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@iamhereus.bsky.social
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We use strategic counterspeech on social media, esp. FB, to ensure that casual byscrollers see decent, fact-based comments rather than bigotry or dis/misinformation. We stand for internationally recognized human rights. Collaboration is key. Join us!

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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Democracy matters. The US is backsliding dramatically—from liberal democracy to electoral democracy. www.democracywithoutborders.org/41651/v-dem-...
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V-Dem report finds global democracy is back at 1978 levels
V-Dem’s 2026 assessment finds that autocracies outnumber democracies by 92 to 87. With 44 countries worsening and 18 improving, the current wave of autocratization is continuing.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/02/2026
I hope lawyers, secretaries of state, and state attorneys general are preparing for what’s coming.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
In the face of disinformation, we need independent journalism. This is important to watch: open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...
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EPSTEIN SPECIAL: TWO FBI TIPS CLAIM GIRLS MURDERED AND BURIED AT TRUMP GOLF COURSE
Two Separate Complainants Report Same Allegation to Bureau
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Note Homan’s role in policies connected to legal observers, including Alex Pretti: newrepublic.com/post/205769/...
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Feds Knew Who Alex Pretti Was—and Broke His Rib in Earlier Fight
A chilling report raises new questions about why federal agents killed Alex Pretti.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Head on over to show MN your support: www.facebook.com/share/p/1C2i...
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Watch this. Then share it to confront the disinformation that McLaughlin and DHS are spreading. Kudos to @ahylton26.bsky.social for stellar reporting. Arnoldo and his family need their dad. All human beings deserve decent and humane treatment.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 22/01/2026
SEEING IS BELIEVING DHS claims the car being chased rammed the ICE vehicle. The video shows the opposite. 📌 A father and son, a US citizen, are chased. The teen is beaten and seriously injured. The father is deported. DHS lied. The video tells the truth. Excellent reporting by Antonia Hylton.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Nonpartisanship becomes/seems complicated when one party engages in disinformation, going far beyond campaigning, and also in opposition to democracy and to internationally recognized human rights. We are nonpartisan. We stand for human rights & democracy & against disinformation & bigotry.
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️
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Nina Judith Katz @njkz.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
We all need to keep educating ourselves in many ways, including examples of resistance & the history that we haven’t yet learned. Most of us don’t know enough about BIPOC history. A great place to start is open.substack.com/pub/rozellak...
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“I Didn’t Know” No Longer Cuts It
Post #1 in the 12-part “Less Cringe, More Change: Allyship Moves That Might Actually Build Trust” series from Brave Sis Project
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
At this point, we have to use counterspeech against state-sponsored disinformation as well as against the misinformation that it causes. There’s lots of dis/misinformation about the murder of Renee Nicole Good. ICE killed her for no reason and lied to cover up the murder. Join our counterspeech work
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Accuracy matters. In the face of state disinformation, we respond with facts and fact-based, strategic counterspeech.
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WHAT TO FIX @whattofix.tech · 24/11/2025
X just unveiled a new feature, letting users know which country an account is being managed from. Unsurprisingly, many large accounts (MAGA or otherwise) don't appear to match their self-description 🤔
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The WH FB page has a post about the new vaccine recommendations supposedly intended to “align” us with the “developed” world—meaning the global north. Lots of disinformation in the post, lots of misinformation in the feed. We’re there with counterspeech, offering facts instead. Wanna join us?
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
1/🧵To say that there’s misinformation in public feeds about the attack on Venezuela is a gross understatement. One might even conclude that many people have no clue about international law, the UN Charter, or the US Constitution. We’re out there talking on the misinformation. Please join us! 👇
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Insider trading on war crimes seems like peak criminality.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Disinformation both in the public sphere and directed at Congress. Not okay.
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Indivisible Westford, MA @indwestfordma.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Important:
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
We also stand with trans youth, and with trans adults as well. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍⚧️
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National Women's Law Center @nwlc.org · 18/12/2025
These attacks against the trans community have nothing to do with proven medicine or science—and everything to do with cruelty and control. We will fight relentlessly to stop these rules from taking effect.
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Xavier Brandao @xavierbrandao.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
A l'heure du Digital Services Act, il est absurde que les grandes plateformes ne disent même pas quels sont leurs posts les plus viraux. Une pétition de @mozilla.org et @algorithmwatch.org demande plus de transparence. www.mozillafoundation.org/en/campaigns...
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Demand the Data: What’s Really Going Viral? | Mozilla Foundation
Social media platforms aren’t sharing what goes viral on their sites. Tell YouTube, Meta, TikTok, LinkedIn, and X to disclose their most-viewed content. Sign now.
