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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/09/2026
Okay, this got me.
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What's Going on With Shipping (Sal Mercogliano) @mercoglianos.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Just released Captcha used to verify the parties to electronically sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Iran.
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Maya Media @mayamedia.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Worse than I thought. I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster. The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...
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I saw Kushner’s Albania resort up close — it is an environmental disaster
The damage at Vjosa-Narta is not fake news. Bulldozers are tearing into one of Europe’s most precious wetlands.
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possSCREAM, the CEO of Tricky @possqueen.dev · 21/04/2026
i think the gamecube has the best logo of any console. just look at it. it's a cube that's a G and the negative space in the G is a C
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social.
thewesternedge.media
‘Everyone is Replaceable’: Death Rattles Oregon Amazon Facility
A worker died at Amazon’s Troutdale warehouse last week. Employees were told to look away.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
BREAKING: @democracydefendersfund.org is demanding a CFTC investigation into anonymous traders who netted millions on suspiciously timed bets on US military actions—Iran ceasefire, Venezuela invasion & more Alleged insider trading on war plans IS a national security threat CFTC must act now - TN
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Marco vs. Marco.
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
The Ukraine war is often framed as a test of Putin’s survival. The internal dynamics of his regime suggest a more complicated picture.
warontherocks.com
Putin Is Not Trapped: Why Regime Survival Does Not Depend on Victory
For four years, analysts and policymakers have warned that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot afford to lose” in Ukraine. Increasingly, some argue
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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 11/03/2026
Trying to use less plastic? Big Oil and the plastics industry are spending billions to make sure everyone else uses more. “I think what stood out most is the deliberateness and intentionality over the years of pushing plastic into our lives,” said @bethgardiner.bsky.social. “It was such a shock."
theguardian.com
‘They pushed so many lies about recycling’: the fight to stop big oil pumping billions more into plastics
Plastic production has doubled over the last 20 years – and will likely double again. For author Beth Gardiner, metal water bottles and canvas tote bags are not the solution. So what is?
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War on the Rocks @warontherocks.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The war in Ukraine is forcing Russian strategists to rethink the battlefield. But not everyone agrees on what comes next. (Members Only) Listen here: warontherocks.com/ep...
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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The German 37 mm anti-tank gun wasn't the only weapon in its class with a bad reputation. #OTD in 1943 a report on the fighting in Tunisia compared the effect of 37 mm shells to peas bouncing off the armour of German tanks. #artillery #History #WW2 #WWII
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
A powerful speech by Germany’s Green Party EU member Terry Reintke on the state of rule of law in the US. It embodies the shock over democratic backsliding, political extremism & threats to civil liberties in the US. Europe remembers as it observes from afar. Via @theobserverdiplomatmag #Pinks
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
#ResistanceEarth Climate change is causing tropical plants to flower much earlier or later than normal, putting them out of sync with pollinators and animals that eat fruit and disperse seeds. The changes threaten to disrupt entire tropical ecosystems. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Tropical plants flowering months earlier or later because of climate crisis – study
Changes threaten ecosystems as flowering falls out of sync with fruit-eating, seed-dispersing animals and pollinators
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Samuel Bendett @sambendett.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
‘We don’t have infantry’: Ukraine’s war machine evolves into machine war www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
defensenews.com
‘We don’t have infantry’: Ukraine’s war machine evolves into machine war
Outmanned by a nuclear power in the largest land war in Europe since 1945, Ukraine’s front line is increasingly held by machines.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
In honor of DHS spokesliar Tricia McLaughlin's resignation, let's revisit how her husband's company won a $220 million no-bid contract to run a stupid propaganda campaign featuring her boss, Kristi Noem, bashing immigrants while sitting on a horse in front of Mt. Rushmore.
propublica.org
Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts
The company is run by the husband of Noem’s chief DHS spokesperson and has personal and business ties to Noem and her aides. DHS invoked the “emergency” at the border to skirt competitive bidding rule...
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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
eos.org/opinions/wha...
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What Americans Lose If Their National Center for Atmospheric Research Is Dismantled - Eos
Five ways dismantling NCAR will cost the American people, and two ways to save it.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"There might be a brown guy in there," is not a valid exception to the 4th Amendment. Period.
apnews.com
Immigration officers assert sweeping power to enter homes without a judge's warrant, memo says
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press reveals that the agency allows immigration officers to forcibly enter homes to make arrests without a judicial warrant.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
"Sometimes this White House inflicts on us a story that is so brainstoppingly stupid that it’s a danger even to speak, read, or write about it—you can feel your neurons giving up the ghost...So it is now with Donald Trump’s latest machination to acquire Greenland." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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Celebrate a King, Not a Trump
We will never have a DJT day.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Inside the Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford Donald Trump’s decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters’ dreams of creating an anti-democratic ‘Network State’ in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed.
bylinetimes.com
Inside the Silicon Valley Plot to Annex Venezuela for Oil That America Can’t Afford
Donald Trump's decapitation of the Venezuelan Government opens the door to his Big Tech oligarch supporters' dreams of creating an anti-democratic 'Network State' in the country, reports Nafeez Ahmed
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Four generations of my family have served our country. Service is in my blood. The President wouldn’t know anything about that.
