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Supporter of Democracy. Originally from Central Europe. I live in the USA.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/04/2025
lmao Hannity's Trump accomplishments ticker got even more pathetic
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/09/2026
Hannity's list of "TRUMP'S TOP ACCOMPLISHMENTS" includes restoring Confederate names to military bases and releasing dietary guidelines
cap from Hannity
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Jake McKay @soonerfan85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If an unmarked vehicle, without emergency lights or siren, tried to pull you over and then begins ramming you, would you try to get away? I would. And I am a retired police officer who is white.
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I used to wonder if European countries + Canada would cancel orders for the F35 due to concerns that the USA would one day refuse to ship spare parts. But maybe they'll just stop buying F35 over concerns that Lockheed + the USA government are too incompetent to be able to reliably ship spare parts.
politico.com
Hill investigates after F-35 parts diverted to Hong Kong
The incident raises the possibility that top secret weapons technology may have been exposed to a foreign adversary — including China.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Federal minimum wage in: 2009: $7.25 2010: $7.25 2011: $7.25 2012: $7.25 2013: $7.25 2014: $7.25 2015: $7.25 2016: $7.25 2017: $7.25 2018: $7.25 2019: $7.25 2020: $7.25 2021: $7.25 2022: $7.25 2023: $7.25 2024: $7.25 2025: $7.25 2026: $7.25 Folks, it's time to raise the damn wage already.
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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 16/09/2026
reminders for the people: (1) getting rid of the shell company transparency law / rules was in Project 2025 (pg. 707) (2) these are the businesses *that we know of* - he is likely tied to dozens more (3) this is why PUBLIC incorporation registries tying entities to real human owners matters!
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Kremlev, the Russian who sponsored Don Jr's wedding, is a former member of the Night Wolves biker gang, went to China with Putin and is personally sanctioned by Ukraine for his role in abducting children. He praises Stalin on social media www.propublica.org/article/dona...
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Putin-linked Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay for Donald Trump Jr's wedding on a private island in the Bahamas in May, 2026. Jared Kushner + a Russians tied to Kremlev attended. You cannot understand USA foreign policy without considering Russian bribes.
propublica.org
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 03/09/2026
NEWS: Antwerp’s diamond industry insists the lavish ring it gave Trump wasn’t tied to the tariff break it received weeks later. But its own words tell a very different story.
meidasnews.com
Antwerp's Diamond Industry Says the Trump Ring Wasn't a Bribe. Its Own Words Say Otherwise.
The Antwerp World Diamond Centre (AWDC) is standing by its story: the diamond-encrusted ring it gave Donald Trump was a friendly gift to mark America's 250th
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Russia is using commercial aviation to transport sanctioned goods from the Maldives, UAE, Turkey, etc that become components of military systems used in Russia to kill civilians in Ukraine. It's thus legitimate for Ukraine to stop this sanctions evasion by destroying planes on Russian airfields.
wsj.com
Exclusive | The Island Paradise That Is a Secret Hub for Russian Sanctions Evasion
The Maldives has become a pipeline for hundreds of millions of dollars in Western goods heading to Moscow.
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Airports in the UK & EU should sanction all air carriers flying to Moscow. If Emirates or Turkish airlines flies to Moscow, their planes should not be allowed to land in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, etc. Do this immediately to send a clear message. The airlines will choose Europe > Russia.
reuters.com
Moscow vows to avoid airspace disruption despite Zelenskiy's aviation warning
Russia vowed to ​head off any disruption to civil aviation on Wednesday after a warning by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that its ‌drones had made Russian airspace dangerous to use.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Russians who crave revenge for invented causes and revel in propaganda are complicit in all the killings, violence, and war crimes committed by our worthless, blood-soaked state." A Russian woman explains why Russia’s imperial ambitions are destroying the country from within.
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
🚨 ICYMI: This is one of the most offensive and egregious things I’ve ever covered (and that’s saying a lot seeing how it’s Florida):
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 29/08/2026
ICE’s flight manual says children above 13 years old can be shackled if they are deemed a security risk. A father being moved with his two teenaged sons — who might “conspire” with one another against 10+ flight guards — would be enough for them to be considered security risks.
