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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

The US military has accidentally killed civilians of a 3rd party state before. But responded with apology and compensation, not a middle finger to the objecting state.
If the US were actually conducting a campaign against drug traffickers, you know who'd be a valuable partner? The govt of Colombia.

Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 4h

Petro objected to the US bombing a Columbian fishing vessel that had the emergency beacon on because they were broken down, that we subsequently bombed. One Columbian fisherman survived the attack.

This is the official US response to Petro's comments.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 4h

PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Trump calls Colombian President Petro an ‘illegal drug dealer’ and announces an end to US aid to the country.

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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 3h

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Rubio promised to betray U.S. informants to get Trump’s El Salvador prison deal

To secure U.S. access to President Nayib Bukele’s notorious CECOT prison, Rubio agreed to turn over several MS-13 leaders central to a long-running Justice Department investigation.

www.washingtonpost.com

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 1h

Good grief. If the Dutch are doing it you can bet almost everyone else is limiting their intelligence sharing too, they’re just not publicizing it.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h

Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...

Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’

Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...

www.volkskrant.nl

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 7h

Nope. It’s my childhood best friend’s little brother. Fact. He still shudders if he hears the words “gas attack.”

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 10h

Listen to Sgt. Wofford and understand that real American patriots stand for something more than the pursuit of power.

Dale Denwalt @denwalt.bsky.social · 17h

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related.

He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 18h

A handful of states are preferred jurisdictions of incorporation for businesses in the US. Good luck getting Delaware, Texas or any similar corporate-friendly jurisdiction on board with these changes—their legislatures are deeply beholden to corporate interests.

loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 18h

You are wise!

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HazeDZ @hazydayz.bsky.social · 18h

Boise Idaho
#NoKings
10k people said enough

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 18h

You won’t if you spend a little more time with him.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

WTAF?

NightMar on Hicks Street, Part 4: The Rabbit’s Revenge @histoftech.bsky.social · 1d

This woman is in a nursing program & the entire textbook for her anatomy class is wrong because it was written by a professor who used chatgpt to generate the images & possibly the text. She complained to the prof, then the university— they’ve done NOTHING about it.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTM5T3CxW/

PROFESSORS RESPONSE @lia #anatomy #ai #fyp #chatgpt #anatomyandphysiology

TikTok video by lia

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

Let’s not get carried away. He has a long history in this city and his polling tells you how that’s shaped up. This is not a good guy. He’s just bad in a different way.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

Great story of solidarity among future journalists here. Thanks to Purdue’s The Exponent and the Indiana Daily Press for working together to fight censorship and demand independent journalism.

Gabrielle Hecht has no more spoons @gabriellehecht.bsky.social · 22h

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.
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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

😘🤌

#NoKings

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22h

I’ve seen just one counter-protester at No Kings San Diego. He’s got a Trump 2024 flag and this guy has been following him around for probably an hour playing Benny Hill and circus music.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

After reading about what a SEAL team did to the fishermen who stumbled upon their failed NK raid, I don’t think the US military would have trouble finding soldiers willing to kill prisoners. I think they’d have trouble keeping others from talking about it, especially if they were in USCG custody.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

Right? They already tried to murder them at sea. I guess once the Coast Guard got involved they couldn’t use their black ops guys to pull a “failed North Korea raid” and kill the survivors and dump their corpses (after stabbing them repeatedly to prevent them from floating like any good psychopath).

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Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 19h

Friend, I’ve been a criminal defense lawyer in the city since 2004. I know what’s realistic and what’s not. I help protect others. And I’m saying from an informed perspective that people should not be paranoid about no kings protests. This is not some black bloc bullshit.

Salty Zenn @saltyzenn.bsky.social · 19h

Okay get hacked by the cops. 🤣

Just letting you how Portland's finest can use your info to prosecute you.

You do you boo.

Bear Wilner-Nugent @saltlick.bsky.social · 21h

Respectfully, no.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 23h

Dissent is patriotic.

We’re hitting the streets today to defend our democracy.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 19h

Worrisome. I may be willing to accept a smidge of tyranny if it means my daily Dunkin’ access remains unimpeded.

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loafsta.bsky.social @loafsta.bsky.social · 20h

This has Commissioner Tisch written all over it, and that’s a good thing.

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SEIU_ORG @seiu.org · 23h

🗣 Repost if you agree, America does not have any kings and we do not want any! #NoKings

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 20h

Yesterday I wrote about the effort by center-left pundits to police what people are passionate about.
www.pbump.net/o/sincerity-...

Sincerity is not the problem

As is inevitably the case after an election — and is especially the case after an election with an unexpected result — allies of the losing presidential candidate in 2024 looked for people to blame. O...

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BigBossLuffy @bigbossluffy.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Nye the Anti-fascist Guy.

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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: Ed Martin, Trump's US Pardon attorney (R) and George Santos, whose sentence he just helped commute (L) were both speakers at the Stop the Steal rally the day before the Jan 6 Capitol attack. The next day, they both sat in the VIP section at Trump's Ellipse rally. 1/

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

No Kings Madrid

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