Reposted by Ltl2Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 11hThe chef who debones the fish on the customer's plate: a form of art. Original post 5488490
Reposted by Ltl2Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 10hThis is priceless. Check out how local news is reporting on Sen Eric Schmidt’s clown-show grilling of Jack Smith. They found Jack Smith at the game… “Top corner, section 109, row 1. In fact, that seat doesn’t even exist in Atlanta.” 529123303987
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hHe was born in Zhytomyr, saw an airplane for the first time in Nizhyn, pursued his passion in Odesa and Crimea, and never forgot his beloved Ukrainian songs throughout his life. Years later, in a Moscow jail, in his NKVD prisoner registration form, he wrote “Russian.” 1846
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hBy the way, a very telling detail. As a young man, a talented and enthusiastic devotee of early aviation in Ukraine, Korolyov entered the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute in 1924 with enormous hopes, and in the admissions form, in the section asking for his nationality, he wrote “Ukrainian." 1645
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18h...the space dreamer Serhiy Korolyov, the poet-martyr Vasyl Stus, and the political harbinger Vyacheslav Chornovil. 1576
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hThere is a chapter about him in my book (I think it's among the best), as part of an entire section calle “A Great Day For Freedom,” about three great Ukrainians whose lives in many ways illustrate the fate of Ukraine itself in the mid-to-late 20th century... 1627
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hAnd then, the first human being in space. And soon after that, so that one of the very first things to be heard in space would be a famous lyrical Ukrainian song -- his favorite, which he carried within him throughout his life. 1626
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hBut he survived, against all odds, even though he was soon slowly dying of starvation in the freezing barracks of the Gulag -- surviving so that years later he would become the mysterious unnamed “Chief Designer” behind the first launch of an artificial satellite in history. 1688
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hAnd many years later, it appears that the jaw, improperly fused after the torture, became fatal to him. 1606
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hKorolyov was brutally beaten, with his interrogators forcing him to confess. The beatings were so severe that for many years afterward he was unable to raise his arms above his head. And once, an “investigator” shattered his jaw with a terrible blow from a glass decanter. 1636
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hBy the way, on these very days, September 25–27, in 1938, the Soviet punitive authorities placed the great Ukrainian Serhiy Korolyov on a list of arrested persons slated for execution. 423255
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hStalin’s NKVD arrested the talented aviator and engineer in Moscow, in his apartment, tearing him from the arms of his sobbing, shocked wife after a humiliating search. The charges (traditional for the era of the “Great Terror”) were “sabotage” and “espionage.” 1708
Reposted by Ltl2Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 18hPre-order my upcoming book here with Bloomsbury: geni.us/tearsandhope 0719
Reposted by Ltl2Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 29/09/2026The ICE agent who shot Araujo in a Houston is named GREGORY FEATHERS. Make sure everyone knows. 19589605356
Reposted by Ltl2Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 20hThe government's AI chatbot is able to say something that no Trump nominee is allowed to. 563080923
Reposted by Ltl2Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 20hThey are shutting this down by the end of the day. 131274274
Reposted by Ltl2Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence: 2503199965427
Ltl2 @ltl2.bsky.social · 21h@darthbluesky.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/jona... Did you see this little guy with his little strut? Had to share him with you 001
Reposted by Ltl2Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Trying the best they can 1122831339
Reposted by Ltl2Sherrod Brown @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026NEW AD: Listen to this sh*t. 33481462477
Reposted by Ltl2Mike @mike-0568.bsky.social · 28/09/2026'We had them under view for a long time, and we got them.' The US president is a lying tosspot. The plot was foiled by an insomniac farmer, who spotted the men and reported them to Gloucestershire police. 45937611099
Reposted by Ltl2Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Denmark is trolling Trump. 29169032711
Reposted by Ltl2Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026You know, if you *really* cared about the wellbeing of women in college, instead of carping about the statistically insignificant number of trans athletes in sports minding their own business, you’d be railing against these Cornell fraternity cretins who drugged and gang-raped a passed-out women: 39871762843
Reposted by Ltl2ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵 19595883515
Reposted by Ltl2Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/09/2026Kennedy: "I don't think any public official, including Trump or Noem or John Kennedy, should spend public money on private ads for themselves ... I may end up with a sombrero on my head, but I also think we ought to have a rule that no politician can have a building named after him when he's alive" 33751511076
