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Hank Butternut

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An American horrified at what my country is becoming. Slava Ukraini.

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Trump's entire Presidency is just a smash and grab. Trump is just trying to steal as much money from his own idiot supporters and the American people as fast as possible before the entire country burns down.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 12/10/2026
"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...
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Trump’s Message to Ukraine Is Now Crystal Clear
The president’s actions over the past 72 hours look like an effort to force Kyiv to surrender.
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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Blanche Cannot Rescind What He Never Had the Power to Modify
The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund, the audit protection, and the Tuesday confirmation vote that depends on all of it.
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Sven-Erik Volberg @volberg.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"Spare me the humiliation theory. russia was not humiliated after the Cold War. It was indulged — and it read every kindness as weakness, every gift as tribute. The grievance was never mistreatment. The grievance was lost dominion."
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"Russia did not become an enemy. It never stopped being one." open.substack.com/pub/sergeist...
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They Always Knew — They Just Never Said It
How America’s silence about Russia created a public that no longer understands why the war in Ukraine matters.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Szijjarto, Hungarian foreign minister, made regular phone calls during breaks at E.U. meetings to his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, with “live reports on what’s been discussed” -The Washington Post Vote. Them. Out!
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Vituperative Erb @vituperativeerb.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
I do think that a possibly underrated dynamic in The Horrors is that the Right as it has reconstituted itself under Trump legitimately can’t understand sincere moral or physical courage
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 24/01/2026
ANOTHER ANGLE. This man was NOT brandishing a firearm. He was holding his phone. He then put his body between ICE thugs and woman. He was then sprayed with a chemical agent, tackled, disarmed, and executed. Plain as day. DO NOT let them tell you otherwise.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 24/01/2026
LIVE NOW on-the-ground in Minneapolis after another person was killed by federal agents.
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BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS ANOTHER IN MINNEAPOLIS, TEAR GASSING OBSERVERS AT SCENE
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Ike55 @ike55.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
The majority of Americans think Good was murdered in cold blood and that ICE and the GOP and Trump not only excuse it but applaud it. The lesson that ICE fails to understand is that moral and decent and law abiding human beings think that is wrong and has to stop. We don't trust them anymore.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
If Ukraine can’t rely on Mr. Trump even to provide assistance while it is the object of outright invasion and aggression, it’s hard to see him doing so, let alone confronting Russia militarily, in some lesser contingency just because of a nominal commitment. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/01/o...
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Opinion | A Trump Security Guarantee Is Empty, Mr. Zelensky
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Peter Benn @thatproviso.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
BREAKING: Mar-a-Lago “Peace Talks” — What’s Really About to Happen open.substack.com/pub/levremem...
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BREAKING: Mar-a-Lago “Peace Talks” — What’s Really About to Happen
I’ve seen this pressure campaign up close. Trump sent me once before — and today Zelensky walks into a no-win setup.
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The thing where Trump names everything after himself isn’t a funny little quirk but an incredibly reliable indicator that a leader is in fact a dictator. It doesn’t happen in any democratic society, no sane leader does it
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Juliane Fürst @jcaf.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
When small nations forget that they need the upkeep of the international order more than anyone else: Belgium’s refusal to release funds for Ukraine is short-sighted and forgetful of history.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/12/2025
Himes: "I think it's really important this video by made public ... it's important people see what it looks like when the full force of the US military is turned on two guys who are clinging to a piece of wood and about to go under just so they have a visceral feel for what it is we're doing"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/12/2025
get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing
Matt Gaetz
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
The Defense Department’s Law of War Manual specifies: “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal.” These are actions that you would expect from the Islamic State or the Russian army — not from the armed forces of a democracy. wapo.st/49LrEvh
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Opinion | Pete Hegseth, not Mark Kelly, should be facing justice
There’s a reason lawmakers worry about the military being told to ignore the law.
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Ander Bruckestand @anderbruckes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Italian Senator left Jeffrey Sachs literally speechless and shocked by calling him a liar and a propagandist. It happened on Prime Time Italian television. Priceless 🤩 [ENG SUB] (The 2nd part in the next tweet)
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Andrew @andrew-ukraine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I am British in Ukraine. If it is true that Elbridge Colby decided to suspend weapons shipments to Ukraine on his own, blindsiding the President and Cabinet - then I have a suggestion for President Trump. Please relocate Colby to the US Embassy in Kyiv, so he understands the need for air defences.
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Foreign Affairs @foreignaffairs.com · 19/06/2025
To end what has become a forever war, “Russia will need to be convinced that its objectives in Ukraine are unrealistic,” writes Lawrence Freedman.
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Why Putin Still Fights
The Kremlin will end its war in Ukraine only when it knows that victory is impossible.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 23/03/2025
To the Trump admin, everyone’s an evil liar trying to take advantage of the United Stares except for one person—Vladimir Putin.
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GrouchyMarkx @grouchymarkx.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I'm old enough to remember when Drudge was a RW tabloid...
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I do not think people realize how comprehensive the Trump Administration is being in its attempts to help Putin kill Ukrainians. I have it on an excellent source that Ukrainian UAV operations are 15% less effective because of the US intel cut off.
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Vega @vegaparticular.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Great London, great.
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