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Billie Eilish during her #GRAMMYs speech for Song of the Year:

“As grateful as I feel, I don’t need to say anything except that, no one is illegal on stolen land. It’s really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, I feel hopeful in this room and we need to keep protesting… fuck ICE.”

A grandson of an immigrant watched the show from the White House and he didn’t like it.

Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps

A power outage, similar to the one that brought the internet down in Iran.

The Danger of Turning Americans into Enemies In Minnesota, "Trump has redefined dissent not as a civic act, but as an enemy force," writes Andrew Weinstein.

I’ve written a lot about democracy, but this may be the most important post I’ve shared here. It’s about the moment when political rhetoric stops being careless and becomes dangerous — when leaders start calling their own people “enemies.”

That moment is now.

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In that context…

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“The concern was never really about foreign influence or manipulation per se—it was about who gets to do the influencing.”

Hahaha

After Bovino is gone, someone else started worrying about their job.

The Mad King can be sure to have everyone’s attention.

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

People in Iran are probably also being told that the Internet is gone due to “power outage”…

Clearly more subtle compare to how they do it in Iran.

So much about “retraining the algorithm”.

All those were discussed for Qatar as well and little to nothing did happen.

Agree this is affecting travel to the US, together with the elevated ticket prices.
The options range from an official boycott (federation decides not to participate), which is not going to happen and would also be unfair towards Canada and Mexico, to fans not traveling, to even not watching on TV.

Kamala was right about almost everything, it’s just that many people didn’t want to hear it back then.

There were no cellphones in 1989, so not much of the horror went public. The US Government might have to censor or block the Internet soon (like Iran).

I am sure it’s all going to be fine as long as the money keeps flowing, just like the World Cups in Russia and Qatar. Germany always participated.

Trump now even got the “FIFA Peace Price”, so what better country would you find to host the World Cup?

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Opinion | State Terror Has Arrived

M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"

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This witness to Alex Pretti's murder not only refutes the governmen't story, but says she is afraid to go home because federal agents might arrest her. This is what it feels like to live under state terror.
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The Tech Bros think the same.

1930s Germany.

The lesson is… we didn’t talk about the Epstein Files for 4 days straight.

Few days of distraction from the Epstein Files.

Eklat in Davos: Verwirrter alter Mann stürmt Podium und pöbelt eine Stunde lang herum Davos (dpo) - Schwere Sicherheitspanne beim Weltwirtschaftsforum in Davos: Einem offenbar geistig verwirrten alten Mann gelang es, sich auf noch unbek

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Wenige Medien sprechen so klar die Wahrheit aus.