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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 25/01/2026

Who was Alex Pretti, the nurse shot dead by federal agents in Minneapolis? aje.news/qwxn1x

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Worth remembering when looking at the horrific scenes in the US right now that both Reform and the Tories have pledged to bring in ICE-style organisations to the UK if they win power

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

After a year of Trump's second term

slide shows the 20 early warning signs of fascism and that the US has met all but 2 of them, and those are 2 are partially met.
20 signs from WhatIsFascism.org

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

This is an important and sobering read about a 1943 American pamphlet warning citizens what fascism in America would look like. Every bit of it is happening now open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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January 9, 2026

Beginning in 1943, the War Department published a series of pamphlets for U.S.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

In 2026, we can’t take the easy path by giving in to despair. We have to keep doing something to be ready for the moment the right combination of events align and we can see a better future.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

I wrote this only last week, after saying that Trump seems about to wage war on Venezuela. It seems pretty relevant to what transpired today. UK and Europe *must* reduce our dependence on America and its technologies as rapidly as we can. christinapagel.substack.com/p/personal-r...

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Yorkshire Bylines @yorkshirebylines.co.uk · 19/12/2025

Trump’s authoritarian threat to Europe and the UK No room for complacency: the signs are that US authoritarianism will spread here – and we must be prepared By Helen Johnston @hj4euinspain.bsky.social

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Trump’s authoritarian threat to Europe and the UK

No room for complacency: the signs are that US authoritarianism will spread here – and we must be prepared

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 01/12/2025

There is a rich history of progressive-minded groups using boycotts and targeted campaigns against businesses in hopes of changing their behavior and political decisions. Combine that with Trump's slump. The latest Huddled Masses from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social:

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A Backlash Is Brewing Against Companies Helping ICE

Activists are targeting the reputations of Home Depot, AT&T, and other businesses.

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/11/2025

Don’t shop at Home Depot, Target, or Amazon over the next week. During the busiest shopping period of the year, let’s make our dollars count by refusing to support corporations complicit in Trump’s authoritarian power grab: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky

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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Let’s take a look at the whole “there are too many black people on TV” thing, shall we? After Pochin claimed Black people in TV adverts “made her mad”, all her supporters tried to use 👇🏼 as their excuse for why she was somehow justified in her overt racism. Spoiler - she isn’t! 🤨 🧵 1/22

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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Fat Satan was furious about his hair on TIME magazine, so I fixed it.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

This is what freedom of speech sounds like. Also, please consider subscribing to the Philadelphia Inquirer. www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

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Why we can’t allow Trump to ban that other f-word | Will Bunch

The column the Trump regime wants to ban: America has to call out surging fascism in order to defeat it.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day. As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time. At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone.

We will not let hate or those who spread it win.

We stand with you.

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

This is very good. Very well pitched and sensibly placed.

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Russ Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Angela Rayner accidentally pays less tax than she should have, resigns, and the media gives her hell. Nigel Farage deliberately pays less tax than he should have, and the media gives him a free pass. That, right there, is the problem.

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

"Unfortunately, we are now living through a dis-Enlightenment. In the US in particular, and increasingly elsewhere, facts don’t matter and can be casually denied. Universities have become subject to bullying as compliance with the requirements of one political faction..."

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Welcome to the dis-Enlightenment

A new dis-Enlightenment looms: in the US and beyond, facts are denied, science silenced, and the wealthy spread lies over truth

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...

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Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Years ago there was video of Tommy Robinson in Italy physically attacking a black African man who had gone there as a refugee, and now he is doing this. Someone yesterday asked “why is Farage so successful” and the answer no one seemed to want to give was “a lot of people are very, very racist”

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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I obviously think it's unstrategic to let yourself be negatively polarised into arguing that everything in the UK is hunky-dory, but it's undeniable that reactionaries are using doomerism to activate a lot of nasty shit in people. Optimism has to be part of the response to that.

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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 28/07/2025

Response from Sadiq Khan’s @london.gov.uk office. ~AA

Screenshot from Pippa Crerar on X: “Khan spox: “Sadiq is delighted that President Trump wants to come to the greatest city in the world.
“He’d see how our diversity makes us stronger not weaker; richer, not poorer.
"Perhaps these are the reasons why a record number of Americans have applied for British citizenship under his Presidency.””

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

🧵Introducing the Trump Action Tracker website! Today I’m launching www.trumpactiontracker.info - a live, searchable list of authoritarian‑style actions from Trump’s second term (over 740 actions so far). 1/14

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 16/07/2025

Former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption in the New Statesman: Israel's conduct in Gaza is a war crime www.newstatesman.com/world/middle...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12/07/2025

This powerful message: “I did the research and found out I was wrong.” I’m not going to say much more except please take the time to watch. Then send it around to family and friends, no matter their political persuasion. Part I

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 02/06/2025

A brilliant meditation on the occasion of a sixtieth birthday sussexbylines.co.uk/community/li...

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Sixty years on this Earth: A reflection

Our writer reflects on what turning sixty means to him

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Insane this isn’t a bigger global story. Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps. The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river. (🎥 AFP)

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 18/05/2025

Here’s the long-missing explanation about what ties together university defunding, the kidnapping of students, and definition of “antisemitism” that consists of “opposing genocide of Palestinians”: this is all a Heritage Foundation plan, Project Esther.

