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Joni Askola @joniaskola.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

A disgrace to Europe, still shamelessly echoing Kremlin propaganda while Russia brutalizes Ukraine

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NYC Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO @nyclabor.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

On Thursday, January 29, at 5PM, join VA nurses and federal workers in remembrance of beloved VA Nurse and AFGE Local 3669 member Alex Pretti, and in our call for justice for all victims of ICE and Border Patrol. VA NY Harbor Healthcare System 423 East 23rd St, NY, NY 10010

Vigil for Alex Pretti
Beloved VA Nurse & Community Member

Thursday, January 29, 5PM - 6 PM
VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
423 East 23rd Street, NY, NY 10010

Join VA Nurses and federal workers in remembrance, and in our call for justice for all victims of ICE and Border Patrol. Please bring candles or glowsticks.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 26/01/2026

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month. Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

People Magazine AGAIN. Their social justice bent recently is real and it is reaching people who are out of the loop politically. It's great stuff.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

There are just the loveliest little candlelight vigils for Alex Pretti being held all over Uptown right now. People building little candle memorials on street corners in the snow. This city is in pain but we will win together

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

"I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened."

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/01/2026

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Estonia has banned hundreds of Russian soldiers and militants involved in the war against Ukraine from entering the country, and is calling on other EU nations to create a "unified blacklist" within the Schengen Area. news.err.ee/1609907773/e...

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Demonstrations in Iran now involve millions and have spread to every major city, including those believed previously to be loyal to the clerical regime. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

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Iran protests live: Millions take to streets to demand regime change as dozens killed

The US has warned it will come to the ‘rescue’ of protestors if Tehran ‘violently kills’ them

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them". A reminder that the one and only time NATO invoked its self-defense clause was after 9/11, and our NATO partners have suffered over 3,400 deaths (not casualties, deaths) in Afghanistan.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 15/11/2025

To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar" www.axios.com/2025/11/14/t...

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How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab

How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.

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Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk @ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Keine Ahnung wie oft ich das schon sagte: AfD und BSW sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille - beide sind Kreml-Außenposten, beide vertreten Putins Interessen in Deutschland www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

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AfD-Treffen mit Medwedew: Kreml organisiert Widerstand gegen Merz – auch BSW verstrickt

Russland baut Kontakte zu Abgeordneten aus AfD und BSW auf. Sie sollen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz untergraben. AfD-Politiker treffen Dmitri Medwedew in Russland.

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Mark Stout, Ph.D from Miskatonic University @markstout.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Should be a great event for those interested in researching Cold War intelligence. Speakers are @deselv.bsky.social of the Institute for Historical Scholarship at Humboldt University in Berlin; Gary Keeley former historian at CIA; and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard.

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Soviet-Bloc and US Intelligence Operations During the Cold War

Join Douglas Selvage, expert on East German State Security files, historian Gary Keeley, and Mark Kramer for a discussion of Cold War archives that offer valuable resources for students and scholars a...

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Someone please kill me right now.

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes
MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0.

By Tom Bartlett

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

We’re getting tons of retrospective analysis of COVID policies: masks, closures, comms failures,etc. But the other side of the “loss of trust in institutions” was a *deliberate effort* — by antivaxxers & right-wing influencers — to intentionally erode confidence in public health. No reckoning there.

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.

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Erika Wittekind @erikalyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The stories within this story are haunting: a woman on a domestic road trip who forgot her passport. A mother who undergoes annual background checks to renew her work authorization, and this year ICE decided she had to do that while in custody. A student who overstayed her visa by three days.

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Katharina Nocun @kattascha.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Ein französischer Wissenschaftler wurde kürzlich an der Einreise in die USA gehindert. Grund waren Trump-kritische Chats. DAS ist wirklich gemeint, wenn „MAGA“ von ihrem Kampf für Meinungsfreiheit spricht.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Not exactly. The “new era” of govt censorship of research started 2 yrs ago. The censorship EO was originally written to target academic institutions that’d pointed out that the Big Lie was a lie and the 2020 election was free and fair. What you’re seeing now is it coming for everyone else.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 16/03/2025

Trump is also trying to kill the Wilson Center, where I spent four years at the Kennan Institute and Science and Technology Innovation Program.

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Conor M. Savoy @conorsavoy.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

My first internship in Washington was at the Wilson Center in its Cold War history program. It was a great place to learn about DC and get exposed to a cross section of the city.

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Frau Nora @fraunora.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Nicht nur in Belgrad gibt es heute Massenproteste. Auch in Ungarn sind die Menschen in Massen auf die Straße gegangen, um gegen den prorussischen Präsidenten Orbán zu demonstrieren. Auch in Georgien gibt es weiter Massenproteste.

