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Haakon Sverresson

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · 2h
We are aware of an individual using a UK number on Telegram and WhatsApp under the name “Antony Kevin” to seek assistance recruiting journalists and analysts working on Syria. They claim to work for Bellingcat, but do not. Please disregard requests from them and contact [contact@bellingcat.com].
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 7h
How is it not news when the president nods off in public meetings and press conferences dozens of times? If you follow independent media, you see it and know about it. But why hasn’t CBS, NBC or ABC showed a montage of it on their evening news? They simply refuse to ever show it.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cognitive dissonance of the pro-Death Pro-Lifers of MAGA: From today’s “To the Contrary” Podcast.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Senator Chris Van Hollen @vanhollen.senate.gov · 30/09/2026
Let’s be clear: I support a total ban on Congressmembers trading stock.   But Republicans are trying to package a fraudulent version of that with a bill to disenfranchise American voters.   This is politics at its worst. Put a real ban on the floor if you’re serious.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...
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In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault
Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.
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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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FAR-RIGHT MILITIAS WERE INFILTRATED BY A MOLE WHO LEAKED OVER 100GB OF INTERNAL DATA
A man spent more than two years undercover inside prominent U.S. militia groups, eventually reaching their highest ranks.
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This. It has always been this. A sitting American president did this. And because he did this, he should have been convicted and put behind bars. And the fact that we never held him accountable for these crimes will forever stain this country. And we may never recover from it.👇
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“The next day, FBI staff received an email reminding them that October is cybersecurity awareness month.” open.substack.com/pub/spytalk/...
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Kash Patel Has Gotta Go
The ShinyHunters cybertheft of FBI personnel files should be the last straw
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George David Allen @georgedallen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Gentlemen, Schmitty here may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you: he really is an idiot.”
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FBI Director Kash Patel this week has faced the worst data breach in FBI history, a deputy who quit because Patel was doing too many unconstitutional things, and partied with a suspected double agent. And it's only Tuesday. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-disgra...
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The Disgrace and Danger of Kash Patel, Part II
A quick check-in on the FBI director's latest raft of scandals (including, of course, the bestiality).
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"Enough with the niggers, enough with the jewrats" This important message on X the Everything App has been brought to you by Home Depot, McDonalds and Disney.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens — the latest snafu in the department’s attempts to uncover illegal voters across the country. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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Ariella Elm @ariellaelm.com · 23/09/2026
Lets talk Paramount merger settlement
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Grotesque security fail by Hegseth Pentagon.The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed on the incident said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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China Is Holding Sensitive F-35 Parts Diverted to Hong Kong
The Chinese government has taken possession of potentially sensitive F-35 stealth aircraft parts that were inexplicably diverted to Hong Kong while being sent to the US from Australia, people briefed ...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Perpetually “concerned” Susan Collins should be VERY concerned by the latest reporting from ProPublica, revealing her involvement in an alleged bribery/pay to play scheme of awarding defense contracts to a specific firm right after that company made campaign “donations." youtu.be/f2fFlCPjKnk?...
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GOP Senator CAUGHT RED-HANDED In MASSIVE BRIBERY SCHEME Probe!?!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
UPDATE: Judge Sullivan has DENIED Todd Blanche's Motion for Partial Stay (of the foreign-language documents). He has instead entered a temporary stay so Blanche can try, on an expedited basis, to get the appeals court to enter a stay pending appeal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Order on Motion to Stay – #49 in PHANG v. BLANCHE (D.D.C., 1:26-cv-01417) – CourtListener.com
ORDER denying 46 Motion to Stay. Signed by Judge Emmet G. Sullivan on 9/21/2026. (lcegs1) (Entered: 09/21/2026)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Federal court REJECTS lawsuit seeking to compel Washington State to provide the DOJ with access to its complete statewide voter registration database. Another victory for Elias Law Group and its clients. DOJ is 0-25. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/washin...
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🚨 United States of America v. Hobbs
Learn more.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Once again, and despite court orders & the federal law, Todd Blanche is trying to delay production in the Epstein Files; specifically, he doesn’t want to have to review & produce the foreign-language documents. My latest filing exposes Blanche for his legal hackery. youtu.be/72FTfVLdUS8?...
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AG Blanche SCRAMBLES To DELAY Court ORDERS In MY Epstein Lawsuit!!
YouTube video by Katie Phang
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Canada is a NATO ally and member of FVEY Belarus is enabling Russian aggression against Ukraine
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Sisyphus Rex @whatsmyageagain23.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think corruption is what will finally topple him, like it did Orban.
Not an NYT fan but they occasionally commit a journalism and reveal trump's corruption
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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Biden voters passed on Kamala Harris because of Gaza, new poll shows
Survey found that Harris lost 'because of the Biden administration’s support for Israel’s genocide of Palestinians'
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God @thegodshow.com · 19/09/2026
Bless these folks!
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Bless The Americans Who Formed A Human Chain Around The Kennedy Center
Dear Humans,
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Kennedy Center has been an institution for decades in Washington DC. I have gone there many times to enjoy music, plays, the NSO—it’s truly an iconic, beautiful building. It’s no wonder people are here protesting to save the building from destruction by a toddler who can’t put his name on it.
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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Of course! Russian Mafia never gives you free money. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Trump says Donald Trump Jr. repaid Russian oligarch for wedding party
The president and the Trump Organization haven't provided evidence that he did.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Surely the rest of the media will show solidarity and refuse to cover the WH until he reverses course? Right? Right?
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dls100.bsky.social @dls100.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The rotten monster has been at it for ages. Bonwit Teller 1980 Trump just turned 34 years old. "Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the ground and shattered in a million pieces."

