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Kate in DC - call me auntie
@katrinskaya.bsky.social
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Living through a hostile government takeover by corrupt kleptocrats. Y’all, fight like hell.
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The intimidation included threats that family members would lose visas, which is both in character and *friggin insane*
European negotiators were personally targeted by their American counterparts during a brutal negotiation over green shipping rules, European Commission officials told POLITICO. 

This highly unusual gambit left diplomats shaken after the meeting. 
US accused of threatening EU diplomats during bid to kill green shipping rules
Negotiators at shipping talks in London were told both they and their countries could be punished unless they voted with the U.S.
www.politico.eu
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Watching both Serbia and Tanzania where there is massive resistance against their respective autocratic and corrupt regimes. cc DJT
An amazing sight in Novi Sad, Serbia - another Putin-allied regime facing huge resistance.

And it’s another Gen Z-led movement.

🇷🇸👏
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I continue to wonder when Americans will decide enough is enough. As Frederick Douglass reminds us:

“The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.”
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The Better Things Aren't Possible Wing has declared Spanberger is The Future Of The Democratic Party with this transparently stupid line fed to one of their press familiars
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Andrew Cuomo is absolutely crushing with the fascist endorsements.

Trump, Musk, now Stephen Miller.

But don’t worry, he says he’s totally the guy who will stand up to this administration.
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This woman has been an absolutely epic organizer against her abuser (Cuomo) and on behalf of Mamdani.

Thanks so much for all the hard work. Here we go.
ELECTION DAY. Getting ready to go do poll visibility in Hell’s Kitchen. Come say hi if you see me.

And VOTE @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
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everybody bring your A game, think of it as a rehearsal for, you know,
100% chance R people are going to harvest shitty Cheney comments from Bluesky to do electioneering today btw so, you know, heads up
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YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE
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At this point, I’m going to need someone to give me a plausible explanation for these resignations that ISN’T “the books are as crooked as a contorted filbert” or else I’m gonna conclude that Platner’s “Nazi tattoo” problems are dwarfed by his “white collar crime” problems
Graham Platner is down 4 senior staffers in less than a month.

The 4th:

Victoria Perrone resigned from her position as treasurer on October 28, and her firm, Spruce Street (www.sprucestreetcomp.com/team), will no longer handle campaign compliance—after less than a month of working for Platner.🚩🚩🚩🚩
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“In an embarrassing attempt to conceal the President's inability to construct complete, coherent sentences, the White House has removed official transcripts of the President's public remarks from its government website, replacing them with selected videos of his public appearances.”
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if everyone keeps listen to people like ezra klein the democratic party nor the left will ever win again. this type of framing and mindset is a failed ideology
this guy sucks. liberalism sucks.
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So Trump says he knows nothing about the pardon he issued for a billionaire who just so happened to make his family a fortune in crypto.

This clip is going viral for a reason.

Don’t underestimate a struggling American public’s slowly building intolerance for this kind of blatant corruption.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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Step back. What's the lesson learned for the media?

"We can do what we want to Democrats but we have to go easy on Republicans."

Democrats: all tactic no strategy
The fact that the Democrats aren't dragging CBS into court and suing for editing the Trump interview is a microcosm of why they keep losing.
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deranged that we even need to think this way, but we need some sort of system where anyone who feels afraid to go to the polls can request a buddy to go with them
If ICE agents begins harassing voters on the way to vote on Tuesday, we need local prosecutors to charge the ICE officers with state law crimes. We need to send a message for 2026 that they will be swiftly arrested.
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dissatisfied by the New York Times coverage of Zohran Mamdani?

great news! I talked to the guy Thursday about his campaign’s success at bringing community together beyond this election, and contextualized how it’s potentially shifted youth engagement with politics by simply listening @teenvogue.com
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
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Here's me in @theframelab.bsky.social on how Pritzker improves on what Newsom did to rebut Trump's information war, both as a better embodiment of progressive values and to mobilize the people and challenge the press (despite some clear failures).
My timeline has infinitely improved since I added a bunch of feeds and accounts focused on non-US news, European and African scholars, and artists from all over the world. #globalsky
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Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), German artist who worked with painting, printmaking and sculpture, known for her self portraits and depictions of the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working classes #WomensArt
This
My perhaps controversial assessment is that when you share the propaganda of your enemies to call it out or to mock it… you’re still spreading their propaganda and maybe doing exactly what they hope you’ll do.
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I am so tired of the ersatz working-class mama's boy oysterman and I am very ready for him to go away.
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www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
"... It isn't ICE. It isn't CBP. It's a Frankenstein force, stitched together from multiple agencies but loyal to none. Its purpose is to create a community response designed for social media clicks, rather than to keep communities safe..."
This is fascism
Opinion | The White House's sweeping overhaul of ICE is creating a Frankenstein force
The recent wave of ICE senior official reassignments has a clear motive.
www.msnbc.com