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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Rhymes with the 2020 US – Taliban agreement, made without the Afghan government. Taliban fighters are released from jail. The Taliban and al-Qaeda members hook up, continue attacks on the Afghan military. 0️⃣ push back from the US. Trump had his "deal" & was frying other fish (bleach injections, etc.)

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

So many posts to digest 😅. You've given me some food for thought. Now those thoughts need untangling and vetting so I can share them in a way that makes sense. Stay where you're to, I'll come where you're at. In a day or two. I'm slow. Sorry.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

The future wasn't bright. But at least it was far away. And that was good enough for us. 😨 youtu.be/AqJnK9Dh-eQ?...

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Ai Will Try to Cheat & Escape (aka Rob Miles was Right!) - Computerphile

YouTube video by Computerphile

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

I hope you get your democracy back. For your sake, so you have a chance to build the party you want, for the sake of my friends and relatives there with you. And for the sake of your allies and partners around the world. I'm sharpening my skates and have my elbows up.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Not 2025 Trump. Agent Krasnov's been doing Moscow's bidding for decades. And don't forget his "perfect phone call" with Zelenskyy in his first term, 2018 or 2019

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

It's possible the Dems might stop selling Bibi his killing machinery, but the political will both from a national and from a geopolitical standpoint isn't there at the moment and won't come at the speed you want. Despite having a small group of progressives, Dems aren't on the left.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

You're trying to insist that the Dems become another party. In the middle of a very tight election campaign. Not the way life works. If you want a single issue party, then start one and convince your fellow citizens to vote for you... Oh, oopsie. Not really an option under an autocratic ruler 🤷‍♀️

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

That venomous sack of expired Lunchables and excrement currently ruling your country is in bed with Moscow. He has done nothing for Ukraine (every bit of aid that's been delivered since Jan 20 was appropriated under Biden). What he does is try to extort and backstab Kyiv.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

At risk of being repetitive: THERE WAS NO OPTION TO STOP BIBI WITH YOUR VOTE. But there was a SINGLE option on the ballot that would have allowed you to retain your right to pressure your government to do better.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

And apropos complicity, look up the Budapest Memorandum. Washington and Moscow pressured Ukraine to give up its nuclear stockpile. In return, they pinky promised ("assured" was the word, i think) to respect Ukraine's sovereignty and come to her aid in case of an attack.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

You spoke alright. In November. And if you had spoken AGAINST Project 2025, you would still be able to go out there, march, wave the Palestinian flag, and even shout anti-Israel slogans. But you lot and MAGGATs hate the Dems more than you love your constitutional rights.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

I guess some genocides are deserving of having hearts bleed, others not 🤷‍♀️ So f the American seniors who will lose access to social security. F the people suffering from cancer who're waiting on medical testing for new treatments. F impoverished people waiting on vaccines. F disaster relief...

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

So instead, you voted for genocide, with a dollop of grotesquely gleeful ethnic cleansing on top. Oooo and bonus: the demolition of USAID, a lifeline for vulnerable people the world over. But hey, at least it's not just Palestinians dying, amiright?

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Voting 3rd party or boycotting because Harris failed to everything you want exactly the way you want was singularly cruel and grossly counterproductive. You all knew Trump wouldn't stop Bibi's rampage, so the *fairy psychotic* plan was 1) let Kamala know you hate her. 2) watch the world burn. 3) ?

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

In other news: despite dramatically increased nose length, Pinocchio no closer to real boy status

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Are you in Washington D.C. today? Is there anything you'd like to say to the architects of Project 2025? Consider joining the demonstration at the Heritage Foundation headquarters on Massachusetts Ave. at 3:30pm. Good luck, stay safe, and look out for each other. youtu.be/j9xesS_zMU4?...

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The TRUTH about Heritage Foundation

YouTube video by Cliff Cash Comedy

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

May Karma do its thing. Stand tall, stand strong, Georgia! You're an inspiration ❤️ 🇬🇪 ❤️🇪🇺❤️

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Remember Lukashenko's attempts to overwhelm the EU borders, sow division, and distract from Putin's preparations for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine? The Finns do. www.politico.eu/article/alex...

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Lukashenko on migrants: ‘They’re not coming to my country, they’re going to yours’

Belarus’ leader says it’s ‘absolutely possible’ his force helped migrants to the border with Poland.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Nudie Cohn was born Nuta Kotlyarenko, in Kyiv. Fascinating story. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudie_C...

