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Yastreblyansky

@ghastreblyansky.bsky.social
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There is no peace without justice. Old Democratic blogger at yastreblyansky.blogspot.com and yastreblyansky.substack.com. He/him. Is this where the party is?

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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 1h
Not the most important thing here but no, it can't (though they're obviously more likely to try than they were when he tore up the JCPOA in 2017 and started a senseless war this year). They are decades away from building a nuclear weapon let alone building an ICBM to deliver it to California.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 5h
Ew--voting for the Republican is excitingly transgressive? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u... I don't think so, but keep saying it.
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Steve Hilton’s ‘Just Try It’ Ad on Mail Voting Denounced by Republicans (Gift Article)
An online spot for Mr. Hilton, the G.O.P. candidate, is full of sexual innuendo that has befuddled Republicans and Democrats watching the race for governor in California.
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 5h
There is nothing he knows now that he can have any excuse for not having known then.
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Rick Perlstein @rickperlstein.bsky.social · 5h
A Democrat got drunk once. A Republican made his fortune swindling sick people. We report, you decide. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/u...
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The Campaign for Ohio’s Next Governor May Be the Ugliest in the Country
The candidates for Ohio governor have significant policy differences, but the campaign ads have been strikingly personal, with exaggerated portrayals of one candidate as a con artist and the other as ...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
A 10K contribution and a $900 million return. The scale of the graft in Homeland Security is a) off the charts and b) possible because no-one believes they will face any accountability
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
this reveals SO MUCH about legacy media
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Janissary 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 @janissary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Republicans just can't stop themselves from lying. Fact check: Woman in anti-Brown trans ad wasn't from Ohio, had surgery as adult share.google/ONAebWPykkP2...
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Woman accusing Sherrod Brown of forcing transgender surgeries isn’t from Ohio, didn’t have procedure as minor
In an attack ad against U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown, a woman accuses the Democrat of pushing transgender surgeries on minors "like her." She didn't have surgery until she was an adult.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 15h
What choice do they have? Truth keeps disagreeing with them.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 15h
Hope it's clear to all Democrats that no SCOTUS nominee can be considered until January. Immediately after the election is just as "too close" as immediately before. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Conservative US supreme court justice Samuel Alito hints at retirement in interview
Alito, 76, delivers comment in rare interview with CBS News scheduled to air on Monday
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's a genuine religious difference, but the bro religion is nuts
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
My 81yo mother is doing voter turnout Postcards for Texas!
Postcard front: James Talarico calls for tighter regulation on data center development. 
Postcards back: hi Austin, it’s great to see someone speaking out about data centers. Our electric bills are already too high! Shelly
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"We are losing our soul as a nation," warns Cardinal McElroy, as he urges us all to rise up against Trump’s "evil" immigration policies. www.headsupnews.org/p/we-are-los... New on Heads Up News.
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‘We are losing our soul as a nation’
Catholic clergy call for action against Trump’s ‘evil’ immigration policies
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A bit of both actually, and not unusual. "I'm just a soul whose intentions are good Oh Lord please don't let me be misunderstood"
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A Dandelion @onedandelion.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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En Buen Ora @enbuenora.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The NYT, Atlantic, etc., know exactly who these people are and what they are doing, so when they choose to constantly boost them and follow their agenda, it's because the owners & management & several of the star employees _agree_ with them and like it.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
(And it isn’t just Meta) www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/t...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Putin apologists of the right (eg Tucker Carlson) and left (eg Noam Chomsky) got what they wanted: a U.S. government that treats the war as not Russia’s fault, cuts military support for Ukraine, and pressures Ukraine to give up land in exchange for the Kremlin’s word. It has not resulted in peace.
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Matt Leeds @mleeds2048.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
International Criminal Jared Kushner Must Be Investigated For All Crimes. He is owned by the Saudis for $2B. He serves Israel & Netanyahu. He’s Trying To Steal An Island In Albania. SA MBS,& Netanyahu,are his handlers. The list is long! He is an International Criminal,& Future Prison Inmate.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
And "trusted relationships" with the billionaires they're trying to sell Gaza (and Ukraine) out to. Not with the people who are suffering in these adventures.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Five Russian drones crossed into Moldova on 3 October, exploding in vineyards and fields south and east of Chișinău. The strikes are the latest in an escalating series of Russian incursions and attacks targeting European countries.
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Russian drones and missiles strike Moldova as Moscow trains saboteurs to break it from within
Five Russian weapons crossed into Moldova on 3 October and blew up in vineyards and fields south and east of Chișinău. The strike is the latest front in a war Russia is fighting against Moldova with b...
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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Folks have insulted:  My Southern drawl.  My loc’d hair.  My clothes.  My shoes.  My intelligence.  I’ve been called a ghetto Black b!t€h. Now @JDVance says I don’t belong and should leave the very country my ancestors helped build. This is a lot y’all. It is. #AngieForFlorida
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Got his face on the cover though, right? The ultimate sign of validation back in the 1970s, when his mind got frozen.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 03/10/2026
My investigators have confirmed the Trump administration is hiding interview documents it conducted with some of Epstein’s banks, and there could be more. There’s no limit to how far Scott Bessent, Kash Patel and Todd Blanche will go to continue this cover up.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's the last thing left that has ever worked for them.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If I get a check 100% of it is going to ActBlue
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Midterms 2026 Vote! @ambientvisions.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.propublica.org/article/cali... #rawmilk #rfkjr if you don't research the risks of raw milk for yourself or your family this will keep happening. don't believe the BS put out by rfk jr b/c is a few cards short of a full deck brain.
