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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Hey folks: Tomorrow morning on my live webcast "History Matters:" Polymarket Gambling and the Sliding Scale of Corruption What happens when high-level political insiders feel entitled to bank on their insider knowledge? It spreads. Friday 10AM ET www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_21...
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Polymarket Gambling and the Sliding Scale of Corruption
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Sunkissed Peaks @sunkissedpeaks.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Morning friends. There are still those amongst us that need to wake up.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
We Americans have a hard time seeing ourselves in the world, and so even when we want to criticize our fascist oligarchs we fail to see the international networks of which they are nodes.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Invoking the 25th is only impossible until it becomes possible.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Hungary’s prime minister is more important to Donald Trump than all of his voters put together, than all Americans, than America itself, and it’s not even close. I wrote an essay yesterday to explain why: snyder.substack.com/p/the-hungar...
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
If you support the “a whole civilization will die tonight” folks, raise your hand… And open your eyes.
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LisaLisa @lisalisa42.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Congress is completely useless at this point.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Wise words from Spain's Prime Minister: “The momentary relief cannot make us forget the chaos, the destruction, and the lives lost. The govt of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they show up with a bucket. What is needed now: diplomacy, international law and PEACE.”
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is simply genocidal language and is a horror in itself.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
In a sane world, in a world of accountability, the man who incited a deadly insurrection five years ago never would have been able to hold public office again. That reckless, abusive man needs to be removed from office. Now.
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Florida & Texas, red states, have the highest #childabuse rates in the nation. Karly's Law came about bc of the murder of Karly Sheehan of Corvallis. One of the hardest stories I've written. On #Easter weekend I am reminded of the hope children have - that adults will behave better. #childabuse #dhs
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
No Kings in Sisters & Bend, Oregon. Thank you to all who turned out. My date was James Madison. #nokings #trump #indivisible #PeoplePower #America
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I wrote this essay about the private sector's exploitation of American concentration camps in July 2025. The situation has since advanced much further. snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
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Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
It’s looking increasingly likely that Kristi Noem and Lewandowski funneled almost 200 million in government money to a company that is run by her friend and that nobody can give an address for. Oh, and it was 8 days old when it was awarded the contract.
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Drew Abides @drewabides.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Hell of a legacy you’re building there, dummy. It doesn’t matter how many times you plaster your name on buildings and ballrooms in tacky gold letters. Your grave will be one big beautiful public urinal.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Betting on warfare. Insider betting no less. Absolutely soulless.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 01/03/2026
Reminder: The commerce secretary apparently still hasn’t come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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New details from Epstein files reveal Lutnick had years-long business tie with sex offender
The commerce secretary apparently still hasn't come clean on his connection with Epstein.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/03/2026
Kaine on Fox: "The president can act to defend US against imminent attack without congressional approval. But if you're going to initiate war, you need Congress. The president not only did not come to Congress, he acted without even notification to the vast majority of us. This is an illegal war."
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 01/03/2026
A PSA from Thomas Massie:
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
February 28, 2026
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February 28, 2026
Early this morning, the U.S.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Modern tyranny is terror management. I wrote this essay in April 2025 and updated it in November. I'm posting it again now because my fear of this scenario has continued to grow. "The Next Terrorist Attack: And What Comes After" snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...
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The Next Terrorist Attack
And What Comes After (Updated)
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Heather and I had a LOT to say this morning about the attack on Iran. www.youtube.com/live/yiFHTyw...
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What the F*** Just Happened? With Heather and Joanne
YouTube video by Dr. Joanne Freeman
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 10/02/2026
Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Good time to follow Bellingcat, which has done crucial, dependable evidentiary work for many years
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/01/2026
Misconduct expert says state has the right to charge ICE officer who killed Renee Good. "It is essentially a garden variety unjustified use of deadly force case."
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Misconduct expert says state has the right to charge ICE officer who killed Renee Good
Alas, the FBI's takeover of the investigation could make it difficult.
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
The Executioner: Jon Ross: karenzach.com/the-executio... #ReneeGood #JonRoss #Murder #Minneapolis #ICE #Trump #MAGA #Noem #Patel
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The Executioner: Jon Ross
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Two people shot in Portland by border patrol today. NPR just reported no word on their condition or why they were shot but one thing is clear border patrol and ice are growing more violent.
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KZach @zachauthor.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 07/01/2026
"They carried her body out, just like by her limbs, they didn’t even have a stretcher," a witness says. "She was carried out like a sack of potatoes."
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Watching woman die 'will change my life forever,' neighbor says
Emily Heller, 39, wasn't even dressed when she heard whistles alerting the neighborhood that ICE agents were in the area this morning. “I’ve never seen
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Every time you call out the lie. Every time you call it murder. You smack at totalitarian control. Keep doing it. Keep speaking the truth. It matters.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/10/2025
Videos of US citizens being mistreated by immigration agents have filled social media, but there is little clarity on the overall picture. The government doesn't track how often immigration agents hold Americans. So @propublica.org created its own count.
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More than 170 US citizens have been held by immigration agents
ProPublica uncovered that Americans have been kicked, dragged, and detained for days.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Absolutely crucial point here by Greg Sargent. When we don’t call propaganda what it is, we co-produce it, and hasten disaster. newrepublic.substack.com/p/maga-implo...
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MAGA Implodes over Kristi Noem’s “Stare Down” with Man in Chicken Suit
A good New York Times piece on Portland nevertheless demonstrates how the conventions of objective reporting fail to accurately capture the bad faith driving pro-Trump propaganda.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Honestly. Portland is being savaged by rioting. Or it’s not. CLEARLY, it’s NOT. You can’t “both sides” a simple fact. This drives me bonkers.
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Banu Ozkazanc-Pan @banuop.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
DO NOT normalize: 👉ICE arresting US citizens 👉👉Deploying National Guard to intimidate 👉👉👉Administration posting partisan messages during shutdown “Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.” - spoken by Nemik in Andor
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I know this sounds extreme. It is. I know I sound overly alarmist. I don't think I am. Trump is enacting a well thought out plan so he and his allies can rule forever. But it's not too late to stop them. We can peacefully and forcefully mobilize now. We have the power.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Things to consider: Document the violence & violations--on camera, w/photos, saving images--any way you can. Speaking as a historian- it will matter Point out violations--w/images & text--even if you think it won't matter. It will. It needs to be called out & exposed You are a witness. Expose it.
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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
A quick view of the Rosetta nebula - From Ángel López-Sánchez - flic.kr/p/2kLxJKy
I didn't want to miss getting a nice image of one of my all-time favourite nebulae, the Rosetta nebula, before it was too late in the season and moved into the west. 