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Nudie Cohn - Wikipedia

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jazzrat2000 AKA Bonsai anonymous @jazzrat2000.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

whatever else it is it is a drag

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

"Civilizational suicide." "Is it stupidity? Is it malice?" Yeah... I don't know, either. But please ground Shady Pants Veep and marked down Marco. No one wants to see them. No one wants to listen to their ish. Save the💲 spent on their flights. They can insult us from the US if need be. Thank you.

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The Day America Lost Everything

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

But instead of ensuring a ceasefire in Gaza, Trump is carrying out an ineffective bombing and killing innocent civilians with glee.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Early one morning 🎶, I found myself transported back to the 60s 🥹. Smiling at the image of Carney as Friendly, I wondered, would he say "Look inside yourself, Rusty PP"? Then Jagmeet Jerome popped in. And I lost it 🤣. Merci, @todmaffin.com. For memories. For food for thought. And for the laughs.

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The Friendly Giant Election: What a Giant, a Rooster, and a Giraffe Can Teach Us About Humanity

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The more or less able-bodied might be used to soak up bullets in a senseless war started by Agolf Xitler – or by one of his successors that the Rethuglkkkans install. The CEOs of private penitentiary companies are rubbing their hands in glee.

$Prigozhin at a Russian penalty colony recruiting prisoners to fight in Ukraine. Only a fraction of the convicts deployed by Wagner in Bakhmut survived.$

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Did he call them that? "Illegal people"?

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

In a country not exactly known for welcoming formerly incarcerated people back into society, it's beyond me that the Kentucky Fried Felon was allowed to run for office at all. 🧵 5/5 www.brennancenter.org/issues/ensur...

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Disenfranchisement Laws

Disenfranchisement laws exclude millions of Americans from participating in our democracy. The Brennan Center tracks these laws state by state.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

The November election shouldn't have even been CLOSE. Especially after justices picked by Republicans voted to overturn Roe v. Wade! Three of whom were picked by Trump in his 1st term for that express purpose. "Promise me you’ll take care of my son." 💔 🧵 4/5 www.propublica.org/article/geor...

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Abortion Bans Have Delayed Emergency Medical Care. In Georgia, Experts Say This Mother’s Death Was Preventable.

At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

But these were institutions high on Trump's demolition list. He sicced DOGE on them (www.politico.com/news/2025/03...) in all haste, and I don't think there's much left of them now. 🧵 3/5

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Why Washington and the business world are freaking out about Trump's FTC firings

Removing two Democratic commissioners could trigger a cascade of problems for the longstanding agency, and even blow back on Republicans.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

I bet that nice lady wouldn't have fired Lina Khan (www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...), either. And it's safe to bet that under Harris, the consumer protection bureau (www.politico.com/news/2021/09...) would also still be doing what its name suggests. 🧵 2/5

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Corporate America unloads on Biden's newly active business watchdogs

Corporate America mounted fresh attacks on Friday on President Joe Biden's antitrust enforcers who have vowed to rein in anticompetitive practices and vigorously investigate corporate crime.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Don't give him too much credit. He's a product of the society he grew up in, as powerful as society allowed him to become, for as long as he has followers. That's not just MAGA, but ALL those who, rather than throwing sand in his regime's gears at every opportunity, obey in advance / try to lay low.

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Katie Shoshiashvili @kshoshiashvili.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Day 123 of nonstop nationwide #GeorgiaProtests 🇬🇪 Video by Giorgi Burjanadze

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I can't speak for Black Americans. Nor can you (presumjng you're not a Black American descended from slaves). Neither of us has that lived experience to draw from. What's more, they are individual human beings with a range of preferences and viewpoints, not a monolith.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Well, I don't know what this cultural unity you envision would look like, but the term works like a dog whistle for authoritarianism on me.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If you do the work or not, is your prerogative. Oh, and just so there are no misunderstandings – I'm not demanding you do it (or anything else, for that matter).

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

And especially, developing critical thinking skills. plato.stanford.edu/entries/crit...

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Critical Thinking (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

As for "a lot of work," yes, I'll hand you that. Informing oneself is a lot of work, but it will inevitably be fruitless without... more hard work:

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

I'm not demanding your respect, so I'm not sure where you're going with that.

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Smäschli 💙💛 @smaeschli.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

You mean central unity like Putin and Lukashenko have achieved? Well, give Trump and his enablers a chance, and the US will soon be "culturally unified", too.

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