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Frederick Douglass argued that free speech, “of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down.” Did I show up when people needed me as part of the solution? Resistance to the end.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 14h

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The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

YouTube video by The Daily Show

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 16h

@kairyssdal.bsky.social

Have you picked up on this?

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

First Brands: why a maker of spark plugs and wiper blades has Wall Street worried

Investors fear that the collapse of the car parts company – and the size of its debt – could portend wider problems

www.theguardian.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20h

"Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago"

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

Important reporting from @swin24.bsky.social:

Inside Trump’s Plot To Terrorize Chicago

Sources in the administration tell Zeteo that Trump is also seriously discussing invoking the Insurrection Act with his top advisers.

zeteo.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 16h

Fascism features exclusionary nationalism, a belief in national decline or victimhood, a cult of personality around a leader, and the scapegoating of "enemies" or minority groups. Fascist regimes often rely on propaganda, violence, and state control of the economy and media to achieve their goals

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 16h

We all do.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 19h

I've never been so f'ing scared in all my life.

“At some point, you have this supergenius within the lab that totally doesn’t share your values, and it’s just, like, way too powerful for you to still control.”

#AI #GenAI #jailbreak #science #shared

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Opinion | The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 20h

Powerful. Subscribed.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 20h

Why? Because Qrazy Marg has kicked off the 2028 Presidental Elections.

Thank for the Qrazy Marg - love it!

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 20h

The hallmark of a fascist regime: propaganda

#NoKings #disbandICE #defundICE #resist #Portland

The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

TACO anyone?

Agolf Twitler Slayer @slayeragolf.bsky.social · 21h

Another trump pump and dump scheme!
finance.yahoo.com/news/live/st...

Stock market today: Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq slide as Trump threatens 'massive increase' on China tariffs

Markets have had an uncertain week, pulled in different directions by AI demand hopes and US government shutdown worries.

finance.yahoo.com

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

Meanwhile the orange führer is pitching a fit.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

As one NYT article put it: Circular Investment

#econsky #AI

Andrew Lokenauth | TheFinanceNewsletter.com @www.thefinancenewsletter.com · 1d

Every day, AI looks more like the 2008 housing bubble. Wrappers on wrappers.

The wrappers are wrapping wrappers. With companies valued at insane amounts with zero profit.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

As does paying off your credit card balance in full each month.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

Wait a few months for variable mortgages to catch fire.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 21h

As one NYT article put it: Circular Investment. What could go wrong?

#AI #AI-colada

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 22h

Power of the RIBBIT!

#NoKings #disbandICE #defundICE #fightfascism

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

Antifa Discount Card

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grawlix01 @grawlix01.bsky.social · 1d

Full list of performers - this weekend - down by the river #RVA

Most musicians play multiple times and some get together and jam … magic

Artists l Richmond Folk Festival

www.richmondfolkfestival.org

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

#UkrainianView #Ukraine

Slava Ukraini!

The hedgehog @the-hedgehog.bsky.social · 2d

Ukrainian drone followed a Russian drone back to its home, hit the Russian drone operator

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 1d

As a reminder to all patriotic VA / RVA citizens to please vote and to join me:

#NoKings #resist #fightfascism #democracy #ProudBlue #FiftyFiftyOne

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

Sir: You know that Habeas is a Democrate.

Trump: Suspend immediately.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

She's positioning herself for a presidential run in 2028.

Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

Johnson: "my dog ate my homework"

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 2d

"I've been buying out of Canada
& getting prescription thru UK
& India. Same drugs, except

Cost Plus is rock bottom lower!!!

Saved over $10,000 dollars for
six months prescription
Wow! again

@costplusdrugs proving again, we are cheaper than other countries. Right here in the USA

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Alex Marten 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇺🇦🇸🇾 @amarten.bsky.social · 2d

Procecute for constitutional violations.