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The Group Behind Project 2025 Has a Plan to Crush the Pro-Palestinian Movement

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Jamie Carter @jctheresistance.demcast.com · 16/05/2025

Since Donald Trump is freaking out about Bruce Springsteen calling this the most corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration, it would be a shame if this video was shared even more widely....

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 14/05/2025

Three Yale professors who have studied and written extensively on authoritarianism are leaving America. Many Americans are “like people on the Titanic saying our ship can’t sink,” Marci Shore says. “And what you know as a historian is that there is no such thing as a ship that can’t sink.”

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Opinion | We Study Fascism at Yale. We’re Leaving the U.S.

The decision by these three Yale professors to move to Canada is both a warning and a call to action.

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jojotaylor.bsky.social @jojotaylor.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Genuinely one of the best explainers of authoritarianism, fascism and what we’re facing now. Handy notes on populism too, just in case you come across any deluded Reform voters….

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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 07/05/2025

TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - ⁠WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank

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Arthur Webber 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @bernietranders.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

You’re telling me that right wing voters that Labour was trying to appeal to voted for a right wing party anyway and left wing voters decided not to vote for Labour because they’re too right wing now? Who could have possibly predicted this.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there!

TIMELINE
ABREGO GARCIA GANG ALLEGATIONS - SEPARATING FACT FROM FICTION.

2011-2019: Entry and Early Life: Kilmar Abrego Garcia flees El Salvador to the US at age 16, after M-18 gang members extort his family and threaten to kill him and rape his sisters if they didn’t keep paying. He moves in with his US citizen brother in Maryland and lives there without trouble for years.

March 28, 2019: PGPD Arrest. Kilmar is arrested for loitering outside Home Depot while looking for day labor. A Prince Georges County PD detective grills him about whether he’s a gang member. He denies any involvement. Four hours later, he is transferred to ICE custody, without PGPD charging him for any offense.

April 2019: ICE Allegations: At a bond hearing, ICE claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. They submit one piece of evidence: a “Gang Field Interview Sheet” (GFIS) filled out by the PGPD detective that claims Kilmar is part of MS-13. The GFIS says (1) he was wearing Chicago Bulls gear, and (2) a “confidential informant” allegedly claimed that Kilmar was a ranking member of the “Westerns” clique, which is in Long Island, a place he has never lived in.

Summer 2019: Investigation: Kilmar’s lawyers reach out to PGPD to investigate these claims. They find out that (1) the police did not even file an incident report about his arrest, and (2) the detective that filled out the GFIS has been suspended for an unknown reason.

August 2019: IJ Decision: At his final bond hearing, ICE declines to offer any evidence of gang membership other than what’s in the GFIS. The IJ denies bond, finding that the GFIS is sufficient proof of membership at this time, despite noting its obvious flaws. Kilmar appeals this decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

October 2019: Withholding Win: The immigration judge rules that Kilmar is ineligible for asylum because he filed the application too late. But the judge does grant “withholding of removal,” finding that it was “more likely than not” that he would be subject to persecution if deported to El Salvador. A removal order is issued, but with a restriction that the one country he cannot be deported to is El Salvador.

December 2019: BIA Decision: Kilmar appeals the bond decision to the Board of Immigration Appeals. The appeals board declines to find “clear error” in the immigration judge’s decision to rely on the GFIS document. However, he is released anyway because he had won withholding of removal.

2019-2025: Normal Life: Kilmar lives a normal life in Maryland with his U.S. citizen wife, their biological son, and his two stepchildren. With his work permit, he gets a job as a sheet metal worker, joins a union, and raises his family in a DC suburb. He doesn’t get into any trouble with the law.

March 2025: Sent to CECOT: On March 12, 2025, ICE comes to Kilmar’s home and arrests him in front of his children. Three days later he’s transferred to Texas, where, thanks to an “administrative error,” he is put on a plane to El Salvador and sent to CECOT

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

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State Terror

A brief guide for Americans

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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

We've reached the point in our descent into fascism where the Jewish governor's house getting firebombed on Passover by a guy trying to bash his head in with a sledgehammer is overshadowed by the story of the President saying he wants to build foreign gulags for US citizens.

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

🧵DISMANTLING DEMOCRACY I've been keeping track of Trump actions - now up to 192. Here, I dig into 69 actions specifically targeted at undermining democracy, rule of law & suppressing dissent. It's been 12 weeks of assaults on democracy. based on christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic... 1/18

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/04/2025

Rep. Steven Horsford to Greer: "So the trade representative hasn't spoken to the POTUS about a global reordering of trade, but yet he announced it on a tweet? WTF! Who is in charge? It looks like your boss just pulled the rug out from under you. There is no strategy ... is this market manipulation?"

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

The Rachel Maddow Show - The Musical!!

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dave @gloomfather.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Here is my best guidance for action, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

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Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow

Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

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Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 13/03/2025

Eggs now cost $15 a dozen and your retirement portfolio is down by 30%, but at least no one has to be ashamed about being racist anymore

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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

“We never see the crises that the government averts, only the ones it fails to prevent. Preparing for them may seem wasteful—until suddenly, tragically, it doesn’t.” My latest, on how Musk is courting catastrophic risk: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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DOGE Picked a Bad Time

The potential for catastrophic risk has never been greater. Musk is making it worse.

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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.

benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…

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Victoria 🎀 @momentotori.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

mfw the sitting president is using nazi symbolism to be anti lgbtq

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Fascism is here. The list of words Trump is banning from government is the most stunning document of our time. Click the image below to see how many words Trump and Musk have canceled as part of their new Reich. 🔗: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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