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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Again and again it appears to be the case that Trump favors Putin over the EU/NATO and Ukraine! Don't acquiesce, don't do it because you'll just go deeper down the Trump's blackhole and it appears to me your'e already approaching the event horizon.
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Russian troops have besieged Oleshky, cutting off food and keeping up constant shelling until residents are dying of starvation or getting killed trying to flee Activists held a #SaveOleshky rally in central Budapest to draw international attention to the siege 🎥 Embassy of Ukraine in Hungary
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 28/09/2026
Vyriy Industries unveiled Slavic, a new Ukrainian tactical reconnaissance drone with a range up to 30 km and 90-minute endurance. It can operate without GPS using optical positioning and features a 2K camera with 10x optical and 30x hybrid zoom. #Ukraine
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Jonathan McDowell @planet4589.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Nice to meet @eurospacehistory.bsky.social
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 28/09/2026
A Ukrainian soldier in liberated Shandryholove, Lyman direction, where the 66th Mechanized Brigade continues its role in Operation Vivaldi. #Ukraine
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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Russia wanted this Swiss initiative to pass. 70% said No Would have barred Switzerland from sanctioning warring states or cooperating with NATO. 🔗 buff.ly/EC7sHi6
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Paul Macdonald @paulmac.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Anthropogenic Global Warming, Coastal Flooding, Saltwater Intrusion, Land Subsidence, Storm Surge, & Sea Level Rise 🧵 The ocean has risen some 80 mm (over 3") since 2000 (all of that rise is on the ledger of human activities [from Slangen et al 2016]). www.nature.com/articles/ncl...
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Anthropogenic forcing dominates global mean sea-level rise since 1970 - Nature Climate Change
Analysis of anthropogenic and natural contributions to twentieth-century sea-level rise shows natural contributions dominated in the early years. After 1970, anthropogenic forcing becomes the dominant...
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Re-Elect Governor Hobbs! #Pinks #VoteAZ
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"At least six babies in Pennsylvania have been born infected with measles, with two so sick they had to be admitted to intensive care. Congenital measles is a disease that’s rarely, if ever, seen in the U.S..." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
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America had wiped out measles. Now babies are infected at birth.
Congenital measles has rarely been seen in the U.S. That’s changing as vaccination declines and more pregnant women become infected.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 26/09/2026
I saw that clip circulating yesterday and thought there could be a completely normal, non-sexist, explanation other than the rage bait one. Grateful for this (really well-written!) peek into a loving family, sad she felt she had to write it. themomoftheyear.substack.com/p/im-the-mom...
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I’m the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband.
You saw me carrying our baby and food. There was more happening in our family that night.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 26/09/2026
Exclusive: Early this month, diplomats worked toward a treaty to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weapons. But U.S. and Russian diplomats removed a range of provisions designed to safeguard the use of AI in weapons, according to people familiar with the talks.
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U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🇫🇮📡🇺🇦 Finnish President Alexander Stubb called on Elon Musk to expand the coverage area of ​​the Starlink satellite internet so that Ukraine could strike missile launchers on Russian territory, writes Reuters
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This deserves attention and reposting. This is Russia threatening foreigners in their homes for speaking essentially!
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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Während des gestrigen russischen Angriffs auf eine Entbindungsklinik in Kyiv kam der kleine Kirill in einem Schutzraum zur Welt – heute kam Präsident Zelenskyj persönlich vorbei, um der Familie zu gratulieren, mit den Frauen zu sprechen und das medizinische Personal zu unterstützen.
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Trump’s executive order on recreational fishing is a ‘giveaway of fish and ocean ecosystem’, advocates warn
Federal agencies told to prioritize recreational fishing and to reconsider scientific standards as well as regulations
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 24/09/2026
Finland has become the 11th country to join Ukraine’s Drone Deal initiative for joint defense production, NSDC Secretary Rustem Umerov says. Ukraine also agreed to begin work on a Drone Deal with Australia, while agreements with another 10 countries are in the final stage. #Ukraine
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🇳🇴🇺🇦 Norway will allocate ~9 billion dollars in aid to Ukraine in 2027. The vast majority of this amount will be spent on military procurement, in particular air defense, - Norwegian Prime Minister
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
TY UN Women director Sima Bahous TY CSW chair Maritza Chan Valverde TY President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock. #EveryWomenEverywhere #ChristoFacism #Bluemaga Review of the topic: healthpolicy-watch.news/us-isolated-... IMO - Mike Waltz voted to disempower women worldwide.
