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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 1d

"Democracy is a system; an idea. It’s hard to pin a precise expiration date on something like that. You rarely go to sleep in a free society and wake up under a dictatorship. Authoritarianism erodes freedom steadily. But there are waypoints on the road to democratic oblivion." - Garry Kasparov

The Next Move | Garry Kasparov | Substack @thenextmove.substack.com.web.brid.gy · 2d

Trump’s March on Chicago

Trump used a thin pretext to invade LA. Now he aims to send the National Guard into Chicago and Portland—just because he can.

www.thenextmove.org

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 8d

This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.

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Bastian Brauns @bastianbrauns.bsky.social · 22d

"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition it has only one way to go: That is down the path of increasingly repressive measures until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear"

a close up of an american flag with stars and stripes

ALT: a close up of an american flag with stars and stripes

media.tenor.com

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 9d

"You know where you can shove your Palestine?
You can stick it where the sun don't shine."

YKWYCSYP (song)

YouTube video by Hakol Sababa

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 14d

"Israel is the greatest decolonization project in history. It is a people returning to their land, reviving a dead language, rebuilding a shattered identity, and standing against the same ideology that colonized their land in the first place."
- Dan Burmawi

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 14d

"Islam was the greatest colonization project the world has ever seen. It expanded by the sword, erased civilizations, and imposed a single, suffocating identity on lands that had once been diverse and flourishing."
- Dan Burmawi

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 14d

"The Palestinian cause is not decolonization, it is recolonization. It is the Islamic world demanding the re-subjugation of Jews under Islamic rule. That is why its rhetoric is jihadist, not Jeffersonian."
- Dan Burmawi

The Recolonization of Palestine

In the valleys of northern Jordan lies a city called Jerash.

www.danburmawi.com

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 15d

🇮🇩 The President of #Indonesia says that only through the safety and security of #Israel can there be real peace.

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 16d

Und nach der Anerkennung durch Frankreich kommen die Reparationsforderungen für das Sykes-Picot-Abkommen, weil das ist ja überhaupt an allem Schuld.

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Markus 🎗️ @mschaub.bsky.social · 18d

Fast neun von zehn Briten unterstützen Starmers Anerkennung Palästinas nicht

www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/2c56fd5...

Nearly nine out of 10 Britons do not back Starmer’s Palestine recognition

Survey shows majority oppose PM’s decision to impose no conditions

www.telegraph.co.uk

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 24d

UTI POSSIDETIS JURIS in international law states that a newly independent state inherits the administrative borders of the former colonial power or predecessor entity at the moment of independence.
👉lsrael inherited West Palestine's border
👉Jordan inherited East Palestine's borders

Alan🎗🇮🇱🟨 @alanomeyer.bsky.social · 25d

As Einat Wilf says on last week's UNGA "decision" for "2 states" inc. 'right of return', the issue remains the same in 2025 as the British Foreign Secretary observed in February 1947: between Jews who want a state and Arabs who want the Jews not to have one.

The arab Israeli 100 yr war continues.

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 25d

"This is vile, despicable, evil. According to Google, Kilmeade is yet another prominent U.S. 'Catholic' whose words & deeds leave me shaking my head in disbelief! Someone should inform Kilmeade that promoting mass murder is gravely sinful."
✍️ @kohsj.bsky.social

Fox News’ host Brian Kilmeade says ‘just kill ‘em’ about mentally ill homeless people

Comments met with outrage online and calls for him to resign

www.independent.co.uk

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 25d

I had no idea.

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 29d

Pope Leo to inter-religious meeting in Bangladesh: “We know from painful moments in history that when the culture of harmony is neglected, weeds can choke out peace. Suspicions take root; stereotypes harden; extremists exploit fears to sow division.” press.vatican.va/content/sala...

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · 29d

🇩🇪 Frankfurt: A woman holding “We Believe Israeli Women,” survivors of Palestinian terrorist attacks, was confronted by men. Struck with a flag, jeered, and blocked with a keffiyeh, she faced chants of “Shame on you!” Police finally protected her. Why does Palestinianism express such aggression?

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The Free Press @thefp.com · Sep 5

The apps are designed like casinos: endless, curvilinear paths that can be perpetually navigated on autopilot. The key is to find right-angle turns, writes Gurwinder Bhogal for The Free Press.

Social Media Shortens Your Life. Here’s How to Get Time Back.

The apps are designed like casinos: endless, curvilinear paths that can be perpetually navigated on autopilot. The key is to find right-angle turns, writes Gurwinder Bhogal for The Free Press.

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Reader @reader246.bsky.social · Sep 5

Der Milliardär von X erlaubt es dort Neonazipropaganda.

Es würde also nicht schaden,
überall zu erwähnen, dass es
@juedischeonline.bsky.social gibt!

Dazu das passende StarterPack:
go.bsky.app/TUZWb1p

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INVED - TICKER @inved-ticker.bsky.social · Sep 2

Putin uses Shanghai Summit stage to spread old narratives about 'root causes' of the conflict in Ukraine, NATO, 2014... The actual root cause Russian imperialism is not mentioned.

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Sep 3

He identifies as a flying squirrel

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Michelle Bekhor @phantom2013.bsky.social · Sep 4

x.com/DahliaKurtz/...

"We want to go into American society with Islamic ideals and revamp their thinking. We want to revamp them. We want to turn them into Muslim individuals."👀👀👀

-- Muslim Brotherhood, 1990

[video]

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Alan🎗🇮🇱🟨 @alanomeyer.bsky.social · Sep 4

Hamas in Gaza is now asking for full hostage deal......
Their Qatar funded and UN+ NGO amplified propaganda initiative to prevent IDF advance failed as IDF using intense bombardment of suburbs and approaches to Gaza City....
Hamas simply CANNOT believe this is happening to them.

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The Free Press @thefp.com · Sep 2

Hamas’s strategy is to maximize suffering on its own side—and then have the world blame Israel. Our moral confusion is its chief asset.

Coleman Hughes: The Simple Truth About the War in Gaza

Hamas’s strategy is to maximize suffering on its own side—and then have the world blame Israel. Our moral confusion is its chief asset.

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Markus 🎗️ @mschaub.bsky.social · Aug 30

#AliErbaş, Chef der türkischen Religionsbehörde Diyanet, ruft zum „Jihad in allen Formen“ gegen Israel auf.

Genau diese Diyanet kontrolliert rund 1.000 DITIB-Moscheen in Deutschland.

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Michelle Bekhor @phantom2013.bsky.social · Aug 29

x.com/Saul_Sadka/s...
In case it wasn’t clear: the point of the genocide lie is to prepare the justification in advance—“manufacture consent,” in their jargon—for the real genocide of the Jews they dream of.

x.com/nicolelamper...
‘Stop the genocide by killing all the Jews’.

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