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narodsobe
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Nonprofiteer. Stalwart defender of the underdog. Midwest human. 🐘🤎💙 ‘26 parent. Labradors and David Austin roses. Flag s/b Czech. FFUK alum. It's technically 'narod sobe' and it's about a divadlo. Art history and totalitarianism, nationalism.
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No one advising dems to go on fox news has ever watched it
Understanding the mechanics of propaganda has been extremely useful in seeing how effective the right can be and how the Dems miss opportunity after opportunity. The supposedly smart democratic consultants don’t even know how Fox News works, that’s why they keep stupidly telling Dems to go there.
What's so telling to me is the extent to which people like you and Andrew Lawrence and others - people with no specialized training beyond actually consuming right wing media and knowing they believe it - have been 5+ years ahead in understanding this moment in politics.
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Are you furious with the NYT for its unserious, frightening and mischievous coverage of the rise of far right? Well this should help you there...
Could This Unserious,
Mischievous, Frightening
Man Be Britain’s
Next Prime Minister?

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | Could This Unserious, Mischievous, Frightening Man Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister?
www.nytimes.com
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This is one of the most horrific crimes being systemically committed by Russian forces — as they train their new soldiers by getting them to kill civilians — and devastatingly exposes the real aim of the Russian war effort.
UN report confirms that Russia is using drones to systematically target civilians in Ukraine.

“These attacks have a devastating impact on the civilian population living in the affected areas. They have caused extensive damage and destruction, leaving entire localities unliveable”
UN Commission says Russian drones target civilians and destroy infrastructure, making localities in frontline provinces of Ukraine unliveable
GENEVA / VIENNA – Russian armed forces have targeted civilians and a wide array of civilian objects using short-range drones in localities stretching over 300 kilometres along the right bank of the Dn...
www.ohchr.org
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A new filing claims an ICE agent aimed a gun at a U.S. citizen during a protest, testing court limits on federal force.
ICE Agent Pointed Gun at US Citizen, Said, ‘You’re Dead, Liberal’—Filing
www.newsweek.com
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Congratulations to my dear friend Gregor Valentovic on his debut film Nepela, out in cinemas this week. A powerful story of a Czechoslovak figure skater and the 1972 Olympic champion whose personal fight for freedom collided with the brutal wall of totalitarianism. And a cinematic masterpiece.
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this is *heavily* on my mind.
One of the strongest hurricane’s on record is slamming into Jamaica right now and USAID no longer exists and FEMA is a shell of itself
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Correction: Orban's Hungary is 17th worst decliner in the world with % of decline similar to Burkina Faso's (misread graph due to lack of ☕ & worst declining countries listed at bottom rather than top of graph 😬). Orban's Hungary remains top autocratising country of the last 25 years (see VDEM 2025)
Orban's Hungary third worst rule of law decliner in the world in 2024/25 & indeed the worst backsliding country in the past decade

EU's reaction: @ec.europa.eu rewarded Orban with €10.2bn in Dec 2023, no a single 💶 was clawed back/frozen & @consilium.europa.eu has kept doing nothing on Art 7 etc...
The 2025 rule of law index reflects the ongoing destruction of legal systems
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DHS officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. The target's car was riddled with bullets. But the police report shows no gunfire. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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The cover up here, and the complicity of the mayor enabling these DHS thugs to operate in a dangerous and deadly fashion alongside the DC police, is shocking and unacceptable. There have to be consequences.
BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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BREAKING: A Department of Homeland Security officer shot at an unarmed black man during a traffic stop in DC, and the DC police officer said he was told by superiors not to mention the shooting in his incident report. 1/ www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Lawyers allege cover-up after fed shoots at man during D.C. traffic stop
Neither D.C. police nor the Department of Homeland Security have explained why the Homeland Security agent fired his weapon.
www.washingtonpost.com
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I need a button that opts me out of all AI unless I ask for something. No more fake artist mash-ups or fake movie trailers on YouTube. No more fake animal videos on Facebook. No more every software shoving AI into everything I try to do. I would pay good money for this.

/curmudgeonly rant
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👇 Louder for the peeps wearing headphones. 🎤
The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP.

Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP.

The people who need help are not the problem.

It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.
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And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job
Gaines: I want to challenge AOC to a debate.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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🧵New 2025 data shows COVID-19 vaccines continue to provide effective, durable protection.

2024–25 COVID vaccines offered strongest protection at 4 weeks: 44.7% effectiveness vs infection, 45.1% vs emergency department visits, and 57.5% vs hospitalisation or death.

Source: archive.li/hNTLQ
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since the u.s. seems to be treating the first amendment as optional at the moment, you should follow this org's work (which to be fair is important in good times too) freedom.press
Freedom of the Press Foundation
Defending press freedom for the next generation
freedom.press
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Independent investigative journalism that truly sits outside of the established system allows the media-political class itself to be scrutinised. How can we understand the world we live in if we won't ask difficult questions of those framing it?

Support Byline Times: subscribe.bylinetimes.com
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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.