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Alexander Balaeff

@abalaeff.bsky.social
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Personal account for following good people, making reposts, bashing fascism, and leaving occasional comments in fun and hobby threads.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Testosterone screening in the 21st century.....
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
That rules out Waiting for Godot 😆
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
It doesn’t get any cuter than this, folks. 😍
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A much-needed break from anything serious. 🥰
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Da. The Molotov-Ribbentrop pact.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed. The US is with Russia.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
😆😆
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us?…I am not included within the pale of this glorious anniversary! Your high independence 1/2
This black and white photo shows a Black man—Frederick Douglass—with a full head of black and gray hair and a goatee. He wears a dark suit coat, vest, and tie with a white shirt.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The most corrupt President in U.S. history calling in a favor from the most corrupt President of the most corrupt sports organization in the world. Surprising the whole planet wasn't sucked into this singularity of corruption.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Easy! "Hegseth" is the sound the cat makes before vomiting out a hairball. That tweet was another example of the same.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/04/2026
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them. New piece ↓ open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...
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This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement.
Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Reminiscent of the reaction of Brezhnev and Jaruzelski to John Paul II, though quite a bit more hysterical. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...
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Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Two weeks to remove him. Now.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
The defining face of the first day of the full-scale invasion is Ukrainian marine Vitalii Skakun. He heroically sacrificed his life by blowing up a bridge in Henichesk to slow the advancing Russian columns.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Do you remember that very night -- the night before the day of all days, four years ago? How many of us didn’t sleep at all. We sat in the dark in silence, in front of our laptops, refreshing news feeds.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
That was one of my memorable games on MTGO when my opponent decided to add insult to injury and played Phage against my already hopeless board position. I snatched her with my faceless butcher, then sacked the poor dude to some random effect 😁
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Should they get an errata, now that enchantment creature is a thing?.. 😉
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Also wonder if the modern design would extend the Bane unmorph effect into CIP (ok, ETB 😂) giving it the same casting cost as the unmorph cost.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Ah, the Trumpeter... 😊 Loved the card back in the day, never managed to get him big enough 😁
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Obsolete Dogma @obsoletedogma.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Instead of lending out dollars to banks, the Federal Reserve should lend out Jerome Powell’s spine to Republican senators.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
No. Square the circle. "He's spending money on invading other countries. The only money he's spending here is to kill you."
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/01/2026
“I’m sure you’re aware of our connections with the Trump Administration,” the North Carolina Republican Party's communications director wrote in an email response to us. “I would strongly suggest dropping this story.” We didn't. #ICYMI, read the story that he wanted dropped:
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“Biblical Justice, Equal Justice, for All”: How North Carolina’s Chief Justice Transformed His State and America
Paul Newby, a born-again Christian, has turned his perch atop North Carolina’s Supreme Court into an instrument of political power. Over two decades, he’s driven changes that have reverberated well be...
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Isn’t it odd that when a member of an immigrant ethnic group commits a crime, right-wing white guys want to deport the entire group, but when a right-wing white guy commits a crime, the other right-wing white guys don’t volunteer to deport themselves.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
A Ukrainian woman is saying goodbye to her home as the front line approaches. "The front is getting closer, and today my Mom said goodbye to our home and asked for forgiveness that she won’t be able to go there again until victory," Viktoriia wrote. 📷: asiya666
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A Dad cradles the coffin of his son. Russia killed 1,5 year old Nazar, his sister Kamila and their mom on November 19th in #Ternopil. Deepest condolences...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
During a power outage from the Russian attacks, an elderly lady with a flashlight selects seeds from a catalog to order them via post and plant in the spring. "That's all you need to know about faith in the future," the writing on the video says. 📹: Darya Shut/Facebook
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I’m too old to remember when conservatives harshly criticized Obama for using executive orders. Now that Trump is issuing more executive orders than any president in modern history, Republicans in Congress are totally silent.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Though the "CAMplete game" pun has to wait for another day 😁
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Twenty years after the comedy went silent, Russia is a sadistic, warmongering fascist regime run by a mad centibillionaire. That’s a future that could be ours — whole argument of "Road to Unfreedom" — but also one we can stop — see "On Tyranny" and "On Freedom." www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/w...
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TV's Impious Puppets: On Kremlin's Hit List? (Published 2000)
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Welcome to Russia Trump’s weaponized agencies are trying to eliminate free speech and punish those who use it. Universities, media, Colbert, and now Jimmy Kimmel. This is just the beginning Shame on ABC for capitulating to thugs
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
This won’t be trickling down.
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born miserable @bornmiserable.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
not to keep beating a dead horse, but if Biden told a reporter that 300 million Americans died from drugs last year, every media outlet would demand he resign and throw himself into a nursing home
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
....One of them does jobs for Prusa the chemist, and one day he drank a bottle of hair oil by mistake; and then there’s Ferdinand Kokoska who goes round collecting manure. They wouldn’t be any great loss, either of ’em.” 2/2
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
“So they’ve killed Ferdinand,” said the charwoman to Mr. Schweik who.... was just rubbing his knees with embrocation. “Which Ferdinand, Mrs. Muller?” asked Schweik, continuing to massage his knees. “I know two Ferdinands..... 1/2
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Do discriminate arrests by ICE count as acts of political violence?.. 🤔🤔
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
I am once again asking you to stop sending us money. But we do need your time. ⏰ zohranfornyc.com/events
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Noahpinion @noahpinion.blogsky.venki.dev · 06/09/2025
America is getting the economy we voted for
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America is getting the economy we voted for
The beatings will continue until someone comes in and fudges the data.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 04/09/2025
Soybeans are collapsing because China isn’t buying them. The farm economy is in deep trouble. Because of our needless trade war that we are clearly losing. Maybe farmers will wake up
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 03/09/2025
The Everglades Concentration Camp costs 3x one of these trains.
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Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
It was a big risk for the Yankees to send all that pitching to San Diego in a trade for the big outfielder, but it turns out that Trent Grisham was worth it.
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Alexander Balaeff @abalaeff.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
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an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him
ALT: an astronaut is looking at the earth with the words " always has been " above him
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