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Open Arms @openarmsfund.bsky.social · 04/03/2015
Increible el Vídeo de OCEAN GRAVITY - Guillaume Néry / Julie Gautier: ¡Check out here! #Apnea #freedive youtu.be/v11b84Okcm8
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Electric Chimp @electricchimp.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
move the u.s. towards being more like hungary or russia, so that it's easier for fascism to rule it's a form of accelerationism: burning the country and the world down so that it no lo longer is hospitable to a free society, but is sociologically/economically/etc prone to enable fascist governments
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Auchincloss: Trump doesn’t have to face the voters again, so I understand what he's doing. He's trying to hook up all these billionaires who invested in his campaign. He owes them, but for the life of me, I can’t understand why Republicans are allowing Trump to frog-march them off the gangplank.
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Justa Faize @blackdogarmy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
We have power in numbers. ✊🏽 #economicboycott
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
After much fanfare, the “Epstein files” that Puppet Trump and his minions hyped up ended up being a total scam. They tried to fool you though 😂 Invited all their influencers to take pictures with *empty binders* like we were gonna fall for that. Trump’s not going to release a list he’s on. DUH!
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 28/02/2025
Tesla lost enough value today that it could have fully funded USAID for a year.
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Citizen Cohn / Jonathan Cohn @citizencohn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
This list of cancelled USAID programs is breathtaking — and heartbreaking www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters *right now* that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
I’ve written up a fuller version of this take at Arc Digital www.arcdigital.media/p/the-unbear...
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The Unbearable Normality of Creeping Authoritarianism
The U.S. government is under attack from within, the Constitution isn't really in effect, but if you don't follow politics and aren't directly targeted, you might not notice
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Cactusdan @cactusdan.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
There's a powerful few lines in They Thought They Were Free (a book where the author Milton Mayer went to Germany to interview former citizens of Nazi Germany) that says this almost verbatim.
"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As promised, I did write about this for Arc Digital www.arcdigital.media/p/the-unbear...
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The Unbearable Normality of Creeping Authoritarianism
The U.S. government is under attack from within, the Constitution isn't really in effect, but if you don't follow politics and aren't directly targeted, you might not notice
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I don’t even mean this at the extreme end of authoritarianism. You can go to Budapest and enjoy a weekend the same way you might in Montreal or Paris. Stay in a Hampton, go to a park, shop at an H&M, grab a coffee. But in the background is corruption, a broken rule of law, decreased civil rights.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
It’s hard to communicate the crisis that’s unfolding and the dangers ahead because a lot of superficial things won’t change. The Netflix will still turn on. Your sports teams will play. You’ll see movies. But the things that make liberal democratic life uniquely stable, secure, & vibrant will decay.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Brazil's former president Jair Bolsonaro, an ally of Musk and Trump, had a plan to poison his successor, prosecutor says apnews.com/article/bols...
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Brazil’s prosecutor-general files charges against former President Bolsonaro over alleged coup plan
Brazil’s prosecutor-general Paulo Gonet has formally charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting a coup to stay in office after his 2022 election defeat.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
@jenpsaki.msnbc.com: "Inspectors general are a headache for everyone. You know why? Because they're investigating every agency and they find stuff! Including waste and fraud and abuse! They wouldn't be firing them if they cared about waste, fraud, and abuse."
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia has published a letter sent to him by Trump’s Department of Justice threatening to potentially prosecute him for criticizing Elon Musk.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
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portisheadcanon @thediscocat.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
W H A T
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Colorado AG @philweiser.bsky.social reminds us we’ve got a Republic to defend & he’s fighting for democracy in the courtroom: www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...
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Colorado AG Weiser ‘We're defending our Republic. We have checks and balances...’
Katie Phang and Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser discuss a federal judge extending a restraining order blocking Elon Musk and DOGE from accessing the Treasury Department's payment system.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/02/2025
the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16/02/2025
‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes
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‘The greatest propaganda op in history’: Trump’s reshaping of US culture evokes past antidemocratic regimes
The president’s full-court press to dominate media and control cultural institutions is straight out of the authoritarian playbook
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HuffPost UK @huffpost.co.uk · 16/02/2025
"That's not what we expect from the foremost nation of the free world," John Major said.
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Former PM Slams US For 'Cuddling' Up To Putin And Criticises JD Vance's Attack On Europe
"That's not what we expect from the foremost nation of the free world," John Major said.
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MS NOW @ms.now · 16/02/2025
“Shrinking the size of the federal workforce might seem like a reasonable way to cut costs, but in agriculture it could have disastrous consequences,” writes Rob Larew, president, National Farmers Union. READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Opinion | How Trump’s federal funding pause hurts American farmers and drives up grocery prices
How the administration's funding freeze threatens the infrastructure that keeps rural communities — and everyday America — running.
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fake-speeches.bsky.social @fake-speeches.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
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'Beyond depraved': 5 charged with transgender Minnesota man's murder in Ontario County
Farmington, N.Y. — Five people face murder charges after a Minnesota man reported missing man in Ontario County was found dead in a field in Yates County.
