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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 16h

Corruption in daylight: "We look for better price!"

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump's conversation with Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is caught on a hot mic. Hard to tell exactly what they are talking about, but Subianto asks Trump about meeting Eric Trump and Don Jr, who supposedly have nothing to do with government while they run the family business.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 17h

Shameless leaders who play sycophant feudal lords to a narcissistic king!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

oh my goodness world leaders are rubbing sores in Egypt about Trump and the Nobel

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 17h

Shameless leaders who play sycophant feudal lords to a narcissistic king!

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

oh my goodness world leaders are rubbing sores in Egypt about Trump and the Nobel

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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 19h

“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 22h

He is Ayman Odeh, a member of Knesset and the leader of the Haddash party, a left-wing Jewish-Palestinian party.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Trump's speech to the Knesset is interrupted by a demonstrator

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 1d

Horrific!

Leia🇨🇴🇺🇸 @theswprincess.bsky.social · 1d

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m.

The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom.

While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop.

The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 1d

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Alan Dettlaff @alandettlaff.com · 2d

Yesterday I was told that the class I’m scheduled to teach this month, Confronting Oppression & Injustice, is no longer part of our curriculum. This is a required class yet there was no discussion, no faculty vote, just an email saying the class no longer exists. This is what it’s like in Texas now.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 2d

When incompetency meets cruelty...

Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 2d

The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...

Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error

www.nytimes.com

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 2d

🎯 Deinstitutionalization and personalization of the regime go hand in hand.

Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 2d

The autocrat's toadies destroy functioning governance and launch crisis after crisis in order to create a nation that runs on patronage in which he's the only one able to do anything for anyone.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

The frogs of the world unite!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Clément Plaisant @cplaisant.bsky.social · 3d

After Ekrem İmamoğlu and Özgür Özel, is Mansur Yavaş the Turkish government's next target? The Palace appears to be stepping up its operations against the CHP-run municipality of Ankara, which has already been the subject of judicial investigations for some time.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Turkish Prosecutors Plan Misconduct Probe of Ankara Mayor Yavas

Turkish prosecutors have requested official permission from the country’s interior ministry to investigate Ankara’s mayor, a move likely to further heighten political tensions.

www.bloomberg.com

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 2d

An immature 10.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas official says group will not completely disarm, will hand over weapons to future Palestinian military.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

The frogs of the world unite!

Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 3d

I love this image.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

A Nobel Prize for Eric Adams for turning the NYC around!

Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 3d

"What is it going to take before you drop your hate and say, 'Listen, the guy did the job!' I'm not running anymore, so you no longer have to do this whole charade. I turned the city around, folks—come on! ... Stop coming up with all of these creative ways of saying 'Eric failed.' Eric didn't fail."

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

In case you missed it, the agreed 21 point plan is in the 🧵

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14d

Trump administration releases the full 21-point Gaza plan which redraws the Strip and sidelines Palestinians.

➤ Gaza would shrink with a permanent Israeli “security buffer zone,” swallowing the Philadelphi corridor on the Egypt border.

➤ A new Board of Peace chaired by Trump himself — with Tony…

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” M.I.T president Kornbluth wrote.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

Many who would rush to condemn anti-Zionism as antisemitic would acknowledge that Zionism has different meanings. Well, you know what so does anti-Zionism. And ofc both terms have racist variants.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

Apparently, she hasn't received the memo on good vs. bad Muslims.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 3d

Seeing pictures of an abandoned tamale cart in Pilsen where ICE took a tamale street vendor. Those photos of left behind carts are so haunting. Community members disappeared. Not just vendors but people who have long standing relationships with the community and people.

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 3d

Authoritarians rule based on fear.

Ridiculing them this way weakens their propaganda.

It matters.

Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 3d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” M.I.T president Kornbluth wrote.

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

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

Humor is a potent tool in the fight against authoritarianism.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 4d

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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Yusuf Sarfati @yusufsarfati.bsky.social · 3d

For a second, read your name as the Oregon Onion 😅

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