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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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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

4) finally, take care of your physical health - those annoying, occasional issues at 40 become constant, debilitating issues after 70 - get them taken care of now if you don't have your health, everything else becomes secondary

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

3) find a hobby that makes you feel like you are creating something - cooking, sewing, woodwork, gardening, painting - and do it get outside on a regular basis - even if its only to gaze out a window - nature is spiritually renewing

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

2) develop a group (IRL)- whether family or friends that feel like a refuge against any outside storm & meet up often find something that calms you and practice it regularly - whether than is meditation or reading the comics

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

1) 70+ here you r the best judge of how much reality vs needing protective walls you can handle - not the rest of the world become part of a community (IRL) that u can turn to in a crisis & know they will act (usually that is a faith community, but not necessarily)

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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.

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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

2/2 Love pours in for a dying octopus as she tends to eggs that will never hatch www.washingtonpost.com/nation/inter...? Fans and caretakers have expressed an outpouring of grief and love for Ghost, a strikingly beautiful giant Pacific octopus, as she nears the end of her life.

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

Fans and caretakers have expressed an outpouring of grief and love for Ghost, a strikingly beautiful giant Pacific octopus, as she nears the end of her life.

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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 · 25/09/2025

I use to watch my mom eat boiled okra and 😝, even though I loved okra all other ways but a few years ago, I discovered baby okra and sad to say - I have now become my mama

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

and here I have been thinking that what the world needs right now is some Maimonides in the major faiths of the world

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MaggieKat @maggiekat.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

I had totally forgotten I even wrote this post 7 months feels like we have been through several lifetimes My answer to my own questions at the time was "yes" Seven months later I feel it is the only answer that is actively being confirmed

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

4/4 I'm on a separate topic and focusing on getting through the stack of books on my desk, but this new book should prove to be just revealing and informative as his previous one. Another one for my reading list.

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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

5/10 So I started there so I could understand what was being talked about when I got to Elizabeth. Which if you read about Elizabeth - you discover you have to read about the Cecils - William and his son Robert.

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

4/10 But of course, to understand Elizabeth, you have to look at her dad, Henry VIII and really have to look at *his* dad, Henry VII and why the assurance of a son was so important, why gathering power into the king's hands was so important. At least to get the characters straight as I was reading

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

3/10 just a very unhealthy environment - beyond what you might expect in such a situation, even before they first land, we see these signs so I felt I needed to go back and just read a bit about the atmosphere in England at that time, particularly among the nobility of Elizabethan times.

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

2/10 The Second Son Syndrome, the religious & class rigidity, the constant tension & plotting to get ahead, to form sides, the flinging of the word "spy" & the conspiracies, the accusations and summary execution of individuals, like George Kendall, the incompetency of the whole money making project

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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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