@ordinary-observer.bsky.social
Supporter of Democracy. Originally from Central Europe. I live in the USA.
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Geopolitical deals are being made by the networks on back channels without congressional oversight. The government is treated like a network asset and the people, pawns. It is vampire capitalism at massive scale.
November 29, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Geopolitical deals are being made by the networks on back channels without congressional oversight. The government is treated like a network asset and the people, pawns. It is vampire capitalism at massive scale.
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Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
"By dangling multibillion-dollar rare-earth and energy deals, Moscow could reshape the economic map of Europe—while driving a wedge between America and its traditional allies"
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Read this excellent @wsj.com account of the business deals behind the "peace"negotiations
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Time to ask: In whose interests is American foreign policy being conducted?
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A few experts going right now: "hear me out, Budapest Memorandum, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, telling it to accept loss of Crimea, and pretending the Minsk Accords meant to save Ukraine's sovereignty were all mistakes, but if we now combine all this idiocy into a 28-point plan, it might work!"
November 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A few experts going right now: "hear me out, Budapest Memorandum, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, telling it to accept loss of Crimea, and pretending the Minsk Accords meant to save Ukraine's sovereignty were all mistakes, but if we now combine all this idiocy into a 28-point plan, it might work!"
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I can't believe people aren't talking about the fact that Trump is using $40b of US taxpayer's money to bail out a billionaire friend of Scott Bessant - Robert Citrone - who had Argentinian investments. That's the ONLY reason for the bailout - as usual the mainstream media is COMPLETELY ignoring it.
October 26, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I can't believe people aren't talking about the fact that Trump is using $40b of US taxpayer's money to bail out a billionaire friend of Scott Bessant - Robert Citrone - who had Argentinian investments. That's the ONLY reason for the bailout - as usual the mainstream media is COMPLETELY ignoring it.
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Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
October 22, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Yesterday, Stephen Miller questioned details re 170+ Americans detained by immigration agents.
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
“Abject lies,” he wrote.
Here’s the thing: We tracked, catalogued, and compiled every one of those 170+ cases.
Because...we do our homework.
propub.li/4o2eeiL
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Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Die Neue Reichskanzlei ("New Reich Chancellery"), Berlin, c. 1939: (1) reception hall; (2) main dining hall; (3) entrance to the office of the Führer, with SS guards; (4) office of the Führer.
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😬 JUST AN OLD IDEA❓
The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas.
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...
The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas.
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
😬 JUST AN OLD IDEA❓
The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas.
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...
The new "Technate of America" was to include all of Canada, Greenland, Central America, the Caribbean, and parts of Columbia, Venezuela and the Guyanas.
digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:3...
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Former FTC Commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social's new piece in @newrepublic.com gives a glimpse of what’s at stake for Americans if SCOTUS allows the president the authority to fire FTC officers without cause.
How I Became a Populist
My time at the Federal Trade Commission—before Donald Trump fired me—totally changed the way I see our political divide.
newrepublic.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Former FTC Commissioner @bedoyausa.bsky.social's new piece in @newrepublic.com gives a glimpse of what’s at stake for Americans if SCOTUS allows the president the authority to fire FTC officers without cause.
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Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
October 11, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Northwest Chicago Suburb: ICE Agents Rip 15-Year-Old Girl from Car, Slam Her to Ground She Screams “I’m 15!” as Man Kneels on Her Neck
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📣 Free Debbie Brockman‼️
October 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
📣 Free Debbie Brockman‼️
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“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
Oklahoma’s Republican Governor Criticizes National Guard Deployment in Chicago
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 5:56 PM
“Oklahomans would lose their mind if Pritzker in Illinois sent troops down to Oklahoma during the Biden administration.”
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
The Republican chair of the National Governors Association breaks with Trump.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/u...
The Mayor of Chicago called attention to an incident in which ICE agents supposedly tear gassed City of Chicago Police Officers who were trying to create separation between protestors and ICE agents reportedly shooting protestors with pepper ball guns.
Now ICE is even attacking cops...
Now ICE is even attacking cops...
Chicago mayor says ‘ICE tear-gassed our police,’ calls for investigation
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
The Mayor of Chicago called attention to an incident in which ICE agents supposedly tear gassed City of Chicago Police Officers who were trying to create separation between protestors and ICE agents reportedly shooting protestors with pepper ball guns.
Now ICE is even attacking cops...
Now ICE is even attacking cops...
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I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
October 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.
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Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
Pritzker is also furious: “Should National Governors Association leadership choose to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.”
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Less than a year into the Trump admin and the National Governors Association, founded over 115 years ago, is on the brink of collapse.
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NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
October 6, 2025 at 10:00 PM
NEW: The militarization of American cities isn’t happening with a parade of tanks. It’s a slow drip of troop deployments that are probing courts’ willingness to give unlimited deference to the commander in chief — and testing workarounds when they don’t.
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Admit it—you worry this will happen to you.
Me too.
Me too.
October 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Admit it—you worry this will happen to you.
Me too.
Me too.
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“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25
9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times
9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times
October 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
“My Administration will not tolerate anti-Christian weaponization of government or unlawful conduct targeting Christians.” - 2/6/25
9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times
9/20/25 Photo by Ashlee Rezin, Chicago Sun-Times
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…
ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building newrepublic.com/post/201258/... via @newrepublic.com
ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.
newrepublic.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated…
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Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer
October 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Five-alarm fire inside the DOJ - Lawyer Oyer
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This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.
Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.
Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.
Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.
Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.
October 6, 2025 at 3:15 AM
This is the home of Diane Goodstein, a federal judge who ruled against Trump last month.
Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.
Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.
Members of her family were still inside, but survived by jumping out windows.
Just yesterday Stephen Miller claimed left wing judges were terrorists & state power was needed to stop them.
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Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
October 6, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker
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Russians occupied her city when she was five. Now, they are turning her into a soldier.
Oleksandra Deminova from Russian-occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region, ended up in Russian Vladivostok, where she is being made a "cadet" in the militarized program of the "Warrior Center".
Oleksandra Deminova from Russian-occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region, ended up in Russian Vladivostok, where she is being made a "cadet" in the militarized program of the "Warrior Center".
October 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Russians occupied her city when she was five. Now, they are turning her into a soldier.
Oleksandra Deminova from Russian-occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region, ended up in Russian Vladivostok, where she is being made a "cadet" in the militarized program of the "Warrior Center".
Oleksandra Deminova from Russian-occupied Makiivka, Donetsk region, ended up in Russian Vladivostok, where she is being made a "cadet" in the militarized program of the "Warrior Center".
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."
September 29, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."