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Sue @sueboo1992.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is what happens when hate is allowed to thrive. This is not ok, never ok.
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AntisocialWorker @antisocialworker77.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is what happens when the government, itself, declares open season on a population. The violence is *the* feature, not a bug. This is MAGAt America.
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Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
TRUMPFLATION
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robinbia.bsky.social @robinbia.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thousands March to US Embassy in London With Message for Trump: 'Hands Off Gaza' www.commondreams.org/news/london-...
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Thousands March to US Embassy in London With Message for Trump: 'Hands Off Gaza' | Common Dreams
An 87-year-old Holocaust survivor called the U.S. president's plan to permanently force Palestinians out of Gaza "completely immoral and illegal, and also impractical and absurd."
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“The Maryland National Guard must decline events which celebrates individuals based all or in part on immutable characteristics,” the memo said. Douglass was an abolitionist, suffragist, orator and author. That’s what we celebrate him. Let’s be clear: This bars celebrating him because he was Black.
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Maryland National Guard out of Frederick Douglass parade after DoD order
Strict guidance from the national defense department crushed plans for a parade held in honor of Frederick Douglass’ 207th birthday because it was being held during Black History Month.
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John Ganz @lioneltrolling.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is the problem with the entire positivist pundit group, they see everything as discrete policy issues with merits and demerits that can be tallied up, we can take some of this, and reject some of that. That's now what we are dealing with.
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Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
This is a seismic moment. Among the defining moments of global politics since 1945. The US will not allow Europe, whose sovereignty is threatened by Russia, a seat at the negotiating table. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Europe will not be part of Ukraine-Russia peace talks, US envoy says
Keith Kellogg tells countries to offer concrete solutions and boost spending instead of complaining about talks role
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Katelyn 🅅 Medusfour @medus4.com · 25/10/2024
I read this book yesterday, and it truly made me feel less insane. There is an organized movement that is moving the Overton window toward fascism and white supremacy, and they are organizing online and we are all falling for their tricks- we CARE. They don’t.
Cover of a book called “anti social- online extremists, terror utopians and the hijacking of the American conversation” by Andrew Marantz
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The Institute for Bird Populations @instbirdpop.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
🪶 Did you ask for a bird fact for Valentine's Day? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. #ValentinesDay
Photo by Wade Tregaskis of a pair of Cedar Waxwings passing a bit of plant stem back and forth. Text on photo says: "Unsolicited Bird Fact: During courtship male & female Cedar Waxwings pass gifts back and forth to each other. Often the gift is food, but sometimes it's a Token Of Undying Devotion™ like this limited edition plant stem (available exclusively from "Bales".)
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
A rabbi asked his pupils how they could tell when the night had ended and the day was on its way back.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Jesus Christ, this is just embarrassing. Once upon a time, journalists actually cared about their profession and worked to defend it. Now it’s just empty mewling about their “access” to craven liars and bullshit artists. Freedom of the press sort of depends on *reporters* actually wanting it.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’ve considered it and, you know what? I don’t fucking care. They’ve already elevated those exact far right outlets at the Pentagon and pushed out legacy media. Legitimate news outfits can take a stand against this now, or they can meekly enable this fascist shit & *still* get pushed out later.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14/02/2025
Trump and Vance are courting Europe’s far right to spread their political gospel
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Trump and Vance are courting Europe’s far right to spread their political gospel
US vice-president’s speech and meeting with Germany’s AfD chief signal administration’s wider plans for continent
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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Based on the current lawsuits, this appears to be the state of the U.S. government at the moment... (with apologies/thanks to @xkcd.com for the original diagram).
Diagram taken from an XKCD comic of a bunch of components all piled up with one very narrow one at the bottom that is keeping the whole thing from tipping over. The label on the whole diagram is "All Modern U.S. Governmental Functions" and the linchpin component is labeled "Administrative Procedure Act of 1946"
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
An amazing resignation letter to Bove from an AUSA who worked on the Adams case. Money quote: “I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”
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Robot Automatomshany @robtomshany.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Sign of the times (in a good way, with alt-text):
Sign:

Judson Memorial Baptist Church
Welcoming - Affirming - Ecumenical
No Executive Order
Can Control
Who Judson Church Loves!
[no text on the last line, just a happy face, hearts, and pride flags]
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Ben Raderstorf @raders.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Conflicts of interest go both ways. The only explanation for Elon Musk's behavior is that he thinks Democrats will never again be allowed to control federal government contracting. If that doesn't scare you, it should.
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Jennifer Raff @jenniferraff.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
“Your work is your rebellion”
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
I'll be checking out one of these in West LA tomorrow — hope to see lots of folks there
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pillsy @ducksfortheduckgod.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
it’s clear you have no respect for your colleagues, yourself, of your audience’s intelligence
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
He glorifies in his own criminality and corruption.
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Katelyn Jetelina @kkjetelina.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer? She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.
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