loreleikelly

loreleikelly

@loreleikelly.bsky.social

Progressive Institutionalist. Civic Evidence Fellow, Democracy Forward

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Anonymous
@youranoncentral.bsky.social

Meta is accused of election interference in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. 1,613 foreign-funded political ads were uncovered generating 171M impressions. Brazil has ordered Meta to explain its conduct.

yacnews.comMeta accused of foreign election interference in Brazil, helping Trump ally Flávio BolsonaroMeta faces election interference allegations in Brazil after restricting Lula's Instagram while recommending Bolsonaro's accounts. Researchers uncovered 1,613 foreign-funded political ads generating 1...

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Eric Lipton NYT
@ericlipton.nytimes.com

Replying to @ericlipton.nytimes.com

Overall, we are seeing some very odd deal talks that are supposedly a part of ending the war in Ukraine. But in fact evidence shows these deals are structured (in the most recent case secretly until now) to financially benefit Russia or business partners of the Trump and Witkoff families.

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Rep. Mike Levin
@levin.house.gov

Replying to @levin.house.gov

Mr. Witkoff, I want you to think about the countless innocent Ukrainians killed, injured, abducted, or forced to flee their homes before you call Vladimir Putin a humanitarian again. Vladimir Putin is no humanitarian. He is a war criminal and should be treated as such.

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Nina Jankowicz
@ninajankowicz.com

Here’s Daniel Kimmage’s message to his colleagues, fired because their mission of fighting foreign propaganda was “severely misaligned” with Trump administration priorities. “Hold your head high.” Watch the rest: www.thewayfinder.net/p/is-the-us-..., on YouTube, or on your favorite podcast app.

Nina Jankowicz@ninajankowicz.com

This is how the Trump administration ended dozens of disinformation and propaganda experts’ careers in government. With an awkward, almost gleeful speech from known white supremacist and conspiracy theorist Darren Beattie. Listen to the rest on DISARMED: www.thewayfinder.net/p/is-the-us-...

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Senator Mazie K. Hirono
@hirono.senate.gov

Trump prioritizes big fossil fuel companies over the American people. Right now, Americans are paying HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of dollars to keep old coal power plants running. Big fossil companies profit, while the American people are stuck with higher bills and dirtier air.

loreleikelly
@loreleikelly.bsky.social

Utah Solutions Forum brings community members together to deliberate and advise government on AI policy 👏 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/10...

sltrib.comHe lost his ghost-writing job. She was let go as an app designer. Here’s how they think Utah should protect workers — and rein in AI.“Whatever happens here is also going to reverberate to other governments and other populations around the world," one organizer told the group of everyday Utahns tapped to share their ideas about AI's...

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Judd Legum
@juddlegum.bsky.social

Ramaswamy has produced an attack ad weaponizing the rape of his opponent, Amy Acton, when she was 12 years old. It features Acton’s mother, who abandoned Acton after she was raped by her step-father, fleeing the state with her husband. Here is the corporate money helping fund that ad.

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Sam Forstag
@samforstag.bsky.social

FORSTAG BLASTS FLINT: God, I would love to see an actual concrete commitment to say we're not going to allow data centers on our public lands. ‘Public lands in public hands’? That’s the same thing we hear from every politician. It means nothing. We need action.

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Steven Beschloss
@stevenbeschloss.bsky.social

What a disgrace to have a traitorous U.S. president who blames democratic Ukraine for his problems while Ukraine is engaged in a life-and-death struggle for its sovereignty against the murderous invasion of Putin’s Russia. And worse, he is strengthening the enemy’s position.

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Michael McFaul
@mcfaulmike.bsky.social

Trump has given Putin concession after concession: ending aid to Ukraine, keeping Ukraine out of NATO, giving Putin a red carpet summit, dissing Zelenskyy, wavering sanctions, disrupting intelligence sharing with Ukraine. And Putin has never changed his position on continuing the war. Not one inch.

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ProPublica
@propublica.org

For more than 40 years, the U.S. Arctic Research Commission has advised Congress and the president on what to study in the far north. Trump appointed a venture capitalist and MAGA influencer with no formal science background — and ties to Russia — as its chair.

propublica.orgHow a MAGA Influencer With Ties to Russia Became Trump’s Arctic AdviserAs head of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, Thomas Dans has backed a takeover of Greenland and other items on President Donald Trump’s list. But it’s not always clear where the administration’s ag...
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Media, please report on the East Potomac Golf Course (Hains) "confusion" honestly. Donald Trump is land grabbing a public property to benefit rich, (mostly)white people. He doesn't believe in public goods & is actively erasing Black and brown Americans from history. #NPR ggwash.org/view/104662/...

ggwash.orgCongress made Hains Point a public park. Will it stay that way?More than a century after Congress set Hains Point aside for the “recreation and pleasure of the people,” plans for a major golf course overhaul raise an old question: Who gets to decide how it’s used...
loreleikelly
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Hyperscale data centers should be publicly owned. Starlink is a terrible example of public abdication/private control of critical infrastructure. Like insane dictators, Elon Musk & Trump are getting Ukrainians targeted & killed. Dept of Defense should have never let this happen. What a betrayal.

loreleikelly
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35 years later, the GOP has lost the Cold War--and along with it all of America's blood and treasure. For shame.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine, Ukrainian officials told the Kyiv Independent, raising suspicions that Washington is deliberately withholding the weapons.

kyivindependent.com'It's significant': Ukraine fears US is withholding allied-funded air defense supplies to pressure KyivU.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has yet to approve the transfer of a significant batch of Patriot interceptor missiles for Ukraine, Ukrainian officials and military officers told the Kyiv Independ...

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ResJudicata22
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Cartoonist: Pat Bagley (2/17)

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social

Poland’s Foreign Minister Sikorski: basically calling Trump a liar. “The US no longer finances this war since January of last year. In other words, for more than a year and a half. The US has not contributed a single cent to the defense of Ukraine. We are doing it. Europe.”

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Internet Archive
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