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Batumelebi&Netgazeti @netgazeti.org · 1h

🗣️“They’ve come for me too! If they think they can scare me, my family, or my friends – they’re wrong. In the end, we will still win,” Formula TV journalist Keta Tsitskishvili reports being arrested in new wave of detentions targeting #GeorgiaProtests.

#RepressionInGeorgia

Another Journalist Arrested in New Wave of Detentions Targeting Daily Protests - Batumelebi

Georgia Protests • Press Freedom • Repression In Georgia •

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 26m

"Extradite Assad to us, and we can talk business"

"No."

"Ok then..."

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Philipp Eckstein @eckstein.bsky.social · 2h

Merz wurde gerade zu seiner Aussage zum #Stadtbild gefragt. Seine Antwort: "Ich habe gar nichts zurückzunehmen. Im Gegenteil, ich unterstreiche es noch einmal." 1/x

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 37m

Die gibt es bei der AfD schon (z.B. wie Journalisten bei Demos angegangen und auch körperlich Gewalt zugefügt wird).

Bei der CDU kann ich das aber nicht erkennen.

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 37m

Aber ich müsste auch anfangen die Politik in Deutschland aufmerksamer zu verfolgen.

(Als politischen Gegner delegitimiert wurde die Grüne Partei auf jeden Fall schon eine Weile - aber das ist ja noch ein Unterschied).

Was (zum Glück) nicht der Stand ist, ist eine Politisierung von Gewalt.
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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 37m

„Faschismus beginnt mit der Verschiebung gesellschaftlicher Normen: Erst kommt die Normalisierung extremer Ideen, dann die Gewöhnung, dann die Dehumanisierung von Gegner*innen.“

Das haben wir - krasser, und erschreckenderweise - tatsächlich schon.

Dehumanisierung vielleicht noch nicht so ganz.
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Robert Fietzke @robertfietzke.bsky.social · 1h

Lasst uns mal unser Töchter fragen, was sie von Politikern halten, die gegen die Strafbarkeit der Vergewaltigung in der Ehe gestimmt haben, Frauenhäuser und Beratungsstellen im Stich lassen und sich einen Dreck für Femizide interessieren.

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 44m

Spannend vielleicht inzwischen auch für eine Beobachtung der CDU ?
(Never gonna happen, aber in aller Öffentlichkeit werden gerade Klöpper rausgehauen die sich so viel nicht von denen der AfD unterscheiden...)

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 49m

Und schreibt was von FDGO in sein Profil? Strange...

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 13h

Hey, English speaking, majority light skinned population, countries North of the Equator.

You're only missing Ireland then, otherwise there really are no other "peers"... 🤪

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 13h

Reading the headline, yeah, was gonna say if this actually goes down then at least some good will have come out of the whole story.

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 14h

Um. This is a 2 months old story?

(Like, I had missed it back then, and it is pretty bad for the regime, but still - you need to point out its not current! )

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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Grudgie the Whale @grudgie.bsky.social · 14h

There were almost definitely more Trump voters participating in the rallies than there were counterprotesting.

Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 15h

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 14h

Murdoch seems at least somewhat concerned that he might come out of a fascist entrenchment worse off
(completely justified, I'd say, because decision making is on a whim and arbitrary, and anyone can fall from grace with "dear leader").

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 14h

Bit late, but came to me later:

Just one example of how the police are not in the regime's pocket (even if this ICE agent seems to assume they should be - perhaps with a helping of hoping for sympathy for being with his kids):

bsky.app/profile/davi...

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 2d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

Considering joining after realising as a UK citizen (even if I don't have a passport yet, and haven't been a resident since I was a kid), I'm probably eligible :).

I want in :P !

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

Really, what is satire?

These dudes in the US and the UK, they are beyond washed 🤣 .

I mean its sad for the people there of course, but I really am laughing here at the stupid, stupid, stupidity of it all :P .

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Marvin Oppong @marvinoppong.bsky.social · 15h

Um Mitternacht ist Ende - aber es fehlen noch 20 Prozent: www.startnext.com/neuanfang-am.... Jetzt zählt jeder Euro und jeder Share!

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

And then you had a smug group of people so convinced of themselves there was little point (or at least that's what it felt like) to try to get the article renamed...

(They weren't even climate deniers, from what I can tell - actually pretty active and balanced contributors to climate related stuff)

seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

Like, the article on Climate Change was for (what felt like forever) called "Global warming".

This made it totally sucky to find, and of course people would blindly link to the "Climate Change" article instead (which was about geological timescale changes in climate...).

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

I used to be a pretty engaged "Wikipedian" (mostly on Wikinews though actually...).

But one thing that turned me off a lot was (at least back then - I'd wager now as well), a lot of articles were very "turfy" -> there were a couple editors that kept an eye on them, effectively claiming control.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16h

I think we can lay the groundwork to win this. @hammerandhope.bsky.social ran an interview with the folks who won Build Public Renewables in New York, lessons there worth checking out

hammerandhope.org/article/clim...

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seancj.bsky.social @seancj.bsky.social · 15h

Brilliant messaging :) !

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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 17h

Spread the word if you agree. Make an example out of one company, others will follow.

Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 19h

Cancel SPOTIFY.

They are running ICE ads.

F them.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/s...

Is Spotify running ICE recruitment ads? Here are the facts

The advertising "is part of a broad campaign the US government is running" across various platforms — not just Spotify, a spokesperson told Snopes.

www.snopes.com

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