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Michael Byron #Fella

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Retired political science professor (PhD, UCI, 1996). Married, living in Oceanside California. Interested in global politics, science, environmental issues. Navy veteran, USS Long Beach. NAFO fella. Strongly oppose fascism globally. Off-grid solar home.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 33m
Trump is fully intending for the Kennedy Center to be his 7th bankruptcy. This isn't mismanagement, this is deliberate destruction in revenge for Trump not being able to make it a tribute to himself. www.rawstory.com/trump-kenned...
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Kennedy Center 'in free fall' as Trump allies max out credit and spend opera funds: WaPo
President Donald Trump took control of the Kennedy Center 19 months ago. Since then, the center has used up nearly every financial cushion it had, and one arts management expert says it now appears to...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 1h
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Update from Ukraine | Wow! Ukraine Restarts Tank Attacks on Frontline | This Changes Everything!
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 2h
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The Battle for DRUZHKIVKA Just Went HORRIBLY Wrong for Russia
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Toon de Laaf 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇸🇪🇺🇦🇯🇴🇬🇱 @tdelaaf.bsky.social · 2h
Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals Source: The Independent share.newsbreak.com/jqe2e9ts
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Hegseth confirms that the US military will cut 20% of its generals and admirals - NewsBreak
Trump Xi Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirmed Wednesday that the U.S. military will cut 20% o
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 3h
Russia’s Other Black Sea Shadow Fleet beefeaterresearch.substack.com/p/russias-ot...
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Russia’s Other Black Sea Shadow Fleet
Russian Grain Shadow Fleet and Stolen Harvests
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 3h
HERE WE GO! 🦅 ~320 drones @dronebomber.bsky.social
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 10h
Ukrainian tanks are again moving to frontline firing positions and engaging Russian positions with direct fire. The 475th Code 9.2 Regiment says reconnaissance and aerial cover coordinated with UAV operators allow the armored vehicles to operate despite the drone threat. #Ukraine
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 8h
❗️Russia reportedly used a new specialized warhead on a jet-powered UAV for the first time. The 40 kg cumulative cutting warhead has four additional modules and is designed to destroy high-voltage pylons and steel bridge structures. #Ukraine
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 3h
Karma’s a bitch!
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Alina Pereverzieva 🇺🇦 @perevaa.bsky.social · 3h
We used to catch up on sleep during the day after Russia’s nighttime attacks. Now I have no idea when we’re supposed to sleep – the Russians are attacking us day and night. It’s not like all 3.5M people living in Kyiv can just pack up and move somewhere else.
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 4h
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Russia’s Winter Offensive Begins—Ukraine Has an Answer
YouTube video by Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦
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Russia Monitor @milonews.bsky.social · 5h
Russian companies’ profits fell to their lowest level since the pandemic, Rosstat data show. In January–July, nominal corporate profits fell 15.7% year on year, while real profits dropped 21% and losses at loss-making companies rose 25.6%. 1/6
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 6h
🚨BREAKING: Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that tens of thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in various blue states, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in a new lawsuit. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DHS has failed to provide records to prove Trump’s allegations of noncitizen voting, watchdog says
Key federal agencies failed to provide any records to back up President Donald Trump’s allegations that 278,000 noncitizens are improperly registered to vote, a nonpartisan government watchdog said in...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 5h
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Russia’s Winter Offensive Begins—Ukraine Has an Answer
YouTube video by Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 5h
Agent Krasnov works tirelessly for his master, Putin!
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L. J. @leojos.bsky.social · 14h
"World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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World’s oceans absorbed record heat equal to 40 times annual global energy use
The injection of thermal energy comes amid an increasing rise in sea levels and continuing acidification
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 6h
Trump promised he would halve energy prices within his first year in office
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Zephyrus ✨🌻☀️ 🐺🏳️‍🌈 🐻🧸 @noblewolf8x.bsky.social · 7h
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zauberberg.bsky.social @zauberberg.bsky.social · 6h
Yes, we noticed Masha. But two can play that game. 😎
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Dan Miller @dan--miller.bsky.social · 6h
The AI economy is increasingly following a familiar model: Private companies build. Government subsidizes. Corporations capture the upside. Taxpayers absorb the cost. Meta reportedly reduced its 2025 federal tax bill by $3.9 billion by classifying AI data centers as experimental research.
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Jennifer Shin - WTAF @jennifershin.bsky.social · 8h
What a dumb fuck. Even after being proven wrong, he went on an interview after the hearing acting like he won. "Wrong teams, wrong league, wrong state," the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's editors wrote. "It was based entirely on that sloppy staffing that Schmitt furiously accused Smith of perjury."
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'Sloppy' GOP Sen. Schmitt pilloried by home state paper over 'cringey' public humiliation
The editorial board of Missouri's largest newspaper joined the pile-on after Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) embarrassed himself during his interrogation of former special counsel Jack Smith on national TV.S...
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Brant Reeves @bireeves95.bsky.social · 8h
Pathetic…..
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 9h
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Update from Ukraine | Awesome! Ukraine CRUSHES big Russian Attack! Total Devastation
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 12h
🇺🇦 Ukraine is looking to source tens of thousands of 20mm shells to counter increasingly deadly Russian jet-powered drones, - Bloomberg The ammunition, which can be fired from an F-16 fighter jet’s cannon, is the most cost-effective and immediate solution to intercepting the drones.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 11h
✈️🤔 A Ukrainian and a Russian were indeed on board the Flydubai plane, and they were the ones who landed it, Israeli media reported. Both turned out to be pilots flying as passengers. They took control after the co-pilot attacked the captain.
