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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 3h

This is what it looks like when your community stands up.

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Tom Sgouros @tsgouros.bsky.social · 20h

The 25th amendment did not anticipate a cabinet that would see the President's obvious disability as being to their advantage.

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 1d

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

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Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

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Felicity Tiggs @fiztig.bsky.social · 21h

Thiel talked about Carl Schmitt being one of his ideological heroes that forms part of his core beliefs. Why do we treat anything he says as anything more than utter nonsense?

We may as well say that billionaires are a bunch of shallow, credulous idiots at this point.

Excerpt from Carl Schmitt Wikipedia entry:

Schmitt's doctrine helped clear the way for Hitler's rise to power by providing the theoretical legal foundation of the Nazi regime.

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Fiona Parker @fionaparker1.bsky.social · 21h

Reminds me of this choice paragraph from that excellent article from Mother Jones where the journo called every single person in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book:

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks!
It’s really hard to list without sounding like a conspiracist. It’s just a relatively small world of people *very* dedicated to their missions.

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Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 16h

Lucy Hamilton with a cogent insight into just how ****ed the US is:
@lucyham.bsky.social

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Stop crediting Trump for the US government

Authoritarians gain power by building a fearsome reputation. Trump is the face of a posse of people and groups. We must not strengthen him, or allow them to hide.

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Gavin Miller @glmiller.bsky.social · 16h

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Lucy Hamilton | Substack

Doctoral candidate. Researching fossil fuel’s architecture of influence operations’ Christian Nationalism. Click to read Lucy Hamilton, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 14h

@lucyham.bsky.social is one of the handful of people here whose account is on my notification 🔔 list. I never miss her posts!

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 12h

Thank-you both so much. 🧡🧡🧡🎉

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 20h

I’ve been winding up the strength to go for the details of the lectures, but couldn’t bear it.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21h

Eugenics. Social Gospel (Jesus Christianity) replaced by Order variant. Imposition of narrow definition of “virtue” on every single person & structure.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21h

Note his first career was a culture war operator for an Atlas Network partner front group. Radicalised in part by Opus Dei’s DC ploy. (See Gareth Gore)

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22h

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21h

Not to mention that Milei, like David Seymour ( #NZpol Dep PM), Liz Truss, Sunak & many UK Tories, much of Trump, Milei is an #AtlasNetwork operator. These networks bail each other out. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22h

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21h

When journalists and the well-intentioned sector of the pundit class talk about what “Trump” is doing, they make him sound coherent as well as scary. Our focus needs to be on the network of networks shaping most of the “achievements” of his second term.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 21h

Note Thiel’s four-part lecture series on the Antichrist. We’re not in “normal” business times.

His extreme Christian culture war operations are at work in #auspol, and his surveillance state is here.

Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 22h

Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection. A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it.

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Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection

A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it

open.substack.com

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 1d

This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.

Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 1d

China ≠ just coal plants and solar exports. The deeper shift: electrifying everything it can. Strategic, because China relies on imported fossil fuels. Coal is still king in the power mix—for now. But the balance is changing year by year.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder how much of the Atlas Network-world determination to get Seymour & co into power was about breaking the expectation that we could do better.

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d

Far out 🤯

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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 1d

A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/qdnOZFWWrfXB...

Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!

Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy

getup.to

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🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🍉 @chrishehim.bsky.social · 1d

Of course they did and this explains why they are always so keen to ban any pro Palestine marches. #auspol #nswpol #freepalesti̇ne

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for the update. Relieved to hear it. Bonkers to think America was surface-normal under Obama a decade ago. It’s unraveling so quickly.

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