Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The withdrawal was also celebrated by Iran-backed groups but raised concerns among some other Iraqis, particularly in the Kurdish region, where many fear a resurgence of IS as well as more attacks by Iran-linked groups,possibly emboldened by the departure of US forces. www.usnews.com/news/world/a... 001
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable." 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Lai is one of the main contributors to Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp, especially to the Democratic Party. A British citizen since 1994, he was imprisoned in 2020 and his business operations shuttered under pressure from the Chinese government. www.politico.com/news/2026/09... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Nicole Saphier, reported investments in McDonald’s, Monster Beverage, Coca-Cola, and tobacco company Philip Morris International in financial disclosures. www.msn.com/en-us/money/... 010
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/09/2026💡 If you have one takeaway from the spectacle playing out in Dallas, it should be this: A White House that believes it is winning does not make a trillion-dollar promise out of the blue eight weeks before Election Day. 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 12/08/2026US troops were repeatedly spotted and “destroyed" by Ukrainian drone operators during a military exercise earlier this year, exposing weaknesses in how American forces protect themselves from battlefield drones, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. www.news18.com/world/ukrain... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/08/2026The generating capacity of 4 billion kilowatts is about 1.7 times the combined installed capacity of the EU and the US, and accounts for nearly 30 percent of the global total. www.globaltimes.cn/page/202606/... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 19/07/2026‘Mr. Carr, please say even crazier autocratic stuff’: Inside the GOP backlash to the FCC chair. The nearly century-old telecom agency is central to President Donald Trump’s media wars. Some deregulation-minded Republicans wish it would just go away. www.politico.com/news/2026/07... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 17/07/2026 Nyesha Stone waits in line to enter Brave + Kind Books in Decatur, GA during the Black Girl Book Fair on Saturday, July 11, 2026. “I’m here to support the book fair,” Stone said. “It’s important that we support Black authors.” DEAN HESSE/APPEN MEDIA 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/05/2026In memory of what the USA that was once known as "The Bastion of Democracy." With the exception of Republicans until December 7, 1941 wrought fire on the USA. qr.ae/pFydPP 040
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 03/05/2026Why is Roundup is everywhere. Literally! Monsanto’s flagship weed killer (active ingredient: glyphosate) was all over the headlines this past week, seeping into the feeds of wellness influencers and... 120
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/04/2026The 1944 Exercise proved to be the most costly training incident in terms of lives lost in the whole of World War Two. The similarity between the Start Bay area and the Normandy coast prompted the use of the area for several full-scale and live battle exercises. exercisetigermemorial.co.uk/about 010
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 28/04/2026"Trump previously had said that private donations would pay for the estimated $400 million cost of the ballroom project that he has been pushing for. It was unclear how Graham would navigate the measure through the Senate, where Democrats are expected to oppose it." www.msn.com/en-us/news/o... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 23/04/2026The unflattering secrets revealed in Elon Musk’s latest legal feud: A “supposed lapse in memory” from ketamine use could be relevant but OpenAI’s lawyers couldn’t point to evidence that Musk used the drug. A “supposed lapse in memory” from ketamine use could be relevant. www.msn.com/en-us/money/... 020
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/04/2026John Phelan out as Navy secretary in latest high-profile Trump admin. departure www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/04/2026‘Holy Babble!’ NYC Art Installation Examines Trumpism April 15–May 2: HOLY BABBLE!, a new conceptual art installation, open in New York’s Lower East Side, offering a timely examination of Trumpism as a system of belief shaped by narrative, repetition, and spectacle. blackstarnews.com/holy-babble-... 010
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/04/2026Tourist finds rare chunk of oldest sea crocodile: The 11 known fossils of this animal are the first good evidence for the early evolution of the crocodylomorpha, said Dr Paul Davis, geology curator at Lyme Regis Museum. www.bbc.com/news/article... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 22/04/2026In Tanzania, Carolina once struggled with declining harvests as weather patterns shifted. Today, her land produces food year-round for her family, generates more stable income, and has brought an ecosystem back to life. trees.org 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 19/04/2026Anyone, like me, tired of Trump's idea of "Winning?" 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 16/04/2026How much will it cost us to tear down this monstrosity approved today by Trump's Commission of Fine Arts? The Arch de Trumf. 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Fresh Off AI Jesus Scandal, Trump Posts Another Crazy Jesus Photo: newrepublic.com/post/209077/... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 14/04/2026...How patriotic they are. I draw parallels with the Battle of Britain & people defending their homes & homeland. An invading force like Russia is, that’s not the same as defending your homeland.” www.twz.com/44965/u-s-f-... 011
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 14/04/2026"Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth is now $6.3 billion, soaring 60% from before he returned to office, a striking development given how much the Trump Organization struggled before. The problem of conflicts of interest goes back a decade to when Trump first ran for office..." #Corruption 112
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 13/04/2026 Trans troops said “highly trained professionals have been removed from positions with little planning, leaving their teams short-handed. When they disappeared from their jobs, they stayed on DOD books for months unable to be replaced and being paid to do nothing.” www.msn.com/en-us/news/u... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 13/04/2026"But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." ~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Judges fired after blocking deportations of pro-Palestinian students: Trump has fired two immigration judges who dismissed high-profile deportation cases against international students who had advocated for Palestinians. attentiontotheunseen.com/2026/04/11/j... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 11/04/2026...the current administration’s OMB is proposing budget cuts that will all but dismantle much of NASA. It’s surprising, illogical and very troubling. www.ms.now/opinion/arte... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 11/04/2026—for America’s 250th anniversary in July. Instead, the Catholic leader has arranged to visit a very different locale on July 4: Lampedusa, a tiny island between Tunisia and Sicily where North African immigrants wash ashore by the thousands. newrepublic.com/post/208820/... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026What China is learning from the Iran war: While the globe focuses on the war in Iran, the timebomb at the center of growing tensions between the U.S. and China — Taiwan — keeps ticking. www.politico.com/newsletters/... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Palestinian shot dead during Israeli settler attack on occupied West Bank village: A relative said Alaa Khalid Subeih, 28, was killed as he tried to defend a greenhouse from the settlers. A senior UN official also said he was killed by a settler. www.bbc.com/news/article... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026The riskiest moments of NASA's Artemis II mission may still be ahead: As four astronauts make their fiery plunge through the atmosphere Friday evening, they'll rely on a heat shield with known design flaw. www.nbcnews.com/science/spac... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Study Shows U.S. Ignored Rules of Engagement in Iran Strikes newrepublic.com/post/208953/... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026A Student Saw One Lonely Rock. He Suspected a Mystery—and Uncovered a 3,700-Year-Old Ritual Site: George Bird knew there had to be more to the six-foot-tall standing stone. www.popularmechanics.com/science/arch... 010
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026"A majority of Hungarians want a shift in their country's foreign policy, and nearly half say they do not trust Prime Minister Viktor Orban, according to a new poll published April 9, just days before the country's parliamentary elections." kyivindependent.com/hungarians-d... 010
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026Moldovan president approves withdrawing from Russian-led bloc: The move is part of Moldova's efforts to drift away from Russia's orbit and join the European Union. Moldova was granted EU candidate status in 2022 & officially began accession negotiations in 2024. kyivindependent.com/moldovan-pre... 000
Brandon Spring 🇺🇦 🇮🇪 🇩🇰 🇹🇼 @bpspring.bsky.social · 10/04/2026 Starmer likens Trump to Putin as he laments soaring energy costs:British PM says bills are going up ‘because of the actions of Putin or Trump across the world.’ www.politico.eu/article/star... 000
