Polina Bertou
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And that is just a small sample of what Putin has done. He continues to rewrite history, textbooks, etc. Every move Trump makes echoes what Putin & other thug dictators did in Russia. Why isn’t everyone sounding the alarm? Unless they want to live under a repressive, cruel police, surveillance state
August 20, 2025 at 4:29 AM
And that is just a small sample of what Putin has done. He continues to rewrite history, textbooks, etc. Every move Trump makes echoes what Putin & other thug dictators did in Russia. Why isn’t everyone sounding the alarm? Unless they want to live under a repressive, cruel police, surveillance state
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have I mentioned lately that grotesque levels of U.S. corruption means we genuinely no longer have federal consumer protection standards or corporate oversight?
A US appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
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July 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
have I mentioned lately that grotesque levels of U.S. corruption means we genuinely no longer have federal consumer protection standards or corporate oversight?
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NEW: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
www.propublica.org
July 9, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
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Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a day before its first arrivals are expected
During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.
www.npr.org
July 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
And he's building concentration camps.
www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...
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The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests.
Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
June 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests.
Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.
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Since when do we need permission to LEAVE the country?? The U.S. is watching the exits now... and women need to pay attention. This isn't normal.
May 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Since when do we need permission to LEAVE the country?? The U.S. is watching the exits now... and women need to pay attention. This isn't normal.
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This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.
Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done
He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.
newrepublic.com
May 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.
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A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US.
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
HMS Researcher Denies Lying To Border Patrol Officials | News | The Harvard Crimson
Kseniia Petrova, a Harvard Medical School researcher detained by Customs and Border Patrol officials in February, denied lying to authorities about the contents of her luggage in a Thursday statement.
www.thecrimson.com
May 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US.
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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Around 6,000 workers marched in downtown New York City on May Day.
Dozens of unions were represented along with many community organizations. Workers from agencies under attack by the Trump admin included staff from the EPA and CFPB.
📸 by Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown.
Dozens of unions were represented along with many community organizations. Workers from agencies under attack by the Trump admin included staff from the EPA and CFPB.
📸 by Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown.
May 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Around 6,000 workers marched in downtown New York City on May Day.
Dozens of unions were represented along with many community organizations. Workers from agencies under attack by the Trump admin included staff from the EPA and CFPB.
📸 by Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown.
Dozens of unions were represented along with many community organizations. Workers from agencies under attack by the Trump admin included staff from the EPA and CFPB.
📸 by Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown.
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This policy is entirely designed to funnel immigrant delivery drivers to ICE. It's a fascist deportation program.
This is an outrageous policy change. Also, if you’re gonna do this then you gotta do it for drivers, too right? Given those are obviously far far more dangerous vehicles.
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
nyc.streetsblog.org/2025/05/02/p...
Policy Change: NYPD Will Write Criminal Summonses, Not Traffic Tickets, for Cyclists - Streetsblog New York City
Quietly, the NYPD has changed policy and will now make criminal cases against cyclists who go through red lights, a change that will have predictable and unpredictable ramifications.
nyc.streetsblog.org
May 2, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This policy is entirely designed to funnel immigrant delivery drivers to ICE. It's a fascist deportation program.
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And they can't stop whining that the US gave 70bln to Ukraine over 3 yrs.
April 30, 2025 at 7:57 PM
And they can't stop whining that the US gave 70bln to Ukraine over 3 yrs.
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Making America unemployed again.
April 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Making America unemployed again.
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This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp
CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.
nymag.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless.
nymag.com/intelligence...
nymag.com/intelligence...
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There it is, in a nutshell.
April 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
There it is, in a nutshell.
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Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive.
#StandWithUkraine
#StandWithUkraine
April 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive.
#StandWithUkraine
#StandWithUkraine
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Good solid explanation here.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump Is Acting as a Proxy for Putin
His proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.
www.theatlantic.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Good solid explanation here.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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A U.S. citizen sought out a police officer for help and was detained instead.
Then the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account lied about what happened.
Then the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account lied about what happened.
U.S. Citizen Detained for 10 Days Says DHS Lied About Everything
Immigration officials detained Jose Hermilloso for over a week. He says their version of what happened is completely inaccurate.
newrepublic.com
April 23, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A U.S. citizen sought out a police officer for help and was detained instead.
Then the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account lied about what happened.
Then the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account lied about what happened.
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It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.
Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…
www.propublica.org
April 23, 2025 at 3:00 AM
It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
The government does not release such figures.
Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.
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SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement
A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.
www.thehandbasket.co
April 22, 2025 at 8:41 PM
SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.
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An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared
The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.
www.nytimes.com
April 23, 2025 at 5:33 AM
An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’
“Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
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Irony is dead. They let a Ru-paid agent whose bread and butter is peddling disinformation pose as a journalist concerned about the rise of "false narratives".
#GVerse OMFG. The first question #PropagandaBarbie's briefing comes from Tim Pool.
What the fuck is he doing there?
What the fuck is he doing there?
April 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Irony is dead. They let a Ru-paid agent whose bread and butter is peddling disinformation pose as a journalist concerned about the rise of "false narratives".
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they want us poor, sick and desperate
We're told the FDA is now making plans to end most of its routine food safety inspections
That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
That oversight work would be effectively outsourced to state and local authorities, under this plan
www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-foo...
FDA making plans to end its routine food safety inspections, sources say
Food safety inspections would be left to state and local authorities under the plan being developed by the FDA.
www.cbsnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
they want us poor, sick and desperate