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Decoding Fox News @decodingfoxnews.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Jesse Watters thinks the billionaire class should use 'bread and circus' tactics to help control the peasant class. A McDonald's dollar menu meal, free cars and staged fights between homeless people.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 21/02/2026
A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Ralph Ruthe @ruthe.de · 21/02/2026
Einer für Hundefans.
Ein Hund sieht im TV einen Werbespot. Darin drückt ein anderer Hund eine Klospülung, auf der "Kloda Stream" steht. Hund im TV: "Sie trinken gerne aus der Kloschüssel UND mögen sprudelndes Wasser?"
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Markus Beckedahl @beckedahl.eurosky.social · 06/11/2025
X verstärkt rechtsradikale Inhalte. Neue Recherchen aus UK belegen das mal wieder. Ich kann nicht mehr nachvollziehen, warum die EU-Kommission nicht konsequent mit dem DSA gegen Elon Musk vorgeht. Und warum noch demokratische Akteure auf X aktiv sind. news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
How the world's richest man is boosting the British right
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
FYI www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Sociologist Nathan Kalman-Lamb, based in Fredericton, said he was required to hand over his phone during a recent trip to a conference in South Carolina.

"He claimed that it was just going to be a very cursory search," Kalman-Lamb said, explaining the officer's actions are legal.

"But the document that he gave me said they reserve the right to copy all the contents of your phone and distribute them to every American military and intelligence agency."
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Marc Polymeropoulos @mpolymer1.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Frightening that this is actually the DoD. An official site. We r in grade B movie territory now. Extraordinary that more former senior military officers are not speaking out.
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Eric Adamson @eadamson91.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Washington 2025, Danish Egg Lift breaks through Trump tariffs
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Zwitschernahles @zwitschernahles.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
1000 Milliarden Sondervermögen. Oder wie Friedrich Merz sagen würde: ein gehobener Mittelschicht-Kredit.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Judith Butler on the authoritarian return of the supremacy of whiteness and the heteronormative family, and the need for an alternative vision “affirming the equality, value and interdependency of all living beings” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Judith Butler · This Is Wrong
Any effective response to the anti-gender movement will entail a critique of the new forms of authoritarianism and the...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
The headline really sanitizes what they did to this guy. Getting stripped naked, inadequate food, sleep deprivation sounds more like war on terror ear rendition than "interrogation."
Senior described Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.

She said Schmidt told her immigration agents pressured him to give up his green card. She said he was placed on a mat in a bright room with other people at the airport, with little food or water, suffered sleep deprivation, and was denied access to his medication for anxiety and depression.

“He hardly got anything to drink. And then he wasn’t feeling very well and he collapsed,” said Senior.

