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Mavis Amundson

@mavisja.bsky.social
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Journalist, author; PolSci; Supports democracy, rule of law, free press. Follows news in Europe. Baseball fan. www.mavisamundson.com

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Michael McFaul @mcfaulmike.bsky.social · 33m
The U.S. is pulling out of yet another international institution—this time, an anti-corruption body. America does not become stronger by isolating itself.
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 27m
You can kill a beast, but it needs two thousand cuts. There are no easy wins, no money, little fame. Do it for people, nature and society. Most will love it
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 26m
“The problem we're trying to solve is that there are rich teams and there are poor teams then there's fifty feet of crap, and then there's us.” MONEYBALL (2011) #BradPitt #AaronSorkin #StevenZaillian
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 22m
Yup. It's too late.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 8h
Do you know who are the most precise scholars on the distinctions between a genocide and war crimes. The prosecutors at the ICC. Their indictment charges Netanyahu, rightly, with war crimes up to and including crimes against humanity. So not apologists. You know what charge they did not level? Yup.
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 5h
Somehow not everyone is aware of fact alluded to below. So one more time: John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett were all on GWBush 2000 'Florida Recount' team. (Which made GWB first prez in 112 yrs to 'win' after losing popular vote. Now they 'impartially' rule on our future.)
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Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 3h
At this point, if we as Americans end up not being responsible for a Holocaust, it's a matter of pure luck. We would deserve the eternal shame. We have earned it, richly, just as the "ordinary Germans" had in 1942. 75+ million voters made a decision to give that evil man the power to kill us all.
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Elliott Lusztig @elliottlusztig.bsky.social · 3h
Oh my fellow Americans. Here we are, at long last, the moment of crisis many of us have been shouting about since 2015. This man is about to commit a crime greater than the Holocaust, in our name, with our resources. He is evil, and he has dementia.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 3h
'Trump's deal with Greenland stands in perfect contrast to his friends-and-family diplomacy' writes Gilles Paris, which is why he is highly unlikely to abide by any element of it. Trump's private profit diplomacy at this point is clear: he has complete contempt for treaties he negotiates and signs.
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« L’accord sur le Groenland constitue le parfait contre-pied à la “diplomatie de la famille et des amis” de Donald Trump »
CHRONIQUE. A rebours des échecs au Moyen-Orient, où les discussions sont conduites par des non-diplomates proches du président américain, l’accord signé le 22 septembre entre le Danemark, le Groenland...
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lepidolite19.bsky.social @lepidolite19.bsky.social · 17h
This is correct. Lies and bad-faith bullshit and performative nonsense
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 15h
Peter Thiel's obsession with Pope Leo borders on the pathological. bsky.app/profile/chri...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Ossoff: "You played earlier the tape of Mike Collins, a sitting member of Congress and the Republican candidate for senate in Georgia, supporting the deployment of federal troops to polling places in Georgia this fall. Folks, this is a 5 alarm fire."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h
Ossoff on Mike Collins: "This is a congressman who called for executing immigrants by throwing them out of helicopter. He is a fanatic and Trump puppet."
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 15h
Once again proving that the sun rises in the east and water exhibits both cohesive and adhesive qualities. We should start treating people who claim mass voter fraud exists like flat earthers.
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Brian Cardone @cardonebrian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
So instead of Republicans passing legislation to regulate AI, Trump signed an EO that allows tech companies to police themselves. I’m with Rep Lieu (D-CA) Republicans need to get their asses back to DC to pass a law that has #GuardrailsForAI this is absurd.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 16h
Hegseth has by all professional assessments bungled a war against Iran and likely lost it. He is incapable of articulating the reason for the war or the objectives he is pursuing. Yet he is spending almost every waking hour denigrating soldiers, sailors and airmen and trying to foment divisions and
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I mean… there’s nothing intelligent about that man to begin with. So, I am not surprised at all. 😂
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Bryan 🌐 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraine personal opinions only @papootx.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
RFK Jr Promotes Raw Milk It Nearly Killed A Toddler A 17-month-old nearly died of E. coli after drinking raw goat milk from an unlicensed California farm. Regulators had texts showing the seller knew a child was drinking it. The state imposed no penalty. 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/cali...
