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Randy 🇺🇦

@rendissimo.bsky.social
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I post a lot about Baltic and European security stuff. Also cats. Don’t mind me and my saudade. Views my own. #славаукраїні

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 10/10/2026
The people who don’t want you to watch miss rachel want you to watch a public execution
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
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Andrew Weinstein @andrewjweinstein.com · 23/08/2026
The United States and Canada have been friends, partners, and allies for more than 150 years across 32 presidential administrations. And now, solely because of the arrogance, incompetence, and ego of the current occupant of the White House, that relationship is being driven straight toward a cliff.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Honestly, it’s exhausting to have such dumb, corrupt, incompetent, reckless and evil people currently running the country. What a sad expression of the failure of education and morality in a country that once could pride itself on advancing talented and capable people.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Watching everyone allow Trump to destroy the world and do nothing is soul destroying.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 07/03/2026
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
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At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports
Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 18/01/2026
We now have a full-blown European-American crisis, and for no reason that the president is able to articulate
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
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THAT Amber @buriedbybooks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Called and left messages for both of my Dem Senators opposing any funding for ICE. WTF is wrong with our Dem leadership? Do they think voters will vote for them in the midterms after this? Because people are getting jaded. Apathy is coming if they won’t fight.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
These Megan Kelly clips are pretty good proof that a lot of people have gotten much much much worse over the last 10 years
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Was blessed to see this concert on Saturday. Saying it was a “bucket list” moment doesn’t do it justice. It simply felt like a blessing, and not just because the show ended up taking place in a church!
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Federal agents doing slapdash safety check checkpoints because they have nothing better to do than harass American citizens is repugnant to our foundational principles. We should not tolerate it in a free society.
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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Last week I took a group to the infamous 9th Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, which was the site of infamous crimes against humanity. This ended up begging the question: if this is the 9th fort, what about the others?! Thread.
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hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
DHS is recruiting using a not-so-subtle reference to a 1978 book from white nationalist William Gayley Simpson, Which Way Western Man? Simpson's book was released under an imprint associated with the National Alliance, founded by Turner Diaries author William Luther Pierce.

Homeland Security
@DHSgov
Which way, American man?

