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Ukraine's President Zelenskyy avoiding an assassination attempt in Ireland by Putin before he spoke to the Ireland Parliament and Meiselas discusses how Zelenskyy is fighting back against the Trump and Putin and the rest of the Trump regime after their betrayal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y1Q...
FURIOUS Zelenskyy BLASTS Trump after ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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December 5, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Without claiming Hillsdale meant this, I have a right as an American to claim all Americans as my ancestors, because I am a rightful inheritor of them as an American whatever the specifics of my direct ancestry.
Neither Trump, nor half of his cabinet have “ancestors” who were in North America before the revolution. I’d guess that less than half of current US citizens do. “Your ancestors” is doing a lot of implicitly white Christian nationalist work here.
November 23, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.
November 21, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.

Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging service members and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by President Donald Trump’s administration.
Democratic lawmakers urge troops to disobey illegal orders | CNN Politics
Half a dozen members of Congress who previously served in the military or intelligence community are urging servicemembers and intelligence officials to disobey illegal orders that might be issued by ...
www.cnn.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Why didn’t Donald sign the Epstein Files Transparency Act today?
November 19, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Life isn’t easy, governing isn’t easy, getting justice isn’t easy, nothing is easy but we are all adults and it’s our responsibility to just do it. Eliminate easy from your vocabulary.
November 19, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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Literally just lectured about this!

In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.
Oh, I don’t know. Our rivers no longer catch on fire and our air is far less poisonous than it used to be, even in smog bowls like Los Angeles. And I think those are good things.
If there’s no shale gas then there’s no shale gas, but I still think environmentalism is basically bad and politicians should focus more on material prosperity.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.
November 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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My ex shot me 10 times – and after the coma, I became an undercover cop
My ex shot me 10 times – and after the coma, I became an undercover cop
When Katrina Brownlee tried to leave her fiance, he aimed a gun at her pregnant stomach. The 22-year-old wasn’t expected to survive, let alone walk again. But she soon began her fight for other victims of crime
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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Julie Brown is the queen. She is the one who blew this open again a number of years ago in the Miami Herald. We owe her a huge debt of gratitude!!
November 14, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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They’re all just looting the treasury now
November 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Read "They Knew" alongside "One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This," and UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese's report on The Economy of Genocide," and you will better understand your place in the world.
law4palestine.org/summary-of-t...
November 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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"You never know the last time you pick up your child, or the last time you play with your childhood friends. If you knew it was the last, you’d hang on harder."
A quarter of my life ago, in terms of writing about it in national publications. (I wrote a poem about Trump's tax fraud when I was 12, because *that's how freaking obvious this all was*, but didn't publish it until last year, for fun:) sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/election-d...
Election Day, 1990
A tale of simpler times, and the poem I wrote about Trump when I was twelve.
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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Bingo. There's almost no energy for protesting this genocide, it's a very wealthy oil state that has most of the world bought off.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/07/a...
Sudan’s bloody conflict is plagued by foreign influence – here is what we know | CNN
While the war in Sudan has most often been portrayed as an internal conflict between two warring generals, the murky involvement of several foreign powers makes the conflict far more complex – and dea...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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We don’t enough. The US is close with the UAE, which is backing the RSF. the Stand Up for Sudan Act (S 935/HR 2059) and the US involvement in Sudanese Peace Act (HR 1939 address this. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib are co-sponsors! Call your reps! Have them support these bills!
November 9, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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“We're seeing a level of proliferation of bodies & body piles from space that's unlike anything I've ever seen…”

Human rights investigator Nathaniel Raymond explains how more people could be killed within a week in Sudan, compared to the past two years in Gaza.

🔗 zeteo.com/p/sudans-dea...
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Same.
I wish I had a dollar for every time @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was right.

Actually, I don't, but you know what I mean.
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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In 2016, I worried that the US would soon be destroyed. So for the next eight years, I took my kids everywhere I could so they'd know their country firsthand. We drove in every direction to see things from all sides.

Our story is a book, and I hope you'll preorder: www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
The Last American Road Trip
The New York Times bestselling author of They Knew, Hiding in Plain Sight, and The View from Flyover Country navigates a changing America as she and her fami...
www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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The best defense against rumors and false allegations are my own words. I stand by my words.

It is impossible to do stand by one's words when someone deletes them and then rewrites them – which is what the BlueSky administrators did.
November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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I’m getting back to work. You can stay in touch with me at sarahkendzior.substack.com: my newsletter is free.

Finally, please use my suspension to draw attention to other unjustly suspended people including Palestinians attempting to raise awareness of genocide, and the user Link. Thank you.
Sarah Kendzior’s Newsletter | Substack
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November 14, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Politicians from both parties work for the same "mafia state" and have essentially the same corporate donors; they work for those donors, not their constituents. Read everything this young woman has written.
The Republicans will kill you, and the Democrats will let you die.

An explainer on enablers from last year -- and before: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/ten-articl...
Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election
Some background reading
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:22 PM