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Urban public transport planner with additional background in socialism & classical music

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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s... Jews were possibly the most victimized population target of Nazis. Yet Israeli military & rightwing militia today seem determined to emulate vicious barbarity of Nazis in their cruelty & barbarous oppression of Palestinian population...
theguardian.com
61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies
Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
www.dailymail.com/news/article... Millions of second-hand books being bought in bulk & sent to warehouses across America, where pages are sliced from spines then fed into industrial scanners, harvested for their text, then destroyed. "Destructive scanning" used by Big Tech to train AI chatbots...
dailymail.com
The tech giants bulk buying old books to scan then destroy them
When Compass Books in Dartmouth, Devon, received an order earlier this summer for second-hand volumes on these subjects and many more, seller Lucy Hingston was delighted.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
realityanalysisnotes.wordpress.com/2018/07/18/u... Amazing how relevant & on-target this analysis (published over 8 yrs ago) remains — for workers, the Left, & Resistance fighting Trump regime & his MAGA scourge today. Demos, lawsuits, etc must help inspire/incite workingclass mass action...
realityanalysisnotes.wordpress.com
U.S. workers’ missing weapon: A fighting mass workingclass party
♦ Note: RAN refers to this website, Reality Analysis Notes. Numbered citations are included in the References section at the end of this post. As Reality Analysis Notes (RAN) pointed out in its Fou…
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
www.independent.com/2025/09/03/t... I'm posting this Sep2025 prognosis of Trump regime strategy for hijacking 2026 midterms because it closely resembles my own analysis. Trump's coup plans must be resisted by mass mobilization of left & other strategies to defend civil liberties & voting rights....
independent.com
The Three Key Elements of Trump’s Bid to Hijack the Midterm Elections
The president is bringing unprecedented political, legal and military pressure to bear on Democrats, but he doesn’t need to win outright in 2026. Just creating chaos may be enough.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup... Trump's march toward a dictatorial police state must be seen as not just the aim of 1 crazy bully, but as a CABAL: elements of USA's rich ruling class (Bezos, Zukerman, Musk, etc) plus US Supreme Court majority (& other powerful players?) ...
nbcnews.com
Supreme Court hands Trump new power to tighten his grip on the federal government
Trump lost a Supreme Court case over his attempted Fed firing. But he won a bigger fight for presidential power.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump... "Trump Can Tear Down Statue of Liberty, Says Trump Lawyer" ... citing "unitary executive" theory (being used to grease Trump's path to dictatorial rule over police state, now in progress ...) Bye-bye civil liberties, democratic rights? Resistance, anyone?
Statue of Liberty photo < Wikipedia
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
www.ms.now/opinion/mark... More evidence that Trump regime's rebellion vs US rule of law is well under way, as DHS head Mullin recites regime's claim that they don't need to follow legal rulings they don't like... BEWARE! This is starting to have look & feel of a "soft coup" in progress...
ms.now
Opinion | Markwayne Mullin’s answer about following court orders should alarm every American
The Department of Homeland Security is not exempt from the rule of law.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
www.counterpunch.org/2026/05/29/g... Trump regime's drive toward a police state has been described as/compared to a gangster ring's crime spree and effort to entrench itself in the social fabric. This article documents the vastness of Trump's pervasive corruption of federal power...
counterpunch.org
Gangster Capitalism and Corruption in Trump’s America
Corruption has never been far from the center of American politics. Some of the most notorious scandals stretch from the cronyism of Warren G. Harding to the abuses of power exposed during the Waterga...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things... Another example (perhaps failed?) of Trump regime testing gerrymandering or other methods of corrupting elections prior to Oct 2026 midterms...
talkingpointsmemo.com
In Defiance of Trump, South Carolina Senate Kills Pre-2026 Redistricting Push
‘Neither My Conscience Nor Common Sense Will Allow Me to Stop an...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
www.huffpost.com/entry/latest... This is a 10-Alarm Fire. Trump & cronies following same tricks as dictators like Orban, Putin etc to squelch free speech/free media. Beyond finger-wagging & lawsuits, Left needs massive mobilization to defend civil liberties vs Trumpist/MAGA police state onslaught...
huffpost.com
FCC Chair Threatens Media: Fall In Line With Trump, Or Lose Broadcasting Licenses
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Wow. Congrats, 2024 voters ... ya really picked a winner...
theguardian.com
The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall
As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prero... Here TPM's Josh Marshall frames Trump regime's sneak attack on Iran in "proper light"—i.e. context of 2026 US elections strategy, or at least "psychological compensation" for fear of upcoming electoral losses. Or maybe another distraction from his vote-rigging?
