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Lyra 🌻🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦🕊️ @hopesong.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
If Republicans win the mid-terms, that $5000 won’t be enough to buy a month’s worth of gas and groceries. But no amount of money can buy my vote. I won’t sell myself to a pedophile.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
🧵#PepsiCo is an American multinational food, snack, and beverage giant that has remained in russia despite the country’s unprovoked and illegal war against #Ukraine. b4ukraine.org/what-we-do/p...
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Christine @wehaverights.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
WTH?!?!? Russia's finance minister just walked into the G20 in person for the first time since 2022, invited by the Trump admin. Germany refused to even pose for the group photo with him. Europe is furious. Ukraine is still getting bombed. Please someone make this stop!!!!
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Naida46 @naida46.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
💙💛 Farewell ceremony #OTD August 31, 2025 in Kyiv, Ukraine. On the night of Aug 28, the Russians attacked Kyiv with drones & missiles. A direct hit destroyed a section of a 5-story building in the Darnytskyi district. 25 people killed, including 4 children, and 64 wounded, including 10 children.
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Ukraine Support 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @blue24world.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Russian Strikes Continue Across Kyiv Region for Fifth Straight Day, Casualties Rise #Ukraine #Russia united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...
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Russian Strikes Continue Across Kyiv Region for Fifth Straight Day, Casualties Rise
Russian strikes hit the Kyiv region for five consecutive days, injuring eight in Pohreby, while shelling across multiple regions killed three and wounded 19.
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Ukraine Advocate 🇺🇦 @eugenemcparland.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026
In August 2026, russia launched over 6,000 drones, 200+ missiles, and 5,000+ aerial bombs on #Ukraine, causing constant air raid alerts, exhaustion, and destruction. russia adapts tactics to strain Ukraine’s defenses Source: Ukraine.ua
Infographic by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine titled 'russia's Attacks Against Ukraine in August 2026.' It displays a calendar grid with images for each day (1–31) showing destruction, fires, and emergency responses. 

Text at the bottom states: 'Over 6000 drones, more than 200 missiles.' Source: State Emergency Service of Ukraine; Presidential Office of Ukraine.

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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🦆Very interesting piece in the WSJ about something I think Europe needs to talk about much more seriously: Russia’s growing gray-zone activity across the EU. It describes a new wave of drone incursions, sabotage, cyberattacks and other hostile actions that European authorities linked to Russia.⬇️ 1/
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
APPLEBAUM: Instead of integrating drones, Hegseth is canceling drone battalion and talking about push-ups and facial hair. It’s really insane. I mean, if someone were paying him to undermine United States, or if he were a secret enemy, this is how he would behave. It's suicidal.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"When prompted, the chatbots fabricated photorealistic imagery of election fraud that in some cases included fake or falsified government documents. One platform even wrote the prompts to create such images for us..." www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | My team fed chatbots election lies. Here’s what happened.
Did the machines push back? The midterms hang in the balance.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Greg Abbott: Recruits data centers to be built in Texas. Abbott before election when they become unpopular: We need a pause on data centers. Abbott: Has Flock cameras installed across Texas. Before election when they become unpopular: We need a pause on Flock cameras.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 30/08/2026
Wow: the federal government is paying MAGA influencers on X and other social media to post pro-regime propaganda. Actual paid crisis actors. Incredible reporting here. wapo.st/4x0p3pf
Screenshot of two posts by Washington Post reporter Dan Lamothe on X. Lamothe reports that the Pentagon has secretly placed several conservative military veterans with large online followings into undisclosed government roles while they publicly amplify Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s viewpoints. He says some have civilian positions that could influence policy and names Rob Maness, Kurt Schlichter, and Thomas Anderson, who posts online as “Cynical Publius.”