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Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch
President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09...
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Human brain has a split origin, new research suggests
For centuries, scientists have thought of the brain as a single, unified organ. But new research led by Stanford Medicine reveals that what we call the brain is two distinct organs that evolved indepe...
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Minnesota Mary @minnesotamarys.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 16/09/2026
He's not got any idea what he's even voting on. He has to be told how to vote. He's incapacitated. He's incapable of representing the people of Kentucky who are currently being taxed without representation.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A Philadelphia family just bought their first home with a $10,000 first-time homebuyer grant funded by a group of Quakers It’s part of the congregation’s racial justice plan to redistribute wealth to Black residents in the Germantown area as a form of reparations
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A Philly family bought their first home thanks to reparations from Quakers in Germantown
Green Street Friends Meeting, a Quaker congregation in Germantown, pledged to spend $50,000 a year for 10 years as part of its reparations work. It’s helping Black Philadelphians become homeowners.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure reported over $2 billion in income, including more than $1.4 billion from family crypto ventures. His trust executed 3,700+ stock trades worth tens of millions in Q1 2026.
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42595893/
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Dendritic translation and neuroproteasome-mediated degradation of endogenous tau revealed by STARFISH - PubMed
In Alzheimer's disease, the protein tau is thought to redistribute from axons to the somatodendritic compartment and form fibrillar aggregates. Although tau aggregation is a hallmark of Alzheimer's disease, the dynamics of its synthesis and degradation are not well characterized. Given that nascent …
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is the kind of reversal Donald Trump probably did not have in mind when he launched his tariff strategy. The Toronto Star reports that companies are shifting production into Ontario and Quebec and, in some cases, cutting costs by almost 30%. You’re doing great Donnie. Keep it up. 😏😂 🇨🇦🍁
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Bunkerhunter @bunkerhunter.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Bei Ukrainischen Drohnen ist immer noch ein Mensch bei KI gesteuerten Drohnen dazwischen, der final entscheidet ob ein Ziel angegriffen wird oder nicht. Einen entsprechenden Bericht habe ich vor einigen Wochen gelesen. Nicht das man nicht könnte. Die Ukraine wollte nicht. Bisher! Das ändert sich. 🤷‍♂️
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Roblee14 @vegasdude83.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Not only can the US government refuse to give Americans safe drinking water they don't have to tell us it's unsafe because the constitution doesn't mention either as a right, only a Trump appointed judge would call this logical everyone else would call it insanity
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
WILSON: In 1987, Trump made his first trip to Moscow, and while he was there, something happened. No one knows what. He came back and immediately placed a paid ad in New York Times saying we need to get out of NATO, that we’re paying too much. It was Russian talking points 101. At that moment,
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This from Elliott Abrams!!!! Thank you Sir "I think maybe this is even worse: He simply doesn't care very much about a transition to democracy in Venezuela, any more than he really cares about it anywhere else. It's just not a subject he's very much concerned with." www.newsweek.com/trump-venezu...
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Trump's Venezuela deal Is a "shameful" gift to dictators: former adviser
Elliott Abrams, Trump's former special envoy to Venezuela, tells Newsweek about the risks of a deal with Delcy Rodriguez.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I’m not sure if the author of this piece knows Lee Grant was the child of Eastern European Jews and blacklisted for a dozen years, but they’ve certainly missed her underlying point that misogyny cross-cuts left and right movements
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 06/09/2026
Ukraine abstained from a UN vote adopting the Equal Earth map after the projection showed occupied Crimea separated from its territory. Kyiv warned against cartographic distortions. www.kyivpost.com/post/83869
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Kyiv Post @kyivpost.com · 06/09/2026
Kazakhstan will require Russians to obtain a paid electronic travel permit (QazETA) starting Nov. 30. The new law also mandates digital biometric registration. www.kyivpost.com/post/83873
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Prune60 @prune602.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve been busy with stuff, a lot of it was writing about OTHER stuff that was going on instead, so I didn’t get to talk too much about some of the reports from that Eastern Economic Forum. So I might pull up some of that reporting later, but I wanted to give you the gist of what I saw.