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Nina Judith Katz @njkz.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This is the first segment of the documentary about CECOT that the administration and Bari Weiss don’t want you to see. The only appropriate response is to watch and share widely. Let’s make sure this goes viral. substack.com/@ninak268483...
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Nina K (@ninak268483)
This is the first segment of the documentary about CECOT that the administration and Bari Weiss don’t want you to see. The only appropriate response is to watch and share widely. Let’s make sure this ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/12/2025
BREAKING: WATCH the full 60 Minutes CECOT segment here. This was sent to me anonymously. It appears to be the segment CBS' Bari Weiss killed. www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Freedom of the press matters. CBS pulled this, so we all need to share this segment of the documentary about CECOT. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
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WATCH: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment
I was sent the CECOT segment anonymously in a group chat.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Disinformation is a significant part of what she’s responding to.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
The administration isn’t so fond of opposition to disinformation or to misinformation, nor to criticism of xitter. Let’s respond by working even harder to oppose dis/misinfo. open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
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SCOOP: Trump Admin Is Preparing to Revoke Visas of Critics of Elon Musk’s Twitter
Trump officials are considering revoking the visas of former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and Imran Ahmed, of the Center for Countering Digital Hate.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/12/2025
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O'Hara to US citizen detained by ICE: "I apologize that this happened to you in my city with people wearing vests that say 'police.' That's embarrassing."
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”
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Simon Rosenberg @simonwdc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Just wow. The depravity is boundless.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Facts and stats matter. In an age of massive disinformation, they matter even more.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 10/12/2025
BREAKING: At one point, the Pentagon considered sending boat strike survivors to CECOT torture prison in El Salvador to avoid discovery in US courts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...
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Inside the Pentagon’s Scramble to Deal With Boat Strike Survivors
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
If you oppose disinformation, read this to begin to understand one of the biggest disinformation campaigns ever:
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
We see bigotry and misinformation in social media feeds every day. Join us in our counterspeech campaigns. Be sure to answer the questions when you do.
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Indivisible Westford, MA @indwestfordma.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Read this article. NSPM-7 is exceptionally dangerous to pro-democracy advocates, activists, and NGOs.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Democracy vs authoritarian surveillance: www.salon.com/2025/11/21/h... Standing for democracy and opposing fascism is both essential and non-partisan. So is standing up to neo-McCarthyism.
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How Trump’s National Security memo targets political dissent - Salon.com
Critics say the NSPM-7 policy is a "frontal assault" on First Amendment rights
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
WaPo: “…Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of Washington Post opinion columnist Jamal Khashoggi, saying things happen’ and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Yay!!!!! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
In a feed about a curriculum teaching accurately about the insurrection on 1/6, we see a ton of misinformation, echoing organized disinformation seeking to shift blame away from the instigator-in-chief and the actual participants themselves. We took it on. Want to join us against bigotry & misinfo?
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
How disinformation works—and how some people are countering it. We counter it mostly on FB. Join us there. When you do, be sure to answer the questions.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/11/2025
ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 million over six years through a state-funded program. At least eight opened with an early boost from state-funded vouchers in the 1960s. (Published Nov. 2024)
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Segregation Academies in Mississippi Are Benefiting From Public Dollars, as They Did in the 1960s
ProPublica identified 20 schools in the state that likely opened as segregation academies and have received almost $10 million over the past six years from the state’s tax credit donation program.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/11/2025
Kristi Noem has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noem’s big donors make the ask. (Published September)
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Kristi Noem Fast-Tracked Millions in Disaster Aid to Florida Tourist Attraction After Campaign Donor Intervened
The DHS chief has been widely criticized for slowing down FEMA’s response after natural disasters. Texts and emails obtained by ProPublica point to an effective way to get help faster: have one of Noe...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/11/2025
Insurance companies aren’t just players in the fight with doctors over money; they’re also the referees. They produce their own guidelines on when to pay claims. If a doctor appeals a denial, insurers make all the initial decisions. (Published April) By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
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“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
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Indivisible Westford, MA @indwestfordma.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Urging everyone to follow this. It concerns the US as well as Russia and the rest of the world: open.substack.com/pub/olgalaut...
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Chapter 1: Russia’s Fascist Foundations
Welcome to my new series, Inside the Kremlin’s Global Far-Right Operations.
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IAmHereUS @iamhereus.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Today’s exhibit A for why independent journalism is essential:
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Illinois deputy found guilty of murder in the shooting of Sonya Massey, a Black woman who called 911 asking for help.
A photo of Sonya Massey on the left, and Sean Grayson on the right
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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