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Car Guy Tom™ (Tom Appel) @carguytom.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
blog.consumerguide.com/high-end-hau... What was this all about? #Chrysler #Lincoln #Cadillac #Design #Eighties
blog.consumerguide.com
The Luxury Bustlebacks of 1982: High-End Haunches
When it comes to automotive styling trends, few movements match the thickly padded vinyl half-roof movement of the late Seventies and early-to-mid Eighties. Confined to American-brand vehicles, the pa...
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 19/12/2025
Space news is the best. Like, what do you mean there's a runaway supermassive black hole 10 million times bigger than the sun moving through space at 2 million miles per hour www.space.com/astronomy/bl...
space.com
James Webb Space Telescope confirms 1st 'runaway' supermassive black hole rocketing through 'Cosmic Owl' galaxies at 2.2 million mph: 'It boggles the mind!'
"The forces that are needed to dislodge such a massive black hole from its home are enormous."
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Tank Archives @tankarchives.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The T-44 tank was accepted into service #OTD in 1944. Factory #75 was chosen to produce them, where through no small effort 25 were built before the end of the year. 190 tanks were built by the time Germany surrendered, and none of them ever saw battle. #tanks #history #WW2 #WWII
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Fringe_Division @fringedivision.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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theconversation.com
Trump’s squeeze of Venezuela goes beyond ‘Monroe doctrine’ – in ideology, intent and scale, it’s unprecedented
A US military buildup in the Caribbean after weeks of naval strikes is both the latest case of intervention in Latin America and uniquely aggressive in key ways.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Hi All, Just released my latest free weekend update. The Battle of Pokrovsk (which we were first told in July 2024 was doomed) might finally be ending. The Russians have slaughtered masses to possibly take it, Ukraine is right not to do the same to hold it. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #157: The Battle Of Pokrovsk Might Be Ending
Pokrovsk Proves that Ukraine Needs Not To Throw All of Its Young People Into The Front-Line; China Calls BS On Trump's Sanctions
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ACLU @aclu.org · 29/10/2025
If AI can't distinguish between a Doritos bag and a gun, it can't be trusted to police our communities.
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Gun-Toting Police Swarm, Handcuff Young Black Man After AI Mistakes Doritos Bag For a Gun | ACLU
Deploying AI in inappropriate ways can and does get people hurt
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EUwatch 🇪🇺 @euwatch.live · 30/09/2025
Trump is failing Ukraine — that will only change if he gets tough on Putin
politico.eu
Trump is failing Ukraine — that will only change if he gets tough on Putin
If the U.S. president is serious about a ceasefire, escalatory measures may well be the only way to make it happen.
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Tom @tom0602.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
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Fringe_Division @fringedivision.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Some important information to add context and nuance to the possible motives of the Kirk assassin. tldr: People are complicated.
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Anonymous Canadian 🇨🇦 @aarwalk.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Second Amendment activists in shock as Charlie Kirk shot instead of just schoolchildren
OREM, UT - Americans who champion the right to bear arms were shocked Wednesday as controversial commentator Charlie Kirk was shot and killed, as opposed to the ordinarily acceptable trend of mass sho...
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Dawn @dawnpaints.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This kind of stupidity?
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Barbara J. King @bjking.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
These data are important; we need to face this head on: "Even in areas relatively undisturbed by human activity, insect populations are on the decline, with climate change as a likely culprit." ("Pristine areas" really?, but the overall point, yes.) #insects #nature #climate #climatecrisis 🧪
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Insect populations drop even without direct human interference, a new study finds
Research published this month found that even in pristine, untouched areas, insect populations are still on the decline. Climate change is a likely culprit.
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Sam Halpert @samhalpert.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
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Mescalero937 @mr-rucky-2u.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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Julie Gramtifa @bluevoter65.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
New COVID-19 ‘Stratus’ Variant XFG Now In 38 Countries, WHO Monitoring. XFG is a combination of LF.7 and LP.8.1.2, with 9 more spike mutations than NB.1.8.1. The spike protein helps the virus connect to human cells. New variants constantly compete to keep infecting and spreading. archive.md/pWhnv
New COVID-19 ‘Stratus’ Variant XFG Now In 38 Countries, WHO Monitoring

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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Proud. 🏆 Photo from my collection, no documented date/info.
