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US ex-pat in Denmark, professional beekeeper, mom to two amazing kids, Suzuki violin parent, and avid reader of all genres, including scientific papers related to honey and health.

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Secretary of Defense Rock @sodrock.bsky.social · 5h
Every single one of these stories is like this and it pisses me off to no end
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 6h
Whatever the reasoning, striking Kyiv’s Northern Bridge with a drone in broad daylight, while civilians are using it, is deeply disturbing. A drone strike is hardly going to bring down the bridge. It does, however, put people’s lives at risk and begs the question, what Russia is trying to achieve?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
Russia is working on bio-weapons in Siberia.
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Nearly 200 People Under Observation After Irkutsk Lab Worker Dies From Plague - The Moscow Times
Health authorities in Siberia’s Irkutsk region have placed nearly 200 people under medical observation after a laboratory worker died from plague, according to media reports and a statement by a regio...
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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 6h
Several hospitals were closed in Irkutsk for quarantine and a mask regime was introduced at an aluminum plant due to the plague ru.themoscowtimes.com/2026/10/04/v...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Dewie @judgedewie.bsky.social · 10h
OMG I had to check my work emails regarding an extra case in court tomorrow and I've just read this from an HR person. "on a knee to nose basis" A KNEE TO NOSE BASIS 😳
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The Republican position is that trans people's sex cannot be changed by hormones and surgery but their own sex is threatened by everything from chemicals in the water to workplace sexual harassment policies
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 7h
Trump-appointed head of DOJ's civil rights office wondering why the most powerful women in Washington are primarily on the left when the current vogue in right wing politics is debating the merits of the 19th Amendment
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 5h
As a Ukrainian, I’m tired of explaining why we hate the people who keep trying to kill us at night.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 8h
Finland’s President Alexander Stubb: “People need to start seriously thinking what will be one of the strongest security guarantees for Europe in the future.
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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 20h
I know this isn’t useful but it’s weird how “the president should be coherent” was a Very Important Thing just a few years ago and then suddenly wasn’t.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Trump: "We've gonna shove it up their ass ... They are a bunch of dumb son of a bitches" Remember when presidents had dignity? Here's a lowlight supercut from Trump's rally tonight in Ohio:
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 19h
Oh no the very popular president is going to spread his popularity around and make other Republicans as popular as he is oh no
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 21h
🔴 A new UN report details a systematic pattern of sexual violence used as torture by Russian forces in Ukraine. 🧵 1/8 ⬇️
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Remember, you are under no obligation to ever side with Tucker Carlson when he makes some anti-Trump comment. He is a fascist apologist who apparently thinks Hitler winning WWII would have been fine. He is, in my humble opinion, a silver spooned bigot who romanticizes white supremacy.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 03/10/2026
this is very funny
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Here's a little chart that our graphics team did to help you keep track of the various players.
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Hegseth: “We just launched the Office of Religious Affairs. We're going to elevate the Chaplain Corps because I do believe that spiritual fitness is just as important as physical fitness.”
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s entire National Security team, chaired by Vance, met in an unannounced meeting at Camp David to discuss the Middle East, Axios reports. Trump is now considering intervening in Yemen *as well as* Iran.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Houthis hit the Saudi Arabian oil facility with ballistic missiles.
Satellite image of the burning facility
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Two oil tankers which had switched off their tracking systems have “exploded” in the Strait of Hormuz, the IRGC-linked Fars News reports.
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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.social
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ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database
DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Everyone involved in this process — including the Palantir employees — have to be investigated and probably go to jail.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 03/10/2026
my dude you flew a stop the steal flag outside your house
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
You should prosecute politicians when they break the small laws, because you won’t have the chance later, when they break the big ones.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Prosecutions are gonna be an extra uphill climb given that he plans on just preemptively pardoning a slate of people and officials so it falls to local and state prosecutors where federal pardons don’t just cut it, but they’re made v difficult in those situations. However, some prosecutors…
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s insider trading is, on its own, the worst corruption scandal in US history, with $$$ dwarfing Teapot Dome. So are Trump’s bribes-for-pardons. So is the Qatar bribe plane. So is all the Saudi money he (and Kushner) have pocketed. And the ballroom. And more. Each alone would be the worst.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The last Trump-Kushner-Witkoff “peace plan” for Russia-Ukraine had more on data center construction opportunities than on security guarantees that could make peace last. This time it’s an oil deal. The whole effort has been trying to sell out Ukraine for personal profit and neo-fascist solidarity.
