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Many Democrats in & out of Congress are failing to understand that they are top tier relay racers, but the Capitol has become an ice rink. “Winning” is measured by a different metric. The rules are different. The audience & the equipment too. Meet your opponent where they are.
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Human Rights Watch
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NEW: Libyan authorities have used a litany of overbroad and draconian legacy laws that violate international law to threaten, harass, arbitrarily detain, and attack civil society members and activists. Authorities need to end their repressive policies.
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Libya: Civic Space Crushed
Libyan authorities’ accelerating targeting and harassment of activists and members of non-governmental organizations risks completely closing the space for free assembly and association in the country...
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/27/libya-civic-space-crushed
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Tristan Snell
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So Elon Musk did a Nazi salute. Then he tried to deflect. Now he's gone to Germany to speak to the neo-Nazi AfD party, which he's endorsed, saying that Germany should let go of historical guilt -- which is a dog whistle for Holocaust denial. So Elon Musk is, in fact, a Nazi.
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ProPublica
9 months ago
Under Paul Dans, Project 2025 assembled a database of more than 10,000 Trump loyalist job candidates ready to place into federal agencies. It's a ready-use toolkit to create a second Trump administration that would be more MAGA than his first. (Published Aug. 2024)
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The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members…
https://propub.li/4hlL8Y4
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️⚧️
9 months ago
Pass it on to anyone you're concerned might be targeted by an ICE raid, friends. Or to anyone standing up to these thugs for others.
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Reuters
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Exclusive: The head of Bangladesh's interim government, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, said that his country's high growth under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ‘fake’ and faulted the world for not questioning what he said was her corruption
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Exclusive: Bangladesh’s high growth under ousted PM Hasina was ‘fake’, Yunus says
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, the head of Bangladesh's interim government, said that his country's high growth under ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was "fake" and faulted the world for not questioning corruption.
https://reut.rs/42stBJs
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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And there it is. One of Trump’s billionaire allies Jamie Dimon just admitted that Trump’s tariffs are going to raise prices and Americans should just “get over it.”
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MC Squared
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BladeoftheSun
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When Adolf Hitler came to power he released his imprisoned supporters from jail, ripped up labour laws protecting workers and crushed social security programmes in return for tax cuts for the rich... See any similarities?
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Human Rights Watch
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Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran. Iranian authorities are using the death penalty as a weapon to crush dissent, disproportionately targeting political activists and ethnic minorities.
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Iran: Two Kurdish Women at Risk of Execution
Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch said today.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/22/iran-two-kurdish-women-risk-execution
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Brian Tyler Cohen
9 months ago
In case anyone was wondering whether Trump would serve the working class or the billionaire class, here's a picture that spells it out pretty clearly.
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More Perfect Union
9 months ago
The Microsoft 365 family subscription, with Word, Excel and other apps, will now cost $130 a year. This is a 30% increase.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Raises Consumer Office Subscription 30% to $130 a Year
Microsoft Corp. is raising the price of its package of Office apps for consumers, a bet that subscribers will be willing to cough up more for access to new artificial intelligence tools.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-16/microsoft-raises-consumer-office-subscription-30-to-130-a-year
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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Trump just rescinded an Executive Order issued by President Biden to lower prescription drug costs for people in Medicare and Medicaid.
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Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/initial-rescissions-of-harmful-executive-orders-and-actions/
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency
9 months ago
Invest in women’s health. Invest in women’s education. Invest in women’s leadership. Invest in women-led orgs. Invest in women’s empowerment. For a better world,
#InvestInWomen
today and every day.
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This excerpt is from The Autobiography of MLK Jr, Chapter 21: Death of Illusions. Replace JFK with Jimmy Carter and the words become piercingly relevant to the US’s moment. Full text published by
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:
kinginstitute.stanford.edu/publications...
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This day in history: President Jimmy Carter is sworn in and then surprises the nation as he walks from the U.S. Capitol to the White House. The temperature was at around 28 °F
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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Starting to get it?
