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🚨Pro-democracy activist in #Russia gets 4-year prison sentence for attending Moscow #protests for fair elections. Konstantin #Kotov becomes the latest political prisoner in Putin's war on dissent. Kotov aptly wore a #Sentsov t-shirt in his courtroom cage. m.activatica.org/blogs/view/id/…
Kotov is the first recent protester found guilty under #Russia's "3 strikes" 212.1 law criminalizing attending 3 protests. He had 72 hours to prepare for his snap show trial. Human rights org Memorial declared him a political prisoner. Outside Moscow court chants of #FreeKotov
Kotov was found guilty under the same 212.1 anti-protest law human rights activist Ildar Dadin went to prison for in 2016. I wrote about Dadin's case & how #Russia criminalizes freedom of speech & assembly.
euromaidanpress.com/2016/04/05/912… #FreeKotov #DefendDemocracy #MoscowProtests
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🚨‼️John Bolton fired as Trump's national security adviser – theguardian.com/us-news/live/2…
The Bad News: Trump fires John #Bolton as National Security Adviser (after Bolton resigned over Taliban fiasco).

The Worse News: #Putin is still Trump’s National Security Adviser.

The Worst News: #Trump is a national security threat and he’s still president.
Oh. Trump didn’t fire his National Security Adviser over the Taliban or ideological beliefs (DJT has none). It was his giant throbbing butthurt ego >> Trump thought #Bolton leaked the story about him wanting to nuke hurricanes. cbsn.ws/2lOqGbq
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So when Trump said “I alone can fix it,” he really did usher in fascism. And corrupt Republicans said, anything you say, Boss >> It was White House CoS Mulvaney who ordered Wilbur Ross to “fix” the problem—to press #NOAA to disavow a weather forecast.
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💣Bombshell: US had to extract a top spy in Russia in 2017—after Trump disclosed classified info to Kislyak & Lavrov at the White House—fearing Trump might put our asset’s life in danger - CNNPolitics cnn.com/2019/09/09/pol…
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