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Pritzker: If we don’t want to repeat history, then for god’s sake, in this moment, we better be strong enough to learn from it.

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"A democracy becomes an oligarchy when the rich figure out how to pervert the laws for themselves...this is plain even to a blind man." - Plato, Republic - approximately 350 BC

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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How did Putin become a dictator? Mikhail Zygar lists ten steps open.substack.com/pub/zygaro/p...

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Ron Howard FTW 🎯

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This is also a valuable resource for sky users theblue.report

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Finally! We now know the backstory to this classic "Planet of the Apes" ending.

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Donald Trump can be sentenced Friday in hush money case, Supreme Court says www.cnn.com/2025/01/09/p...

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“About thirty minutes before the town hall was due to start, a [Trump] senior aide started getting text messages from a person on the inside at Fox…images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...

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It's silly that Hans Gruber went through all that trouble to steal $640 million from Nakatomi Plaza when it would've been so much easier to run for office and tell billionaires he would cut their taxes.

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We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.

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The world's electricity mix in October, according to data collated by Ember: 33% renewables 33% coal 24% gas and related 9% nuclear

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Sweden's remarkably clean power grid. In November, this was its electricity generation mix: Hydro 38% Wind 31% Nuclear 28% Bioenergy 4% Zero coal or gas. - Ember data

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Here's a graphic explaining how the Big Lie was seeded and mobilized into the events of January 6, 2021 through a kind of "participatory disinformation" process. Trump's "war on drugs" refrain could catalyze a similar kind of participatory propaganda and mobilization cycle.

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Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

submitted 91 days ago • 863 comments

Palmer Report has created a Resistance Starter Pack full of good solid accounts to follow on here. Follow this starter pack and share it widely on Bluesky: go.bsky.app/BT4f6JG

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Bluesky now has over 20M people!! 🎉 We've been adding over a million users per day for the last few days. To celebrate, here are 20 fun facts about Bluesky:

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Hey @joemsnbc.bsky.social I refuse to surrender to a dictator, especially one that is keen on revenge fantasies.

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