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laurenbrns.bsky.social
Anti-fascist all day long.
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Two things struck me in the 20 year change in whether other countries trade more with China or USA: 1. China took over the world market fast; and 2. Trump has to be one of the STUPIDEST people ever to go after 3 of the few remaining countries that trade more with US: Mexico, Canada, & Greenland.

submitted 9 hours ago • 104 comments

Is there a bot cleanup service for this app to scan/block fake followers?

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Build your *apolitical* community connections. Do what you need to do to try and save our Republic through political means, but understand that the political situation in America is quite dire and things could go badly. But *do not* neglect your apolitical commitments.

submitted 4 hours ago • 1 comment

I have assumed that the Democrats were inept, but I had no idea how inept, outgunned and out-maneuvered they actually are. The Democratic Party has been as negligent of their duty to the American people as the results of the last 10 years might cause you to suspect. They will not save us.

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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 The European Federation of Journalists representing 300,000+ journalists have announced they are leaving Elon Musk's X and will no longer be posting.

submitted 1 day ago • 515 comments

These are real, live eugenicist, racist fascists who have taken power here. That's what's happening. I understand this may be too ugly a reality to want to accept, but denial will not cause it to just go away.

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Columbia grad student with a green card and a pregnant US citizen wife, abducted by ICE because of his political organizing, and now his lawyers can't find him. Hey, @schumer.senate.gov. This is your constituent. Bring him back home.

submitted 11 hours ago • 132 comments

They really, truly do not understand. Perhaps it is because they doubt they are up to the task of stopping fascism here, fascism here is unthinkable for them. The human mind has an incredible capacity to not see what it does not want to see.

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

Why do Americans have no faith in US media? It took a French paper to notice a cousin of VPOTUS fought **in Ukraine** until Jan 2025 Nate Vance was previously cited in a BBC story & did a podcast on the importance of supporting Ukraine days after inauguration /1 www.lefigaro.fr/internationa...

submitted 10 hours ago • 5 comments

The scale of corruption being perpetrated right now is almost beyond the limits of imagination. This is just one example, almost certainly not the greatest.

submitted 8 hours ago • 65 comments

We need a Navalny, not a Newsom. No offense intended against mainstream politicians like Newsom. It’s just that at this point we are way beyond the realm of normal bullshit politics.

submitted 18 hours ago • 2012 comments

This is really the thing.

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Nate Vance, cousin of JD Vance, has fought for Ukraine in the toughest battles for three years. This article by @stanislaspoyet.bsky.social sheds light on his defense of Ukraine and thoughts about the war, with photos by @albertlores.bsky.social Thank you, Sir! lefigaro.fr/international/…

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submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

This is key. 50% cut gets you way past overworked staff and inefficiency. It opens the floodgates on non-compliance and will starve the government of tax revenue. It's another attack on the sovereignty of the American poeple.

submitted 9 hours ago • 27 comments

I just can't get past the awful optics of the richest fucking man on earth doing this.

submitted 1 day ago • 53 comments

He's absolutely with the follow!

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

As if the "lifestyle" of the workers whose jobs so blithely dismissed here were so exorbitant as to be shameful.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

People aren’t just showing up—they’re fired up. The energy is with progressive leaders, not the moderates or corporate puppets.

submitted 18 hours ago • 305 comments

The perfect metaphor for what the Supreme Court did to this country with Citizens United v. FEC.

submitted 11 hours ago • 363 comments

Fact-check: True

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Secretive DC Influence Project Appears To Be Running A Group House For Right-Wing Lawmakers talkingpointsmemo.com/news/secreti...

submitted 14 hours ago • 29 comments

Now that the influential bigot who did a Hitler salute publicly claimed that organic protests against his malfeasance are secretly controlled by a list of foreign Jews, some of whom aren’t even alive today, are we allowed to call him a Nazi, or is there something even Nazier we have to wait for?

submitted 18 hours ago • 128 comments