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Robert Repino

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Editor. Author of the War with No Name series and Spark and the League of Ursus. Volunteer with Car for Ukraine. Opinions belong to me and the voices in my head. robertrepino.com car4ukraine.com/campaigns/50forua-n…

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Reactor Magazine @reactorsff.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The recent Ukrainian sci-fi film "U Are the Universe," the story of a man alone in the vastness of space, is incredibly moving, bleak, hilarious, and inspiring. @repino1.bsky.social on the reasons why this "miraculous" film deserves a wider audience
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So, You Want a Dark, Serious, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Project Hail Mary? Try U Are the Universe - Reactor
A gorgeous and moving Ukrainian sci-fi film that deserves the widest possible audience.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Check out my latest for Reactor below. But also take a look at this unique fundraiser I'm helping to organize with @50states-4-ukraine.bsky.social and @carforukraine.bsky.social #50States4Ukraine #StandWithUkraine car4ukraine.com/campaigns/50...
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50 States for Ukraine: New York Battalion
Car for Ukraine has joined efforts with representatives from all 50 states of the USA. During this campaign, states will have a friendly competition, helping various units at the hottest spots of the ...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm hosting a panel for the Saratoga Book Festival on 3 October, titled: "Confronting Looming Catastrophes in Fiction". With @yumewrites.bsky.social and @isabel.kim. Come with me if you want to live. friends.sspl.org/book-festiva...
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2026 Festival Sessions
Announcing the 2026 Saratoga Book Festival Schedule Click below to check out Friday’s Literary Night Market! Click on the image below to download the Schedule-at-a-Glance PDF for Saturday and Sunday F...
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Pablo Maurer @mlsist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Going to state the obvious thing here, which gets said repeatedly about Messi: The frequency with which he makes the absurd look commonplace is like... it's insane, man. It never gets old. He's like a comedian who tells you the same joke 1000x, and you still laugh every time.
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The Maryland Battalion of 50 States for Ukraine 🇺🇲🇺🇦 @mdbattalion4ua.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Best of luck to our friends in New York as they launch a new campaign! If you live in (or have connections to) New York, please consider showing your support.
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Jordan Kurella @jordankurella.com · 27/09/2026
hey all!!! got my contributor copy of "Your Body is a Fever Dream" from @tenebrouspress.bsky.social !!!! you can pre-order this amazing book of trans body horror too! click the link: bookshop.org/beta-search?...
the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickersmy story "All Her Rows of Teeth" in the book "Your Body is a Fever Dream" on a table full of stickers
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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It’s a Great Time to Be a Guy Who Loves His Cat (Gift Article)
We’re living in the age of the “cat dad” and he’s being used to sell premium cat products and talk about healthy masculinity.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I'm helping Car For Ukraine, an organization that provides vehicles for the Ukrainian military. They've sent nearly 1,000 to the front so far. Please have a look at our new campaign for NY. Consider donating or sharing. #50statesforukraine #StandWithUkraine car4ukraine.com/campaigns/50...
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50 States for Ukraine: New York Battalion
Car for Ukraine has joined efforts with representatives from all 50 states of the USA. During this campaign, states will have a friendly competition, helping various units at the hottest spots of the ...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest for @reactorsff.bsky.social. Let us celebrate Mr. Curry's contribution to this perfect action movie!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It appears that Trump’s claim last week that he negotiated a deal between Putin and Zelenskyy to stop bombing energy infrastructure was just another lie to manipulate markets. Every hour of every day, Trump lies about everything.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This might be a conflict of interest. wapo.st/4y7GwNZ
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Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
Trump’s decisions as president on one of the most consequential policy debates of his administration could affect the value of his personal investments.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Trump and Vance to Zelenskyy 18 months ago: You are losing this war. You have no cards. Meanwhile, while Ukraine is kicking a much larger country’s ass who invaded it, Trump and Vance are losing to Iran.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch KING OF NEW YORK (1990) in our Directed by Abel Ferrara collection! Ferrara-working in collaboration with his regular screenwriter Nicholas St. John-brings his murky moral worldview and eye for pulp imagery to this kinetic, stylishly sleazy gangster saga.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Merrill Reese wants to broadcast Eagles games ‘forever.’ His wife helps him stay sharp after 50 years.
Don’t call 2026 a farewell tour — the voice of the Eagles says he isn’t going anywhere. He’s having too much fun. And Cindy, his wife of 47 years, is his partner for all of it.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
What a surprise that America’s Putin Party continues to slow walk this while continuing to do nothing.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
my 2 cents on material conditions and right wing politics for @hammerandhope.bsky.social "The portrayal of economic anxiety as a standalone rather than complementary explanation to the machinations of plutocratic bigots also flies in the face of what we know..." hammerandhope.org/article/econ...
