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Anna O. Law @unlawfulentries.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Political scientists have found that nonviolent rebellion is the most reliable path from dictatorship to democracy. Decades of research point to four steps that successful rebellions follow."

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Tara Medeiros @blusiegirl.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Our kids have officially reached the ages when cats>dad. 😂

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Refugees International @refugeesinternational.org · 03/08/2026

"The massive new Ebola outbreak now spreading across conflict-ridden eastern Congo is a grim object lesson on just how vital USAID was." Read more on the consequences of DOGE's dismantlement of USAID in @jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social's latest op-ed on @zeteo.com. zeteo.com/p/ebola-cong...

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Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.

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Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

NEW: A second ex-wife of David Brouillette, the ICE agent who killed Joan Durán Guerrero in Maine, Lucinda Brouillette, issued a statement this morning. "If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes." /

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Tara Medeiros @blusiegirl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

My three year old just left for swim lessons in her bathing suit, glitter crocs, and eating a chicken wing. I’ve raised her well.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Playbook | Chuck Schumer’s short list for Platner’s replacement is said to include George Mitchell, Terry McAuliffe, and Susan Collins.

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Dalia Dassa Kaye @dassakaye.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

US-Iran state of play not looking good. Yes, there are good reasons neither side wants a return to full-scale war. But that doesn't mean escalation won't lead there. Or this round is contained but the MOU is essentially OBE.

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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Ken Paxton just gave an Epstein-style deal to a pedophile. Paxton released Adam Hoffman — an admitted child rapist — back on our streets after Paxton’s rich lawyer friend got involved. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas. Ken Paxton has no place in the US Senate.

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

If you're still interested in the Hungarian election — which you should be! — I'm doing a panel at Penn today at 3. We'll talk about what happened, what the stakes for Hungarian democracy are, and what this says about the global far-right project. Watch here: upennmeeting-edu.zoom.us/j/96282978519

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Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I've been reporting on Hungary for nearly a decade now, and it makes it really easy to see when others in the American press make fundamental errors in how they cover the election and its true stakes. Some of them are really bad!

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Abu Aardvark @abuaardvark.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Trump: Cave or we kill you all. Iran: no Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you Iran: um ok Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon Lebanon: wtf Iran: wtf Vance: nobody mentioned you Pakistan: they were literally in the text Trump: … I totally won Iran: u ok?

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Tara Medeiros @blusiegirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

If you’re not following @hbanai.bsky.social for Iran analysis, you should be.

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Tara Medeiros @blusiegirl.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

This is fantastic, and I legitimately love how starstruck some of these New Yorkers are.

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Mike Tanier @miketanier.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

7 pm. Cherry Hill NJ. Rally to stop an unjust war, among many other things. #NoKings @njindivisible.bsky.social

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/04/2026

NEW: Ratcliffe told Trump that Bibi's war with Iran proposal was "farcical." Rubio chimed in and called it "bullshit." General Caine said it was an "over-sell." Vance said it would cause chaos and untold numbers of casualties. Cheung said people didn't vote for it. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

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How Trump Took the U.S. to War With Iran

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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

We could be looking at one of the worst humanitarian crises in history tonight.

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I hate the too-cool-for-school attitude of dismissing this with a "but they won't." That is surrendering in advance. The pressure should be put on them, the message should be unrelenting that this is what must be done and they're the ones refusing to do it. Don't act like they don't have agency.

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Congressman Dwight Evans @repdwightevans.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Trump’s statement is a direct call for war crimes. It’s deranged and sick coming from anyone, let alone the president of the United States. Any Republican who remains silent is complicit. GOP majority leadership must bring Congress back to DC NOW and rein in Trump’s warmongering. Enough is enough.

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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Breaking on MS NOW: Trump is expected to oust Bondi from her role "imminently."

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is brilliant. Pass it on.

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

PWH Faculty Director @mchorowitz.bsky.social spoke with @cnn.com International's Kim Brunhuber on precise mass and the use of drones in the war in Iran. Watch the full segment here: youtu.be/9j5Tz4nDXWo

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 08/03/2026

10/10 take. no notes

teewatterss on Threads:
“losing an hour on international women's day feeling very 75 cents on the dollar”

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Register today for our rapid response event on the crisis in Iran. Our expert panel (@hbanai.bsky.social; @dassakaye.bsky.social; @marieharf.bsky.social) will discuss what this means for the region and the world more broadly, possible next steps, and more. www.eventbrite.com/e/at-war-wit...

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At War With Iran

A rapid-response event discussing the crisis in the Middle East

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Daniel Schneiderman, Penn Washington Director of Global Policy Programs:

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

@mchorowitz.bsky.social, Perry World House Faculty Director:

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Insight from Perry World House and Penn Washington leadership on the U.S.'s strikes against Iran: @marieharf.bsky.social, Perry World House Executive Director:

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Negin Owliaei @neginowl.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

The UAE secretly paid Trump $187 million. Money in his pocket personally. And then Trump overrode decades of national security objections to selling Nvidia chips to UAE because we feared UAE would send the chips to China. Corruption has consequences.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Can't fuckin' believe I'm doing this but here goes: Twitter is a mind prison, a true jail of career advancement. I stopped posting on there and within months I became the CEO of The Onion and I'm not kidding. Went back on last year, felt worse, then left again.

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Join us on the fourth anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine for a discussion with military trauma surgeon and strategic experts working to save lives on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/penn-on-th...

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Penn on the Frontlines: Lessons from Trauma Care on the Ukraine Battlefront

An urgent conversation with military trauma surgeons and strategic experts working to save lives on the frontlines of the war in Ukraine.

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Matt Browner Hamlin @mattbh.com · 14/02/2026

This is so spot on

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The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesivebecause of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Federal paramilitaries running up on the rooftops to fire irritants and flash bangs down into a peaceable assembly full of little kids

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Black Hart of Saint Paul @blackhartstp.com · 28/01/2026

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: 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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Bernice King has it absolutely right. We are facing a moral crisis in this country. And we must all act together to end it.

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Kamala Harris @kamalaharris.com · 24/01/2026

Alex Jeffrey Pretti was an ICU nurse at a VA hospital. His life, through his profession, was dedicated to serving his community and our country. As so many have now seen on video, his final act before he was killed by federal agents was doing everything in his power to protect his community.

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Jeff Rueter @jeffrueter.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti
Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti

“We are heartbroken but also very angry.

Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact.

I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed.

Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

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Rex Huppke @rexhuppke.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Absolutley heartbreaking that parents of a man gunned down by federal agents have to put out a statement because the president and his cowardly minions are defaming their son. We’re way past sick.

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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Today’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune. 👀

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Perry World House @perryworldhouse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

📆JUST ADDED📆 PWH & the Center for the Study of Contemporary China are pleased to host H.E. Kevin Rudd for a timely conversation on Australia's perspective about what is required to advance security in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/australia-...

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Australia and the Future of Deterrence & Diplomacy in the Indo-Pacific

A Discussion with H.E. Kevin Rudd

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Matt Motta @mattmotta.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The Boston Globe Test: This satirical front page imagined a Trump presidency in 2016. Critics (including Trump himself) dismissed it as "alarmist" and "propaganda" at the time. Do these headlines feel normal today? Even...quaint? If so: we have grown more accepting of what was once unthinkable.

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