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A Girl Nearly Died After Drinking Raw Milk. The State Did Little to Punish the Unlicensed Farmer Who Sold It.
California is teeming with black-market dairies, propped up by consumer demand fueled by misinformation. With evidence against one raw goat milk farm, regulators could have sought punitive action. But...
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ContempraInn 🌹 @contemprainn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Debuted on ABC 66yrs ago today. THE FLINTSONES (1960-66)
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h
This is just state barbarism. Nothing less.
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𝗽𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗱 @photoframd.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At Trump's AI meeting yesterday, Trump called the AI fears a "hoax" and told AI companies to regulate themselves. Trump is protecting the billionaires, not you. #GuardrailsForAI www.cnbc.com/2026/09/30/a...
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Trump's meeting with tech leaders leaves AI safety more unsettled than ever
Following Trump's lunch with artificial intelligence leaders at the White House, the industry remains largely unchanged on AI safety.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 20h
As it turns out & everyone could have predicted, other countries have agency & domestic politics, too.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 19h
An unexpectedly good season, but Stein's Law is coming for the Red Sox.
Herb Stein: if something cannot go on forever, it will stop
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Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com · 30/09/2026
"the ivy league faculty will never understand you" the faculty: SEND ME TO FIGHT THE SLAVE POWER
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James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Would love to watch Bill Clinton's spit-take when he hears Newt intro'd as "one of our nation's best minds." (History lesson: Clinton wrapped Speaker Newt around his little finger in the 1990s, much as Xi et al are doing to Trump now.)
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 19h
Several countries, including the UK, France and the Baltic countries did not receive an invite to a planned meeting in Poland that will focus on NATO’s future Trump and his cronies are doing everything to ruin NATO as Russia escalates across Europe. More gifts for Putin
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Pentagon excludes key allies from NATO meeting
Some of Europe’s biggest defense spenders — and U.S. allies — were not invited to a Pentagon-led meeting to discuss the alliance.
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 19h
Read better: You've ignored the word "willful" in my post and "intent" in your cite. Killing civilians during a war is tragic. Killing civilians through gross negligence or indifference in targeting is a WAR CRIME. Targeting civilians systematically with intent, genocide...
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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
If you have to run past rightful condemnation of war crimes or even ethnic cleansing to instead claim the willful attempt to murder a whole people, and you do so in a conflict in which the number of deaths -- including combatants -- is exceeded by births, then yeah, you've gone there.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 19h
recently learned the FBI possesses an FD-302 report, the bureau’s official record of a witness interview, memorializing an interview with a banker tied to Epstein. That interview was conducted as part of a criminal investigation into Epstein and his associates, Wyden writes,
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Daniel Beekman @dbeekman.bsky.social · 20h
Seattle Times journalists picket over wages and AI, calling for job protections in contract talks www.geekwire.com/2026/seattle...
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Seattle Times journalists picket over AI, calling for job protections in contract talks
Members of the Seattle Times Union held a lunchtime picket outside the newspaper's offices Wednesday, calling on the company to guarantee that AI won't replace any newsroom jobs. The company has agree...
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 20h
“Wyden Introduces Bill to Ban Data Centers on Public Lands *** Wyden bill follows public reporting that Trump administration is trying to transfer over 17,000 acres of public land in the West for data center development” 9/30/26 h/t @amptsuper.bsky.social 1/ www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-r...