http://JOIN.ICE.GOV

photo of uncle sam with his hat off at a crossroads with title "America Needs You, Join ICE Now"
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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
When he’s right, he’s right, folks.
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David the Trifecta: Fatty, Beardo, Weirdo @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
"Never Again" Empty platitudes, devoid of meaning and designed to defer a decision on concrete action.
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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 24/07/2025
In the ongoing saga of my research topic becoming current events...I have been wondering what will happpen with the property of immigrants being disappeared in America.
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Frank A. Stengel @frankstengel.com · 12/07/2025
As a German political scientist who used to live in the US I cannot say how deeply disturbing it is to see these masked ICE goons dragging people off the streets, and the GOP building up this massive secret police force. What a shameful moment in history this is.
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John Swinney @johnswinney.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Today, 30 years on, we remember the victims of the Srebrenica genocide. In a world still scarred by conflict, we must learn from the past and confront hatred and prejudice wherever it occurs. Never again must mean never again. #Srebrenica30
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Russell the Love Muscle 💪 @rpg-volley.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
really wish the news would stop covering musk like a harmless celebrity feuding with politicians via mean tweets and more like a malignant, foreign-born billionaire spending billions to brute-force our government to better serve him and harm millions.
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Jill Sargent Russell, PhD @jsargentr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
I think this is an unfair mischaracterization of the use intended, and lumping it in with the sort of mine warfare that afflicts global civilians is counter-productive to the humanitarian purpose of the law.
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
It’s almost as if this were written by someone whose people have never had to endure Russian aggression.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
NEW: The death shadow cast by Musk. “When U.S.-supported soup kitchens were forced to close, babies starved quietly, their mothers said, while older siblings died begging for food.” The world’s richest man did this to the world’s poorest children. Don’t ever forget.
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In Sudan, where children clung to life, doctors say USAID cuts have been fatal
The Trump administration’s cuts to USAID had an immediate and deadly impact in war-ravaged Sudan, according to civilians, doctors and aid officials.
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Voss 🇪🇺 @vossbender.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
A good time as any for a reminder of key points from On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social More and more of those are directly relevant for us in our failing democracies, sliding towards authoritarianism one Social Media misinformation after another...
DON'T BE A BYSTANDER TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
1. Do not obey in advance
2. Defend institutions
12. Make eye contact and small talk
3. Beware the one-party state
13. Practice corporeal politics
4. Take responsibility for the face of the world
14. Establish a private life
5. Remember professional ethics
15. Contribute to good causes
6. Be wary of paramilitaries
16. Learn from peers in other countries
7. Be reflective if you must be armed
17. Listen for dangerous words
8. Stand out
18. Be calm when the unthinkable arrives
9. Be kind to our language
10. Believe in truth
19. Be a patriot
11. Investigate
20. Be as courageous as you can
SHARE THE RULES I ON TYRANNY I TIMOTHYSNYDER.ORG
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Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Monitoring channels strongly warn: don't touch unknown objects -- russia attacked Kyiv with cluster munitions. Cluster munitions. On a city of 4M people. Let that sink in. Don't talk about "both sides." Don't ask Ukraine to give up. Peace comes only when russia is defeated.
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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Every now and then I remember there’s a Norwegian MP serving in the Ukrainian marine corps and she is just so unfathomably cool
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Sam Greene @samagreene.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Putin: “I’ve already said that Russians and Ukrainians are one people. In that sense, all of Ukraine is ours. … We have this old rule, that wherever a Russian steps foot — that’s our territory.” Whatever this is, it’s not a president preparing his people for compromise.
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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 20/06/2025
🔴 Anastasiia, a Ukrainian girl with cancer, was killed in Israel by an Iranian rocket along with her mom, grandma, and siblings. She had traveled there for treatment. Her father is currently defending Ukraine.
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
JFC
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Maggie Astor @maggieastor.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan
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Leonardo Carella @leonardocarella.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
You can't understand the behaviour of US elites - Democrats being too timid, Republicans debasing themselves, bureaucrats who behave like pushovers - without reference to the constant threat of political violence that has come with MAGA. Every day is January 6. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
This is a phenomenal initiative. Please take part if this applies to you.
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Can’t wait to check this out!
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E. Rosalie @erosalie.infoepi.com · 11/06/2025
If you find yourself going over the reasons you are safe-- maybe you're religious, you're White, you're a "good" immigrant, you're married to someone influential, whatever it may be--that's how you know autocracy is closing in, and eventually you won't be safe. None of us will be.
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
This is Sergeant Major Roberto Valente of the Italian army. He and five other Italian soldiers died in Afghanistan on 17 September, 2009 following an attack. He left behind a family. I made it a point to attend Valente’s funeral in Naples as a humble gesture of gratitude for his service.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
🧵 My small country, Estonia, population 1.3 million sent 2003-2014 over 2500 soldiers. 9 were killed in the line of duty. 109 wounded, half of them so seriously they could no longer lead a normal life. In Iraq 2003-2009 we had more than 440 soldiers. 2 were killed. 18 seriously wounded. 1/n
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Corporate media has truly failed us. Obsessed with access and focused on nothing more than their monetary perks and book deals, they'll happily slow walk us into the dismantling of the Republic if it means they still get Oval Office exclusives. Support independent media.
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Patrick @brashieel.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I have tried to get normal people to believe this and it's basically impossible. A tidal wave of death and suffering was being held back by a trivial piece of the US budget, but our brains just aren't wired to understand the world that way.
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Strategizing With Ghosts
Memories of the past shape the choices of nations in the present.
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Rocky Flats Chimney Sweep 🇺🇸 @midlifesuezcrisis.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
To turn the infamous Obama-era Russian framing back around on them, *the* fundamental problem in European security architectures is that the Russians have too much confidence and security. Deterrence is about producing in your enemy's mind a fear to act aggressively. To hell with restraint.
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Shaun Pinner @shaunpinner.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Putin’s Imperialist dreams seem literally up in smoke 🇺🇦 Thousands of lives have been saved today and his imperialist dreams shattered. Make no mistake, Russia isn’t mighty, it’s weak, it’s a regional power with Nukes.
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Joe Hodson @joehodson.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
"Pro-life".
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Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account) @thetattooedprof.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Years from now, this picture will be in History textbooks, in the "Collapse of the American Empire" chapter. Students will have essay prompts like "explain the ways in which online conspiracy theories accelerated imperial collapse." Most all their opening sentences will use the phrase "brain worms"
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Randy 🇺🇦 @rendissimo.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The militarization of police forces is one of the most frightening developments in American society in recent years.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Let it out, Republicans. Say it with your chest. Thank you, Joni Ernst for telling us how you all really feel.
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5GW HotTakes @5gw.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Elon Musk Made Your Life Worse The billionaire may be on the outs with Trump. But the damage, much of it cruel and at times life-ruining, will continue to unfold. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Elon Musk made your life worse
The billionaire may be on the outs with Trump. But the damage, much of it cruel and at times life-ruining, will continue to unfold.
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 30/05/2025
I wish this were not deadly accurate. But it certainly is. Musk’s smirking obliteration of an agency providing lifesaving services all over the world—with zero study of or even interest in the lethal consequences—should permanently stain him, his cabal, and his corporate empire.
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