld am Aufstieg der AfD. Rechtsextreme gibt es nämlich überall, Österreich, Niederlande, den USA. Keiner hatte eine Merkel. Und dort sind die Rechtsextremen sogar viel stärker. Vielleicht sind einige Grunddogmen von Merz auch falsch. Nicht wegen Merkel sondern trotz?

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HPG @hpgundaker77.bsky.social · 5h

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4h

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · Apr 10

In April of 2009 I observed the Tea Party rally in Salem. As this front page story says, there were a couple hundred people there. This past weekend in Salem there were roughly 2-3000 people at the Hands Off rally. Yet the Tea Party coverage seemed to take that event far more seriously.

StatesmanJournal.com
SERVING SALEM, KEIZER
AND THE MID-VALLEY
"If you don't say anything, you're accepting it."
Mari Jensen, McMinnville resident
OUT OF MY
LOUR
WALLET
CHOICES
LIMIT GOVERNMENT
Oregon Taxpayers United
FREEDOM
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TIMOTHY J. GONZALEZ | Statesman Journal
Alan Grosso (center) of Happy Valley joins in chanting under the window of the speaker of the House on Wednesday during the Salem Tea Party protest at the Capitol.
Protesters slam Fed spending
Hundreds gather at Salem Tea Party to rally against bailouts, state-level taxes
BY DENNIS THOMPSON JR.
Statesman Journal
Hundreds of people uneasy over the future of their country gathered on the state Capitol steps on Wednesday to protest federal spending and state-level taxation.
Oregon State Police estimated more
SCRAP THE CODE
than 1,000 people attended the Salem Tea Party protest, which ran from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Organizers placed attendance at more than 2,000 people.
The rally was passionate but peace-ful, although many people carried handmade signs bearing stark and angry messages. A fake wooden pitchfork read "Politicians take note. We the people are about to revolt." Anoth er sign read "200+ years to build the Republic, 3 mos. to destroy it."
Many attendees said they were motivated to protest by the billions in stimulus spending and bailouts that have been doled out in recent months.
Willy Lowman of Falls City wears a label on his head that reads "Scrap the Code" at the tea party protest.
West Salem resident Steve Albin said he
came to protest federal bailouts of banks and automakers.
"They need to fail. That's what capitalism is all about," said Albin, who had a tea bag dangling from the brim
See Protest, 2A
Inside
Protesters take part in Tea Party events across the nation, Page 2A
Supporters to push for immigration reform, Page 2A
• ONLINE: See photo galleries and a video from the protest at StatesmanJournal.com.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6h

Russia launched a massive attack on a coal mine in the Dnipropetrovsk region. 192 miners were underground at the time.

Evacuation efforts are currently underway.

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 5h

No Kings in Los Angeles: Patriotic Angelenos showed up, y'all — BIG TIME. 🙌💪👏✊️🇺🇸👇

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