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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM

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Mark Hamill

@markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

October 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM

jcdkl.bsky.social

@jcdkl.bsky.social

In the Chinese Altai between Kazakhstan, Mongolia and Russia…

August 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM

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The Kyiv Independent

@kyivindependent.com

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless.

Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold.

Editorial: That meeting was sickening. Putin loved it

Sickening. Shameful. And in the end, useless. Those were the words that came to mind when we watched the Alaska Summit unfold. On our screens, a blood-soaked dictator and war criminal received a roy...

kyivindependent.com

August 16, 2025 at 4:32 AM

jcdkl.bsky.social

@jcdkl.bsky.social

Formidable roman sur les Tatars, la dékoulakisation, le Goulag! (Avec une préface de L Oulitskaia et une postface de G Nivat il est bien encadré!)

May 18, 2025 at 1:17 AM

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Princeton University Press

@princetonupress.bsky.social

Booksellers have faced censorship and harassment defending the freedom to read. Celebrate your local bookstore and support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

press.princeton.edu/ideas/bookst...

#BookstoreDay

This essay traces the long and turbulent history of American booksellers who have faced censorship, harassment, and even violence for defending the freedom to read. Through vivid anecdotes and historical cases-from undercover stings in the early 1900s and legal battles over “obscene” literature, to FBI surveillance of Black bookstores and bomb threats against feminist and LGBTQ+ shops-the author illustrates how bookstores have repeatedly become battlegrounds in the fight for civil liberties and free expression. Despite intimidation from both government and private groups, booksellers have pushed back, shaping legal precedents and rallying communities to defend First Amendment rights. The essay ultimately calls on readers to recognize bookstores as “arsenals of democracy” and to support their ongoing role in safeguarding intellectual freedom.

April 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM

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Colonel Berthier

@mxpaad.bsky.social

L'insupportable défilé des politiques qui viennent saluer la mémoire du pape et son engagement auprès des pauvres et des migrants... le tout en rejetant les gens à la mer et en détruisant l'État providence.

April 22, 2025 at 6:42 AM

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Ron Filipkowski

@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social

Welcome to Idiocracy.

April 3, 2025 at 12:42 AM

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Olivier Mannoni

@oliviermannoni.bsky.social

March 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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Jean-Charles Geslot

@jcgeslot.bsky.social

Pour une histoire mondiale de la France :
"Il est impossible de ne point considérer l'histoire de France dans ses rapports avec l'histoire générale et de ne point montrer ce que la France a reçu d'autrui et ce qu'elle lui a donné."
Instructions pour les épreuves d'histoire en licence, 5 août 1881

February 23, 2025 at 8:04 AM

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Rebecca Solnit

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...

No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)

I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really...

www.meditationsinanemergency.com

February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM

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Timothy Snyder

@timothysnyder.bsky.social

Of course it’s a coup. Miss the obvious, lose your republic.
open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Of course it’s a coup

Miss the obvious, lose your republic

open.substack.com

February 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM

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Gillian Branstetter

@gbbranstetter.bsky.social

Lessons to be learned:

1. Centrists align with far-right to look tough on immigration
2. Centrists gain nothing
3. Far-right wins more power

German Opposition Gambles With Far-Right on Immigration, and Loses
Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats broke a political taboo by working with the hard-right Alternative for Germany to toughen rules on immigration. It did not pay off.

In an effort to portray himself and his party as tough on immigration, Friedrich Merz, the leader of the poll-leading Christian Democrats, pushed a series of measures tightening borders and accelerating deportations through Parliament this week. He did so with help from the hard-right Alternative for Germany party, or AfD — parts of which have been classified as extremist by German intelligence agencies.

On Friday, the gambit ended in a crushing legislative defeat for Mr. Merz, dissent in his own party and jubilant claims of new legitimacy from the AfD, a chain reaction that could rattle Mr. Merz’s comfortable seat at the top of the polls.

Mr. Merz’s willingness to rely on support from the AfD, broke a taboo in German politics that had endured since the end of World War II.

January 31, 2025 at 5:51 PM

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Mathilde Larrère

@mathildelarrere.bsky.social

je vous conseille d'écouter cet entretien entre Nicolas Patin et Johann Chapoutot
c'est profondément intéressant, tout en étant glaçant
avec une réflexion passionnante sur la possibilité de l'analogie.
mais aussi une note d'espoir : l'ascension du pire est résistible (vous comprendrez en écoutant)

Colonel Berthier @mxpaad.bsky.social · Jan 26

Ah je vois que le prochain livre de Chapoutot sort la semaine prochaine. Seul à signer cette fois-ci. Ce qui va laisser tout le loisir à ceux qui ne lui pardonnent pas ses prises de positions politiques de dire qu'il n'y connaît rien.
youtu.be/sUjW6eGNw6k?...