talkingpointsmemo.com
Prerogative Powers and Presidential Self Care
Another observation on Trump’s attack on Iran. Each of these regime attacks...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
www.nbcnews.com/world/latin-... Cuba, a deformed workers state that won its independence from a corrupt regime & US imperialism over 65 years ago after a valiant struggle, deserves support from USA's Left & working class as it faces new threats from the Trump regime's appetites. Defend Cuba!
nbcnews.com
10 Cuban nationals on U.S. speedboat intended to carry out an 'armed infiltration,' Cuba says
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would carry out an independent investigation before responding. Four people on the boat were killed, Cuba's Interior Ministry said.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
www.ms.now/opinion/demo... At least Symone Sanders Townsend has the spunk to criticize the servile silence of the liberal Dems at Trump's vile SOTU last night: "silence in a room with Donald Trump is not defiance. It is background." Silence = acquiescence as Trump concocts police state. Disgusting!
ms.now
Opinion | Democrats shouldn't sit on their hands during the State of the Union
Now is not the time for a timid response. Democrats can send a clear message to voters during the State of the Union without letting Trump dictate the narrative
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
www.ms.now/news/fulton-... This raid on Atlanta's Fulton County election center & seizure of 2020 voting records sure appears to be a field test of the mischief that the Trump regime is planning for next fall's midterm elections...
ms.now
Fulton County accuses DOJ of ‘misleading narrative’ in 2020 election probe
County officials filed an amended motion arguing that the unsealed affidavit for the FBI's unannounced search last month omits critical information.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
time.com/7362221/minn... Increasingly, US Left is perceiving that Trump regime is using "immigration" to justify their militaristic campaign for US police state. To defend civil liberties, Left "resistance" needs reinforcements from organized labor & US military rank & file - force vs force...
time.com
Minnesota and the Threat of American Authoritarianism
"This fight is not just about protecting immigrants—it is about protecting American democracy," writes Kica Matos.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R6u... Protesters shouldn't kid themselves that court rulings, friendly Dems (like Sanders) & peaceful protests can defeat Trump regime's brutal coup d'état. Need rank & file allies in labor unions + US military (incl Natl Guard) for forceful pushback via general strikes etc
youtube.com
“Authoritarianism Is Here” — Senate Floor Erupts Over Minneapolis & ICE
YouTube video by moneycontrol
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.internationalist.org/twin-cities-... The Internationalist Group = another revolutionary socialist organization calling for a bona fide general strike as an effective weapon to win the ongoing battle with the Trump regime and its ICE-Gestapo secret-police thugs...
internationalist.org
Twin Cities: For a Real General Strike to Drive Out ICE Gestapo!
Democrats, Courts Won’t Do It – Bring Out Workers Power!
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... These examples of toddlers kidnapped by Trump's ICE-Gestapo goons continue to raise the voltage of my opposition. Lawyer for the family: “The horror is truly unimaginable ... The depravity of all of this is beyond words.”
theguardian.com
US immigration agents detain two-year-old Minnesota girl: ‘depravity beyond words’
DHS detain a toddler and her father on Thursday and fly them to Texas before returning child on judge’s order
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The basic premise of this article grabbed my attention "There is one story: our country is on the brink of an authoritarian takeover.... That is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction."
theguardian.com
America feels like a country on the brink of an authoritarian takeover | Francine Prose
This is the news we should be paying attention to. At least for the moment, everything else is a distraction
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things... Whether it's rigging the facts when their ICE-Gestapo are murdering protestors or bystanders, or they're rigging elections, Trump & his cronies are truly the REAL "Masters of Deceit". Important for public to know as White House's crime wave sweeps across USA...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Trump Admits Real Motivation Behind His Nationwide Gerrymandering Assault
He doesn’t want to get impeached, again. As my colleague Khaya Himmelman...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... "Don't believe your lying eyes" = modus operandi of dictators & thugs, immortalized by Geoge Orwell in '1984'. Now standard operating procedure here in the USA by Trump & his complicit goons like Bondi, Noem, Vance etc. Problem for them: they're stupid, not us...
theguardian.com
Donald Trump doesn’t want us to believe our own eyes | Steven Greenhouse
Renee Nicole Good’s killing is the latest example of the president’s outrageous – and blatant – assaults on the truth
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ice-a... Yet another instance of the barbaric brutality of Trump regime's ICE-Gestapo—the apparent beating and murder of Alex Pretti by yet another ICE secret police gang, again in Minneapolis. Strong pushback, led by unionized workers, could squelch these outrages...
talkingpointsmemo.com
ICE and the Logic of Escalation Dominance
Again we have an ICE killing in which the Department of Homeland...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
iclfi.org/pubs/wv/2026... The US Spartacist League sees the Minneapolis demo as "an opportunity to build an immigrant rights movement on a solid working-class foundation—but only if the left draws a line against the union bureaucrats and the Dems and makes a real push for collective union action."
iclfi.org
For Real Strike Action on 1/23!
