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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened January 6, five years later www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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Donald Trump Wants You to Forget This Happened
January 6, five years later
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William Baude @williambaude.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Bombshell! - Caleb Nelson, one of the most respected originalist scholars in the country, comes out against the unitary executive interpretation of Article II democracyproject.org/posts/must-a...
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Elon Musk’s Father Accused of Child Sexual Abuse
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/o...
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Opinion | Epstein Won’t Break Trump’s Coalition, but the Fissures Are Starting to Show
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/o...
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Opinion | Boy Crisis of 2025, Meet the ‘Boy Problem’ of the 1900s
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
🎁 The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
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The Reality My Medicaid Patients Face
With work requirements in place, many will be removed from Medicaid even though they should qualify.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters www.nytimes.com/video/world/...
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Video: How Los Angeles Police Officers Broke Protocols and Injured Protesters
A Times analysis of videos and interviews with police, protesters and legal experts found that officers misused 40-mm sponge rounds at immigration-raid protests.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...
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The Bureaucrat and the Billionaire: Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Detention and Deportation as Seen Through a Family Group Chat (Gift Article)
A Venezuelan man’s criminal past made him a target of immigration agents. His family was determined to stay in touch.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
*Djibouti, specifically. How the Trump Administration Banished Eight Men to Legal Limbo in Africa www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...
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How the Trump Administration Banished Eight Men to Legal Limbo in Africa
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...
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On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/28/u...
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A Missouri Town Was Solidly Behind Trump. Then Carol Was Detained.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Anybody else notice the complete and utter disconnect between the government pronatalists encouraging more women to stay home with the children while simultaneously enacting work requirements for Medicaid and food stamps? No? Just me? Cool, cool.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/w...
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Long Drives and Short Homilies: How Father Bob Became Pope Leo
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Cardinals Humiliate MAGA With 'Social Justice Warrior' Pope Leo XIV www.thedailybeast.com/cardinals-hu...
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Cardinals Humiliate MAGA With 'Social Justice Warrior' Pope Leo XIV
Wealthy American Catholics had been lobbying intensely in Rome in the lead-up to the conclave.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/05/2025
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
Pope Leo XIV: ‘There Couldn’t Be A Better Time To Get The Fuck Out Of America Forever’
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
✊🏻🙌🏼 ‘60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment www.thedailybeast.com/60-minutes-t...
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‘60 Minutes’ Thumbs Its Nose at Trump With Scathing Segment
The show brought on lawyers and firms targeted by President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive orders.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Oh that's the stuff, princess. 💄👑 Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/heg...
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Hegseth orders makeup studio installed at Pentagon
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has not given any press briefings in the briefing room but has used the room as a backdrop for TV hits with Fox News.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/how-...
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The Trump Administration’s War on Children
The administration is quietly putting America’s children at risk by cutting funds and manpower for investigating child abuse, enforcing child support payments, providing child care and much more.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
'American version of Adolf Hitler': Major Jewish newspaper makes stark Trump comparison www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
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'American version of Adolf Hitler': Major Jewish newspaper makes stark Trump comparison
A historically Jewish newspaper compared President Donald Trump's tactics to a scheme used by Germany's Adolf Hitler before World War II.In an op-ed for Forward this week, author Terrence Petty likene...
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Opinion | Larry David: My Dinner With Adolf (Gift Article)
When a private meeting goes unexpectedly.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
READ IT. READ IT. READ IT. An Experiment in Recklessness: Trump as Global Disrupter www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/u...
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Analysis: Trump’s Tariffs Disrupt Global Trade Without a Clear Strategy (Gift Article)
The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/o...
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Opinion | Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. America’s Police State Has Arrived. (Gift Article)
Those of us who’ve seen secret police in action can’t shake a feeling of dreadful familiarity.
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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
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Brown Eyed Susan @browneyedsusan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Republican rape love is gross.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 22/03/2025
Journalists are trying to understand Trump’s irrational behavior, and are generally unwilling to consider the possibility that it's not some grand strategy, but a madman with increasingly diminished mental faculties.
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There Is No Method to Trump’s Madness. He’s Simply Insane.
His defenders try to apply reason to his erratic, nonsensical decisions. That’s a fool’s errand—but fools abound in this administration.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
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'They lied to us from the beginning': Deported Louisiana family says ICE lured them with ruse • Louisiana Illuminator
Stephanie Ali did not think she and her family were being deported in late January until they reached their gate inside a Houston airport.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 www.propublica.org/article/tele...
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How the Terrorgram Collective’s Neo-Nazi Influencers Groomed a Teen to Kill
The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and FRONTLINE investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, int...
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...
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Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift
Corruption doesn’t get much more blatant than this.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
NEW: Texas’ maternal mortality rate increased 33% while national rates fell www.propublica.org/article/texa...
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 18/02/2025
Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.
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This Is the Way to Stop Elon Musk
Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to Tesla and SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing Musk out of politics.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Trump Vowed to Clean Up Washington, Then His Team Hired a Man Who Pushed a Scam the IRS Called the “Worst of the Worst”
Frank Schuler was a leading promoter of a tax deduction derided as a scam by prosecutors, senators and the IRS. Now he’s a senior adviser to the General Services Administration, which manages the fede...
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump’s broad freeze sparked chaos www.statnews.com/2025/01/27/n... via @statnews.com
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NIH clarifies restrictions on staff after Trump's broad freeze sparked chaos
Ongoing clinical trials can continue, and scientists can keep publishing their findings, a memo shows.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Me today. The timing of the record-breaking cold in the air and the coldness that now courses thru the veins of this country are not a coincidence to me.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
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Mark Zuckerberg Preps for MAGA 2.0 by Culling Thousands of Meta Employees www.thedailybeast.com/mark-zuckerb...
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Mark Zuckerberg Preps for MAGA 2.0 by Culling Thousands of Meta Employees
According to the company’s latest financial report, some 3,600 workers could face the chop.
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Fuck this!
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How a Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
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🦋𝓕𝓮𝓻𝓪𝓵𝓢𝓱𝓮𝓒𝓪𝓳𝓾𝓷🦋 @leftyswampbrat.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
New tee!
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After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits 😆😆😆😆😆 wapo.st/4grQrVy
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After backing Trump, low-income voters hope he doesn’t slash their benefits
Voters in the struggling Pennsylvania city of New Castle backed Donald Trump hoping he’d curb inflation. But he’ll be under pressure to cut federal spending.
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Deception and Betrayal: Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/w...
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Inside the Final Days of the Assad Regime in Syria (Gift Article)
President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded fear and force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address.
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Frank X. Sowa @frankxsowa-1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
As you know, our nervous system is hardwired in the DNA from fight/flight instincts of gatherer/hunter cave dwellers to turn on autopilot under stress/fear. Truth slows the system down so you can reapply your mind to deal with it. Trump/MAGA/GOP use gaslighting to amp up fear & destroy clarity.
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