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Richard Weld

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Was a scientist, still a skeptic. Experimental winemaker. Nurturer of things green, furry and feathery. Living the Good Life in the foothills of the Southern Alps.

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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All the people responsible and those involved (at any level) in this humanitarian crime, should face criminal consequences once this nasty administration is finally replaced. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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ICE Deportees Are Vanishing Into Salvadoran Prisons
The world moved on after Kilmar Abrego Garcia, but people continue to disappear.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Who did this? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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can you make the world better ???????????????????? @justtheonethatcan.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The fascist cult unleashed a fascist leader who unleashed a fascist army.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"You are at the dentist’s office. No one has seen or heard from the dentist in months, but he’s been making stock trades. “That’s something,” you and the receptionist agree. “Should I wait?” you ask." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
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If Other Jobs Were Like a U.S. Senator’s
No one has seen or heard from your dentist in months, but he has been making stock trades.
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
The AI tech bros think no one noticed that they harvested and ingested the entire written output of human civilization without consent, without compensation, and without credit to build a system whose primary commercial goal is eliminating the jobs of the people whose work they consumed creating it.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Great interview with Bill Browder. youtu.be/dlF0ZzH6C9s?...
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The Real Reason Putin Invaded Ukraine — Sir Bill Browder
YouTube video by Triggernometry
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Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Vladimir Solovyov's downslide shows how the tide is turning in Russia. Once Putin’s favorite propagandist, state TV host is falling out of favor with the Kremlin and losing all credibility with the Russian public. My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/putin-is-in-...
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Putin Is in So Much Trouble He’s Lost His No. 1 Propaganda Star
The Russian president has fallen out with the biggest media supporter of his disastrous war in Ukraine.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The Goon Squad Slush Fund is Even Worse Than You Think open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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The Goon Squad Slush Fund is Even Worse Than You Think
But who's really to blame?
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Much as I've loved American stopovers, anyone from a western country spending 5 minutes in America notices the glaring lack of cared-for public spaces reflecting the lack of public services and community. What Happens When Americans Realize How Miserable We Are? open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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What Happens When Americans Realize How Miserable We Are?
Life is about more than GDP
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
This guy, Pyotr Kurzin @pyotrkurzin.bsky.social, has great conversations on important global topics on youtube. youtu.be/I_0cOLLOKiE?...
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There's Something Seriously Weird Happening to the Global Economy
YouTube video by Pyotr Kurzin | Geopolitics
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
We are all so happy!!! Go Hungary!
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
WTF America? That is what we are all thinking. youtu.be/RTy9VNZTtN8?...
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YouTube video by Paul Krugman
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 19/03/2026
Doesn't the Golden Age feel good
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Great conversation on Iran strategy: youtu.be/aQuApsJK0gM?...
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Is Iran winning the war?
YouTube video by UnHerd
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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America vs. the World
President Trump wants to return to the 19th century’s international order. He will leave America less prosperous—and the whole world less secure.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Weekend Update #176: Ukraine Is Showing Its Value, Particularly For Europe open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #176: Ukraine Is Showing Its Value, Particularly For Europe
Also: Trump Throws Putin A Lifeline While Putin Helps Kill Americans; Hungary Steals Ukrainian Gold.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The billionaire class needs to be taxed out of existence. March 12, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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March 12, 2026
In Ohio today, Republican candidate for governor Vivek Ramaswamy launched a $10 million TV and digital ad campaign to run until Election Day.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Reporter seeking freedom of speech in the US arrested for exercising freedom of speech in the US
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Wouldn't it be great if we could set govt policy based on science and reason and not on ideology, religion, stupidity and the vested interests of the rich and powerful.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/03/2026
Bier: "Over the last 30 years, we looked at all the government budgets -- federal, state, and local combined. Immigrants reduce deficits by $14.5 trillion."
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
There is something endlessly fascinating about watching a Republican senator publicly expressing intelligent and consistent principles.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Unsurprising as we have made no effective effort to reduce fossil fuel use.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
You hit them and they stopped the oil. So now your solution is to hit them some more.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Like the tariffs, like blowing up relations with the western allies, like terrorizing migrants, every disaster and their negative outcomes is portrayed as a short -term excursion along the way to American greatness.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Every time he opens his mouth the western allies draw further and further from America.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Putin is Trump's daddy figure. He'll do whatever it takes to get a pat on the head from Putin.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Imagine if that was an American school. Well, actually Republicans don't care at all about American school children either, and the president is a pedophile.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
I think America is poised to "take down a religious nazi regime" later this year in the mid-terms.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
No, this is a new war. In 1979 the Iranian revolution threw out the king that America installed in Iran country in 1953 after America ousted the democratically elected prime minister.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
So, he is saying that Trump is like Hamas?
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
There is no way to have a reasonable discussion with people who can stand there and insist that black is white and up is down.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
FFS. Are these people clowns or working for Russia?
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
"We can't last 35 more months with what we've seen over the last 13. We cannot do it. We will not survive it as a nation."
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
The mad king who thinks he is a God. Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters open.substack.com/pub/davidrot...
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Living in a Time of Lunatics and Monsters
Let's be honest about the roots, costs and consequences of the Iran War
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Somewhat ironic that Ukraine has the cards that America desperately needs.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
The American president is credibly accused of raping a girl. Seems like that would require congressional investigation at the least.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Corrupt governments end up with ineffective militaries, thankfully. The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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The Rot Is Real And There Is More To It
The Atlantic Piece Just Scratched The Surface
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Christian Nationalists are pulling the strings in America. It's well past time to make them sit back down and mind their own business.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thank you Spain.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The willingness of major European states such as Britain and France to send their military forces to actively defend counties in the Middle East but not to defend Ukraine shows how Europe has a distorted sense of its own interests.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Perhaps we could all settle on "Special Military Operation".
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
What Trump's new war is about Cabinet Apocalypse open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Cabinet Apocalypse
A News Review in an Imagined Conversation
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
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suzette sommer @suzette.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor
Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Without his titles, palaces and unearned prestige, he's just a man, short and sad.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
The greatest consequences so far, are falling outside America, where the rules of law and consequences still apply to some extent. Those American officials who claimed there was "nothing there" (Trump, Boni, Patel etc) should be impeached and prosecuted for being part of the criminal conspiracy.
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Richard Weld @richardweld.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
No matter what the guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says, please get your kids vaccinated. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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This Is How a Child Dies of Measles
When your family becomes a data point in an outbreak
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Donald Trump is a threat to democracy around the world. My first, second, and third acts as your next congressman will be to impeach Trump, impeach his cabinet, and codify guardrails to defend our democracy. Join our fight to save democracy here: www.georgeconwayforcongress.com
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