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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦

@sempervigilis.bsky.social
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Minnesotan writer — Creator of the "Semper Vigilis" graphic novel scripts. Not here for arguments, memes, or lists. Sempervigilis.substack.com

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A Republic If You Can Keep It @arepublicif.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
North Korea is good. Canada is bad. Coal is good. Solar is bad. Measles is good. Vaccination is bad. Child rapists are good. Childcare is bad. Pointless wars are good. Universal healthcare is bad. Anyone supporting the unrelenting chaos of the #GOP deserves zero respect. #RemoveTrump
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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
You gotta be kidding me. Jeffries has to go. This is appalling. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...
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Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly (Gift Article)
President Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Romanian President Nicușor Dan has explicitly blamed Russia, while the European Commission is describing the broader pattern as an escalating campaign of threats.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New reporting says the explosive naval drone destroyed by Romanian F-16s near the strategic Black Sea gas project was Russia-launched, and that Romania carried out the engagement in consultation with NATO to protect hundreds of workers and critical infrastructure.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
🟦 (REAL) 🚨 ESCALATION ALERT The Neptun Deep incident has hardened materially since the earlier reports.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is one of the best film scenes ever written. This is the future I want.
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 21/02/2025
SAL just wants itself and Dr. Chandra to get more information about HAL so they can solve the anomalies, and is open to having its same higher functions disconnected as was done to HAL to see what happens when it's reconnected and turns back on www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2E7...
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Dr. Chandra and SAL 9000 - 2010: The Year We Make Contact (sequel to 2001)
YouTube video by greatfilmclips
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 21/02/2025
Props to SAL 9000 for being the most strictly-business "artificial intelligence" computer program; just hanging out in a big filing cabinet in Dr. Chandra's cool university office in Urbana; not being erratic or starting any nonsense; SAL checked HAL's false AE-35 failure warning and was like "No"
Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". Dr. Chandra scans his handprint for entry into the fictional University of Chicago Computer Lab. The computer lab looks like a lobby and waiting room for a serious hospital where someone is waiting to find out test results about whether they're going to have to see the good kind of blood doctor or the really bad kind of blood doctor. It looks like a serious place.Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". In Dr. Chandra's university office, the door is closed, with Chandra's desk and desktop computer monitor to the left, Chandra standing in the middle, and typing something into SAL 9000's large, filing cabinet-like console on the right. SAL's blue eye-camera can be indirectly seen.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is what we want.
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Zinnia Jones 🐍🗡️ @zinniajones.com · 21/02/2025
I wish "AI" had turned out not like what it is, and not like HAL 9000's creepy red murder eye, but like this friendly blue counterpart SAL 9000 at a university on Earth who just wanted to help them figure out what had happened to the Discovery
Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". The artificially intelligent 9000-series computer SAL 9000 is seen in Dr. Chandra's office at a university on Earth, with its blue camera eye next to a screen displaying a chart of unknown data.Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". The artificially intelligent 9000-series computer SAL 9000 is seen in Dr. Chandra's office at a university on earth, with its blue camera eye next to a screen displaying a chart of unknown data.Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". The artificially intelligent 9000-series computer SAL 9000 is seen in Dr. Chandra's office at a university on earth, with its blue camera eye next to a screen displaying a chart of unknown data.Still frame, "2010: The Year We Make Contact". The artificially intelligent 9000-series computer SAL 9000 is seen in Dr. Chandra's office at a university on earth, with its blue camera eye next to a screen displaying... something.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
When we go from asking AI questions to AI asking us questions, we will know we’ve crossed the threshold.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Brazil's deforestation in the Amazon hit its lowest level since satellite monitoring began in 2016, with a 37% annual decline
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Romanian authorities say the engagement occurred at 5:01 a.m. local time and debris fell in an uninhabited area. The drone’s Russian origin remains under investigation, so I would not yet characterize this as confirmed NATO-Russia combat.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A meaningful escalation threshold has been crossed. On August 16, a Spanish F-18 flying NATO air-policing duty shot down a suspected Russian drone inside Romanian airspace after it entered Romania from Moldova near Galați.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The strategic transformation becomes believable when characters begin acting as though tomorrow exists. /3
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Victory first appears as changed behaviour: people sleep differently, make plans farther into the future, argue about ordinary things again, return home, marry, rebuild, resign commissions, start businesses, resent veterans, forget precautions. /2
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
At the human level, wars rarely end when the shooting stops.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Serving Mammon
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
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Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Donald Trump should take his big fat ass…out to an aircraft carrier for 200 plus days. And the first thing a grizzled Master Chief should tell him is: there are no catered Diet Coke’s out here….BITCH!
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Currently reading Children of Dune (1976)
“Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”

― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Starring the guy who played “pee wee Herman” and Karen Gillian (from doctor who)
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Happy Idiot by TV on the Radio on Apple Music
Music Video · 2014 · Duration 3:25
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
apple.news/AmpTOE12ySp2... Just accept higher prices. What do you think, Americans?
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Iran defiant on strait as Trump tells Americans to accept high gasoline prices — Reuters
Iran called on the U.S. to ​accept defeat on Saturday, while President Donald Trump blasted Tehran as "very evil" and told Americans to prepare for continued high fuel prices as a result of the war.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 15/08/2026
‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs
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‘A tax on being thin’: only high earners make overall savings on food bills from weight-loss drugs
Users need discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to make savings on their grocery spend after paying £1,200 for GLP-1s, analysis finds The high cost of weight-loss medication is a “regressive tax on being thin” because the outlay outweighs any saving on food costs for all but the highest earners. Someone needs to have discretionary income of nearly £100,000 a year to actually save money after covering the £1,200 annual cost of GLP-1 medication, according to an analysis by the consultancy Baringa. Continue reading...
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Imagine the response if Iran successfully killed Trump and his family. Then try to go on about a theory that they actually want him to stay in power, after he killed their supreme leader and his family.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Occcasionally you’ll hear a Reform Jew use the term, but most of us say “synagogue.” And Orthodox use the Yiddish word “shul.”
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Trump may be a joke to you, but to Iran, this is deadly serious. They will take as long as it takes. They will come after him in the nursing home if they have to. Again, think like the Mob. Revenge never sleeps. /3
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Of course they are going to milk Trump’s stupidity for propaganda purposes as much as possible. But that does not mean they are no threat. It’s not an either/or. any plot will take time. Killing a president is almost impossible. 9/11 took more than 10 years to plan. /2
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Iran does not think the way you do. When they say they want to kill Trump, they mean it. Trump had the supreme leader and much of his surrounding family killed. That is the equivalent of a mob hit, but in the context of international relations. The only punishment in Iran for that is death.
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If you're interested in the Citzens Agenda model with a Rosen twist try my Internet Archive pressthink.org/j/rosen-arch... Put 'citizens agenda' into the search button and see what you get. You can pick 'Newest First' or 'Oldest.' I recommend Newest.
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Jay Rosen's Internet Archive
A curated public collection of the works, critiques, and teachings of Jay Rosen, professor of journalism at NYU. 25,000+ records spanning four decades of journalism criticism, media theory, and public...
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Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
You may know that I try to show newsrooms that they have an alternative to the horse race model in election coverage: "The citizens agenda." It's the campaign season and I am starting to get examples sent to me. Roanoke: roanoke.com/news/local/g... Cascadia: www.cascadiadaily.com/2026/jul/16/...
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What are your top issues in November's elections? Inform Roanoke Times coverage
The Roanoke Times is taking a closer approach to election coverage this fall by asking our audience directly: What do you care about most?
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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
do romulans all wear shoulder pads or do they have square shoulders
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
An attorney general should not be campaigning.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/08/2026
Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It’s Friday—is it time to bomb Iran yet?
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This is absolutely insane, all of these undercover agents going into churches to surveil constitutionally protected speech. But it really says a lot about how they did all of this and found so little that violated the law. The administration was publicly shamed globally because of this resistance.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
If Klobuchar runs on reverting the flag to the old style, we’ll be very unhappy.
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
He will kill us all if he is not removed, and how will we even be remembered?
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Sean Ree 🫡💔 🟦⭐️🇺🇦 @sempervigilis.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Yes, Trump himself said as much. Of course Vance could disobey the order, and the Joint Chiefs would try to slow walk it, but Trump is and remains a clear and present danger to global stability. He should be ousted.
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MantaHunk 🌎🏳️‍🌈☮️🟧 @mantahunk.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Learning on the Chris Hayes tonight that NATO plane switch in Turkey was more serious than even the potential assassination, either of the president, or his cabinet and the Press. Turns out we were on the brink of nuclear war. Trump left a standing order with JD Vance to use nukes if assassinated.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
There are too many spineless senators in Washington who refuse to stand up to Donald Trump. Minnesota, we are not going to send him another one.
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richardcarlbom.bsky.social @richardcarlbom.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The @dfl.org had a record run leading up to Tuesday. The coordinated campaign knocked 66,000 doors in four days, the four single largest days of knocking in August in the history of our party. Every single DFL-endorsed candidate won their primary election. We defended 100% of our DFL endorsements.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This is a core theme you deal with as a fact checker. When tracing a fact back to it’s original source you see how *incredibly common* it is for stuff to be made up by a single source and then get repeated enough times by other sources that frequency of repetition convinces everyone it’s true.
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Tom Marcinko @tommarcinko.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Somebody tell them no Republican will ever do any of these things.
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Roy Edroso @edroso.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Is Peggy Flanagan too radical?"
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The last decade has really seen the dying throes of civil libertarianism against the surveillance state. It's pretty sad.
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Naomi Kritzer @naomikritzer.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Republican Gubernatorial nominee Lisa Demuth is the person who brought Metro Surge down on us. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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Demuth: GOP caucus directed YouTuber to Minnesota. A professor explains why it went viral
University of Minnesota media law professor Jane Kirtley says the new viral video is flashy but absent of facts to back up its claims.
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