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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Yes, the White House sometimes serves as a branch Kremlin press office, which would be humiliating for anyone who had the slightest hint of patriotism or for that matter personal dignity.
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I think of no worse indicator of democracy’s heath. Every billion is a policy failure. Even one trillionaire is a system failure.
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The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Author and historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins @djrothkopf.bsky.social and @normornstein.bsky.social to reflect on our democratic system and the need for political resilience against tyranny on Words Matter. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a... youtu.be/zJOJ3y1UMDc
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 01/10/2026
Jordan Klepper on Trump's AI CEO summit: It was like the Last Supper, if everyone there believed they were the son of God
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Last year not a single refugee fleeing religious persecution was admitted to the US.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 01/10/2026
This ICE flight has landed in Ghana, a possible third-country removal. Immigrant passengers onboard have been shackled for at least 18 hours.
An FR24 map showing N59JE landing in Accra
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
More than four years on, Russia has achieved none of its stated reasons for invading Ukraine. Over 250,000 Russian dead identified by name, 1.5 million casualties, and around 1,500 more sacrificed every day. Yet the warmongering and imperialist land grab continues….. www.reuters.com/world/russia...
reuters.com
EXCLUSIVE: Russia raises 2027 military spending by 27%, budget documents show
Russia plans to spend $202 billion on defence in 2027, the highest figure since the ‌start of the war in Ukraine in 2022.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Russia has moved to a new level of warfare - a regime of constant drone pressure that it can sustain continuously. In 2025–2026, the Shahed evolved from a relatively simple one-way drone into an entire family of systems with different missions⤵️
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've just seen this excellent new documentary from Australian state broadcaster @abcnews into how stolen Ukrainian kids are being prepared to fight for Russia. It features first lady @ZelenskaUA Thanks @gregsiero.bsky.social for the tip off. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euh4...
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Ukraine's Stolen Children: The undercover rescue network bringing Ukraine's kids home | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News In-depth
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A former Wagner fighter, now in Ukrainian captivity, said Russian mercenaries in Mali used captured Africans as live subjects for brutal "tactical medicine training." In 2023-2024, Russian instructors deliberately maimed African prisoners, after which the mercenaries practiced stopping bleeding.
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Max Kozlov @maxkozlov.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Kicking science journalists out of MAHA events? Seems to be a familiar playbook. I'm sorry this happened to you @sherylnyt.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/maxk...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
LMAO Trump's new AI website confirms that he lost in 2020
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: “it’s inconceivable to me how you can pardon people who beat police officers… and then vilify the officers”
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Leah Feiger @leahfeiger.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization -- NEW from @davidgilbert.bsky.social:
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A Pentagon Influencer Called Liberal Women a ‘Pestilence’ Who Will End Western Civilization
Kurt Schlichter was part of a task force rooting out so-called woke ideologies at the military’s war colleges. He has called to bar childless adults from voting.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do not believe anything until the Kremlin denies it™️
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Smith: Donald Trump preyed on party loyalty and fear. One of the reasons he [failed] is bc Republicans stood up. I personally find it hard to understand how our investigation could be viewed as partisan when our strongest witnesses were Republicans. [Names Rusty Bowers and Mike Pence.]
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
50,000 South Dakotans have health care coverage because voters expanded Medicaid in 2022. The initiative passed with 56% of the vote. So this year the GOP has put 2 measures on ballot: —one to roll back Medicaid expansion —another to require future initiatives like this get 60 percent.
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"Disrespectful for Voters": The Dakotas Weigh Raising the Bar for Direct Democracy - Bolts
Frustrated that voters are bypassing the legislatures they control, the GOP is pushing two ballot measures this fall in North Dakota and South Dakota to require a supermajority to amend the state cons...
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happyluckyidiot.bsky.social @happyluckyidiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They are keeping civilians trapped there to use as shields kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-mi...
Russian forces have placed guns, mortars, and mines in and around residential neighborhoods due to the city's proximity to Ukrainian-controlled territory, Oleksandr Tolokonnikov, deputy head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, told the Kyiv Independent.

Tolokonnikov said Russia shields its positions from Ukrainian strikes through the continued presence of civilians.

"Oleshky and its people are necessary for Russian troops so that Ukrainian troops cannot actively attack them in these settlements," he said.
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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Ukrainian forces have launched the largest drone-based humanitarian operations of its kind, delivering food across the Dnipro River to residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region. Around 4 tonnes of supplies have already reached 100 designated locations.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 20/09/2026
The weird cults behind AI doomer fantasies? Yeah, the Nerd Reich podcast covered that more than a year go. Here's our TESCREAL explainer with @xriskology.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1tc...