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slavko62.bsky.social @slavko62.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The title really says it all.
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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Loss of Roman forests accelerated soil erosion and created mosquito habitat. Crops failed, harbors silted up, and cities became more malarious
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Deforestation, Mosquitoes, and Ancient Rome: Lessons for Today
Abstract. This article highlights the complex interactions between anthropogenic ecological change and mosquito-borne disease patterns. Ancient Rome provid
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John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
George Perkins Marsh, early environmentalist and first US ambassador to Italy, noted in his 1864 book Man and Nature that the lack of wood for fuel led to a decline in the quality of brickmaking and masonry work throughout the Roman Imperial era
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George Perkins Marsh’s Man and Nature (1864)
Groundbreaking study of humanity’s affect on physical geography by the American statesman, philologist, and conservationist George Perkins Marsh.
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
A shared sustainable vision! If you haven't already read this Stoke Space white paper is pertinent to nearly every issue facing humanity, not the least of which is EM. www.stokespace.com/wp content/uploads/2025/04/Stoke-Space_Scaling-Life-Sustainably-By-Streamlining-Space-Mobility.pdf
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podunk-nowhere.bsky.social @podunk-nowhere.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Adding some article links, about Vance, for the folks who don't realize the fact that Amy Choua (*yes* "Tiger Mom"!)--friend of Bret Kavanaugh, and JD's Yale Law professor, was the one who set him up with Thiel; www.businessinsider.com/meet-the-wom...
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Meet the woman who helped boost JD Vance from Ohio obscurity to 'Hillbilly Elegy' superstardom
Yale Law professor Amy Chua played a critical role in bolstering Vance's profile when she encouraged him to write his memoir, "Hillbilly Elegy."
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DCReport @dcreport.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
152 ICE & CBP agents have been accused, convicted of violent crimes. 73% for sexual offenses. 50% for crimes against minors. No government database tracks any of it.  Article originally published on the @19thnews.org.
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ICE Violence Against Women Is Largely Untracked. One Advocacy Group Is Working To Change That.
Report identifies 152 ICE and CBP agents accused, charged or convicted in violent crime cases, exposing gaps in oversight and accountability.
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DCReport @dcreport.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A Navy sailor deployed near Iran learned his father was arrested by Border Patrol while he was working 12-hour shifts at sea. At least 52 military parents have been detained. 6 deported. The Pentagon has said nothing. 
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Trump’s Deportation Crackdown Is Detaining U.S. Military Families
The Trump administration’s deportation crackdown is detaining parents and spouses of U.S. service members, raising questions about military families.
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David Cay Johnston @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some cartographic humor to start your day with a smile:
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Trump is already breaking ground on his massive 250-foot-tall “triumphal arch” near Arlington National Cemetery, despite the fact that the project has not even been approved by the federal review panel yet. Apparently, approvals are now just a formality when Trump wants to build himself a monument.
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Martha near Seattle, 8647 @marthawt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The #TrumpWarOnAmerica proceeds, with his masked, heavily armed, untrained #BruteSquad terrorizing the populace.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/09/2026
BREAKING: In a win for voters, the First Circuit Court of Appeals refused to pause a lower court's block on New Hampshire's proof-of-citizenship voting requirement. Plaintiffs argued that the requirement was unconstitutional. Background 👉 demdock.com/4qUUxLX
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Enough of this transactional bullshit, Read todays Kyiv Post Editorial www.kyivpost.com/editorial/83... "The rhetoric framing these missions has systematically avoided naming the root cause of Ukraine’s suffering: Vladimir Putin and Russia’s naked imperial aggression."
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Witkoff-Kushner: Your Visit to a Nation Under Fire Is Unwelcome, Unless…
Kyiv is not a trading floor, and the liberty of millions of Ukrainians is not a commodity to be bartered away after consulting the Kremlin’s preferences.
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John Wold🇺🇦💙💛🇪🇺🇬🇪 @cracklytoes.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Totally Awesome!
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
When you’ve lost Ben Shapiro.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
🇨🇦🇺🇦 Nova Poshta has entered the Canadian market — you can now send parcels between Canada and Ukraine up to 30 kg. The stated delivery time is from 5 days. Shipping from Canada to Ukraine starts at 37 CAD (approximately 1,200 UAH) for a parcel up to 1 kg.
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