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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1h

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

October 7, 2025

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9h

A few days ago, fascist Miller gave an interview to CNN and said “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority. Has—” Then he went silent.

But guess what? Not only did they not push back after a supposed “technical glitch” but the edited version removed that section

Stephen Miller, CNN, and the ‘Plenary Authority’ That Got Buried

While Trump continues to flood the zone with chaos and deliberate distractions, and as the National Guard prepares to occupy more cities, something deeply revealing slipped from the mouth of his most ...

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 7h

Welcome to Russia

Exactly what happens there

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Trump-appointed prosecutor seeks indictment of New York AG Letitia James: Sources

A Trump-appointed prosecutor has presented evidence to a grand jury seeking an indictment against New York Attorney General Letitia James, sources tell ABC News.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9h

Censorship has fully arrived. In the latest, Apple banned an app that archived ICE abuses for legal evidence

Every single day, censorship gets stronger as media and corporations bend to serve the regime

Apple Banned an App That Simply Archived Videos of ICE Abuses

Eyes Up's purpose is to "preserve evidence until it can be used in court." But it has been swept up in Apple's crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9h

A few days ago, fascist Miller gave an interview to CNN and said “Under Title 10 of the U.S. Code, the president has plenary authority. Has—” Then he went silent.

But guess what? Not only did they not push back after a supposed “technical glitch” but the edited version removed that section

Stephen Miller, CNN, and the ‘Plenary Authority’ That Got Buried

While Trump continues to flood the zone with chaos and deliberate distractions, and as the National Guard prepares to occupy more cities, something deeply revealing slipped from the mouth of his most ...

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1d

Think Miller needs to send in a few more battalions. Maybe Hegseth can send some elite units. Things are getting dangerous in Portland

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 1d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 260

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 260

October 6, 2025

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 2d

Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to seat Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva is more than the Epstein files, and a dangerous test of whether election results still guarantee representation. My latest

The Dangerous Precedent Behind Johnson’s Refusal to Seat Adelita Grijalva

On September 10, Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva won her Arizona special election, and nearly a month later, Speaker Mike Johnson refuses to swear her in.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 3d

Check out Julie and my latest chapter of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 US election to help Trump win.

This week we dive into the role Cambridge Analytica and Facebook played

Cambridge Analytica, Facebook and the Kremlin

Chapter 11 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 4d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 258-259

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 258-259

October 4-5, 2025

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 4d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 257

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 257

October 3, 2025

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 5d

Slight correction "election" updates. It's a rigged election by the Kremlin-owned party

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 5d

‘Czech Trump,’ a Populist Tycoon, Poised to Return as Prime Minister, Drones near Germany’s airport, Belgium launches probe after reports that 15 drones buzzed military base, Poland Raises Alarm Over Russian Ship Found Near Baltic Pipeline, Georgia Election updates, Russia’s gas shortages, & more

Russian Digest

Week of 9/28/25: Top stories I'm keeping an eye on

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 256

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 256

October 2, 2025

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6d

This is what America has come to. Anyone who supports this is a monster 🤬
We need accountability

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 6d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 255

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 255

October 1, 2025

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Justice 🇺🇦 @loveon9.bsky.social · 8d

The contract has been awarded to PenLink, a little-known surveillance co HQ in Nebraska to track, map, and analyze individuals’ movements and networks. ICE is not simply reverting to its previous practice of warrantless location tracking; it is escalating this surveillance to a level... #PenLink

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8d

🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Please read, share, and sound the alarm

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8d

Nope another one

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8d

This one is another tool. Not Graphite

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 8d

🚨ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Please read, share, and sound the alarm

ICE Is Buying a Tool to Track Hundreds of Millions of Phones, Without Warrants

Trump is quietly building a surveillance state, and almost no one is paying attention.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d

This will be the 4th and Trump is the cause

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d

This will be the 2nd. Last time was with Trump in 2018. And one of them in 2006 was just a procedural lapse

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d

So I looked and we have had 6 shutdowns over the past 20 years. 4 of them were caused by Trump

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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 9d

"Shortly after Trump rode down his gilded escalator at Trump Tower to announce his presidential candidacy, and long before most Americans were paying attention to the presidential race, Russian intelligence operatives were already inside the Democrats’ networks."
➡️ All tried and tested by 🇷🇺 in 🇺🇦.

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d

Check out the latest chapter in @julieroginsky.bsky.social and my series on how Russia laid the groundwork and then attacked the 2016 election
This week we dive deep into Russia’s 2015 and 2016 cyberattacks against the DNC and DCCC

The Kremlin’s Bears Strike DNC, DCCC

Chapter 10 of our series on how Russia attacked the 2016 U.S. election to help Trump win.

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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 9d

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 253

The daily tracker documenting the latest in corruption, power consolidation, civil & human rights abuses, and weaponization of government news.

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 253

September 29, 2025

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