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump’s ballroom must be instantly torn down for rule of law, fire code hazards, damnatio memoriae, and symbolic reassertion that We the People are sovereign. But also clearly for national security. Like the bribe plane from Qatar, we know foreign interests are involved but don’t know all they did.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/10/2026
Trump: My Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premium ... This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats ... "
Trump: "I am pleased to announce that my Administration will, immediately, begin sending 'Checks' of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts. This money will come from the Medicare Improvement Fund, a pointless 'Slush Fund' that has only been used by Dumocrats in Congress to pay for the Waste, Fraud, and Abuse for their Special Interest friends, and drive up Healthcare costs. We are finally using this Fund, along with my Most Favored Nations Deals, to substantially LOWER costs for our Seniors. I pledged to protect and preserve Medicare and Social Security, which were on the verge of RUIN by Joe Biden, who foolishly and maliciously let tens of millions of Illegal Aliens into our Country, and we are doing just that for America’s Seniors. This is separate from the equally substantial Refund 'Checks' we are sending to One Million Americans who were overcharged for their Unaffordable Care Act plans by Joe Biden.

Because I delivered on this very important issue for the American People, they can also rest assured the highly popular $5,000 Trump Dividend will be distributed to every U.S. Citizen if, and when, the Republicans win the Midterm Elections! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
While digging around their website, I found their ethics policy—including a section on AI-generated content. I suspect that’s a part of what happened here. And I’m upset about that too! I did NOT speak to a journalist with the assumption that my interview would be funneled into producing AI slop.
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Earlier this week, I agreed to interviews with two USA Today journalists. They wrote fantastic articles about the Cornell case that I'm proud to have been a part of. What I did not know is that their employer considers interviews to proprietary and opens up recordings to be used by any journalist.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 02/10/2026
getting mad at the pope for not thinking the chatbot has a soul is easily the funniest thing I've read all week
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National Security Counselors 🕵 @nationalsecuritylaw.org · 03/10/2026
icymi Hegseth just reopened a can of worms when he did his little vanity project to make Musk happy and I am HERE FOR IT
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 02/10/2026
State Dept.'s Sarah Rogers defends Brendan Carr threatening Disney over Kimmel comments (which she totally misrepresents) by saying it's the same thing as Murthy case... leaving out that Supreme Court literally said there was no evidence of speech suppression in Murthy...
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Eilish Hart @eilishhart.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ukraine reportedly showed European partners intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter. The document says that Russia intends to target electrical switchyards and thereby force nuclear plants offline. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/w...
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Russia Is Planning Its Most Powerful Blow Yet to Try to Freeze Ukraine
Ukraine showed European partners what it said were intercepted Russian plans to cut off major cities from power, heat and water this winter.
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Andrey Kazankov @andreykazankov.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Rusland har igen igen øget sit forsvarsbudget markant. Som Bloomberg skriver, gør Putin klar til at føre krig i en del år endnu. Hvad bør Europa gøre? Det samme. Sætte både kortsigtede og langsigtede planer i gang for at hjælpe Ukraine og opruste selv. ASAP. www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/202...
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Russia increases military spending as Putin prepares for years of war, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg reports Russia's draft 2027 budget shows record military spending, a 40% jump, signaling Putin is preparing for a prolonged war.
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Anders Puck Nielsen @anderspucknielsen.dk · 02/10/2026
"European officials are warning of the risk of Moscow intensifying its hybrid campaign aimed at increasing pressure on Ukraine's allies." Europeans really need to get beyond the idea that Russia is planning for a hybrid war. This is what preparations for a real war look like.
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Russia increases military spending as Putin prepares for years of war, Bloomberg reports
Bloomberg reports Russia's draft 2027 budget shows record military spending, a 40% jump, signaling Putin is preparing for a prolonged war.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Churchill specifically wanted ‘corkscrew’ thinkers. He believed that the Germans were too conventional, conservative. Too ‘straight’ Geoffrey Pyke. Prolific inventor. Very beardy and weird Turing. Code breaker. Gay. Dudley Clarke. Invented SAS. Bonkers. Cross dresser
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A new video clip has appeared of the moment of the 4th hit yesterday on the South Bridge in Kyiv. By that time only pedestrians were allowed to cross, but a massive shock for them and lucky there were no injuries at the time of contact.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yesterday Kyiv residents worried about the South Bridge in the capital. But early this morning, the North Bridge was struck. The moment was caught on dashcam.
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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Saturday 3 October 2026 and welcome to today's daily thread with all the Ukraine news, verified, all day, every day. We are on Day 1683 of Russia's attempt to remove Ukraine from the map. Having failed to take Kyiv, Kharkiv, Odesa, Putin is now reduced to bombing bridges in Kyiv
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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This is all very nice on Burnham's opening the door a little on EU matters, but I've been having conversations in Brussels about the UK's choices since at least 2023 and nothing has basically changed since then. www.ft.com/content/3d43...
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Does the EU want Britain back?
Burnham has reopened the Brexit debate. That doesn’t mean the UK will be welcomed back on its own terms
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Jesse Felder @jessefelder.com · 02/10/2026
‘Breakeven job growth has collapsed from 200,000 per month to close to zero today, driven by a sharp drop in immigration shrinking labor force growth and continued baby boomer retirements pulling down participation.’ www.apollo.com/wealth/insig...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Like trying to hold a beach ball underwater. $TNX @cnbc.com
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FinTwitter @fintwitter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
TRUMP ON DIESEL: WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE DOING THE EXPORT BAN
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