Ray de Groat
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US Citizen in Sweden.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription.
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They Fled to Safety in Palestinian Territory, Then Settlers Attacked Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/world/middleeast/settler-attacks-palestinians-west-bank.html?unlocked_article_code=1.jFA.tQ3y.t9HqTM4eY5Q7&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Marie In Atlanta
about 2 months ago
Thank you Swedish Friends for supporting our fight against dictatorship!
#NoKings
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Democracy NOT dictatorship! No Dictators protest in Stockholm, Sweden
@demsabroad.bsky.social
@iceoutstockholm.bsky.social
#ICEout
#NoDictators
#NoKings
#DemocratsAbroad
about 2 months ago
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USA TODAY
about 2 months ago
'No Kings' protests, the third of their kind, are happening across the country today, including in Atlanta. Here are event locations.
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'No Kings' protests happening today in Atlanta. See event locations
'No Kings' protests, the third of their kind, are happening across the country today, including in Atlanta. Here are event locations.
https://bit.ly/4lXg8kw
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This is my house rep from California. He’s not perfect, but neither am I
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2 months ago
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Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. News of Noem firing amounts to a nothing burger. Are they still chewing their Noem nothing burger on CNN? US media is part of the problem. Meanwhile Dominion owned by Republicans. The fix for the midterms is in.
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Adam Kinzinger
4 months ago
Let’s give him credit…. At least the corruption isn’t hidden. He’s doing it right out in the open. The name “Trump” will be treated like Benedict Arnold’s name within the decade
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George Takei
4 months ago
After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.
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Peter Andringa
5 months ago
NEW: We took a deep dive into ICE's data dragnet: the data brokers, biometrics tools, and license plate readers powering Trump's deportation effort. Some of the contracts are for tools previous administrations deemed too intrusive.
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Trump’s immigration data dragnet
The US is pulling in vast amounts of personal information in its drive to deport 1mn people this year
https://ig.ft.com/us-ice-surveillance/
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CarnivalMan
4 months ago
We are here.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/o...
The New York Times Editorial Board: Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and an authoritarian regime.
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Opinion | The Trump Administration Is Lying to Our Faces. Congress Must Act.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/25/opinion/alex-pretti-minneapolis-shooting-border-patrol.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Ukraine looks back with regret at 1994 deal requiring it to give up nukes
Ukrainian officials call the Budapest Memorandum 'a monument to short-sightedness in strategic security decision-making' and ask for a NATO membership
https://www.voanews.com/a/ukraine-looks-back-with-regret-at-1994-deal-requiring-it-to-give-up-nukes-/7888569.html
6 months ago
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Mother Jones
7 months ago
Miners and their advocates are begging the administration to enforce a Biden-era rule meant to protect them.
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Black lung keeps killing America's coal miners. Does Donald Trump even care?
Miners and their advocates are begging the administration to enforce a Biden-era rule meant to protect them.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/10/black-lung-disease-killing-coal-miners-donald-trump-safety-rules/
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In 2013, Trump Said the President is Always to Blame for Government Shutdowns
YouTube video by NextGen America
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fD5GM8Gvb0o
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Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor - The Guardian
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Trump attacks Tom Hanks after West Point cancels event honoring actor — Guardian US
President calls Hanks ‘woke’ in vitriolic post after US Military Academy calls off ceremony with little explanation
https://apple.news/AK6S5e0r9TaWqfqT4VpHRow
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Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality. "Human organs can be continuously transplanted. The longer you live, the younger you become, and (you can) even achieve immortality." Creepy.
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Hot mic picks up Putin and Xi discussing organ transplants and immortality — Reuters
(This Sept 3 story has been corrected to withdraw videos, with no changes to text)
https://apple.news/AiW_IUEpxSe-X3LWy9IJj9g
8 months ago
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And you're on again in less than an hour.
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9 months ago
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National ownership of factories (the means of production) is the definition of socialism. If you’re confused by this, it’s because they’ve been falsely conflating socialism with welfare. Like corporate welfare.
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9 months ago
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Vladimir Putin will face “very severe consequences” if he does not agree a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine at his summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, the US president said on Wednesday. Well?
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Putin faces ‘very severe consequences’ if no Ukraine truce agreed, Trump says
US president also says he would push for three-way summit with Volodymyr Zelenskyy if Alaska meeting goes well
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/trump-assurances-europe-putin-ukraine-alaska-talks
9 months ago
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Save Our Country (we/us) 🇺🇸
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Remember: The purpose of a museum is to exhibit, history, culture, art and science, some of which may not always be in alignment with what the president wants. White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives - CNN
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White House orders review of Smithsonian exhibits to ensure alignment with Trump directives — CNN
The White House is conducting a comprehensive internal review of exhibits and materials at the Smithsonian Institution in an effort to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive about what should ...
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9 months ago
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Acyn
9 months ago
Newsom: If California, one of the most un-Trumped states in America, is not successful, it’s at our peril. We may not get this back. I’m telling you, we may not. He is rigging this next midterm election before one vote is cast. He tried to wreck our democracy after the last vote was cast last time.
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ICE arrests 6 people in Oakland home, including a minor, attorney says - San Francisco Chronicle
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ICE arrests 6 people in Oakland home, including a minor, attorney says — San Francisco Chronicle
Federal immigration officers raided an East Oakland home on Tuesday and detained at least six people, including a minor and a person with a severe disability, according to an immigration attorney.
https://apple.news/AqIQjvvY0QyOlEeAAKR8h0A
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Convicted Jan 6 rioter who called for the killing of police officers now employed by DOJ. Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
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Trump is trying to rewrite the history of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol
President Trump has tried to rewrite the history of the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. In the latest example, the Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who urged rioters to "...
