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Agnieszka Paczynska

@apaczynska.bsky.social
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Professor at GMU. Peace and conflict. And everything in between. Girl mom. Karate, cats and wine lover.

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[Christopher M. Federico] @chrispps.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
the informal term of art I have adopted for stuff like Hegseth’s gender act and phenomena like ‘Mar-a-Lago face’ is ‘cis drag’
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Pam Kruger @pamkruger.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Haitians are "hiding in their homes" and some are filling out legal paperwork to give power of attorney to neighbors or friends. Last weekend, Haitian leaders shared reports that one, possibly two, Haitian immigrants in Ohio had committed suicide. religionnews.com/2026/08/17/a...
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As ICE closes in, Ohio churches line up families to care for Haitian kids left behind
SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (RNS) — In Springfield, Ohio, ICE shifts tactics to stealth raids and ankle monitors. Churches are responding by helping Haitian parents line up temporary caregivers, preparing for t...
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Israel's Minister of National Security advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza every night: "Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.” apnews.com/article/ben-...
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Israel's Ben Gvir advocates killing '30 to 40' people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage
An extremist official in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's cabinet has advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night.
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World Meteorological Organization @wmo-global.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
June 2026 is Western Europe's warmest June on record and the 2nd-warmest June globally, according to Copernicus Climate Change Service's latest bulletin. The global average surface air temperature was 16.54°C—1.39°C above pre-industrial levels. 🔗 bit.ly/4f7Wj7a
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This is a really moving and thoughtful interview
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Man in viral D.C. Metro photo says he was ‘terrified’ as masked white nationalists surrounded him
Roswell Encina, a gay Filipino American civic leader, said the Fourth of July encounter with Patriot Front was frightening and impossible to separate from American history.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 03/06/2026
The first half of this exchange is flabbergasting. It's over a minute of him denying he's the acting IRS commissioner before admitting that he handles all the duties of the IRS commissioner because there is none (either acting or confirmed).
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Full statement of Scott Pelley after he's fired from CBS 60 Minutes, detailing the sort of corruption of journalism Bari Weiss has brought to CBS News:
New statement from Scott Pelley:
 
There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.
 
The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS. 
 
“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.
 
The waste is heartbreaking.
 
Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all. 
 
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.
 
I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.
 
