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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 5h

WaPo: U.S. intelligence officials warned the Ukrainian Embassy in DC that if there are more strikes on Russian energy sites, the U.S. would halt intelligence sharing. “The warnings were so widespread that anyone with a Ukrainian-sounding last name got a call” ...

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 13h

It’s really easy to donate to the Ukrainian war effort with UNITED24! You don’t even have to fill out a billing address.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 13h

I wish I had missiles and transport aircraft but most of us just have money.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 13h

GIVE MORE FUCKING MONEY TO UKRAINE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 20h

⚡️ 'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says. Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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'This cannot be a coincidence' — Ukraine's Starlink access restricted without warning, Zelensky adviser says

Ukraine relies on Starlink to operate its mid-strike drones in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump has picked a side in the Russia Ukraine war. News organizations should make that clear. And every single Republican running for office should be forced to answer whether they, too, support Russia, and how much of Ukraine Russia should be allowed to rule.

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Matthew Palmer @so3brocktree.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The best way to support Ukraine is not just to post about it online with pithy hashtags, but to donate to or volunteer for charities and funding drives, buy Ukrainian exports, experience and fund Ukrainian culture, and vote for pro-Ukrainian politicians. Reposting ‘NAFO’ memes isn’t good enough.

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Putin’s Bombardment of Kyiv, Experienced First-Hand

Conversations held in a city under siege

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The UnPopulist @theunpopulist.net · 10/10/2026

"Starve the universities, feed the churches." The Trump administration is using IRS rules to punish institutions it sees as hostile and reward the ones it sees as friendly.

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Trump Is Reshaping IRS Rules to Defund Minority Programs and Empower Churches

His motto is to use state power against his enemies and help his friends in the nonprofit world

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

So Jesse’s response is to say “dude, chill,” Trump is just a gateway drug for the awesome Franco-ism to come!

Jesse Kelly • @JesseKellyDC
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You're asking Trump to be Francisco Franco and that's like asking a 10 year old to strike out Aaron
Judge.
Franco comes later. Trump is the beginning. Not the end. Accept him for what he is. He's been valuable getting the ball rolling.
• ExitRow • @RowExit • 1d
What is admirable about choosing a path that leads to your own and your country's ruin?
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump's plan to betray Ukraine and align the US with Russia in their current war continues to unfold in predictable fashion. www.ft.com/content/7fd4...

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US warns Kyiv that strikes on Russia jeopardise intelligence-sharing

Donald Trump’s administration delivered threat after Volodymyr Zelenskyy criticised diesel deal with Moscow

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Same goes for Louis II de Lorraine, Juan de Lanuza, or any number of others killed without any process at all by European monarchs of the same period.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You will notice lots of formal steps, involving many people. Of which there were none in the case of Monaldeschi.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sure, it began with both houses of Parliament passing the Act for Ensuring the Queen’s Safety (1584/5). You can read about it here: www.historyofparliamentonline.org/periods/tudo... (Where, as you will see yet again, ascribing the desire to kill to Elizabeth is mistakenly personalist.)

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excuse me? Would you please describe the circumstances of Monaldeschi’s ‘trial’?

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also what, the point I made was specifically about hostility to James I. So whatever suspicions existed about the later Stuarts’ sympathies to Catholicism didn’t factor in at all to the apprehensions about his accession. Because they didn’t exist in 1604!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also…in point of fact, she WAS plotting to murder her sister!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Well, I think that capital punishment is inadmissible, and that the procedure used was extremely dubious. But it was at least authorised by parliament and a jury of indictment; and there was a manner of process and proof, although dodgy indeed. That is different from killing on the spot.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 27/09/2026

"The old system under which the 'third countries' had to provide guarantees that the deportees would be safe from persecution and abuse has been dismantled; all that’s required now is vague and meaningless 'assurances'." It gets worse. ICYMI @cathyyoung63.bsky.social:

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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door

“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

James I was NOT THOUGHT TO BE CRYPTOCATHOLIC holy shit !!!!!!!!!!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You are a moron. There are literally entire books about how Magna Carta only was made into a legal tool to protect personal freedoms DURING the Tudor period. Including by the single most distinguished historian of English law to ever live

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

seems significant that he openly despised the legal system of England, and loathed its judges for repeatedly telling him that he in fact actually couldnt just do this or that thing, even though all the other european kings could