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5495457
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Mueller, She Wrote
9 months ago
I'll be going LIVE with Rick Wilson in about 45 minutes to discuss my lawsuit against the DOJ for the Epstein files training videos. This'll be our first time chatting, believe it or not! Hope to see you there!
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LIVE SOON: AG and Rick Wilson on Epstein Lawsuit
Starting Aug 8 at 5:00 PM EDT
https://open.substack.com/live-stream/49385?utm_source=post-publish
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Harris is a stark reminder of what most Democrats would very much like to put behind them — an era when Harris dedicated herself to serving a deceptive White House that hid the realities of Biden’s cognitive decline while maintaining support for Israel’s actions in Gaza.
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Kamala Harris should not run for president in 2028 — The Hill
While the Democratic Party was in great need of appealing to voters fed up with defenders of the existing order, Harris opted to emphatically represent the status quo.
https://apple.news/Ax7GBIdkATZexRAFYdjgLUg
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Nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza have acute malnutrition, WHO says - Reuters
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Nearly 12,000 children under five in Gaza have acute malnutrition, says WHO — Reuters
Around 12,000 children aged under five in Gaza are suffering from acute malnutrition, and hunger-related deaths are rising, the Director General of the World Health Organization said on Thursday.
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The Guardian
10 months ago
The US attacks on Iran have backfired horribly – but a path to peace is still possible | Simon Tisdall
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The US attacks on Iran have backfired horribly – but a path to peace is still possible | Simon Tisdall
Executions by a vengeful regime in Tehran are soaring. The west must pursue a different strategy, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/03/us-israel-iran-attacks-50-days-on-nuclear-weapons?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=bsky_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1754198216
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Here is the result from 16 years of failed Netanyahu policy in Israel: France, U.K., others plan to recognize a Palestinian state. Not the outcome he had hoped for.
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France, U.K., others plan to recognize a Palestinian state. What does that change?
The recent push by several countries to recognize a state of Palestine is largely symbolic, but it carries diplomatic and potentially legal weight.
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/01/nx-s1-5485359/france-uk-palestine-state-explainer
10 months ago
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Americans are in a struggle for their democracy. Help them and help yourselves EU by standing up to authoritarians, not by bowing down to them
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10 months ago
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Use open source solutions. Problem solved.
#opensource
#openinfra
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A Little League team from Venezuela was denied entry to the United States for the Senior League Baseball World Series, according to Little League International.
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Venezuelan Little League team denied travel visas to U.S. for World Series — The Washington Post
The Cacique Mara Little League team from Maracaibo, Venezuela, will not be able to participate in the Senior League Baseball World Series in South Carolina this year.
https://apple.news/A5t_drezxRVqZ6rsRreCOIA
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Aaron Rupar
10 months ago
Epstein survivor Teresa Helm: "I saw framed photos of Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein with presidents in their homes."
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Starlink is a US military contractor. It just sabotaged a US security partner and ally Ukraine, currently at war with a well known US adversary, Russia. Sounds like the definition of treason to me.
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Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia - Reuters
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Special Report: Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia — Reuters
A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's ...
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American freed from Venezuela in prisoner swap was convicted of triple murder - ABC News
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American freed from Venezuela in prisoner swap was convicted of triple murder — ABC News
Dahud Hanid Ortiz was convicted of killing three people in a Madrid law office.
https://apple.news/AMNvBQTLxRPSa6UMIafbkaA
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
10 months ago
"A moral failure of unspeakable proportions, the Gaza war is also the result of a tactical, strategic and military failure. Israel is starving Palestinians in Gaza because it has proved unable to defeat Hamas by force of arms."
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When a Gaza cease-fire is signed, Israelis will have to face just how much we lost the war | Opinion
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Mia Farrow
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So happy to know these poor people will be taken in off the streets. And before the winter. Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove people who are homeless from streets - USA TODAY
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Trump signs order pushing cities and states to remove homeless people from streets — USA TODAY
President Trump wants to make it easier for cities and states to move homeless people to treatment centers under new executive action he's taking.
https://apple.news/A3-Mt6WsLTSCe8FKwMIqACQ
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Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.
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Thank you Mehdi! I think you did a great service by participating in this debate. I had no idea MAGA was this awful. You brought that to light thank you. I also learned what not to do during a debate.
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Bernie Sander's shares thoughts on the Epstein Files.
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My thoughts on the Epstein files | Sen. Bernie Sanders
YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders
https://youtu.be/I9R3Kp5kcUM?si=Sq9lL9nJU2YvneIp
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I didn't think this group would be worth debating but I was wrong. My biggest take away: Don't help your opponent derail your argument by getting sidetracked.
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George Takei
10 months ago
When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.
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Adam Kinzinger
10 months ago
So congress going home for vacation early! Because of Epstein. Demand a town hall now, they have free time!
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Dr. Annie Andrews
10 months ago
Oh hey, that’s me. 👋
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Priceless! Bill O Reilly thinks Epstein was arrested under Biden administration. But Bill, Epstein died in 2019, before Biden took office. How can you arrest a dead person?
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Epstein Files Nail Trump
YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show
https://youtu.be/mM3WVwWzC3s?si=Ni64ZOnLLG5LtVhX&t=540
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