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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 30m

WOW!
Do watch this!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJMz...

Lawrence: The only humiliation in court during Comey’s arraignment was on the Trump side

YouTube video by MSNBC

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 7h

Sarah Smith #r4today says Trump gave no details about (didn’t know or care) what happens next with the Gaza/Israel peace deal but she can confirm that Trump will be “furious” on Friday if he isn’t awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wow.
Priorities.
Inspirational.

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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 2d

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice.

His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

Peter Thiel, Would-Be Philosopher King, Takes on Democracy

Billionaire Peter Thiel insists that freedom and democracy are incompatible, and his portfolio of data mining and political bets puts that belief into practice. His is a program of authoritarian control disguised as innovation.

jacobin.com

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Good Trouble @twinkb23.bsky.social · 20h

Delete *all* your social media apps that have location permissions.

Also: Change the permissions of other apps to either never have access to your location or only when using the app.

ACLU @aclu.org · 21h

ICE has bought access to an “all-in-one” surveillance tool that gives it updated location data from hundreds of millions of phones, putting us all at risk of being tracked.

The government can’t be allowed to surveil us simply for having a cell phone.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day

Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

www.404media.co

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 20h

Did you ever imagine, even a year ago, that you would be watching the re-run of the Nazi/Third Reich playbook playing out in the USA in real time, on your screen?

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 20h

CIVIC COURAGE!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yXl...

Pritzker to Trump: 'Come and get me!'

YouTube video by MSNBC

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 20h

This is beyond alarming:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5FC...

BREAKING: Trump is DOING IT…

YouTube video by Adam Mockler

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1d

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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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 1d

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Stalinism and Stephen Miller (video)

Cause for concern

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 13d

“How can you have rule of law if you don’t have facts? … What the Cambridge Analytica whistle blower said is that they tested tactics of mass manipulation in Phillipines, and if they worked, they ported it to America…
There is a dictator’s playbook… Fear, anger, hate…”
@mariaressa.bsky.social

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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 1d

Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.

Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful

Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.

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gwchilly.bsky.social @gwchilly.bsky.social · 1d

That second “has” that slips out of his mouth before the self-imposed silence— and then the reboot without the term “plenary“— is incredibly damning.

Whether we heard about a plot or the stirrings of a coup, this needs to go to every general and admiral who attended that Quantico event. Alarm 🚨

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

📌 Historic fascists with plenary authority:
• Hitler
• Mussolini
• Stalin

Plenary authority or plenary powers: Absolute and without limitations.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece.

It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 1d

Calling English a 'rip-off degree' is one of the most blatant exhibitions of personal barbarism I've ever seen. You've demonstrated nothing but the poverty of your own mind.

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AyJay @dcvet.bsky.social · 1d

The American Nuremberg trials are going to be epic!

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 1d

We've got some fantastic nature news to brighten your day 🎉

Wicken Fen has become the first UK nature reserve to record an incredible 10,000 species. A moth that imitates a wasp was the 10,000th species to be recorded. This work is possible thanks to a major grant from The Nature Recovery Project.

A close-up of a glow-worm with a black plated body and a bright green glowing tail clinging to a stem of grass in the dark

A dark grey moth with bright beige splodges on its wings. It sits of a bright green leaf against a black background

A small brown bird with a cream chest and darker brown tail feathers perches on a reed against a background of blurred brown and green reeds

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West Country Voices @westcountryvoices.bsky.social · 1d

Facts

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 1d

🧠 Alzheimer’s reversed in mice

A new study found that injecting nanoparticles can 'remind' the blood–brain barrier to function properly again, restoring normal brain activity in mice. Human trials could follow within years.

🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#SciComm #Alzheimers 🧪

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

www.nature.com

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BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 1d

Grijalva: The frustration for me is that it seems as if Speaker Johnson is not willing to swear me in because our politics are a little different, or because I’m going to be the 218th signer—he can just continue to drag this along with no end in sight.

That is not a foundation of our democracy.

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David Osland @davidosland.bsky.social · 2d

Don't forget that 41 Tory MPs in the last government took Russian donations. That might account for media reticence to report on the Nathan Gill case.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 1d

Another benefit of Brexit ... the UK has returned to its traditional role as the dirty man of Europe.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

UK plastic waste exports to developing countries rose 84% in a year, data shows

Campaigners say increase in exports mostly to Malaysia and Indonesia is ‘unethical and irresponsible waste imperialism’

www.theguardian.com

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The New World @thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 1d

🚨BREAKING: The metropolitan police
arrest a man for carrying a copy of our magazine. This is a threat to both journalism and freedom to protest

Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 1d

Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

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