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Paul Rimple

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Meet Me Here Tbilisi - www.meetmeheretbilisi.com - food & wine travel and culinary tours. Freelance journalist, and The Natural Born Lovers.

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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Want to know what's going on in Georgia? Great piece about the fight for democracy and how far the government will go to prevent it, including poisoning its people.
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When Water Burns: The Fight for Georgia - BBC World Service Documentaries
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Georgia’s government next target for destruction is education. revdem.ceu.edu/2025/10/31/g...
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Georgia’s Higher Education ‘Reform’: The Capstone of an Authoritarian Turn | Review of Democracy
Georgia’s government has announced a sweeping reform of higher education that pulls more decisions under central control, trims academic diversity, and limits international engagement. This is not an ...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
How is it I only heard of this now?
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The Female Picaresque: Jan Kerouac’s Baby Driver by Amanda Fortini
October 24, 2025 – “Jan Kerouac’s darker and more extreme brand of mischief make her father’s On the Road high jinks seem tame and even a tad dilettantish by comparison.”
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I've been wanting to write this story for a while, but happy Alice Feiring penned it up. www.saveur.com/wine/georgia...
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How Women Are Breathing New Life Into Georgia’s 8,000-Year Wine Tradition
Tethered to its ancestral past, Georgian wine is now a global force with a forward-thinking vision led by women winemakers.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Pretty bad when the government has made pro-democracy think tanks obsolete.
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GIP, Georgia’s Key Think Tank, Halts Work Citing Repression, Loss of Mission - Civil Georgia
The Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), a leading Tbilisi-based think tank established in 2011, an
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
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Germany summons Georgian envoy over aggressive rhetoric against Berlin’s own ambassador in Tbilisi
The summons came a week after Georgia summoned Germany’s Ambassador Peter Fischer.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
A letter from Georgia's political prisoner, journalist Mzia Amaglobeli.
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From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli
My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I was there and they were, too. It was not a coup.
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Georgian Dream pushes alternate history to justify crackdown
The Rose Revolution is rebranded a coup.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Aba ra!
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What I Learned From the Georgia Protests
A novelist traveled to the former Soviet republic in search of food and a story. She found a new understanding of how to stand up for democracy.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Cool piece. youtu.be/dXStGysxLwA?...
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Is Putin's LGBT Crackdown Reaching Other Countries? | SBS Dateline
YouTube video by SBS Dateline
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
www.instagram.com/reel/DN3Fj7o... #foodtravel #tusheti #tushetitour
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Tbilisi sentiment. #russiaisaterroriststae
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
The kryptonite went to his head. Supershmuck. "So, if you want to help save America, ICE is arresting the worst of the worst and removing them from America's streets. I like that. I voted for that," Cain said.
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Actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the '90s, reveals he joined ICE
Dean Cain, who starred in "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," made a recruitment video for the agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Georgian Dream presented incumbent Tbilisi mayor Kaladze to be their candidate for 3rd time. Meanwhile, party chair Kobakhidze took the opportunity for some irony, by complimenting Ivanishvili for “freeing Georgia in 2012 from the most severe authoritarianism” www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
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Irakli Kobakhidze: I would like to greet Mr. Bidzina Ivanishvili, who in 2012 liberated Georgia from the most severe authoritarianism managed from outside and put our country on the right path of deve...
According to Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze, Bidzina Ivanishvili liberated Georgia from the most severe authoritarianism managed from outside in 2012.
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
A lower jaw of an early “homo erectus” of ~1.8 million years old was excavated in Georgia. The jaw was discovered at the archeological site of the village Kvemo Orozmani in Dmanisi municipality, in which area more early humanoid remains of the same era were discovered. 1tv.ge/lang/en/news...
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Discovery at Orozmani archaeological site: 1.8-million-year-old human lower jaw unearthed in Georgia - 1TV
A 1.8-million-year-old human lower jaw has been discovered during international archaeological excavations at Orozmani. The Georgian National Agency for Cultural Heritage Protection announced on Thurs...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The Global War Party is everywhere and control everything but it will never control the Georgian Dream.
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Kobakhidze Says ‘Global War Party’ Uses EU Visa Threat to Open Second Front in Georgia - Civil Georgia
Georgian Dream Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze has claimed that visa-free travel with the European
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Friends, fellas, please sign the petition calling for #JustinTimberlake to express his position against repressions in Georgia. Otherwise, even his concert will be used by the regime to pretend normalcy, legitimacy, and business as usual with the world. www.change.org/p/to-justin-... #NAFO
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To Justin Timberlake: Don’t Let Your Music Be Used to Whitewash Repression in Georgia
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Pavel Talankin is a former Russian school event coordinator and videographer at School No. 1 in Karabash, a town in Russia's Chelyabinsk region. He filmed "patriotic" lessons and school events for official reports submitted to the Russian ministry of education
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Olga Patlyuk @olgapatluyk.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Egils Helmanis, chairman of the municipal council of Ogre, Latvia, was wounded in a Russian shelling during a visit to Ukraine. He was delivering humanitarian aid to Ukraine.
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Freshly appointed Georgian education minister was caught lying about having a Dutch university PhD degree. Now he is rebuking with a typical reflex of full denial of the lie, and deflects it back to the messenger. So typical. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
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Givi Mikanadze to the journalist: You are laughable and pathetic. Irakli Kobakhidze didn’t lie; he said I am a doctoral student at the Free University of Amsterdam - My resume states "candidate," and ...
The Minister of Education, Science, and Youth, Givi Mikanadze, stated that he has not defended a doctoral degree at the Free University of Amsterdam.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Russia continues to target civilian infrastructure. #RussiaIsATerroristState
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
The hard part about doing propaganda is that the past changes so quickly you have no idea what will happen yesterday
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Very well summed up.
