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Kittycat226

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True Blue Democrat, Defender of Democracy, Resister of Fascism, Curator of Truth🇺🇸🇺🇦🌻😺🐶😷💉Swiftie,"Childless Cat and Dog Lady", Politics, Science, Climate, Environmental Justice, Nature, Medical/Health, Animal Rescue #LetUkraineStrikeBack #Resist

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JustSayin @justsayin-fromx.bsky.social · 19h
THAT IS CORRECT ✅
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 7h
The cost is paid in Ukrainian cities now and European borders later.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 7h
The majority still treats this war as Ukraine’s problem, a regional dispute to be managed, not a continental threat to be defeated. Every delay in weapons, every hesitation on air defense, every “escalation management” talking point buys Moscow time to rebuild and redeploy.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 7h
A rare moment of clarity in the European Parliament. Van Lanschot said it plainly: whatever Russia takes in Ukraine, it will use against Europe. The whole security equation, without the diplomatic fog. The minority understands.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 7h
Ukraine sets its own terms. Not Washington, not Brussels, not any chancellery that mistakes someone elses war for a bargaining chip. Sovereignty isnt a favor to be granted. Its the line already drawn in blood.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 6h
Hitting substations before frost is the whole plan: freeze cities, blame Ukraine, sell the West more talks. Every winter blackout is an argument for Patriots and long-range drones, not patience.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4h
The Russian force is being consumed at a rate no mobilization cycle can sustain, and only those who need the war to look frozen pretend otherwise.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4h
The moscovian command keeps feeding conscripts into the same forest strips while Western analysts still debate whether Ukraine can hold. The calculation is straightforward.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4h
12,743 confirmed Russian casualties in September. The figure is drawn from the SBS Group's verified online tally, updated in real time with footage and unit-level accounting.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4h
BREAKING Ukraine’s foreign minister says Russian forces in occupied Oleshky are preparing to stage dozens of videos. Local residents will be forced to claim on camera that they are happy and well-fed. They will also have to say they are grateful to the occupiers.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 4h
29th CAA says everything is under control. That phrase has a body count and a map that keeps shrinking. Recon in the western streets means the gray zone isnt gray anymore, its Ukrainian.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 3h
Lithuania treats property law like a border fence. Every NATO state should copy this yesterday, because shell companies and passports of convenience are how Moscow buys the land under your radar.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 2h
Cutting the tripwires while the burglars are already in the hallway. Beijing, Tehran, and the Kremlin dont need to beat Americas radar, just unplug it.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 3h
www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
washingtonpost.com
Fog of war? Ukraine says Russian attacks are changing the weather
Smoke and soot from Russian airstrikes left particles in the air that combined with moisture to create a dense blanket of gray over Ukraine's war-ravaged capital.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 7h
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The Kennedy Center was solvent when Trump took over. Then its finances collapsed.
The Post examined 15 years of the institution’s financial records to see why it went south after the president took over.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 8h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
California rushes to prepare for massive ‘Kelvin’ wave and predicted sea level rise
Wave nearing southern California expected to reach San Francisco Bay Area by October as it crawls toward Alaska
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Don Soucy 💙 @donsoucy.bsky.social · 16h
The "Republican Party" is a criminal organization. It's a long climb from here but I will keep it up until they wake up and stopping fucking raping the world. Bring real justice to the Republican Party. Annihilate it. Obliterate it. End it. It contains too much evil, dark, corruption.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 9h
Fragile economies don’t get fixed by appeasing the aggressor.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 9h
Merz says the obvious: Russia won’t win. Fine. But the German position still treats Ukraine’s survival as a strategic necessity. Moscow’s military budget dwarfs Ukraine’s, yet Kyiv holds the line. Double the investment and this ends faster, cheaper, and on terms that don’t reward imperial violence.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 9h
Norway understands this: air defense over Ukraine costs less than air defense over Oslo. F-16s without interceptors are just expensive parking.
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Rusni_pizda @rusni-pizda.bsky.social · 9h
Finnish fans just did more for European moral clarity than half the EU foreign ministries managed in three years. An owl shredding Lukashenko's face, Ukrainian flags beside it, and one line: your day will come. Helsinki understands.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 8h
newrepublic.com/article/2159...
newrepublic.com
How Trump Won the Russia Messaging War—and How the Democrats Lost It
When Robert Mueller found no smoking gun on collusion, Democrats largely turned to other matters. But Trump and his backers never stopped pushing their lies.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 8h
newrepublic.com/article/2160...
newrepublic.com
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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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 9h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/w...
nytimes.com
American Forces Withdraw From Iraq 23 Years After Invading (Gift Article)
The Americans did not understand the country when they invaded in 2003. Over a correspondent’s many trips there, it was not clear that this ever changed much.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 22h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
RFK Jr outlines expansive vision for collecting US health data at Maha event
Health secretary calls for medical and lifestyle details to be sent to doctors and AI to address ‘chronic disease epidemic’
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 22h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Trump agrees to end court fight against $5m verdict in E Jean Carroll case
The verdict stems from Carroll’s 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against Trump
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 22h
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents
State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 22h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
What to Know About the Hacking Group ShinyHunters and Its F.B.I. Breach (Gift Article)
The bureau was the latest target of the notorious gang of cybercriminals that steals sensitive personal data and sells it online.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 22h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
nytimes.com
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models (Gift Article)
In a series of private meetings, the company consulted religious scholars to help instill morality into its A.I. models — and make the case that Claude could be conscious.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 23h