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@penamerica.bsky.social
recorded 10,046 instances of book bans in US public schools during 23-24. Right-wing leaders are stoking a cultural fear of truth that extends beyond identity politics. Meanwhile in China, derided by the US for systemic censorship
@reuters.com
:
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China unveils plan to build 'strong education nation' by 2035
China issued its first national action plan to build a "strong education nation" by 2035, which it said would help coordinate its education development, improve efficiencies in innovation and build a "strong country".
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Mehdi Hasan
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If the argument is that Dems need to win the attention economy, and be attention-getters, then that means Rep
@aoc.bsky.social
should be the 2028 Democratic presidential candidate regardless of whether you agree with her politics or not (and I happen to agree with them, conveniently).
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Today, we celebrate the victory of a true patriot. A man of God steadfast in his cause to make America a great nation. Who faced decades of adversity from mainstream media and the Washington machine... No, not Trump! Forget that guy. Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day! 🗽
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Mehdi Hasan
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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Congrats to all those Trump fans who fell for the most obvious scam in the history of the world.
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Reuters
9 months ago
A Pakistani court sentenced former Prime Minister Imran Khan to 14 years imprisonment in a land corruption case, a setback to nascent talks between his party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation
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Pakistan’s Imran Khan handed 14-year jail term in land graft case
The verdict is a setback to nascent talks between Khan's party and the government aimed at cooling political instability in the south Asian nation.
https://reut.rs/4jyPehp
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BladeoftheSun
9 months ago
Chinese people on RedNote have learned from the influx of US users that the USA fines homeless people. And they find it hilarious.
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Brent Toderian
9 months ago
Air pollution has dropped significantly in
#Paris
in the last 15 years. Mayor
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’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
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A great breakdown on the ways that a decentralized education system hurts American students. The US Dept of Education already has limited authority over local boards. Dismantling/hobbling it will deepen an already abysmal knowledge canyon.
@geohussar.bsky.social
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America’s literacy rate is only 80%
YouTube video by GeoHussar
https://youtu.be/TZaj4qQG8V4?feature=shared
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Brian Tyler Cohen
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There it is. Trump’s Treasury nominee just said “extending” Trump’s tax handouts for billionaires is their TOP priority: “This is the single most important economic issue of the day.”
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Watch, repost, & comment thoughts about this modernization argument:
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The Miracle of the Modern Order – Sarah Paine
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
https://youtube.com/shorts/3ZANAh-oLv8?feature=shared
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More Perfect Union
10 months ago
BREAKING: Donald Trump's HUD nominee Scott Turner just said he supports private equity in the housing market. Turner was asked if "private equity investment" is a bad solution to our housing problem. He responded by saying: "the more capital the better."
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BladeoftheSun
10 months ago
BP is firing 4,800 staff to cut costs. BP's profits $5-10bn every 3 months.
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You have some excellent points about Huntington’s flaws and how the ideas perpetuated by “Clash” are anti-cooperative. & yet, his thesis that the 21st Century would be defined by renewed large scale Western-Islamic conflict has come to fruition thus far. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Probably.
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
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#Haiti
: Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care. Rapes and other assaults have become widespread during violence and insecurity in the city in recent years. Read more:
tinyurl.com/3pmsjuar
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Haiti: A call to support survivors of sexual violence | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ...
Survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in Haiti’s capital urgently need vital services such as safe shelters, mental health support and medical care, as rapes and other assaults have become wid...
https://www.doctorswithoutborders.ca/haiti-a-call-to-support-survivors-of-sexual-violence/
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Hank Green
10 months ago
History read this book and was like, “damn, I need to get my act together…”
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Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Tariffs & duties are paid by citizens. Unenforceable & a waste of administrative funds.
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Zuckerberg announced yesterday that he would cut 5% of Meta’s workforce to prepare for an “intense” year. He then announced a party in Trump’s honor, in addition to a $1 million inauguration fund donation. So which platform’s success is built on conflict-of-interest?
