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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 12h

yeah okay

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 2d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

update: "video appears to contradict the government’s allegation that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire on her"
chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 1d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Adam Klasfeld @klasfeldreports.com · 1d

This footnote to Illinois and Chicago's lawsuit against Trump is an important reminder:

* There is no Department of War or Secretary of War, which are make-believe names for the actual agencies created by Congress.

Doc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 1d

The horrific background to negotiations: an utterly devastated society, traumatized children, humanitarian catastrophe www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/w...

Ravaged by War: Trying to Survive Gaza’s Present, Hoping for a Future

www.nytimes.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

ICE agents shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on Chicago’s South Side
They are creating chaos
www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Federal agents shoot woman in Chicago neighborhood after allegedly being rammed, boxed in by cars, DHS says

The woman, as well as a man whom authorities say was involved in the chaos, were facing charges Sunday morning.

www.cbsnews.com

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RAOK @evolvingempathy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Preach Brother!👇🏼 👊🏻👏🏼👏🏼💙🇺🇸💙

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

Is it true? Is it false? Does he know he’s lying? Or is he high on his own supply of bullshit? None of it matters. It’s bullshit. All that matters is that it (claims that blue cities are dangerous & lawless) is useful, and he seems to think it is. So then, useful for what? Seems like we’ll find out.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 2d

Trump and the right wing bullshit machine working in high gear to motivate and justify a (potentially violent) federal response to unrest that is largely a figment of their imagination and (where it is real) a reaction to federal agitation. A vicious, intentional, and intensifying cycle.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d

Trump: Portland is burning to the ground—insurrectionists all over the place. The politicians are afraid for their lives. That’s the only reason they say there’s nothing happening.

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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 2d

Look, it's crazy for a president to talk this way to the armed forces of the United States, which are paid for by all Americans and are sworn to protect them all too

I won't stop saying it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Trump to the Navy: "I was president in 2016. And then they rigged the election on me. And then we caught 'em, didn't we?"

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

American taxpayers are paying people to post Bible verses on a US government account.

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 2d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 2d

so is this the fight against "left-wing terrorism"?

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 3d

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

Federal agents knock down elderly couple during Portland protest

An 84-year-old said she sustained a concussion and was hit with a projectile after she and her husband, a Vietnam vet, were knocked down by federal officers.

www.oregonlive.com

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

Johnson’s cull of MPs prepared to tell the truth about Brexit consigned the Tories to the absurdity & irrelevance they currently enjoy. The media’s pitiful complicity in & failure to explain this lets Farage move in to the vacated space despite embodying the stupidity & bigotry that did for them.

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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 3d

The regime’s playbook:

Launch militarized raids in America’s cities to provoke a reaction.

Then claim the reaction is insurrection to justify even more authoritarian action.

The regime is using state-sanctioned violence to create a crisis.

There is no justification for violence by anyone.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

I wrote about the challenges American social media poses to European democracy earlier this year
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Europe’s Elon Musk Problem

He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.

www.theatlantic.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 3d

exact quotation, and other relevant sections of the speech, translated here:

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

"Europeans, let's wake up!" — Defend Democracy

“We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.” President Macron on the occasion of German Unity Day, 3 October 2025.

defenddemocracy.eu

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

President Macron:
“We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...

French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE

YouTube video by WION

www.youtube.com

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Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @judiciarydems.senate.gov · 4d

Camouflaged agents.
Ziptying women and kids.
In the middle of the night.

Many were US citizens.

This is Trump’s America—and next it could be YOU.

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d

Trump told NBC on Sunday that he saw some Portland riot footage on Fox and thought it reflected current events.

It didn't. It was 5 years old, from the George Floyd aftermath.

And we learned that due to the diligence of a local TV reporter, who got the transcript.

www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

Trump referenced a weekend conversation with Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek, and he alluded to being told by Kotek that the reality in Portland is different from what’s being portrayed to him.

“I spoke to the governor, she was very nice,” Trump said. “But I said, ‘Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening? My people tell me different.’ They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place…it looks like terrible.”

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 4d

Hard to tell the real illegal militia from the fake illegal militia

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

1400 km from Ukraine, another refinery goes up in flames
united24media.com/latest-news/...

Russian Oil Refinery Erupts in Flames After Reported Drone Strike 1,400 km Into Russia

A long-range drone assault from Ukraine has struck the Orsknefteorgsintez refinery in Russia's Orenburg region, causing significant disturbances.

united24media.com

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 4d

A chill spreads

www.youtube.com/watch?v=s85M...

Historian warns: 'A chill spreads' as Trump admin follows familiar authoritarian playbook

YouTube video by MSNBC

www.youtube.com

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 6d

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate.

Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

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