A disgrace to Europe, still shamelessly echoing Kremlin propaganda while Russia brutalizes Ukraine

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Vigil for Alex Pretti Beloved VA Nurse & Community Member Thursday, January 29, 5PM - 6 PM VA NY Harbor Healthcare System 423 East 23rd Street, NY, NY 10010 Join VA Nurses and federal workers in remembrance, and in our call for justice for all victims of ICE and Border Patrol. Please bring candles or glowsticks.

On Thursday, January 29, at 5PM, join VA nurses and federal workers in remembrance of beloved VA Nurse and AFGE Local 3669 member Alex Pretti, and in our call for justice for all victims of ICE and Border Patrol.

VA NY Harbor Healthcare System
423 East 23rd St, NY, NY 10010

NEW: A Texas county medical examiner found that Geraldo Lunas Campos was choked to death by a guard while he was held in ICE custody earlier this month.

Geraldo is the sixth person to die in ICE detention this year.

People Magazine AGAIN.

Their social justice bent recently is real and it is reaching people who are out of the loop politically. It's great stuff.

There are just the loveliest little candlelight vigils for Alex Pretti being held all over Uptown right now. People building little candle memorials on street corners in the snow. This city is in pain but we will win together

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"I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling the truth about what happened."

In a screengrab from a video, Alex Jeffrey Pretti is seen holding a phone as agents approach him. A headline reads: "How Federal Agents Shot And Killed Alex Jeffrey Pretti, Moment by Moment." Credit: dangjessie, via Instagram

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Iran report says 16,500 dead in ‘genocide under digital darkness’ — The Times and The Sunday Times ‘You have ten minutes to cry,” came the officer’s curt command to the couple as he revealed the corpse of their twentysomething daughter, gunned down in the historic streets of Isfahan. After searchin...

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

Iran latest: Almost 650 killed in protests, rights group says, as supreme leader issues warning to US Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warns the US to

All Iranian diplomats need to be expelled from all democratic countries! NOW.

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Estonia has banned hundreds of Russian soldiers and militants involved in the war against Ukraine from entering the country, and is calling on other EU nations to create a "unified blacklist" within the Schengen Area.
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Iran protests live: Millions take to streets to demand regime change as dozens killed The US has warned it will come to the ‘rescue’ of protestors if Tehran ‘violently kills’ them

Demonstrations in Iran now involve millions and have spread to every major city, including those believed previously to be loyal to the clerical regime. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

Weird to be commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Am Rev while living under a government that has a) sent armed troops to occupy cities perceived to be too rebellious, b) rendered largely irrelevant the representative branch of government, and c) claimed imperial right to rule other countries.

"I doubt NATO would be there for us if we really needed them".

A reminder that the one and only time NATO invoked its self-defense clause was after 9/11, and our NATO partners have suffered over 3,400 deaths (not casualties, deaths) in Afghanistan.

How to lobby Trump with Swiss precision: gifts, gold and gab How the Swiss broke a diplomatic logjam on tariffs by arriving with tributes fit for a king.

To negotiate a trade deal with the President of the United States, the Swiss government arrived with a "special Rolex desktop clock" and "a 1-kilogram personalized gold bar"

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Festrede - 35 Jahre Thüringer Landtag: Appell für die Freiheit Von "Erziehung zum Hass" als Grundpfeiler des DDR-Regimes spricht Historiker Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk. Mit dem Hass sei Verantwortung geleugnet worden.

@ilkokowalczuk.bsky.social
Hier die hörenswerte Festrede des Historikers Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk
vor dem Landtag in Thüringen:
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AfD-Treffen mit Medwedew: Kreml organisiert Widerstand gegen Merz – auch BSW verstrickt Russland baut Kontakte zu Abgeordneten aus AfD und BSW auf. Sie sollen Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz untergraben. AfD-Politiker treffen Dmitri Medwedew in Russland.

Keine Ahnung wie oft ich das schon sagte: AfD und BSW sind zwei Seiten einer Medaille - beide sind Kreml-Außenposten, beide vertreten Putins Interessen in Deutschland www.t-online.de/nachrichten/...

Soviet-Bloc and US Intelligence Operations During the Cold War Join Douglas Selvage, expert on East German State Security files, historian Gary Keeley, and Mark Kramer for a discussion of Cold War archives that offer valuable resources for students and scholars a...

Should be a great event for those interested in researching Cold War intelligence. Speakers are @deselv.bsky.social of the Institute for Historical Scholarship at Humboldt University in Berlin; Gary Keeley former historian at CIA; and Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard.

RFK Jr. Is Repeating Michelle Obama’s Mistakes MAHA is “Let’s Move!” 2.0. By Tom Bartlett

Someone please kill me right now.

We’re getting tons of retrospective analysis of COVID policies: masks, closures, comms failures,etc. But the other side of the “loss of trust in institutions” was a *deliberate effort* — by antivaxxers & right-wing influencers — to intentionally erode confidence in public health. No reckoning there.

Operation “Denver”: The East German Ministry of State Security and the KGB's AIDS Disinformation Campaign, 1985–1986 (Part 1) Abstract. There has been much debate in recent years about the role of the East German Ministry for State Security (Stasi) in the disinformation campaign launched in the early 1980s by the Soviet Stat...

Yes, as a Soviet historian who has written an article on AIDS, I obviously already know this. Also, @deselv.bsky.social has published two articles dealing with this topic: direct.mit.edu/jcws/article... and direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

“Let’s hire an ISIS suicide bomber to blow him up in the street!”: Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murder — and that of my colleague A jury at the Old Bailey, London’s Central Criminal Court, has just found six of my compatriots — citizens of Bulgaria — guilty of conspiring with the Kremlin to kidnap and possibly murder me and my c...

Christo Grozev from Bellingcat: ““Let’s hire an ISIS suicide bomber to blow him up in the street!”: Europe’s most wanted man plotted my murder — and that of my colleague” theins.ru/en/inv/279034

Unfortunately, some of the victims become snake oil salespeople themselves.

This story makes a really powerful (and tragically depressing) point: that there is no evidence strong enough to counter a world view anchored in conspiracy theory and reinforced by a multitide of motivated "influencers" — even the death of one's own child.

The stories within this story are haunting: a woman on a domestic road trip who forgot her passport. A mother who undergoes annual background checks to renew her work authorization, and this year ICE decided she had to do that while in custody. A student who overstayed her visa by three days.

Most secrets held by foreign intelligence agencies like the CIA are mundane, technical, and boring, but sometimes, their compromise by foreign governments can have extremely negative and dangerous consequences.

Most of the surveillance by a secret police is mundane, unless you are the target of it, or its widespread use discourages dissent, as in the case of the Stasi. Surveillance itself can be a form of repression.

Ein französischer Wissenschaftler wurde kürzlich an der Einreise in die USA gehindert. Grund waren Trump-kritische Chats. DAS ist wirklich gemeint, wenn „MAGA“ von ihrem Kampf für Meinungsfreiheit spricht.