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Astronaut Terry Virts @astroterry.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Nothing says flourishing democracy like having snipers and drones lurking over visitors to the nation’s Capitol.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It’s not just weird; it’s delusional. HE. IS. PSYCHOTIC. If your grandpa said things like this, you’d take him in for a full neuropsychiatric workup. And it’s time the media starts interviewing psychiatrists and psychologists to talk about it. DO. YOUR. JOBS.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Tear it down in broad daylight
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Josh Kaplan @josh-kaplan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
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Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Legend
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Dolly Parton turned down presidential medal of freedom twice from Trump
Singer says she’s not sure she’ll accept it from Biden either because it might seem political to do so
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Ben Myring @benmyring.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is wonderful - if you need cheering up then this is a real tonic. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Charles @gimpyhand.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
youtube.com/watch?v=livI...
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Christopher Nolan Stared Into Elon Musk’s Soul | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Just listen to Donald Trump. He’s utterly incoherent. He can’t follow the questions, can’t maintain a train of thought. He couldn’t run a lemonade stand at this point.
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James Murphy @jamespmurphy.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Indeed, if Clacton is no place for ‘smug outsiders’, why did they elect Farage as their MO?
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Blind Lemon @blindlemonn.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
a bag of Dirty Depends is more accurate 😀
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
The hood is fully off Alito “None of the..statements by..[Trump were] overtly racial..all expressed policy views that could rest on race-neutral justification” Kagan’s reply “The evidence..includes statements..so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print”
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/06/2026
Ukraine’s resistance is alive and more lethal than ever—and many Ukrainians under Russian occupation have been crucial to the intelligence work behind it, Ken Harbaugh reports.
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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.
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 17/06/2026
Putin's war, Trump's return and the cost of living crisis. Five years on from the Prime Minister's Brexit red lines, the world has changed. Will the Government finally ditch these outdated red lines and put Britain back at the heart of Europe? @libdemdaisy.bsky.social
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I think that you have the best already Operation Drone Magnet* Operation Geography Lesson Operation Longer Than A News Cycle Operation Outofideas Operation Eagle More Operation Save Cuba *stollen from someone cleverer
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
It sounds crazy, but I guess when somebody tells you their only mistake was a Nazi tattoo, its possible they actually made a series of other mistakes that did not happen to produce a Nazi tattoo.
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Gerry Doyle @mgerrydoyle.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
hey quick question, am I having a stroke
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Liberal Democrats @libdems.org.uk · 13/04/2026
Trump is no friend to the UK — he’s a dangerous, corrupt gangster. The PM must call off the state visit to Washington before it’s too late. @eddavey.libdems.org.uk
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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026
“It’s difficult to cover him in a way that conveys how unhinged he is. Journalists are trained to be like, ‘OK, what did he say that was newsworthy?’ So you convey that to your audience. But in reality, when you actually watch, you see he's full of hatred, lying constantly, and very incoherent.”
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The man who watches Trump all day, every day
Aaron Rupar spends up to 80 hours a week following the US president, from meandering speeches to impromptu press conferences. He says it’s ‘pretty bleak’
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Susan Glasser @sbg1.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Trump has always wanted to end NATO. Is the Iran war giving him the pretext for the breakup he's long dreamed of? my new column: www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
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Is Donald Trump Finally Breaking Up with Europe?
It would certainly be bizarre if Donald Trump’s breakup with Europe “finally happened over a war of choice in the Middle East, launched by a President who came into office vowing not to start new wars...
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Andy Vitek @avitek.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Checking in on Pam Bondi:
Dedra Meero from Andor in prison
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
New analysis: think of the Type-095 submarine as China’s Seawolf, a pure and uncompromising top-end design www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2...
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China’s Own Seawolf-class Submarine: The Type 095 - Naval News
Until now the U.S. Navy’s Seawolf-class stood as the benchmark. Now, it appears that China’s the Type 095 (also known as Type 09V), is built with a similarly ambitious philosophy.
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Just a reminder that the Washington Treaty defines the geography of NATO’s mutual defense pledge — at U.S. insistence in 1949 — to prevent allies from committing us to their wars outside of Europe.
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Julie K. Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Breaking: SC newspaper verifies portions of Trump accuser's story. Textbook journalism. Local journalism. Support your local news outlets. www.postandcourier.com/news/epstein...
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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined
An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.
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Dan O’Sullivan @osullyville.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
youtu.be/mWq15lDh8yM?...