Color photo of a longhaired ginger tuxedo cat lying on a bathroom floor, casually surveying an exuberantly shredded roll of toilet paper strewn across the floor. It should also be noted that that toilet has a mottled yellow carpeted lid and floor mat which appear to be on top of a brown carpeted floor.
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NotMyAverageDay 🇪🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @notmyaverageday.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Fellas, please share. This crime can not be forgotten. youtu.be/oRfPl3tEOqA
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Open-Source Forensics: Uncovering the Kryvyi Rih Missile Strike
YouTube video by Dividendi Insener
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
For those wondering, that's a direct quote from Pete Hegseth in 2016.
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This letter appeared in the Bloomsburg PA Press Enterprise this morning. I am assured the writer is who he purports to be, an Air Force veteran.
benion
Grieving a wasted life
At a point in life when there are far too many days behind than ahead, one tends to
re-elected in contrast to standing up for the
reflect on a life lived. In my lifetime decades
greater good?
were devoted to protecting America. Sacri
A compromised Supreme Court recently
fices were made both by myself and my fam-
trotted out a shallow token standards of
Ily in military service. The tip of the spear:
conduct for themselves. Apparently it's
Countless weeks over the years were spent
not a bribe to accept favors after a deci-sion; only before. Corporations are people?
living at the end of a runway on alert with an Really? Whatever happened to Superman's armed B-52 as generations of aviators have motto of "truth, justice, and the American done before and since.
way?"
The purpose: if required, be airborne
Pay-to-play is the theme of the day. Un-
in minutes on a one-way trip bringing a
challenged and uncontested blatant conflicts
nuclear Armageddon to an adversary. Fly:
of interest abound. The rule of law is situ-
ing the unfriendly skies over North Viet-
ational if adhered to at all. America can no
nam provided a brief interlude, but overall,
longer be trusted. The unbridled pursuit of
this long line of silent sentinels stood firm
power and wealth driven by unquenchable
to protect America by deterring external
greed has left service above self and Con-
threats to our freedoms and way of life
stitutional norms in the dustbin of a quaint
across the decades. I was privileged to serve past. with men and women of integrity imbued
Recently the VA said exposure to Agent
with a sense of service.
Orange is the probable cause of the can-
I'm truly grateful that the B-52s we flew, which were built tough, were engineered
cers I live with. Actually I suspect it's more from yet unspecified sources, which cause
on scientific principles and fabricated by experienced, skilled workers rather than
military pilots to have significantly higher
founded on mere beli…
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
“What’s transpired over the last three or four days just takes it to a whole new level of cruelty and inhumanity and, frankly, a whole new level of stupidity in doing this is the most non-strategic way.” Tens of thousands of people will die as a result of this action. www.salon.com/2025/02/28/a...
salon.com
"A whole new level of cruelty": Health experts decry "devastating" cuts to HIV treatment programs
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation said the latest cuts will deprive 350,000 people of HIV treatment.
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Chronoss Chiron @chronosschiron.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
DO NOT BUY ANY AMERICAN FOOD apnews.com/article/hhs-...
apnews.com
Top US health agency makes $25,000 buyout offer to most of its employees
Most of the 80,000 federal workers responsible for researching diseases, inspecting food and administering Medicare and Medicaid under the auspices of the Health and Human Services Department were ema...
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Andreas Umland @umland.eurosky.social · 09/03/2025
There is a real danger of the U.S. falling for Russia’s lie that it seeks peace, something Trump already said he believes, and getting rug-pulled by Russia’s pseudo-solutions. @popovaprof.bsky.social & @oxanashevel.bsky.social in The National Interest
nationalinterest.org
Be Wary Of Russia’s Call For Negotiations
While peace is a net positive, there are legitimate fears of Russian manipulation in negotiations to create terms suitable for only Putin.
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SwissDataGuy @swissdataguy.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
1/ Since 🇷🇺's full-scale invasion of 🇺🇦, its media has pushed a narrative that despite thousands of sanctions, its economy is thriving. GDP appears stable, but can these numbers be trusted? A deeper look reveals a looming banking crisis that could collapse the economy.
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Federal prosecutors are not the president’s lawyers. Prosecutors take an oath to support and defend the Constitution, not to implement the president’s agenda faithfully. My thoughts in @MSNBCDaily.
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Opinion | The top D.C. prosecutor just called himself Trump's lawyer. That's a problem.
A close read of this disturbing new statement from interim U.S. Attorney Edward R. Martin Jr.
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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
science.org
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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