Scott Pelley
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This is the thing that's been getting me re: the judge's remarks. "Criminals are known to lie and fake injuries, so police are justified in ignoring a slurring guy who clearly can't sit upright's claim that he was stabbed, just because he's considered a suspect" is vile
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
They can’t grasp that planes have to be prepositioned for crews & passengers. Crews have mandatory rest times. Landing slots are regulated. Fuel loads must be calculated. Things are connected to other things which connect to still other things because we live in a society. They’re gonna Hormuz it.
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Because this country likes to forget what it’s capable of, I take it as a duty to remind us. We sit at the brink of the largest decimation of Black political power since the fall of Reconstruction — a Second Redemption. And the end of Black political power means the end of democracy itself.
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The Civil Rights Era Is Collapsing Before Our Eyes
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Trump absolutely cratering in new Fox poll: 29-71 on economy 24-76 on inflation He's underwater among whites *and* rural voters (!) Among independents he's at 24 percent (!!) On the pod, @jamescdownie.bsky.social is good on the collapse of the Trump coalition: newrepublic.com/article/2108...
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Trump Blurts Out Plot to Rig Midterms after Humiliating Fox Poll Hits
As Fox News releases some of Trump’s worst polling ever, the writer of a piece on his unpopularity explains why his coalition is imploding—and why his only way out is massive cheating.
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Rubble is Israel’s Doctrine, Not a Case of Improvisation: Adversaries are to be degraded so deeply, that reconstitution becomes difficult or impossible." carnegieendowment.org/middle-east/...
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Rubble is Israel’s Doctrine, Not a Case of Improvisation
Adversaries are to be degraded so deeply, that reconstitution becomes difficult or impossible.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
This Day in Labor History: April 18, 1905. Sugar workers in Puerto Rico went on strike in a coordinated action of 20,000 workers that build connections between agricultural and urban labor. This was an important step in building up resistance to American colonization in this still colonized place!!
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/04/2026
Harmeet Dhillon’s project “has already done a great deal of damage to the Civil Rights Division’s traditional mission—even if it ultimately falls short of its goals, and regardless of whether it nets Dhillon a promotion,” @qjurecic.bsky.social reports:
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Harmeet Dhillon Is Not Wasting Any Time
She arrived at the Department of Justice with radical changes in mind. One year later, she has reshaped the Civil Rights Division—and may be up for a promotion.
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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
This Day in Labor History: April 12, 1934. Workers at the Electric Auto-Lite Company in Toledo walked off the job in a strike that united unionized labor and the unemployed. Let's talk about this, one of the 4 great strikes of 1934 that transformed America!
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This! Also, Greek ships delivering arms, coal etc to Israel have been basically turning off their AIS and faking their destinations on their manifests...
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 06/04/2026
Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.
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Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon's health care system, as it did Gaza's
Since the war between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah reignited on March 2, Israel has pushed deeper into southern Lebanon.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The US is flailing, trying to replace the oil flows from Hormuz: "One executive at a major independent western oil company said the firm had received repeated requests from the US government to increase production since the war started." www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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The Strait of Hormuz Oil Shock Is Now Heading West
US government officials and Wall Street analysis are starting to consdier the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedeted $200 a barrel.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Honestly, if I ever hear Europeans lecture the rest of the world on corruption... www.reuters.com/business/fin...
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US Defense Secretary Hegseth's broker looked to buy defense fund before Iran attack, FT reports
A broker for U.S. Defense ​Secretary Pete Hegseth attempted ‌to make a big investment in major ​defense companies ​in the weeks leading up ⁠to the ​U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, ​the Financial Times re...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Five percent of the globe's oil tankers are trapped inside the Persian/Arabian Gulf: From Bloomberg newsletter.
Right now, Oil Brokerage Ltd. estimates that about 5% of mainstream tankers are trapped inside the Persian Gulf. That’s limiting the ability of the global fleet to reroute at a time when there’s been a sudden pull on barrels from wherever they can be found. 
“The fleet is out of position relative to this amount of cargo,” Clarksons analysts including Frode Morkedal wrote in a note.
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The US strong-armed Panama in canceling a Hutchison terminal operation concession on the Canal. Panamanian clients of the US obliged, and now Panama Canal is another chokepoint being beset with troubles. www.porttechnology.org/panama-canal...
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Panama Canal terminal row disrupts port operations
The Panama Canal is facing renewed operational uncertainty as a legal dispute over terminal concessions and subsequent geopolitical responses
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 18/03/2026
“I have kept this secret long enough. My silence ends here.” Dolores Huerta said on Wednesday that she had not previously revealed that Cesar Chavez had pressured and forced her into sex because she didn’t want to tarnish the farmworker rights movement that she had spent so long fighting for.
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Dolores Huerta Issues Statement on Cesar Chavez Sexual Abuse Allegations
The labor leader said Wednesday that she had felt constrained to keep secret her abuse by Cesar Chavez — and the two children that she bore as a result.
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Steve Saideman @smsaideman.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Gabbard doesn't think her job is to do intel for the US. Which suggests that she think her job is to do some thing else, like give intel to the Russians.
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Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/03/2026
NEW: ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
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Documents Reveal a Web of Financial Ties Between Trump Officials and the Industries They Help Regulate
