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Mme Pep
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full-time listener, born and raised behind the iron curtain “May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” - Nelson Mandela
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Vor dem Gesetz sind alle gleich
Nur eine Minderheit ist gleicher
und die ist auch ein bisschen reicher
(Milva, “Freiheit, Gleichheit und so weiter”)
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Dafür hat der Finanzminister keine Zeit weil er Menschen die auch staatliche Transferleistungen angewiesen sind gängeln und ihnen das Leben schwer machen muss.
💥 Brandbrief an den Finanzminister!
Sogar der eigene wissenschaftliche Beirat des Finanzministeriums fordert:
➡️ Holt endlich die #CumCum-Milliarden zurück!
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Everyone who follows the news already knows where this is headed.

Orwell. A police state. An authoritarian regime that disappears people—including citizens. Think Pinochet as a starting point.

The problem is that those who don't follow the news *don't* know where this is headed. We must tell them.
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"Standard", "Presse", "Kleine" und andere Zeitungen werfen hunderte Journalist:innen raus.

"Puls24.at" wird nach Berlusconi-Einstieg eingestellt. "ORF.at" wurde redaktionell eingeschränkt.

Dichand wird die "Krone" übernehmen.
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In hindsight, it was probably a bad idea for voters to put the full force of the US state apparatus and military in the hands of a guy who bragged that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose any support, and who was also granted immunity by the Supreme Court before taking office.
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Das ist jetzt drei Tage her und wenn ich das recht sehe, hält sich das Medienecho bisher sehr in Grenzen.
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It’s been FIFTEEN YEARS and the media is still letting Republicans pretend they have some super-secret concept of a hidden plan to maybe consider a covert proposal that could theoretically be implemented in a hypothetical simulation of a Congress run by people who are not actually clowns.
Mike Johnson talks about the Republican "healthcare plan" like it's highly classified information: "We're not gonna be on a conference call explaining all our plans and strategies for healthcare reform, because they're leaked in real time."
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ICE has beaten, detained & arrested 170 citizens, at least 3 of whom were pregnant

George Retes is a US veteran who was held in solitary for 3 days

Kristi Noem says it’s not happening, but @motherjones.com has done the reporting

If they treat citizens this way, imagine what they do to immigrants
More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
www.motherjones.com
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JD, the Vice President: You people who aren't Christian are wrong and I think you (including my wife) are going to hell.
Tens of millions of Americans: Well, that's a pretty obnoxious thing to say to us.
JD: WHY DO YOU HATE CHRISTIANS SO MUCH!!! THIS HATRED CAN NOT STAND!!!
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I forgot to note that this was a thread, so: Here is a 🧵🧵 on the direct connections between Heritage Foundation, Nick Fuentes and the far-right Texas billionaire who is fueling the rise of Christian nationalism. If you do not already know a lot about Tim Dunn, I recommend changing that.
Two years ago, Nick Fuentes was so toxic that, after I reported on a secret meet he had with a top Texas GOP donor, the party was engulfed in scandal and voted to explicitly ban Holocaust deniers/Neo Nazis.

Today, Heritage Foundation effectively said that "no enemies to our right" includes Fuentes.
Heritage president backs Tucker Carlson after interview with Holocaust-denier Nick Fuentes
Kevin Roberts denounced the “venomous coalition” that has criticized the former Fox News host.
www.politico.com
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NEW: ICE is planning to build a shadow deportation network in Texas. A proposal outlines a 24/7 transport operation run by armed contractors—turning Texas into the logistical backbone of an industrialized deportation machine.

My latest @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-is...
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“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”
Yale lab reports mass killings in Sudan, calls for student activism
The Humanitarian Research Lab was told this week that over 10,000 people in Sudan were killed within three days.
yaledailynews.com
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14 strikes. 61 dead. “But the administration does not know their identities.” 🤷🏼 🛶 💣

theweek.com/politics/pen...
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A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...
CBS News kills its climate unit
David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.
heated.world
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I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.

We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
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Diversity doesn’t weaken unions. Racist bosses like Vance using racism to divide workers by race so they can exploit them weakens unions. All this stuff is arsonists complaining about the temperature in the building they set on fire. bsky.app/profile/diew...
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.

Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
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Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.