"The proceedings on Thursday against Memorial, the country’s oldest and most respected civil society group, took place in a closed courtroom, because it was classified as 'top secret.' No lawyer was allowed to participate..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/world/europe/russia-newspaper-rights-group-crackdown.html

April 09, 2026 - 20:54 UTC

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There's a distinct resemblance to our dictators decisions to limit free press.. and if the press doesn't fight back you guys will be doomed as well... You all should ban together and sue this wanna-be dictator... Or he will double down
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Coming soon to a country near you! Al least if Miller, Vance, and Gorka have anything to say about it.
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I really thought you were talking about that paper here that was raided and the old owner died later. They lost their case too.
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We're headed that way too if pro25 gets implemented!?
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Wow. I for sure thought this was the US. Russia is almost as bad as here!
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Sign up for a 5/1 #MayDay event near you:

NO SCHOOL. NO WORK. NO SHOPPING.

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Has Congress Declared War?
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I'm surprised it's taken this long.. ... tbh !!
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I assumed this was an event in the USA then I saw the Kremlin link below.
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In Russia, reporters willingly face prison to report the truth. In America, most are afraid to look at the president sideways. But not you, Rachel. Thank you for being you
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This is what tRump and cadre dream of day in day out!…. The billionaires are making it happen for them!
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The hypocrisy of Rachel Maddow, a four-part tale.
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Meanwhile Wes Moore is on Jen Psaki's show attacking one of America's greatest newspapers. Perhaps you should be covering that.
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Check out Meduza in English here @meduzz.io- these are Russian ex-pats, working in neighboring countries keeping the world abreast of what's happening in the Kremlin. Like Maddow they have warrants issued and would get arrested if caught setting foot in Russia
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And trump has been doing his part in the putin plot, by gutting Radio Free Europe and Voice of America broadcasting around the world!

trump is putin's 'puppetman'!

Wonder if we could get Elton John to write a few more alternate verses to his song?
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😮😳😲👎
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Crickets from the Trump admin
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We are one step away.
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Rather clear where Trump gets all his ideas...

>The proceedings took place in a closed courtroom because they were classified as “top secret.”<

>The Supreme Court labeling Memorial “extremist” means any Russian citizen deemed to be affiliated with the organization can be criminally prosecuted.<
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It’s already happening in the US too. We went from a weak democracy to authoritarianism. And now, totalitarianism.
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Talk honestly about Palestine and Israel Rachel Maddow … I dare you.
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rachel speak to invoking article II, section 4 as high crimes being committed!! Impeachment is not enough and the 25th is not possible.
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This is what our illegal occupant of the WH is attempting to do, which is why Netanyahu & Orban both were invited to teach republicans how to destroy a democracy & they are doing a bang up job at doing just that.
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Hey why do you never discuss how Israel systematically murdered journalists in Gaza and Lebanon?

Is there a reason you won't criticize jews?
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Maddow is not criticizing the Jewish community because they're ok, its the reactionary Israelis let by a war monger that are fucked up...
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Until I saw Kremlin in the headline, I thought it was a US story. That's where we are now.
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Me too!
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I think all of us did and I also believe Ms Maddow knew we would. It illustrates how quickly Americans can lose their freedoms simply by not paying attention.
Moscow today, Washington DC tomorrow, and all that.
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Anyone who has knows we must “watch what they do” would think the same. I certainly did.
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Yup. I had precisely the same reaction, and clearly we aren't the only ones...
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Nailed it
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Me too🤷‍♂️
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Me too
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Same here.
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Oh, I thought it was Kansas again.
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Classified doesn't mean what it used to.
😉
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Can u give us more Rachel?
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substack.com/ href="/profile/lcsilenceiscomplicity1?r=5ltu98&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=image">@lcsilenceiscomplicity1?r=5ltu98&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=image
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California Needs a Fighter. Here's Why Eric Swalwell Is the One‼️