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
My very first Bsky post (11 mos ago, reacting to Trump's sinister behavior & actions in his early weeks in office) recommended that the left resistance consider the General Strike weapon in defense. However, I envisioned not a 1-day protest but more extended actions to force specific outcomes...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... At last, some demonstration of the enormous progressive power of a general strike. Since my very first Bsky post 11 mos ago, I've been recommending use of this weapon to fight Trump regime's march toward a dictatorial police state. More needed in more communities!
theguardian.com
Minnesotans strike in protest against ICE surge: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Now that he's got the country acclimated to what he's remaking it into, now he feels it's safe to drop denials and pretense and to just start promoting what he's been aiming for...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
This transformation = consistent strategy of Trump regime. Focus on "illegal immigrants", then systematically expand target. Thus ICE has been quickly morphing into "ICE-Gestapo", ie Trump-MAGA secret police force. Critical component of police state (still under construction). Left must resist...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/very-... Sen. Gallego now calling for ICE "to be totally torn down". Describes ICE as “militarized troops”. Somehow refreshing at last to see an elected official calling out this murderous, brutalizing Trump regime agency for what it is. Popular fightback counts...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Very Important Moment
Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) went on CNN this morning and among other...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
www.bbc.com/news/article... This is really helping to keep Denmark and other EU nations in their comfort zone...
bbc.com
US discussing options to acquire Greenland including using military - White House
It came as European allies rallied behind Denmark, which is pushing back against Trump's ambitions for the Arctic island.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Also important to keep in mind that Trump's tariffs are added sales taxes on goods from the EU countries (eg, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Greece, etc.) to be paid by US consumers. Example of "affordability", Trump style...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... Trump ("the world's greatest genius") seems to be aiming for a possible military faceoff against the European Union — you know, the big alliance which has several member nations armed with nuclear weapons. Among the potential victims: us...
theguardian.com
Trump threatens tariffs against those who oppose him taking Greenland
President raises pressure on European allies as US envoy says deal to take island ‘should and will be made’
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Via ICE-Gestapo attacks on immigrants, bystanders, & now protesters, Trump regime is seeking to intimidate US population generally & squelch resistance — aiming at overwhelming political opposition & ultimately to disrupt voting & electoral process this fall. Ultimate goal: nationwide police state..
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... As I warned months ago, Trump's attack on immigrants is just prelude to attack on all of us. We're now all targets of lawless thugs of a lawless regime. Working class also increasingly targeted ... Requires defensive mobilization to defend civil liberties ...
theguardian.com
‘Madness’: two US citizens violently detained by ICE in Minnesota, officials say
Two Target employees forced to the ground, then into SUV, then dumped in different parking lot
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
iclfi.org/pubs/slus/20... The fight against the Trump regime's drive toward tyranny, now targeting innocent protesters, must be expanded. As this analysis from the US Spartacist League explains, the working class has a vital stake in this class war, and its power must be sought and unleashed...
iclfi.org
ICE Kills Renee Nicole Good | Labor Must Act!
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
iclfi.org/spartacist/e... This is the strongest, most forceful, and I believe most savvy response that I've seen so far to the Trump regime's imperialistic military assault against Venezuela and capture of its president...
iclfi.org
Defend Venezuela! Release Maduro!
U.S. Imperialism Strikes Again
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo... In an obvious, frantic attempt to tell voters "Don't believe your lying eyes", Trump's Dec 17 radio-TV speech spouted a cesspool of lies & deceptions praising his "achievements". As a rebuttal, the Rachel Maddow Show's Steve Benen carefully refutes this BS, item by item...
ms.now
The top 10 most brazen lies from Trump’s year-end prime-time address
That the president felt compelled to lie incessantly through his speech says volumes about how awful the year has been.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Insights demolishing the poisonous core of Trump's plans for a U.S. "Christian white nationalist" police state, a poison I personally knew growing up as a white kid in Texas, and subsequently fighting against at sit-ins & picket lines in the Civil Rights era...
theguardian.com
Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed | Rebecca Solnit
The persecution of brown people and mass deportations will not create the white country of far-right fantasy
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... This Guardian article from last month remains poignantly relevant. The lessons from Nazi Germany should galvanize us all. Take particular heed of the author's warnings in the latter half of the article...
