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Ilija

@ilijab.bsky.social
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Bicycle touring europe two weeks at a time. Also enjoys reading, disc golf, telemark skiing, walkable neighborhoods. WeHa CT

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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is corruption of the highest order. Susan Collins delivered millions in taxpayer dollars for a corrupt donor bankrolling her campaign, and then Donald Trump helped her cover it up. No wonder she voted with him 96% of the time and has rubberstamped his agenda to hurt Maine.
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
NEW BLOG POST! Some thoughts on Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey, the historical context of the Bronze Age Collapse, the Sea Peoples, and the legends of the Trojan War, and whether Nolan's movie is "historically accurate" or not, and what that even means.
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Did Odysseus Cause the Bronze Age Collapse?
We were all set for The Odyssey to be our summer discourse. Battle lines had been drawn, takes had been prepared. Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of Homer’s 8th century BCE epic poem was…
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Kate Rozen @katerozen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Let's talk about how Amtrak is a bad landlord and roommate with local commuter rail. #HarfordLine #Connecticut #Amtrak
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escapedexplorer.bsky.social @escapedexplorer.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Lmaooo bsky.app/profile/atru...
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
“I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision.”
Trump: Signs and Billboards are being put up all over our Southern Border, and Mexico, advertising BIRTHRIGHT CITIZENSHIP, with "Deliveries starting at $4000." Likewise, similar signs going up all over our Country. Billions of Dollars will be illegally made by this SCAM, with Citizenship going to anyone willing to pay. It will be, by far, the number one way of becoming a citizen, and then the entire family will be allowed to follow.
Not sustainable. NOBODY SAW THIS COMING!!!
AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP IS NOT FOR SALE! In fact, that is a crime, and therefore, the Supreme Court's ruling is wrong. I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage of justice will destroy America if they don't change their absolutely insane decision. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J.
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Red flags from the get go
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Falmouth Fetterman still out here looking up four syllable words. Glad he found time in between covering up his nazi tattoo and working for Betsy Devos’ brother’s mercenary group Blackwater 🚩🚩🚩🚩
Screencap of Graham Plattner for senate bluesky video post
‘Oligarchy: a word ive been told not to use because its too confusing. I looked it up and its just a description of whats going on’
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@jahimes.bsky.social would you care to share with your constituents (and the rest of us connecticutians) what your involvement was with Peter Thiel’s little dialog group? Did you have a good time talking to ted cruz, elon musk, and jarod kushner over some light canapés?
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Jason Chavez @jchavezmpls.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Some of these highlights include $444,880,820 lost in business revenue, $152,750,000 lost in worker wages, $26,137,200 estimated monthly grocery cost needs for newly food-insecure households, and at least $62,800,000 in rental assistance needs from December 2025-April 2026. 3/
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SickosFC @sickosfc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Hey, I need y'all to hit mute on the TV for 30 seconds and watch a clip of the most Scottish people I've ever seen coming into Boston.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 11/06/2026
Police officers across the country are abusing their unfettered access to Flock's nationwide network of automatic license plate readers to stalk their exes. This is a dangerous violation of our privacy. Our communities must continue to fight back against this invasive surveillance tech.
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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People
There have been more than a dozen cases around the country where police use Flock to obsessively and illegally stalk people.
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Im not one to subtweet assholes but what the fuck is up with this 4chan adjacent language
Ken klippenstein, alleged journalist, tweets ‘smoothgroins in shambles. 
What platners victory means’
 and links to his blogpost
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
the pause in the middle of the hook is ascended master level stuff. also his bassist is so sick. like what is the make and model of that sick ass bass. the candidate with the buttery bass tone in the rhythm section deserves the win that's simple science youtu.be/1lD8hbQZWwk?...
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Bobby Pulido, Guardianes Del Amor De Arturo Rodriguez - Amor Se Escribe Con Llanto (En Vivo)
YouTube video by BobbyPulidoVEVO
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PJ Harvey Dent @bsakat.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Bro, your leitmotif. It's in a minor key now and all of a sudden has a choral track backing it, bro. Are you okay?
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 04/06/2026
Enjoyed this. www.chartography.net/p/a-voyage-i...
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A Voyage Is Not a View
A lost Chinese map and the third graders who knew how to read it.
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Christopher Bird @mightygodking.com · 03/06/2026
you know what, what the hell: one like = one tip about cooking for people who believe they are shitty at cooking
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
🚨Ian Austin, 6-tour combat veteran, shows us his injury after NJ state police struck him with a projectile outside Delaney Hall ICE prison. "We're willing to f*cking die here!" he shouts at police. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
RIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...
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Daniel Drezner @dandrezner.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand. open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...
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The Trump Administration's Incredibly Slow Learning Curve
These are not very bright people and things got out of hand.
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Its been a return-to-books kind of year. Lets get it started:
