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Baņuta Rubess

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

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Tero Kuittinen @teroterotero.bsky.social · 13h
I hope everyone understands now that America will not allow Finland to use the new F35s against Russia. We might as well let Instagram influencers fly them around to get some benefit from them. They will never be used for military purposes.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 20h
Photo? Feels like painting.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump in the Oval, alone, seeing this quote. He rubs his forehead. He goes to the window, stares out over the great city. Has he, in fact, betrayed the legacy of his late friend? The thought is too horrible to contemplate. "Heavy is the head," he thinks, quoting Henry IV Part II, his favorite play.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10/10/2026
⚡️US senators call Trump’s Russian diesel decision ‘a total betrayal of Ukraine.’ Democratic Senators Jeanne Shaheen, Chuck Schumer, and Elizabeth Warren condemned Trump’s decision to allow global purchases of Russian diesel for six months.
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Trump allows Russia to supply millions of tons of diesel to US, global markets
"Russia will immediately supply over 300,000 Tons of Diesel Fuel to the American and Global Marketplace, another 500,000 Tons during the month of November, and 1,000,000 Tons immediately thereafter," ...
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
One of my favorite Anne Carson things, since we are doing that: pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/iowareview/a...
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A ___ with Anne Carson
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hunger games
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ok aizrakstīju tev uz insta
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
My recent crop. Some short, sharp laughs; also, no laughing, nothing short. Ferris, Satrapi, Marias, Belcourt, DeWitt. USA, Iran, Madrid, Turtle Island, Marrakech/London. Humans in offices; resisting; love affairing; resisting; conniving. bnrbookish.substack.com/p/the-bookis...
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The bookish understand everything
or, at least something
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anne Carson + Nobel Prize = Yes, yes, and yes. I have written about her writing many times, have taught her Antigone, have played with Antigonick. "Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief." bnrbookish.substack.com/p/this-awful...
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this awful month
books are still there for us
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Bring back deluxe editions of NOX!!
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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 · 04/10/2026
Laiks rādīs cik nebriesmīgs.
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Latvijā…bet te vēl ilgi!
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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jā. Ko meklē? Raksti message.
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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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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
We support you and they wish they were you.
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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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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Sad to hear that. Was great in her time.
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Another giant
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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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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Mapquest
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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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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Monstrous
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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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Baņuta Rubess @banuta.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tokijas lidostā atstāju jaciņu ar latviešu dizainu. Meksikāņu restorānā atstāju cepuri. Atstāti priekšmeti atstāj ilgas īpašniekā. 🥲
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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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