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Raoul

@rwlm.bsky.social
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Once again we are receiving confirmation of what we already expected with Trump’s cuts to institutions that underpinned US #soft #power globally. Welcome to “Emperor Nero’s” ( #Trump ) #USA, where its #decline on the world stage is accelerating and giving way to the #PRC. 👏
thesoufancenter.org
Surrendering the Narrative: How U.S. Cuts to Soft Power Are Empowering Rivals - The Soufan Center
On Friday, the United States House of Representatives passed a final vote approving President Donald Trump’s proposal to cut $9 billion from public broadcasting and foreign aid. Among the foreign aid ...
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The #threat from within, with #Gabbard controlled from #Moscow.
theatlantic.com
Tinker Tailor Soldier MAGA
Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are turning their agencies against their own staff.
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 13/06/2025
The conditions at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark are untenable. With serious security lapses, numerous reports of mistreatment by staff of detainees, complaints of persistent food shortages, and a troubling lack of transparency from facility administrators…
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@debbie156 @debbie156.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
That’s it. That’s the Rubicon. Rome has fallen, and if we do not act, all will be lost. Every last democracy loving American better be out tomorrow for No Kings protests. I don’t care if you’re dem, republican, indie. If you love our flag, you will stop this madman & his regime. #ProudBlue #OneV1
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
When they inevitably defend the way Senator Padilla was treated, keep in mind they’ll defend literally anything.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Homeland Security can’t even bring itself to apologize.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The jackboots are itching at the opportunity to hurt civil, law-abiding protestors. This is what you get when you vote a convicted felon and a nazi for President.
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
She was right.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Newsom: This Saturday, he's ordering our American heroes, the United States military, and forcing them to put on a vulgar display to celebrate his birthday, just as other failed dictators have done in the past
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Perfect sum-up of what Musk amounts to and how the Dems can best tackle the issue.
jacobin.com
Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Try to Woo Back Elon Musk
With some prominent Democrats and liberal pundits arguing for the party to try to win Elon Musk back to its side, you have to ask: Is American politics simply a matter of who can best kiss the ass of ...
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Interesting read.
nytimes.com
Secret Russian Intelligence Document Shows Deep Suspicion of China
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
“The very platforms that uphold freedom of expression and civil innovation in the West and were critical for Ukraine’s survival in the early days of the full-scale Russian invasion, are being weaponized by Russia to guide artillery, coordinate drone strikes, and transmit battlefield intelligence.”
rusi.org
Russia’s Military Apps Use West’s Open Infrastructure
Russian developers are taking advantage of the West’s decentralised platforms for app development to make new military technology.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Alarming new #policy promoted by the person who the Russians call “our girl in #Washington” that became DNI. #Gabbard is knowingly hobbling intelligence capabilities and preparedness to cater to her immediate boss, #Trump and also to their handler in Moscow, #Putin.
spytalk.co
The Fatal Cost of Twisting Intelligence
Tulsi Gabbard's firing of top intelligence analysts sets a very bad precedent
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
This surprises no one. We need to hold this criminal accountable for his wrongdoings.
futurism.com
Elon Musk Is Doing Business With Actual Terrorists, Nonprofit Finds
An investigation found that hundreds of paid subscribers to Elon Musk's X have terrorism links and many use paid X perks to push propaganda.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 21/04/2025
Who needs Wikileaks when you have Pete Hegseth?
Hegseth reveals more classified information to his wife
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this. The Secretary is unfit to lead.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
It can be true that both tariffs are bad and denying due process is also bad
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Sunny Moraine @dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
So the person I’m holding as my own personal hero and source of joy right now is the cranky old guy in the American flag baseball cap at the Chuck Grassley Iowa town hall bellowing in the best Cranky Old Guy voice “ARE YOU GONNA BRING THAT GUY BACK FROM EL SALVADOR” Grassley: *demurs* “WHY NOT”
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 18/04/2025
Ukraine is beating Russia—sinking their fleet without a navy, killing 800,000+ invaders, and holding the line for 3 years. Donald Trump wants to save Putin. He won’t say Russia is the aggressor. Let’s be clear: there’d be a cease-fire if Russia…stopped. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/ukraine-is...
adamkinzinger.substack.com
Ukraine is Winning. So Why is Donald Trump Trying to Help Russia?
America Is quickly becoming the people we read about, and hated, in high school history.
