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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12h

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13h

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15h

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
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Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 1d

A direct result of trump insulting India.

Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 1d

Only naive or ignorant people ever thought that russia was open to ending the war or that the Alaska meeting would actually help toward that end.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 2d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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Green Hombre @greenhombre.bsky.social · 2d

In her first month in office, AOCs questioning during testimony of Michael Cohen is why Letitia James launched an investigation of the Trump Org. Massive tax fraud, for decades.

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 2d

They do love their bananas! 🍌🍌🍌

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 2d

The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.

@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 2d

🚨THIS IS A BIG DEAL. Chicago journalists are suing the Trump administration for using excessive force against reporters & protestors in violation of the 1A.
The press here is doing astounding work documenting how ICE is out of control. The violence they face in doing so is obscene.

The protests at the Broadview ICE facility and the federal government’s violent
attempts to silence the protesters became a story of great interest to the local Chicago media and
was also covered in the national press. Much of the coverage described the federal officers’
abusive tactics. Defendants sought and are seeking to quash this coverage by attacking and
intimidating members of the Press on the ground there.
85. Federal immigration officers at the Broadview ICE facility have repeatedly and
intentionally singled out persons whom they know to be members of the Press for violence,
assault, and intimidation. These assaults are not incidental or unintentional. They are undertaken
by design to intimidate journalists on scene and to frustrate and suppress coverage of the federal
officers’ actions toward protesters and immigration detainees

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 2d

Make ordinary russians suffer by bringing the war home to them. Their war of agression against Ukraine needs to have consequences for all russians.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 2d

In Russia, three educational institutions - a college and two schools - collapsed in two weeks.

But, of course, it is much more important for Russia to spend billions on destroying Ukrainian infrastructure than to pay attention to its own infrastructure.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3d

The brownshirts are everywhere.

And they *will* come to your street eventually.

This is not just going to happen to "other people."

✨️ Steph ✨️ @zapoo.bsky.social · 4d

Coming soon, to a city near you!! 📢🚨
#FuckICE #FuckTheGop

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

1/2 Torturers also say this.
2/2 Different point. By this logic Vance himself should stop complaining all the time. Everything has been handed to him, and yet he’s a grievance machine.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 4d

Weaponized gratitude is a key tool in the abuser's toolkit. The goal is to convince the victim that they owe the abuser so much, they should feel guilty for wanting to complain.

Tweet from the VP:
Joy Reid has had such a good life in this country. It's been
overwhelmingly kind and gracious to her. She is far wealthier than most.
Yet she oozes with contempt.
My honest, non-trolling advice to Joy Reid is that you'd be a much
happier person if you showed a little gratitude

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

This is what freedom of speech sounds like. Also, please consider subscribing to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

www.inquirer.com

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

The government does not have the power to declare “free speech zones.” And the violent arrest of the rabbi should set off some alarm bells.

unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

Heard an officer say "let's do it" and then, in the dark, they tackle Rabbi Ben to the ground. He's being loaded into a CCSO wagon now. Broadview police also here screaming at people.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 3d

One of the lessons I discuss in "On Tyranny":
Listen for dangerous words.

Text card: Listen for dangerous words.
Be alert to the use of the words extremism and terrorism. Be alive to the fatal notions of emergency and exception. Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.
#OnTyranny

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 3d

British volunteer Richard Woodruff captured the sound of Shahed drones and air defenses during Russia’s overnight attack on Lviv.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 4d

Who could ever have imagined when I played a fictional rebel who joined the Resistance to oppose a criminal Authoritarian & wannabe King, it would be happening in real-life?

#TwentyfiveFortyseven

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Beefeater Fella @beefeaterfella.bsky.social · 4d

Protesters in Tbilisi began burning Russian flags.

Free Georgia from the grip of Putin.

#GeorgiaProtests

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 5d

2 months ago today Human Rights Watch reported Russian army is committing war crimes in Kherson, deliberately hunting civilians with drones in "human safaris". UN has said it too.

You'd think this would be bigger news.

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

Indeed. I would have translated the first phrase as “MotherFucker” a more literal translation.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 7d

OTD in 1951 *2nd* wave of Operation Osen's deportations began. Over 16000 Lithuanians were forcibly sent to Siberia as USSR continued to liberate them from fascism & also their freedom 6 years after WW2 ended.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 7d

Agencies affected by the shutdown have ordered employees to set their out of office replies to one that blames Democrats for them being unavailable.

Can you imagine the squealing that Republicans would do if the situation were reversed?

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Trump Admin Tells Federal Employees To Set OOO Message Blaming Democrats For Shutdown

One health department employee said the directions seemed to be "coercing" subordinates into political activity.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

From 1939-1945 German officers also listened to speeches from civilians about how the laws of war didn’t apply to them. And then they participated in the Holocaust, starved millions of prisoners of war, destroyed villages and cities, and were defeated.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

It’s not just that this is puerile and lawless. It’s that it is completely out of touch with the issues relevant to contemporary warfare. Russia fights like this. It makes Russians criminals. But it doesn’t make them winners.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 7d

OTD in 1938 Nazi Germany started occupying the Sudetenland. The west tried to appease Hitler by giving him bits of someone else's country without them being at the discussion.

This was awful of the West. Which is why we want the same thing for Ukraine today.

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