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Jacob Kaarsbo @jkaarsbo.bsky.social · 10h

Oh shit that’s definitely an insurrection🤡

Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 16h

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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Gautham Rao @gauthamrao.bsky.social · 10h

What happened next Jack?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 10h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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𝙒𝙖𝙧 𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝟸𝟶𝟸𝟻™ @warmachine2025.bsky.social · 10h

Meanwhile in Portland

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · 11h

"At the Vatican Wednesday, Pope Leo urged bishops to 'speak strongly' on behalf of immigrants affected by Trump’s deportation drive.

The pope met privately Tuesday with 100 American Catholics involved in migrant ministry, thanking them for their work..."

www.thedailybeast.com/pope-leo-ram...

Pope Leo Ramps Up His Trump Feud With Order to American Bishops

The Chicago-born pontiff has sharpened his criticism of the Trump administration and reportedly decided to take action.

www.thedailybeast.com

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(((be kind))) @zonkerbrainless.bsky.social · 13h

I don't understand why the Democrats are not fighting harder. Why not use the power of the pursestrings? For example! "We will fund the government only if ICE is fully defunded." Or "We will fund the government only when you restore USAID and rehire all illegally fired Fed employees."

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 19h

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

The Case for the Forever Shutdown

Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

newrepublic.com

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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:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...

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.

newrepublic.com

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Howard Eissenstat @heissenstat.bsky.social · 20h

One of the big stories underway in Turkey is the process by which the ruling party is pulling in opposition leaders at both the municipal level and, more importantly, in parliament

It has both symbolic importance and direct political implications, moving TR towards a consolidated autocracy

dokuz8HABER @dokuz8haber.bsky.social · 20h

🔴 7 belediye başkanı AKP'ye katıldı: Rozetlerini Erdoğan taktı
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7 belediye başkanı AKP'ye katıldı: Rozetlerini Erdoğan taktı

Ardahan, Gümüşhane, Muş, Bingöl ve Giresun'dan 7 belediye başkanı AKP'ye katıldı. Erdoğan, Milletvekilleri Buluşması programında partiye katılan belediye başkanlarına rozetlerini taktı.

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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot @bbcnews-world-rss.bsky.social · 20h

Burkina Faso junta detains INSO workers for 'spying'

The security minister says the NGO "collected and passed on sensitive security information" - which it denies.

www.bbc.com

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Reuters @reuters.com · 20h

Italy's central bank chief urges 'innovative' action on poor countries' debt reut.rs/42yt1Jf

Italy's central bank chief urges 'innovative' action on poor countries' debt

Unsustainable debt levels among the world's poorest countries pose a risk to economic development and social stability and require innovative solutions, Italy's central bank governor Fabio Panetta said on Wednesday.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 20h

🚨New report: how the fossil fuel industry duped successive UK governments into pumping money into costly CCS schemes to ensure continued reliance on oil and gas.

InfluenceMap @influencemap.bsky.social · 21h

📢 🚨New Report - How the UK oil and gas industry spent 15 years pushing for subsidies & incentives for Carbon Capture and Storage rather than regulatory accountability or science-based emissions reductions; maintaining a funding pipeline for a technology yet to deliver on its promises 👇

The UK Oil and Gas Industry's Advocacy on Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS)

New analysis from InfluenceMap suggests that for more than 15 years, the oil and gas industry has systematically pushed the UK government to adopt a costly, emissions-intensive energy policy agenda de...

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 23h

That's the essence of Fascism: to give a bit of authority to each subordinate with a mandate to abuse it, so that they need their superiors to stay in charge and protect them from justice or revenge. Incidentally, it's also how mafia works.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 23h

That's the essence of Fascism: to give a bit of authority to each subordinate with a mandate to abuse it, so that they need their superiors to stay in charge and protect them from justice or revenge. Incidentally, it's also how mafia works.

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 1d

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

Stephen Soldz @ethicalpsycholo.bsky.social · 1d

Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa, Leading to Death Threats for Him and His Family
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Professor Flees to Europe After Turning Point USA Calls Him Antifa

Rutgers University professor Mark Bray no longer feels safe at home.

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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 1d

Justice Dept has 10 days left to respond to civil lawsuit filed by Jan 6 police responders who are seeking court order to require display of Jan 6 law enforcement honorary plaque at US Capitol

Plaque was required to be hung by 2023 under federal law

It hasn’t been hung

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 1d

"Agents were seen choking a Black man on the West Side and conducted a raid outside a homeless shelter in Bronzeville..They shot and wounded a woman Friday, hospitalized at least two people over the weekend, handcuffed a Chicago alderperson" southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

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

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RAJU: You swore in 2 GOP members during pro forma session. Why not swear in Grijalva? Does it have to do w/her signature on Epstein petition?

JOHNSON: It has nothing to do with that. We'll swear her in when everybody is back

R: Why not now?

J: Uh - we'll schedule it, I guess, as soon as she wants

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 1d

Never before in American history has one state's military force been deployed in another state over its objection.

I say never because the Civil War involved states whose governments legally ceased to exist, their offices vacated by constructive resignation, with no legitimate governors to object.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 1d

This is Adelita Grijalva.

She was elected to Congress two weeks ago, officially making her the final vote needed to force the release of the Epstein files.

She has still not been sworn in because Mike Johnson refuses to do so.

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The War Monitor @warmonitor.net · 1d

There's always a tweet.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1d

This has nothing to do with crime. This is an attempt to crush political dissent.

Never before, in our entire 250 year history, has the military or immigration agents been used like this. It's dystopian, illegal, and it should stop.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 1d

I fear if things don’t change right now, this image is going to come back to haunt us

Laura Rodriguez, on Twitter:

A federal agent points a weapon at a woman who was recording them.

Jess, a U.S. citizen and member of a neighborhood patrol team that documents and shares ICE activity across the city, was filming when the incident occurred earlier today in the Berwyn area.

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 1d

It's spooky time

Kim, Bestie of Bunzy, Co-CEO Execubetch™️ @easybakedoven.bsky.social · 1d

@beckybunzy.bsky.social 😭😭😭

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Piero Castellano 🇪🇺 @pierocastellano.com · 1d

This is the only point that matters.
They know that there can be consequences to their actions, but they have no fear because they will prevent those consequences from happening.
That's the plan, and every new crime they commit reinforces it and gains them new accomplices.
Time is on their side.

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

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