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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 10h
Phase inspection generally takes 2-6 weeks in the U.S., but it’s “taking as long as 40 weeks in Belgium,” says retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery. More than half of Ukraine’s F-16s are currently in maintenance limbo, Kyiv will exhaust the rest by the end of the year.
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
bbc.com/news/article... Hit Russian economic targets mercilessly and relentlessly!
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Ukraine's prized steel industry left in ruins by Russian missile campaign
Ukraine's remaining steelworks, a vital part of its economy, have all but ground to a halt because of relentless attacks.
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
This Trump-Rubio Regime Change Operation in Brazil Must Be Thwarted www.commondreams.org/opinion/trum...
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This Trump-Rubio Regime Change Operation in Brazil Must Be Thwarted | Common Dreams
Trump’s intervention in Brazilian elections undermines a basic and generally cherished right to self-determination, as well as the right to democracy itself. It is even clearly illegal under the Chart...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
Ukraine Invasion Day 1,679: UKR liberates more territory www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Ukrainian War daily updates.
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Ukraine Invasion Day 1,679: UKR liberates more territory
Overnight Russian attacks: all missiles intercepted; 70% drone interception rate; 40 locations hit or affected by debris…
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
Trump's ugly action plan allows him to go utterly rogue www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
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Trump's ugly action plan allows him to go utterly rogue
Is it just me, or has anyone else also noticed that our president has been melting down even more than usual lately?That whole “no guardrails” thing, combined with being surrounded by sycophants who a...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
'Desperate' Republicans in 'panic mode' as new attack line fails: report www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
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'Desperate' Republicans in 'panic mode' as new attack line fails: report
Republicans are turning to an insult Democrats used against them two years ago as their midterm chances droop.MS NOW reported that top Republicans have started slurring rivals as "weird," which Minnes...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
Ken Paxton's 'abject fear' exposed by Fox News as Senate campaign goes silent: analyst www.rawstory.com/ken-paxton-2...
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Ken Paxton's 'abject fear' exposed by Fox News as Senate campaign goes silent: analyst
The silence from Texas GOP Senate nominee Ken Paxton about a Fox News debate offer exposes that he's gripped by fear, according to an analyst.In a Tuesday episode on his YouTube channel, progressive p...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 10h
GOP senator ridiculed as cameras catch her look of 'utter horror' in Jack Smith hearing www.rawstory.com/jack-smith-h... Schadenfreude! 🤣
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GOP senator ridiculed as cameras catch her look of 'utter horror' in Jack Smith hearing
Former special counsel Jack Smith's hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee left a GOP senator with a look that set off howls of online laughter.On Tuesday, Smith appeared before the committee t...
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 11h
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/u...
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Air Force Major Recommended for General Court-Martial After Protesting Trump (Gift Article)
The recommendations are not binding, but it is rare for them to be ignored in the military justice system.
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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 21h
NEW: The Russian Ministry of Defense (MoD) continues attempts to falsely assert control over settlements in the Lyman direction that Ukrainian forces liberated during Operation Vivaldi. (1/10) Read more: isw.pub/UkrWar092926
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Pops @pops131.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Love it!! 🤣😂🤣
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Beverly Bullock @bcbnyc.bsky.social · 21h
Meta and X silenced dozens of LGBT+ groups the moment Türkiye's government asked – part of a crackdown where 110+ people now face legal action. Sign demanding they restore the accounts. allout.lgbt/3V09QHo
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Meta and X: Stop blocking Turkish LGBT+ groups
Türkiye ordered Meta and X to block dozens of LGBT+ groups,Meta and X blocked dozens of Turkish LGBT+ groups the moment Türkiye asked – part of a crackdown where 110+ people now face legal action. Sig...
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He’s not wrong 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
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BradinBC🇨🇦 @bradinbc.bsky.social · 21h
Just sayin…
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The moment Jack Smith realized Eric Schmitt was talking about the wrong game.
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 21h
Jack Smith Defends Against Republican’s Perjury Claim www.nytimes.com/video/us/pol...
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Video: Jack Smith Defends Against Republican’s Perjury Claim
Senator Eric Schmitt, a Republican, appeared to confuse basketball teams as he accused former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 23h
I hope Michiganders elect Abdul El-Sayed to the Senate. He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States. robertreich.substack.com/p/senator-…
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Senator Abdul El-Sayed
He would be good for Michigan and good for the United States
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justdeirdre.bsky.social @justdeirdre.bsky.social · 22h
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee accused the White House of using Customs and Border Protection funding to air political ads weeks out from the November general election. thehill.com/homenews/hou...
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Democratic appropriators accuse White House of using CBP funds for Trump political ads
Democrats on the House Appropriations Committee accused the White House of using Customs and Border Protection (CBP) funding to air political ads just weeks out from the November midterm elections.…
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CyberMindGrrl@WokeAF @cybermindgrrl.bsky.social · 22h
Well that explains everything.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I know Rahm Emanuel. I worked with him for years in the Clinton administration, and then when he was Obama’s chief of staff. Rahm Emanuel represents everything that’s been wrong about the Democratic Party for the last 30+ years. Be warned. robertreich.substack.com/p/the-rahm…
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22h
‼️ Georgia Republicans are trying to pressure the state’s top election official to pursue an ill-defined voting equipment software update — weeks before the midterms. Now, they’re seeking intervention from the Trump administration. But not all Republicans are on board: demdock.com/47mlnDJ
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Donna Stern @dvsmemphis.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#momsky#sheshed
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quiltersblock.bsky.social @quiltersblock.bsky.social · 22h
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Michael Byron #Fella @michaelby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Putin Orders a Bigger Army—Where Will the Men Come From?
YouTube video by Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦
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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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BREAKING: Trump panics after Smith hearing flops and Obama returns to trail
Plus: Democrats are soaring in the polls according to Marist
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