theguardian.com
What Chicago's fight against ICE can teach us all about how to resist oppression | Zoe Williams
A harrowing US podcast documents a community’s struggle against immigration raids – and warns us about herd mentality, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This video clip from WWL-TV Channel 4 in New Orleans provides another glimpse of the chilling brutality of Trump regime's ICE-Gestapo thugs attempting to abduct a brown-skinned young woman with US citizenship from the streets of New Orleans. [Via The Guardian]
theguardian.com
US citizen chased by federal agents in New Orleans says she was targeted because ‘I’m brown’
Home security videos shows Jacelynn Guzman, 23, telling masked officers following her to ‘leave me alone’
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
theintercept.com/2025/05/15/t... This article from The Intercept of 7 mos ago is worth a re-look as the Trump regime has made "disappearing" tens of thousands of US residents virtually routine. Moms, dads, children are daily being ripped away from their families, sent to dangerous gulags abroad...
theintercept.com
Trump Is Building a Global Gulag for Immigrants Captured by ICE
The U.S. is in talks with 19 nations, including Libya, Kosovo, Rwanda, and Moldova, to accept deportees from other countries.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
www.counterpunch.org/2025/11/13/t... Trump's dangerous, vicious attack on workingclass immigrants (>500,000 deportations so far) is merely a PRELUDE to a widening attack on entire working class. Instead of wagging fingers, unions must be MOBILIZING workers actions aiming at resistance & fightback...
counterpunch.org
Trump’s Immigration Dragnet Harms All U.S. Workers
The campaign against immigrants puts large swaths of the economy at risk, not merely by decimating the workforce but by depriving the nation of people with the skills and knowledge essential for opera...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
apnews.com/article/dono... Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Palantir, Lockheed Martin, Union Pacific RR—just a few of the dozens of companies in USA's capitalist ruling class rewarding & helping Trump in his ruthless war against workers, immigrants, the poor & other oppressed targets...
apnews.com
These are the 37 donors helping pay for Trump's $300 million White House ballroom
The White House's list of 37 donors to President Donald Trump's $300 million ballroom project includes crypto billionaires, powerful financiers, tobacco companies, tech giants, media companies, longti...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
www.msnbc.com/top-stories/... This report illustrates the continuing Trump-Musk symbiotic $$ dependency & how US capitalist society both serves & depends on fabulously wealthy ruling class...
msnbc.com
Tesla shareholders approve new $1 trillion pay package for Musk
Investors appear to be banking on the company receiving federal benefits — confirming yet again Barack Obama’s observation that “you didn’t build that.”
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
newsone.com/6583468/the-... "When Bannon says there are 'smart workarounds,' what he’s really saying is: we’ve already mapped out the loopholes." "...we’ve become so desensitized by this administration’s chaos that an open threat to the Constitution barely registers as breaking news anymore." 📌
newsone.com
The Coup Ain’t Coming. It’s Already Here
They’re building the machinery of the next stolen election through fatigue, fear, distraction, and economic desperation.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
talkingpointsmemo.com/news/majorit... This article, posted in Aug, further corroborates my contention that anti-Trump resistance should recognize potential of opposition to Trump regime policies among US military troops — in contrast to police-style forces eg FBI, ICE-Gestapo, BP, etc...
talkingpointsmemo.com
Majority of US Troops Surveyed Say They’re Aware of Their Duty to Not Follow Illegal Orders
This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.semafor.com/article/11/0... "Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has sided closely with Washington..." which has been murdering boatmen in the Caribbean & is seeking to pull off a coup in Venezuela. So now that the Nobel Prize is devalued 95%, maybe Trump finally has a chance?
semafor.com
Venezuela’s opposition divided over potential US intervention
The group led by recent Nobel Peace Prize winner María Corina Machado has sided closely with Washington.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
www.semafor.com/article/11/0... So the world's wealthiest exploitative twat & political bully is losing out in the market battle over his signature enterprise (electric cars). So sad...
semafor.com
Tesla struggles in Europe as new car registrations fall 90%
Competition from Chinese rivals, Tesla’s aging lineup, and a backlash against CEO Elon Musk’s political activism are behind the decline.
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Here's my Bsky post from a month ago suggesting left should seek allies within rank & file military against Trump's ICE-Gestapo & police-state coup. Now corroborated by signs of resistance within National Guard (see my post today). Defend resistance within military!
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nawdry.bsky.social @nawdry.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
newsone.com/6568511/nati... As I hinted a month ago, there's significant dissatisfaction within National Guard over Trump's persecution of immigrants and his coup d'etat to implant a U.S. police state. Rank & file military must be persuaded to resist! Here are signs of unrest & seeds of rebellion...
newsone.com
National Guardsmen Speak Out Against Trump Administration
Two National Guard members, Staff Sgt. Demi Palecek and Capt. Dylan Blaha, said they would refuse Trump's orders to deploy in Chicago.
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