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Birgitta Jonsdottir

@birgittaj.bsky.social

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Poetician and Antifa from Iceland. Former Captain in, and co-creator of, the Pirate Party. Spent 8 years in parliament. Co-produced Collateral Murder. A annoying fly in the tent. Care about: Mother Earth & all her creatures 💚 🇵🇸 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇺🇦 🌏

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · Feb 28

Dark enlightenment & other crazy Thiel pet projects are unfolding. It's critical that people understand that the brownshirts hacking the entire USA infrastructure and dismantling it are his and Elon minions. Thiel sees himself as some sort of Saruman, while he fondles his Palantír.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · Feb 23

What’s happening now is part of a plan to end democracy:

“It is clear that Thiel sees corporations as the governments of the future and capitalists such as himself as the kings, and it is also clear that this is a shockingly common view in Thiel’s cohort.”

thebaffler.com/latest/mouth...

Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich | Corey Pein

Meet the neo-reactionaries who influenced the rightward drift of Silicon Valley.

thebaffler.com

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 6h

Stephen Miller, acting President

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 4h

A widespread data-sharing program with ICE supports local and state budgets nationwide—even in so-called sanctuary cities and states that forbid certain law enforcement cooperation and information sharing with ICE.

This Bay Area County Says It Cut Ties with ICE. This Program Says Otherwise.

A widespread data-sharing program highlights financial ties between local police and immigration enforcement—and how even sanctuary jurisdictions still feed “the deportation machine.”

boltsmag.org

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 6h

Facts

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 7h

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 6h

The historical parallels are glaring.

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 9h

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.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

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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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 6h

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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d

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

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Bob Dobalina @bobdabalina.bsky.social · 10h

Trump turned the DOJ into the Dept of Revenge while Peter Thiel is building phase 2, a Christo-Fascist-Oligarchy.

Gee wiz, I just thought they would stop illegals from eating my pet.
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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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 9h

He is just pure evil.

Nancy Levine Stearns 🌎 @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 9h

Peter Thiel is Palantir co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors. He is president of Thiel Capital, and a partner of Founders Fund, a venture capital firm.

Everyone who remains in his circles is complicit.

www.commondreams.org/news/peter-t...

Instead of Charity, Peter Thiel Told Elon Musk to Use Billions for Right-Wing Crusade Against 'Antichrist' | Common Dreams

Billionaire Peter Thiel urges Elon Musk to hoard wealth to battle future "Antichrist." Thiel warns against giving to left-wing nonprofits.

www.commondreams.org

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 10h

I hope in storage

Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13h

As a protest optics nerd love about the inflatables is how much they visually disrupt and pull focus from the fascist shock imagery Noem & Miller are trying to create.

So many of these photos now look like the world's silliest dance party, backgrounded by a bunch of guys in uniform looking awkward

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14h

Svitlana’s 7-year-old son, Makar, was killed by a Russian attack on Zaporizhzhia last night.

Makar's dad returned from Russian captivity this spring, after being held for three years. He is badly injured, doctors are fighting for his life.

My heard breaks for this family.

📹: weukrainetv

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 17h

Not only that: he believes that THOSE, might be the Antichrist. Is Thiel perhaps one of those crazy asylum seekers who escaped the asylum in some fairy tale land with Hannibal Lecter in order to invade USA?

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 17h

Thiel "argued that those who propose limits on technology development not only hinder business but threaten to usher in the destruction of the United States and an era of global totalitarian rule, according to the recordings."

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Indivisible Memphis @indivisiblememphis.bsky.social · 1d

LAST CALL FOR MARSHAL TRAINING BEFORE NK2

Friday, Oct. 10th
6-8:00 pm
MIC- Youth Villages

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Birgitta Jonsdottir @birgittaj.bsky.social · 17h

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 1d

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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elia ayoub 🌱 @ayoub.bsky.social · 18h

As a lifelong hate-watcher of #BBCQT it's been incredible to see the tone shift in last night's prog with @zackpolanski.bsky.social on. It should have never been that hard to call for common sense - and actually popular - policies. Someone is actually doing it.

Quick 🧵

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𝔻𝕖𝕔𝕝𝕒𝕟 𝕆'𝔻𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕝𝕝 @jacqbetula.bsky.social · 1d

It's a great day to remember how important a translator like @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social is for those of us who can only read in English.
Without her superb translations, we would have missed so much of the great work of László Krasznahorkai.

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Words Without Borders & WWB Campus @wwborders.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever's on László Krasznahorkai's #tbr should probably be on your TBR! Preorder this book by our contributor Krisztina Tóth (tr. by another contributor, Ottilie Mulzet):
bookshop.org/a/169/978164...

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Sisyphus Idaho @sisyphus43.bsky.social · 1d

Portland responds to claims that it is in a state of emergency.

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Julia Simon @juliaradio.bsky.social · 1d

When the power went out in Spain this spring, many people immediately pointed the finger at the country's solar and wind power as the cause.

That wasn't the trigger, but a new survey finds that all that misinformation?

It had an impact.

Read more here, only on @npr.org 🎧⬇️

After Spain's blackout, critics blamed renewable energy. It's part of a bigger attack

When millions lost power in Spain and Portugal this spring, some were quick to blame too much solar and wind power. That wasn't the cause, but the misinformation had an impact.

www.npr.org

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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 1d

Hey America-
I don’t care at this point who you voted for, did you vote for having your rights & privacy taken away?
WAKE THE HELL UP.
#ProudBlue #OneV1 #Pinks

extremearturo.substack.com/p/no-one-is-...

No One Is Safe From DHS

The rights you thought you had effectively no longer exist

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

have I mentioned lately that the U.S. is too corrupt to pass even a basic internet-era privacy law and is actively dismantling our cybersecurity regulators

Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 1d

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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