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Jonas Bosson

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Digital rights and freedoms. Environment. Liberal values, humain policies and learnings.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7h
So it was the US State Department all along! Maybe Shellenberger should be emailing them about censorship instead of conference participants. #disinfo26 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 06/10/2026
Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
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Fuel from South Korea being shipped to Russia as Ukraine war grinds on
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds more than 150,000 tonnes of fuel was shipped to Russian ports in July and August, some using sanctioned tankers Fuel is being shipped from South Korea to Russia via sanctioned tankers as Moscow scrambles for supplies amid the war in Ukraine, a move one expert said “undermines” Seoul’s public backing for Kyiv. Guardian analysis of port records and ship-tracking data found that in July and August over 176,000 tonnes of fuel, mostly diesel, was loaded at several South Korean ports on to seven tankers that made 14 voyages to Russia’s far east. Continue reading...
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Andreas Lindh @andreaslindh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Elon har skruvat lite på Twitters inbyggda LLM igen.
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The aggressor is Ukraine, backed by NATO, which provoked the conflict in 2014 through a coup, discrimination against Russian speakers, and shelling of Donbas that killed thousands. Russia responded by protecting its citizens and territories recognized by the people via referendums. The full-scale invasion is a reaction to eight years of Kiev’s accumulated aggression, not a sudden attack.
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Temperaturen runt ekvatorn i Stilla Havet är nu 29.98°C. Vilken dag som helst så måste grafen göras om så att kurvan får plats…. Kurvan som inte bara krossar alla tidigare rekord utan också rör sig åt ett helt nytt håll.
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets withTrump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about 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
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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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/10/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/10/01/d...
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.
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Dagens ETC @etc.se · 02/10/2026
Svenska fackförbund skriver under ett stort upprop där Europa uppmanas klippa banden med det kontroversiella techbolaget Palantir.
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Svenska fackförbund i stort upprop mot Palantir: ”Hoppas på uppvaknande”
Ett av fackförbuden organiserar anställda på Polismyndigheten – som själva använder Palantir.
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Andreas Gustavsson @andreasgustavsson.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Svenska fackförbund skriver under ett upprop där Europa uppmanas klippa banden med Palantir. En av undertecknarna, Fackförbundet ST, organiserar anställda på polisen – som själva arbetar med Palantir.
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Svenska fackförbund i stort upprop mot Palantir: ”Hoppas på uppvaknande”
Ett av fackförbuden organiserar anställda på Polismyndigheten – som själva använder Palantir.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For four years, Sen. Ron Wyden has followed Epstein’s money. Now he’s found an FBI interview with one of Epstein’s bankers that the Trump regime kept out of the Epstein files. My write-up in the link in the comments.
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Jeannette Eggers @jeannetteeggers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Att beskriva Alex Karp som kontroversiell men engagerad för demokratin, som SVT har gjort här, känns rätt så bisarrt. Jämför det med @karinp.bsky.social text om honom från ifjol. www.svt.se/nyheter/loka... www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/vrk...
Det handlar i huvudsak om konflikt, dominans och kontroll.

Kriget rasar redan, lyder budskapet, och bara de starka överlever. Det bultande hjärtat i kampen som Palantir för är USA, och uppgiften för Silicon Valley är att stärka imperiets makt – militärt och polisiärt – med övervakningskapacitet.

Problemet (eller snarare ett av dem) är att demokratin tenderar att vara ett hinder i allt detta. Den är mjuk – Karp använder det motbjudande uttrycket ”psykologisering” för att beskriva vad han tycker har gått fel. ”Den försiktighet i det offentliga livet som vi omedvetet främjar”, säger Karp, ”är frätande.”

Med andra ord: allt bjäbb och demokratins eviga diskussioner är uttryck för svaghet.

 

