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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I think Bolton's views are bad and his books tendentious, but we're better off as a free society having people like him keep diaries and write memoirs. On balance, I tend to think the benefits of open debate outweigh the imperatives of secrecy.

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Jeffrey Lewis @armscontrolwonk.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

I continue to think the appropriate punishment for mishandling classified information is the loss of access to classified information, but not criminal prosecution unless the person commits espionage. How did I end up defending the Rage Walrus? Fuck 2025.

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I understand why some see a parallel in WW2 with events playing out in today's world (which I do see, also), but I think we should reread the history of what was happening in the world in the run up to WW1.

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Matt Duss @mattduss.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

“The Democrats need to empower messengers that the establishment is scared of, people who don’t delight megadonors. Democrats need to stake their claims on a set of strong beliefs, and see if Americans will follow.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

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Opinion | The N.F.L. Gets It. Why Don’t Democrats?

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

What did Amnesty do to Ukraine? Publish report after report of Russian war crimes and abuses and one report based on interviews with Ukrainian civilians where it was stated that Ukrainian forces had stationed themselves in some occasions on civilian neighbourhoods, leading to civilian losses.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

One mother told how her adult son had used to take food to Ukrainian soldiers whose unit was stationed near their home and her son was killed in a Russian attack against the unit. And this upset Ukraine and its supporters abroad who wanted the war to be seen as Absolute Evil vs Absolute Good.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

And so we got the hate campaign against Amnesty from Ukraine and from its fans - not supporters, but adoring fans is more appropriate term - who couldn't handle what was a very modest criticism based on interviews of Ukrainian civilians. You people demanded that Amnesty should be shut down.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

There has never been any prolonged war where both sides - no matter how wrong and abhorrent one side's aggression and how justified the other's defence - wouldn't have committed actions that can and should be criticized. But you couldn't accept that. You wanted the war in Ukraine to be a fairytale.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Every single post by Amnesty on Twitter got hateful replies from supporters of Ukraine, just like every single post by UNRWA was attacked by supporters of genocidal Apartheid Israel. When human rights in China or Iran were criticized, you people were demanding that Amnesty should be shut down.

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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

You people wanted all the good work that Amnesty does to be destroyed because it had dared to interview Ukrainian civilians and report what they told. You didn't care what that would mean, how oppressive regimes would benefit and human rights would suffer. That was utter disgrace from you people.

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

New from @mattduss.bsky.social for @cipolicy.bsky.social: following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza.

Following President Trump’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu at the White House, and the Trump administration’s release of a “21-point plan” to end the conflict in Gaza, Matt Duss, Executive Vice-President at the Center for International Policy, released the following statement:

"The world desperately needs an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, whose people have endured unspeakable horror over these past two years. Unfortunately, the 21-point plan released by the Trump administration today, while thankfully walking back from Trump’s previous goal of expelling Gaza’s people, contains numerous opportunities for Netanyahu to renege on his commitments, as he has repeatedly done in the past. It is not clear who has agreed to which terms of Trump’s plan, or whether Trump himself understands what is in it. Trump and Netanyahu’s remarks today were a litany of lies about the last 30 years, not a promising foundation for peace.

"Despite his claim of being close to a deal, Trump's statement that Israel will have 'full US backing' to "'finish the job' in Gaza if his plan is not agreed to stood out most clearly. This would be more of what we have seen not only the last nine months, but the last two years, as the United States has unconditionally armed and subsidized a genocide in Gaza."

"The path to a desperately needed peace remains the same as it has for nearly two years: using leverage and pressure on Israel to achieve a ceasefire that stops its atrocities, frees all hostages, ends the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, and supports a real path to Palestinian liberation, without which the region will not know real security."

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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

My review of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, with a look at the influence of Thomas Pynchon on the movie and a response to criticisms of the movie for historical anachronism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaWr...

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The Politics of ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER and VINELAND.

YouTube video by JeetHeer1

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attila @haqistan.net · 27/09/2025

please click through the bullshit content warning and explain to me how this skeet, let alone their whole account, qualifies. this is just #racist crap. @moderation.bsky.app is doing whatever #zionist dipshits tell them to, the end. if this doesn't sit well with you email moderation@blueskyweb.xyz

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

1/ 2 Love pours in for a dying octopus as she tends to eggs that will never hatch

The last act these octopuses do before dying is care for a batch of eggs till they hatch - but her's are not fertilized and so they will never hatch even while she neglects eating in order to care for her unborn babies.

I wish we could substitute some fertilized eggs so she could die at peace that she did the best she could for her children.

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Center for International Policy @cipolicy.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

“How to Fix America” 🎧➡️ @mattduss.bsky.social joined @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the @financialtimes.com Rachman Review to discuss the challenges defining America’s future. www.ft.com/content/4581...

