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Adrian CIoflâncă

@cioflanca.bsky.social
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Masked ICE aren’t about safety; they’re about fear and evading responsibility. Demand transparency and accountability by adding your name to this petition:
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Sign Petition: Stop Masked Immigration Raids. This Is Not How a Democracy Operates.
These agents are using masks to shield themselves from accountability for their willingness to participate in dangerous overreach. (51529 signatures on petition)
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Anders Östlund @andersostlund.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Dictator style home decoration. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...
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Donald Trump Has a “Dictator Chic” Design Taste
I wrote a book about autocrats’ design tastes. The U.S. president would fit right in.
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇪🇺🇺🇦 All sides are simply trying to politically outlive Trump. Russia is not interested in negotiations. Europe needs another 1.5-2 years to rearm, and Ukraine plays a key role here, because it is a barrier and buys time for partners. Read more 👀⬇️ theukrainianreview.info/peace-talks-...
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"Peace" talks in the US
Trump looked exhausted and irritated after meeting with Putin in Alaska. He also said that he would consider renewing threats of immediate sanctions against Rus
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
🚨Many compare President Trump’s submission to President Putin with PM Chamberlain’s appeasement of Chancellor Hitler, but the analogy is false: Chamberlain erred in loyalty, while Trump betrayed allies and incited an assault on his nation. theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/the-bad-an...
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
❗️The biggest deterrent for Russia will be hundreds of thousands of well-equipped Ukrainian soldiers. The main guarantee of security for Ukraine is a strong army, - Macron
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Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Please God someone in Trump's entourage reads this and gets Trump to understand it before he meets Putin.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
‼️ If Putin keeps the occupied territories, the world will become more dangerous and cruel, because it will show other dictators that it is possible to seize foreign lands by force without a reaction from NATO, — The Telegraph
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
NEW: Russia is setting conditions to broadly prosecute residents of occupied Ukraine for alleged “anti-Russian” activity that took place before Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Read the July 29, 2025, Russian Occupation Update here: isw.pub/OccupationUp... (1/5)
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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
🛳️🇪🇺🇺🇸 In the three years since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU and the US have included 587 vessels linked to Russia in the sanctions lists, - Le Monde As of mid-June 2025, 80% of these tankers continued to openly transport oil, without turning off GPS and indicating the destination.
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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Even though some European armies are slowly starting to wake up to this issue, most still don’t grasp how vital unmanned systems have become. If russia launched an invasion, each European country would face a brutal first few months before starting to catch up
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
These are the guys Trump was shilling for at the G7 meeting.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
As I’ve said before, in order to build a mass deportation operation to root out 4% of the population you must first build a police state.
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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 29/05/2025
White Paper on improving sanctions presented in Brussels #Ukraine
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White Paper on improving sanctions presented in Brussels
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 28/05/2025
The EU has launched a new Black Sea strategy to boost defense readiness amid growing Russian threats. The plan includes €75B in infrastructure upgrades for military mobility, a new maritime security hub, and deeper ties with Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, and others.
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Brewminate (Matthew A. McIntosh) @brewminate.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Donald Trump’s government hasn’t been shy about embracing generative AI. The government is now acting against its own people, and AI is helping it to do so - already using AI as a surveillance tool within the government itself. #USDemocracy
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The Aesthetic of Authoritarianism: Artificial Intelligence and the Trump Government
Generative AI is a powerful tool, but it is a tool that can be used for good or ill. Currently, the US government wields that tool.
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
❗️🇩🇪Germany’s Foreign Ministry answer 🇺🇸Rubio about the potential ban of the AfD party
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GOP==CRIME @yd52.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
THE GOP CLOWN SHOW IS MORE LIKE JOHN WAYNE GACY (Serial Killer). He looks and behaves like a clown in public, but THE CLOWN KILLS! Wiki: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wa... #USDemocracy
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Medvedev wants Nuremberg 2.0? He will get one. He deserves one. ⚠️ Caution! Sensitive information below. But I am convinced it needs to be shared - this is what Russia does to Ukrainians. Russia openly defies laws, conventions and basic humanity principles.