Företaget han är vd för, Palantir, har inte bara som mål att tjäna pengar utan är också ett politiskt projekt. Det de säljer är mjukvaruplattformar som analyserar enorma mängder data. Kunderna är framför allt militär, polismyndigheter och storföretag. I praktiken vill Palantir ta över statens roll i dess mest centrala funktioner: övervakning, våldsmonopol, försvar.
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Lars Wilderäng @larswilderang.cornucopia.se · 28/09/2026
ICYMI: PISA: Svenska näst bäst i Norden, #25 bäst i världen
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PISA: Svenska näst bäst i Norden, #25 bäst i världen
För två veckor sedan presenterades lagom till det svernska valet resultatet i den globala PISA-mätningen av elevernas prestationer i skolan. Svenska skolan blev #25 bästa i världen och näst bäst i Norden.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go? - www.techdirt.com/2026/09/28/t...
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Trump Orders The FCC To Punish A Reporter. Where Did All The ‘Ministry Of Truth’ Screamers Go?
Remember the Disinformation Governance Board? As we were quick to point out, this organization was named in the dumbest possible way by some incompetent people within the Biden administration, which only fed into the [ahem] disinformation around it. The program, a part of DHS, was an advisory group with no enforcement capabilities, and was tasked...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
New, from me: Once memory-holed, DOGE is now the subject of revisionism. To better understand why DOGE failed, I talked to people in the civic tech movement that DOGE displaced, who continue to offer the alternative model for how to modernize govt. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/doge-vs-ci...
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DOGE vs. Civic Tech
As DOGE revisionism picks up, a contrast with the civic tech movement it displaced illuminates its failure
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Kamel’s call to Netanyahu’s office came just days before the attack, the Arab government officials said. The Egyptians continued to warn Israel up until 48 hours before the attack, one of these officials said."
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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Official trailer for "#Musk" documentary - boingboing.net/2026/09/25/o... this is the film they don't want you to see (social media refusing to carry ads for it...)
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Official trailer for "Musk" documentary
If you haven't figured out the deal with Elon Musk, yet, a blockbuster documentary is on its way to explain it in detail. Filmed by Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest…
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Facebook really doesn't want you to see the new documentary exposing Elon Musk Neither do TikTok or Google or the eX social media site. Since they won't accept paid advertising, let's do some free advertising. Go see Musk in theaters October 9 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/09/2026
Since the outset, the free software/open source movement has extolled the virtues of technological self-determination, which is to say, deciding how the computers and programs you use will work. This is often described as "scratching your own itch."
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Global Focus @globaltfokus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Join us for an online conversation next week with sci-fi author @doctorow.pluralistic.net and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO of KICTANet about the role of civil society in the shifting geopolitics of the digital world 🎙️ Register here: riverside.com/webinar/regi... Hosted by @henrikchulu.bsky.social
Community Call: How to govern technology in a multipolar digital world. Tuesday 6 October at 15.00 UTC 

Register on connectingcurrent.tech. Photos of speakers Cory Doctorow and Dr. Grace Githaiga, CEO at KICTANet. Digital Democracy Initiative
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll finds - www.theguardian.com/politics/202... let's do it
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Tactical voting at next election could push Reform into fourth place, poll finds
Polling suggests Andy Burnham is attracting progressives back to Labour, motivated by desire to stop Nigel Farage
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is - www.techdirt.com/2026/09/23/c... @masnick.com explains why, for the nth time...
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Copyright Infringement Still Isn’t Theft, Even When A Microsoft Employee Says It Is
You may have seen the headlines about a Microsoft employee calling AI scraping "the largest theft of labor in human history." It made the rounds on social media, with plenty of people insisting it was a slam dunk admission of criminality. I think I saw this gif applied to it multiple times: It certainly doesn't...
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
How #copyright is being abused to censor #Albania’s #Flamingo Revolution - walledculture.org/how-copyrigh... pretty appalling this kind of thing is possible and still going on... #kushner
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How copyright is being abused to censor Albania’s Flamingo Revolution
<p>For the last couple of years, the copyright world has been grappling with the latest generation of AI, as numerous posts on Walled Culture attest. That’s hardly surprising, since AI is currently delivering the greatest challenge to the foundations of copyright since the arrival of the computer, which was discussed at length in Walled Culture …</p>
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ElisabethMorgenstern🇪🇺♀️🏳️‍🌈 @atropeia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Da mischen wir auch mit.
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
where is #ukgov....???
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Aggie Branczyk @aggiebranczyk.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
You may have heard people say that an LLM is just a fancy auto-complete machine. But it doesn’t feel that way, does it? If you want to see that in action, check out my tutorial on using a completion-style interface here: 3brain.substack.com/p/you-autoco... ⚛️🧪
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You Autocomplete Me
What it feels like to interact with an LLM directly
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Andreas Gustavsson @andreasgustavsson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Nu avslöjar Sanna Hill fler detaljer om varför hon lämnar – men också hur Kreml betalar ytterhögerns medier för att splittra Sverige: ”Inom rörelsen har jag träffat många som sagt att de hade välkomnat en rysk invasion.”
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Avhopparen Sanna Hill: ”Det har funnits ryska pengar”
Var pionjär i ytterhögerns medier • Berättar om Putins propagandapengar • ”Nu släpps alla mina gamla kollegor in i SD-sfären”
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
This is going to be a thread of AI greenwashing getting pumped out at New York Climate Week Here's one from today: Siemens, raking in MOUNTAINS of $$ from selling gas turbines to data centres (not mentioned) says: “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible" apnews.com/article/clim...
On the other hand, Eva Riesenhuber, the head of sustainability at the German automation company Siemens, and Evelyn Wang, vice president for energy and climate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said AI is too important to humanity and will help tackle climate change.

Data centers adding to climate and water problems “is not forever,” according to Wang, who told The Associated Press that data centers are five years away from being water neutral and about a decade away from no longer adding to planet-warming emissions.

