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@murugan.bsky.social
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Chess addict, traveler of worlds, husband, father, veteran, proud immigrant, recovering academic and scientist. Anti-fascist

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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Someone needs to dig deeper into this Eddy Aragon, former GOP mayor of this town in NM. Check out the title of the attached videos sent to him!!! #Epstein #Zorro
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Fascism is here, folks. Use the correct words.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
We need accountability and justice
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
No! I hate the fact we eat these wonderful animals.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It’s not that complicated, people.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
“.. This is X in 2025: Potentially fake accounts crying at other potentially fake accounts that they aren’t real, all while refusing to acknowledge that they themselves aren’t who they say they are — a Russian nesting doll of bullshit.” @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
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Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Is he stupid or what? Red states are dependent on taxes from the Blue states to sustain their economy. In other words: Blue states sustain Red states. Red states are on welfare.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
1) Start the worst European war since 1945 and commit every imaginable war crime 2) Decide how you want to be rewarded for your aggression 3) Leak the list of your desiderata to the US press 4) Wait for the US president to enforce your wish list on your victim. Russian policy 2025
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 23/11/2025
‘There is no doubt that food was available in Ireland throughout the crisis – just not to those who needed it most.’ Niamh Gallagher on a new history of the Great Famine. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Niamh Gallagher · Carrion and Earth: Ireland’s Great Famine
Although Ireland had endured earlier famines – including one in the 1740s that, proportionally, claimed more lives...
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
I never understood why after 2020 would anyone outside of MAGA and Matt Taibbi want to have a Twitter account?
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Welcome to the 16th Century! An empire scrambles for colonies….
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 18/11/2025
The Trump administration is reviewing Smithsonian exhibits on slavery, reportedly flagging materials like "The Scourged Back" − a powerful 1863 photograph of a formerly enslaved man's scarred back − for removal from public museums and national parks. buff.ly/q6JYITE
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Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House
Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.
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Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
The truth is catching up to Trump. Latest show with @tarapalmeri.bsky.social and @walshfreedom.bsky.social youtube.com/live/rvlR-dS...
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Trump CAUGHT in Bombshell Epstein Email - Jim Acosta Demands Answers
YouTube video by Jim Acosta
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Why would Jeffrey Epstein kill himself in jail if he had this much leverage of the one person who could give him a full pardon?
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
every epstein email is some creep complaining about MeToo and then being like “oh before i forget, any advice on how to use my position of authority to force women into sleeping with me?”
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Sunrise in the 🌵.
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Edge of Extinction: The Last Vaquita -- An ABC 10News Special
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Edge of Extinction: The Last Vaquita -- An ABC 10News Special
ABC 10News anchor Kimberly Hunt travels to Mexico and spends time with researchers aboard the Sea Shepherd vessel as they fight to save the world's smallest porpoise.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
“Under the guise of getting the federal government out of education and parental rights, Trump’s plan . . . creates needless opportunities for the further enrichment of the wealthy, and drastically cuts support for public education.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-republ...
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The Republican Attack on Public Education
Dismantling the Department of Education and pouring taxpayer dollars into private schools.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/11/2025
I’m still struggling with the fact that ICE “brown shirts” went to a taco shop and thought they would get served. F that!
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 16/11/2025
‘Liverpool went from having a single slave ship in 1709 to more than a hundred six decades later. By 1795 it controlled almost half of the European slave trade.’ John Kerrigan on Atlantic slavery: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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John Kerrigan · No Illusions: Syntax of Slavery
Slavery was accepted across most of the early modern world. No one wanted to be a slave, except when the alternative was...
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
So that’s why Putin has on him, eh?