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Silicon Valley's Scary New Cult Religion: TESCREAL, with Rev. Otis Moss III and Dr. Emile Torres
YouTube video by The Nerd Reich with Gil Duran
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Even if you accept that she’s narrowed the dates from just June to August, I don’t think these numbers are correct. The price of ground beef rose from $6.82 in June to $6.92 in August, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It didn’t go down 1.6%. It went up 1.4%
Brooke Rollins: Protein prices are falling under President Trump.
June through August:
Ham: 3.2%
Pork chops: 2.9%
Beef & veal: 1.8%
Ground beef: 1.6%
Fresh whole chicken: 1.3%
Shelf-stable fish & seafood: 0.9%
Alongside @SecKennedy, we're making real, nutritious food more accessible and affordable — and Making America Healthy Again! •
More work remains. @POTUS is delivering progress at the grocery store. We won't stop fighting for American families.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is APPALLING. The Trump administration is detaining multiple random Somali immigrants with no criminal record at Guantanamo Bay, seemingly because the White House ordered ICE specifically to detain Somalis at Gitmo as part of its effort to punish an ethnic group Trump has attacked.
According to Mohamed, guards at Guantanamo have said they are being held there because that's what officials in Washington, DC, want. "There's no other nation, only Somali people in Guantanamo Bay, in the prison," he told me. "And when we ask them why we are here, they tell us... Washington...ordered to keep Somali people in the Guantanamo Bay."
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Switzerland’s “Neutrality” Vote Is Really About Sanctions vatniksoup.com/en/articles/...
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Switzerland’s “Neutrality” Vote Is Really About Sanctions | Vatnik Soup
Switzerland’s “Neutrality” Vote Is Really About Sanctions
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
❗️ Today, Russia has begun early "elections" to State Duma in the occupied territories of Ukraine. When a person with a machine gun and wearing a mask sets up booths and distributes ballots, then, of course, this is what democratic elections should look like.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I am the last person you will find overstating the influence of Aleksandr Dugin, or calling him "Putin's brain". But I couldn't ignore the exact match between the plan he laid out in 1997 for engineering US retreat from Europe, and what the US is doing today. www.youtube.com/shorts/DPNfT...
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Russia's 1997 playbook for Trump
YouTube video by Chatham House
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Jay Bhattacharya’s NIH is censoring research—including blocking funding—if it contains any of his banned words, like “equity,” “advancing diversity,” “racist,” “gender,” “Latinx,” & “climate change” He ❤️ censorship A new class action lawsuit challenges him💪💪💪 protectdemocracy.org/work/researc...
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Researchers challenge NIH screening of grants for disfavored viewpoints - Protect Democracy
Today, researchers filed a class action lawsuit challenging the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) policy of blocking grants in order to censor views it disagrees with, on everything from DEI to ge...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 16/09/2026
Congress Passes $430,000/Hour Minimum Wage For Billionaires To learn more about America's gaping wealth gap, head to youtube.com/politizane.
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Keir Giles @keirgiles.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Russia plotting to murder somebody because they are "telling the media and the common people [sic] that the Russians are the aggressors". That covers... pretty much anybody in this business that isn't actually working for Moscow. (Screenshot from US indictment via @christogrozev.bsky.social)
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 16/09/2026
Twenty-five years of the global war on terror did little to promote accountability for terrorism, or the rights of its victims, while creating many more victims, writes Helen Duffy.
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The War on Terror: A Quarter Century of Unheeded Warnings
The global war on terror demands reflection and reckoning for the damage it caused to human rights and the international legal order.
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Jose Pagliery @josepagliery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Oh really? The data is simply... no longer available?
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 16/09/2026
In less than 3 months, our ambassador @stationcdrkelly.bsky.social raised over $1.2M towards 10+ ambulances🚑 Due to russia destroying more vehicles, we extend the fundraiser to get another 10 for Ukrainian medics, so they can continue saving lives. Thank you for joining: u24.gov.ua/scott-kelly-...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
One of Massie's articles of impeachment against Whiskey Pete pertains to kidnapping of Maduro. Maduro has a superb defense attorney, Barry Pollack, who might be able to make use of this. massie.house.gov/uploadedfile...
Using the powers of his office, Secretary of Defense Peter
Hegseth directed the Department of Defense to carry out an
unprecedented military operation—code-named ABSOLUTE
RESOLVE—to capture and kidnap President Nicolas Maduro, the 
leader of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, and his wife, Cilia
Flores, from Venezuela—an act of war against a sovereign country
executed under the guise of narcotics law enforcement, though in
actuality intended to assert U.S. control over Venezuela’s oil reserves.