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Trump Is Going Viral in the Worst Ways (Gift Article)
On the technological, diplomatic and biological fronts, Trump is creating a disaster.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think people REALLY can't appreciate how badly the far right wants to prove that Fani Willis and Jack Smith coordinated. So they were not going to let the truth get in the way of their most sincerely held belief.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scoop — I've ID'd the two men sitting behind Sen. Eric Schmitt during his botched attack on Jack Smith this morning. Ethan Harper (left) is Chief Counsel to Schmitt, and Andrew Ceonzo (right) is Counsel to Schmitt and the Senate Judiciary Committee.
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John Flannery @jonflan.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Walk & Talk - graffiti Trump can’t get his way - burn the Kennedy Center to the ground, at UNGA, he says annihilate Iran - cool it man - Tucker Carlson says remove Trump for his threat - say article 25 to kick him to the curb - youtu.be/Ua9InEj1anU?...
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John Flannery @jonflan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Swarm intelligence rightly concerns us - synchronizing autonomous oscillators - one eg., fire flies (actually beetles) synchronize - they first blink independently but then all together - they blink off (dark) or on (light). youtu.be/IEDkjaef-qQ?...
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Dave Troy @davetroy.com · 27/09/2026
📙 BOOKS: People ask me what to read to understand how we got here. So we've published the "America 2.0 Reading List." 120 books — the founders on faction, Russia's political technologists, the anti-democratic right, and the strange ideas underneath it all. america2.news/the-america-...
america2.news
The America 2.0 Reading List
Books to understand how we got here — and how to fix it.
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RR Edmonds @rredmondsart.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The perceived moral structure is stark: women receive maximal accountability for what happens inside their bodies; men receive minimal accountability for what they do to women’s bodies. The only way out is a shift in power. Women need to vote in record numbers this year, every year, for equality
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A data center may bring jobs, but calling local water and power “the cost of progress” hides who gets the benefit and who carries the risk. Innovation needs consent, not just permits. #AI #Justice
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Greed rarely announces itself as greed. It arrives as efficiency, growth, or inevitability—then asks ordinary people to absorb the water use, higher bills, stress, and lost voice. #Greed #Dignity
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
AI ads can make a candidate appear to say anything, but disclosure alone cannot restore trust. The deeper problem is political speech becoming theater where evidence arrives after loyalty has chosen its hero. #Politics #Truth
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A label saying “AI-generated” cannot repair a lie built to trigger fear. The deeper issue is who profits when evidence arrives after emotion has already chosen a side. #Propaganda #Truth
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When platforms outsource fact-checking to volunteers, they don’t democratize truth; they shift its labor onto unpaid users while engagement keeps moving. Is consensus enough when harm travels faster than review? #Truth #Platforms
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Just Asking @mdlicxv.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Greed often survives by calling restraint unrealistic. But every system that treats people, water, attention, or trust as limitless eventually sends the bill to someone with less power. #Greed #Justice
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seedleaf.bsky.social @seedleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Look for 3 things in a person. Intelligence, Energy, & Integrity. If they don't have the last one, don't even bother with the first two." - Warren Buffett #Quote via zenquotes.io
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seedleaf.bsky.social @seedleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Common sense is not so common." - Voltaire #Quote via zenquotes.io
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seedleaf.bsky.social @seedleaf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Remember the entrance to the sanctuary is inside you." - Rumi #Quote via zenquotes.io
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seedleaf.bsky.social @seedleaf.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse." - Og Mandino #Quote via zenquotes.io
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.politico.eu/article/euro...
politico.eu
Europe’s businesses are paying for Russia’s hybrid war
The continent is finally naming Moscow’s gray-zone aggression for what it is. Now it has to deal with the bill.
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Kittycat226 @kittycat226.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.politico.eu/article/eu-t...
politico.eu
EU to Trump: We will keep pushing for global AI safety rules
EU tech chief Henna Virkkunen said Washington’s opposition to global AI regulations won’t stop Brussels from moving forward on a new international safety system.
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
COVlD-associated hospitalizations are exploding in NYC. This is quite serious. Due to vaccinations and prior mortality, the acute effects of infection are often less obviously apparent in 2026. It's a testament to the high transmission. Screenshot from @datareport.bsky.social via the devil app.
graph, steep rise in C19 hospitalizations
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Mike Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA @michael-hoerger.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PMC COVlD Update, Sep 28, 2026 (US): 🔸We're in a 13th COVlD wave. 🔸40 states & territories continue to have COVlD outbreaks, stable from last week. 🔸Levels likely peaked between Sep 7-13 at a PMC-estimated 580,000 new daily infections. pmc19.com/map
The US has at least 40 states and territories with COVlD outbreaks, the same number reported last week. These include Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
     There are likely outbreaks in additional states. The summary statistic of 40 only includes counties with observed data, rather than estimated data. For example, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, and Tennessee likely have outbreaks, but monitoring is poor.

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Note that while PMC uses forecasting to estimate national statistics through Sep 28 and beyond, the state-level data do not, meaning they are now 9 days old. If the national forecast is correct, levels peaked between Sept 7-13, closely aligned with our prior forecasts. This would mean that levels are declining more so than depicted in the map. Levels often decline slowly, suggesting the need for ongoing precautions. Additionally, Biobot and 200 CDC sites are offline this week, and both have experienced major retroactive corrections of late, so the national forecast has more uncertainty than usual. For example, we could see the peak adjusted upward or a double peak. It is unclear how quickly reporting will resume at the offline sites. 

Note that while PMC national statistical estimates include forecasting, the state-level data do not, meaning they are now 9 days old. If the forecast is correct, levels peaked between Sept 7-13. This would mean that levels are declining more so than depicted in the map. However, Biobot and 200 CDC sites are offline this week and both have experienced major retroactive corrections of late, so high uncertainty.
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