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Ellie de Villiers 🌻 🇺🇦 🇺🇲 🇿🇦

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Realistic optimist. I like to make things better. Card-carrying member of Team Telco. I care about competition, consumer rights, digital rights, & antitrust.

Joined February 2009
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This is one of the best threads I've read. Full stop.

I try not be understanding, but I really do NOT understand anyone, especially an elected representative, veteran, news source saying - "Ukraine is not our fight. Not our war. We should not be spending U.S. money to support Ukraine to fight Russia. We have our own problems."🧵



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Wild that our President-elect is being publicly blackmailed by a war criminal invading Europe — and we’re still going to pretend this is a “peaceful transfer of power.”

First Patrushev, who helped blow up apartment buildings in Russia to get Putin elected, said that Trump owes a debt and needs to repay while following up that he hoped Trump isn’t killed. And now Putin discusses that Trump needs to be careful not to get killed. The Russians…



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Still blows my mind that basically zero swing voters found this disqualifying.

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Many, many russian terrorist attacks in Europe alone in 2024. And Europe does nothing. This encourages putin to carry out further attacks and to act with increasing brutality.

Dichte Recherche zum russischen Schattenkrieg gegen Europa - konnte dazu etwas Input leisten #Sabotage

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I did nuclear security for a few years after I got out of the Marines. Because we were armed with unfettered access to nuclear reactors, and were given special knowledge on nuclear vulnerabilities, that job required a Q clearance (Top Secret equivalent). It was not optional 🧵


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This is an incredible short film. If you want to understand why the Guardian & Observer journalists are fighting for our survival, please watch it. It gave me the chills. Winnie Mandela on how the Observer helped save Mandela's life & the ANC leadership youtube.com/watch?v=Tu70rc…


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I need a conservative to explain why this is a good thing

🚨NEW: Elon Musk has announced plans to eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This agency is responsible for protecting Americans from predatory banking, payday lenders, and for-profit colleges. RETWEET to let the American people know what they voted for!

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Important to remember what Obama had to say about Silicon Valley getting involved in government

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Billionaires going on Rogan to lie about policy isn't an accident, they know it's a good way to lie to millions of people and sway opinion, with a host who will believe anything


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The problem isn’t government waste. The problem is that billionaires don’t pay taxes.


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Starling murmuration in Italy. This unique phenomenon, where each bird's move influences seven others. Nature's stunning synchrony. Nature is amazing. Protect it. #ActOnClimate #climate


Duh

⚡️Europe in 'actual war' with Russia, former UK intelligence chief says. "I think we have to face up to the fact that the Russians think they're in a state of war with us," Richard Dearlove, the former head of MI6, told Sky News on Nov. 27. kyivindependent.com/europe-in-actu…



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Raised and borned in Houston Texas

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Elon, who will soon be working as an unelected bureaucrat, criticizes unelected EU bureaucrats.

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There is something seriously wrong with Elon Musk. Alexander Vindman is a patriot. Tweeting this to over 206 million followers is the very definition of stochastic terrorism. 😳👇

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When I speak about Russian atrocities, I speak for the men, women & kids who’ve been tortured, raped & oppressed. I do it for the people who’ve been killed for no reason, not for some people here who are cynical, who hate me, or who love Russia only because they dislike the West.


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Donald Trump lied that Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said she was closing the border on a call with him. She rebuffed him saying “we reiterate that Mexico's position is not to close borders.” Bro is claiming victory on the border in Mexico even though border crossings are…

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Like I’ve said before, it doesn’t matter how good or bad Dems are on *policy* if they get no credit for it because of an ignorance/bad media/disinformation climate, and if Republicans are shameless enough to take credit for things they didn’t do. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽

And just like that, Trump will claim credit for the entire last year of Mexico’s crackdown on migrants. And millions of people will lap it up.



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“Trump is not even safe now, but I hope he is a smart and cautious person,” — Putin


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This guy is such a fraud. Mexico has already been doing this for almost a year. He levied an idiotic threat and is now pretending it worked by taking credit for the status quo.

Crisis with Mexico both created and averted, all in the span of 48 hours...

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9 x TU-95 bombers are destroying Ukraine right now, already over quarter of a million more people without power and we just sit and wait for the sound of more missiles in the sky, the alert has been active for nearly 4 hours now. How is your morning going Europe?

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