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There are reasons why pitting law enforcement against laborers doesn’t solve anything. Laws or “the law” exist to protect humans & their rights by architecting order. If any law justifies human harm, even for the sake of order, it is corrupt.
@reuters.com
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More Perfect Union
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UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%. An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs.
www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...
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UnitedHealth, employer of slain exec Brian Thompson, found to have overcharged some cancer patients for drugs by over 1,000%
The report is the latest indictment of America’s broken healthcare system.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-employer-slain-exec-brian-175429944.html
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Mercy For Animals
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Join us in congratulating renowned conservationist Dr. Jane Goodall on receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom in recognition of her groundbreaking contributions to science and decades of advocacy for our planet! 🏅👏👏👏
@janegoodall.org
Learn more about Dr. Goodall's work at
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outlines the Israel-Gaza ceasefire deal. The deal maps out a first phase which could last up to 6 weeks. Medical aid and food supplies will be allowed relatively unconditionally but this could be subject to change. The second & third phase details are pending.
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What do we know about the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal in Gaza?
Gaza ceasefire agreed, including a prisoner exchange and aid surge, after more than 460 days of conflict.
https://www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/2025/1/15/what-do-we-know-about-the-israel-gaza-ceasefire-deal
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Seeking answers from sociologists: Why do Americans seem so complacent with social underperformance yet get so vitriolic when someone suggests that America underperforms socially (lacking educational success, high wealth inequality, poor public health, domestic violence)?
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Ars Technica
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Supreme Court lets Hawaii sue oil companies over climate change effects
SCOTUS won’t answer “recurring question of extraordinary importance” to Big Oil.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/supreme-court-lets-hawaii-sue-oil-companies-over-climate-change-effects/?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social
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If you work in the US, are you satisfied with your job? With your boss? With the company as a whole? If not, you can pay some thanks to the business philosophy of Jack Welch. Let
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The Evil CEO That Elon Musk Is Copying | The Class Room ft. @FDSignifire
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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Happy Birthday to Mark Antony! - Gaul Campaign general - Avenger of Julius Caesar’s murder - Consul & then ruling member of the Second Triumvirate His preference for conquest over coalition facilitated the fall of the Roman Republic🏺
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@foreignpolicy.com
released a 2014 list of best & worst US SecDefs up to then. Here are the worst qualities of the worst: Rumsfeld - “Publicly tough, privately indecisive.” McNamara - “Knew much less than he believed he did.” Johnson - “An ambitious political hack.”
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The best and worst defense secretaries, as rated by Foreign Policy's Best Defense
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/09/the-best-and-worst-defense-secretaries-as-rated-by-foreign-policys-best-defense/
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Throughout his hearing, Hegseth has used the term “warfighter” instead of “soldier” or “sailor” or “airman.” The US Department of Defense originates from the US Department of War. DoW was reorganized in 1947 to unify Army, Navy, & Air Force in anticipation of the Cold War.
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National Security Act of 1947
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https://www.dni.gov/index.php/ic-legal-reference-book/national-security-act-of-1947
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Proposed amendment to the US Cabinet appointment system: Confirmation is contingent on a vote by all the employees of the agency/department that the nominee seeks to lead. They must receive a result of 51% or more “yea”. Employees may vote “no opinion.” Thoughts?
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Something to remember: The Storming of Bastille on Jul 14, 1789 initiated the French Revolution. ~1000 people were involved. 2000-2500 people stormed the capitol during Jan 6, 2021. You can contest the word “insurrection” but cannot contest the gravity of Jan 6.
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Where the Jan. 6 insurrection investigation stands, one year later
Officials say the probe is one of the largest and most resource-intensive investigations in American history. More than 700 people have been charged already.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/06/1070736018/jan-6-anniversary-investigation-cases-defendants-justice
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