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Peter Kohan

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Thinking of a master plan… Over-zealous Knicks fan. Spotify crate digger and lover of music. open.spotify.com/user/1227106958?si…

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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Time to get some more followers for this playlist. open.spotify.com/playlist/6YZ...
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Don't Disturb This Groove
Fun 80s R&B. Perfect for a long car ride or an evening with Gen X friends. Sequenced for your pleasure.... well, really for my pleasure.
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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 08/09/2026
For the close to half a million people who graduated and entered the world of work this summer, carrying an average of £48k of student debt, the mood music isn’t uplifting
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AI has made applying for work laborious and faceless
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
(🧵|🚨) BREAKING: *Three years* ago PROOF ran a long, well-sourced report confirming that Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu *knew* from Middle Eastern “grand bargain” co-conspirators that the October 7 attack was coming before it came—and let Israelis die for political gain. Now Haaretz has confirmed it.
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As Israel Reels From Mass Deaths and a Seeming Intel Failure, Evidence Mounts of Negligence By Netanyahu—Or Maybe Something More Sinister
Israel has the world’s very best intel services, yet allegedly failed to foresee a massive invasion months in the making. Now media outlets are beginning to point a finger at Netanyahu—as is the IDF.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I wrote a book about why www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Why does the hard right have such a high tolerance for domestic abusers in their midst?
The ‘stop the boats’ narrative is increasingly presented as if it stems from a concern for women’s safety. This is just the laundering of thuggery
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Elad Nehorai @eladn.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here is a guest on Tucker Carlson’s podcast saying that algebra is a conspiracy by the Jews to turn people into “good little goy slaves.” I wish I was joking.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Israeli strike causes 'major explosion' in south Lebanon, state media reports - www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/liv…
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Israeli strike causes 'major explosion' in south Lebanon, state media reports
<article data-history-node-id="445776" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-causes-major-explosion-south-lebanon-state-media-reports" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-strike-causes-major-explosion-south-lebanon-state-media-reports" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli strike causes 'major explosion' in south Lebanon, state media reports</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The Israeli military has caused a "major explosion" in the municipality of&nbsp;Zaoutar el-Charkiya in south Lebanon, state media agency NNA reported.</p> <p>It also said Israel had shot machine gun rounds towards&nbsp;Wadi Slouki at dawn on Monday.</p> <p>NNA says the Israeli military attacked&nbsp;the village of Mansouri with artillery strikes during the night, as well as the settlement of&nbsp;Bani Hayyan.</p> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script> <blockquote class="twitter-tweet"> <p dir="rtl" lang="ar">تفجير كبير في زوطر الشرقية <a href="https://t.co/27BGP2uyPM">https://t.co/27BGP2uyPM</a></p> — National News Agency (@NNALeb) <a href="https://x.com/NNALeb/status/2086707866879054314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 10, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script></div> </div> </article>
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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Should be a huge scandal. And yet we know it won’t be.
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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 03/08/2026
The message "they want to inspect your daughter's genitals" would be astoundingly effective. Which is also why conservative Democrats who want to cave won't say it. In general, they would rather lose and be comfortable than win and have to push hard.
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Paul Rosenberg @paulrosenberg.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The problems identified here are directly traceable to changes Gingrich made in 1995, which Pelosi SHOULD have reversed in 2007, but chose not to. This is part of the broader pattern of conservatives changing the rules & Dems accepting "the new normal." Time for all that to end.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/08/2026
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
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Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 02/08/2026
If you think you’ve touched poison ivy, what you do next can make a big difference in the way your body reacts. Here’s what dermatologists recommend, plus other important facts about poison ivy you should know:
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How to spot poison ivy and what to do if you accidentally touch it
Activating quickly after you touch poison ivy can help reduce your chances of ending up with an intense, itchy rash.
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Foreign Policy @foreignpolicy.com · 03/08/2026
A 50-year old book reveals the tendencies that undermine military competence—a century ago and today. Read our analysis for free:
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The Book That Predicted Pete Hegseth’s Failures
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 04/08/2026
A Salvadoran man held for the past six weeks at Delaney Hall, the largest ICE detention center in the New York metro area, has died, his mother and attorneys say. It is the second death at the facility since it opened a year and a half ago.
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Salvadoran Man Held at Delaney Hall Dies in ICE Custody
The detainee had an extensive medical history, including epilepsy, according to a lawsuit. He had complained about his face and hand going numb just before his death, his mother said.