A shackled man stands at the top of air stairs and looks down at two people who appear to be teenage boys walking up the stairs, also shackled.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Extraordinary, powerful and heart-wrenching. Active duty Marine Colonel Zach Schmidt, speaking in his personal capacity, about Khalil, an Afghan national whose family helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Khalil was deported by the U.S. on Friday to a conflict zone.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Even worse: the real estate developer, Jeff Pori, plans to build a road on the land. The road will link property he owns adjacent to Yosemite to the park’s main road and cut through old growth forest. Pori’s firm has previously coordinated a real estate financing deal with Howard Lutnick’s firm.
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All Kinds Of Nope @woozleweasels.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is what happens when you elect a leader with a brain. America should try that.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive. Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
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JJ in DC @jjindc.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
🧊🚸⛓️ ”ICE just arrested a 5-year-old boy on his way to a soccer game in my home city of Austin, Texas. His name, just like the name of the little boy from Minnesota, is Liam. And Liam should be starting kindergarten this week, but instead he’s sitting in a trailer prison right now in Dilley, Texas.”
democracynow.org
Texas Lawmakers Call on ICE to Close Detention Camp Where 100+ Children Are Held
In Texas, calls are mounting to shut down the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, where it’s estimated more than 100 children are being detained by ICE. This comes after a 5-year-old boy,...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
“On the day Renée Good died, he’d posted about her death on his own Facebook page. The caption was one word: “FAFO.””
migrantinsider.com
EXCLUSIVE: Two DHS Sources Confirm to Migrant Insider — The ICE Agent Who Pointed His Gun at a U.S. Citizen in Virginia Is Martin Lagunas
Watch now | The Chicago-based agent was already identified on social media and by Unraveled Press. Now, two Department of Homeland Security sources have confirmed his name to Migrant Insider.
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Beatgrrrl @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
SFO International, July 22 Ukrainian woman disappeared by ICE
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Things you can buy at the Russian Wildberries: Drone components, such as fiber optic cables or clamping devices.
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The Ukrainian unmanned systems forces has been using Skyranger planes (kits costs ~$35,000) modified to fly autonomously + drop ~100kg to 250kg bombs & return to base. A group of these recently bombed an underground Russian base in occupied Armyansk. With Russian air defenses degraded in Crimea ..
ukrainetoday.org
Ukraine Just Revealed a Secret Bomber Drone Squadron Russia Never Saw Coming
Jul 13, 2026 A lineup of Ukrainian Horynych reusable bomber drones before a reported strike on a Russian logistics hub near occupied Armyansk. (Source: Serhii Sternenko) Ukraine has publicly reveal…
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
According to this article from January 2026, Russia cut the budget for building new Volgamax cargo ships at the end of 2025. In 2023, Russia signed a contract for 34 new ships. That was cut to 18 in December 2025. ZERO have been delivered. Each costs $22 million, and they're now scheduled for 2028.
maritime-executive.com
Russia Cuts Funding to Build River-Sea Cargo Ships Citing Sanctions
Reports from Russia indicate that an ambitious program to build a new generation of river-sea cargo ships has been reduced. The Moscow Times cites the...
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
According to this article from 2025, Russia recently had up a bit less than 200 Volgoneft tankers that it used to transport oil products in the Sea of Azov + the Volga-Don river & canal system. Ukraine may have destroyed ~60 to 70 of those ships (plus others) in the past week.
arcrimea.org
“Floating Dead” of Aggressor’s Tanker Fleet - Association of Reintegration of Crimea
We have previously described the consequences of the environmental disaster on December 15 last year, when the Russian tanker "Volgoneft-212" sank in a storm near the Kerch Strait and its sister ship ...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms. The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment.
nbcnews.com
Trump ousts remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission ahead of midterms
The dismissals hamstring a key bipartisan agency just months before the midterms.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
🇵🇱 PM Tusk: Every missile successfully fired in Ukraine that destroys aggressor’s missiles, rockets, drones, or aircraft makes Poland safer. This is directly a matter of our own security. We cannot allow this issue to become part of some foolish political struggle here at home.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
"Where's the money and the gasoline, Vova? Spent it all on yachts and palaces?" Russians waiting in line for gasoline are starting to ask the right questions.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Russians are starting to realize the huge costs Putin spends on war instead of improving the lives of Russians: Putin decided to invest 25 trillion rubles not into developing his own country but to occupy a foreign one.