This image combines 15 x 60s exposures in each color channel, using broad-band filters B (blue), G (green) and R (red). I also tried to achieve natural colours (i.e. the colours we would see with our eyes).

The data were taken at 10:30pm, Sunday 15 March 2021, from Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran, NSW, Australia).

I used a ZWO ASI1600MM-Pro at -20C with the ZWO 2" BGR filters, my new 7x2" ZWO filter wheel, a Skywatcher Black Diamond 80mm with an Orion x0.8 focal reducer (effective focal length 480 mm, f/6). I used the ZWO ASIAir to control the camera, filter wheel, the mount (Skywatcher AZ-EQ6) and the guiding system (ASI120MM + Orion 50mm finderscope).

The data have been processed with SIRIL, then converted into TIF using Fits Liberator using a logarithmic stretch, and finally combined in Photoshop to get the colours and the final details. Darks, flats and biases were used.

I usually try to get at least 30-40 frames per filter, but as I said this was a compromise to get a nice colour shot of this nebula before it set, and hence I took 15 exposures per filter, and only 60 seconds each (and the highest gain in the camera, hence the noise that can be seen when zooming in). Otherwise I would have taken ~5 minute exposures with a lower gain and 40 of them. 

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
THERE MUST BE SOME CRIME SOMEWHERE! RIGHT? Pathetic. Trying to create trouble and parade “tough guys.”
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
If is indeed. Particularly now. 👇🏼
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
"Nothing that happened in medieval eastern Europe bound future states to make war against each other a thousand years later" My latest essay: "The myths that made Putin’s war" www.ft.com/content/9731...
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The myths that made Putin’s war
The Alaska summit exposed the flawed history and personal vanity that fuel the conflict with Ukraine, argues Timothy Snyder
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Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
PRETTY MUCH.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/08/2025
These days, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, is a faithful servant of Trump. But not so long ago, Gabbard slammed Trump for being a warmonger supporting a “genocidal war.”
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Tulsi Gabbard once blasted Trump for being a warmonger and protecting Al Qaeda
That was when she was a founding fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
August 13, 2025
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August 13, 2025
On August 14, 1935, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law.
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Hey folks: @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having another of our live chats—around 7:00 ET—or a little after. We’re setting things up. You’ll be able to catch it on Heather’s Facebook and YouTube pages, and on my YouTube channel—joannebfreeman
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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Crossing out parts of the Constitution doesn’t eliminate them. That’s what amendments are for. Sharpie-pen constitutionalism.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Hearing Trump speak is often like hearing the voices of enslavers echoing down the centuries.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
August 3, 2025
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August 3, 2025
Today, Democratic lawmakers from the Texas House of Representatives left the state to deny Republican lawmakers the quorum—the number of legislators required to pass legislation—they need in order to ...
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