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Probably had something to do with them not being worried that those rulers would abolish their indigenous legal system bc it annoyingly limited their power and had rude barbarian vibes instead of the ‘civilized and polite’ ones of Roman Jurisprudential Latinity tm

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

no it very much did and dismissing it as “xenophobia” is handwaving. Like i wonder why people were so hostile to james I and charles I? Hmm! the english were pretty ok with william and mary and with the hanoverians who were not even good at speaking english

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So no, it wasn’t mere ‘idealism’, because it was also treated as a practical reality by a king who absolutely hated England’s legal system and thought it was nuts.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And as King of England, James I gets really angry that he’s not allowed to do lots of things that he could easily do in Scotland, and that (AS HE HIMSELF SPECIFICALLY POINTED OUT MANY TIMES) all the other sovereigns of Europe could do too!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

James I is a great example of someone who knew very well how things actually worked in the rest of Europe, because he had previously been king of another European country.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I am not talking about pie-in-the-sky sentiments. I am saying that kings of England were legally debarred and, as a result, ACTUALLY prevented from doing what they wanted to do. All the time!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

You did not engage to the least degree with what I said about summary execution. Can you explain to my why it worried people when James VI and I summarily executed someone shortly after becoming King of England? Because it would otherwise make no sense for anyone to find that unusual.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Throughout the reign of James I, and still more so in the disastrous reign of his son, this is the massive point of tension with Parliament. They're like, this Scottish guy simply does not get how we do things here. There are rules.There are processes. We like to follow the recipe. THE RECIPE!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In fact, when James I comes down from Scotland to take up his New Job, he does a summary execution of a low-level criminal he encounters on the way. And people do not react to that by saying ‘normal stuff!’ Instead, they freak out about how the new king doesn’t understand that England has rules!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For example, summary executions. Queen Christina had someone killed on the spot even after she had abdicated the Swedish throne. By the Elizabethan period, that is completely not okay in England.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

When people were tortured, which was not very often, the decision was made by the Privy Council, usually without the Queen being involved. England was genuinely very different from the other kingdoms of Europe in that its sovereign could not do many heinous things that were totally okay elsewhere

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Famously, England did not have a code-based legal system.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Witches are a total non-sequitur. What?

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The law famously did constrain the monarch! Good lord, do you people have any idea what you are talking about???

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Langbein is the book to which most people refer but it is contrarian and quite out of date.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

One reason there were lots of treason cases under Elizabeth was the fact that many people were actively trying to kill her. Pope Sixtus V offered the king of Spain a million ducats to get rid of her!

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yes, which is a tiny number compared to the practice in the Continent, and many people in the legal establishment thought that the use of torture by the Privy Council and the Council in the Marches was extremely dodgy.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Even the way you are writing shows how little you know about this. To say Elizabeth did this or Elizabeth did that makes vanishingly little sense in the context of English justice in the Elizabethan reign, which operated almost entirely outside the scope of personalist rule.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I would encourage you to read this instead of opining on something you know absolutely nothing about

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is an absolutely terrible take. There is a wariness of allowing the law to sanction torture in England that long predates anything equivalent in Europe. Moreover the procedural protections of law in England were far more substantive than anything elsewhere, and English people knew it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/09/2026

Momentum might overwhelm money, but Dems are right to be worried. ICYMI Lauren Egan:

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The One Legit Reason for Dem Panic

Democrats have the momentum. But Republicans have the money.

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

also no he did not claim to have had a fling with the Empress Dowager, he claimed to have copulated with her OVER A HUNDRED TIMES

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fondly do we hope @altfaustmegaligtor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i love how EB described being PERFUMED by eunuchs before being conveyed away to Sexual Congress with the Empress Dowager

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

well SOMEBODY hasn't read Edmund Backhouse

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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 15/09/2026

Please read this piece from @talkingpointsmemo.com @joshtpm.bsky.social @joshkovensky.bsky.social -- NSPM-7 is one of the scariest government documents we have every seen. Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show talkingpointsmemo.com/news/fbi-nsp...

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Exclusive: FBI Builds Out National NSPM-7 Center to Track Dissent, Docs Show

The FBI has tapped employees from across federal law enforcement to crack...

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Here is the map of what happened this week while President Trump was flapping his mouth in Dallas.

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