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them. There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Another household kept alive by American aid was that of Jennifer Inyaa, a 35-year-old single mom, and her 5-year-old son, Evan Anzoo, both of them H.I.V.-positive. Last month, after the aid shutdown, Inyaa became sick and died, and a week later Evan died as well, according to David Iraa Simon, a community health worker who assisted them. Decisions by billionaires in Washington quickly cost the lives of a mother and her son.
"Many more children will die in the coming weeks," said Margret Amjuma, a health worker who confirmed the deaths of Peter and Achol.

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William Gallo @williamgallo.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

It seems I've also been placed on leave, just like the rest of my VOA colleagues. Truth is, I can't know for sure, because when I woke up this morning in Seoul, I'd already been locked out of all VOA-related systems and accounts.

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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I spent a lot of time in my book breaking down WHY this is happening — it’s *content meets community* - A lot of people don’t want “politics” or “news”, they want to be entertained…comedy, culture - They want to feel like they’re listening to someone relatable, who talks like them, is like them.

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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 14/02/2025

I struggle to express just how *weird* Vance’s #MSC2025 speech was. This is a transatlantic security conference, happening while there is a war in Europe, and the US is announcing a partial withdrawal from European security. And the US VP speaks about (alleged) threats to free speech in Europe??

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Steve Bullock @guitarmoog.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Should have frozen the conflict in May 1775 with both sides keeping the land they held to avoid further bloodshed.

Map of the Eastern US in May 1775 showing everything East of the Mississippi except Massachusetts held by the British.

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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

BY EMAIL
Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH)
Mr. Bove,
I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S.
Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General.
In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse.
No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives.
There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to,
give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.
Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the
Southern District of New York.
Yours truly,
Hagan Scotten
Assistant United States Att…

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · 14/02/2025

Not exaggerating when I say that the path back is going to be built on people in positions of influence regaining their sense of self-respect. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

10 minutes ago
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The lead prosecutor on the Adams investigation has resigned from the federal prosecutor's office in Manhattan rather than agree to file a motion seeking to dismiss the corruption case against the mayor. In his resignation letter, Hagan Scotten wrote that any federal prosecutor
"would know that our laws and traditions do not allow using the prosecutorial power to influence other citizens, much less elected officials." He added: "If no lawyer within earshot of the president is willing to give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me."

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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Scientists and journalists need to figure out right quick how to explain to the average person how a massive change in research indirects will impact the medical care they and their children get (eg at the local children’s hospital), the education their children will get, the price of tuition, etc.

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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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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Did you ask about their policy on random breathalyzer testing?

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dekoder @dekoder.org · 31/01/2025

Sind russische Gefängnisse mit dem sowjetischen Gulag vergleichbar? Das Onlinemedium Verstka beschreibt die Entstehungsgeschichte des sowjetischen Lagersystems, die Überschneidungen mit modernen Strafkolonien – und die Besonderheiten des Strafvollzugs im System Putin: www.dekoder.org/de/article/s...

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Wie viel Gulag steckt im russischen Strafvollzug?

Ausbeutung, Verfolgung, Quälerei der Inhaftierten – wie vergleichbar sind das sowjetische Gulag und die heutigen russischen Gefängnisse? Das Onlinemedium Verstka mit einem Überblick über die Haft gest...

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Gwendolyn Sasse @gwendolynsasse.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Extremely timely #ZOiS_Spotlight on #protests in #Serbia by my colleague @ivodinev.bsky.social. A typical case of a protest that starts with students and then mobilises the middle of society? In my view not getting enough attention yet. ⬇️

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Douglas Selvage @deselv.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

On Wednesday, February 5, at 6:00 p.m., Professor Norman Naimark from Stanford University will hold a keynote address, "The Meanings of Internal Security in the Communist Police State," to open the conference "Staats-Sicherheiten im Sozialismus" at the Stasi Records Archive in Berlin.

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The Meanings of Internal Security in the Communist Police State (Prof. Dr. Norman M. Naimark)

Prof. Dr. Norman Naimark ist ein international renommierter Experte für die Geschichte des sowjetischen Imperiums im Kalten Krieg. Sein

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The Meanings of Internal Security in the Communist Police State (Prof. Dr. Norman M. Naimark)

Prof. Dr. Norman Naimark ist ein international renommierter Experte für die Geschichte des sowjetischen Imperiums im Kalten Krieg. Sein

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

I've also encountered a big issue with the consistency of definitions of disinformation and misinformation, which are used interchangeably, which has allowed bad actors to exploit the confusion for their own ends. I've been using the definitions as per Claire Wardle's work:

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Yusuf Ozkan @yozkan.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Could 2024 be considered the golden year of #intelligence studies? Based on @intelarchive.io data, the answer is yes. A mini thread about publications on intelligence studies in 2024. +

Bar chart showing publications over years on intelligence studies (from 1874 to 2024).

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