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The False Narrative of Economic Anxiety
People are insecure, but that is not the only reason they voted for Donald Trump in 2024.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An intriguing opportunity for writers in NYC! A "low pressure workshop designed to explore the Library's offerings and collections as a catalyst for creativity". www.nypl.org/events/progr...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"President Donald Trump originally said the war, which began Feb. 28, would last four to six weeks. In July, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said he hoped gasoline could average $3 a gallon nationwide by Labor Day." wapo.st/4cqc2xL
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Vance says he doesn’t know when Iran conflict will end — it’s up to Iran
The vice president also defended Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth from recent criticism.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/08/2026
Doug Ford on telling Trump to kiss his ass: "You gotta eventually stand up to someone who just continuously attacks our country and insults our country"
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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 26/08/2026
One of one.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
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U.S.-Canada breakdown shows limits of Trump’s aggressive trade strategy
“It’s a big setback,” one analyst said, noting that other countries unhappy with the president’s trade deals are probably watching closely.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 21/08/2026
My Ukrainian publisher Ranok asked me to pass along the news that on 8/1 a warehouse was bombed by Russia, burning about 8 million books, including the print runs of their translated Murderbot editions, + The Cloud Roads & Witch King. This really hurts the publishing house, and 1/-
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I really want to root for people who write things like this. But we're talking about a group that supported Trump three times in a row, so...
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"Thirty seconds after you're born you have a past and sixty seconds after that you start to lie to yourself about it." Today, 8/16, at 1pm and 7pm EST, the Deadlights Theater presents... THE BROOD Come and join us for Cronenberg's most divorced movie! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I assume this man also believed that Mexico would pay for the wall. “Brent Jindra, a tech salesman, voted for President Trump three times, drawn by his aggressive immigration agenda. He never imagined the crackdown would ensnare his own wife." www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I have no patience for the economic anxiety argument, especially here in the year of our lord, 2026
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Johnny Normality @probgobl.in · 14/08/2026
EVERY STORY ABOUT BEAVERS FOR THE LAST DECADE READS LIKE: WE RELEASED A DOZEN PADDLE TAILED LITTLE FREAKS AND THEY IMMEDIATELY BEGAN A TERRAFORMING PROJECT THAT REVERSED A CENTURY OF ECOLOGICAL DAMAGE IN THREE WEEKS.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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How a Counterintelligence Inquiry Into Trump’s Russia Ties Was Derailed (Gift Article)
Documents released by the White House shed new light on the demise of an often-overlooked 2017 F.B.I. investigation.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
fucking shameful, infantile thinking from a grown adult. just pages and pages of "yet you participate in society"
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
My childhood friend died at 30. My partner's sister died in her 40s. My grandmother, recovering in the hospital from a manic episode, contracted COVID and died. My friend Leslie died in his early 40s. Several of my friends are still disabled.
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khōréō magazine @khoreo.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Submissions close tomorrow! We’re looking for speculative fiction up to 5,000 words by immigrant and diaspora writers, as well as translations from any language into English. Submission guidelines can be found on our website. Share your work with us before the deadline!
Someone about to write on a plain notebook against a yellow background. Frontal text reads “Submissions open, July 1-31”
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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
This guy isn't scrabbling to produce content on no budget. He has money. He could hire a research assistant.
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Charles Boehm ⚽️ @cboehm.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
New episode! 🚨 Ever try to explain FIFA's whole, uh, thing to a non-⚽️sicko? After a wild World Cup, I asked @mattdoyle.bsky.social to help me do so with @repino1.bsky.social on Soccer Is Not Stupid: soccerisstupid.com/2026/06/05/e...
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Episode 5: The Fiefdom of FIFA
Soccer Is Not Stupid: With Robert and Charlie · Episode
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Dr. Bradley Onishi @bradleyonishi.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“Saving Western civilization” is a matter of historical selection that prioritizes autocracy, patriarchy, xenophobia, and White supremacy. It’s historical forgetting in the name of civilizationalist rescue. open.substack.com/pub/axismund...
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The Right’s War on The Odyssey Reveals the Real Meaning of “Western Civilization”
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
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The Legacy Of Professor John Esposito: The Scholar Who Refused To Turn Islam Into An Enemy
There are scholars who interpret the world, scholars who flatter it, and scholars who quietly make it less cruel. John L. Esposito belonged emphatically to the third category. His passing deprives us ...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's Harry Dean Stanton's 100th birthday. Here's a piece I wrote shortly after his 90th for @reactorsff.bsky.social, about his ability to channel the everyman in even the weirdest movies. reactormag.com/harry-dean-s...