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
lalalalala I can't hear you
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 30/09/2026
The ultrawealthy aren’t just pulling away from average Americans. Buoyed by a stock-market boom that's added trillions of dollars to their net worth, the extremely rich are even pulling away from other rich Americans.
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The Gap Between the Rich and the Very, Very Rich Is Getting Wider
The 0.1% are worth $28 trillion, or about 15% of the nation’s total wealth. The average wealth for a household in this group is over $200 million.
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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Some UCSF professors had unkind things to say about me because I wrote a book warning about this. I was “hysterical” and “the worst.”
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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reality check 🤔😕😢 @realitycheck.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Great examples regarding balance of power. AI *could* be inclusive and reduce inequality. But it seems more likely to worsen inequality and entrench the oligarchy, as well as the underclass. A large plumbing firm can filter those bot calls. An individual plumber, maybe not. Another good example:
theconversation.com
AI offers promise for agriculture, but smallholder farmers risk being left behind
AI tools for farming can play a role. But they need to be properly tailored for African and developing nations’ context.
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Joe Noonan @joenoonan.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Uruguay, with 3.5 million people, generates 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. The architect of that transformation, Ramón Méndez Galain, put it simply: "The key is not technology; it is institutions. Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."
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Our solar power model isn't working — there's a fairer way
Solar lease-to-own could unlock Ireland's energy future — Uruguay, the Netherlands and Germany have all made this work with straightforward rules, writes Mary Teehan
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
That deserves a link www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Federal judge halts Big Bend border wall construction in blow to Trump agenda
Plan to install barriers through popular national park sparked outrage from advocates and politicians alike
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Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · 02/10/2026
🚨 BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge just HALTED the destruction of Big Bend. This is a massive victory for the landowners, local communities, and everyday Texans who stood up to protect one of our state's greatest treasures. The fight isn't over, but today, the people won.
Graphic from the Center for Biological Diversity over a scenic view of Big Bend. Large text reads, “MASSIVE WIN FOR BIG BEND.” Below, it says a federal judge has frozen all destruction throughout the Big Bend region until the project’s legality can be determined in court. The graphic adds that the Center will continue fighting to save Big Bend and asks supporters to join them.
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Jorj, Interim DEITY🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦💪🏽 @just-jorj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Google Accused of Illegally Killing a Massive Forest for Its New Data Center Project
Google is under fire for clearing over 300 hectares of forest for new data centers in Finland without the required environmental assessments.
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This GOP Congress literally does less than nothing. They twiddle their thumbs while allowing the executive to UNdo great things the previous administration did, through illegal executive orders www.morganlewis.com/pubs/2025/01...
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Federal Agencies Ordered to Pause Spending of Inflation Reduction Act, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funds
President Donald Trump via an executive order titled Unleashing American Energy directed federal executive agencies to pause disbursement of funds appropriated by Biden-era energy, environmental, and ...
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who says Trump never feels empathy yastreblyansky.substack.com/p/literary-c...
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Literary Corner: My Favorite Crimes
Want a federal pardon? Choose one of these
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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
i have a conspiracy theory that the entire “more people should do trade school” movement is an attempt by the national elite to reduce the competitiveness of college applications to their own children’s benefit
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Sam Bellamy @sambdesk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
From the story: "A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing how senior DOJ and FBI officials handled the files."
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Judge Orders DOJ to Fast-Track Epstein Files Mentioning Trump and Mar-a-Lago | Law Commentary
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to fast-track requests for Jeffrey Epstein investigative records that mention President Donald Trump or Mar-a-Lago, along with communications showing...
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Newshound411 @newshound411.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It’s corruption on steroids in plain sight. He doesn’t even try to hide that he’s looting US and cashing in on insider trading. He’s the most corrupt president in American history.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
also, this shit is just run-of-the-mill segregationist ideology. the substance of keeperman and rufo's discussion is identical to the infamous line from the trial judge in loving v. virginia
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
She deserves justice 👇
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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
this just puts a smile on my face man -- and more importantly, it'll put some money in some artists' pockets!
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No Justice, No Peace @alabamasarah.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
'Nebraska Is the Canary in the Coal Mine': Trump-GOP Medicaid Cuts Spark Mass Chaos, Coverage Loss www.commondreams.org/news/nebrask...
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'Nebraska Is the Canary in the Coal Mine': Trump-GOP Medicaid Cuts Spark Mass Chaos, Coverage Loss | Common Dreams
"Medicaid work reporting requirements are a flawed policy if the goal really is to incentivize work, but they are very effective at taking Medicaid coverage away by tangling folks up in red tape," sai...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
"No conservative who longs for an earlier age suggests cutting themselves off from the modern world in an intentional community, as the Amish have—because that would mean accepting an inferior place in the hierarchy of power."
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The Illiberal's Dilemma
In January of this year, media personality Matt Walsh tweeted “Singapore is able to have nice things in part because they execute drug dealers by hanging and arrest even petty vandals and thieves and ...
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 02/10/2026
as ever i'm struck by the doublethink of these people, who feel the need to dress up their mindless longing for heirarchy and exclusion in the language of liberalism--"high trust," material prosperity, blah blah blah it's a form of magical thinking: "if we do enough racism, good things will happen"
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Too bad the expression "virtue signaling" is already applied to mock people who would honestly like to be virtuous
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Prestige Press in general have fluffed Trump absurdly but the New Centrist Crew of Klein, Yglesias, Friedersdorf et alia are not only worse but probably preparing their Ted Cruz Voice of Reason takes for 2028
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Yastreblyansky @ghastreblyansky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ironic considering his killing of ACA subsidies cost them around $900/yr www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese...
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The health insurance subsidies behind the government shutdown
Harvard Kennedy School's Mark Shepard discusses health insurance subsidies and why they have become such a sticking point for lawmakers.
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