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
At the 100 lowest-paying major corporations — including Walmart, DoorDash, and Amazon — CEO pay averaged $17.5M in 2025. Median worker pay was just $36,571, a ratio of 614 to 1. Those same 100 companies spent $108.6B on stock buybacks last year. How can anyone defend this?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
In a country so deeply divided, isn't it nice to have something we can ALL agree on? #ReleaseTheFiles-BeginTheTrials ⚖️
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 20/08/2026
About 90% of cruise missiles downed in overnight Russian attack, ballistic missiles pose greater challenge – Zelenskyy
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About 90% of cruise missiles downed in overnight Russian attack, ballistic missiles pose greater challenge – Zelenskyy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated that around 90% of cruise missiles were shot down during the Russian attack on Kyiv and the oblast on the night of 19-20 August and announced that Russia will ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 22/06/2026
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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Imagine being the sort of person who, with precisely zero experience in intelligence, shows up and asks for a list of employees so he can decide who to fire.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This is bombshell stuff.
Together, alongside the mundane fare of a typical thought leadership conference, the documents show an extraordinary convergence of power. The registration records list General Alexus Grynkewich, NATO's supreme allied commander Europe and the head of US European Command, who took the post in July 2025 and is recorded on the leaked list as having attended Dialog gatherings since 2021. The website directory names sitting Trump administration officials, two US senators, six members of the Paypal Mafia, a former Middle East chief of intelligence, and a sitting ambassador to the United States, along with the founders and directors of many of the country's largest surveillance, data-broker, and advertising-data companies.

Those executives appear side by side with senior US officials overseeing their industries. Auren Hoffman, Dialog’s chairman, founded the location-data broker SafeGraph and the identity-resolution firm LiveRamp, two of the most important suppliers in the consumer data economy. He appears in the directory alongside Treasury secretary Scott Bessent, whose department writes the rules on financial data, and Senator Ted Cruz, chairman of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, which oversees the Federal Trade Commission and its data-privacy authority.

Palantir cofounder Joe Lonsdale, whose software runs case management for US Immigration and Customs Enforcement and data fusion for the Pentagon and intelligence community, is listed in the same society as Army secretary Dan Driscoll and Representative Jim Himes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees agencies Palantir contracts with.
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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
A rescuer’s job is built around a simple idea: when everyone else is fleeing, you stay. Five rescuers were killed in a russian double-tap strike in Kharkiv. At least five more were injured. They arrived after the first strike. Russia waited for them and struck again. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview
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Kevin @kevinlikesmaps.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
imagine this, except it was intentional. That is the same emotional impact for Ukrainians as this was for France (and many of the rest of us). The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is a UNESCO world heritage site.
Notre Dame on fire in 2019 another view of Notre Dame on fire
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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
In Kyiv, one of the holiest sites of Orthodoxy, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, is burning after Russian shelling. My mother is hiding in the parking lot, and above me, there's already the tenth suicide drone. That's all you need to know about Putin's defense of "spirituality" and Russian speakers.
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Roman Motychak @motychak.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
russians bombed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, the craddle of Christianity in Kyiv Rus'
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Alina Poliakova 🇺🇦 @poliakova.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Last time, the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra was bombed and burned by the Nazis. Now the Russians are doing the same.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 15/06/2026
🚨 More footage of the fire at the UNESCO-listed Kyiv Pechersk Lavra Orthodox monastery, caused by a Russian attack on Ukraine's capital.
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 15/06/2026
⚡️Update: At least 6 injured in Kyiv as Russia strikes residential buildings, historic Pechersk Lavra. At least six people have been injured in Kyiv amid a large-scale Russian attack, as a fire continues to burn at the historic Dormition Cathedral in the Pechersk Lavra.
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Kyiv's historic Pechersk Lavra burns as Russian rains ballistic missiles on capital
"We ask for prayers for the salvation of the shrine from destruction. Another Russian crime against humanity, against history, against Christianity," Metropolitan Epiphanies, head of the Orthodox Chur...
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
🤬 Uspensky Cathedral of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra is on fire. ❗️❗️Up to 30 missiles were fired at Kyiv in an hour
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Lyra 🌻🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦🕊️ @hopesong.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
The beautiful monastery cathedral at the heart of Kyiv burns tonight because of russian missiles and russia’s evil. Parts of it were constructed as long ago as 1051, and it is full of priceless artwork, culture, and history.