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Harry Dean Stanton and the Art of the Everyman - Reactor
The trope of the everyman—the “ordinary,” relatable, sometimes boring character dropped into unusual circumstances—will always have a place in the world of science fiction and fantasy. Many stories si...
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Starring Harry Dean Stanton - The Criterion Channel
With his lean, hangdog face and sunken, soul-weary eyes, Harry Dean Stanton—born one hundred years ago this month—was one of the all-time great character actors. He inhabited the cinematic margins for...
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
More from my soccer podcast with @cboehm.bsky.social. This time, we discuss the shootout. If college football could come up with a better way of doing overtime, surely soccer can as well, right? Right? #soccer #football #WorldCup soccerisstupid.com/2026/05/29/e...
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Episode 3: Another Shootout? Please Shoot Me Instead
Robert and Charlie discuss the sometimes exciting and sometimes arbitrary nature of game-deciding shootouts, which can somehow make a tie seem even worse.
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
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‘I was thrilled’: Tony Shalhoub looks back at ‘Big Night,’ the ultimate Jersey Shore movie that turns 30
With Stanley Tucci, Shalhoub starred in the film that was shot in Red Bank and Keyport. Philadelphia chef March Vetri remains a fan of the food, the magic, and the vibes.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 27/06/2026
Billy Bragg and Wilco got their hands on previously unpublished lyrics from legendary folk singer Woody Guthrie. The story of the record’s existence is one of legacy-keeping and artistic liberties, drugs and death, remorse and reconciliation.
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Decades after his death, this album of Woody Guthrie songs will be played live
Billy Bragg and Wilco got their hands on a trove of unpublished Guthrie works. The result was magic.
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Chelsea G. Summers @chelseagsummers.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I read this essay about The Omen, Roe v. Wade, and what constitutes true horror, and I can't stop thinking about it.
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Diabolical Motherhood | Defector
On June 25, 1976, three and a half years after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal in the U.S., The Omen hit theaters. Most viewers remember the high-drama deaths—by impalement, decapitation, hanging—or t...
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Mark E. Poasts @lolphillies.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment
Facebook post from Scottish soccer fan - The busses have stopped at some park thing near the ground and there's American guys making food and giving people free beers and stuff
Some Haiti fans here as well, what a bunch of good guys
wtf is going on man, what an experience this is man holy shit

With photos of people boozing in a parking lot
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
For the #WorldCup, @cboehm.bsky.social and I have put together a podcast talking about the things in #soccer that drive casual observers crazy. If you're new to the sport, this might help. If you're not, this might give you the ammo to shut down the haters. soccerisstupid.com/2026/05/15/e...
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Episode 1: Fake Injuries Make Robert a Dull Boy
In the inaugural episode of Soccer Is Not Stupid With Robert & Charlie, we (slide) tackle one of the biggest complaints about soccer from people looking at it from the outside: players faking …
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Gene Shalit on Face/Off (1997). www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ1X...
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NBC Today Show Gene Shalit Faceoff Movie Review from June 27, 1997
YouTube video by Ridgeland Video (Ridgeland Video)
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Some good news. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/a...
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Mister Rogers: Now on YouTube
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Evening viewing recommendation? Watch Billy Wilder's THE APARTMENT (1960) in our Office Romances collection! ❤️ Jack Lemmon stars in one of Wilder’s most beloved films as C. C. Baxter, a company man anxious to please his superiors at the New York insurance firm where he works enough to let his bosses
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17/05/2026
“I don't understand what it's supposed to do. Every time I see a video on Instagram that's like, 'Hollywood is cooked,' what follows is, like, the most stupid dog shit I've ever seen in my life…”
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Seth Rogen Says If “Your Instinct Is to Use AI” to Write Scripts, “You Shouldn’t Be a Writer”
'The Studio' creator said people who are thinking about using the technology to aid their writing skills should try another occupation: "Go do something else."
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/05/2026
President Trump promised to bring inflation down. But his policies keep pushing prices up. The war on Iran increased gas prices by over 50 percent. Higher energy costs drove up the price of airfares and goods that move by truck, including groceries. wapo.st/4tzgtMi
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Robert Repino @repino1.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
The less religiously devout a person is, the less likely they are to support MAGA. Yet I see article after article like this one, which completely ignores that fact, and suggests that somehow, some way, secularization is to blame for our current moment.
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