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Wyden Introduces Bill to Ban Data Centers on Public Lands | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We don’t spend enough time talking about just how WEIRD all these people are. This is just an incredibly weird and insecure thing to say. Imagine any other SecDef ever being this weird and insecure?!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h
The fact is Trump not only lost his war but it's the biggest L the US has taken at least since Vietnam. Our bases are destroyed & abandoned, Iran is emboldened, China is toying w/ us. Hegseth & co want to move on to culture war slop, but they got routed & we'll be dealing w/repercussions for decades
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Sara Margarita Medina Ramos @sarammedinaramis.bsky.social · 21h
The cruelty... the inhumane act of it alone should drive every able body to the voting booth. Babies, toddlers, children are disappearing People are being murdered Brown, black, indigenous people, legal and U.S citizens are being assaulted in our streets The fleecing of our taxpayers' money
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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 23h
⚡️Update: Russia attacks Kyiv for over 20 hours in single day. Air raid sirens blared over Kyiv for 20 hours and 44 minutes on Sept. 30, one of the longest sustained attacks the capital has faced since the start of the full-scale war.
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Russia pounds Kyiv's power grid in first mass assault since last fall, killing 4, injuring 8 in day-long assault
Air raid sirens blared over Kyiv for over 20 hours on Sept. 30, one of the longest sustained attacks the capital has faced since the start of the full-scale war.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23h
The funniest thing about this is every Special Forces operator of the last generation — the exact kind of “warfighter” Hegseth purports to idolize — has the world’s most massive beard. That’s entirely the look of today’s supersoldiers.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Sam🏳️‍🌈🌊🏳️‍⚧️ @separker.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
www.npr.org/2026/09/30/n... I don't trust these tech bros to do anything that doesn't line their pockets. #USDemocracy
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Trump says top tech firms have signed accord to 'self-police' AI development
President Trump on Tuesday said that he and a large group of leaders of artificial intelligence companies had signed a voluntary accord that will include internal and external reviews.
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deb c @grannyfella.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Excuse me, what?
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Too late, Senator. You knew what you were getting.
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Mediaite @mediaite.com · 30/09/2026
‘I Worry!’ Leon Panetta Sounds Alarm Over Trump Withdrawing US Forces From Iraq During Iran War
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‘I Worry!’ Leon Panetta Sounds Alarm Over Trump Withdrawing US Forces From Iraq During Iran War
If it were up to former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, U.S. troops would be staying right where they are in Iraq, 13 years after the war began. The post ‘I Worry!’ Leon Panetta Sounds Alarm Over Trump Withdrawing US Forces From Iraq During Iran War first appeared on Mediaite.
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Congressman Brad Sherman @repbradsherman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pleased to see that FEMA is paying California the money it owes to the state for providing caseworkers for fire victims through September 30. It is now time for FEMA to approve and fund keeping this program open at least through May of next year. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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FEMA funds Los Angeles wildfire disaster aid program before it expires
The disaster case management program has been helping thousands of Los Angeles residents. It was set to run out of funding at the end of the month.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 30/09/2026
Vladimir Putin is intensifying Russia’s pressure on Ukraine, smashing cities, factories, bridges and ports with constant waves of killer drones and missiles.
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Ukraine’s war chest is running low at the worst possible moment
With winter looming, Kyiv faces a cash crunch just as Russia ramps up its effort to crush its economy.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Hegseth: "Telling someone to get in shape or shave or fix their uniform or start busting their ass -- that's not discrimination. That's leadership"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2026
Trump thinks that because he's changed the name of AI, now all concerns expressed about it previously are a hoax. The illogic is breathtaking. (Note that in this clip he's also lying about economic growth.)
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Alan Rosenblatt @drdigipol.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trump has redefined the meaning of "SI". It is not Sports Illustrated. It is not Spanish for "yes". It isn't even Super Intelligence. When it comes to Trump, "SI" will forever mean "Stupid Incompetence". #Sad
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Joan Walsh @joanwalsh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I want to believe Talarico is right about this. In addition to the moral arguments, our economy is going to suck in whole new ways if this cruelty continues.
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Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 30/09/2026
French court classifies 1943 Nazi-era roundup as crime against humanity
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French court classifies 1943 Nazi-era roundup as crime against humanity
Some 20,000 people were displaced in the raids, carried out in January 1943 on orders from the Nazis, with the Vichy regime's active collaboration, in an area of Marseille's historic center that was a known hub for people of immigrant origin.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
Markwayne Mullin is clutching a stress ball while answering questions from reporters
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