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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 4h
Discord is clearly feeling the pressure. Don't let them meme their way out of accountability for our data security and access to community! Tell Discord: NO ONE WANTS ID CHECKS www.stoponlineidchecks.org/companies/
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ONLINE ID CHECKS = SURVEILLANCE AND CENSORSHIP
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 7h
“It’s really important for the public to get more information about how these private companies are operating AI systems that influence Medicare beneficiaries’ access to care,” EFF’s Lena Cohen told @azfamily.com.
azfamily.com
Newly released records detail rocky rollout of Medicare pilot program in Arizona
Arizona is one of six states nationwide in a pilot program for the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) Not ok! www.thepetitionsite.com/206/617/025/ 2) No to...! act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/sexual_... 3) No! badinternetbills.com 4) action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-09... 5) networkforanimals.org/donate/jorda... 6) action.foe.org/page/103150/...
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Sign Petition: OpenAI Knew a School Shooter Was Planning an Attack. It Said Nothing.
This is not the first time OpenAI's systems have flagged warning signs without meaningful follow-through. (11876 signatures on petition)
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
WTH?! news 1) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Cornell rape scandal proves women’s safety is never the priority
The New York state prosecutors have decided to finally look into 2024 gang rape allegations.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Trump’s war on the media is backfiring
Trump’s war on the First Amendment has sent public confidence in press freedom to a new low.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) action.eko.org/a/uk-governm... 2) earthjustice.org/action/actio... 3) No to...! badinternetbills.com 4) networkforanimals.org/donate/jorda... 5) donate.spcai.org/page/200403/...
action.eko.org
UK government: Suspend all Palantir contracts
Right now, thanks to Keir Starmer, Trump’s digital Trojan horse is 'hoovering up' our data -- including your private patient data.Quietly, and without a single vote in Parliament, Keir Starmer has sig
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
WTH?! news 1) A dating app called Upward sure is leaning into this www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 3) The latest update on... www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Dating apps are leaning into MAGA’s gross ‘tradwife’ narrative
Love is in the air, and Big Love Tech—yes, really—is betting on “traditional values” to bring people back to dating apps.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/09/2026
EFF’s @Maassive.bsky.social joins Spectacles to discuss the AI integrated surveillance towers that line the US-Mexico border – and that could be coming soon to a city near you.
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Something Worse than Flock is Coming.
YouTube video by Spectacles
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 29/09/2026
“We believe [these age verification laws] burden adults’ rights to access lawful speech, that they can destroy people’s ability to be anonymous online, and that they are privacy and data security disasters waiting to happen,” EFF’s @aaronmackey.bsky.social told @penncapital-star.com.
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Pa.'s latest online age verification bill would restrict access to adult content • Pennsylvania Capital-Star
Experts warn that, while such measures may be intended to protect children, they can ultimately wind up burdening adults, posing data privacy concerns, and restricting access to First Amendment-protec...
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) earthjusticeaction.org/action/tell-... 2) action.eko.org/a/minister-f... 3) No! badinternetbills.com 4) www.thepetitionsite.com/201/622/990/
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BD the Toon Dog @bdtoonzone.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
For those planning to call Gavin Newsom about the Paramount merger, he's also considering gutting the state's Net Neutrality laws as well so go call him to protect the rules as well!
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) act.colorofchange.org/letter/inves... 2) action.aclu.org/send-message... 3) www.thepetitionsite.com/926/141/573/ 4) No! badinternetbills.com 5) action.foe.org/page/102982/... 6) earthjustice.org/action/no-sh...
act.colorofchange.org
Investigate AI corporations NOW — protect humanity from runaway AI tech!
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
WTH?! news 1) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 3) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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The Roberts 6 Strikes Again (Breaking)
From Huffington Post- The Robert’s court strikes again! A mere 39 days until mid-term elections, John Roberts led his six conservatives to rule the Trump maladministration can use Social Security…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/09/2026
EFF sued to get documents about WISeR, a pilot program that uses AI to authorize or deny certain types of care for patients with Medicare. “According to the documents released by the EFF, the program’s implementation was rushed, and the technology wasn’t ready,” @arstechnica.com reports.
arstechnica.com
Trump admin using AI to deny medical care for seniors in disastrous experiment
Vendors rolling out AI have an "incentive to deny as many claims as possible."
