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Well neither can magpies form the requisite intent to steal, and yet they do steal! The overture to Rossini's "La Gazza Ladra"/"The Thieving Magpie": The melody in the above video starts at 4:18. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYfa...

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Rossini: Ouverture "La Gazza Ladra" / Videnoff - Mannheimer Philharmoniker

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2h

It was not until 2023 that the US Army started developing a ground launcher for Tomahawks, which up to that point could be launched only from ships. Biden announced on 7/10/2024 that the Typhon ground launcher would be deployed in Germany starting in *2026.* So no, that would have been impossible.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 2h

"The South staked all upon getting possession of the Federal Government, and failing to do that, drew the sword of rebellion and thus made her own, and not Brown's, the lost cause of the century."

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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 2h

Until we understand what it means that russia is waging a Vernichtungskrieg—a war of extermination—in Ukraine, not only will we have failed to grasp the essence of russia’s war and its strategy today and tomorrow, but we Europeans will remain unable to make the necessary decision.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 3h

Polish PM Tusk: Everyone was aware that, with this shift in President Trump's position on Ukraine and Russia, Europe should support Ukraine even more. Many countries realize that if Ukraine falls, we will all have very, very serious problems.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

“Many countries realise that if Ukraine falls, we will all have very, very serious problems.”

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

Tusk: “There has never been such a unified position among practically all EU countries.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 4h

“Even those who are less pro-Ukrainian, who sometimes show signs of weakness toward Putin, had no doubts that the next several months will be crucial, perhaps not only for the history and future of Ukraine, but for the whole of Europe.”

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Agree that democracy is a central problem while at the same time agreeing with what @paultlevin.bsky.social says abt it. I've spent the last 20y reading peer-reviewed papers on personality types that are easily propagandized & am afraid that we analytical thinkers are way outnumbered by the others.

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Indeed, democracy is the worst. Except for all the other systems that have been tried. I would also add that whatever we may be doing is clearly not enough.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

"The company worked to finish testing the long-range FP-9—designed to potentially reach distant targets, including Moscow—while overcoming tight international export controls by engineering critical components internally." united24media.com/war-in-ukrai...

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Ukraine Launches First Locally Produced Ballistic Missile Inside Russian Territory

FirePoint has executed its first launch of a domestically made tactical ballistic missile with a 300 km range into Russian territory.

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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

How's this for timing? Just as the EU announces that Ukraine's accession bid will soon move onto the next stage, our open-access book chapter (with Anastasia Leshchyshyn and Marta Hlomb), entitled "Ukraine's Journey to EU membership" came out. Check it out: press.westpoint.edu/books/europe...

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Europeanization and De-Europeanization in the Eastern Partnership Countries | West Point Press

Europeanization and De-Europeanization in the Eastern Partnership Countries examines how states on the EU eastern borders navigate the promises and limits of integration. Challenging linear accounts o...

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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

🇵🇱🇷🇺🇺🇦🇺🇸”We appreciate Trump's involvement in trying to end the war in Ukraine. But in Poland, we believe that it will bear fruit if you put pressure on the aggressor and not on the victim of aggression.” - Radosław Sikorski Deputy Prime Minister of Poland

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

While clearing debris following a Russian strike in Kharkiv, a concrete slab collapsed onto rescue workers. One of them is in critical condition. They are working under unbelievable pressure, with people screaming for help from under the rubble and russian drones continue to

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

✈️✈️🔥The moment a drone strikes a Yandex data center in russia. Watch till the end🔥

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Oh yeah, I love the Martian antennae and rather miss them. Those antennae were gathering important information from outer space, which I'm pretty sure was passed on to NASA.

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Stanislav Aseyev @stanislavaseyev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Your face when, on your birthday, you hear about the first combat use of a Ukrainian ballistic missile. 37.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Cora had not even started to crawl when I discovered Evan in early 2025, and I remember someone commenting, "That's about the cutest baby I've ever seen." And that was before her hair started growing faster. And now look at her! I love the way her hair is styled in this pic from 10/4/26.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

"Absalom, Absalom!" is not only the better of the 2, I think it's his best novel. "As I Lay Dying" is also excellent (Vardaman: "My mother is a fish"). "The Sound and the Fury" wd have been much better had Faulkner subjectivized Dilsey in ch.4, but Benjy's chapter is masterful. TSatF is terrifying.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Friedrich Merz: "Wer einen Abgeordneten einer rechtsextremen Partei zum Landtagspräsidenten wählt, muss das mit seinem Gewissen vereinbaren. Wer seine Stimme der AfD gibt, der spielt das Spiel der Extremisten und zerstört Glaubwürdigkeit." www.tagesschau.de/inland/innen...

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Merz über Sachsen-Anhalt: "Mit den Werten der CDU verträgt sich das nicht"

Wurde der AfD-Landtagspräsident in Sachsen-Anhalt auch mit CDU-Stimmen gewählt? In der Partei ist die Unruhe groß. Nun versucht Kanzler Merz, die Reihen zu schließen - und deutet an: Die Stimmen könnt...

