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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So I got detained at the Ukraine-Poland border because a drug dog found my adderall that I completely forgot was not legal in Ukraine. And while the guards were stern at first, once they learned why i'd been in Ukraine they were friendly and apologetic, but still confiscated my meds. And I'm glad.

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Chris Osieck @chrisosieck.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I still don’t understand why American media continues to invite Brett McGurk on to discuss the Middle East without scrutinizing his record. It’s like inviting a conservationist who set a forest on fire onto Animal Planet to speak uncritically about wildlife preservation.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I think Michael Tracey should be stoned with chunks of concrete tbh.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sunset through protective anti-drone nets (UNDISCLOSED LOCATION, Ukraine)

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I left for ten days and now i'm too stupid to figure out Sea Power cuz they updated the game

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Autumn in Kyiv, Like anywhere else in the world. Crisp weather, leaves turning color, clear blue skies. Young couples in love walking arm-in-arm.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

mtn dew pitch black is in poland btw

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I found these symbols of Ukrainian statehood just lying in the bushes (they were removed from the building so they wouldn't become shrapnel)

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What a captivating war memorial oh no the war is here now"

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Smoking a cigarette under the starlit sky on the Polish-Ukrainian border at 4:00 in the morning was a memory I didn't think I wanted to have, and I still wish I could have avoided, but nonetheless accept as "cool as fuck"

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As I like to do before any flight, I would like to make the following announcement: I have information that will lead to the arrest and prosecution of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 02/10/2026

We're pleased to announce that Bellingcat won three awards at the Online Journalism Awards. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees listed here: awards.journalists.org/2026/10/02/c...

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Congratulations to the Winners of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards! - Online Journalism Awards

As the in-person celebration of the 2026 Online Journalism Awards (#OJA26) comes to a close, we congratulate the winners in the remaining 12 of 28 categories.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is absolutely true of every undergrad course I took save for those with Dr. Rob Smurr. Rob was one of the most phenomenal professors I ever had, and his love of the subject came out in the fact that he covered this, in detail, in an intro course. RIP Rob.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Neither Uday nor Qusay. Meet Lopat, guardian of the Antonov State Aviation Museum in Kyiv

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Being from Canby and seeing Christine Drazan on the state stage got me all *Bruce Springsteen Voice* "They brought death to my hometown! (laudatory)"

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Besides the embassy, US forces had already drawn down to just Irbil and possibly Bashur airbases in Kurdistan and the embassy annex at BIAP. Seems clear this means closure of Irbil—things to watch for include what remains at BIAP under State authority, and whether JSOC maintains the Kurdish CTG…

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U.S. withdraws forces in Iraq as balance of power shifts to Iran

U.S. military forces are set to depart from bases in Iraq on Wednesday, a milestone in two bloody decades of American involvement.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Guy who shills for Vladimir Putin's regime says what?

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

turns out when your country has no hostile powers on their border your right-wingers go a bit nutso inventing something else to be scared of and hate (immigrants, lgbtq people, women, etc)

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

next time i come to ukraine should i bring my hand-crank air raid siren and join in the chorus when they go off?

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

the decorations in this police department bomb shelter are excellent

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

god damn i hadn't heard our Big Dumb Bullet Sponge's voice in a few days and just heard him talking about fucking nothing at all and oh my god somebody just do it already, just fucking get it over with. For fuck sake.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

sorry for almost breaking down in this video, I'll do better in the future i promise

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

When Russia launched their full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, I kept a recurring post going on Facebook for my friends, ever day that I'd watch on a webcam the sun rising over the city: "The sun is rising over Kyiv, which remains in Ukrainian hands. It has been X days."

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

finna watch the sun rise over the Dnieper in a few

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🇷🇴 The drone crashed in Suceava County after about 4 minutes in Romanian airspace. The drone entered from Ukrainian territory during the night attack by Russia over northern Botoşani County. Two Romanian F-16s were scrambled to monitor the situation.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Heading East in a few hours. Not sure if I'll have time/capacity to post here for a bit. We'll see. If not, see yall in mid-october. Слава Україні!

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

PPB saying they're too resource-strained to give a shit is rich. They've got no problem pulling out all the stops for protests at the courthouse but this? Where actual humans could get hurt instead of just a building getting vandalized? Nah they sleep.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

alternately we retreat so fast, faster than anybody else has ever retreated

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

if you listen to obama talking at length with instrumental U2 songs in the background it sounds like a weird political youtube video from 2009.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Flags across Oregon have been ordered flown at half-staff in honor of Jesús Eduardo Olimpo Gutiérrez Toral, a wildland firefighter who was killed by a burning snag on the night of 9 September 2026 fighting the #AustinFire

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Right-wing comedians be like "here's the fourteen words you can't say on TV!"

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Mike Hutchinson @hutchymon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OK, not a fan of car seat haptics. Leave my taint alone you fucking nerds

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i've waited my entire life for this

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One of the most common lines of questioning I hear, to this day, about the 9/11 attacks involves the response of the military and the ability to keep track of the hijacked aircraft that morning.

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