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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 14h

The star of Xanadu.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 1d

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

I’m a US citizen and a veteran. ICE arrested me for no reason.

Jailed for three days without an explanation or ability to notify anyone, George Retes argues the only path to healing starts with the government taking accountability for its actions.

newsletter.ofthebrave.org

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Michael Edison Hayden @michaelehayden.bsky.social · 3d

Very serious person Andy Ngo has now been reduced to pleading with his audience to please please PLEASE take the dancing antifa muppets seriously

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Eladio Bobadilla @eladiobobadilla.com · 1d

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Faith M. Jackson @kissedbythesun.bsky.social · 2d

🚨BREAKING🚨: Portland Frog receives Nobel Peace Prize.

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Lisa Westerveld 🌱 @lisawesterveld.bsky.social · 2d

Met nepafbeeldingen mensen ophitsen en tegen elkaar opzetten.

Het laat zien dat de PVV een diep anti-democratische club is.

En het geeft een heel naar inkijkje in hoe PVV-Kamerleden kijken naar vrouwen.

www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/k...

Kamerlid PVV verspreidt AI-afbeeldingen met ‘onschuldige’ blonde vrouwen en lichtgetinte mannen ‘met wilde baarden’

Fanaccounts van de PVV verspreiden op grote schaal levensechte AI-beelden die polarisatie in de hand werken. De beelden zijn onder meer gemaakt door een Tweede Kamerlid voor de PVV, zo blijkt uit onde...

www.volkskrant.nl

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

Nothing is determined. There is room to push back.

But let’s not pretend this isn’t exactly what it looks like: The regime is declaring all forms of dissent illegitimate and is preparing a massive crackdown on all forms of political and societal opposition.

They want to escalate. This is it.

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The recent trajectory, in broad strokes:

- Regime starts militarizing the conflict in early summer
- Regime declares all liberal/leftwing political activity as domestic terrorist or terrorism-adjacent in presidential memo
- Regime ramps up the propaganda against “the Left” across all channels

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 2d

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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William Carruthers @williamcarruthers.bsky.social · 2d

I’d love higher ed policy to be made by people who actually worked in higher ed, but apparently that’s too much to ask

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Lord Chris Hanrahan (He/Him) @chrishanrahan.bsky.social · 2d

After 55 years, today is the last show. Every Sunday night as a young teen, I'd lay in bed and put my headphones on and make it to the Funny Five every week. Mondays sure would suck harder because of it, but hot damn was it worth it.

I salute the good doctor on his retirement.

Dr. Demento - Streaming

drdemento.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 2d

A trend I’ve noticed after having watched too many of these despicable ICE arrest videos is when bystanders demand they let detainee go, an officer suggests they’re being picked up for a serious crime to try and deter help. But we know that’s not true of a vast majority of people and the jig is up.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 3d

HE WAS AN ACTIVE REPUBLICAN EXTREMELY PRO-FA

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 3d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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C.V. Danes @cv-danes.com · 4d

Every time I see Miller's name I'm reminded of how Dem leadership didn't prosecute him for his involvement in the family separation atrocity because they didn't think it worth the effort, and here we are.

Just so damn short sighted.

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · 5d

I mean it

Emily Dische-Becker @emilydische.bsky.social · 5d

"Much of this material consisted of outright falsehoods – e.g. the widely circulated animation alleging that Hamas operated a command centre beneath Al-Shifa Hospital. No such facility was found, but it was used to destroy almost the entire healthcare system in Gaza" www.972mag.com/israeli-army...

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

www.972mag.com

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 5d

We’ve archived 1 trillion web pages via the Wayback Machine. Help us preserve 1 trillion more with P2P fundraising: donate.archive.org/1T

#Wayback1T

Graphic with pixelated, 3D-styled webpage icons radiating outward from a bright point. Center text reads: "Fundraise with us! Celebrating 1 Trillion Webpages Archived."

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 5d

Free speech is when the government forces you to rename specific roads after someone

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 5d

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don't rename roads after Charlie Kirk

thehill.com

Florida Republican unveils bill threatening state funding if colleges don’t rename roads after Charlie Kirk

twp.ai

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uumediaculture.bsky.social @uumediaculture.bsky.social · 5d

Meet the new socials team!
Hi there! We are Rosalyn and Merel and we are the socials team this semester! We are exited to share all things media with you!

Hoi iedereen! Wij zijn Rosalyn en Merel en wij zijn het socials team dit semester! We hebben zin om alles over media met jullie te delen!

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Naomi Alderman @naomialderman.bsky.social · 6d

I cannot understand what these people think the purpose of human life is?

It is *not* "pursue joy, deal justly, love well, try to understand as much and see as much of this beautiful world and of the deepness, richness and variety of human culture and experience as you can before you die"?

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 6d

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 6d

Seriously: it doesn't take evil geniuses. Being assholes is enough.

Chantal James @chantalalive.blacksky.app · 6d

You don't have to be good at fascism to be good at it unfortunately.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Feb 5

that said: I think the "it's not fascism unless they're good at it" brand of analysis probably isn't the move

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Kye @gxldsociety.bsky.social · 7d

PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.

Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.

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Greylace @greylace.bsky.social · 6d

The recent ICE raid which emptied an entire apartment building was apparently at the request of Wells Fargo, which is trying to foreclose on the building.

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 6d

southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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Tanja Bueltmann @tanjabueltmann.net · 7d

I say this with the bluntness it requires: they will get people murdered if this continues. This is not just populism anymore either: it’s completely unhinged and a deliberate choice that does endanger lives. I am not saying this lightly at all.

Screenshot of an Express article; it says: Robert Jenrick lists 30 'activist judges' he vows to axe in war on UK's open border

In a bold move, Robert Jenrick is set to unveil a controversial plan targeting what he calls 'activist' judges, at the Conservative Party conference.

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Alec Badenoch @alecbad.bsky.social · 7d

Reading Caroline Nevejan’s splendid essay “shaping trust” with my honours students today.

Don’t know what they will make of it, but I sure needed this today.

www.nevejan.org/caroline-nev...

Shaping Trust — Caroline Nevejan

Caroline Nevejan writes about the YUTPA framework she developed, the ideas and developments surrounding this 'talking tool'.

www.nevejan.org

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 7d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 7d

AOC: "I thought that fascist takeover attempts were going to be architected by evil geniuses. I was not expecting how unearned, nepotistic, mediocre and just dumb so many of the people architecting this were going to be"

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