Polina Bertou

And that is just a small sample of what Putin has done. He continues to rewrite history, textbooks, etc. Every move Trump makes echoes what Putin & other thug dictators did in Russia. Why isn’t everyone sounding the alarm? Unless they want to live under a repressive, cruel police, surveillance state

have I mentioned lately that grotesque levels of U.S. corruption means we genuinely no longer have federal consumer protection standards or corporate oversight?

The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

NEW: The Texas Flash Flood Is a Preview of the Chaos to Come

Climate change is making disasters more common, more deadly and far more costly, even as the federal government is running away from the policies that might begin to protect the nation.

By @abrahm.bsky.social

Trump tours 'Alligator Alcatraz,' a day before its first arrivals are expected During their visit, Trump administration officials said the facility should be operational within 24 hours — despite the protests of pro-immigration, Indigenous and environmental groups.

Trump promised to build concentration camps when he campaigned last year, and the media largely ignored it or acted as though that was an overreaction, and a lot of voters were willfully ignorant of anything he actually said.

And he's building concentration camps.

www.npr.org/2025/07/01/n...

The New York Times covers trans issues the way Fox News covers ICE protests.

Both lead the country to believe there is a conflagration by highlighting a few fires over and over, while ignoring the fact that most people just want to live their lives without the government in their faces.

Since when do we need permission to LEAVE the country?? The U.S. is watching the exits now... and women need to pay attention. This isn't normal.

Trump Just Did the Most Corrupt Thing Any President Has Ever Done He’s using the White House to get rich from anonymous investors—and it’s hardly even a news story.

This May 22 dinner is a high crime and misdemeanor. A president of the United States can’t use the office to enrich himself in this way, from potentially anonymous donors for whom he might do favors. This is as textbook as corruption gets.

A Harvard Med researcher is approaching her 3rd month in a crowded (90 women to a room) Louisiana detention center, supposedly because she didn't declare frog embryos as she was re-entering the US.

She fears for her safety if she's deported to her native Russia.

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Workers dressed in black and yellow hold up signs that read, "Rollback Federal Cuts, Fire Elon Musk."

Workers hold up large heart shaped signs in red that read, "Hands Off Our Postal Service," "Mayday! Mayday!" and more.

Workers in black and yellow with their fists raised and holding up signs that read, "Solidarity."

A large group of workers take over the streets in a march. A woman in the foreground holds up a sign that reads, "Bring Kilmar Home!" with a picture of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the SMART Local 100 member whom ICE arrested and sent off to a notorious prison in El Salvador without a hearing.

Around 6,000 workers marched in downtown New York City on May Day.

Dozens of unions were represented along with many community organizations. Workers from agencies under attack by the Trump admin included staff from the EPA and CFPB.

📸 by Labor Notes Editor Jenny Brown.

This policy is entirely designed to funnel immigrant delivery drivers to ICE. It's a fascist deportation program.

#freekilmarnow #freethemall #dueprocessnow #impeachthefascistgrifters #immigrantsmakeamericagreat #nomusknotrumpnokkknofascistusa #bringkilmarhome

And they can't stop whining that the US gave 70bln to Ukraine over 3 yrs.

Making America unemployed again.

Trump and Bukele’s Concentration Camp CECOT is no regular prison. It is also a warning.

This is a MUST READ. A tough read. But a MUST READ, nevertheless.
nymag.com/intelligence...

There it is, in a nutshell.

Kyiv today. Ukrainian kids waiting for their friend to be rescued from under the rubble. He didn’t survive.

#StandWithUkraine

Trump Is Acting as a Proxy for Putin His proposal to end the war between Russia and Ukraine isn’t a peace plan—it’s a reward for aggression.

Good solid explanation here.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

U.S. Citizen Detained for 10 Days Says DHS Lied About Everything Immigration officials detained Jose Hermilloso for over a week. He says their version of what happened is completely inaccurate.

A U.S. citizen sought out a police officer for help and was detained instead.

Then the Department of Homeland Security’s official X account lied about what happened.

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be. Federal immigration authorities have a history of wrongfully detaining U.S. citizens. Advocates warn that the Trump administration’s immigration policies mean that more citizens will get caught up in…

It’s unclear exactly how many citizens have faced the Trump administration’s dragnet so far.

The government does not release such figures.

Neither Border Patrol nor ICE would tell ProPublica how many Americans have been mistakenly detained.

US “relocates” Iraqi refugee to Rwanda via new diplomatic arrangement A State Department cable indicates at least 10 more people will be subjected to the same.

SCOOP — The US sent Iraqi refugee Omar Ameen to Rwanda via new diplomatic relationship in which they've agreed to act as a "third country" for deportees unable to be safely returned to their country of origin, per cables reviewed by me.

This is first reported instance. Cable indicates more to come.

Venezuelan Immigrant Deported by Trump Administration Has Disappeared The Venezuelan man did not appear on a list of people sent to a prison in El Salvador, and his family and friends had no idea of his whereabouts.

An Immigrant Held in U.S. Custody ‘Simply Disappeared’ www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...

Opinion | M. Gessen: ‘Trump Is Building a Mafia State’ “Nice university you got there. Shame if something happened to it.”

This is specifically about universities. It is very important to see how fascists and authoritarians in other countries have attacked them. And to think, as Gessen does here, about constructive responses.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Irony is dead. They let a Ru-paid agent whose bread and butter is peddling disinformation pose as a journalist concerned about the rise of "false narratives".

they want us poor, sick and desperate

A tweet by Max Burns (@themaxburns ) reads: "From the U.S. Holocaust Museum: 'What distinguishes a concentration camp from a prison (in the modern sense) is that it functions outside of a judicial system. The prisoners are not indicted or convicted of any crime by judicial process.' Welp."

Never forget.

An undocumented Guatemalan man was pulled over in Massachusetts. Federal agents then smashed the man's car window after he said he was waiting for his attorney to arrive, cellphone video shows.

The Authoritarian Playbook: DOGE, Surveillance, and the Collapse of Democracy Inside Trump and Musk’s plan to centralize power through data

I’ve been focused on the patterns and see a very troubling trend - strong indications that Trump and Musk are building a centralized surveillance state and compiling detailed dossiers on all of us

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps.
This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped"
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror