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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
I took time out from my illegal, unprovoked war to condemn an illegal, unprovoked war.
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Littlebigfred 🇺🇦🇪🇺 @littlebigfred.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Banned from home for 40 years: deportations are Russia’s latest move to ‘cleanse’ Ukraine
A deal freezing frontlines would be unacceptable for Serhiy Serdiuk, who was taken to Georgia in handcuffs with his family after refusing to teach the Russian curriculum
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
How Russia peacefully became the world's largest country: -Invade -Occupy -Deport -Replace
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 20/06/2025
The man accused of killing a Minnesota lawmaker had spiritual roots in a Christian movement whose leaders speak of demon-possessed politicians and that proved its ability to mobilize followers during the January 6 insurrection, Stephanie McCrummen writes.
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The Minnesota Suspect’s Radical Spiritual World
Before Vance Boelter was accused of killing a Democratic state lawmaker, he had an active, even grandiose, religious life.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The reason this war has lasted over 3 years is I don’t care how many of my soldiers Ukraine kills, and the collective West doesn’t care enough how many Ukrainian civilians my soldiers kill.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Russian casualties: 1,000,000 NATO casualties: 0 Kremlin: “We are fighting this war against NATO”
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Last night we "retaliated" against Ukraine by doing exactly the same things we've done for more than 3 years.
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el gatito @elgatito.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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Operator Starsky🇺🇦 @starskyua.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Great video by ​⁠VatnikSoup about the Victorgy Day in terrorussia - simply if you think your life is too boring 😉 youtu.be/Ro-Hv66MpwE
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Victory Madness: Inside Russia’s Propaganda Machine
YouTube video by Vatnik Soup
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sherrillw.bsky.social @sherrillw.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/ke...
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Keep schools safe for children and families—and keep ICE out!
The threat of ICE in schools creates unnecessary trauma, leads to damaged trust in educators, and causes students from undocumented and mixed-status families to miss school, leaving a lasting impact o...
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Russia retreats from/loses: Kiev Sumy Kharkiv Kherson Chernihiv Snake island Control of the Black Sea Navy chased out of Crimea 970,000 casualties Also Russia: "We are winning & will only meet in Turkey for Ukraine's unconditional surrender"
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
-Kremlin offers direct talks - no ceasefire -EU & Zelensky demand ceasefire first. -Kremlin insist on direct talks first. -Trump sides with Kremlin (😱) -Zelensky agrees to direct talks -Kremlin reject own suggestion of direct talks -Trolls blame Ukraine
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I have to commit another atrocity to try to get Zelensky to cancel meeting me. What will I bomb? A. Kids cancer hospital B. Kindergarten C. Church service D. Nuclear plant
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We liberated them from the Nazis who liberated them from us who liberated them from themselves. We pretend we have no idea why NATO is popular. All my trolls are morons.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
OTD in 1945, having just liberated Lithuania from Nazis, Soviet mass deportations resumed, liberating 1000 Lithuanians from Lithuania to provide slave labor for USSR. Within 2 years over half were dead. Imagine mass deportations taking place today...
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
An 18-year-old girl fled Makiivka after living under Russian occupation for ten years. She secretly studied at a Ukrainian school and learned the Ukrainian language - and she kept it a secret from her parents.She began to fully realize the reality of the war after conversations with a boy from Kyiv
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 31/03/2025
Wisconsin’s contentious state-supreme-court election will put Elon Musk’s theory of influence to the test, @johnhendrickson.bsky.social writes in The Atlantic Daily. theatln.tc/b7wgt8Nb
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Musk Is Still Paying for Political Influence
Wisconsin’s contentious state-supreme-court election will put his theory of power to the test.
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Evan McMurry @evanmcmurry.theatlantic.com · 01/04/2025
The Trump administration has acknowledged that it mistakenly deported a Maryland father with protected status to El Salvador—but claims that the courts cannot order him back. A @nickmiroff.bsky.social exclusive:
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 27/03/2025
End a clinical trial early, and researchers might not be able to tell if it worked, leaving participants worse off than when they started. But that is what the Trump administration is asking scientists to do, @katherinejwu.com reports: theatln.tc/Qgq0vPCX
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The NIH’s Most Reckless Cuts Yet
Ending clinical trials with no warning can put patients at risk.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 28/03/2025
@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social and @anneapplebaum.bsky.social took the stage at the New Orleans Book Festival to discuss the Signal breach, and its implications for national security. Watch the full conversation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXkG...
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Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum discuss the Signal group chat | New Orleans Book Festival
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.
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NAFO 69th Sniffing Brigade @69thsb.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Introducing ATP Geopolitics, Rick the Ukrainian and Roman Trokhymets campaign — with @atpgeo.bsky.social, @ricktheukrainian.bsky.social and @romantrokhymets67.bsky.social! More information within the thread 🧵 Thank you for sharing! 🚀 🔗 www.help99.co/patches/rick...
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ATP Geopolitics, Rick the Ukrainian and Roman Trokhymets campaign
We are launching a new fundraising campaign with Rick the Ukrainian, ATP Geopolitics and Roman Trokhymets to provide more trucks for our old friends from the 93 Separate Mechanized Brigade, 1st Separa...
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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 04/03/2025
That’s right. 🇺🇦
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sherrillw.bsky.social @sherrillw.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Here I react to the shameful behavior of American leaders and media toward the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
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sherrillw.bsky.social @sherrillw.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Donald Trump is elected U.S. president after criticizing a war abroad and calling for its end. He negotiates a deal with an adversary of the United States under…
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I’m in Munich and people keep asking me to decode Vance’s speech. OK: In Vance English “free speech” means “Let Musk run your elections” and “democracy” means “let Russia run your elections.” Now move on. 2025 is about what Europeans do, not what Americans say.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 07/02/2025
On the German press baron who "calculated that by hollowing out the political center, political consensus would become impossible and the democratic system would collapse" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Oligarchs Who Came to Regret Supporting Hitler
They helped him in pursuit of profit. Many ended up in concentration camps.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
This tells you who their constituents are. Not American voters. Not Americans at all. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
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Pam Bondi ends FBI effort to combat foreign influence in U.S. politics
The order also curbs prosecutions of Americans who improperly lobby for foreign nations. President Donald Trump says Republicans were unfairly targeted in the past.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 22/01/2025
On Tulsi Gabbard, whose one lifelong loyalty is to an offshoot of the Hare Krishna movement From Elaine Godfrey, @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Tulsi Gabbard
Other than raw ambition, only one through line is perceptible in a switchbacking political career.
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Will Gordon @willgordon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
"In another sense, the movement has never been about policies or changes to the law; it’s always been about the larger goal of dismantling the institutions of secular government to clear the way for the Kingdom. It is about God’s total victory." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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The Army of God Comes Out of the Shadows
Tens of millions of American Christians are embracing a charismatic movement known as the New Apostolic Reformation, which seeks to destroy the secular state.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/01/2025
"Western experts filling the op-ed pages with ideas for securing a post-settlement Ukraine have been negotiating with themselves. Putin has never agreed to the establishment of a demilitarized zone, foreign troops on Ukrainian soil, or a continuing Ukrainian military relationship with the West"
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 10/11/2024
I wrote much of what I think about this election before it happened, so I am going to put it all together here. My book, Autocracy Inc, described the network of autocrats who seek to undermine democracy, inside their countries and ours www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725302...
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Autocracy, Inc. by Anne Applebaum: 9780385549936 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer-prize winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat...
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sherrillw.bsky.social @sherrillw.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Social media has dissolved the mortar of our society and made America stupid, @JonHaidt argues. It’s not just a phase:
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Trump is just there to provide moral cover for Putin by musing about invading neighbors.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Not unusual for a press spokesman to repeat the government line.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 27/12/2024
How the the far-right uses TikTok in Europe to spread conspiracy theories vsquare.org/far-right-ti...
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How the far-right used TikTok to spread lies and conspiracies - VSquare.org
TikTok feeds in CEE countries have been filled with conspiracy theories and fear-mongering — to the benefit of the far-right.
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sherrillw.bsky.social @sherrillw.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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How the far-right used TikTok to spread lies and conspiracies - VSquare.org
TikTok feeds in CEE countries have been filled with conspiracy theories and fear-mongering — to the benefit of the far-right.
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UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 24/12/2024
Christmas Eve in Ukraine💔 These photos were taken in the same location within an hour. This has been our reality for the last 3 years — devastating sorrow, combined with attempts to own it and not lose our minds.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
At the risk of sounding melodramatic, these newspapers were some of the high points of our civilization. I have learned so much from The Observer.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/12/2024
"In this episode of Radio Atlantic, we make the case for reading books, one memory at a time." Hanna Rosin speaks with Rose Horowitch and other Atlantic writers about the books they read in high school that stuck with them.
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Why Reading Books in High School Matters
You’ll understand when you’re older.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The Mumpers backing global illness.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 22/12/2024
The algorithms running the world are a lot more sinister, and harder to untangle from our everyday lives, than the ones making every coffee shop look the same, writes T.M. Brown: theatln.tc/Snt5w4qD
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World. The most dominate algorithms aren't the ones choosing what songs Spotify serves you. By T.M. Brown.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 22/12/2024
Elon Musk among billionaires set to donate to Reform UK, says treasurer
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Elon Musk among billionaires set to donate to Reform UK, says treasurer
Nick Candy promises that party will deliver ‘political disruption like we have never seen before’ The treasurer of Reform UK has said that Elon Musk is among a “number of billionaires” interested in donating to Nigel Farage’s party, promising “political…
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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
This is a very important video that everyone should watch and share. youtu.be/MhpoNL1gZbw?...
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What is Russia's plan for victory?
YouTube video by Anders Puck Nielsen
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 16/12/2024
with Tim Miller www.thebulwark.com/p/anne-apple...
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Anne Applebaum: Planning for a Techno-Oligarchic Regime
The billionaires rushing to get on board with Trump, and contributing millions for his inauguration, may have missed this key detail: Enhancing the power of a leader—to bend the rules and undermine th...
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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Chinese ship suspected of damaging telecommunications cables in the Baltic Sea acted on instructions from Russian intelligence - WSJ
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
We are asking Ukrainians to defeat the armies of Putin and Kim Jong Un. In their efforts to do so, Ukrainians helped bring down Assad. Ukrainian resistance is one of the most stunning military achievements in modern history.
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Artur Rehi @arturrehi.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The attempt to ignite a conflict in the Middle East and draw Israel into it and distract the West from Ukraine turned out to be a shot in the foot for Putin. After several crushing blows to Hezbollah, Israel has greatly weakened the group, and Bashar Assad relied on it, 1/8
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 05/12/2024
There’s a live risk that the global order is breaking. And while it wouldn’t happen all at once, if it breaks it will not bounce back.
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You’ll Miss the Pax Americana When It’s Gone
The post-Cold War international system has its flaws, but the alternative is worse.
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