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The Kansas City Star @kansascity.com · 04/08/2026
The City Plan Commission is scheduled to consider the data center tower plan on Wednesday. Staff recommend the plan’s denial.
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KC planning staff oppose 20-story downtown data center ahead of public hearing
The City Plan Commission is scheduled to consider the data center tower plan on Wednesday. Staff recommend the plan’s denial.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Republicans have three modes: (1) Twist themselves into a pretzel to defend Trump (2) Feign ignorance about what Trump is doing (3) Pretend that they are holding him accountable while doing nothing prospect.org/2026/08/04/r...
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Republican Senators Pretend to Constrain Trump - The American Prospect
John Cornyn caves and agrees to vote for Todd Blanche as AG, while Susan Collins orchestrates a loophole-ridden deal on OMB rules politicizing federal grants.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Well, at least it was for a completely lawless and pointless cause.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...
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Dunning-Kruger Industries @bbroke7.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
JFC.
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Exclusive leaked documents expose growing white supremacist group www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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Exclusive leaked documents expose growing white supremacist group
The documents, provided by a source inside Patriot Front, shed new light on the inner-workings of the group.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 14/05/2026
The state secretary, who is under Chinese sanctions, is on a state visit to Beijing under the name 'Marco Lu'.
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How China changed Rubio name to let him join Trump summit despite sanctions
The state secretary, who is under Chinese sanctions, is on a state visit to Beijing under the name 'Marco Lu'.
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing
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Linda Stewart-Oaten @lindastewart-oaten.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Bastards. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...
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Trump Administration Will Withhold $1.3 Billion in Medicaid Payments to California
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Remigration is a white nationalist idea: immigrants of color voluntarily leave America for their native countries,making America whiter. That the State Department and White House are openly promoting it is an obvious tell - as if another one was needed - about the Trump regime’s goal.
White House promotes white nationalist remigration
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Brenny @pissedoffinnh.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
This is great! 😂
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
www.404media.co/software-dev...
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Software Developers Say AI Is Rotting Their Brains
“It's making me dumber for sure.”
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Happy Birthday, Stevie. 🎂♉️🐂 open.spotify.com/playlist/7bJ...
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Stevie Wonder Shuffle
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Starting a 🧵 on Georgia early voting, as we build toward the major 5/19 elections that'll decide 2 supreme court seats (boltsmag.org/georgia-supr...). On morning of May 2nd —201K have voted. —54% picked up Dem ballot; 45% the GOP ballot. —34.7% are Black. —45.6% are in 10 biggest blue counties.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A new Nazi database prompts Germans to confront their families’ dark pasts The search engine containing 12 million party membership cards shatters the illusion that few ancestors were active supporters of Hitler.
observer.co.uk
A new Nazi database prompts Germans to confront their fam...
The search engine containing 12m party membership cards shatters the illusion that few ancestors were active supporters of Hitler
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
www.readtangle.com/the-everythi...
readtangle.com
The everything, everywhere, all at once corruption story.
I'm pleading with you to look at the president's self-dealing.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
any US / UK / EU scholars making a public case for windfall taxes on fossil capital?
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Phil Tinline @philtinline.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
No sooner had news of the WHCA shooting broken than people were shouting ‘Staged!’ But then, when Trump himself is confronted with something he doesn’t want to believe is true, he tends to shout ‘Hoax!’ New piece up yday for @foreignpolicy.com on this: foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/24/i...
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Hoaxes Keep Escaping Containment
A delusional U.S. president is helping thin the line between fiction and reality.
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Rainesford Stauffer @rainesford.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.
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It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity.
Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.
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Max Boot @maxboot.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
“The overall mood is that’s enough already; you’ve been fighting for long enough,” said a Russian official. “It seems to everyone that it’s been going on for longer than World War II, the Great Patriotic War —and at the same time we can’t even take one region.” www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...
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Mood in Russia turns bleak as war in Ukraine drags and economy suffers
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ratings are falling, and citizens are voicing despair, with the war in its fifth year, talks stalled and sanctions biting deeper.
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Brennan Center @brennancenter.org · 26/04/2026
Justices Sotomayor and Thomas each made controversial public comments recently but with sharply different outcomes. In today’s @nytimes.com, @jessewegman.bsky.social explains what the contrast reveals about the Roberts Court.
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Opinion | Is the Supreme Court Coming Apart at the Seams?
