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Suhlle Ahn

@suhlle.bsky.social
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Writer who cares about democracy, climate, inequality (economic, racial, gender). Here to follow & connect with others who understood the 2024 stakes & tried to prevent the dark days ahead. Also a childless cat lady (now that it's a badge of honor!). 🪪 😼

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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Wow, I'm still trying to post here as a comparison to Threads, but I mostly get either no response at all or hostile, troll-y responses. What's that about?
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Now that people in China are calling Trump the Mao Zedong of America, and Musk's takeover and purge is being called reminiscent of Stalin, can we get all those 1st and 2nd generation Americans who were duped into voting for Trump--because their families fled communist regimes and the GOP
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Turns out a lot of libertarians weren’t actually against government — just government by the people, for the people.
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Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Hi @teslatakedown.com! I have an idea to add as a mini-campaign. Create a range of loud, snarky bumper stickers for progressive Tesla owners (like Sheryl Crow) who bought theirs years ago for environmental reasons but now want to signal contempt for Elon and help tank further sales?
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
When the state takes over a private industry, we call it communism, but what do we call it when one private industrialist takes over the state?
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I'm thinking about the movie "Au Revoirs Les Enfants" today. I wonder why.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Headline: "Felon pardons felons."
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
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Eliza Orlins @elizaorlins.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Can Trump really end birthright citizenship with an executive order? The 14th Amendment says otherwise. Breaking it down here: youtube.com/shorts/dBLSn...
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Can Trump really end birthright citizenship with an executive order? Breaking down the legality.
YouTube video by Eliza Orlins
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Ptak Nerd 🇨🇦 @ptaknerd.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
This is really awful. Can we boost the signal & crowdfund Luke Evans’ research? @hankgreen.bsky.social ? www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/save-groun...
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Save groundbreaking technology after arson attack
Help rebuild unique cutting-edge technology after an arson attack - to create low-cost sustainable electricity for all.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Just finished reading thenewpress.com/books/scheme and it makes me appreciate @whitehouse.senate.gov all the more. Breaks my heart, though, that he's like a (male) Cassandra whom not enough people listen to nor believe. He's been warning us for so long.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
“Indeed, but for Mr Trump’s election and imminent return to the presidency, the office assessed that the admissible evidence was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction at trial.”
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Donald Trump would have been convicted over 2020 election, says special counsel
Report by Jack Smith says evidence ‘was sufficient to obtain and sustain a conviction’ had Trump not won re-election in 2024
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I hear a lot of criticism toward @arimelber.bsky.social because he's interviewed a lot of unsavory types (Matt Gaetz, for one), but he's good at calling out Mark Zuckerberg's disingenuousness and hypocrisy.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Dear K-drama English translators: Please brush up on your knowledge of the perfect and past perfect tenses. Thank you.
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Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 27/12/2024
The fossil fuel industry wants to move oil by train from Utah alongside the Colorado River, down to Texas and Louisiana. The Supreme Court could use the case to gut key health and environmental protections nationwide.
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Supreme Court Poised to Gut Bedrock Environmental Law in Oil-Train Case
Conservatives on the Supreme Court could use a case over a proposed oil train to gut crucial health and environmental protections.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
I think the right word for this moment is EGREGIOUS: Egregious wealth & wealth inequality Egregious greed Egregious cowardice, cravenness, & capitulation in advance Egregious corruption (think SCOTUS) Egregious ignorance, dishonesty, & disingenuousness Egregious cruelty, indecency, & indifference
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Melissa Murray @profmmurray.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
The threat of a "runaway" constitutional convention is not hyperbolic. In 2022, @strictscrutiny.bsky.social talked to @gracepanetta.bsky.social about the conservatives' interest in a state-led constitutional convention. It was chilling. Link to the episode below. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/16/u...
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A Constitutional Convention? Some Democrats Fear It’s Coming. (Gift Article)
Some Republicans have said that a constitutional convention is overdue. Many Democratic-led states have rescinded their long-ago calls for one, and California will soon consider whether to do the same...
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Inequality is so extreme, it’s growing even among billionaires—seriously, even billionaires. The best predictor of a billionaire’s 2024 gains? How much they already had. This is how markets work: left unchecked, they’ll keep concentrating wealth at the top. It’s wild—and it’s unsustainable.
A scatter plot showing the relationship between billionaires’ starting net worth (in billions) and their year-to-date gains in 2024. Points representing technology-sector billionaires are blue, while others are dark grey. Labels highlight key figures like Elon Musk, who saw massive gains, and ‘mere billionaires’ like Larry Page and Sergey Brin, who gained less. The plot demonstrates that the biggest predictor of gains was starting wealth, with the top 10 billionaires now owning half of all wealth among the 100 richest Americans.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12/12/2024
Prime Minister of Poland Donald Tusk and French President Emmanuel Macron mock Donald Trump and then post it on social media
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
www.cnn.com/2024/12/11/w...
