Sam Kam
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Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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āThinking is more interesting than knowing but less interesting than looking.ā Goethe
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ACLU
8 days ago
BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.
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"Itās a strip mall built on top of a landfill built on top of a cemetery of those exterminated to make it all happen. Land of the branded, home of the complacent." Strategic Value Realization by Oliver Kornetzke
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Strategic Value Realization
What youāre about to read is a piece I wrote a long time ago.
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āIn any conversation, respect is like air. When itās present, nobody notices. When itās absent, itās all anybody can think about.ā Joseph Grenny
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Nothinfh Left to Gorgive Us by Oliver Kornetzke
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Nothing Left to Forgive Us
In the early decades of the 21st century, the world still looked alive.
https://open.substack.com/pub/oliverkornetzke/p/nothing-left-to-forgive-us?r=auzqa
11 days ago
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Anton Gerashchenko
17 days ago
The Reagan National Defense Survey,released Thursday,found that the majority of Americans favor sending lethal aid to support šŗš¦ This confirms what we've known all along:that so many US people firmly stand with us.Friends, we're beyond grateful. Thankful to everyone supporting Ukraine on all levels
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Charles Ornstein
17 days ago
Every Western European country scores higher on the global ranking of freedom and democracy than the U.S. does, according to Freedom House, a U.S.-based nonprofit that ranks countries according to measures such as election process, rule of law and individual rights.
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U.S. Flips History by Casting EuropeāNot Russiaāas Villain in New Security Policy
An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.
https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/u-s-flips-history-by-casting-europenot-russiaas-villain-in-new-security-policy-cbb138fa?st=34oWxk&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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Reuven Blau
17 days ago
Inbox: Aramis Furse, 32, died on Rikers early Sunday morning. Heās the 14th detainee death this year so far. In April, Laura Swain, a federal judge overseeing DOC said sheād appoint a āremediation managerā to takeover potentially large parts. But she hasnāt selected a candidate yet.
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Max Boot
17 days ago
In Ukraine the state itself is investigating the government, the cabinet, even the presidentās closest advisers. By contrast, it is impossible to imagine Kash Patelās FBI investigating anyone in Trumpās White House. Any Russian who investigates Putin goes to jail.
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Trumpian Corruption Is Worse Than Ukrainian Corruption
The people of Ukraine want an honest government, even as American and Russian kleptocrats circle their country.
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/2025/12/ukraine-fighting-corruption-trump/685162/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK3yEqFRs-2x3Xkoo0o1yaEtQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Rebecca Solnit
19 days ago
This glorious part of a glorious thread.
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jamelle
17 days ago
don't worry, john roberts says this is a legitimate exercise of presidential power and if we did anything to curb it, we would be robbing the executive of the energy he needs to do his job
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emptywheel
17 days ago
Putin declares victory.
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Laura Bassett
17 days ago
What the fuck, man
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DepressedBergman
17 days ago
On this day, 122 years ago, Edwin S. Porter's 'The Great Train Robbery' (1903) was released in the USA.
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Jay in Kyiv
17 days ago
Musk's app now removing community notes on the posts of Putin's propagandists. "For my friends EVERYTHING. For everyone else, THE LAW".
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The Kyiv Independent
17 days ago
ā”ļøCzech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace
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Czech president says Europe may need to shoot down Russian aircraft, drones violating NATO airspace
European countries may have to start shooting down Russian aircraft and drones that violate NATO airspace if Moscow keeps testing the alliance's resolve, Czech President Petr Pavel said in an intervie...
https://kyivindependent.com/czech-president-pavel-says-europe-may-need-to-shoot-down-russian-aircraft-drones-violating-nato-airspace/
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Thereās Never Been A Just War Jesse Welles
#MarkTwain
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#marktwain #poem
TikTok video by Welles
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrus1Ngs/
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"Pay attention to the patterns of power grabs, infighting, the disintegration of the rule of law. See Macbeth. And I, Claudius. And the wealth and power imbalances just before the French Revolution. And yes, read Nineteen Eighty-Four. Again."
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āIf I was American, Iād be worried about my countryā: Margaret Atwood answers questions from Ai Weiwei, Rebecca Solnit and more
Democracy, birds and hangover cures ā famous fans put their questions to the visionary author
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/29/if-i-was-american-id-be-worried-about-my-country-margaret-atwood-answers-questions-from-ai-weiwei-rebecca-solnit-and-more?utm_term=692c5bf4784a1c5f59641123a935d7b6&utm_campaign=Bookmarks&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=bookmarks_email
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The Department of War Jesse Welles
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#sInGeRsOnGwRiTeR #OrIgInAL #CoUnTRy #folk #song
TikTok video by Welles
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Naomi Klein
28 days ago
Revolutionary ghosts are always helpful. So I turned to the Surrealists for tips on fighting fascism. Stay for the ending about
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
surrealist campaigning... Enjoy!
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On Sarah and Andrew Robert Arnold (defiance13)
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On Sarah & Andrew #politics #servicemembers
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David Bier
29 days ago
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
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Wajahat Ali
29 days ago
This is a pro death march. People, especially kids, will get sick and some will die.