In doing so, he gambled the lives of Army, Navy, Air Force, and
Marine Corps personnel in order to facilitate the illegal taking of
national oil. To wit, immediately following such attack, Secretary
Hegseth appeared alongside President Donald J. Trump, during which
the President announced in reference to Venezuela, “We’re going to
run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper, and
judicious transition. So, we don’t want to be involved with, uh, having
somebody else get in. And we have the same situation that we had…
we’re going to run, essentially.”; and “We’re going to have our very
large United States oil companies, the biggest anywhere in the world,
go in… and start making money… and we are ready to stage a second
and much larger attack if we need to do so.” Thus, revealing the
motives behind the forcible removal of President Maduro, which
extended far beyond the narcotics-law-enforcement rationale on
which the operation was falsely predicated.
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Seamus Hughes @seamushughes.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I’ve written a lot of things over 20 years for a lot of fancy places, won a lot of fancy reporting awards. This is the most important thing I’ve ever written and it got no traction because of where we published. I would sincerely appreciate if you fixed that. www.courtwatch.news/p/the-church...
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The Church Bells Still Ring
A year after the Annunciation Catholic Church shooting, an examination of faith and fidelity to nothing.
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happyluckyidiot.bsky.social @happyluckyidiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
pluralistic.net/2026/09/16/b... How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses
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Pluralistic: How an AI moratorium can save AI bosses (16 Sep 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A detailed account appears this evening in Berlingske's Weekendavisen in Copenhagen of how the Trump administration, using a group of American intermediaries led by Ron Lauder, has been bribing Greenland politicians to support Trump's Greenland initiatives. The account focuses on Jørgen Wæver,
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Amerikanske penge
Opkøb. En investorgruppe fra USA har betalt for et nyt hus til den tidligere grønlandske minister Jørgen Wæver Johansen, ægtemand til politikeren Vivian Motzfeldt. Forskere mistænker handlen for at væ...
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Edward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Refreshed free link on the Pete Hegseth of the Treasury as.ft.com/r/deebf56b-f...
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Scott Bessent’s wobbly house
Politics seems to be messing with the US Treasury secretary’s head
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 04/09/2026
Nick Offerman explains how America's farms are feeding corporations more than people
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/09/2026
“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected...When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work, because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down…We want to put them in trauma.” -Russell Vought
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Tulsi Gabbard Warned Pete Hegseth; Iran Destroyed the US Base in Bahrain Anyway emptywheel.net/2026/09/01/t...
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Tulsi Gabbard Warned Pete Hegseth; Iran Destroyed the US Base in Bahrain Anyway - emptywheel
Tulsi Gabbard specifically warned Trump that Iran would strike at American troops and its allies if he started a war. And yet, Whiskey Pete Hegseth failed to secure Bahrain to prevent its destruction.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Dozens of civilians killed, non-stop perpetual attacks, over 15 air raids per day, I’ve literally lost count, it’s taking a toll on everybody here, I just really want to believe someone out there in the west still cares
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 30/08/2026
Don’t lose track of what else is going on while Trump draws headlines with clownish efforts at cartography.
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Deportees Sent to Liberia Recount Harrowing Details of U.S. Expulsion and Treatment by ICE (Gift Article)
Ten deportees said they experienced or witnessed what they called abusive or violent treatment by ICE. They spent months in detention, they said, before being sent to nations where they had no ties.
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Steve Rosenberg @bbcstever.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
In this extended #ReadingRussia: Remembering Mikhail Gorbachev who died four years ago today. I read some of the new textbooks for Russian schools. And the petrol queues have made it into the joke pages of Russian newspapers. Plus, a long overdue spring clean.
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I read some of the new textbooks for Russian schools
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
RFK Jr: Secretary of Measlesland pauloffit.substack.com/p/rfk-jr-sec...
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RFK Jr: Secretary of Measlesland
For several reasons, the PA measles outbreak is about to get much worse
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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
CDC adds more than 3,000 new Cyclospora cases In typical years the cyclosporiasis season in the US ends on August 31. Read more: bit.ly/4hWm2m0
lettuce salad
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In occupied Tokmak, Russians sentenced a 70-year-old Ukrainian woman to 15 years in prison for financially supporting the Armed Forces of Ukraine. She was charged with "state treason" for making 24 transfers totaling more than 33,000 UAH to support the Ukrainian army.
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Natalka @natalkakyiv.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
“The problem exists, but if you can’t make your voice heard about it, then there’s no problem.” — Pavel Gubarev on Russia’s management of the occupied territories and beyond
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The House of Pod @kavehmd.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Post Partum mental health issues are so much more common than most people realize. Discussing that and the Lindsay Clancy trial with a reproductive psychiatrist and some friends on this weeks episode. @skepchick.org @thekicksshrink.bsky.social Links: tinyurl.com/3s2ythut
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happyluckyidiot.bsky.social @happyluckyidiot.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.youtube.com/shorts/YOPRe... #bondvigilantes
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I Am Reporting for Duty
YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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