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JRad

@radinje.bsky.social
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PhD Rel Studies - Jewish + Islamic philosophy, pol thought, history. Arabic is better than my hebrew. Tldr: Leo Strauss radically pro-democracy, Judaism & Islam closer than Christianity, 2 states, manuscripts rock, I have kids, nationalism 👎#canada - usa

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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
this is the perfect summary of MAGA -a bunch of classless moron influencers celebrating the Epstein files -the Epstein files are actually completely redacted because they would reveal that a bunch of right wing politicians are pedos -the very same day, Trump frees a serial sex trafficker
MAGA freaks celebrating the Epstein files
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Every mainstream attempt to grapple with the rise of Tate and other misogynist ideologues have posed them as a product of men’s despair. Few have posited them as an assault on women’s safety and dignity.
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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Mass firings present a national security risk www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/p...
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US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say | CNN Politics
Foreign adversaries including Russia and China have recently directed their intelligence services to ramp up recruiting of US federal employees working in national security, targeting those who have b...
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Thos is the Department of Education DEI snitch line. (If accessing outside th US you will need a VPN). I do NOT suggest you immediately report every school in your disteict for forcing students to say "under god" in the pledge, i.e. religious indoctrination. enddei.ed.gov
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
I heart Tina Smith.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
"We will never, ever be part of the United States in any way, shape, or form." #MarkCarney
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The AP was banned from the event but the French press corps conspired to get a US AP reporter inside and insisted she be allowed to ask her question.
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French Resistance Steps in After AP Banned From Trump-Macron Presser
The Paris Press Corps today ensured that an AP reporter could enter and ask a question.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
There is no meaning to that salute beyond "I want to murder millions of people." I see it as a direct threat and an unforgivable depravity. No scrim of purported irony is gonna lessen that. It is a gesture solely for sick, murderous fucks
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Fighting cancer and diabetes and Alzheimer’s isn’t a partisan issue. It’s a moral one. The NIH funds the research that treats us, cures us, and keeps us healthy. We call on the Trump administration to stop these cuts
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The headline that 21 DOGE staffers have resigned is a little misleading. These were employees of the United States Digital Service, which existed pre-administration and was absorbed into Musk’s team. These aren’t the young idiots; these are actual civil servants.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
One of the women in my mom group bemoaned the lack of butterfly mermaids to fulfill her kid's birthday theme request. It takes a village. You are welcome.
AI generated cartoon image of a metmaid with butterfly wings riding a unicorn with a rainbow in the background.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Lets be clear: Scrubbing data and research online is to 2024 what burning books was to 1935.
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Dan Visnovsky @dvisnovsky.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Connor McDavid, welcome to the resistance
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Canada wins the 4 Nations tournaments in an INSANE overtime game. Hell yeah.
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Greg Bluestein @bluestein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was peppered with boos and catcalls throughout a town hall meeting in Roswell late Thursday, as hundreds of critics jeered the Republican for backing President Donald Trump’s agenda during his first month in office. #gapol ajc.com/politics/mcc...
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Georgia congressman confronted by angry crowd over support for Trump’s agenda
U.S. Rep. Rich McCormick was met with boos and jeers at a town hall in a north Atlanta suburb Thursday.
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God @thegodshow.com · 21/02/2025
Reminder: Zelenskyy refused to leave Kyiv as bombs fell. Donold hid in a bunker from protesters with cardboard signs.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Today is a day of mourning for Jewish people around the world. If you don't know why, but you talk about IsraPal online, then you are contributing to this conflict in which so many thousands have died.
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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
As we’re starting to see, “But I voted for you!” or “I’m (a senator or representative) in your party!” is of the same genre. No one, that means no-not-one, is “in the clear.”
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ae @aelkus.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
something that really is going to set realistic security thinkers apart from people stuck in the past is how cognizant one is that the US after this is going to be massively compromised. foreign and domestic security policies are going to start in equivalent of windows safe mode
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Deadpool pretending to be surprised
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
We are a stiff-necked people.
A picture of the statue of liberty with the text, "In the land of Liberty we bow to no king"
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SassyMetisChick @sassymetischick.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The Indigenous People of North America have decided to go back to calling the Gulf of Mexico, “Chalchiuhtlicueyecatl”. It is what the Nahuatl People originally called it as it is the domain of the goddess Chalchiuhtlicue, who is assoc w/water bodies, including the Gulf of Mexico.
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Palmetto State Abortion Fund @psabortionfund.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
A bill was introduced in the SC legislature that would make what we do a felony. Let’s fund some abortions in his honor. www.donorbox.org/support-the-fund
Yellow background, photo of an older white man with glasses and text that reads “Fund an abortion in honor of Senator Richard Cash. Donate today.”
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is beautiful: Jordan Peterson has a show this Wednesday, and you can see from the ticketmaster seat map that the arena will be echoingly empty. Don't forget that just because they are loud, it doesn't mean anyone is actually listening. www.ticketmaster.ca/event/110061...
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Ellen L. Weintraub @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Received a letter from POTUS today purporting to remove me as Commissioner and Chair of the FEC. There's a legal way to replace FEC commissioners-this isn't it. I've been so fortunate to serve the American people and stir up some good trouble along the way. That's not changing anytime soon.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
I've worked in DP camps. This gave me deja vu.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
We know what’s going on here.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Asking someone when they are having their next book should be at least as taboo as asking people when they are having (another) kid(s). Just. DONT.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
And 19% what? Are still waiting to see what Jill Stein has to say?
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Hey Bluesky, anyone have an ID on this guy blocking Congress from accessing the Department of Education? Also I feel like the shirt choice is a bit on the nose...
An identificied man who is ACTUALLY WEARING A BROWN SHIRT so we lnow hes a fascist, blocking access yonthe Department of Education.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
This is absolutely disgusting. Ive read it. This is the "modern" way to try to do thr same work that Indigenous residential schools and "rehoming" were intended for.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
What the actual f***. Anyone who actually deaerves a Kennedy Center award will have to refuse it from now on. 🤦‍♀️
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Deleted my Twitter app. I'm not posting to a state media platform, which is now being used exclusively and openly to threaten prosecutions and investigations of people who dare criticize the government.
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Ryan Geddie @ryangeddie.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
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WIRED @wired.com · 07/02/2025
SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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A US Treasury Threat Intelligence Analysis Designates DOGE Staff as ‘Insider Threat’
An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Pete Hegseth: "Autocracies have an advantage [...] [...] they have the convenience of planning without political — you know, the pesky people problem of voting and ballots, they can plan [] and then drive that plan without consequence to their own population." (See previous post for context)
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Hegseth at his Town Hall, in response to how we maintain American dominance abroad: "I'm figuring it out. I figured out where the bathroom is"
Text from a portion of Pete Heseths Town Hall, as published by the DOD: 

