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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 24m

Astonishing.

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 2h

Spoke with cnn while sitting on the floor of my hotel room hallway bc my family were asleep in the other room.

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 32m

This is getting more insane by the day!

Alex Gil @elotroalex.bsky.social · 36m

Our colleague Mark Bray and his family were mysteriously stopped at the gate on their way to Spain. Let's keep an eye out on this flight out to safer lands today.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rutgers University anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport

Professor Mark Bray was trying to leave US day after White House ‘antifa’ roundtable having receiving death threats

www.theguardian.com

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 11h

Another attack on another flotilla today!

Israel Intercepts Another Activist Flotilla That Aimed to Break Gaza Blockade

www.nytimes.com

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 13h

🚨🚨🚨Chicago - NOW!🚨🚨🚨
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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 13h

"A Rutgers University expert on antifa was fleeing the United States with his family on Wednesday in the wake of death threats that followed President Trump’s push to characterize the left-wing antifascist movement as a domestic terrorist organization."

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Flees to Spain After Receiving Death Threats

www.nytimes.com

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 15h

Who would ever have imagined that Britain would go so far off the deep end?

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 15h

A man arrested for holding a magazine with a picture of a sign that reads, "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action."

Britain has gone completely mad.🤬

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 22h

Such an intense voice!

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 22h

Amazing story. Read every word of it!

flipinidaho @flipinidaho.bsky.social · 1d

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The building is in a 27 million dollar foreclosure filed by Wells Fargo. The next day, Wells Fargo filed an emergency motion for receivership. The fascist regime kindly emptied the building for donor Wells Fargo.

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 22h

Thanks to The New Yorker for reporting on this years-long nightmare.

The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 22h

Jennifer Gonnerman investigates the unfolding crisis in New York state prisons, speaking to incarcerated people, formerly incarcerated activists, and striking corrections officers.

A Year of Convulsions in New York’s Prisons

Jennifer Gonnerman reports on how two murders and a strike exposed a system at its breaking point.

www.newyorker.com

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

The Atlantic is edited by a former Israeli prison camp guard and has a senior columnist/contributor who is accused of writing secret speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN.

The state of the elite US media when it comes to Palestine.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

According to hacked emails obtained by @dropsitenews.com, 'journalist' Douglas Murray was allegedly writing secret draft speeches for the Israeli ambassador to the UN while also pretending to be an independent 'journalist'.

David Frum, Douglas Murray Secretly Drafted Speeches for Israeli Ambassador

Leaked emails from former Israeli UN Ambassador Ron Prosor show David Frum, Douglas Murray offering to write his speeches and a CNN producer fundraising for Israel’s Iron Dome during Israel’s 2014 war

www.dropsitenews.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

Good morning

JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 1d

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 1d

Let the world know what Israel is doing and how the USA made no effort to intervene on behalf of American citizens. Shameful! zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...?

EXCLUSIVE: Freed Flotilla Activist David Adler Details His ‘Violent Abduction’ by Israel

The Jewish American writer says Israeli minister Itamar Ben-Gvir specifically targeted him, forcing a photo op with the Israeli flag and calling him a “terrorist.”

zeteo.com

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Rachel Holliday Smith @rachelholliday.bsky.social · 1d

yes, us! here you go:

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 1d

Anyone anywhere can quietly bankroll Trump via his “memecoin,” writes @cjcmichel.bsky.social. We’ve never seen a White House so saturated in foreign lobbying and foreign money.

Trump Opens the White House Doors to Foreign Regimes and Their Dirty Money

Lobbyists for foreign countries have long helped other governments influence US policy, but nothing compares to the brazen corruption of the second administration of Trump.

www.thenation.com

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 1d

RIP: Saul Zabar. But the Upper West Side institution, Zabar's, will surely live on.

Saul Zabar, Smoked Fish Czar of Upper West Side, Dies at 97

www.nytimes.com

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Diane Tucker @dianetucker.bsky.social · 4d

#ArtHistory 🗃️🐡

Happy Sunday, Blueskiis

The National Gallery of Art is closed until further notice due to the U.S. gov shutdown 😢

On the plus side, in London you still have 3 weeks to see the Kiefer/VanGogh show at the Royal Academy. It's terrific. Like walking through Van Gogh’s landscapes.

Anselm Kiefer, “Nevermore” (2014) • Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf, and sediment of electrolysis on canvas. 10.8 ft x 18.7 ft. • To see how Kiefer makes these works, click the link on 2/2

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Merisi Vienna @merisi-vienna.bsky.social · 3d

40 seconds in and following 💙

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 4d

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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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI’s planned data centers will use more power than New York City & San Diego use at their peak consumption, combined. More power than the entire nations of Switzerland & Portugal combined. And San Altman’s buddies in this administration have been cutting all of our energy infrastructure upgrades

Sam Altman’s AI empire will devour as much power as New York City and San Diego combined. Experts say it’s ‘scary’ | Fortune

Andrew Chien told Fortune he’s been a computer scientist for 40 years but we’re close to “some seminal moments for how we think about AI and its impact on society.”

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 2d

Before the 2024 presidential election, we surveyed 50 members of the Washington legal establishment about their expectations for the rule of law if Trump were re-elected, We recently returned with follow-up interviews about Trump’s impact on the rule of law. Now: almost universal fear and anguish.

‘Bow to the Emperor’: We Asked 50 Legal Experts About the Trump Presidency

www.nytimes.com

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 2d

Important story on “soft secession” from Mother Jones. Time to think out of the box.

Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 2d

It's all well and good that @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @jbpritzker.bsky.social are pushing back on Trump. But blue states—led by California, the 4th largest economy in the world—need to do more to team up and fight.

By me: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s time for soft secession

How blue states can use their economic clout to stand up to Trump’s agenda—starting with California.

www.motherjones.com

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 4d

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943