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who d...
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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
“Israeli officials.. are looking to do enough damage to Iran’s police state from the air that the people can take over on the ground.” Degrading state capacity increases likelihood of state failure, not democratic change -Israel fine with chaotic collapse, US/Gulf not. www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Israel Is Blowing Up Iran’s Police State to Clear the Way for a Revolt
Airstrikes have targeted organizations responsible for suppressing protests and cracking down on separatists, though analysts are skeptical the strategy will work.
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Bethany Letiecq @bletiecq.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Collective Bargaining is essential… @local6741.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @aaupmason.bsky.social Don’t cut higher ed workers out!
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
"Natural-gas prices in Europe, a big customer of Qatari LNG, shot up by around 40%." www.wsj.com/world/middle... via @WSJ
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Attacks in Qatar, Saudi Arabia Drag Energy Sector Into Mideast Conflict
Qatar has halted production of liquefied natural gas and tanker traffic has virtually stopped at the Strait of Hormuz, as Iranian attacks raise the risks for the global economy.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/02/2026
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...
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Trump’s ICE Is Quietly Stockpiling Weaponry—and It Should Alarm Us All
In addition to staffing up at a furious rate, ICE and CPB are acquiring a vast cache of weapons from private contractors, new data reveals. This will not end well—or anytime soon.
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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Israel used aerosol bombs in Gaza, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 6,332 degrees Fahrenheit. These bombs boil body fluid and turn tissue into ash, leaving no trace of their victims behind. Israel used these bombs to evaporate more than 2,800 Palestinians in Gaza.
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate
US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.
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Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Join us in Arlington!
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Shibley Telhami @stelhami.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Israel is terminating Doctors Without Borders operations in Gaza (MSF). MSF calls decision "pretext to obstruct humanitarian assistance" and says it did not hand over staff names because Israel failed to provide assurances to guarantee their safety. www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...
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Israel to halt MSF work in Gaza, NGO slams ‘pretext to obstruct’ aid
Israel on Sunday announced that it was terminating Doctors Without Borders or Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) operations in Gaza over its failure to provide a list of Palestinian staff. MSF called the…
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 08/12/2025
The Wall Street Journal's reporting on the Ukraine negotiations and the New York Times' reporting on the deals struck by Trump in the Gulf make this pattern very, very clear. Meanwhile, *this* is the president that the Supreme Court is empowering to run the government like a dictator. Good times.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Perfect response from @neguse.house.gov here. Watch this.
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Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Does this mean we don’t have to bail them out? Just curious about where my tax $ are going now that it’s obvious it’s not SNAP. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/w...
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Argentina’s Voters Hand Javier Milei a Crucial Victory in Midterm Election
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 05/10/2025
Portland never stops being Portland.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Stephen Miller said last year this was the plan. They said it out loud. Some of us highlighted his remarks at the time and warned how dangerous they were. Most of the media missed them and/or moved on from them. It’s happening:
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Agnieszka Paczynska @apaczynska.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...
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Trump Administration Live Updates: President Tells Top Brass American Cities Should Be ‘Training Grounds’ for Military
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Great point from @emptywheel.bsky.social: Trump's sliding approval on immigration is because millions of citizens are bearing witness. "All of it starts from the people—both private citizens and independent journalists—witnessing, filming, and posting ICE thugs." www.emptywheel.net/2025/09/29/b...
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Buttcracks and Beer Bellies: Is Trump Failing on Immigration because ICE Creates Negative Spectacle? - emptywheel
I suspect that a big reason Stephen Miller has turned immigration into a losing issue for Donald Trump is because Miller's goons create an endless supply of negative spectacle that goes viral and seed...
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Just the paramilitary secret police manhandling an opposition political candidate.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 17/09/2025
Rep. Moskowitz asks Kash Patel about Trump's claim that his signature was faked in the Epstein Birthday Book: "Will you be opening up an investigation into the Epstein estate for putting out a fake document with the president's signature linking him to the world's largest pedophile ring?"
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Daniel Malmer @malmer.com · 13/09/2025
This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.
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What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism
Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic...
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Here is Stephen Miller clearly indicating that we're about to see a McCarthyite campaign of state-sponsored persecution against the liberal-left, all fake-justified by the murder of Charlie Kirk:
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...
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The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced.
I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
“If they’re picking up trash, they’re not here for a security emergency. There’s no clearer metric than that.” @jkdemp.bsky.social
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National Guard collects unfavorable public input on D.C. deployment
Internal documents reviewed by The Post reveal, with rare candor, how domestic missions rooted in politics risk damaging Americans’ trust in the military.
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Free DC @freedcproject.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
People from all over are showing up for DC. This is not a moment. It’s a movement. We are united in our demands. We are all DC! #FreeDC
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