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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦

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Writer & government advisor. Former lawyer, professor, EMT & firefighter. Working on disaster law, environment, energy & climate law, human rights & IHL. Germany & Ireland. Private account. Private life: @brigitted.bsky.social

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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BBQ & Beer @bbqnbeer.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Aside from unlawful killings of innocent Americans, WHERE ARE THE EPSTEIN FILES? The law required them to be released over a month ago
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Nke Juu @fledg.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Our king, priest and feudal lord – how AI is taking us back to the dark ages | Joseph de Weck
Since the Enlightenment, we’ve been making our own decisions. But now AI may be about to change that, says Joseph de Weck, a fellow with the Foreign Policy Research Institute
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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 @stefankirchner.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Interesting summary on why so many institutions in the US seem to fail to effectively resist the rapid descent into fascism: a fundamental misunderstanding about the limits of input legitimacy in a system nominally based on democracy, separation of powers and the rule of law.
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Winnipeg Free Press @winnipegfreepress.com · 22/07/2025
PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland.
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Interpol takes anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson off its most-wanted list
PARIS (AP) — Interpol said Tuesday it was removing a most-wanted designation for anti-whaling campaigner Paul Watson, who is sought by Japan over an encounter with a whaling ship and who was jailed for several months last year in Greenland.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22/07/2025
This administration let people die who could have been saved. The responsibility could not be more clear & direct.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 22/07/2025
Als Robert Habeck aus dem Urlaub kam und von demonstrierenden Bauern (darunter Rechtsextreme) bedrängt wurde, hat keiner gesagt: Das stärkt die Grünen, wir müssen sie argumentativ stellen! Nein, da sollte Habeck die bedrohliche "Kritik" ernst nehmen. Heute sagt das keiner zu Weidel.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Monitoring channels report that russia has launched drones from 6 different directions. We expect over 500 drones to attack Ukraine tonight ‼️
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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 @stefankirchner.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The attacks against the Druze people in Syria are genocidal in nature because they are aimed at erasing the Druze community in their home region in the South of Syria. The situation is similar to the situation in Kosova in 1999. All states are obliged to prevent genocide. 1/2
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 18/07/2025
Trump’s rolling campaign of shakedown censorship, blackmail and purge has now felled the Late Show. But Stephen Colbert, a true-blue patriot and comic genius who skewers dunce-tyrants for a living, is irrepressible and invincible.
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Stephen Colbert's 'Late Show' canceled by CBS, ends May 2026
CBS is canceling “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” next May, shuttering a decades-old TV institution and removing from air one of President Donald Trump’s most prominent late-night critics
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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 17/07/2025
Belgian authorities are using messages printed on bread bags to warn the elderly about cybercrime threats The bags contain tips on dealing with scammers who request PINs and passwords www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
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Politie waarschuwt voor cybercriminelen op broodzakken in het Pajottenland | VRT NWS: nieuws
In het Pajottenland waarschuwt de lokale politie voor internetcriminaliteit. Met de campagne "laat je niet in 't zak zetten" geeft de politie tips op broodzakken.
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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Well, the internal order targeting solar and wind permitting is no longer secret. You can read it here. #greensky #energysky
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Departmental Review Procedures for Decisions, Actions, Consultations, and Other Undertakings Related to Wind and Solar Energy Facilities | U.S. Department of the Interior
Consistent with Executive Order (EO) 14315, entitled “Ending Market Distorting Subsidies for Unreliable, Foreign-Controlled Energy Sources,” EO 14156, entitled “Declaring a National Energy Emergency,”...
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 17/07/2025
“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.
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The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something
Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.
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Frau Büüsker @uedio.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Derzeit läuft eine Lobbyschlacht gegen das Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung der Natur. taz.de/Gesunde-Boed...
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Gesunde Böden, Gewässer, Wälder: Bauernverband möchte lieber keinen Naturschutz
Drei Wirtschaftsverbände schreiben ans Kanzleramt, um die Verordnung zur Wiederherstellung der Natur zu beseitigen. Sie nutzen ein bewährtes Argument.
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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 @stefankirchner.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
German govt fails to honor Merz election campaign commitment to send #Taurus missiles to #Ukraine.
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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 @stefankirchner.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Let's do this 🇳🇴🇺🇦 and include 🇫🇴🇮🇸🇬🇱🇲🇩 as well. #EUenlargement2025
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
NEW: Bishop Rojas of San Bernardino has dispensed his Diocese from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass due to ongoing ICE raids.
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DerBesserossi 🩷 #TeamAntifa 💚 @besserossi.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Gern auch hier beteiligen! Danke. weact.campact.de/petitions/je...