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 25/09/2026
“This is one part of the surveillance and intelligence wing that ICE is building,” EFF’s @cooperq.com told @fedscoop.bsky.social. “It’s a big part of it, but it’s still just one part. ... It’s going to feed in and be indexed alongside all this other surveillance equipment and pipelines.”
fedscoop.com
ICE awards contested, controversial surveillance contract to Thomson Reuters
Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) earthjustice.org/action/dont-... 2) No to the so called SAVE Act! win.newmode.net/colorofchang... 3) No! badinternetbills.com
earthjustice.org
Tell the EPA not to walk away from its responsibility on climate
For over a decade, the Endangerment Finding has allowed the EPA to begin tackling climate pollution. That progress is now at risk.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
WTH?! www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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So much for tough talk: Trump gives Chinese president a warm welcome
Despite all his saber-rattling and xenophobia about China, President Donald Trump simply cannot resist the allure of power.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 22/09/2026
Net neutrality rules are crucial to protect us from censorship, price gouging, and arbitrary throttling. Newsom needs to stand up to Trump and internet service providers. Act now to preserve the internet: CALL TODAY and tell Governor Newsom DON'T CAVE. www.fightforthefuture.org/actions/save...
fightforthefuture.org
Save Net Neutrality from Condition 50
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
“While estimating age based on user behavior is less invasive than requiring users to upload photos, credit card information or a state-issued ID, age-gating the internet creates dangerous new forms of surveillance, censorship, and exclusion,” EFF’s @davidgreene.bsky.social told @cnet.com.
cnet.com
Discord Introduces Alternative Age Verification Tools After Pushback - CNET
Teenage users have options, but some appear safer than others. We pick the best options.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 24/09/2026
Our right to conversational privacy must include freedom from others using tech to document what we are saying without our clear opt-in consent. "Otherwise, people will self-censor, and conversation will lose its spontaneity and intimacy," EFF’s @adamdschwartz.bsky.social told @yahoofinance.com.
finance.yahoo.com
Welcome to the age of listening devices
Devices that can listen and record us are becoming more popular, raising privacy concerns.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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action.eko.org
Banks: stop funding KEPCO's coal
Update, August 10, 2026: The pressure is working! KEPCO did not reissue this bond. It’s a good sign that no banks financed it, but we still need banks to publicly rule out financing all of KEPCO's fo
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Trump team is dying to Make America Sick Again
Public health has been bracingly terrible since the start of the second Trump administration. And now it’s getting worse.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
EFF joined an amicus brief urging the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals to vacate an FAA drone flight restriction that violated the First Amendment right to record law enforcement. The government can’t avoid accountability by punishing those who exercise their rights.
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D.C. Circuit Must Vacate a Drone Flight Restriction That Criminalized Recording Immigration Agents
EFF joined an amicus brief with ACLU, ACLU of D.C., National Press Photographers Association, and Professional Photographers of America to urge the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone flight restricti...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 23/09/2026
However they’re designed, age gates undermine civil liberties, reduce safety, and create barriers to internet entry, often at the expense of marginalized groups. We call on the EU Parliament to fix the flawed EU Kids Act proposal eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good intentioned alerts 1) www.lwv.org/save-act 2) No! act.winwithoutwar.org/act/bomb-sal... 3) No! badinternetbills.com 4) www.defendvpns.com 5) networkforanimals.org/donate/doris... 6) act.savethechildrenactionnetwork.org/a/fy-27-natu... 7) No WH ban on...! act.demandprogress.org/sign/trump-f...
lwv.org
Tell Congress to oppose the SAVE Act Suite of bills | League of Women Voters
Tell your Senators to oppose the SAVE Act.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
WTH?! news 1) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 3) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 4) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 5) They're lying they don't support the Iran war because of this www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 6) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
New ICE horrors come to light
Unfortunately for the rest of us, Immigration and Customs Enforcement never sleeps.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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News outlets sue Trump over BS White House ban
The outlets noted, “Without notice or process, the White House revoked our journalists’ credentials because it objected to our reporting.”…
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 22/09/2026
Protecting children online matters—but age verification is not how you do it. Read our analysis of the new EU Kids Act, which is a threat to the open internet and our privacy eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
EU Kids Act Won't Keep the Internet Accountable and Trustworthy
The EU Commission draft law to restrict young people’s access to the internet that it presented last week will come at a high cost: it will make internet access contingent on age, expand the use of
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) badinternetbills.com 2) action.aclu.org/send-message... 3) No to...! networkforanimals.org/donate/momba...
badinternetbills.com
Bad Internet Bills
All of the bad internet bills. One website.
