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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 1d

“Who was president in 2020?” is the question of our time

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The 2020 Census was a fraud. The Biden admin used a shady "privacy" formula that scrambled the data and miscounted 14 states.
It included illegal immigrants and handed
Democrats extra seats. Americans deserve a fair count and l'm fighting to fix it.
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Consus data plays a crucial role in allocating political roprescntation and goverment funding
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 13h

Ask Mike Benz and Michael Shellenberger about all the lies they told to help accomplish this. Ask Joe Rogan about how he nodded along mutely while hosting Benz on his show while he spouted bullshit about “CIA fronts”.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 10h

(Non-New Yorkers may not know that Trump wants Sliwa out of the race to boost Cuomo’s chances.)

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 10h

Hope so. Hope they haven’t buried the relevant parts.

The climate of fear, however, will continue as long as Trump turns the US military against Americans. That’s in addition to threats that may or may not come from lone wolves inspired by MAGA rhetoric.
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Curtis Sliwa Hires Armed Security, Citing ‘Serious' Threats

NYPD detail now shadows Mamdani, while Cuomo says, 'I don't need' police protection.

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Congressman Glenn Ivey (MD-04) @ivey.house.gov · 11h

House Republicans left town rather than face accountability- for ending the shutdown or releasing the Epstein files
#TrumpShutUSDown

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Vince D. Monroy @vincedmonroy.bsky.social · 11h

Jeffries: “Republicans acted with great urgency to swear in two right-wing members of congress to do in the American people… What is the delay with respect to Representative-elect. Grijalva? Anything to do with Republicans continuing effort to hide the Epstein files? Inquiring minds want to know.”

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 10h

a far-Left control freak, shocking (cue the guillotine gifs)

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 15h

ʼrussian asset’ gets thrown around a lot but bro

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 10h

Note the link with QAnon whose pedo focus was a big factor drawing some voters to MAGA. Given Trump’s close friendship with Epstein, this was the kind of “accusation in a mirror” propaganda move which wasn’t so common in US politics before. Much in MAGA seems alien to the US
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David Hogg @davidhogg.bsky.social · 11h

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 11h

Jimmy brought the 🔥 last night and Epstein came out of the shadows

Graphic: the grey, grinning ghost of Epstein comes up from behind and puts his hand on the shoulder of a frightened Trump

❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 11h

The nativist party loves foreign fascists

Last year federal prosecutors alleged that “conservative media company Tenet, which pays a network of major right-wing influencers like Benny Johnson & Tim Pool, was secretly being paid by Russian state operatives to disseminate propaganda” to the US masses

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 11h

LaCorte admitted to The New York Times “in 2019 that he hired Macedonian teenagers from Veles, Naumovski’s… hometown, to write for several conservative content sites he ran beginning in 2017.” Veles is “home to a collection of writers who churned out disinformation” in 2016, according to the Times.

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 11h

“Watkins was only one of several QAnon-linked influencers to share Resist the Mainstream’s content, and the content appeared nearly identical. Some X users have alleged that they were approached by Naumovski to post his content for payment”

Fox News exec Ken LaCorte is a major booster of his career

Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

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The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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Ryan Bort @ryanbort.bsky.social · 14h

MAGA lawmakers regularly share its content. Elon called it "one of the best accounts on X." It's run by a Macedonian who has never set foot in America — and who illegally donated to a U.S. congressional campaign.

Great stuff from @jsweetli.bsky.social:

www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

The Viral MAGA Accounts Run by a Man Who Has Never Been to America

Two influential MAGA social media accounts are run by Rumen Naumovski, a Macedonian who may have illegally donated to a U.S. election.

www.rollingstone.com

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 12h

Finally someone says what should’ve been obvious long ago: most Democrats don’t act like they understand the moment. They speak in an increasingly archaic language, continuing to appeal to the very institutions so easily subverted by Trump.
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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 1d

A revolutionary movement slices through a weak democracy like a hot knife through butter. I get cognitive dissonance every day: one eye watches liberals like Maddow assure us the courts will save the rule of law while the other eye watches Trump turn the US military into his apparatus of repression.

❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 12h

Now that Trump’s seizing control of institutions, freedom has dwindling weapons other than raw popular appeal. Every other lever of power is slipping away fast. And popular resistance must still be massive & organized to be effective.

Remember “guardrails”? “The guardrails will hold,” liberals said

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 12h

Pritzker and Newsom need to highlight the anti-American fascist power grab while staying on the popular side of top issues. It’s no time to be out of touch with the public. The entirety of 2024 was no time to be out of touch, but here we are. Second chances are rare and precious in fascist takeovers

Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19h

JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
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Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule

He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 18h

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Channeling its Nazi past, Austria aims to lick Putin’s boots for cash

Austria is once again standing apart from Europe — this time not out of neutrality, but out of greed. In a move that has stunned diplomats across the European Union, Vienna has threatened to block the...

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 1d

“It is easy to look at this and say that this is all just a matter of civilian supremacy in military affairs,” which assumes “the American model of civil-military relations that we all believed in… still existed. How does it feel to be an expert in a dying field?”
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Expert in a Dying Field

The Breaking of the Bipartisan Military Consensus

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❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 1d

However, it’s also moving a lot faster than Orbán did, reportedly. Trump’s racing to control the levers of raw power before Americans can organize their opposition. He’s outright publicly told all US generals that he’s at war with Americans who don’t support him and therefore they should be, too.

❌👑 PamAqua2017 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @pamaqua2017.bsky.social · 1d

“Yarvin, widely recognized as one of the U.S.’ most influential illiberal thinkers…has ties to Silicon Valley and Washington, D.C. Andreessen has called him a ‘good friend’…Peter Thiel backed his computer platform,” & V.P. JD Vance “follows him on X and has listed…his writings as an inspiration.”

Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Peter Thiel’s favorite blogger “says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.” via @sfstandard.com

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Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 1d

Peter Thiel’s favorite blogger “says he’s considering leaving the U.S. because the Trump administration is failing to kill democracy to his liking and he fears political retribution from Democrats if they regain power.” via @sfstandard.com

sfstandard.com/2025/10/07/c...

Citing fear of Democratic ‘vengeance,’ Curtis Yarvin says he may flee the U.S.

The far-right blogger doesn’t think the Trump administration has done enough to dismantle democratic institutions.

sfstandard.com