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Jens Spahn - Untersuchungsausschuss anstatt Enquete-Kommission
Der gesundheitspolitische Sprecher der SPD-Fraktion hat im Moment noch die Möglichkeit, die fehlenden Stimmen aus seinen Reihen ohne die Hilfe der AfD zu organisieren
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 03/07/2025
Justice Sotomayor: "Today's order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial."
adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible.
"In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter,
J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing:
Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
NEW: SCOTUS shoots down a federal judge’s effort to protect eight men from being expelled—without due process—to South Sudan, where they face torture and death. Dissenting, Sotomayor says the court’s “indefensible” decision makes it complicit in “lawlessness.” www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
SOTOMAYOR, J., dissenting
adjudicating this case. But if this Court wishes to permit the Government to flout the fundamental rights guaranteed by the Due Process Clause, it cannot avoid accountability for that lawlessness by tasking the lower courts with inventing a rationale. The Court's continued refusal to justify its extraordinary decisions in this case, even as it faults lower courts for failing properly to divine their import, is indefensible.
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"In a democracy, power implies responsibility. The greater the power that defies law the less tolerant can this Court be of defiance. As the Nation's ultimate judicial tri-bunal, this Court, beyond any other organ of society, is the trustee of law and charged with the duty of securing obedience to it." Mine Workers, 330 U.S., at 312 (Frankfurter,
J., concurring in judgment). This Court continues to invert those principles. Today's order clarifies only one thing:
Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Trump is stabbing Ukraine in the back in broad daylight and you can bet he’s still going to press his claim on Ukrainian mineral rights.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Trump is up to something, he's been barricading the White House and US treasury overnight.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/06/2025
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
BREAKING: #SCOTUS lifts nationwide order requiring Trump administration give advance notice/chance to object before deporting foreigners to 3rd countries they often have no ties to. 3 liberals dissent, say court is 'rewarding lawlessness.' w/ @kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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Supreme Court OKs rapid deportations to countries where immigrants have no ties
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
It is hard to express enough how terrible today's decision is. ICE will now send people to countries they've never been to or even heard of — Mexicans to South Sudan, Vietnamese to Libya, Venezuelans to Kosovo —and those people will have no right to challenge that decision.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
DISASTROUS. This means they will send people to horrific situations with no due process — in direct violation of promises the Solicitor General made to the Court in previous cases. This greenlights sending people to be enslaved in Libya or tortured in any random foreign country.
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 23/06/2025
A divided Supreme Court lifted a judge’s order that required Trump’s administration to give people 10 days notice and a chance to object before they are deported to a so-called third country
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Supreme Court Blocks Deportation-Notice Rule in Win for Trump
A divided US Supreme Court lifted a judge’s order that required President Donald Trump’s administration to give people 10 days notice and a chance to object before they are deported to a so-called third country.
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Tadzio Mueller @tadziomueller.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Die Abschaffung der letzten Reste des #Völkerrechts durch die coalition of white supremacists ist auch Teil dessen, was ich #Arschlochisierung nenne: die Wiederherstellung einer Welt, in der nur die Reichen und Mächtigen Rechte haben.
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Der Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.de · 19/06/2025
Faschismus ist, wenn das, was noch kurz zuvor als extrem angesehen wurde, heute normal behandelt wird. Und alle, die das ansprechen, als "hysterische" abgetan werden. Sagt es weiter laut: Das ist nicht normal. Was Medien & Politik normalisieren wollen, ist gefährlich. Lasst euch nicht gaslighten.
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Stefan Kirchner 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇮🇱🇨🇦 @stefankirchner.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Anti-immigrant violence,mainly by unionists, in Ulster has hardly made the news elsewhere
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
The first civilian detained by U.S. Marines in Los Angeles was an ARMY VETERAN on his way to a VA APPOINTMENT
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Exclusive: US Marines carry out first known detention of civilian in Los Angeles, video shows
Marines deployed to Los Angeles carried out the detention of a civilian on Friday, the U.S. military confirmed after being presented with Reuters images, in the first known detention by active-duty troops deployed there by President Donald Trump.
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Marcus Wadsak @marcuswadsak.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Wozu Fakten? wir haben doch Meinungen! "Klimaschutz zerstört unseren Wohlstand, wirft uns zurück in die Steinzeit" ist eine Meinung - die Fakten schauen anders aus, nämlich so: www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/w...
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Klimaschutz würde laut Studie Wohlstand bewahren
Experten haben zwei Szenarien durchgerechnet und kommen zum Ergebnis, dass strengerer Klimaschutz auch der Weltwirtschaft zugutekäme: Langfristig ergibt sich beim klimafreundlichen Modell ein erstaunl...