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Christophe Kopp @chkopp.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Lithuania will propose not only banning such transit (of Russian grain through the EU), but also adding individual oligarchs from the Russian agricultural sector who are supporting the war to the list of sanctioned persons,"

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Lithuania calls for EU sanctions against Russian grain

Russia being able to trade grain while it blockades Ukraine from doing likewise "is an unacceptable situation," said Lithuanian Prime Minister Mindaugas Sinkevicius.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Willy Brandt, Warsaw, Dec. 7, 1970. An unforgettable picture.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I so enjoyed this article, Evan. I tend to look at everything from the perspective of history. Every moment is full of possibilities. Those possibilities are not endless, though. If her 4-year-old daughter hadn't inadvertently activated P01, the Apollo 8 mission may have turned out very differently.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

How many times have I watched him walk up those stairs, and every time he pauses after the first flight — to wait for you? I've mentioned this phenomenon before in your comments; it's what I call "following from in front." Dogs will also do this whenever they're walking in front of you in the house.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 08/10/2026

⚡️Lithuania to deploy troops along border with Russia's Kaliningrad after Latvia incident. The move is a preventative measure in response to signals that Russia may announce mobilization, Lithuanian Interior Minister Martians Katelynas said.

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Lithuania to deploy troops along border with Russia's Kaliningrad after Latvia incident

The move is a preventative measure in response to signals that Russia may announce mobilization, Lithuanian Interior Minister Martians Katelynas said.

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Michael Gentile @michaelgentile.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Yesterday night in Kharkiv, a babusya asks: - Excuse me, young man [yes, that's me, younger than ever], are we far from Soviet Ukraine? - Uhm, not sure what you mean, is it an old department store or something? - No, no, I mean the metro station!

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Russia has always tried to erase Ukrainian culture, and Ukrainian words have been one of its primary targets. What are contained within these Ukrainian words? A beautiful and varied culture, a culture of literature, poetry, art, science, history, philosophy, theology, a culture above all, of life.

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Michael Gentile @michaelgentile.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Fantastic! Perfectly on time in Kharkiv!

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"But there's no reason not to do it just because Russia complains about it."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Of course when Russia said Ukraine had bioweapons labs what they really meant was that they did. There's a lot we don't know about the current situation. Russia should be bringing in experts from the WHO to clarify and advise. Will they? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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U.S. officials seeking details of reported Russian plague death, quarantines

Officials said they need to learn more about the evolving situation before determining the potential threat to the United States.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

"You're barking at nothing, nothing at all"? [laugh, laugh, laugh] Oh, really? And you know this how, exactly? Your hooman ears cannot even fathom the hearing capabilities of Argo's ears. He might have just saved you from a monster. You need to give that some srs cosnideration.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've long been curious if anyone who's read Faulkner's "Absalom, Absalom!" has noticed that Trump is Thomas Sutpen who, as a child, was forced to enter a great house through the back w the servants and never forgot the humiliation. Sutpen craved respectability: a respectable wife, children, & house.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Ukraine is the most modern military force that we have in Europe today. It is a buffer zone and an impediment to potential Russian aggression." — Stubb I respect Stubb, but never did I imagine myself saying that I'm from a buffer zone for Europe, where we are not people, but a function,

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

and our life's purpose is to keep Russia away from Europe. But it seems we were made into exactly that. So at the very least, arm your defenders instead of watching us die under Russian missiles on the roads and burn in our homes. A "buffer zone" stops being one once we are all dead...

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"so that there's a real security um guarantee in place so that this won't happen again." What, um, is "this"? It is none other than Ru's unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. He knows this, of course, and it slipped out. I'm watching this so you don't have to. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWBC...

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"Toute carrière universitaire lui est alors fermée." This is the meaning of Václav Havel's "to live within the truth" ("The Power of the Powerless"). Stus, like Havel, understood the consequences, especially after 1968, but took the risk anyway, rather than living within a lie.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I assume Argo has grown a cow stomach with a fermentation vat so that he can properly digest the grass he's eating?

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When I first read the poetry of Vasyl Stus a few years ago (in English translation), I fell in love with it immediately. I hope to find a collection with side-by-side Ukrainian/English. This is especially important for poetry, which is so very difficult to translate.

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A really noteworthy speech by Radosław Sikorski that does a marvelous job of summing up the posture of Europe in addressing serial Russian provocations, most recently, surrounding Kaliningrad.

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Rose Mason @rosemmason.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Public allegations about the "mistreatment" of [fill-in-the-blank] speakers is an old imperialist trick known to all serious students of history, the earliest example of which I'm aware is from the mid 19th-c. Everyone at the time understood its meaning: It was a claim to someone else's land.

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MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦 @maks23.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

🇺🇦❗️At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine delivered food to residents of occupied Oleshky using drones: the military delivered products to 100 points in the city at once, — Kherson OVA.

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