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‘My God there is light’: CNN witnesses moment Syrian prisoner is freed from Assad’s forced detention | CNN
While searching a secretive prison in the belly of the Assad regime’s legacy of torture for American journalist Austin Tice, CNN’s Clarissa Ward made a startling discovery when a rebel fighter uncover...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/12/2024
NEW: Trump has selected Harmeet Dhillon to lead the DOJ's civil rights division. In the past few years, Dhillon — or an attorney from her law firm — has been involved in more than a dozen lawsuits challenging voting rights laws across the country.
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Harmeet Dhillon, Trump’s Assistant Attorney General Pick, Has a History of Attacking Voting Rights
Read more here.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Had this on my "to watch" list, but the events of last week served as an extra nudge. There's some dramatic license taken, but much of this really happened. Hwang Jung-min as Chun Doo-hwan is SO good (in the worst way!). This Korea's entry for the Oscars this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_zr...
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12.12.: THE DAY Trailer | TIFF 2024
YouTube video by TIFF Trailers
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
THE expert explainer I have been looking for. Deployment of the U.S. Military for Immigration Enforcement: A Primer Posse Comitatus National Emergency Declaration National Guard under Title 32 Insurrection Act Alien Enemies Act www.justsecurity.org/105321/milit...
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Deployment of the U.S. Military for Immigration Enforcement: A Primer
Expert backgrounder explains the laws that regulate the domestic deployment of the military for mass deportations and immigration enforcement.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 03/12/2024
Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I thought Bluesky was supposed to be a less hostile environment...
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
I spent days digging into the public statements of every single Trump Cabinet pick to see what they've said about climate change and it was a horrible process but I did it because Journalism Is Important and climate change is actually real so please click it I beg you heated.world/p/trumps-ent...
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Trump's entire Cabinet misrepresents climate change
I analyzed the public statements of each nominee. It was awful. (Though Matt Gaetz was surprising?)
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
So here’s the update. The billionaire owner of the Guardian preparing to get rid of a core part of the news org + 100 journalists. If you’re a Guardian or Observer reader, please share this. The need for a strong, free & independent press couldn’t be greater. Yet, here it is.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
1/34 Testing this amazing thread-writer app by @scripting.com by posting the full text of my recent open letter to Morning Joe:
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Nick Knudsen @nickknudsenus.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
My addition to the chorus of criticism against @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social, and Joe and Mika, for their visit to Mar-a-Largo, as well as their reaction to audience blowback. suhlleahn.medium.com/to-morning-j...
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To Morning Joe — an Open Letter
Dear Morning Joe,
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but couldn't Trump just re-nominate Gaetz for AG (i.e., replace whoever ends up confirmed if he proves insufficiently ruthless as a henchman), once the new Senate is sworn in?--since he'll have a bigger GOP majority then? 😞 Of course I hope not, but I can't help wondering.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Remember this. We are weaker now. “Trump has groomed us.” Try to hold and speak and advocate what you know is right and true. We’ve already moved so far. Don’t change your standards to accommodate their shameless incompetence & cruelty.
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Make no mistake, these "camps" that have just been offered up in Texas are internment camps, and we have seen this all before. Don't dismiss what is happening as hyperbole and don't look away. shero.substack.com/p/the-intern...
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The Internment Camps Are Coming
A new offer from the Texas General Land Office has been made to incoming President Donald Trump, and it proves we are on the verge of reliving some of our darkest days in America.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Great piece by @thomhartmann.bsky.social. Gives a sense of what the incremental, imperceptible descent into full-blown fascism can feel like. It's too late to persuade anyone to change their vote, but it could be educational for anyone who wants to stay alert to cues, in hopes of resisting.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reupping this video I made with Bernie Sanders office in 2018. I took some heat at the time for sounding alarmist. I stand by my statements. youtu.be/pfl9LgJR3iA?...
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Flirting with Fascism
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Democracy dies at fancy conferences featuring people who enable fascists.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I don’t think people realise how hard & fast this is going to hit. Absolutely chilling.
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Trump allies told to quit calling Trump’s plans for new expansive camps, well, “camps” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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Trump Allies Were Told to Stop Saying They'll Put Migrants in 'Camps'
Trump’s plan to expel millions of migrants would require massive new camps. His advisers are pressing allies not to call them “camps”
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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Here come the threats. www.mediaite.com/news/steve-b...
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Steve Bannon Threatens Ari Melber, Says Matt Gaetz’s DOJ Is Coming For Him And ‘All The Producers of MSNBC’
Steve Bannon told MSNBC's Ari Melber and “all you hosts” at the network they had better “lawyer up” because Matt Gaetz’s Justice Department is coming for them.
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Hayes Brown @hayesbrown.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
New from me: a lot of Trump’s staffing picks are confounding and/or seemingly incompetent. that’s not the case with the trio that will be tasked with carrying out his mass deportation plans
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Opinion | Trump's immigration team is built for horrific success
By tapping Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, and Gov. Kristi Noem to carryout his mass deportation plan, Trump has found the right people for a repugnant job.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 14/11/2024
Just absolutely unreal that we are doing this all over again
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Too many people outside of South Asia don't understand the dangers of Hindu nationalism -- and rhe role Gabbard plays in it. Please read this thread.
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Suhlle Ahn @suhlle.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I mean, what better than a sex-trafficker for AG for a President who's a known r*pist and has a predilection for underage girls?
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