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How to fix America

‘Our politics is deeply corrupt and people need to understand that’

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

1/4 I see Christian Davenport has just come out with a new book "Rocket Dreams: Musk, Bezos, and the Inside Story of the New, Trillion-Dollar Space Race" focusing on Bezos and Musk

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

1/10 Here's how the winding path of inquiry goes. Wanted to check just how the Disney "Pocahontas" movie diverged from the reality, so I decided to read up just a bit on Jamestown. In the process, what caught my attention was the mindset that created the whole Jamestown venture from the beginning

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2025

“they” “they” “they” not even an attempt to make a factual assertion. just argument by fabrication

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2025

kirk was killed by a dropout engineering student afflicted by brainrot but to the free press that is no reason not to slander the nation’s institutions of higher education

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2025

the person behind this unhinged, anti-factual editorial is set to decide coverage at one of the nation’s major news networks

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 11/09/2025

First time I've ever seen public condolences offered by @jay.bsky.team in all my time on here

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

🚨🚨🚨🚨 This is a photo from a few minutes ago in Tulkarem in the West Bank. Today, Israel abducted over 1,500 Palestinians in the West Bank, the largest number since 2001.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

UC Berkeley betrayed their own faculty, including Jewish academics like Judith Butler, to the Trump administration www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move

Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

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mosababutoha @mosababutoha.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Israeli settlers are attacking Palestinians and their homes in the West Bank, unchecked and with impunity. These acts of violence are thuggish and inhumane. The silence of the international community is a disgrace. Shame on this world.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/09/2025

📽️ Watch the documentary film by the AJ Fault Lines team: The Disappearance of Dr Abu Safiya www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BFh...

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The Disappearance of Dr. Abu Safiya | Fault Lines Documentary

YouTube video by Al Jazeera English

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 12/09/2025

New from Drop Site: The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since. By Amel Guettatfi 🔗 Read: dropsitenews.com/p/the-disapp... Watch the AJ Fault Lines documentary at the link below.

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The Disappearance of Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya

He tried to keep Kamal Adwan hospital open as Israel invaded. He has been imprisoned ever since.

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Andrew Parker @andrewparker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Wow, y’all really went from “we have confirmed it was an antifascist trans person because of markings” to “we have zero comprehension of this clearly random and incomprehensible act” as soon as it turned out he was a white right-winger.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

From me: It's maybe bad for the future of entertainment that nascent media mogul David Ellison, who plans to join Paramount & Warner Bros in a 5 to 4 merger of Hollywood studios, literally derives his fortune from AI. On top of his willingness to appease Trump by MAGAfying CBS (and maybe now CNN).

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This Proposed Media Empire Runs on AI

Oracle scion David Ellison wants to combine two of the largest movie studios and streaming networks, along with dozens of cable stations.

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Mark Fitzpatrick @marktfitz.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

At an Iran conference in DC, reference was made to trying to assess the thinking of the supreme leader. It didn’t mean Ayatollah Khamenei.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

It's a whole thing

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Based on the description at the UT press conference just now ("an up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols."), the arrows interpreted as "transgender ideology" by ATF were likely a reference to a code in the video game Helldivers 2

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So either the authorities mistook arrows possibly referencing a video game as “transgender ideology,” or someone deliberately tried to mislead the public and shape the narrative to incite *more* violence — and the media and right-wing figureheads eagerly went along with it

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John W. McCarthy @johnwmccarthy.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

could have been us...but...

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Jay @jdbatts79.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

They are going to be eating our lunch for decades but it’s a net positive for the planet

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Huntracony @huntracony.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

China arguably being the front runner in the fight against climate change was not on my bingo card ten years ago but I'm glad at least one superpower is taking it seriously. They're also doing it for soft power and everything of course, but I'll take that over performative half-measures any day!

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TonyInAsheville (He/Him) @tonysarris.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Our Energy Sec just criticized the UK for relying too much on Chinese sustainable energy technology. Instead of developing our own green energy sector to compete (as Biden was trying to help do), we are telling the UK to frack and "drill, baby, drill." The US is trying to pull the world backwards.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

there is something so disorienting about living in a world with miraculous progress in all kinds of stuff, including an Industrial Revolution-scale transformation of industry and energy, while US politics is *consumed* with the dumbest, most pointlessly awful shit imaginable bsky.app/profile/ryan...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

at this point a moderately good-case future scenario would be a China-EU tacit alliance to sanction the US over refusing to cut emissions. we asked for it!

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

I thought Biden's China hawk stance would work as a way to cement a domestic climate constituency, but now, fuck it man. it's the biggest problem on Earth and they're the only ones making serious progress

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

"Foreign direct investment by China’s green-technology industry since 2022 has hit between $227 billion and $250 billion. That’s roughly the size, adjusted for inflation, of the post-World War II Marshall Plan that cemented the alliance between the US and Europe." h/t @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social

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China’s Marshall Plan Is Running on Batteries

Beijing’s green energy projects are bringing jobs, growth and cheap electricity to the developing world.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 12/09/2025

the amount of Chinese investment in green tech around the developing world is simply mind boggling www.netzeropolicylab.com/china-green-...

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China Green Leap Outward — Net Zero Industrial Policy Lab

A new China Low Carbon Technology FDI Database

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John Haubenreich @johnhaubenreich.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

@thomaszimmer.bsky.social's analysis of the danger of the Administration seizing on this as a Reichstag fire moment (plus the discussion of the assassination of a German diplomat in 1938 leading to Kristallnacht) is a very compelling frame. Highly recommended read. substack.com/home/post/p-...

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The Right Wants a Reichstag Fire

The military patrolling in the streets, an assassination, and a movement longing for escalation. America is teetering on the brink

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Unicorn Riot @unicornriot.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

NEW: Bryan Hooper Sr., another wrongfully convicted Black man in Minnesota, walked out of Stillwater prison last week after serving 9,999 days of a life sentence for a murder charge that was dismissed by a judge on Sept. 4, 2025 after the state's key trial witness confessed to the murder in July.

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Bryan Hooper Sr. Freed From Wrongful Conviction After 'Sordid' 27 Years in Prison - UNICORN RIOT

Bryan Hooper Sr. walked out of a Minnesota prison on Sept. 4 after 9,999 days of captivity for a murder he was wrongfully convicted of.

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Mona Molarsky @mmolarsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Big story. Very big story.

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