richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Trump, seeking executive power over elections, is urged to declare emergency 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 03/02/2026Homeland Security is targeting Americans with this secretive legal weapon. This is the US Gestapo. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 30/01/2026RFK Jr. picks promoters of debunked vaccine-autism claims for key panel. The flat earth group. 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialDr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2025dear 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 6117643279
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025The people who are sincerely in favor of freedom of expression will speak out now for the reporters. 141350413
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2025Someone 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. 1302679831
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialGeorge 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.'" 37743321248
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 04/10/2025President 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...youtube.comFrench President Macron Speaks at German Unity Day Ceremony | WION LIVEYouTube video by WION 22676662674
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/09/2025This current American presidential administration is run by people who are quite obviously mentally ill, and we need to start talking about that. 1575314017895
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 16/09/2025www.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 fesrvvnytimes.comOpinion | The Kirk Crackdown Is Underway 020
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Trump vows to punish critics after slaying of Charlie Kirk 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 01/09/2025September 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... 501271273
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialSteve Rattner @steverattner.bsky.social · 15/07/2025CPI inflation ticked upwards in June to 2.7% 510032
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialBill 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...open.substack.comHow to Know When the Frog Has BoiledAutocracy in America won’t unfold the way you expect. 40595166
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialJoyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 09/07/2025What could possibly go wrong here? 36442661749
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 09/07/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/w.... Way to go Marco the powerless Secretary of State.nytimes.comU.S. Botched a Deal to Swap Venezuelans Held in El Salvador for Americans 010
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 08/07/2025www.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.nytimes.comOpinion | The Ruthless Ambition of Stephen Miller 030
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialTimothy 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...snyder.substack.comConcentration Camp LaborCannot Become Normal 721681680
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialTimothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/07/2025As 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...lawfaremedia.orgGoodbye to All ThatMy resignation from the FBI. 501562520
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 06/07/2025This is now Trump's war www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comThe U.S. Is Switching SidesDonald Trump is giving Vladimir Putin every incentive to keep killing Ukrainians. 25551184
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Don’t believe the conventional wisdom. Ukraine can still lose. Russian means to bomb Ukraine info submission and Trump by his inaction approves. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Syria 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. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Heat, 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. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... This group of garbage is expanding throughout the US. Does the FBI care? Nope they are busy deporting people.theguardian.comRevealed: the far-right, antisemitic men’s club network spreading across USOld Glory Club has at least 26 chapters with participants including military personnel, lawyers and civil servants 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 05/07/2025How do you feel about the USA this 4th of July weekend? 010
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialHayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 03/07/2025they 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 12737135
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 04/07/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...nytimes.comOpinion | Are We Really Willing to Become Dumber? 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/06/2025 551108152823
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialPeter Baker @peterbakernyt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025Putin 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...nytimes.comSecret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China 106421
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 07/06/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u... 449104583410
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 07/06/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... And the FBI is focusing elsewhere. Will this nightmare ever end.theguardian.comNeo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training eventThe Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialGeorge Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29/05/2025Fiona Hill: "The United States is on a path toward full-on state repression." 428164145400
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025The 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...444.huViktor Orbán’s crackdown on free press does not only affect Hungary. It affects all of EuropeThe 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. 10821511020
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne 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" 139653
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 24/05/2025Fidesz "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' 935648
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialDavid French @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social · 27/04/2025When you look up "cancel culture" and "snowflakes" in the dictionary, you should see a picture of a Trump rally. 925446
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialProtect Democracy @protectdemocracy.org · 22/04/2025The 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.ifyoucankeepit.orgTrump’s next move to silence free speech is comingHow Trump will vilify and attack civil society 57735
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Trump’s tariffs overshadow IMF and World Bank meetings. When will folks learn that you can’t placate a bully. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 21/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o.... Send this to Bill Maher.nytimes.comOpinion | Opinion Today: Larry David Imagines a Private Dinner With HitlerIn a guest essay, the comedian warns that we should see people for who they really are. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs - The Atlantic. History repeats and repeats. 000
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Trump 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. 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialAndrew 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 ! 241292145
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialRachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025www.wired.com/story/cdc-jo... 1061979656
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 17/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...nytimes.comOpinion | 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. 010
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 16/04/2025Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts. Meanwhile Congress acts like potted plants. 000
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialrichnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 15/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/h.... More dumb moves on the part of the deal maker. Sure make it tougher to get meds.nytimes.comTrump’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. 001
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 15/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/h.... More dumb moves on the part of the deal maker. Sure make it tougher to get meds.nytimes.comTrump’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. 001
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 14/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/w.... Why I don’t believe in KARMA.nytimes.comIrmgard 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. 010
richnewyork.bsky.social @richnewyork.bsky.social · 13/04/2025www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/b...nytimes.comChina 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. 021
Reposted by @richnewyork.bsky.socialKelsey 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 483211244965