He was transported by ambulance to Mass General Hospital. He didn’t know it at the time, but he also had influenza.
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Olivera Stajić @oliveras.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Stimmungsbild unsere Korrespondentin aus Belgrad: "Auf Gehsteigen haben Bürger und Bürgerinnen Tische aufgestellt. Es gibt Jause für die Demonstranten: Wasser, Snacks und sogar Ćevapi. Viele sitzen einfach mit einem Häferl Kaffee auf den Stufen ... 🧵
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Nicola Werdenigg 🖇️ @nicolawerdenigg.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Juni 2024 - Staatssekretärin Plakolm: "Alle Menschen bei der Digitalisierung mitnehmen" 🎺 She did it
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 14/03/2025
i honestly have never seen a political leader so thoroughly destroy their credibility so quickly and, on the other side, it is abundantly clear that if anyone can claim a genuine leadership of large parts of the democratic party, it is AOC.
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EFE Noticias @efe.com · 15/03/2025
El primer ministro de Hungría, Viktor Orbán afirma que el "imperio de Bruselas" abusa de su poder. efe.com/euro-efe/202...
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El primer ministro de Hungría afirma que el "imperio de Bruselas" abusa de su poder - EFE
El primer ministro de Hungría, el ultranacionalista Viktor Orbán, arremetió una vez más contra la UE, al manifestar que abusa de su poder.
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taz @taz.de · 15/03/2025
Die Nacht in einem Altpapiercontainer endet in Berlin für einen 33-jährigen Obdachlosen tödlich. Er stirbt bei der Entleerung. Folgen für die Zukunft hat das nicht.
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Tod im Müllwagen: Deckel zu
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Senate Democrats fought hard to preserve the filibuster so it would be available when Republicans are in the minority.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/14/d...
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Democrats Have to Stop Making Political Decisions with an Eye Towards 2026 - emptywheel
Democracy will be preserved or lost in the next three months. And democracy will be won or lost via a nonpartisan political fight over whether enough Americans want to preserve their way of life to fi...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Trump is now congratulating Schumer for “doing the right thing”
Trump: Congratulations to Chuck Schumer for doing the right thing — Took "guts" and courage! The big Tax Cuts, L.A. fire fix, Debt Ceiling Bill, and so much more, is coming. We should all work together on that very dangerous situation. A non pass would be a Country destroyer, approval will lead us to new heights. Again, really good and smart move by Senator Schumer. This could lead to something big for the USA, a whole new direction and beginning! DJT
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
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Una Hajdari @unawrites.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Don Jr. popped up in Serbia this week, part of the Trump/Kushner families' ongoing push to invest in the Balkans. He also had a chat with Vucic — not about investments, but about the real pressing issues: imported color revolutions, USAID meddling and the horror of *checks notes* people protesting.
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Michael Bonvalot @michaelbonvalot.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Die Causa ORF Niederösterreich und Rutter wird immer absurder. Nachdem Ärzt:innen nicht mit dem rechten Verschwörungsideologen auftreten wollten, bekommt Rutter ein Interview im ORF NÖ. Und der ORF-Interviewer behauptet dabei, Rutter würde sich "um Impfopfer kümmern". Das ist kaputt.
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chajaboebel.bsky.social @chajaboebel.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Wenn sich noch jemand fragt, warum wir starke Gewerkschaften brauchen ….
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VickySpielfrau🎗 @vickyspielfrau.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Wichtige Entscheidung des Europäischen Gerichtshofs! Der EuGH hat klargestellt, dass keine angleichende Operation nötig ist, um sein Geschlecht ändern zu dürfen. Trans* Rechte sind Menschenrechte 🏳️‍⚧️ www.derstandard.at/story/300000...
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Europäischer Gerichtshof stärkt Trans-Rechte bei Wechsel des Geschlechtseintrags
Das EuGH-Urteil betont, dass personenbezogene Daten unverzüglich berichtigt werden können. Das nationale Recht darf dabei kein Hindernis sein
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ChrisXian @xianvienna.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Hm. 🤣
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/03/2025
This is a Hitler-screaming-in-his-bunker-at-generals level of lunacy
Trump post: "The Globalist Wall Street Journal has no idea what they are doing or saying. They are owned by the polluted thinking of the European Union, which was formed for the primary purpose of “screwing” the United States of America. Their (WSJ!) thinking is antiquated and weak, and very bad for the USA. But have no fear, we will WIN on everything!!! Egg prices are down, oil is down, interest rates are down, and TARIFF RELATED MONEY IS POURING INTO THE UNITED STATES. “The only thing you have to fear, is fear itself!”"
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 13/03/2025
Surprise! The Russians, who have repeatedly said they don't want a ceasefire, have once again said they don't want a ceasefire
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Annika Joeres @annikajoeres.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Surprise - am Ende der Kette steht die Öl- und Gasindustrie: Mit @gabrielakeller haben wir recherchiert, dass millionenschwere und Trump-nahe Stiftungen prominente Akteure aus CDU/CSU unterstützen. Ihr Ziel: liberätre und radikal rechte Positionen in die EU tragen correctiv.org/aktuelles/tr...
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Geld, Macht, Kampagnen: Der lange Arm von Team Trump
Wie millionenschwere Stiftungen und mächtige Lobbyisten versuchen, Trumps Agenda nach Europa zu bringen und die CDU für sich einzunehmen.
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Jim Kane @kanejim.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
here we go: BlackRock makes its play for Social Security www.pionline.com/washington/s...
Social Security has been “politicized,” BlackRock Chair and CEO Larry Fink said March 12, which prevents discussions about the program that Fink contended “doesn’t grow with the economy.”