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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
The Pentagon’s recently departed chief spokesman has warned of more “bombshell stories” about Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that are set to leak over the next few weeks.
thedailybeast.com
Top Hegseth Aide Warns Even Bigger Bombshells Are Coming
John Ullyot, the Pentagon’s recently departed chief spokesman, published a lengthy op-ed Sunday criticizing Hegseth’s leadership.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
“They want a king. They want obedience. They want vengeance dressed as justice and autocracy disguised as competence. They want to bury the Constitution in the name of saving it—and they are dangerously close to succeeding.” On point description of the illegal power grab perpetrated by Trump in US
iamdonnyevans.substack.com
A President Above the Law Is a King
What happens when legal restraint is treated as rebellion—and defiance of the courts becomes a patriotic act? We’re about to find out.
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💙💙💙🗽 Be Kind 💙 #Bluecrew 💙💙🇺🇦🫘🦋🐿🍀🌈💕 @platogue.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Unfathomable abuse + corruption! #Resist 💙🍀🌥️⛅🙏💕 fiftyfifty.one
fiftyfifty.one
50501 — 50 protests, 50 states, 1 movement
Join the movement to uphold the Constitution and end executive overreach. 50 protests, 50 states, 1 day: #50501.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Confirming Hegseth really was insanely reckless.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
The Golden Age Of Corruption www.wired.com/story/cfpb-h...
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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Personally, I think it should be front page news for at least a month if a sitting US President is using falsified evidence to try and deny due process to a man who has committed no crime, but that’s just me
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/04/2025
Turns out you can shape the agenda with dramatic action and maybe even shift public opinion. Crazy.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Easter reminder: Don’t forget that the Republicans are just hypocritical pseudo-Christians with a superiority complex. The world knows how stupid, conceited and arrogant they are. We know that there’s not even a fiber of Christian morality in their bodies and they’ll get their comeuppance soon.
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Bonnie Burton ✍️ @bonniegrrl.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
We just wanted to keep you all updated estimates are now approaching 4 million. Incredible job pulling this off on a holiday weekend! It was tough to get accurate counts today because small towns showed up in force. Some states had record-breaking turnout we didn’t expect this includes
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 19/04/2025
An important Saturday message from our co-founder: www.meidasplus.com/p/important-...
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Steven Mazie @stevenmazie.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
BREAKING: SCOTUS orders the government not to remove from the country, for the time being, any of the individuals slated for possible deportation to El Salvador. The vote is apparently 7-2, with Justices Thomas and Alito in dissent
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ACLU @aclu.org · 18/04/2025
BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there. Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Punch a bully in the nose and see what happens
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onion person @junlper.beer · 18/04/2025
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Tara Dublin, Rock Star Author📚❤️‍🔥🤘🏻 @taradublinrocks.com · 18/04/2025
True facts are true
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
We could have been talking about $25K down payment assistance for new homeowners in a thriving economy right now, but here we are.
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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
When you force people to foreign incarceration for the rest of their life without due process... that's not deportation. That's human trafficking. And it's not a prison. It's a concentration camp.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Van Hollen: I should also just say, I mentioned the fake margarita, they actually wanted to have the meeting by the side of the pool in the hotel. They want to create this appearance that life was just lovely for Kilmar. Which of course is a big, fat lie.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/04/2025
“The Executive may succeed for a time in weakening the courts, but over time history will script the tragic gap between what was and all that might have been, and law in time will sign its epitaph.” - Judge Wilkinson www.muellershewrote.com/p/how-a-judg...
muellershewrote.com
How a Judge Tells a President to F**k Off
I read a lot of court documents, and I like to highlight some from time to time that really encapsulate the moment we find ourselves in. The latest from the 4th Circuit does it perfectly.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
More gifts for #Putin from the Republican cabinet of Russian stooges. I have said it before, their actions have become so predictable in their favourability to #Russia and antagonism to #US national interests, it’s actually quite unprecedented. The Republicans have shamelessly capitulated to Russia.
reuters.com
US State Department closing office aimed at countering foreign disinformation
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday he was shutting down a State Department office that had sought to counter foreign disinformation, accusing it of censorship and wasting U.S. taxpayer money.
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Raoul @rwlm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
There we go. Support this man.
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 12/04/2025
UPDATE: bsky.app/profile/muel...
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