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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon. This is the US Gestapo.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
RFK Jr. picks promoters of debunked vaccine-autism claims for key panel. The flat earth group.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Someone looking at all this with a cold eye might say that Miller and Hegseth are seeking control over the power ministries before a Vance ally invokes the 25th Amendment.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
"'That fucking dumbass,' one of the senior Trump administration officials told Zeteo on Wednesday, after seeing a clip of Lutnick riffing on Epstein. 'I’ve worked with him ... He just talks and talks, and doesn’t care what unhelpful bullshit comes out.'"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2025
President Macron: “We were very naive to leave our public space to social media networks controlled by US or Chinese companies that don’t share our interests and not interested in survival of our democracies.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=MggN...
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French President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVE
YouTube video by WION
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o.... This is folkowing the playbook of all dictatorial governments. They are serious and can’t be swept under the rug. There is no room for this type of retribution without receipts. The main aim is to end freedom of speech and instill fesrvv
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Opinion | The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
Trump vows to punish critics after slaying of Charlie Kirk
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2025
September 1, 1939 I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth...
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Steve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
CPI inflation ticked upwards in June to 2.7%
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
“The key assumption is at some point Trump will cross a bright line that makes it obvious to everyone that we no longer live in a free society…But this might not be the way it’s most likely to happen here. The continuities [may] obfuscate the discontinuities.” open.substack.com/pub/persuasi...
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How to Know When the Frog Has Boiled
Autocracy in America won’t unfold the way you expect.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
What could possibly go wrong here?
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w.... Way to go Marco the powerless Secretary of State.
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U.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/07/o... Miller is one sick SOB who’s lust for power has no bounds. I’d say he is dangerous.
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Opinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States." snyder.substack.com/p/concentrat...
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Concentration Camp Labor
Cannot Become Normal
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
As these political and personal purges continue, important agencies will become unable to perform their basic functions, and at some point will only be able to spread the purges into the larger society. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...
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Goodbye to All That
My resignation from the FBI. 
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/07/2025
This is now Trump's war www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The U.S. Is Switching Sides
Donald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Don’t believe the conventional wisdom. Ukraine can still lose. Russian means to bomb Ukraine info submission and Trump by his inaction approves.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Syria loses a lifeline as the United States and Europe slash global aid Now that Syria has a the need to rebuild the US does nothing. This will lead to more resentment and further troubles ahead. Greater catastrophe ahead. While weak kneed Marco does his usual nothing.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Heat, storms, mosquitoes the big threats at Alligator Alcatraz, experts say. Why not call this what it is a Concentration Camp meant to kill it’s prisoners.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This group of garbage is expanding throughout the US. Does the FBI care? Nope they are busy deporting people.
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Revealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across US
Old Glory Club has at least 26 chapters with participants including military personnel, lawyers and civil servants
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
How do you feel about the USA this 4th of July weekend?
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
they did the thing nobody likes and will hurt millions of people because he wanted to sign a piece of paper on a holiday when most people won't be paying attention
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
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Opinion | Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Peter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Putin and Xi have declared a "no limits" partnership but in the corridors of Lubyanka, the headquarters of the FSB, a secretive intelligence unit refers to the Chinese as “the enemy.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/07/w...
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Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... And the FBI is focusing elsewhere. Will this nightmare ever end.
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Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event
The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression."
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025
The Hungarian government is about to pass a law that will allow it to destroy the tiny online outlets that represent the last vestiges of independent Hungarian press 444.hu/2025/05/22/v...
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Viktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of Europe
The so-called “Transparency Law”, currently pending approval, significantly undermines freedom of expression in Hungary — and its impacts are unlikely stop at the country’s borders.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025
'Hungarian newsrooms have been under constant pressure for years now: the government and its media outlets have been systematically provoking and discrediting independent press staff, repeatedly portraying reporters as servants of foreign interests, mercenaries and traitors"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025
Fidesz "turned the country's once largest independent news sites (Index, Origo) into pro-government mouthpieces, bought up the provincial newspapers, acquired the largest commercial TV channel (TV2), bought themselves into tabloids, closed Népszabadság'
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David French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
When you look up "cancel culture" and "snowflakes" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of a Trump rally.
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Protect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 22/04/2025
The right to free speech and civic organizing is typically an autocrat's 1st targets when trying to consolidate power. So, we can expect Trump to try and silence speech by vilifying & attacking civil society, like nonprofits, @ianbassin.bsky.social explains.
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Trump’s next move to silence free speech is coming
How Trump will vilify and attack civil society
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Trump’s tariffs overshadow IMF and World Bank meetings. When will folks learn that you can’t placate a bully.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o.... Send this to Bill Maher.
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Opinion | Opinion Today: Larry David Imagines a Private Dinner With Hitler
In a guest essay, the comedian warns that we should see people for who they really are.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs - The Atlantic. History repeats and repeats.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Trump deadline on Insurrection Act looms. If there were any doubts that we are in an emergency situation read this. The Dictatorship is here. And Congress is a useless potted plant.
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Andrew M. | Founder & Advisor 🇬🇷 🇺🇸 @andrewmfounder.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
"I'm giving $100,000 to Harvard after this." -- George Conway Thank you @gtconway.bsky.social !
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo...
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Opinion | The Supreme Court Can’t Save America, but Here’s What It Can Do (Gift Article)
The justices and the American people must hold the line together.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts. Meanwhile Congress acts like potted plants.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/h.... More dumb moves on the part of the deal maker. Sure make it tougher to get meds.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks (Gift Article)
Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/h.... More dumb moves on the part of the deal maker. Sure make it tougher to get meds.
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Trump’s Tariff Threat for Drug imports Poses Big Political Risks (Gift Article)
Levies on Americans’ daily prescriptions and other medicines could raise costs, spur rationing and lead to shortages of critical drugs.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w.... Why I don’t believe in KARMA.
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Irmgard Furchner, Secretary at a Hub of Nazi Atrocities, Dies at 99 (Gift Article)
Her work for the commandant of a concentration camp in German-occupied Poland led to her conviction as an accessory to more than 10,000 murders.
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richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...
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China Halts Critical Rare Earth Exports as Trade War Intensifies (Gift Article)
Beijing has suspended exports of certain rare earth minerals and magnets that are crucial for the world’s car, semiconductor and aerospace industries.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 11/04/2025
"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson
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