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AmplifyUkraine 🔱🇺🇦 @amplifyukraine.eu · 15/04/2025
Wars in Ukraine, Middle East cannot be ended with commercial deals – MPSirko #Ukraine
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Wars in Ukraine, Middle East cannot be ended with commercial deals – MPSirko
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Do not call this a tragedy. An earthquake, a fire, accidental deaths are tragic. This is murder. This is Terrorism. This is Sumy on Palm Sunday. This is Russia. There is no peace with Russia. Protect Ukraine, protect us all, protect freedom. bsky.app/profile/twmc...
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The oligarchs are stealing everything from us- ⚫️Social Security ⚫️Medicaid ⚫️Community & Travel Safety ⚫️Food & Health Safety ⚫️Free Speech ⚫️Women’s Rights ⚫️LGBTQ+ Rights & Safety ⚫️Healthcare ⚫️CDC, NOAA, FDA It’s time for the masses to rise & take it all back. Eat the Rich. #ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL. #HandsOff
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Sally Deal - 📞 Call your legislators @ (202)224-3121 ⏰24/7! @sallydeal4.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Rachel Maddow drew attention to this tweet. It's not wrong.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 04/04/2025
trump-induced economic uncertainty eclipsing covid.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Poll: Americans Disapprove of Trump's Handling of Pretty Much Everything #TrumpIsANationalDisgrace www.vanityfair.com/news/story/p...
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Poll: Americans Disapprove of Pretty Much All of Trump's Policies
Just 4 in 10 Americans approve of how the president is handling his job, while the majority, well, doesn’t.
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They Call Me Gary @theycallmegary.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
😠 One by one, he is bending ostensibly independent actors under the weight of his power. So far, Trump has targeted the legal community, universities, the arts, career government employees and the press and brought them to heel in some measure, willingly or not. STOP FUCKING COMPLYING❗
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Trump quickly works to concentrate power and muzzle critical voices
From law firms and universities to the arts and the press, Trump has targeted these independent actors and tried to bend them to his worldview — willingly or not.
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Adrian CIoflâncă @cioflanca.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The real shock comes from the reaction of American institutions and society, which is incredibly weak. The Trump administration is rapidly turning, before our eyes, into a fascist autocracy and too few are standing in its way. And this affects all of us.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Russia is mocking the peacekeeping efforts of the entire world,prolonging the war and prolonging the terror.So far,Russia feels no real pressure.This provokes it to even greater crimes&gives it a sense of total impunity Russians launched a missile attack on the urban area in Kryvyi Rih
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
‼️ Russian Armed Forces are using new tactics to strike with Shaheds, - BILD Instead of flying to targets one after another at intervals of several minutes, UAVs now gather several kilometers from the attack site at an altitude of 2-3 km, and then all dive together at the appropriate object.
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maksym.eristavi @maksymeristavi.com · 28/03/2025
Dnipro 💔 unhinged russians have just set on fire Ukraine’s fourth largest city, a home to a million people. just because they can and the world allows them to
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Savchenko Volodymyr @savchenkoua.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
🙏🇺🇦 Kharkiv, Sumy, Dnipro. Russian strikes that should never have happened. Ordinary residential buildings have been damaged. Russia kills people every day and drags out this war. Pressure on Russia is needed to save lives and to make diplomacy work faster and more effectively.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
💯⚠️ Russians cannot be trusted, they have violated over 190 agreements, - Sky News analyst
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Edward Hunter Christie @ehunterchristie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Janet Dailey, a veteran Anglo-American conservative: "whose side is America on now? The “pathetic” Western countries with which it supposedly shares a democratic tradition or its new friend, Vladimir Putin, with whom it could comfortably carve up the world?" www.telegraph.co.uk/us/comment/2...
