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🇬🇪 This is Georgia after:

✅ 7 months of uninterrupted protests.
✅ 60+ political prisoners.
✅ Six out of nine opposition leaders in jail.
✅ Daily protests in 8+ cities.
June 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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I don't know if there's ever been a culture more in love with charlatans than ours. "Success" defined entirely by how good you are at tricking people into giving you money. An entire country of aspiring slop merchants
May 19, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Die Töpfe der #GKV sind leer. 800 Mio Notkredit sollen es retten.
Die Koalition muss handeln: Statt Zeit mit Kommissionen zu vergeuden & Beitragszahlende weiter zu belasten, braucht es echte Reformen: Beiträge auf Kapitaleinkünfte & Abschaffung der Beitragsbemessungsgrenze. Sonst crasht das System.
May 14, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Just hit me that the importing of white folks from South Africa and exporting of brown people is actually, literally an attempt at a great replacement
May 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Sonntag gibt's an über 50 Orten in Deutschland Demos für ein Verbot der gesichert rechtsextremen AfD. Wer ist mit dabei?

(Bitte teilt das und leitets weiter, je mehr wir sind, umso besser stehen die Chancen, dass was passiert)
May 9, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Bei der Tagesschau reden sie sich und uns ein, dass man gar nicht so genau sagen könnte, ob sich das Ausgrenzen der AfD lohnt. Die Wissenschaft hat hier eine klare Antwort:

www.volksverpetzer.de/analyse/fors...
Klare Forschungslage: AfD Ausgrenzen funktioniert
Die Forschung widerspricht der Relativierung der Tagesschau: Eine Normalisierung der AfD stärkt Rechtsextremismus.
www.volksverpetzer.de
May 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Höcke löscht einen Post, wo er Beamten zu drohen schien, Chrupalla kündigt "Mäßigung" an.

Schaut, wie schnell die Faschisten in Deckung gehen, wenn sie ein bisschen Widerstand von der Demokratie spüren. Das sollte uns ermutigen, härtere Kante zu zeigen!

Wehrt euch jetzt, es funktioniert!
May 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Vielleicht lernen wir in Deutschland aus den Entwicklungen in den USA und verstehen endlich, wie schnell eine rechtsautoritäre Transformation des Staates gehen kann und wie wenig abstrakte Prinzipien wie checks and balances wirken, wenn sie nicht aktiv verteidigt werden.
April 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Trump‘s first 100 days:

This 👏🏼 is 👏🏼 not 👏🏼 normal
Striking chart from @wsj.com shows the cumulative number of executive orders by each recent president through their first 100 days: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

In a new @pewresearch.org survey, 51% of Americans say Trump is doing too much by executive order: www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...
April 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Pete Hegseth reportedly had unsecured office internet line to connect to Signal
Pete Hegseth reportedly had unsecured office internet line to connect to Signal
Defense chief had line set up to bypass official security protocols and use Signal app on personal computer, AP says
www.theguardian.com
April 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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it’s official, #JDVanceKilledThePope
April 21, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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The Rector of the University of Belgrade, Vladan Đokić, was summoned to the criminal police in New Belgrade. Faculty staff, students, and many other citizens have come out to support him. #studentprotests
April 18, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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they’re using this complete fabrication as testing grounds to see if they can get away with this. they’ll start doing this with “antifa” “terrorists” to target any left wing activist if this works
Bondi is escalating the rhetoric against Abrego Garcia, who she calls "one of the top MS-13 members" and "a terrorist"
April 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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"Schon seit Tagen gehen viele Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Türkei nicht in den Unterricht, sondern demonstrieren stattdessen gegen die Regierung Erdogan. Über dieses neue Ausmaß der Proteste in der Türkei sprechen wir mit Dr. Ismail Küpeli, Politikwissenschaftler an der @ruhr-uni-bochum.de"
Schüler protestieren gegen die Regierung Erdogan
Ob in Istanbul, Izmir, Ankara, Antalya oder anderen Städten: Schon seit Tagen gehen viele Schülerinnen und Schüler in der Türkei nicht in den Unterricht, sondern demonstrieren stattdessen gegen die Re...
www.radioeins.de
April 16, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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57% of Britons would rather have the EU as a close trading partner than the US, amid suggestion that closer alignment with Europe could endanger a trade deal with the US

EU: 57% (+4 from 21 Jan)
US: 16% (-5)

yougov.co.uk/topics/econo...
April 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.
April 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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"Down with the rotten Russian Empire!"

For the 139th consecutive night, Rustaveli avenue is blocked. Protests in Georgia continue in full swing, until the Georgian Dream regime collapses. #GeorgiaProtests
April 15, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Rechtsextreme Gewalt ist wieder Alltag. Zivilgesellschaft wird kaputtgespart, gerät durch rechtsextreme Parteien und fehlende Rechtssicherheit weiter unter Druck. Wenn gespart werden soll, dann als Erstes an der Demokratieförderung. Das ist Brandbeschleuniger für den Aufstieg der extremen Rechten.
Zivilgesellschaftliche Förderung bedroht: Die gekürzte Demokratie
Mobile Beratung gegen rechts oder psychosoziale Hilfe für Geflüchtete sind bedroht. Ein Blick auf den Rückzug des Staates aus dem Demokratieschutz.
taz.de
April 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Breaking News: Harvard rejected the Trump administration’s demands, including that it submit to monitoring and reduce the power of faculty and students.
Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands
Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.
www.nytimes.com
April 14, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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I sense a lot of people in the U.S. waiting for the movie moment when Trump dissolves Congress and marches his shock troops into major cities to decide this is fascism. That’s pretty unlikely to happen; things will carry on similarly, just with ever-more constraints on what you can do or say
April 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
April 14, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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Jeez. Did Trump really just say President Zelensky started the war with Russia?

Zelenskyy is the democratically elected leader of a sovereign country who is bravely standing against the illegal invasion of Ukraine by a murderous dictator called Vladimir Putin

FACTS MATTER
April 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Day 138. New, free & fair Parliamentary elections, and the release of the regime prisoners.

We cannot stop in our national freedom struggle.

Help us avoid costs by targeted sanctions, no handshakes with the regims, and calls for new elections. #GeorgiaProtests

📷 Giorgi Burjanadze
April 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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What a massive crowd on Day 138 of daily protests in Georgia.

On this day in 1978, students and professors defended the Georgian language from Soviet attempts to strip it of official status.

Today, we continue the fight for our freedom and identity. #GeorgiaProtests
April 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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AOC: We must acknowledge the terrifying moment we are in right now. What we are hearing and seeing with our own eyes is, in fact, happening. We are watching our neighbors, students, and friends being fired, targeted, and disappeared. It is real.
April 12, 2025 at 10:29 PM