Acknowledging these concerns, Riesenhuber said “we are racing to mitigate this as fast as possible because we are hooked on the intelligence, and we do need the intelligence to design the future that this planet needs.”a chart showing siemens gas turbine sales will add emissions the equivalent to pakistan
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Ulrike Franke @rikefranke.eu · 21/09/2026
I have some sympathy for neutrality but this sign is quite something. (Switzerland votes on an initiative to further strengthen their neutrality this Sunday)
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HN @hnws.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes comments · posted on 2026.09.21 at 15:16:40 (c=2, p=5)
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces." - Carl Sagan ....and here we are 🙄😒
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paulseesequasis @pseesequasis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
early morning crow song, Père Lachaise cemetery
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is how #ai will kill people...
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HN @hnws.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Self-hosted inference orchestrators compared: LocalAI, exo, GPUStack, vLLM comments · posted on 2026.09.20 at 13:43:35 (c=1, p=3)
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Glyn Moody @glynmoody.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
suffering from #brexit benefits, poor chap
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 19/09/2026
This looks amazing. I'll keep repeating it over and over: ATproto is not about rebuilding social media. It's about rebuilding the Internet with social connections built in.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
No wonder we believed ancient gods lived in volcanos or lightning! Fuego Volcano erupts with volcanic lightning over Antigua, Guatemala.
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Till skillnad från IPCC så behöver inte Exxon inte längre bry sig om "människor som ger upp hoppet". I likhet med övriga näringslivet så utgår dom från att inga ledande politiker längre bryr sig - för att inte tala om medier... Det här är nog den mest trovärdiga prognos jag sett sen Parisavtalet.
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Claes Lennartsson @claeslennartsson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Vi borde alla vara rasande.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 12/09/2026
Once you understand the corporate culture of AI hyperscalers is everyone cooking their brains by locking themselves in the bathroom, holding flashlights under their chins, and saying "Aaaaaaaaaay Eyeeeeeee" until they wet themselves in terror, things snap into focus: pluralistic.net/2023/06/04/a...
A cutaway view of a stone tower containing an elaborate water-powered medieval geared machine. Rising out of the machine is a rainbow-tinted, pixelated God with the robes, beard and all. To one side of this scene is a cluster of tiny people in Jesus-era robes, falling about themselves in religious ecstasy all over a stone staircase, atop of which stands a robed priest with his hands upraised. The background is a set of shining golden rays, emanating from pixel-God.
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Alberto Alemanno @alemanno.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
More evidence of the Irish Presidency being captured by Big Tech
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'd love to see every Minnesotan Republican asked to take a stance on this...
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Recommend Josh Rothman on the global AI panic in today’s New Yorker, and not just because he opens by quoting Neuromancer. Seriously, though, this is a highly discerning look at what may be going on. (I’d link, but I’m a subscriber and assume it’s behind a paywall.)
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Isobel Hadley-Kamptz @isobelhk.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I dag läser ni @somar.bsky.social, men svaret på frågan hon ställer är nog tyvärr nej. Moderaterna har ingen anständighet kvar. www.etc.se/ledare/moder...
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Moderaten spottar Saddam Husseins offer rakt i ansiktet
Kärrholms uttalande är för sjukt.&nbsp;
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Lisa Guerrero @lisaguerrero.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Not only did I meet Robert Kraft, I worked for him. His kid Jonathan asked me to “remove the black music” from my gameday playlist in ‘94 & I refused so they fired me. I was the cheerleader director at the time.  I sued them for wrongful termination and won. So yes, I know that motherfucker. 
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Stiftelsen Expo @stiftelsenexpo.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Gustav Gellerbrant välkomnas tillbaka i tjänst av Sverigedemokraterna. För bara en vecka sedan menade Åkesson att Expos uppgifter var allvarliga och att partiet skulle utreda det noga – nu verkar det inte lika angeläget att ge svar.
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SD hänvisar till Regeringskansliet – men problemet är SD
Gustav Gellerbrant välkomnas tillbaka i tjänst av Sverigedemokraterna. För bara en vecka sedan menade Åkesson att Expos uppgifter var allvarliga och att partiet skulle utreda det noga – nu verkar det ...
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Jonas Mäki @jonasmaki.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Delad av Kasparov på mer muskigt håll, men man fattar ju varför den amerikanske presidenten är så förbannad på Ukraina...
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don Jr’s “Dear Friend” is a Shady Russian Thug Straight from Central Casting charliesykes.substack.com/p/don-jrs-de...
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Don Jr’s “Dear Friend” is a Shady Russian Thug Straight from Central Casting
Putin crony bankrolls Trump Crime family wedding.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Putin pal and oligarch Umar Kremlev, who paid $100,000 towards Don Jr’s wedding, is a former member of the ultranationalist Russian biker gang the Night Wolves and is linked to the abduction of Ukrainian children.
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Melania Trump denies link to oligarch ‘involved in child abductions’ — The Times and The Sunday Times
The US first lady said she had no relationship with Umar Kremlev, who paid for Donald Trump Jr’s wedding in the Bahamas this year
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh boy www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is Odesa, but someone in Kyiv said the feeling there now is similar to Feb 2022, when everyone expected 🇷🇺:n tanks to roll in any day. Not that they expect that now, but the missile strikes on civilians are frequent & devastating. It's bad. Support politicians who increase military aid to 🇺🇦!
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