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
The thing is that he charmed millions to vote for him. He knew how to charm them with racism and violence against others. Cruelty.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
He used to tell the truth. The internet never forgets.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
America has no idea what's about to hit them. "Young Republicans" are fully steeped in neo-Nazi edge lord talking points. Fuentes is the present and future of the GOP. After Trump, this is the new form of MAGA. The establishment isn't built for this fight. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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The Firewall Against Nick Fuentes Is Crumbling
The white-supremacist influencer is entering the MAGA mainstream.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I should’ve learned this by now but DO NOT use FedEx. The diseased monkeys I ordered haven’t arrived and I can’t get a straight answer on what happened to them
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sausiuswx.bsky.social @sausiuswx.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
It is time to talk about what comes after Jamaica. Jamaica isn't very big but still passage over its complex terrain will take its toll on Melissa. Nevertheless all of NOAAs hurricane models predict that she will make landfall in E Cuba at or very near Major Hurricane intensity.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 28/10/2025
Trump claims the US economy is in a "golden age," yet pushes the #Fed for sharp interest rate cuts typically used to boost a weak economy. That’s a weird contradiction, according to a macroeconomist: buff.ly/QaB0IPA
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Trump’s ‘golden age’ economic message undercut by his desire for much lower interest rates – which typically signal a weak jobs market
The push to slash rates, despite what Trump considers a ‘hot’ economy, underscores why it’s important the Fed relies on data – and not the wishes of politicians – when making decisions about monetary…
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/u... Incredibly stupid and risky. I wish the press had learned about this then and not 6 years later.
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How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Family pets are being left behind at Southern California shelters as their families face deportation. At Carsom Animal Care Center, dogs like Bruce and Coco are quiet, confused, and up for adoption. Shelter staff say they've seen emotional goodbyes as families forced to leave the U.S.
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I’d say that @stephencolbert.bsky.social is (with the lone exception of @maddow.msnbc.com) the most brilliant, humane person I’ve encountered in broadcasting. His mind works faster than anyone else’s at a level of sophistication that is unmatchable. Genuinely a generational talent.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Drawing all the protests! 😁 No kings! No fascism!
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
We’ve turned the corner. How on earth do we put the fascism back into the bottle???
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#NoKings Los Angeles
Protest sign says:
“The president has 34 criminal charges, my parents have none. Who is the real criminal here?”
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Arlan Skellington (famous) @thehell.zone · 14/06/2025
this sign has always been a bad idea and I can’t believe it gets copied so often
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Ohio’s J.D. Vance rebuked by the Pope, denounced by NATO allies, ridiculed for bizarre rant ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/25/o... Great take down of this monster.
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Ohio's J.D. Vance rebuked by the Pope, denounced by NATO allies, ridiculed for bizarre rant • Ohio Capital Journal
J.D. Vance has really done Ohio proud these last few weeks, hasn’t he? Vance has managed to be firmly rebuked by Pope Francis, denounced by outraged NATO allies, and widely ridiculed for his bizarre ‘...
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The point is to sow fear among the population. The Chinese have a proverb about this: to control the monkeys you must first behead the chicken.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
www.orlandosentinel.com/2025/01/25/o...
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Commentary: Federal workers may soon face moral dilemmas. Here’s what they can learn from history.
Lawyers’ responses to Japanese internment during World War II offer lessons about the space between following orders and walking away.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Responsibility.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
This is what happens when your government operates sows chaos for its own benefit. This is only the start…
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I can’t imagine any of our allies would share a bit of intelligence with us as long as she is in charge of our 28 intelligence agencies.
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Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
RFK has scrubbed his Instagram and other social media pages in recent years, but if you want to know what he really thinks, listen to what he has said on podcasts: www.nytimes.com/2023/09/12/t...
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Where Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Delivers His Fringe Views: Not on the Trail (Published 2023)
The Democratic presidential challenger continues to espouse extreme ideas, but has dialed that messaging back in large public forums.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
OPMs letter to all Fed Civilian Employees. Their intent is to thin out the ranks of agencies not staffed with a majority of MAGA imbeciles such as State Department or EPA, and use those funds to beef up the ranks of agencies such as Border Patrol, which draw mostly MAGAs to its ranks.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reckoning day for SV.
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GG @murugan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is how democracies work.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 26/01/2025
“What he envisages, a hundred years hence, is a continuous state of 250 million Germans with plenty of ‘living room’ … a horrible brainless empire in which, essentially, nothing ever happens except the training of young men for war and the endless breeding of fresh cannon-fodder.”
bookmarks.reviews
George Orwell's 1940 Review of Mein Kampf
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