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I share educational open source information that anyone can use how they choose.

Joined bluesky to fight back against the MAGA cult, advocate for the oppressed and share actionable intelligence in the struggle for liberal values under attack.

  1. A senior French source has described tomorrow’s DC meeting to me as the “most consequential for peace and security in Europe” since the fall of the Soviet Union. Brief thread later.

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  2. Neither the public, the media, not the courts have to accept Trump’s declaration at face value. We should be probing the veracity of it in every forum & making him justify it in detail.

    That’s active citizenship.

    “Emergency” is a word w/meaning that should be justified by facts.

    FBI data suggests that Memphis, Cleveland,Toledo & Little Rock have higher crime rates.

    The media would do well to interrogate the basis for the exercise of emergency powers rather than “residents say crime really is bad” stories.

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  3. Animal Farm at Eighty

    “I took it out of the library, and read it quietly, in bed, under the covers.”

    On the 80th anniversary of its publication, read my first encounter with Orwell’s Animal Farm:

    orwellfoundation.substack.com/p/it-all-mad...

    @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social @orwellprize.bsky.social

    Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

    "It all made such shockingly perfect sense." Animal Farm at Eighty

    Friends of the Foundation recall their first encounters with George Orwell's masterpiece

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  4. Yeah, this is a highly unusual all-hands-on-deck meeting that wouldn’t be happening if Alaska was productive.

    5 European leaders, the head of NATO and the head of the EU don’t just drop everything and fly to DC.

    H/T: @radiofreetom.bsky.social

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