Preservation News 
July 1980
New York City trumped
Developer smashes panels
By Michael Leccese
Two irreplacable Art Deco sculptures were smashed by jackhammers last month under orders from a New York City developer who had promised them to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The 15-foot-high stone bas-relief sculprures, which depicted semi-nude goddesses, were part of the Bonwit-Teller building (Warren and Wetmore,
1929) on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at S6th Street. Developer Donald Trump bought the structure recently and was demolishing it to build a 62-story. $100
million mixed-use glass tower.
In addition, a 15-by-25 foot nickel. plated grille that had adorned the build. ing's facade has been missing since it was supposed to have been shipped to a New Jersey warehouse. Neither the Trump Organization nor the warehouse has any idea of the whereabouts of the hefty....MotherJones

To build his skyscraper, Trump first had to knock down the Bonwit Teller building, a luxurious limestone building erected in 1929.
The face of the building featured two huge
Art Deco friezes that the Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted to preserve. The museum asked Trump to save the sculptures and donate them, and the mogul agreed-as long as the cost of doing so wasn't too high.
But then, according to journalist Harry Hurt Ill in his book Lost Tycoon, Trump discovered that taking out the sculptures would delay demolition by two weeks. He wasn't willing to wait. "On his orders, the demolition workers cut up the grillwork with acetylene torches," Hurt wrote. "Then they jackhammered the friezes, dislodged them with crowbars, and pushed the remains inside the building, where they fell to the floor and shattered in a million pieces."In 1980, under pressure to begin construction on what would become his signature project, Donald Trump employed a crew of 200 undocumented Polish workers who worked in 12-hour shifts, without gloves, hard hats or masks, to demolish the Bonwit Teller building on New York's Fifth Avenue, where the 58-story, golden-hued Trump Tower now stands.
The workers were paid as little as $4 (£3) an hour for their dangerous labour, less than half the union wage, if they got paid at all.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
👇👇👇👇
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Look at the community notes on this one. 👇
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The worst human being to ever occupy the office. Just reprehensible scum.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Reminder: voter fraud is not a thing. Voter suppression is.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 16/09/2026
Trump is on the ballot in 49 days. youtu.be/1l1iyiM11lM
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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Trumpalooza
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Donald Trump's trades: 28,700 All of Congress's trades: 22,200 My trades: 0 Ban stock trading in Washington.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 16/09/2026
russian hybrid-warfare activity across nato, 2018-2025 - iiss
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
💯Today’s crypto must-read eyeontech.substack.com/p/clarity-ac...
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CLARITY Act Update - Ethics Schmethics
It’s Unethical to call this an Ethics Provision
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media 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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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Naked graft, selling out the country. 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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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MAGA trash people doing trash things. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...
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The Growing Lawlessness in California’s Forests
Two frog biologists were kidnapped in the woods. More bizarre situations may come.
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David Lazarus @davidlaz.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
This is a very moving piece on how KTLA's journalists (including yours truly) were touched by 9/11 www.yahoo.com/news/videos/...
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25 Years Later: KTLA Anchors and Reporters Reflect on their experiences on SEPTEMBER 11TH
It has been 25 years since the deadlines terror attack on U.S. soil, nearly 3,000 people killed, thousands more injured, when hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and the...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Houthis just filmed a warehouse full of US-made armor they took off Saudi-backed forces after Mocha fell. Shot on an iPhone. Such a damaging image! The coalition’s decade-long war in Yemen is ending in captured American equipment & open humiliation.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"A f***-up of epic proportions" www.cnn.com/2026/09/12/m...
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‘A f***-up of epic proportions’: Blame game begins after Iran-backed Houthis’ lightning advance down Red Sea coast | CNN
Desperate pleas for air cover from Yemeni generals started coming mid-morning on Thursday. As the Houthis advanced, backup support from Saudi Arabia was nowhere in sight.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 11/09/2026
The contractor behind the repairs on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has confirmed what we all knew: Trump’s imaginary vandals weren’t to blame for the botched renovation. trib.al/wNMZJDF
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Reflecting Pool Contractor Admits It Messed Up From the Very Start
The contractor behind the repairs on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has confirmed what we all knew: Trump’s imaginary vandals weren’t to blame for the botched renovation.
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Haakon Sverresson @hsverresson.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Jimmy Kimmel’s Interview with James Talarico That the FCC Doesn’t Want You To See
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
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Captain Mark Kelly @captmarkkelly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Your hard work still pays off, it’s just paying off for someone else. Billionaires and big corporations are doing better than ever, while working Americans are only scraping by. Turning this country around starts with putting workers first.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said in April that Iran’s missile program had been “functionally destroyed” and that it lacked the means to make new missiles.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...
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Exclusive | Iran Is Producing Ballistic Missiles Again
Intelligence findings say Tehran is assembling stockpiled components into weapons in underground facilities.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 10/09/2026
Epstein survivor Dani Bensky reveals that Fox News has refused to give survivors a platform, even as they try to reach Americans across the political spectrum. “We have survivors on both sides of the aisle... but there really is this great divide that we can’t seem to cross.”
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David Lazarus @davidlaz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Coming up on #KTLA: President Trump is threatening tariffs of up to 200% on imported generic meds. A Swiss drug maker correctly warns that U.S. patients will end up footing the bill
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SBeekeeper @sbeekeeper.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Ticket Request
Sign up to take the first step towards attending the 2026 Republican Convention.
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