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Baņuta Rubess

@banuta.bsky.social
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Writer, theatre artist, hyphenated, traveler

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 3h
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ejam, Toronto.
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Pauls Raudseps @raudseps.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ej balsot šodien, lai vēlāk nebūtu jāiet atkal protestēt
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Kaspars Zellis @kasparszellis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"Vienkāršiem ļautiņiem Dumjas ir galviņas: Verdzības ķēdes sev tie Paši kaļ dienu no dien'. Klausa, ko tumsoņi melš, Kanceļu krāpnieki, Klausa un varmākus cien, Ciena un kalpo tiem." Šodien dzimšanas diena ir Eduardam Veidenbaumam (1867 - 1892).
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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digby @digby56.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It is required reading --- stunning even for him. He's way worse than even in January, when he gave that creepy interview to the NY Times. The stress is accellerating his decline.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Please try to reclaim your precious precious attention, at all costs. Do puzzles. Take walks without a phone. Dear god, try to read, almost anything that isn’t a manifesto will really do. You are going to need your brain.
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We have to free half of the human race, the women, so that they can help to free the other half.” - Emmeline Pankhurst. UK suffragette arrested, 1914 #womensart #Tuesday
Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman being carried by a policeman as other men crowd around
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Every morning at 9am people honor the fallen heroes of Ukraine. People pause their lives to pay respect. In cafés, people stop their work calls and conversations. On the streets, pedestrians stop walking and cars pull over. People put aside whatever they are doing and stand in silence.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
we need to talk about empires Books for when empires are hanging by a thread. The Berlin Wall, the grey zone in Ukraine, women competing, the current unwinding of the United States, a writer’s frolic. Fitzpatrick&Ingelevics, Kurkov, Ariyoshi, Packer, Lerner. bnrbookish.substack.com/p/we-need-to...
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we need to talk about empires
they collapse suddenly but do they ever vanish
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/09/2026
Read Mikhal Zygar on Umar Kremlev, the oligarch who helped pay for Don Jr's wedding zygaro.substack.com/p/the-oligar...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🇱🇹 NATO fighter jets destroyed UAV over Lithuania Around midnight, Lithuanian Armed Forces issued a yellow alert. Lithuanian Airports announced restricted use of Vilnius Airport airspace.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Look at this loathsome repulsive creature yelling at a reporter. In addition to the fact that he’s the worst president in US history, he’s one of the worst human beings on planet earth. His supporters have a very serious defect in their character.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
🇩🇪 Germany’s Chancellor Merz: Nobody threatened Russia. Not NATO. Not the European Union. Not Germany. Ladies and gentlemen, the only thing that truly threatens Russia and Putin is the radiance of democracy.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 09/09/2026
You know who actually did show up at Ground Zero? Canadian emergency rescue crews.
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Bryan Behar @bryanbehar.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Could you imagine anyone else in the history of history, let alone the President of the United States, so blatantly defiling the memory of our fallen brethren? What a terrible, broken person.
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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
While this is as depressing as expected, a couple things to keep in mind: - Saxony-Anhalt is a small Bundesland (population ~2 million) - building a regional government will likely be difficult - it doesn’t directly affect Germany’s Ukraine or Russia policy - this is why Germany is a federal state
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Pauls Raudseps @raudseps.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ja tev rūp vārda brīvība, tad jāredz šī filma - kā ASV labi finansētas organizācijas sastāda aizliegto grāmatu sarakstus un uzspiež kristīgā nacionālisma ideoloģiju visai sabiedrībai. Brīdinājums arī mums. LNB otrdien, 08.09., plkst. 18:00. bibliotekari.lv/asv-bibliote...
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ASV bibliotekāru cīņa par vārda brīvību aktuāla arī Latvijā  - Latvijas Bibliotekāru biedrība
Latvijas Nacionālā bibliotēka (LNB) un Latvijas Bibliotekāru biedrība (LBB) 2026. gada 5. un 8. septembrī aicina uz dokumentālās filmas “Bibliotekāri”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Similar happened in Moscow. Witkoff and Kushner were not driven around in protected US Embassy vehicles. They travelled in Aurus limousines, specially built for Russian leaders and undoubtedly packed with listening devices. Tools in both meanings of the word. 2/2
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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Uber just announced it will lay off 10% of its workforce, or around 3,300 workers. Last year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi made $35M — 360 times his median employee's pay — and announced a $20B stock buyback program to further enrich shareholders and himself. Textbook corporate greed.
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
When I think back writing my second novel and to all of the drafts I labeled Final Draft, Final Final, Final Final Final, Really The Final, Real Final 2, and so on… anyway here we are. I no longer engage in this kind of naming, I swear…
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good morning from Lake Ontario. ☀️
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 01/09/2026
⚡️ German vice-chancellor confronts Russia's finance chief at G20, calls his presence 'irritating' "I told him directly in his face that the Russian government must end this war," German Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said.
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German vice-chancellor confronts Russia's finance chief at G20, calls his presence 'irritating'
"I told him directly in his face that the Russian government must end this war," German Vice-Chancellor Lars Klingbeil said.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fuck you Google. We will all remember your capitulation to a mad king
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
113,000 crossings were recorded at the Russia–Georgia Upper Lars border in one week as traffic surged amid rumors of a new Russian mobilisation. Will the last person in Russia turn out the lights.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Three oxbridgized and two oxbridge-free books. Marias/Daumal/Woolf/Forster/de Kerangal. Oxford/Paradise/Isle of Skye/Cambridge/Trans-Siberia. Straight lovers/Drinkers/Loss/Gay lovers/Train drama. bnrbookish.substack.com/p/mucho-oxbr...