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Maximilian Mayer @maximilianiras.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Der Einsatz von US-Truppen in LA ist genau das, wovon Trump schon lange geträumt hat; es war auch im Projekt-2025 vorgesehen. Nichts davon ist daher „Reaktion“, sondern war zynisch geplant und wird weiter ausgeführt werden, bis hin zur kompletten Normalisierung des Armee-Einsatzes im Inneren der 🇺🇸
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Reporter shot with appears to be rubber bullet or similar ammunition on camera in Los Angeles.
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DIE ZEIT @zeit.de · 07/06/2025
Russlands Krieg zeigt: Wir müssen uns verteidigen können. Jetzt. Ein bisschen Wehrdienst hilft nicht. Oder eine Armee, die nur groß ist, aber nichts hat und nichts kann.
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Bundeswehr: Wir brauchen kein Kanonenfutter
Russlands Krieg zeigt: Wir müssen uns verteidigen können. Jetzt. Ein bisschen Wehrdienst hilft nicht. Oder eine Armee, die nur groß ist, aber nichts hat und nichts kann.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 08/06/2025
Leo, the first US pope, criticises nationalist politics at Sunday Mass reut.rs/4kUOKSi
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Leo, the first US pope, criticises nationalist politics at Sunday Mass
Pope Leo criticized the emergence of nationalist political movements on Sunday, calling them unfortunate, without naming a specific country or national leader.
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Gracie12 📎 @gracienlucy.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thomas Merton, wrote this in a letter to Dorothy Day .
"Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business.  What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy if anything can."
~Thomas Merton
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 06/06/2025
Russia launched a barrage of missiles and drones across Ukraine early Friday, killing at least four people and damaging buildings in Kyiv, the capital, two days after Moscow vowed retaliation for Ukraine’s recent audacious assault on Russian strategic bomber bases. trib.al/x3aA2z3
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 07/06/2025
The mayor of Kharkiv, Ukraine, described an overnight Russian air assault as “the most powerful attack” since the beginning of the war. At least four people were killed on Saturday, according to the local authorities. nyti.ms/3ZnDo13
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 08/06/2025
En direct, guerre en Ukraine : l’armée russe annonce être entrée dans l’oblast de Dnipropetrovsk, une première en plus de trois ans de conflit
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En direct, guerre en Ukraine : l’armée russe annonce être entrée dans l’oblast de Dnipropetrovsk, une première en plus de trois ans de conflit
Aucune preuve visuelle n’était disponible, dimanche matin, pour attester cette progression des forces russes mais leur proximité avec cette région bordant celle de Donetsk était documentée depuis plusieurs jours.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/06/2025
⚡️ 12 killed, 65 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Russian forces launched 49 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed drones, along with an Onyx anti-ship missile and two X-59/69 guided air-launched missiles.
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12 killed, 65 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day
According to Ukraine's Air Force, Russian forces launched 49 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type drones, along with an Onyx anti-ship missile and two X-59/69 guided air-launched m...
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.
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Jon Passantino @passantino.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
“It is the only thing that’s gonna save the country,” Pelley responded. “You cannot have democracy without journalism. It can’t be done.” www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/m...
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‘If you fall silent, the country is doomed’: CBS News’ Scott Pelley stresses courage as network faces pressure campaign | CNN Business
A climate of fear is perceptible in the United States today, and it must be resisted no matter what, CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley says.
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UK 🇬🇧 🤝 🇺🇦 □ @ukbastard.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Ukrainian IRIS-T Air Defense System Downs Record Number of Missiles in Just 30 Seconds Ukrainian air defense forces used the German-supplied IRIS-T system to intercept eight Russian cruise missiles in just 30 seconds, preventing damage to critical infrastructure united24media.com/latest-news/...
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Ukrainian IRIS-T Air Defense System Downs Record Number of Missiles in Just 30 Seconds
Ukrainian forces successfully intercepted eight Russian cruise missiles in 30 seconds using the IRIS-T system, achieving perfect accuracy in defense efforts.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 07/06/2025
When Russia invaded, Ukraine’s hockey goalie Eduard Zakharchenko was trapped in occupied Kherson. But miraculously, he escaped. This is his story 👇 (1/11)
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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
#Ukraine #UkrainianView
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Jacob Öberg @profjacob.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
🚨🚨In an undeservedly underreported story, it appears that the #Georgian ruling party is going off the rocks on its #authoritarian crackdown on dissenting opinions by commencing to detain opposition leaders. 🧵 kyivindependent.com/he-was-kidna...
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'He was kidnapped' — Georgian opposition leader detained as ruling party continues crackdown on dissent
Leader of the Georgian opposition party "Coalition for Change," Nika Melia, was detained on May 29, NewsGeorgia reported, citing Melia's associates.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 01/06/2025
Russians could always just go home. It’s the fastest way to end the war.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 31/05/2025
Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.
Heavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiersHeavily armed DHS HSI agents clad in full desert camo tactical gear including plate carriers and Kevlar helmets stand in the middle of the street like soldiers.
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