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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

something something china is so dangerous something

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Abolish ICE is not enough. Stern words for Greg Bovino or Kristi Noem is not enough. We need prosecutions and trials. Anything short of this position fails to address the gravity of this moment.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 25/01/2026

We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors. It’s time for the Senate to step up and do the right thing. Stop this violence.

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We can all see with our own eyes what ICE is doing to our neighbors.

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. dedicated his life fighting for equity and justice. He taught us that even in the face of intimidation and discrimination, we must never stop working towards a better future – a lesson that feels especially relevant today.

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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Watching GB News or reading the Telegraph you realise there is a slice of right-wing opinion that would happily betray this country.

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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨BREAKING: ICE unleashes ONSLAUGHT of flash bang grenades and chemical ammunition at unarmed Minneapolis protesters in WAR-LIKE attack. Several protesters struck. Our reporter @zdroberts.bsky.social struck in the head. "I got hit in the head really bad." LIVE NOW ⬇️

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/01/2026

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I’ve been in a room with Putin. He calls Ukrainians “Russians with accents.” His real fear isn’t NATO expansion, it’s democracy expansion. It shatters his entire argument for dictatorship at home. Because if Ukrainians embrace freedom, Russians may demand the same.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It’s truly depraved for Trump to welcome Vladimir Putin to the US while Putin is actively wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes in Ukraine. Trump calls this a peace summit but it’s just an opportunity to hang out with one of his dictator buddies. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-a...

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Trump and Putin will meet in Alaska next week, Trump says

President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are planning to meet in the United States, multiple sources tell CBS News.

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Reform UK's Darren Grimes™ doesn't want to adhere to Durham Council's Code of Conduct, so on 16th July he's putting forward a motion to amend it. He wants to be able to say anything he likes and not be held to any standards.

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Danny Deraney @dannyderaney.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Every year on Memorial Day, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring. They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died. France also gave us this land as American soil.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/05/2025

Every book published in the United States is sent to the Library of Congress. Also, if you are under 16 you cannot use the reading room or order books.

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Cat Eccles MP @cateccles.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

We need to go further faster in addressing wealth inequality, offshore tax avoidance, cost of living crisis, health inequalities, child poverty, not towards imitating the opposition and fuelling the politics of hate.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

HE IS PROMISING TO SEND AMERICANS TO FOREIGN DEATH CAMPS. This is it. This is where America ends.

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 28/03/2025

The kind of person that kills dogs.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Turning dehumanizing conditions and ritual humiliation into a US government propaganda video. This makes me ill

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

They’re not going to get out of this by playing semantics. Sending detailed information about an upcoming military strike on unclassified channels (and even to the wrong guy) is wrong, reckless, and obviously a threat to American troops.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Back in 2018 when I started seeing pro-Trump protesters on the streets of Portland wearing "Pinochet did nothing wrong" t-shirts with RWDS on the sleeve and cartoons on the back celebrating the throwing of communists out of helicopters...it seemed clear the GOP was heading to a dark place.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/03/2025

He’s laying the groundwork to dismantle Social Security—just like the rest of our government. If people don’t think Trump, Elon, and the GOP are coming for it, they’re not paying attention.

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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Nigel Farage was instrumental in sparking the violent #FarageRiots in our city of #Hull. He is not welcome here. Join us outside the Connexin Live venue to peacefully demonstrate our contempt. Thursday 27th Feb from 6pm. @HullTrades @StopFundingHate

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

22 February 1924 | Polish Jewish woman, Felicja Wolf, was born in Lwów. She lived in Metz in France. In December 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Vintage black-and-white photo of a young woman with curly hair.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany on Saturday accused Vice President JD Vance of unacceptably interfering in his country’s imminent elections on behalf of a party that has played down the atrocities committed by the Nazis 80 years ago.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

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German Chancellor Scholz Rebukes Vance’s Support for Far-Right During Munich Conference

At the Munich Security Conference, Olaf Scholz accused the U.S. vice president of unacceptable interference in Germany’s coming elections.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Richest guy in the world is doing this

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 15/02/2025

👇🏻👇🏻

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 16/02/2025

A point to consider.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Privatisation of the NHS US private equity and UK pension fund USS make bid for NHS landlord Assura. Assura was set up in 2003, owns more than 600 healthcare buildings worth £3bn. NHS burdened with rent. This is in addition to PFI payments. Less spent on front line services. archive.ph/QRaGZ

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US firm and British pension fund make bid for NHS landlord

