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Paris dweller. Wonk wrangler, for now.

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Wolf-man main bastard Nafo @wolf-man.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Morning Fellas Quote of the day
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure
The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
LAME
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Who could’ve have foreseen Kim Guilfoyle would go on a grifting and crime spree after Trump named her as Ambassador to Greece to get her out of the country after Junior hooked up with a younger woman?
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saying he'd be cool with Iran nuking my home city is pretty bad but not quite as bad as when Hillary said some trump supporters were deplorable so I can see why the media turned the latter into a major scandal and not the former
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Russia Feb 2022: We need to invade Ukraine as they have biolabs producing Russophobic weaponised bats that make people gay. Russia Oct 2026: Someone died at one of our biolabs that makes the bubonic plague.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
As if the blatant corruption and conflict of interest issues weren’t insulting my sensibilities, the cable access-worthy production values make me apoplectic! For the crissakes can’t they be good at…anything??
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A key passage from Dexter Filkins' description of Kushner-Witkoff "diplomacy" in the current issue of the New Yorker www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Listen, I just think it's weird that the same people who are saying they're worried that AI is going to wipe out humanity are also eager for military contracts that will give AI control of weapons.
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Craig Newmark @craignewmark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Appreciated, but never was a billionaire. Maybe "power corrupts, but money makes you stupid". (I think that's from @profgalloway.com)
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
o no three dollars more for gas is my RED LINE but as ever the face-devouring leopards are inconsequential
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The ultra-Far Right/neo-Nazis are joining forces in Europe, which should worry anyone with even a passing acquaintance with history. Germany’s AfD and Italy’s Future Nationale have announced a partnership. Everything old is new again.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
LEO!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Mind numbing corruption!
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 07/09/2026
Perspective.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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MapQuest @mapquest.com · 27/08/2026
We’re not changing it.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Ugh just awful.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Not at all rabbit boiler behavior from someone with access to the PDB.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s really impressive that anyone could watch the wars in Ukraine and Iran and determine that we… don’t need drone battalions. What are we even doing here?
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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
the fact that john ossoff can kick off a two-day media cycle by saying that the president is uninterested in doing his job and is sleeping through meetings and traveling around with a young blonde, suggests that not enough of these guys are speaking plainly and effectively about these assholes
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 17/08/2026
if traffic enforcement cameras and flock/alprs were the same, cops would be equally enthusiastic about both. they extremely are not, and confusing the two helps 1) cops and 2) people who want to murder you with their cars.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Indeed, such a shame. If we only knew of any trained diplomats with decades of experience, institutional knowledge, and a skillset for negotiating sensitive geopolitical disputes.
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Our Common Defense @ourcommondefense.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
50 Senators let a Weekend News Anchorman run the Pentagon because they were afraid a gameshow host would yell at them
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 10/08/2026
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I said this immediately following the very first episode of Survivor and I still stand by it
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Accurate.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
With those billions he can’t find the means for a spa day? #toxic #moist #projection
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Me either. Fauci is a decent man and an honorable public servant. That he’s being so defiled is literally nauseating. Who would want to work for the American people in *any* capacity after witnessing this disgraceful charade?
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🎃 Camp Chrystal Lauke Manson 阿劉 @chrislaumanson.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Somewhere out there, the Bob Fosse of spectacle porn is being criminally underutilised because of lack of investment 😔
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Blue Oleta @blue-oleta.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Pretty wild that Taco Bell identified the source of the outbreak before the FDA did and promptly pulled it. Basically, Taco Bell is now a more reliable authority than the FDA
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 22/07/2026
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF. This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy. Every member of Congress must vote NO.
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Absolutely 💯 Tax Them…. NEW: Over the World Cup final weekend, ~3,000 private jets flew in and out of the NY area. On the last day, private jet CO2 in the area doubled its 5-year norm(!). Private jets are the most carbon-intensive form of travel. Tax them.
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I donated a little scratch, seems like this folks could use a little help.
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Jesspooka Kant 🎃 @jessdkant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 18/07/2026
ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Identified as David Brouillette
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ICE Agent Who Fatally Shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero Identified as David Brouillette
In Maine, the ICE agent who fatally shot Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero during a traffic stop in Biddeford last Monday has been identified as David Brouillette, a former police officer and U.S. Army ve...
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Yes send all of those super-smart, talented students home, we don't want 'em!!! God you stupid, stupid motherfuckers
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Never forget
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Hep @diplomoto.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Never forget what an amoral, shady POS that guy is. Well, "was," if rumors be true.
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Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineclarkforga.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Five facts that you should know about the current Cyclospora outbreak.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DOGE officially ended over the weekend. One of its crowning achievements was cutting $15M from the federal government’s screwworm monitoring program. Now, the Trump administration is preparing to spend $1B to combat the screwworm outbreak. "Efficiency."
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
On Wednesday of last week, Trump gave disaster relief funds to red states. On Friday, he denied disaster relief funds to blue states. If you’re wondering why a lot of us are up in arms about the proposed OMB rule that will require political litmus tests for grant funding, THIS IS WHY.
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Blue Fairylicious Girl🧚 @bluesnowflake.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If not needing Daddy to fight your battles for you & you win 4 World Cup championship’s was a picture
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BHoswell [Money doesn't change men. It unmasks them.] @benhoswell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
From a 'closed loop' system. Lying fucks.
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Cheyenne BOPU traces rare bacteria discharge to Meta data center contractor
CHEYENNE — The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has identified Goat Systems LLC, a contractor working on Meta’s in-progress data center campus in the High Plains Business Park, as the
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“Russia was a hoax!” 🤔 Here’s an excerpt from now-deceased hero 🦸🏻‍♂️ Navalny’s book where he reminds us Trump’s campaign manager Paul Manafort — who claimed to be working for free — was getting millions from Russian oligarchs to funnel info to Putin👇🏽 (a “Russian Watergate”)
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Don't want to speak ill of the dead, so getting this Mitch McConnell take out now. He saw Trump with complete clarity, as a danger to America, but protected him anyway. Perhaps more than anyone, he had the power to end Trumpism, but chose party over country. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/jan-6-and-...
And yet…McConnell refused to vote to convict. Seven of his colleagues did, and with McConnell’s leadership, more would have done so, potentially enough to get to the supermajority needed. With conviction, the Senate could have also taken the vote to block Trump from running again. Doing so would have ended Trump as a political power. McConnell was clearly considering this option. In an oral history interview at the time the House was impeaching Trump, McConnell said

But apparently you can impeach somebody after they leave office, and if that happens, there’s a second vote in the Senate, which only has to pass by a simple majority, that prevents that person from seeking office again. So he could not only be impeached, but also eliminated from the possibility of a comeback for this office. So it is significant.

In the end, McConnell protected Trump from punishment. It was not just the refusal to vote to convict. After a swift House impeachment, he pushed to delay the Senate trial. He opposed the Senate joining in a Congressional investigation of Jan 6. He endorsed Trump in 2024, although this matters little except to further diminish McConnell’s dignity, as it was clear by this point that the Republican Party was Trump’s and McConnell’s time of influence was at an end.
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