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Dune (4/9) Movie CLIP - Baron Harkonnen (1984) HD
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Roussinos calls for a return to first principles. That means questioning things in a way that Brits seem reluctant to do. That's a shame because the UK actually needs to decide. Instead we kick the can down the road & hope events will save us. That doesn't make for good strategy. end/
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Matthew Ford @warmatters.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The UK has put itself in its current mess. Now the question is how to get out of it. This article was from a year ago. As Britain's strategists debate the Transatlantic relationship it remains prescient. 2/
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 09/02/2026
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
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Harry Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
The director of Melania movie
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I’m sure others have noticed this exchange between Michael Wolff and Epstein about exorbitant price Rybolovlev’ paid to Trump for his the Palm Beach Mansion and suspicious trades with MBS - but how many have twigged that Rybolovlev is part of the current Ukraine negotiating team?
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Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Some of the recently declassified images of the NRO's Cold War-era JUMPSEAT HEO signals intelligence satellite program. lnkd.in/eGym2xBj
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The people who spent years defending and even lionizing Kyle Rittenhouse and Ashli Babbitt now want us to believe that an unarmed mother in her car and a disarmed nurse were domestic terrorists who deserved to be murdered by law enforcement.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 22/01/2026
As Trump continues to weaponize the EEOC against civil rights, we cannot stay silent. The lessons of our history are clear: bigotry and racism weaken this country, and we will not go backward. Read my recent Substack article at the link in my reply.
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Kraut @derparrot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Consider the following. Two founding members of the board of peace can't be part of the signing ceremony, because they have an arrest warrant for war crimes issued against them.
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Patrick Andelic @pkandelic.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Legolas and Gimli meme. The captions on the three panels read:
Gimli: "Never thought I'd did fighting side by side with the French."
Legolas: "Qu’en est-il côte à côte avec un ami?"
Gimli: "What?"
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
"So MAGA does not want to make America great again. MAGA does not simply want to correct some of the excesses of modern America or the modern world. MAGA embraces what was most illiberal about the old order. Or to put it simply: It is fascism that they yearn for." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
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MAGA’s Lust for Fascism
Trump’s ideologues want a smaller, meaner, whiter America.
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The Economist @economist.com · 08/01/2026
In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can. That will be bad for America—and everyone else: econ.st/4qcajRx
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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The willingness of so many to discuss Trump's diplomacy as if it is a strategic successor to the linear tradition of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan rather than the violently incompetent chaos bomb it is in reality will forever baffle me
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The president of Ukraine in a town that the president of Russia claims Russia occupies. Ukrainians can defend themselves if they are helped by their allies. We have a simple job here — help courageous people who are defending themselves in horrible circumstances. Continuous good work by Phil OBrien
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Kori Schake @kschake.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
"the lack of preoccupation with Russian expansionism in the administration’s security circles suggests something truly radical that Trump and his advisors haven’t had the courage or candor yet to pronounce clearly.” @hofrench.bsky.social
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Trump’s National Security Strategy Is a Blueprint for the Demise of the West
The White House’s agenda may not be coherent, but it is deeply dangerous.
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Dan Nexon @dhnexon.net · 05/10/2025
Fascism is an ideology. The government is fascist. But it's an unconsolidated competitive authoritarian regime, not a totalitarian one.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
If you're a dictator, they let you do it ...🤷‍♀️ In Trump's mind, everyone works for him and he should have the right to fire them ... if not have them hacked up and killed if they get in his way.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The biggest cowards in the Republican Party are the ones who are now going to vote to release the Epstein files after blocking the petition to bring it to the floor for months by refusing to sign it. All shameful cowards and frauds.
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The Intellectualist @theintellectualist.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🚨A whistleblower’s letter says Epstein-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell enjoys privileges most inmates never see, including access to puppies from the prison’s dog program, as Congress probes whether Trump is preparing clemency for her. open.substack.com/pub/theintel...
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 11/10/2025
Powered by AI, open-source intelligence isn’t a supplement to traditional intelligence. It is becoming the foundation.
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The Future of Intelligence Is Open
The United States’ strategic edge in spying needs to be AI and open-source intelligence.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Andor, season 2, episode 8
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
[tv commercial opens] [a woman comes into a kitchen and puts down her grocery bags] “as a busy mom, I’m always looking for faster, cheaper ways to launder hundreds of millions of dollars”
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