Q:  Good morning, sir. Based on what you said about maintaining American dominance in the world, our adversaries, especially Chinese and Russians, they have a 20-year strategy, a 30-year strategy and they look that far ahead. How do we change our approach to maintain US dominance abroad? That strategy is more than five years, more than 10 years. And also ensuring that our resources are prioritized and allocated to maintaining our US dominance in decades, sir, not in years.

SECRETARY OF DEFENSE PETE HEGSETH:  You tell me . It sounds like you need to come work for me — or maybe you already do and thank you . 

I'm figuring it out. I found out where the bathroom was. 

That, sir, indeed is the key question. Autocracies have an advantage, not just because of the top-down nature in which they organize. 

I mean they have disadvantages for obvious reasons. But because they have the convenience of planning without political — you know, the pesky people problem of voting and ballots, they can plan 15, 20 years and then drive that plan without consequence to their own population, which does have strategic advantages, no doubt. 

I actually think that system loses in the long haul because of its inherent weaknesses. But that militarily has advantages.
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Alt USAID/ USAID Forever @altusaid.altgov.info · 07/02/2025
No joke we could use a LOT of help disrupting this on other social media platforms ty www-nbcnews-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.nbcn...
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How Elon Musk boosted false USAID conspiracy theories to shut down global aid
Musk drove fringe viewpoints on USAID into the mainstream on X as the Trump administration halted the humanitarian relief agency’s work.
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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Mai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
79 countries come out against the Trump executive order sanctions on the International Criminal Court. "Such measures increase the risk of impunity for the most serious crimes and threaten to erode the international rule of law, which is crucial for promoting global order and security."
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
I hope every country in the world sends female and minority citizens to meet with him. And i hope, i hope to gd, he underestimates them this badly.
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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JRad @radinje.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Let me say it once more for the people in the back - we are only safe for as long as they think we are basically Christian. (Spoiler: that's not going to last very long.) www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
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Trump says he will sign order targeting anti-Christian bias
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he will create a commission on religious liberty and a faith office at the White House.
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Jill Twiss @jilltwiss.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I feel like a bunch of bears just started running the government and half of us are like "don't worry, bears don't even know how to read. What can they do?" and the other half are like WELL THE BEARS JUST ATE THE CONSTITUTION
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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 05/02/2025
I've got to say, the guy who accidentally became the Director of the FBI does 100% look like the guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI in a mid-2000s comedy about a guy who accidentally becomes the Director of the FBI
Brian Driscoll, the acting director of the FBI, sporting curly hair, a kinda rakish jazz dirtbag moustache and beard combo, a faintly amused look in his eyes and a wry "whaddaya gonna do" smirk
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