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

It is perfectly legal to know your rights and to educate others about them, too. EVERYONE in the United States, citizen or not, has rights. I will not allow this administration to intimidate us from helping you know about them. Here’s our shareable guide ⬇️: (pt. 1/2)

KNOW YOUR
RIGHTS
IN CASE OF ICE:
CONOCE TUS DERECHOS
EN CASO DE ENCUENTRO CON ICE:

DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR.
ICE cannot enter your home without a warrant signed by a judge.
Tell the agents to show you the warrant by sliding it under the door.
NO ABRAS TU PUERTA.
ICE no puede entrar a tu casa sin una orden firmada por un juez. Diles a los agentes que te muestren la orden deslizándola debajo de la puerta.

ASK THEM
TO LEAVE.
If ICE doesn't have a warrant, tell them you do not consent for them to enter your home and ask them to leave. At work, ICE cannot enter employee-only areas without permission.
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PÍDALES QUE SE VAYAN.
Si ICE no tiene una orden judicial, diles que no das tu consentimiento para que entren a tu casa y pídeles que se vayan. En el trabajo, ICE no puede ingresar a áreas exclusivas para empleados sin permiso.

REMAIN SILENT.
You have the right to remain silent.
If the agents ask you questions, tell them,
"I wish to remain silent."
PERMANECE EN SILENCIO.
Tienes derecho a permanecer en silencio.
Si los agentes te hacen preguntas, diles:
"Deseo permanecer en silencio".

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 14/02/2025

RFK is an anti-science extremist, a credibly accused sexual predator, & has zero health policy experience. MAGAs still confirmed him as our HHS Sect—while screaming about "meritocracy." Here’s what to know about RFK & how to protect your health & safety. www.qasimrashid.com/p/rfks-confi...

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RFK's Confirmation is a Blow to Our Health

USA already has the lowest life expectancy in the developed world and RFK will likely increase that disparity—here's how to protect your health

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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series: Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and…

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Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series

Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters. In…

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

6 February 1903 | A Czech Jewish woman, Olga Pollakova, was born in Těšín. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

Vintage black-and-white portrait of a smiling woman with short, wavy hair. The image is signed at the bottom.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Donald Trump says he wants to do some Ethnic Cleansing. Nigel Farage says that sounds very appealing to me.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 03/02/2025

What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.

X post:

Elon Musk

@elonmusk
We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.

Could gone to some great parties.

Did that instead.

U.S. policy was to help bring an end to apartheid and establish a nonracial, democratic government. In response to this policy and the Act, USAID/South Africa was responsible for financing projects that apartheid victims viewed as critical in promoting social, political, and economic change through peaceful means.

The mission enabled community consultation and ensured that the United States did not impose foreign-defined solutions to local problems. USAID created projects and activities to respond to the priorities of the black community and its leaders, maximized black participation and leadership, and ensured activities had a linkage to the general objectives of U.S. policy.

First-year funding for the program was $25 million, which was raised to $50 million the second year. The main project areas were community outreach and leadership development to redress the repression of black-led institutions; educational support and training to address the educational crisis in South Africa; black private enterprise development to combat the inhibiting effects of apartheid–induced discrimination in private enterprise; university grants to help create a new generation of economic and political leaders; human rights; legal assistance; labor union training; and health and nutrition

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Absolutely spot on from Rory Stewart

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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

“Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic,” they said. “That means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice and a third, a fourth. Then what happens?”

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Abandoning trans people is 'fascist logic', says leading feminist philosopher

Leading feminist philosopher Judith Butler has declared that abandoning trans people or any minority is operating within 'fascist logic'.

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Paul Armstrong @armypaulstrong.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's my birthday today and it's the fifth anniversary of Brexit. One gift I wish there was a receipt

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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 31/01/2025

Five years on from Brexit, London remains a European city, where European Londoners are valued and cherished. You are our neighbours, colleagues, friends and loved ones. Thank you for making London your home. You are wanted here—and always will be.

On the fifth anniversary of Brexit, I want all European Londoners to know that you are welcome and wanted in our city.

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

IMPEACH THE FUCKER!!!

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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Former aides to Tulsi Gabbard said she regularly devoured — and encouraged others to consume — articles from the Russian news site RT. The U.S. intelligence community has described RT as “the Kremlin's principal international propaganda outlet." Gabbard's appetite for Putin-approved…

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

🇺🇸👇👇🇺🇸

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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Happy Birthday to the leader of the free world. Slava Ukraini🇺🇦

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