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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‘Nigel is mad to accept his money’: who is Christopher Harborne, the mystery billionaire bankrolling Reform?
A crypto tycoon is giving record-breaking amounts to Farage’s party. But little is known about his motives
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The Kansas City Star @kansascity.com · 19/04/2026
A proviso added to the state budget would have required KDHE to align its immunization standards with the Trump administration’s guidelines.
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Kansas rejects Trump-backed vaccine policy. What it means for your child
A proviso added to the state budget would have required KDHE to align its immunization standards with the Trump administration’s guidelines.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 19/04/2026
"Alligator Alcatraz" already has a bad reputation for its poor treatment of immigrants. But often, things at the facility allegedly get even worse. Things like reports of beatings and confinement while exposed to the elements. It never stopped.
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We Forget About ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at Our Peril
The abuses are piling up, and Democrats and activists are desperate to get the word out.
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The Calitaliano Kid 😎🇺🇦🗽 @moved2italy.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
What do Jared Kushner, Benjamin Netanyahu, Tony Blair, Marco Rubio and, wait for it… Larry Ellison (Oracle) have to do with each other AND with everything that’s happening in the #MiddleEast? 🧐 And, maybe you’ve figured it out by now, how does the #BoardofPeace… 🧵 open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...
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Why Iran's Blockade Is an Oracle Story
If you have been following this newsletter, you know I have spent a long time tracking Oracle through nearly every corner of American infrastructure, from the Cerner rebuild to the Stargate contracts ...
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 18/04/2026
The FBI Director, the DC US Attorney, and the Secretary of Defense walk into a bar. Apparently like every day.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
21. Some cultures have produced vital advances; others remain dysfunctional and regressive. All cultures are now equal. Criticism and value judgments are forbidden. Yet this new dogma glosses over the fact that certain cultures and indeed subcultures . . . have produced wonders. Others have proven middling, and worse, regressive and harmful.

22. We must resist the shallow temptation of a vacant and hollow pluralism. We, in America and more broadly the West, have for the past half century resisted defining national cultures in the name of inclusivity. But inclusion into what?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 19/04/2026
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the easing of sanctions on Russian oil, after the US extended a waiver meant to soften surging energy prices driven by the war on Iran.
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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 19/04/2026
I'm sorry, but this is utterly unacceptable from Stonewall's new Chair. And entirely unnecessary. Nothing is gained from this except communicating to trans people that Stonewall does not care about them.
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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 19/04/2026
Hungary’s Tisza party increased its parliamentary majority by three seats after the final votes were counted in last Sunday’s election.
politico.eu
Hungary’s Tisza party widens parliamentary majority as final votes are counted
Incoming Prime Minister Péter Magyar held talks with the European Commission to unfreeze EU funds.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 19/04/2026
This is honestly one of the better court reform proposals, and certainly a bold one. It doesn’t just solve the problem of *this* Supreme Court, it solves the problem of bare Court majorities imposing their will on law and policy, permanently.
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The Economist @economist.com · 19/04/2026
One explanation for violations in the Iran ceasefire is that all sides are deliberately breaking the truce to gain a strategic advantage, and are subsequently retaliating to deter each side’s breaches
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The game theory behind violating ceasefires
Truces like the one in the Gulf get broken all the time. But they still work
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
media.tenor.com
a man with a beard is wearing headphones and a hat while looking at the camera .
ALT: a man with a beard is wearing headphones and a hat while looking at the camera .
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 19/04/2026
Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees
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Ordered free, still locked up: Judges fume as Trump administration holds ICE detainees
A legal maneuver once reserved for death row inmates and suspected terrorists has become the only recourse for immigrant detainees, who have flooded federal courts in California with thousands of petitions for freedom.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
I have frequently said that it is hard for me to imagine how Trump could further damage the institution of the DOJ, but that only demonstrates the limits of my imagination. I did not imagine Trump putting Joe diGenova in charge of investigating his political enemies. It just got worse. GIFT LINK
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U.S. Installs a Trump Loyalist to Lead ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Case Into Trump Foes
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Peter Kohan @peterkohan.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
www.nj.com/food/2026/04...
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ICE raids are ravaging N.J.’s restaurant industry, owners say. ‘People disappear overnight.’
Chefs and owners say immigrant employees are afraid to come to work
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This is from 2005. The same year RFK Jr spread a conspiracy ridden article about vaccines in Rolling Stone. He was already a monster at this point.
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