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🔞OnyxNuva || PLUS 🔞 @onyxnuvaplus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#savespeech #notodigitalID #stopkillinggames In the name of privacy, preservation, & free speech, this bill MUST be defeated & Ursula/Macron OUSTED fightchatcontrol.eu @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy @mgeist.bsky.social @fsc.bsky.social @eff.org @fightforthefuture.org
fightchatcontrol.eu
Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU
Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026
Companies want to use hardware protections in the cloud to process your private data for AI features. But how much security do you give up in the process? www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
Secure Messaging and AI Remain In Conflict Despite the Promise of TEEs
Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) act.demandprogress.org/sign/protect... 2) www.mobilize.us/nokings/ 3) No! badinternetbills.com 4) No to...! action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08... 5) action.eko.org/a/x-google-m... 6) action.foe.org/page/102746/...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 19/09/2026
iOS 27 gives us Siri AI, which can dig deep into your device to find information, but introduces some new privacy problems to consider. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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act.demandprogress.org
Fight high credit card fees — pass the Credit Card Competition Act!
Congress must represent the people, not financial services CEOs.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
WTH?! news 1) The latest update on... www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 2) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... 3) www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Oh great, Pete Hegseth is pushing the ‘High-T Department of War’
Why focus on the Iran war fiasco when you can make sure your soldiers are chock-full of testosterone?
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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South Korea won’t help dig Trump out of his Iran war mess
“There won’t be deployment that would involve or enter war. I can tell you that very clearly,” said the South Korean president.
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🤘🏼 Christizo Mephizto ❌👑 @alchemicaluproar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
We hear "Privacy is Dead" and "you need to be surveilled to be safe" all the time. The Flock backlash shows that people aren’t apathetic about their privacy. We can fight back against Flock and all abused, oppressive systems of surveillance. Thanks for writing this @fightforthefuture.org #privacy
nytimes.com
Opinion | How Flock Cameras Became the Enemy
The campaign against Flock shows that fighting to protect personal privacy isn’t a lost cause.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/09/2026
While trusted execution environments in the cloud might be secure enough for many cases, they're fundamentally less secure than end-to-end encryption or local computation. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
Secure Messaging and AI Remain In Conflict Despite the Promise of TEEs
Secure messaging platforms, like Signal, WhatsApp, and recently, encrypted RCS, operate on a straightforward assumption: the content at each end of a conversation is private to the participants in
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good intentioned action alerts 1) secure.ucs.org/a/2026-pit-p... 2) www.thepetitionsite.com/936/856/012/ 3) action.wemove.eu/sign/2026-08... 4) No! badinternetbills.com 5) No to... networkforanimals.org/donate/momba...
secure.ucs.org
Tell Congress: No More Reckless Spending on Nuclear Weapons
Send a message to your members of Congress today to demand a budget and schedule for the plutonium pit production program. Taxpayers deserve to know where their money is going.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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ICE ordered to stop intimidating critics
Turns out it’s not legally sound for Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to intimidate people who send strongly worded emails.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 17/09/2026
CALIFORNIANS: this is your reminder to blast Gov Newsom with calls before he signs away the right to accessible internet for rural, native & low income communities tomorrow to appease Trump.
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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I think there is a good chance that if Democrats sweep Congress one of the first things they'll do is try to pass an Australia-style social media ban for under 16s. We need to start organizing against this right now. Ron Wyden can't be the only Senator who will understand this is terrible.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 18/09/2026
Riders shouldn’t have to infer from language about “safety and security” that their behavior could result in a police response, EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social told @theverge.com, adding that Waymo should clearly disclose that possibility before passengers get into the car.
theverge.com
Your robotaxi might be a narc
Waymo notified the police when it detected a gun during a ride, leading to the arrest of two teenagers. The incident exposes the limits of privacy in an autonomous vehicle.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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action.eko.org
Trump: hands off the forests!
For 25 years, a law protected 59 million acres of forests in the US – some of the last truly wild forests on the planet – and just a few weeks ago, Trump signed off to end this protection.Now, pristin
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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House Republicans flee DC to avoid Hegseth impeachment vote
The House skipped town to avoid voting on the articles of impeachment against Hegseth.
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 16/09/2026
The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with CA that would make the state abandon its net neutrality law, broadband affordability, and public safety protections. Tell the governor to reject this provision before accepting these funds. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
California: Tell the Governor to Stand Up for Net Neutrality,
The federal government has inserted a provision into a funding deal with the state of California that would make the state abandon its gold standard net neutrality law, broadband affordability laws,
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 17/09/2026
The DMCA prohibits removing copyright information from existing works. It doesn’t create a new right to have that information copied into every new work. The 9th Circuit got it right today in Doe v. Github. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
eff.org
Victory! Appeals Court Rejects Expansive New Copyright Claim
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed internet users and programmers a big win today, by rejecting an attempt to stretch a narrow provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
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Arim C @arim125.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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act.winwithoutwar.org
Congress Can Still Stop a Dangerous U.S.-Israeli Military Partnership
This one-of-a-kind agreement could deepen impunity for the Israeli government.
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