“We've politicized this, and so we have no conversation. It’s (that) you're frightened of talking about Social Security in this city,” Fink said at BlackRock’s Retirement Summit in Washington.

Fink commended Australia’s superannuation system, contending that “the beauty of that plan, unlike Social Security — and I know we can’t talk about Social Security in this country — but the beauty of that plan (is) you’re investing in real assets, you’re investing in equities … and if your country grows, you’re growing with your country.”

“How do you have that conversation? Because it boils down to some version of privatized Social Security, which you kind of rightly said, is just a toxic political conversation to have,” asked Liz Hoffman, Semafor’s business and finance editor.

“Why is it toxic, Liz?” Fink fired back, adding, “It’s not privatizing. I mean, we put in these words to make it toxic.”
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Orange Dick Tater Hater @realbiscuitspaw.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
America is unsafe to travel to. www.10news.com/news/local-n...
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Canadian woman put in chains, detained by ICE after entering San Diego border
A Canadian entrepreneur detained by ICE is speaking out after she got arrested while trying to enter the San Diego border to obtain a visa last Monday.
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The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
It's blatant, disgusting corruption for all the world to see 👇 #TrumpCrimeFamily
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Christiaan Triebert @trbrtc.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Columbia University admins warned international journalism students to avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine, and protests after a pro-Palestinian activist's arrest, saying their freedom and academic future could be at risk. “Nobody can protect you.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
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Michael Colborne @colborne.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
extremely on brand graf for 2025
"The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has worked to destabilize many governments and nations in the past, using methods as mundane as corruption and as drastic as assassination, but the former spy chiefs say a campaign aimed at Canada would likely rely less on cloak-and-dagger tactics and more on social media — such as the Elon Musk-owned X platform."
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Markus Sulzbacher @msulzbacher.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Und hat sich Putin schon einen Tesla gekauft?
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
It is honestly wild to me that Republicans cooked up a bill that would prohibit D.C. from spending more than $1 billion of its own budget, devastating our city services out of pure spite, *and Senate Democrats might actually vote for it.* Utterly appalling. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
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House spending bill would lead to $1B in D.C. cuts. Here’s what that means.
The bill, also known as a continuing resolution, now moves to the Senate, where D.C. officials hope Democrats will help them defeat the measure.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121
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Bronwyn Jones @bronwynjones.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/w...
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Emboldened by Trump, Serbia’s Leader Cracks Down on Activist Groups
Roiled by months of nationwide protests it blames on foreign meddling, Serbia has sent the police in to raid groups that received funds from U.S.A.I.D.
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Queen B. (inc.) @birx.eurosky.social · 12/03/2025
Es ist schon wieder passiert! (Ich hab der Dame geraten eine Petition zu verfassen). Falls Medienvertreter*innen mehr wissen wollen, stell ich gern den Kontakt her. #USA #Folter
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PoliticalNash @politicalnash.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This is a blatant attempt by anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist RFKjr to censor science by our leading cancer researchers #StandUpForScience #YourVoiceIsYourPower #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue www.propublica.org/article/nati...
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National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval
Vaccines. Fluoride. Autism. Communications involving these and 20 other “controversial, high profile, or sensitive” topics will get extra scrutiny under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Secular Talk @kylekulinskishow.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
With the US-Canada trade war heating up, Canadians are looking for friends elsewhere. Perhaps surprisingly, nearly half of Canadians say they would support joining the European Union open.substack.com/pub/canadian...
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Surprising Share Of Canadians Support EU Membership
New polling suggests Canadians are rapidly warming up to the idea of joining the European Union
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Sergio olmos @sergioolmos.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I suppose that is a number no one has actually ever seen
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Coming soon to Canada:
1938 anchluss referendum in Austria
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