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Robyn Eckhardt

@robyneckhardt.bsky.social
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Former food journalist with past lives in Asia and Italy. Author, “Istanbul & Beyond”, about Turkey’s lesser known eastern cuisines. Dogs/cats/nature. The Pacific Northwest is best. 🌧️

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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 4h
This is an actual Nazi rally.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 5h
A Republican PAC spent nearly $25,000 running ads to help Sen. Susan Collins in Portland. Wrong Portland. They’re inept at everything. Portland, Oregon, that is. Not Portland, Maine. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
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GOP ad buyer mixes up Portlands, spends money meant to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins in Oregon
An outside group mistakenly spent nearly $25,000 to boost Collins in Portland, Oregon, rather than Portland, Maine. The buyer admitted to the error and refunded the PAC.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 5h
Like masked men summarily executing US citizens “raised questions”? Like defying federal court orders “raises questions”? Like taxpayer funded ads, sending DoJ after his enemies, starting a war w/out Congress’ approval, live-streaming a public execution “raise questions”? Show some spine.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h
I said this in a thread last night and in a thousand threads before it, but you really are doing the work of those who would destroy democracy and the rule of law when you are a doomer. You can be aware of — and vigorously oppose — the lawlessness of this administration without insisting on doom.
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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 7h
How it’s going
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dan sinker @dansinker.com · 7h
An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 7h
All the dopes in the "Geez I dunno if Trump should be impeached" chattering coward class should maybe consider the idea of allowing a sitting President to act like this, over and over, with no repercussions.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11h
The term “lame-ass” was coined to describe non-actions of this type.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 11h
The Omar story today and the Talarcio story yesterday are the same story of rat-fucking your opponents before an election. Except now the government does it, out in the open.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 13h
Why would a physical search of Omar’s home in 2026 be relevant to or necessary for an investigation into whether her dad filled out a form incorrectly decades ago?
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Dante Atkins @danteatkins.bsky.social · 12h
When Dems talk about the Ilhan Omar situation, they need to stop using language that implies that Omar might have done anything wrong. Trump is not "investigating" Omar. They are trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting Congressmember by scrutinizing decades old paperwork from when she was a kid
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 11/10/2026
question for brooks: what if they are, literally, nazis?
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Christina Wolbrecht @cwolbrecht.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Calls for civility are almost always attempts by the powerful to silence the less powerful and the powerless.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
“I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. “But …” These people suuuuuck.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“If you’re like me, I think you’ll find that the biggest blow you can deal a Nazi is respectful criticism, delivered in the form of rational arguments and evidence.” Yes David you flaming A-hole that’s worked real well over the last near decade. medium.com/gawken/when-...
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“Indeed, when that bystander punched that Nazi in the face, it felt a little bit like he was punching me in the face. And also the face of American civil society itself.”
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
He’s been peddling this BS for eons. “Nazism is horrible, there’s no question about that. But I have to admit that watching the Nazi [Richard Spencer] get punched in the face sent shivers down my spine—the very same kinds of shivers that Nazism does.” But wait there’s more (Brooks BS)!
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Why doesn’t he care about what we DO do here like oh I dunno the summary execution of American protesters by masked men?
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's both shameful and deeply humiliating for what was until recently the world's most powerful democracy to be reorienting itself so that it can be more like, and closer to, a second tier criminal autocracy like Russia.
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Ruth Deyermond @ruthdeyermond.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the decades since the end of the Cold War, US policy has fluctuated between disengagement, distrust, and - at the start - the aspiration that Russia could be encouraged to align with the US. Now the White House aspiration is that the US could align with Russia.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Zelenskyy approval rating: 54% Trump approval rating: 32%
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The V-P himself called for the doxing, harassment, and firing of regular folks who dared to point out the irony of gun rights-supporting C Kirk being murdered by a guy with a gun. I don’t remember MTG having a problem with *that* kind of harassment.
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Look, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic to the politicians in the article. But non-pols get these threats daily. Woman got doxxed and their kids threatened for disclosing they were harassed by a serial predator. I got an artisanal hand-written death threat mailed to my apartment. Deal with it.
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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 11/10/2026
no one reads the articles. all of the quotes assume this is because the party is broke because of (spins wheel) whatever that person is mad about today, but the reason they’re scrambling is because they’re trying to run moonshot campaigns in deep red districts they ordinarily would never attempt
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And in every city. Everywhere.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just a reminder that absolutely no one, including Mueller, ever investigated Trump’s financial ties to Russia.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And here I thought it was bacon.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Turns out the friction of having to learn photoshop was a crucial firewall protecting society from the terrible taste of small business owners
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Mad Scholar Frights @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Shouldn't it be "Bullets Strike ICE Agent in Civilian-Involved Shooting"
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026
Remember when he screamed "No puppet! YOU'RE the Puppet!" in that really panicked way that had a bunch of us like "…uhh… kinda seems a weird way to deny that"? Anyway, we all know Russia doesn't have that much diesel to sell, making this sanctions-avoiding money laundering on a global scale, right?
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Jon Cryer @mrjoncryer.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Gonna say it again and again until y’all get sick of me: America has become an authoritarian state.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Trump is the leader, but the party is behind him 100%. Any politician still identifying as a Republican after this is a Russia-first treason weasel.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It is, in fact, possible to impeach and remove President Trump from office next week. It won't happen, however, because Republicans also support Putin and Russia and agree with Trump.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 09/10/2026
American "free speech defenders" pressure other people not to exercise their right to free speech www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request
Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He hates MAGA as much as we do and he speaks from his gut about it. We're so used to mealy-mouthed careerist Dems looking to siphon off mythical purple voters and he is just not that. He thinks our country is in trouble and those people are to blame. And he is right.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Do they understand that he’s insulting them to their faces? Question for the ages….
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This isn't a case of abusing some loophole or misusing discretionary authority. The law is unambiguous and he's breaking it, simple as that. If Congress isn't going to do anything about breaking the law that already exists, passing another law to make it double-illegal accomplishes nothing.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
It's already illegal. Congress banned it near-unanimously in 2022. That law allows the ban to be lifted only if Russia withdraws from Ukraine. He's simply breaking the law that's already on the books.
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Mare Pan @paarsec.com · 09/10/2026
Who could have predicted this, aside from literally anyone with a functioning brain?
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Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
El-Sayed’s response to Kennedy:
El-Sayed: “That’s rich coming from someone who wears his bed sheets out at night.”
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Designed to inure Americans to the sight of violent death at the hands of the state, and the military. Which, let’s be honest, is a vision that populates Hegseth’s dreams.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I understand this view but I think we should consider the implications of preemptively giving up charging a criminal with crimes because the jury may not convict
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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“Capital punishment with actual guns and bullets acts as a natural deterrent for boredom when it is carried in front of millions of thrilled, screaming Americans.” April 27, 2026 in THE ONION! RIP satire.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/10/2026
huh, interesting that vance thinks this is the worst terrorist attack and not oklahoma city
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Zeddy @zeddary.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're partying in military housing while they make the actual troops live on squalid boats and wrecked airbases so their families back home can pay $5 a gallon.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Of course they are. But staging this publicly, as a spectacle, adds another layer of depravity. It’s a lynching, basically.
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦 🇺🇦
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Maria Drutska @mariadrutska.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“WE WILL BURN THEIR REFINERIES.”
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Robyn Eckhardt @robyneckhardt.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I’m sorry, isn’t this how everyone spends the night before a long planned trip?
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