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papaesoco.bsky.social @papaesoco.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
motherjones.com
ICE finds a new way to dodge Congress about a secret protester database
New letters show ICE shifting its rhetoric—and Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Max Frost demanding answers.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Stock trades by President. The blatant corruption is just staggering
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
They are all grifters.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Back in December 2022,the propaganda news channel Russia Today released a video promising Europe a fuel crisis and suggesting that Europeans switch to donkeys and horses because "soon the petrol will be too expensive."
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Mom, I signed a contract. They promised drones, admission, money - said everything would be fine. Instead, they sent me on a f*cking assault." A wounded Russian soldier from occupied Donetsk says he signed up for a drone unit but was sent on a meat assault instead.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
The most corrupt Administration in American history. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...
nytimes.com
Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 05/06/2026
At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family. That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know. I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
💥 Every day, ships leave this Russian owned factory in Ireland straight for St Petersburg carrying thousands of tons of raw alumina for the war machine. There’s corruption everywhere. Locals tell me politicians are bought by oligarchs. Ireland is no longer militarily neutral. @caolanrob.bsky.social
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ordinary-observer.bsky.social @ordinary-observer.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
It's amazing that an AMERICAN far-right propagandist + her German-national boyfriend would instigate a racially-motivated attack on a darker-skinned mother in London (likely a UK national) & make comments that she "doesn't belong here". The foreign racist criminals should be deported from the UK.
bbc.com
Maga influencer Melissa Rein Lively admits Bond Street assault
Melissa Rein Lively accepted a caution, while an assault by beating charge against her was withdrawn.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Toretsk. Another town in Ukraine that Russia has turned to ash and ruins. ​Russians who claimed to have come to "liberate" Donbas are only liberating it from life itself.
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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The Moscow Times reports that Trump’s White House Ballroom Commissioner will attend Putin’s speech at St. Petersburg Economic Forum Rodney Mims Cook Jr. - overseeing new ballroom, DC arches etc - will be first American official to attend forum in 10 yrs www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/05/22/t...
themoscowtimes.com
Trump’s White House Ballroom Commissioner to Attend Putin’s Speech at St. Petersburg Economic Forum - The Moscow Times
The head of the U.S.
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Charles Я. Davis @charliearchy.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...
theredoubt.net
Why did the press ignore a gathering of the world's leading fascists?
Right-wing extremism is going mainstream, but it's not getting the coverage.
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Wendy Siegelman @wendysiegelman.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Eric Trump is an investor in merger deal of drone company Xtend & JFB Construction (Don Jr also an investor thru stake in American Ventures) Xtend announced it was selected for phase II qualifier stage of US Defense Dept $1 billion drone dominance program www.globenewswire.com/news-release...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Commit a series of extremely grave crimes, get a pardon and a $106 mn no-bid federal contract payoff. It's life under Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Company led by Republican fundraiser pardoned by Trump wins $106m federal contract
There is no evidence Elliott Broidy’s links to Trump helped AI company win contract to monitor prisoners’ phone calls
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itsmab.bsky.social @itsmab.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Because yeah, he couldn’t have done that.
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 22/05/2026
Bezos: "You could double the taxes I pay, and it's not going to help that teacher in Queens." Let's. Try.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 19/05/2026
Not enough news coverage of how the insurrectionist reparations fund is a clear violation of the 14th Amendment. We need to enforce the Constitution in its original meaning and plain text. You can't imagine away parts of the Constitution just because it is politically inconvenient.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Pretty sure you don’t need to quote ethics experts to say the $1.8bn slush fund is corrupt.
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