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Pride at the Pier 🏳️‍🌈🤝⚧️ he/she/they/xe @prideatthepier.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15
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Tab C @drtcombs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I hope I am still alive for the day harm reduction replaces safety theater as the primary guiding principle of transportation policy
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Daffys very role is an unpopular opinion. Chuck Jones said that “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”: vain, self-centered, terrified at the world and the judgments of others, this plucky duck represents the very darkness at the heart of man’s soul as he struggles against entropy
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Der Mandalorian UND Grogu? In dieser Wirtschaftslage??
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Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist @nameshiv.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
this race-bending the new musketeers thing is taking it way too far, next they'll be claiming Dumas was black or something
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Enjoyed 90% of the stump speech from @joshforct.bsky.social at the West Hartford town dems meeting last night. Like, great stuff: content, messaging, rhetoric.
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Abby @arobertswrites.com · 15/04/2026
Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.
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Wes Burdine @wesburdine.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 05/01/2024
If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it. Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22
long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.
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Ethan Kocak @ethankocak.com · 25/03/2026
Hey if you need a fantasy story that I wrote specifically as a middle finger to JKR and other utter human disappointments check out my comic, The Unfamiliars. Theunfamiliars.site
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Jim Teeth @drjamesjteeth.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 19/03/2026
Donald Trump: •Blew up the Iran Nuclear Deal despite Iran's compliance •Sanctioned & bombed Iran, claiming he destroyed their nuclear program •And when Iran still came to negotiate & give up ALL its enriched uranium, Trump killed 175 Iranian girls & launched a war on Iran This is a dictator 2/2
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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/03/2026
ICE has been hacked! And you can explore the data, which includes every DHS contract, in this convenient new tool micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts
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DHS Contracts Explorer
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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
1/ Denmark was reportedly preparing for full-scale war with the US over Greenland in January, with military support from France, Germany, and Nordic nations. Elite troops and F-35 jets with live ammunition were sent, and runways were to be blown up to prevent an invasion. ⬇️
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Q: You don’t regret that people might’ve lost important income to support their lives? A: No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit. Q: Ok. Did you reduce the federal deficit? A: No, we didn’t.
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Michael @fleerultra.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
most of my anger towards dems is they repeatedly invoke this trope and then do not govern, either in majority or minority, as if it was true. whereas i actually often do believe it and believe the responsibility to act like it’s true extends past the first week of november
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
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I Scare You Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 07/03/2026
The South ending Reconstruction and plunging their populations into a backward looking culture and economy until it was forced to modernize by the Civil Rights movement is imo a very clean parallel.
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Leila Molana-Allen @leilama.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal. Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.
Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Democrats may not be able to prevent Mullin's confirmation, but they can certainly turn his track record of offense and stupidity into two days of televised humiliation so spectacular that he is wounded in Trump's eyes from day 1. That is the job.
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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Illegal wars abroad and ICE concentration camps at home are MAGA’s version of scorched earth. They are not merely a “distraction” – they are, for this regime, the real thing: A way for people obsessed with the destructive power they can unleash to assert dominance and feel “manly.”
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Steve Postman 🇨🇦 @steve1970peng.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Eisenhower
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Cheryl Lynn Eaton @cheryllynneaton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
All I want from my government representatives is for them to hold the line. That's it. I don't care if they don't have the votes. They have platforms. I can't get a 10-minute spot on a cable news program. They can. And they should use those platforms to shine a beacon on fascism and corruption.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.
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Ilija @ilijab.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Cavorting w a convicted sex offender and asking them for campaign money should get you removed from office in 2026.
Epstein was invited to gatherings with US lawmakers after his arrest

Between 2011 and 2017, the convicted sex offender received invitations to events with Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, Sen. Martin Heinrich, Sen. Ed Markey, Rep. Diana DeGette and Del. Stacey Plaskett
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
in 2016, prior to the election, an analysis I read said "the democratic party works like a business, and there's a great deal of loyalty to people who are part of the machine. Think of it like an organization that promotes from within, rather than a political organization with a shared platform"
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law. They are tear-gassing schools, killing American citizens, and disappearing legal immigrants. Democrats shouldn’t fund an out of control ICE.
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