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Dr Lisa 🇰🇳🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈❤️🥳🧘🏽‍♀️🎸🏝💃🏽🛸 @xitter-refugee.bsky.social · 12h

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 15m

Autocrats know how to rig elections. They depend on it to stay in power.
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She Won. They Didn't Just Change the Machines. They Rewired the Election.

How Leonard Leo's 2021 sale of an electronics firm enabled tech giants to subvert the 2024 election.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Authoritarianism isn't coming.

It's already here.

@saletan.bsky.social and @monacharen.bsky.social dive in.

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 18m

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 53m

History repeats itself, as happened with Reagan's deal with Iran. The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency. But Iran freed the U.S. hostages in 1981 just minutes after President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

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Expert analyzes new account of GOP deal that used Iran hostage crisis for gain

The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. Saturday, a new allegation surfaced that Ronald Reagan's campaign worked to prevent t...

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Anti-Fascist Collective… @wtafc.bsky.social · 1h

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 18m

History repeats itself unless we learn from it.
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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 47m

"Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power," by Malcolm Byrne
www.brookings.edu/events/linge...
Officials at the highest level of government were complicit in Iran-Contra. The lesson is to recognize and confront future abuses of power perpetrated by U.S. officials.

President Reagan’s Role in the Iran-Contra Scandal | Brookings

On September 5, the Brookings Intelligence Project hosted author Malcolm Byrne for a discussion of his new book, Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, which offe...

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 13h

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Sen. Adam Schiff @schiff.senate.gov · 9h

Congrats to University of California professors & alumni for being awarded 5 Nobel Prizes!

California’s scientists are leading the world in crucial breakthroughs.

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University of California sets world record with five Nobel Prizes in one week

The UC system made history this week, as its faculty and alumni won five Nobel Prizes across medicine, physics and chemistry — the most ever awarded to a single institution in one year.

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 23m

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 53m

History repeats itself, as happened with Reagan's deal with Iran. The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency. But Iran freed the U.S. hostages in 1981 just minutes after President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Expert analyzes new account of GOP deal that used Iran hostage crisis for gain

The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. Saturday, a new allegation surfaced that Ronald Reagan's campaign worked to prevent t...

www.pbs.org

AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 24m

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 53m

History repeats itself, as happened with Reagan's deal with Iran. The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency. But Iran freed the U.S. hostages in 1981 just minutes after President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Expert analyzes new account of GOP deal that used Iran hostage crisis for gain

The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. Saturday, a new allegation surfaced that Ronald Reagan's campaign worked to prevent t...

www.pbs.org

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 6h

ICE Serves Only to Terrorize and Occupy Americans

It's no longer just undocumented immigrants, Muslims, Black people, & pro-Palestinian activists who are targets. As ICE violently marches across American cities, the majority must stand up & resist.

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

Find your local event at nokings.org/#map.

Bring your family and friends. Stand up with everyone you love, for the country you hold dear.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13h

Authoritarianism is a cancer. And it's growing, metastasizing. In America. Now.

YOU are the cure. Do your part and join us on Saturday.

Do it for your country. For the Constitution. For your freedoms.

While you still can.

@ofthebraveusa.bsky.social

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 31m

If I hear Democrats saying, "We didn't have the votes" one more time, I'm going to poke their eye out. Look what the GOP is doing to the country. They don't have the votes either, but they do it anyway. Either you are complicit or ignorant in how to govern. We the People deserve better than this.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 16h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you, Ambassador!

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 5h

Find an event near you at nokings.org/#map.

( ht: @tizzywoman.bsky.social )

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 44m

This was the intention for We the People.

AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 47m

"Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power," by Malcolm Byrne
www.brookings.edu/events/linge...
Officials at the highest level of government were complicit in Iran-Contra. The lesson is to recognize and confront future abuses of power perpetrated by U.S. officials.

President Reagan’s Role in the Iran-Contra Scandal | Brookings

On September 5, the Brookings Intelligence Project hosted author Malcolm Byrne for a discussion of his new book, Iran-Contra: Reagan’s Scandal and the Unchecked Abuse of Presidential Power, which offe...

www.brookings.edu

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 53m

History repeats itself, as happened with Reagan's deal with Iran. The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency. But Iran freed the U.S. hostages in 1981 just minutes after President Ronald Reagan took the oath of office.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Expert analyzes new account of GOP deal that used Iran hostage crisis for gain

The Iran hostage crisis consumed the last year of the Carter presidency, contributing to a perception of weakness. Saturday, a new allegation surfaced that Ronald Reagan's campaign worked to prevent t...

www.pbs.org

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 1h

Netanyahu is STILL an International War Criminal charged by ICC:
www.icc-cpi.int/defendant/ne...

Netanyahu

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 8h

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

From Robber Barons to Bezos: Is History Repeating Itself? | Robert Reich

Robert Reich

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 2h

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AuntieU @umaija.bsky.social · 8d

If Blue States provide 71% of the GDP, and Red States only 29%, WHY should the Blue States be run by Red State values, dictated by the Heritage Foundation (Project 2025)?

Create Blue States of America with a return to democracy, human rights, equality, inclusion and healthcare for all. It's time.

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Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 16h

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Christine Mitchell @christinescd.bsky.social · 10h

here is the family's gofundme: www.gofundme.com/f/mim-ajuda-...

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