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Louisiana health official who halted state vaccine campaign tapped as CDCās No. 2
Ralph Abraham, a Louisiana health official who stopped promoting mass vaccination vaccines, has been appointed as the CDC's principal deputy director
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/11/25/cdc-new-deputy-vaccine-ralph-abraham/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert
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Eli Valley
29 days ago
Zionism 2025: Pay a Nazi a monthly stipend to call other Jews "court Jews"
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On Who Healthcare Serves Robert Arnold (defiance13)
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On Who Healthcare Serves #defiancetildeath #politics #policy #ruralamerica
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āWhales may possess a communication system more intricate than our own, one that possibly predates human language by tens of millions of years.ā
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Opinion | How to Talk to Whales
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about 1 month ago
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Senator Ed Markey
about 1 month ago
This is disgusting. Swastikas, nooses, Confederate flags are symbols of hate. We cannot let the Trump administration normalize hate.
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Fuck these Nazis and white supremacist asshats infecting the US government and armed services
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U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items āpotentially divisive.ā
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/11/20/coast-guard-swastika-noose/
about 1 month ago
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On What We Should Be Protecting Robert Arnold (defiance13)
#EpsteinTrumpFiles
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On What We Should Be Protecting
TikTok video by defiance13
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The Absence of Leadership Robert Arnold
#Democrats
#Schumer
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On The Absence of Leadership #defiancetildeath #politics #shutdown #trump #policy
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A quick explanation of the caver caucus, Dickless Durbin et al
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Why do it at all
TikTok video by Nick Muller
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50 Years of Patti Smithās āHorsesāhttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/07/arts/music/patti-smith-horses-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.cq5e.r4F8t-2WaSKN&smid=bs-share
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Patti Smithās āHorsesā Celebrates Its 50th Anniversary (Gift Article)
In 1975, she transformed poetry into punk. Neither would ever be the same. More than 20 artists who made and admired the album share their memories.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/11/07/arts/music/patti-smith-horses-anniversary.html?unlocked_article_code=1.z08.cq5e.r4F8t-2WaSKN&smid=bs-share
about 2 months ago
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Kara Swisher
about 2 months ago
Apparently you can indict a ham sandwich but you canāt convict turkey sub.
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as time explodes 2.0 Neil Young
#ICE
#immigrants
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as time explodes - 2.0
YouTube video by neilyoungchannel
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about 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Warren
about 2 months ago
After a judge ordered Donald Trump to make SNAP payments, the wannabe king declared he will defy a court order and won't help people afford groceries. Trump's message to 42 million Americans: eat dirt.
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MeidasTouch
about 2 months ago
Just about an hour apart by the way
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"On Help and Humiliation" Robert Arnold "Zohran Mamdani stands at that fault line, not as a saint, but as a symbol, proof that decency still terrifies the powerful."
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On Help and Humiliation
YouTube video by Robert Arnold
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rn9ylxIL0LU
about 2 months ago
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Technopagans Jesse Welles "activistic figurines effortlessly moral, wept while new hatesmiths forged the swords that cut themselves across the neck"
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Technopagans
YouTube video by Jesse Welles
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about 2 months ago
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Rep. Joe Neguse masterly answers a bad question in a way that all Democrat reps should learn from and emulate.
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The Trump administrationās lawlessness cannot be ignored. Period.
TikTok video by Congressman Joe Neguse
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about 2 months ago
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Zach Everson
about 2 months ago
Donald Trump Jr. in 2021: āThose Hunter no-show no-experience board seats didnāt come without an expected return!ā Donald Trump Jr. in 2024: Gets $2.8M in stock for joining an advisory board that didn't exist until he joined it. New: me, for
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After Unusual Machines Names Donald Trump Jr. To New Advisory Board, Defense Contracts Follow
Donald Trump Jr. once mocked Hunter Biden's "no-show no-experience board seats." Now he's on his second newly activated advisory boardāand that company just announced $15 million in contracts.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2025/10/29/donald-trump-jr-ultimate-machines-defense-contracts-drones/
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daniel s.
2 months ago
it's wild to me that we have a letter from 850+ rabbis denouncing zohran mamdani for things he never said and positions he never took while no such letter has been written condemning stephen miller for claiming to "defend jewish values" while being an utter fucking nazi and dismantling our democracy
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Mark Hamill
about 2 months ago
I have a very bad feeling about this...
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#Venezuala
Jesse Welles
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#sInGeRsOnGwRiTeR #OrIgInAL #folk #song #venezuelaš»šŖ
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about 2 months ago
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Rolling Stone
2 months ago
Giuffre felt alone standing up to Epstein. Her posthumous memoir makes protecting abuse victims a societal responsibility. Hereās what we learned from the memoir ā
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From Meeting Epstein to Escaping Him: What We Learned From Virginia Giuffre's 'Nobody's Girl'
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āThe Rich Dine as the Republic Decomposesā by Oliver Kornetzke
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"Why do we ... ask those who have been weakened by abuse to do the heaviest lifting ā not just calling out the predatory schemes of those who abused them, but also testifying and being deposed under oath, as well as sitting for interviews and news conferences?"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/o...
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Opinion | Why Virginia Roberts Giuffre Would Not Stop Talking About Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/opinion/epstein-survivor-trauma.html
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The protest goes on and on for blocks
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Huge crowd in Times Square
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