open.substack.com/pub/lcsilenceiscomplicity1/p/silence-is-complicity-investigative-898?r=5ltu98&utm_medium=ios
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Putin’s flailing. Good.
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The terrifying thing is when both my wife and I read the first part of this headline, we absolutely thought it happened here. She thought Texas and I thought either Oklahoma or Utah.
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Thats is simply unacceptable and unAmerican fuck these trashy traitors I demand that Donald John Trump the disgraced president be executed for treason
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The lack of transparency and secrecy surrounding the proceedings against Memorial is concerning, it's unsettling to see a respected civil society group facing such restrictions, especially in a case that's been shrouded in secrecy.
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Wow!
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Trumps ideal govt
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A biology of race plays no role in my model for crime and our race redemption culture. But there is stigma against my work and person because the Nazi GOP have tried to associate themselves to me and my work for the purposes to stigmatize and blame me and draw attention away from GOP.
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After watching 500 hours of porn I’ve discovered that I’m Unisexual. Which means that I will have sex with anyone and up to 111 at One time!
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At first glance I thought this was about the US. Sad times.
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We are speeding down the autobahn, in the same direction as nazi germany did, if we don’t vote these spineless worms out in November, we will seal our own doom!
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I am afraid Republicans will futz with the ballots - the ones that are actually still allowed to be cast. It's full-out voter suppression strategizing season right now.
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Outrageous
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Campaigning for the likes of Orban will come back to haunt that little worm. And he thinks he deserves to sit behind the Resolute.
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Vice President Vance Campaigns for Hungary’s Right-Wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest

www.democracynow.org/2026/4/8/headlines/vice_president_vance_campaigns_for_hungarys_right_wing_prime_minister_viktor_orban_in_budapest
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Vice President Vance Campaigns for Hungary’s Right-Wing Prime Minister Viktor Orbán in Budapest

www.democracynow.org/2026/4/8/headlines/vice_president_vance_campaigns_for_hungarys_right_wing_prime_minister_viktor_orban_in_budapest
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Nice one! Big fan of this. 🙂
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What proceedings? The dictator said what he wants, they did. It's either that or window.
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It appears that this is our future if we don't change the administration NOW!!
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so now Russia is Kansass?
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America under trump, russia under putin, looking, sounding the same.
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When I first read this I thought it was something that happened in the U.S. so that’s where we are now.
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Lots of corruption as Navalny shows in his memoir. I hope this is not where we are headed.
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F@CK PUTIN
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When I was reading the article at first, I thought it was in the US… 😱
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Sounds like America.
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Coming soon to the country we're in.
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Here now
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Your a vital voice in the fight for our democracy. Please address how Republican controls former Dominion Voting Systems. www.wired.com/story/scott-leiendecker-dominion-liberty-votes/
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Trying to control the narrative, esp about the war.
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Fact check!!

bsky.app/profile/bettinastruff.bsky.social/post/3mj5kfgeby226
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Can't happen in America?
Guess again--it's already begun.
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It's happening here also.
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Generally correct but one factual error: Memorial is not Russia's most respected civil society group. They basically just take grants and do nothing. Most Russians are not even aware of Memorial's existence, let alone what people are in there and what the heck they are doing. The fact that ...
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The fact that Memorial was allowed to exist until now under putler's fascist regime indicates that putler deems this group even less threatening than Jehovah's Witnesses.
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@maddow.bsky.social up until this point you’ve explained beautifully what fascism looks like when we are on the outside looking in.
Please explain what happens what our nation looks like when the implosion is from within.
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Trump canceled the deal with Iran for one reason Obama made fun of trump at the Corespondent dinner and he tries to cancel anything dealing with Obama
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Such a dam shame‼️
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youtu.be/xvmjDBTtLtA?si=kad5Hs4YVj38MN_4
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RedHats!

2+2 does in fact equal 4

What you see is real.
Listen to all the contradictions-lies
This is exactly what is happening to our Country,a smaller scale but happening.

You do not want a dictatorship. It affects your rights&financial security too. You think costs are bad Now ? Just wait
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This will be happening here if we don't find a way to remove trump & the project 2025's agenda.
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