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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
#UkrainianView "Humanitarian" help sent by russia to occupied territories was weapons for their troops.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Trump confirms what I wrote this morning—that he is taking a wrecking ball to our alliances. How could anyone have any confidence that, if Russia were to start a war with NATO, the U.S. would come to its defense? He’s more exercised about windmills than Putin’s aggression! wapo.st/4viqXkt
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
ZELENSKYY: Right now, our warriors have the capability to reach Russian military logistics across virtually the entire depth of the temporarily occupied territory. There are practically no safe roads left for the occupier in the south and east of our state.
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Lyra 🌻🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦🕊️ @hopesong.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
And the US has recklessly wasted patriots and high-level air defense in Iran — more in 2 weeks than what Ukraine has used for the last 5 years. Did we think Russia and China weren’t watching? Did we not consider that they would take advantage? And what did we gain with this waste of $$ and lives?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
You'll shortly read—if you haven't already—that a Russian missile has struck and caused huge damage in Romania, a NATO country. You'll thereafter read that it was likely a mistake and won't cause WW3. But the strike was preceded—6 days ago—by this report:
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Russia Is Testing NATO Through Covert War. Romania Warns More Hybrid Attacks Are Coming
Romania's foreign minister warns of increasing Russian hybrid attacks, particularly in allied airspace, ahead of a NATO meeting.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
GREG IP: “.. Adjusted for inflation, hourly wages are up 3% since the end of 2019 while profits are up 50%. That, in a nutshell, explains the chasm between an ebullient stock market and anxious public.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
What was all that fuss about Hunter Biden about?
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 29/05/2026
BREAKING: A Russian attack drone has struck a residential building in Galați, Romania, according to reports from the scene. Romania is a NATO member state. Initial reports indicate multiple people were injured.
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Brett Shaw @brettshaw.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Corruption in plain sight. It will take a decade to fix this debacle. #TrumpCorruption
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Says it all.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.
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Lyra 🌻🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦🕊️ @hopesong.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Wowwwwww. 😮
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
“Separating the message from the messenger” or laundering information from its source is such a huge, huge problem
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 25/05/2026
In one of the most devastating attacks on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war, Russia’s missiles and drones targeted some of the city’s most treasured cultural landmarks.
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Russia's latest assault on Kyiv turns Ukraine's cultural heritage into another front line
In one of the most devastating attacks on Kyiv since the start of the full-scale war, Russia’s missiles and drones targeted some of the city’s most treasured cultural landmarks. The National Art Muse...
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🤷Літ🤦 хоче спекти пасочку 👍 @lithra.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
#UkrainianView You know what words you don't want to hear from your friend or student? "That shit fell really close to my house". or "It hit my house, gladly I wasn't there". And if they tell it to you personally, it is a "good" scenario,
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
GIFT LINK NYT 5/11/24: www.nytimes.com/2024/05/11/u...
Trump May Owe $100 Million From Double-Dip Tax Breaks, Audit Shows
A previously unknown focus of an I.R.S. audit is a dubious accounting maneuver that effectively meant taking the same write-offs twice on a Chicago skyscraper.
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Lyra 🌻🇺🇸💙💛🇺🇦🕊️ @hopesong.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
This describes so many things in this administration.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Last night Russia attacked seventy-seven places in Ukraine with more than six hundred drones and missiles. You can help protect Ukrainian life by donating here. u24.gov.ua/news/timothy...
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Timothy Snyder Joins Sky Defense to Help Protect Ukrainian Cities
The goal is $500,000, which will be used to procure interceptor drones and other air defense equipment.
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Scott Lemieux @lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics
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Margo Gontar @margogontar.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Oh my gd . The whole market is on fire , in Kyiv , after Russian attack . just burning . It’s war curfew so people are not there hopefully but it’s an old market people go to every day , I know this nice coffee place nearby .
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Roman Yeremenko @roalyr.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
#Ukraine #UkrainianView
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