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More Perfect Union(@MorePerfectUS) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: The Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 to weaken a federal anti-corruption statute.

The court sided with an Indiana mayor who steered over $1 million in city contracts to a truck dealership, which then wrote him a check for $13,000.

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BREAKING: After well over 100 artists boycotted SXSW over its complicity in Israel's genocide and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime, the major industry showcase festival has dropped its partnerships with the US military and arms companies.

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BREAKING: After well over 100 artists boycotted @sxsw over its complicity in Israel's genocide and underlying settler-colonial apartheid regime, the major industry showcase festival has dropped its partnerships with the US military and arms companies. support.sxsw.com/hc/en-us/artic…
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WikiLeaks(@wikileaks) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Touchdown!

After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK, 5 years in maximum security prison, for his groundbreaking publishing work with WikiLeaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil.

Free at last.

Touchdown! After enduring nearly 14 years of arbitrary detention in the UK, 5 years in maximum security prison, for his groundbreaking publishing work with @wikileaks, Julian Assange has arrived home on Australian soil. Free at last. #FreedomFlight
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Stella Assange: 'I hope journalists and editors and publishers everywhere realise the danger of the US case against Julian that criminalises, that has secured a conviction for, newsgathering and publishing information that was true, that the public deserved to know.

That

Stella Assange: 'I hope journalists and editors and publishers everywhere realise the danger of the US case against Julian that criminalises, that has secured a conviction for, newsgathering and publishing information that was true, that the public deserved to know. That
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This should be translated in all languages and widely disseminated, as there seems to be a tragic confusion about Israel's ultimate aims, modus operandi and 'raison d'être'.
Israel has been an apartheid state toward the Palestinians 'ab initio'. This is NOT a personal opinion -

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This is how the US government sees everyone else on Earth: 'you are not an American and you have no rights'.

This is why the US has no problem invading countries and killing millions.

(Increasingly, the US gov't doesn't care about its own citizens either, unless they're rich.)

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🇰🇪 🇰🇪Huge numbers have taken to the streets of Nairobi Kenya today (6/25) to protest an IMF sponsored budget bill that will impose further austerity during a cost of living crisis. The bill includes tax hikes on food, diapers, menstrual products & more.

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BREAKING: The first 400 Kenyan police officers have arrived in Haiti to be the backbone of the US-engineered and funded occupation, designed to keep Haiti mired in poverty.

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O mundo está um pouco melhor e menos injusto hoje. Julian Assange está livre depois de 1.901 dias preso. Sua libertação e retorno para casa, ainda que tardiamente, representam uma vitória democrática e da luta pela liberdade de imprensa.

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Paper pushers at warmongering think tanks in Washington are saying the quiet part loud:

The US is waging a cold war on China, and its goal is to overthrow China's government, destroy the Communist Party, and install a capitalist puppet regime, like it did to Russia in the '90s.

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Sacha Llorenti(@SachaLlorenti) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Hoy Julian Assange está libre, y hoy el mundo es un poco más justo.
Después de 1901 días de estar en una celda de 2x3 metros y permanecer aislado 23 horas cada día, Julian está libre.
Es una victoria del periodismo, de la verdad y de la humanidad.
No olvidemos que fue

Hoy Julian Assange está libre, y hoy el mundo es un poco más justo. Después de 1901 días de estar en una celda de 2x3 metros y permanecer aislado 23 horas cada día, Julian está libre. Es una victoria del periodismo, de la verdad y de la humanidad. No olvidemos que fue
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Stella Assange #FreeAssangeNOW(@Stella_Assange) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Julian is free!!!!

Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU.

Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…

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Samidoun Network(@SamidounPP) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This morning, TeamYouTube suddenly struck and deleted the entire Samidoun Network channel and its years of content, and simultaneously struck and deleted the channel of our international coordinator Charlotte Kates.

This morning, @TeamYouTube suddenly struck and deleted the entire Samidoun Network channel and its years of content, and simultaneously struck and deleted the channel of our international coordinator @charlottekates.
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Julian Assange boards flight at London Stansted Airport at 5PM (BST) Monday June 24th. This is for everyone who worked for his freedom: thank you.

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JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE

Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a

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Israel constantly uses human shields.

The US government funds this genocidal colonial regime with billions of dollars every year.

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