Reposted by Ltl2Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026A Walla Walla, WA newspaper editor in 1951 advocated rooting out the Marxists and Communists, claiming that the Democratic president had been too attentive to the rights of minorities and insufficiently respectful of the rights of White Christians. That editor was Syd Pierce, an antisemitic fascist. 541264334
Reposted by Ltl2Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Patented by Robert H. Keaton in 1936 and updated in 1953, this machine allowed composers and musicians to print uniform, legible musical notes, clefs, sharps, flats, and staff lines before the age of digital music notation software. IG: @steampunktendencies www.instagram.com/steampunkten... 26558103
Reposted by Ltl2Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Tommy Tuberville, we found the furries, they’re at Mar-a-Lago. 73871722230
Reposted by Ltl2Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.nytimes.com 7528901185
Reposted by Ltl2Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 25/09/2026lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?" 8189092552
Reposted by Ltl2Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 25/09/2026QUESTION: What’s going on with Susan Collins and the bribery scandal? But explain it to me like I’m five. ANSWER: Here you go 👇🏽 11927701372
Reposted by Ltl2Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/09/2026Enten: "President Trump has the highest strongly disapprove rating going into a midterm election on record. 50% of Americans now say that they strongly disapprove of the job he's doing. The previous record was Trump going into 2018 ... just 18% strongly approve of the job Trump is doing." 1361914481
Reposted by Ltl2Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"Natalie Harp" gives Jimmy Kimmel the Trump treatment @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social @jimmykimmel.com 618682
Reposted by Ltl2Matt @nosoupforgeorge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Sophie Cunningham scored 0 points in 15 minutes for the Fever tonight. In those 15 minutes, her +/- was -20. Thought I'd share these stats, since she wants us to talk about basketball now. 621512190
Reposted by Ltl2Cooking With Lei @cookingwithlei.bsky.social · 19/09/202610-minute, insanely EASY Chinese fish recipe! Recipe: cookingwithlei.com/poached-fish/ 1185
Reposted by Ltl2Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Our military on their hands and knees wiping off the red carpet for the Chinese. A perfect metaphor for where we are with Trump. bsky.app/profile/acyn... 1882409813
Reposted by Ltl2Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 23/09/2026Y’all have seen the viral short clip. Here’s the full original. The energy we need when somebody tries to push disinformation down our throats. 25446351477
Reposted by Ltl2Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 23/09/2026WAPO: The architect quit “after warning repeatedly that Trump was insisting on a preliminary design that did not provide adequate emergency exit routes or fire-containment measures .. .. ‘I am the code,” Trump said.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio... 28325501042
Reposted by Ltl2The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 23/09/2026🔥This is how it’s done. Imagine if every anti-immigrant fearmongering liar was grilled like this. #ShowMeTheStats #GetYourPhoneOut 🏴 (h/t @ukcameraman.bsky.social ) 962474706
Reposted by Ltl2TheBossRoss 🧶 @thebossross.bsky.social · 23/09/2026It's getting colder (a brrr 7°C here this morning) - time to cover your ears. 😁 Here's a quick and fairly simple #knitting project for a cool, rainy autumn day. Go on! Give it a go! #handmade 39611
Reposted by Ltl2Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 23/09/2026USPS in Utah dumped 300 mail-in ballots into a parking lot garbage bin. USPS’s current defense? “Laziness.”deseret.comUtah postal worker accused of throwing away 300 mail-in ballots in church parking lotOver 95% of Utah voters rely on mail-in ballots, making destroyed ballots critical loss. 70277943955
Reposted by Ltl2Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 23/09/2026this story has some incredible tidbits. They hoped to sell 100 VIP tickets to cover expenses and sold six lol 52499494
Reposted by Ltl2Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026ProPublica got the literal check Collins was bribed with. 8443461331
Reposted by Ltl2Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 22/09/2026At her 22-week ultrasound, Amanda Jablonski learned their daughter had developed without a skull or a brain. There was no chance for survival, and every day Amanda stayed pregnant was a threat to her health and life. Under TN law, she was denied an abortion. www.wbir.com/article/news...wbir.com 23336881847
Reposted by Ltl2Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Corrupt Susan Collins saved by a Kash Patel and Pam Bondi cover up. bsky.app/profile/prop... 1022100816
Reposted by Ltl2taylr @taylordahlin.com · 19/09/2026if you’re the white woman who was picking up a bat in downtown minneapolis on hennepin ave between washington & 3rd on 9/15 at noon, the minnesota department of health would like to talk to you because that shit was RABID! i would also like to talk to you because girl, wtf 983143830
Reposted by Ltl2FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026FAA ADMINISTRATOR: NEW CIRCUIT IS READY TO INSTALL, SHOULD BE OPERATIONAL BY 1:30 P.M. LOCAL TIME 011
