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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 51m

PIERRE POILIEVRE: "I spent $8,000,000 of taxpayers money campaigning and whatever. Got you a box of stuff with what's left."

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 14h

War torn Portland.
I am

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 1h

"Ain't Seen Them Cross Cross the Line"
Blind Mike Johnson and the White Sheet Boys

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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 3h

US Soybean farmer: This is caused by this administration, and it’s having a negative major consequence on not only farmers, but also on American factory workers..."

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 1h

"Ain't Seen Them Cross Cross the Line"
Blind Mike Johnson and the White Sheet Boys

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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 2h

This is not just funny, it's smart. We need more of this mockery that shows these thugs that we see their despicable fascism and give them the respect that they deserve.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h

ICYMI: “And now, a response from the leader of the frog resistance...” 🐸 🎵 #Colbert

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jen sometimes aph 🌻 @bunnibytz.bsky.social · 13h

"How to Stand Up to a Dictator" author @mariaressa.bsky.social explains how social media companies used the Philippines as a testing ground for mass manipulation before employing their tactics in the U.S.

via @thedailyshow.com

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 15h

"Run for PM, Pierre. I want to be an influencer."

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 17h

Chris Christie: “Thie is no longer, the Department of Justice, is no longer the premier prosecuting office in America. What it is now is a capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so. That’s what it is.”

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 17h

"I stand on solid rock and I will not bow, I will not break, I will not bend, I will not capitulate, I will not give in, I will not give up."

New York Attorney General Letitia James speaks out after being indicted by the Trump DOJ.

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 15h

a man in a striped shirt is holding a cup of coffee and looking at the camera .

ALT: a man in a striped shirt is holding a cup of coffee and looking at the camera .

media.tenor.com

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 17h

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 17h

a man wearing a blue sweatshirt with the word titan on the front

ALT: a man wearing a blue sweatshirt with the word titan on the front

media.tenor.com

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Adelle Loiselle @adelleloiselle.bsky.social · 23h

No matter how much you cry about it, we will never ever be your girlfriend.

The boycott is doing its job, beautifully. Look who is complaining.
www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/b...

Canada’s boycott America movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business

Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.

www.cnn.com

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 22h

a lot of people want to read Trump and team's fossil fuel obsession as being about *money* but while there is of course a corruption element, it's primarily pure culture war stuff. even many of the big fossil fuel companies want to get into renewables because it's so obviously the future.

Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 22h

Coal production and employment in Wyoming has steadily been declining, much like the rest of the industry in the US.

Coal is a dead industry.

(Chart from here: www.uwyo.edu/cbea/wyoming... )

Graphs showing coal production (left) and employment in coal (right) for the state of Wyoming from 1983 to 2020 from the linked website. Coal production was rapidly increasing until 2008 and has more or less steadily decreased since. Employment in coal likewise rapidly increased until 2009, was stable until 2012 and has rapidly decreased since.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Right on

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 15d

Monopoly and totalitarianism go hand in hand.

The only way to stop the growing censorship of Trump's critics is to fight the consolidation of media outlets into the hands of a few families that do not care about the best interests of the country.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22h

Carole Cadwalladr was right and we’d be in a better world if more people had listened.

Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 16d

This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.

If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐

There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21h

Obama: "When you see an administration suggest that ordinary street crime is an insurrection or a terrorist act, that is a genuine effort to weaken how we have understood democracy."

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 20h

Pierre Poilievre lies like his paycheque depends on it.

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Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 20h

PP lies 7 times in a few minutes

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Bill Madden @maddenifico.bsky.social · 21h

WARNING: This horrific video by a war correspondent reporting from the front lines of war ravaged Portland is not for the squeamish. 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣👇

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TRIFAN @trifan.bsky.social · 20h

JFC. Even Putin doesn't hate the USA as much as some Americans do.

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Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social · 23h

How W. E. B. Du Bois responded to government policing of "anti-American" sentiment during the 1910s:

"I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, 'We are seeking to have the Constitution of the United States thoroughly and completely enforced.' ”

Federal agents invaded even the offices of The Crisis and the National Association for the advancement of colored people and asked searching questions: " just what, after all, were our objects and activities?” I took great satisfaction in being able to sit back in my chair and answer blandly, “We are seeking to have the constitution of the United states thoroughly and completely enforced.” It took some ingenuity, even for Southerners, to make treason out of that.

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 23h

Elon Musk's SpaceX and xAI are buying Tesla's unsold Cybertrucks (Fred Lambert/Electrek)

Main Link | memeorandum Permalink

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