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Peter Schurman
Peter Schurman
@peter415.bsky.social
Builder of organizations. Ex MoveOn. Lover of nature and community. My passion: OneGlobalDemocracy.com
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Russian ballistic missiles struck a Kyiv university, injuring students and staff. The attack came hours after UN investigators concluded that Russia's deliberate strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure constituted war crimes and crimes against humanity.
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Pretty grim footnote to West's career that he ended up serving the richest man in the world's successful attempt to restore white nationalism to the US government.
NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...
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A commission of United Nations human rights experts said on Monday that Israel was committing genocidal acts against Palestinian civilians in Gaza despite a cease-fire agreement there and carrying out crimes against humanity in the West Bank. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/26/w...
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I just want to name that people overcame this. Even against a stacked deck, the good fight is worth it. Win or lose, it's worth it. And sometimes the good guys win.
Bolsonaro-friendly mayors appear to be sabotaging public transport on Election Day. Buses aren’t running in Lula-friendly areas, flights and ferries mysteriously canceled. Traffic lights have gone out and people’s power cut in Salvador, indigenous people’s travel restricted
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This is literally the end of the rule of law. If a President can pardon people committing crimes on his behalf - and the Supreme Court says he himself can't be prosecuted for crimes committed as part of his job - then the government becomes a lawless entity able to violate our rights without limit.
New: White House attorneys are evaluating whether to issue mass pardons to junior staffers. https://www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/white-house-weighing-mass-pardons-for-junior-staff
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AI firms want you to believe their fraud bot is alive so they won’t be held responsible for the fraud bot’s crimes. But there is no gray area here, they hold the on/off switches in their very human, very prosecutable hands.
Major American banks have reported unauthorized artificial intelligence bots inside consumer accounts, sources told Axios Thursday. trib.al/mmFWL8c
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Kushner also failed to disclose himself as an agent of a foreign government, having been paid nearly $2 billion in total by foreign leaders. trib.al/JC1elLM
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We are letting one greedy insecure k-hole Nazi fuck it up for 8 billion of us. He’s killing millions bc his daddy was mean to him and he loathes himself. Remember when Elon told Tucker Carlson if Trump didn’t get elected he was “fucked” and going to prison? Yeah, we can still do that. We must.
It's Elon or global democracy. Choose one.
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Replying to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
Mass deforestation and the sudden ecosystem collapse likely to result offers a finality to their politics: there’s no coming back from this. You Indigenous people, you greens, anyone stupid enough to care: you’ll have nowhere left to hide. The world will be ours, even if it is a world of ashes.
“surrendered public spaces to the homeless and their encampments to the point that it’s difficult to describe these spaces as truly for the public anymore.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/o...
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The clear implication of this is that the U.S. military is also at the mercy of Musk’s whims. He cannot be allowed to keep control over Starlink. He has demonstrated that he can’t be trusted with this power.
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Replying to @indivisible.org
Yet Chuck Schumer is still silent about this abuse of power designed to punish Trump’s critics, sow fear, and inflame racial divisions ahead of the midterms. With our democracy on the line, Schumer has vacillated between silence and surrendering or squandering Dems' leverage when it mattered most.
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Columbus Dispatch: The conduct of Vivek Ramaswamy in attacking his rival has been reckless, shameful and morally depraved. Therefore we are pulling our support for Ramaswamy and endorsing his rival, Amy Acton, instead. www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
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*WATCH OUR NEW AIPAC DOCUMENTARY* Zeteo pulls back the curtain on the pro-Israel lobby, in a landmark investigation into AIPAC and whether it should have to register as a foreign agent under U.S. law. Featuring exclusive interviews with whistleblowers, AOC, Massie, and more: insideaipac.com
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This is a must read from @davidakaye.bsky.social @slate.com, thinking about what accountability will look like in a post-Trump era. This is something I'll be thinking a lot about in the coming two years.....
we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇
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Plurality of active-duty service members oppose Iran war: poll Veteran-led, progressive advocacy group finds that 49% of people currently serving in the military, veterans, and family members oppose military being used in Operation Epic Fury responsiblestatecraft.org/military-pol...
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These courageous testimonies are very much worth knowing about, and also worth keeping in mind (as the author pointed out to me) as we consider what it means to take Russia’s side. "Rape as a weapon of war: The voices of Ukrainians" by Sara Cincurova snyder.substack.com/p/rape-as-a-...
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Remarkable: The percentage of Americans who say gas is unaffordable has gone from 28% before Iran war to 71% today, www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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“The people responsible should experience personal consequences that make them regret their lack of character, rather than that they simply didn’t try harder, or scheme more competently.” Accountability means personal consequences not just performative public exposure. @brianbeutler.bsky.social
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