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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3h

The last Trump-Kushner-Witkoff “peace plan” for Russia-Ukraine had more on data center construction opportunities than on security guarantees that could make peace last. This time it’s an oil deal. The whole effort has been trying to sell out Ukraine for personal profit and neo-fascist solidarity.

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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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Boze Herrington, Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing an essay, writing a eulogy, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing for 5,000 years.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Seven days of fever, a headache from hell, a rasping cough...and I worked the whole week because immovable deadlines. Gotta love being irreplaceable. 🤪

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Very occasionally, the frenemies snuggle up together.

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Jonathan @jonathansocials.com · 24/09/2026

Trump's G20 at his own resort, forcing nations to pay him, then inviting Putin, perfectly combines enriching himself with rewarding an international aggressor.

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Trump keeps finding new ways to give Putin unearned rewards,...

The president’s decision to host a G20 summit at a Trump-owned business is a problem. Inviting the R...

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

But Cyril Ramaphosa was disinvited because Afrikaners are being "persecuted" here in South Africa... 🙄

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I picked up a respiratory infection in Zambia and the culprit was...my editor! He was coughing but kept insisting that he was fine. 🤔

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Unlike Netanyahu, Mamdani doesn't have the blood of tens of thousands of innocent people on his hands. The Israeli Prime Minister should end his days in a cell in The Hague like Milošević and Karadžić.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Making more Zambian memories. I just love this place.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's official: Dr Jimson Olufuye is my favourite Nigerian.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Living my best life in Zambia, zebra kick notwithstanding.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I was chatting to my new acquaintance Khumalo about life in Eswatini when this apparently sweet, placid zebra came up behind me and gave me a kick! We were just minding our own business at the buffet. 🙈

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I visited Malambia today. 😆 Sitting with Zambians and Malawians and enduring their endless jokes and sibling rivalry. 🤣🤣🤣

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Ah, Mosi-oa-Tunya, I have missed you!

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

9 years ago today, Hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico. In its aftermath, I spoke to hundreds of people about their experiences and tried to answer difficult questions about the island. The result was my 2019 book, When the Sky Fell: Hurricane Maria and the United States in Puerto Rico.

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Dingus Ex Machina @akatzel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Cue further insane incitement on XAi and (fingers crossed) massive margin calls.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Am I the only person who counts down the minutes to check-in so I can reserve the exact seat I want? 😆

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Putin in 2022: We have no plans to invade Ukraine Putin in 2026: We have no aggressive intentions toward Europe

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The cats are clingy because mom has packed a suitcase. They know what's going on. 💔

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

You would think the nephew of John F. Kennedy, who currently holds a position in the Trump administration, would have something to say about the potential destruction of the beloved Kennedy Center, but I guess letting children die of preventable diseases is a full time job.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Playing with watercolour. So soothing.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’m so pleased to announce the relaunch of my “Wealth and Poverty” course, this coming Monday, September 21st. Please join me and Heather Kinlaw Lofthouse for a live “watch-a-long” of the first class of my course, on Substack at 4:30pm PT/7:30pm ET. More details at the link below:

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My course "Wealth & Poverty" starts right here on Monday, September 21st

And every subsequent Monday for the next 14 weeks.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"The Cold War was like the Wagnerian cycle The Ring: it was massive and seemed to never end." - Sir Jeremy Isaacs.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Despite being a poet and all, I love reading books about economics.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My friend Dan rescued a tiny, dusty, terrified kitten by the side of the road a few years ago. His partner recently found a job in Montpellier so they relocated from Midrand. Look at Luna now! Living her best life in France. 💖

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

My former husband was staying in this apartment block in Odesa a short while ago. He sent me this photo yesterday.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Is it just me who finds TV series excessively violent these days? As someone who has used their martial arts training to counter an attack while out hiking, I find the normalisation of brutal violence hard to stomach. There is really nothing cool about violence. 🤮

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026

Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Off to Zambia for a conference in a week's time and found the perfect book for the flight...

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Trickery, coercion and trafficking: Russia's tactics to get more cannon fodder for its 'special military operation' that never ends. It primarily targets people in lower-income countries who are looking for work. Putin is shameless. www.france24.com/en/europe/20...

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Russia tricks 'vulnerable' foreigners to fight in Ukraine war, Amnesty reports

Foreign nationals are being tricked into fighting for the Russian army against Ukraine through fake job offers, an Amnesty International report said Thursday, citing interviews with prisoners of war.…

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Started reading this and simply cannot put it down. Extraordinary.

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 10/09/2026

FWIW I don’t think that AI is an existential threat, nor on track to become one. I do however think that the leaders of the biggest AI companies, AI’s strongest boosters, and some of the folks who are most adept at using it to exploit others are actively hastening along OTHER existential threats.

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

"The history of illness is not the history of medicine - it is the history of the world - and the history of having a body could well be the history of what is done to most of us in the interest of a few." - Anne Boyer

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

We adopted an adorable little dwarf hamster called Waffle. Child went overseas because parents are divorcing. So I am now a hamster mom. 😆

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Ariana Gic @arianagic.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Putin's aspirations are the extermination of Ukrainians and the destruction of the Ukrainian state and nation. There should be no illusions about what the US is proposing. A win for Russia is only a loss for Ukraine. The US plan is Ukraine's fall and Russian domination of Europe.

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The “old enough to remember why Nazis are bad” demographic at the end there

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Fiona Zerbst @fionazerbst.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I flew to Moscow aboard an Aeroflot plane in 1995. People were still allowed to smoke aboard the plane - and they all brought their own food because the food served was inedible. I had flu and a passenger brought me a blanket because no air hostess came near me. 🙃

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Ruslan Trad @ruslantrad.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Unfortunately, this headline is far from accurate. In reality, U.S. officials are pandering rather than negotiating, while—most likely—they are separately discussing future business ventures with Moscow, including those in the occupied Ukrainian territories. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...

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Putin begins talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on ending war with Ukraine

Moscow and Kyiv vow not to strike each other’s capitals for three days during negotiations

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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today, Witkoff will get his instructions from Putin and bring them to Ukraine. And then we’ll see the headlines: Trump saying that Putin wants peace, while Ukraine is “making everything more difficult.” Please tell me I’m wrong.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Occasional reminder that there is an ICC arrest warrant against Putin for war crimes in connection with the mass abduction of Ukrainian children.

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