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Frank K. (Former Sensei)

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Cat memes, politics, avid reader. Prince to Coletrane to Steely Dan. Average in most every way.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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The Warrior-Witches of Ukraine’s Resistance
An underground intelligence network uses subterfuge and honey traps to direct drone strikes deep inside Russian-occupied territory.

By Ken Harbaugh
An illustration of a rocket headed from a shadowy female figure toward a soldier whose face is illuminated by the glow of his phone
Illustration by Ann Kiernan
June 21, 2026

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For several months last year, a Ukrainian housewife, 35 and lonely in a marriage that had gone cold, traded WhatsApp messages with a Chechen commander, Achmad, stationed somewhere in Ukraine’s occupied south. They wrote about their days, their disappointments, what they hoped to do when the war ended. She asked about the front. He told her.

“Send me a picture,” she said. “I want to see your life.”

One afternoon, he obliged—a photograph taken inside the barracks, of himself and another soldier grinning for the camera. Behind them, pinned to the wall, was a map of the compound showing the unit’s position.

The housewife did not exist. “She” was a middle-aged officer named Serhiy working for Ukraine’s military-intelligence directorate, part of a concerted effort to draw secrets from the men sent to occupy his country.

“Serhiy was great at flirting,” his commander told me. “Guys in our team started asking him for dating advice.” Shortly after Achmad sent that photograph, the coordinates it revealed were struck by a Ukrainian drone.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A total U.S. surrender.
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Frank K. (Former Sensei) @frank-af-1.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
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Frank K. (Former Sensei) @frank-af-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A Gen X'er is drowning in a pool of lies, vodka, and toxic masculinity. Three people watch him go under and say, “Damn… Dad’s taking the divorce pretty hard.”
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Frank K. (Former Sensei) @frank-af-1.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
A bevy of Kittehs at the door w/ caption "Hi, we understand you are 40 and are still not married.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 30/04/2026
The American people don’t want the oligarchs’ war in Iran and ICE’s war in our streets. We want affordable health care for every family. Who exactly are President Trump and Speaker Johnson fighting for? Not us.
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Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
I should do a giveaway here too! I'll randomly select someone who retweets this to receive a signed copy of Daughter of Crows 🙂
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Garcia: Blanche just said that the Epstein investigation is basically in the past, that he’s not going to address it moving forward, and that all the documents were released. I mean, that’s just a bold-faced lie.
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maro254.bsky.social @maro254.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
In this week's first "Drive to Work" podcast (#1317), I sit down with @frank-af-1.bsky.social to talk all about The Magic Dojo, the very first major online gathering spot for the Magic community: share.transistor.fm/s/f0b1a0ad audio.transistor.fm/m/shows/2145... #mtgdtw #WotCStaff
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#1317: The Magic Dojo with Frank Kusumoto | Magic: The Gathering Drive to Work Podcast | Episode 1317
The Magic Dojo was the very first major online gathering spot for the Magic community. In this podcast, I speak with its creator, Frank Kusumoto, to talk all about it.
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Chess.com @chess.com · 28/12/2025
Who did you play chess with this week? 🎄
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Zito @zeets.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same
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Frank K. (Former Sensei) @frank-af-1.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Jordan S. Carroll 🌹 @jordanscarroll.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
if Trump can defund anything with an executive order, he effectively has an instant veto power over all previous congresses that cannot be overrided.
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Dorothee V. Plessis @dorotheevplessis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The moment in week one where he ordered a mass release of water into farmland was the moment it really sunk in what the death of expertise looks like.
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KimBo @zapperfan7.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Interesting. German Intelligence have just arrested two suspected Russia spies, they had US Sec Defence Hegseth's private phone number in their mobiles. (Der Speigel)
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Let me add something on the new Harvard letter story. The Times portrays it as they'd been negotiating in a kind of inconclusive and then Harvard was shocked at the extremity when it arrived. I had heard a subtly but significantly different version of events. As it was conveyed to me the ...
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Mark Lawrence @marklawrenceauthor.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
To celebrate the completion of The Library Trilogy with THE BOOK THAT HELD HER HEART, I'm giving away the full set of signed Locked Library special editions. To enter just repost. Contest held across my socials - enter elsewhere too to increase chances. Winner chosen randomly from all entries.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Something is fundamentally wrong with America when millions of dollars can’t buy you a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat, the respect of your children, the silence of your baby mammas, or a functional penis implant.
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
the people who told you to calm down about Roe are the same people telling you to calm down about Social Security, in case you hadn't noticed
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Well, Kirsten, you shouldn’t have empowered Trump by voting for the CR. Just sayin’.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The thing is, it would be easy to give actual gang members the limited due process they get and send them on their way if that was the goal.
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Anne Caprara @annecaprara.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The fight going on in the Democratic Party right now is not between hard left, left and moderate. It’s between those who want to fight and those who want to cave. And Team Fight stretches across all ideological aspects of the Party. Misread this at your own peril.
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
When the Senate Minority Leader sells you out, the only option is to take back the party & country with grassroots activists in blue and red disricts to stand up for the Constitution and our democracy.
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realKyleKeegan @realkylekeegan.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Is anyone looking up the procedure for choosing a new Senate Minority Leader?
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The next phase of our walk to autocracy is that they will go after the courts, deny their legitimacy, attack judges personally, and openly defy and ignore court orders.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Just a friendly reminder that while voters won't have another chance to remove Schumer until 2028, the Dem senators can remove him at any time if they just get together. He may be able to stay in the senate, but he doesn't have to remain leader. It's time for something new.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Can you help me get 500 reposts on this post? I am going live on youtube on Friday. I am super pissed off what is happening in our party and want ro discuss Chuck Schumer and more with you. If you are not subscribed to my channel please consider doing so here: m.youtube.com/@adamparkhom...
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Schumer is a disgrace
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/03/2025
ARE YOU KIDDING ME? WHAT THE FUCK, CHUCK?
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Tris @trisresists.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
No longer can this be the face of our fight for democracy! Chuck needs to resign.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
One day he’s telling us that tariffs are amazing because they will bring lots of new jobs to the US and raise so much money we won’t have to pay income tax, then the next day he’s telling us we aren’t doing them because people were nice to him on the phone.
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Arabella @arabellaspireship.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Curtis Yarvin is mapping out the destruction of American democracy. We should all know his name.
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Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
www.publicnotice.co/p/pam-bondi-...
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AG Bondi blames deep state for nothingburger Epstein files
Conspiracies are fun. Reality notsomuch.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Art Candee 🍿🥤 @artcandee.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
At least a dozen Teslas were set on fire at a Tesla dealership in Toulouse, France. Thoughts and prayers.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Our Union is in quite a state.
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Mars 🌌 マルス @marsaleen.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
"The new US administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision." - Dmitry Peskov, Kremlin spokesperson Add this to the growing list of things you never thought you'd see in your lifetime.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
I’ve always been skeptical of folks who say Trump is a literal ‘Russian asset’ or that Moscow has ‘kompromat’ on him, and the Russia obsession hurt the Dems in term one… but… how does anyone explain this? Justify this? How? t.co/ie1nWaL8ot
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LunaLuvgood2020 @lunaluvgood2020.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
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