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vladlau.bsky.social
Social #entrepreneur #democracy #decentralization Member of Democracy Without Borders, Global Bildung and Social Systems Lab For co-op: [email protected] / 0046762345677 (WhatsApp, etc) Motto: I have no identity, I have identities.
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“Racialised ideas of belonging and identity have become accepted even by many of those formally opposed to racism.” My @observeruk.bsky.social column: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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AfD peak in poll averages was January 2024 (22%). They go into the election averaging 20% Unless significantly over-perform polling, Musk intervention in Dec 2024 had marginal/negligible impact. May have helped AfD hold support but did not gain significantly after it www.politico.eu/europe-poll-...

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Important read by @daliborrohac.bsky.social about #trump #vance #Europe and #america Vance is not some freedom fighter but a reborn right-wing collectivist #usa #eu #politics #news

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Unbelievable, from the man who did more than anyone else to give Douglas Murray's explicit white ethnonationalism a platform and a bridge to the UK mainstream. archive.ph/LMDiX

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Det finns inget som tyder på att kriminalisering av narkotika för eget bruk minskat problemen med droger. Det skriver tre forskare vid Kriminologiska institutionen vid Stockholms universitet. magasinetkonkret.se/kriminaliser...

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Trump Administration Abruptly Clears Out Migrants It Sent to Guantánamo A transfer operation on Thursday repatriated 177 Venezuelans via a handoff in Honduras, while one migrant was brought back to U.S. soil. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Genex Tower Belgrade, Serbia r/brutalism

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Francis criticizing Christian identitarianism (what Rogers Brubaker called "Christianism"): "...worrying about personal, community or national identity...easily introduces an ideological criterion that distorts social life and imposes the will of the strongest as the criterion of truth."

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For The Unpopulist, I wrote about how public education is being wrested by MAGA from local control, bringing Christianity into the public schools and breaking down barriers between church and state. #EduSky

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Under #Trump administration, #media suppression, intimidation of journalists, and lawsuits against critics have increased, proving that #Vance commitment to free speech is selective—defending only those aligned with his views. #freespeech glibe.substack.com/p/jd-vance-a...

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Original poster of People's Olympiad, Catalonia's antifascist and anti-racist response to the 1936 Nazi Olympics. Sports inc rugby, chess and Basque pelota. Participants inc "Algerians, Jews, Czechs, English, Basques", etc. Athletics, chess, football, etc On display at Barcelona Olympic Museum.

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Machinists against the machinery

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Neither the laws nor the Constitution enable Trump to endow Musk as a deputy president or de facto prime minister, and the fig leaf of calling him a "special government employee" doesn’t change that.

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No matter the size, cats will be cats..🐆😊

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19 February 1919 | Czech Jewish woman, Felicitas Löwiová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 6 September 1943. She did not survive.

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It is not “trans activism” to say that trans people ought to be accorded the freedom commensurate with life in a pluralistic liberal democracy. They are not asking for special favors; just a right to exist with equal dignity—the same as everyone else.

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"...conceptually, plutocratic insurgencies differ from kleptocracies; the latter use the institutions of state to loot the population, whereas the former wish to neutralize those institutions in order to facilitate private-sector looting. In practice, these may overlap or co-mingle."

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Another world. Images of Alto Aragón by Ricardo Compairé. High Pyrenees, 1920-30s. Via t.co/Jlc8vuu7g1

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Meanwhile, in a functioning democracy far far away…

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"DOGE is SMOGE" #DOGE #Trump #Musk #Mump

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Recent via #europe #war #history #blog #latvia #riga #soviet #omon #politics europeofwars.substack.com/p/the-barric...

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The same mistake as the "tough #border policy" in the #usa “A single-minded focus on ever harsher deterrence fails because border #walls and #fences do not stop #people from moving for long.” #eu #migration #europe #news www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...

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Fox Bleeps Out Entire Kendrick Lamar Performance theonion.com/fox-ble...

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He's very old and low energy and needed to get to bed.

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Update: A federal judge has barred the U.S. government on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan men to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from an ICE facility in New Mexico.

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Excellent documentary on the "miraculous" enrichment of Viktor Orbán’s inner circle and the dynasty he is building. #Orbánistan 🍿📺 youtu.be/bZ4SXv9qJHM?...

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