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It’s over. America has ceased to be leader of the free world
Accidentally copying in a journalist to senior officials’ private thoughts about Europe was a gift of Providence
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
I did a deep dive into the criminal laws and past criminal cases that are most relevant to "Signal Gate." Focus your mind on this: Special prosecutor criminal case against former head of CIA John Deutch for "gross negligence" in use of his personal home computer for national defense information.
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Signal Gate: The Criminal Law Precedents That Are Most Relevant
A range of federal laws, including the Espionage Act and laws against the destruction of government records, could apply in Signal Gate.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🇦🇷 Argentina President orders declassification of documents on Nazis who found refuge in the country after World War II. ❗️Javier Milei agreed to make this data public, stressing that he has "no reason to protect this information."
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Stephanie M. Lee @stephaniemlee.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...
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Opinion | What Autocrats Want From Academics: Servility
In 1931, Italian scholars were made to take loyalty oaths. Will that happen to us?
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Margarete Rosalind Weidenhammer @margareterosali.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com america's new normal
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
“France’s research minister said a French scientist was denied entry to the US this month after immigration officers at an airport searched his phone and found messages in which he had expressed criticism of the Trump administration.” He had been traveling to a conference near Houston, TX. 3/19/25
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French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Europe must be ready to defeat Russia in 3-5 years. Big money is coming, but spending it on lots of old platforms (tanks, IFVs), won't get us what we need in time - & will arm for the last war. Europe needs a tech-based 'Offset' strategy My new report 👇 www.democratic-strategy.net/s-projects-b...
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It is absurd for the federal government to attack universities for "antisemitism." In fact, Trump's policy is itself antisemitic I explain here. snyder.substack.com/p/antisemiti...
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"Antisemitism" and Antisemitism
The abuse of the word and the spread of the phenomenon
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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My latest post is now out. I show how Trump's attacks on science and universities are neither random nor new - they fit very precisely into the authoritarian playbook. This means we can guess what might come next and prepare - and we must! christinapagel.substack.com/p/censor-pur...
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Censor, purge, defund: how Trump following the authoritarian playbook on science and universities
I have mapped 35 of the Trump administration's attacks on science and universities to the authoritarian playbook - and consider what it means for attacks still to come
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 10/03/2025
⚡️ Ukraine found ways to counter Russia’s glide bombs, once seen as unstoppable. Reports say Ukrainian jammers disrupt their navigation.
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Ukraine Adapts to Once “Unstoppable” Russia’s Glide Bombs
The introduction of glide bombs by the Russian military marked a key development in 2024, triggering discussions on countermeasures from Ukraine and NATO.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
🧵 This is a perfect example of what I've be describing as disordered discourse, and it's threat to democracy. Politicians are afraid to speak openly about key issues. Why? Because disordered discourse has captured the system itself—forcing obedience, punishing dissent, and making truth irrelevant.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
NEW: WIRED got IP blocked by the Social Security Administration, among other outlets covering Musk's takeover. Federal workers are now "prohibited" from accessing our reporting on "government-furnished equipment." WaPo, NYT, and MSNBC are likewise banned, sources confirm.
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Social Security Workers Aren’t Allowed to Read This Story
New internet restrictions at the embattled SSA have cut off access to WIRED, along with other “general news” websites like The Washington Post and The New York Times.
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Ville Kostian @kostianv.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"Willpower, Not Manpower, is #Europe ’s Main Limitation for a Force in #Ukraine" warontherocks.com/2025/03/will...
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Willpower, Not Manpower, is Europe’s Main Limitation for a Force in Ukraine - War on the Rocks
Following a dramatic meeting in the White House, U.S. military support for Ukraine is perilously uncertain. Sustaining Ukraine in this war, and
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TommasinaResist⚜️🦋🐈‍⬛ @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
As an American, embarrassed, horrified & ashamed for my country,I wouldn't be surprised. Where are our lawmakers?Why do they enable a would-be dictator? Our founders created guardrails to protect the nation from a rogue president. Why aren't they being used? #Opposition #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
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