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As democracy in Georgia collapses, Russia, China and Iran see an opening | CNN
A decade ago, Georgia was the poster child of post-Soviet countries on their way to democracy and freedom. US lawmakers hope a bill will help combat democratic backsliding.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2025
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
He must have lived in a ground floor apartment or one story house.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
This is accurate, although I'd add that Gavlirov night, when Georgian Dream MPs invited a Russian MP in 2019 to address an assembly from the Speaker's Chair and sparked mass protests, was the catalyst for the growing animosity.
novayagazeta.eu
Tongue-tied in Tbilisi. Russian imperialism is casting a long linguistic shadow over the Georgian capital — Novaya Gazeta Europe
“It’s better to speak Mandarin than Russian in Tbilisi,” says Nikoloz, our guide on a Soviet-themed tour of Tbilisi, as one member of our group, a native Mandarin speaker, attempts to place an order a...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
One of the best joints to get a burger in Tbilisi, and the only place to here real live lowdown blues every Wednesday night! #Tbilisi #tbilisirestaurant #tbilisipub #tbilisibar #tbilsiblues #hamburgerlover #hamburger #foodie #blueslover
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Oasis In Cacophonialand: Maclaren's Irish Pub
Burgers, Blues and MoreTwenty-five years ago, a pair of Tbilisi friends made it a point to drag me, a former Chicago blues musician, to every live music venue in the city, which wasn’t hard as they we...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Russia systematically tortures Ukrainian POWs.
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They burned “Glory to Russia” into my body. Ukrainian POW’s Story of Survival and Torture
YouTube video by UNITED24
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bastards.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Russian propagandist Solovyev: "How many Oreshnik missiles are needed for Kyiv? It doesn't need to be bombarded. It needs to be destroyed. And then rebuilt. North Korean workers will do a great job." Kyiv's population: between 3 and 4 million people that Solovyev wants to kill.
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Jelger Groeneveld @jelgerg.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Procedural commission of Georgia's parliament is preparing to unilaterally kick out Gakharia's party from parliament on the premise of "unjustified absence from sessions". Gakharia's For Georgia has 12 MPs, and they all boycott parliament since the elections. www.interpressnews.ge/en/article/1...
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Parliamentary Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules to discuss early termination of powers of members of Gakharia for Georgia party on June 30
Next week, on June 30, the Parliamentary Committee on Procedural Issues and Rules will discuss the issue of early termination of the powers of the members of the Gakharia for Georgia party and prepare...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Another victim of Georgia's kangaroo court system. The country was once building a democracy. Now it is dismantling it, day by day.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"Judges are now foot-soldiers in the ruling Georgian Dream party’s campaign to throttle all forms of opposition and instill fear among citizens." eurasianet.org/georgian-dre...
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Georgian Dream government instilling fear via harsh punishments for critics
British Embassy blocked from making grants in support of free and fair elections.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Human Rights Crisis in Georgia Following the 2024 Parliamentary Elections admin.gyla.ge/uploads_scri...
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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Kamran Rehmat (@kaamyabi) on Threads
Please listen to Iranian Sara Seyed, a Harvard educated human rights lawyer and actor, appeal to reason. Her message is universal and goes to the root of the current crisis.
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is my King youtu.be/pJwUV8qnXXk?...
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Breaking Up Somebody's Home
YouTube video by Albert King - Topic
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is my King youtu.be/jr7v6QSZwYw?...
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B.B. King - Troubles, Troubles, Troubles
YouTube video by Jazz Everyday!
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
This is my King. youtu.be/d57XEfpZJ9Y?...
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The Stumble (Remastered 2015)
YouTube video by Freddie King - Topic
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I can't believe it's been seven years already since he's passed. I revised a story I wrote in 2016 about my lunch with Anthony Bourdain when Parts Unknown came to Tbilisi, which was published by the defunct Beacon Reader. #travel #travellovers #traveladdict #tbilisi #tbilisitravel #Travelblog
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Garlic Chicken With Tony - Anthony Bourdain lunches in Tbilisi with Paul Rimple
On the morning of November 14, as I was in bed massaging my head, which smacked of dirty chacha, I got a phone call. "Can you meet Anthony Bourdain for lunch in an hour?"
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Protest 24 @protest24.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#GeorgiaProtests
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Quite the fascist state we live in. www.instagram.com/p/DKe9EVWxc-...
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Hans Gutbrod @hansgutbrod.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Someone should tell Jim Jarmusch that his Down By Law film is getting invoked, decades later, as an honest opposition politician is thrown into jail. youtu.be/zyvZUxnIC3k?...
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Tom Waits in 'Down By Law' - I Scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream (1986)
YouTube video by Tom Waits
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Paul Rimple @pjrimple.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Of course they have.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Apparently "The Art of the Deal" has a chapter on pleading.
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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
On this Easter, two protesters were detained at the end of the daily protest in Tbilisi. According to eyewitnesses, one detainee shouted "Christ is Risen" to the police that wanted to clear the road, and it triggered them! "Why are you hitting me" can be heard. #GeorgiaProtests
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
This Hegseth thing is funny and all — but the unprecedented incompetence, frivolity, and treachery of the entire cabinet puts us all at very real risk.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Foreign Minister of Czechia Jan Lipavský on Putin's truce": "It is like declaring a hunger strike between breakfast and lunch and then eating sweet. We see that the attacks continue...So it seems to me that this declaration of peace is more of a media trick than a reality."
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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
The parents of political prisoners are trying to stay strong, with their children facing years for nothing more than protesting against a repressive, illegitimate, corrupt, pro-Russian regime. Day 143 of daily #GeorgiaProtests
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