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mucho oxbridge
and some drinking
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 28/08/2026
Read Peter Wehner, on the significance of Natalie Harp www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/o...
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Opinion | Canada Said No to America. It Will Reverberate Far Beyond Its Borders.
Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ārkārtīgi labs raksts.
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
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Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
five unforgettables Satrapi; Lipša / Ozoliņš / Vērdiņš / Zellis; Balle; Thackeray; Huisman Iran / Soviet Latvia / Europe / England / France Repression and resistance / LGBTQ repression and silence / November 18 / greed and manners / fathers and Vichy bnrbookish.substack.com/p/a-bas-le-r...
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À bas le roi
also, one of the finest waltzers in Europe
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Una Bergmane @unabergmane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
An enormous thanks to Nicolas Auzanneau for this beautiful tribute to Marģers Vestermanis, published in Le Monde. Vestermanis devoted his life to the Jewish community and the Latvian nation, but his legacy resonates on a European scale. www.lemonde.fr/disparitions...
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L’historien Margers Vestermanis, l’un des rares survivants lettons de la Shoah, est mort à l’âge de 100 ans
Il avait consacré sa vie à réveiller la mémoire des juifs dans le pays balte, créant notamment un musée à Riga. Il s’est éteint le 30 juillet.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In a report endorsed by the former head of MI6, the Henry Jackson Society said a staggering 50% of the Russians in London - 75,000 - were informants for Putin. Russia has many operatives across Europe.
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Kaspars Zellis @kasparszellis.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Šodien atvadījāmies no Marģera Vestermaņa. Iespējams, simboliski ar viņu, kā pēdējo Rīgas geto izdzīvojušo, tiek pāršķirta arī lappuse mūsu pagātnes uztverē - tā tagad ir sena pagātne. Diemžēl, ja šo lapaspusi regulāri nepārlasīsim, tad jaunā nodaļa mūsu pagātnes stāstā būs līdzīga.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
If you’re interested in the malevolence of the rentier class
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 02/08/2026
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
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capitolhunters @capitolhunters.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Max Miller was a key Trump aide in 2020 who helped plan the Jan 6 rally. He was deep in that business, he heard all the plans. And then he disappeared mid-rally, when the violence started to unfold over at the Capitol, and never plausibly explained what he was doing. See 🧵 x.com/capitolhunte...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
An explosion at Moscow's luxury Balzi Rossi restaurant. Early reports say at least three people were killed and several others injured. Russian Telegram channels say the restaurant was closed to the public for the birthday of Russian general Aleksandr Chayko, commander of Russia's aerospace forces.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We are watching, in real time, the biggest fuck-up by any president in the history of the United States of America.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 30/07/2026
NEW: Trump says he’s not against withdrawing Blanche’s nomination, and Tillis says “looks like they weren’t being honest when they said [the slush fund] was inoperative.” Glad I haven’t dropped my lawsuit! news.bloomberglaw.com/litigation/m...
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‘Mueller, She Wrote’ Podcaster Sues DOJ Over $1.8 Billion Fund
The host of the “Mueller, She Wrote” podcast sued the Justice Department Thursday over its creation of the $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund,” saying the federal government failed to follow requ...
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Bīstams pavērsiens Latvijā - precīzi aprakstīts.
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Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hongkongfp.com · 30/07/2026
Hong Kong's independent Greenfield Bookstore, whose staff were arrested by national security police two weeks ago, has announced its closure. HKFP paid a visit on Thursday as customers made last minute purchases. In full: buff.ly/Xogcqsl Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP.
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Roman Sheremeta @rshereme.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Lithuania is showing what moral clarity looks like. The Lithuanian government has proposed requiring russian artists and athletes who want to perform in Lithuania to sign a declaration condemning russia’s war against Ukraine. If they refuse, they won’t be allowed to perform.
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Roman Sheremeta (@romansheremeta)
Lithuania is showing what moral clarity looks like. The Lithuanian government has proposed requiring russian artists and athletes who want to perform in Lithuania to sign a declaration condemning rus...
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"
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Kaspars Zellis @kasparszellis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Liepājas bākas Holokausta memoriāls – atklāts piemineklis ebreju upuriem
Piektdienas vakarā Liepājā, netālu no jūras, klātesot ebreju kopienas pārstāvjiem no dažādām pasaules valstīm, agrākās piemiņas vietā tika atklāts Liepājas bākas Holokausta memoriāls. Tas veltīts Liep...
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Russell England @russellengland.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
160,000+ people evacuated
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Carsten Groß @carstengross.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
You may have seen this, but world renowned ocean and climate scientist @rahmstorf.bsky.social and his family had to flee from these fires while on holiday. bsky.app/profile/rahm...
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Reading in the heat. Hill, Atkinson, @praddenkeefe.bsky.social, @ingagaile.bsky.social, Marias. Oakville/Baltimore, UK, London, Latvia/Russia, Spain. Generations vs. racism, murder mystery, the root of all evil, Asja Lācis, and our capacity for violence. Check out open.substack.com/pub/bnrbooki...
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family sagas
baking in the heat wave
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