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❌👑 Michael B @broderick-m.bsky.social · 1d

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 14h

Heart-warming Frogman, our there because he doesn't want anyone treated inhumanely 💚💚💚

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Jesse Duquette, The Daily Don

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 16h

He's such a disgusting promoter of xenophobia. I hope Canadians are indeed fundamentally different than Americans and won't get seduced by his ideas (although I know part of them already think like that, sadly)

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 1d

I found this in an article by Rick Wilson

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 1d

Checkmate to Trump. He's against Maduro himself, so he can't complain too much that the Nobel Prize goes to one of his allies in this fight

Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

María Corina Machado—leader of Venezuelan opposition against Maduro, former member of National Assembly and presidential candidate — has been awarded Nobel Peace Prize

“When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist”, Nobel Committee

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 1d

Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.

Maria Corina Machado – awarded the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize – has spent years working for the freedom of the Venezuelan people. The Venezuelan regime’s rigid hold on power and its repression of the population are not unique in the world. We see the same trends globally: rule of law abused by those in control, free media silenced, critics imprisoned, and societies pushed towards authoritarian rule and militarisation. In 2024, more elections were held than ever before, but fewer and fewer are free and fair.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

The frogs are multiplying

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 2d

Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.

Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 2d

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Stephen Colbert Mocks JD Vance With Raunchy Meme

YouTube video by Newsweek

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 2d

Some More News tell the story of how he's been a racist fanatic for a very long time
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The Making Of Stephen Miller - SOME MORE NEWS

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 2d

I really found this well done and smart

#cdnPoli #canPoli

Has Mark Carney cracked the Trump playbook? | About That

YouTube video by CBC News

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 2d

"I like being alive. I like being a land mamal, (...) attached to the idea that I'm a temporary but important force in this world".
What a beautiful, passionate ode to the magic of our existence ✨️
#dftba

I Like Being Alive

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

The sooner we dispense with the fiction that American liberal democracy still exists to be saved the sooner we can get down to business trying to bring a new liberal democratic order back to this country.

Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 2d

I wrote about how hard it is to do politics in reality right now, both because of the fictions beings imposed on us and because of the fictions we maintain in our own minds. Read at @liberalcurrents.com

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All In Our Heads: On Losing Our Democracy and Life Beyond Our Imaginations

Our language has to meet the moment, and we have to be relentless about dispelling the fiction MAGA is selling.

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 3d

He feels slight odd picklings of pleasure when he hears some music, so it must be sinful

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onion person @junlper.beer · 3d

this is an explicitely nazi administration and anyone who still supports them should be viewed as such

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 3d

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 3d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

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Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 3d

If your business model depends on stealing stuff without compensation, maybe it’s a bad business model and deserves to die.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 5d

Now I want a tshirt with "Be NICE not ICE"

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6d

Pope Leo: No one should be forced to flee, nor exploited or mistreated because of their situation as foreigners or people in need! Human dignity must always come first!

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 6d

On the importance of holding on to our values and not redrawing boundaries just based on the number of people who seem to disagree with them.

Pricelessly valuable article, I think it's totally worth getting a paid subscription to make Thomas Zimmer able to keep publishing them.

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 7d

"The fact that our political, social, and economic systems are biased in favor of the already rich and powerful is the single greatest failure of the American democratic ideal.(...) The real fairness is when everyone has a shot to win"
John Green - Super Mario Kart - The Anthropocene Reviewed #dftba

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Popehat Agitates And Irritates @kenwhite.bsky.social · 7d

/5 Look at Vance, or Yarvin, or Miller, or any of these true believers and see how unhappy they are in their own skin, how they ooze resentment towards the world that finds them strange and creepy and doesn’t want to sit with them at lunch.

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 7d

Such an inspiring discussion. We don't hear this often enough:

"Learning is an action item. When you educate yourself, you're actually doing something. And there's so much we need to know about what democracy requires, about what history can help us with"

Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org · 15d

Listen to Bryan Stevenson and Katie Couric's discussion on truth-telling, how to honestly reconcile with history, and what is required of us in this moment to do justice.

The Movement is Not Dead: Bryan Stevenson on 2020, Backlash, and What Comes Next

The murder of George Floyd and the protests of 2020 sparked a nationwide movement for racial justice and reckoning. Just a few years later, many of those hard-won conversations are being rolled back. Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, joins Katie to ask: is the movement truly over, or are we now in the midst of the harder, but essential, struggle to make it endure? He shares why learning is itself an act of resistance, what each of us can do to push back against false narratives, and how history can inspire courage for the battles ahead. Sign up here for daily email updates from me, Katie Couric, on the news that matters most to you: https://katiecouric.com/wake-up-call/?leadsource=youtube Subscribe to my channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/KatieCouric Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/katiecouric/ Subscribe to my podcast: ApplePodcasts.com/KatieCouric Subscribe to my Substack: https://katiecouric.substack.com/

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 7d

She should show gratitude they they *allowed* her to get wealthy *even though* she is not white?

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Dana Edelweiss @danandev.bsky.social · 7d

She'd better make some proof that she's human first