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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.

#politics #usa 🧵
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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.
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...
www.hrw.org
January 27, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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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.
January 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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January 26, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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)
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…
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January 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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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.
✨🌈 The more you know 🌈✨
January 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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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 reut.rs/42stBJs
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.
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January 24, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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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.”
January 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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January 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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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?
January 22, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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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.
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.
www.hrw.org
January 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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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.
January 21, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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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...
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.
www.bloomberg.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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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.
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
www.whitehouse.gov
January 21, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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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.
January 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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January 20, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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 @stanforduniversity.bsky.social:

kinginstitute.stanford.edu/publications...

#Blacksky #books #usa
January 21, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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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
January 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Starting to get it?
January 20, 2025 at 9:51 PM
@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:

#news #usa #china #books
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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January 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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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).
January 20, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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! 🗽

#trump #maga #Blacksky
January 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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January 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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Congrats to all those Trump fans who fell for the most obvious scam in the history of the world.
January 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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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 reut.rs/4jyPehp
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.
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January 17, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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Chinese people on RedNote have learned from the influx of US users that the USA fines homeless people.

And they find it hilarious.
January 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM