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Tanner Chaiken

@tanner099.bsky.social
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The International Development Guy! Gen X, #80s, New Yorker🗽 in Sydney 🇦🇺, #Pacific 🌊, former Soviet Union, #ukraine🇺🇦, #Armenia🇦🇲, #Tajikistan🇹🇯, #STTNG, Boxing 🥊, Author of Where The Hell Am I: Armenia.

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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Samoa
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
You can never win or lose if you don't run the race.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Crazy shade of winter.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Too young to fall in love.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Can any nation stand alone?
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
I hear the secrets that you keep.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
So much for your promises.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Love My Way.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
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I got Genius!
How many words can you make with 7 letters?
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
In case you’re wondering why President Biden had to issue preemptive pardons to innocent people that would eventually be targeted by the vindictive orange felon, the MAGA regime are trying to illegally reverse all of President Biden’s pardons.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
LMAO, Twitter has crashed yet again. Who could have guessed that firing a bunch of workers would make something run LESS efficiently? It's a good thing that same person isn't firing people who provide vital services through our federal government. Oh wait.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Didn't he run for president a few years back? What ever happened with that?
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📌I understand there are so many lies being told at the State of the Union tonight that a cherry tree just chopped itself down ...
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Donald Trump is the greatest US President in the history of Russia.
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Good morning and Happy Monday to everyone who agrees that ANYONE who can't easily admit that Russia invaded Ukraine is a Putin bootlicker, a Russian stooge, and a moronic fucking asshole. Russia invaded Ukraine, folks. PERIOD. h/t: @acyn.bsky.social
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here's what we have to say to all the boneheaded buffoons who insist all Zelensky has to do for peace is accept whatever shit deal is thrown at him: All PUTIN has to do for peace is LEAVE UKRAINE.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 13/02/2025
A new, and likely final, chapter in the nearly three-year conflict has begun, Jonathan Lemire writes, “all but ensuring that Ukraine will not regain its sovereign territory or achieve its most sought-after security guarantees.”
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The Day the Ukraine War Ended
The conflict isn’t over, but its fate now appears clear.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 10/02/2025
“Rather than fascism or single-party dictatorship, the United States is sliding toward a more 21st-century model of autocracy: competitive authoritarianism,” Steven Levitsky writes:
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The New Authoritarianism
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
www.linkedin.com/company/usaid/
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USAID | LinkedIn
USAID | 2,405,249 followers on LinkedIn. Our work advances U.S. national security & economic prosperity, demonstrates American generosity. | USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to ...
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
www.facebook.com/share/p/1DUk... The Kyiv Beet!
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
@support.bsky.team The last 6 accounts to follow me are bots. Please stop these. Thanks.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
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A Wider War Has Already Started in Europe
Putin’s not-so-quiet sabotage campaign against European democracies
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Aaron Parnas @aaronparnas.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
slate.com/life/2024/12... Love this article. Of course, I was 29 in 1999, but I get it.
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I’m Still Obsessed with My Y2K Era Inflatable Bubble Chair. In a Weird Way, It Explains Everything.
A look back on the hopefulness and heartbreak of the new millennium.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Happy New Year Sydney!!!
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah!
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... 🍿🍿🍿
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House Ethics Committee set to release investigation report on Matt Gaetz
The panel last month voted along party lines not to release the results of a long-running investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
wapo.st/49EvXpX Very daft take. The Jan. 6th report has made it part of the historical record.
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Opinion | Biden can hold Trump accountable — with a pardon
Biden should pardon Trump to establish the facts of Jan. 6, 2021.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
slate.com/news-and-pol... Um, yikes.
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Donald Trump Probably Isn’t a Russian Agent. But He Wouldn’t Be Behaving Much Differently If He Were.
Donald Trump probably isn’t a Russian agent—but he wouldn’t be behaving much differently if he were.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters — theonion.com/assad-return...
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Assad Returns To Ophthalmology At Moscow LensCrafters
MOSCOW—Just days after rebels seized Damascus, deposed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad reportedly returned to practicing ophthalmology at a Moscow LensCrafters, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Which one ...
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/b... Man, I'd take Clinton 3.
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Bill Clinton on the Election, D.E.I. and One of His Regrets
The former president spoke with Andrew Ross Sorkin at the DealBook Summit.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 08/12/2024
And there it is: Assad in Moscow. Maybe he can move in next to Yanukovych www.cnn.com/world/live-n...
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Assad flees to Moscow as Syria rebels capture Damascus | CNN
The long rule of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is over, after rebels swept into the capital Damascus on Sunday. Follow the latest live news updates here.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/n... Like NCIS.
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A City of Cameras: How New York Police Will Hunt a Killer
The prelude, the crime and the aftermath were all caught on video. But investigators will need to use human intelligence to find the person who gunned down an insurance company’s chief executive.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Sanctions were always going to take a few years to have impact. Russian businesses are beginning to bear the cost of war www.economist.com/business/202...
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Russian businesses are beginning to bear the cost of war
Soaring interest rates, a plunging currency and labour shortages are biting harder
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
@k4rma2.bsky.social Dude!
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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Folks, do me a HUGE favor: Please re-post this and follow @reallyamerican.bsky.social so that we're at full strength as we enter the next critical phase in mounting our opposition to trump's cruel, oppressive agenda. Please and thank you! 🙏💪
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
OTD in 1989 the Malta Summit took place. The cold war was declared so over that Gorby accidentally forgot to mention that NATO couldn't allow new members. In reality it was just a pause cos West wants to constrain Russia to within Russia which is imperialism.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Oy vey.
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Biden’s Unpardonable Hypocrisy
The president vowed not to pardon his son Hunter—and then did so anyway.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
www.cnbc.com/2024/11/29/s... There are different options for having manageable loan repayments (i. e. rescheduling, refinancing), so not sure total forgiveness is appropriate. Thoughts?
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Student loan borrowers may face higher payments under Trump
Consumer advocates are worried about the fate of the U.S. Department of Education's SAVE repayment plan in a second Trump administration.
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
www.economist.com/leaders/2024... Best case.
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How to make a success of peace talks with Vladimir Putin
The key is robust security guarantees for Ukrainians
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Sunset on Hamilton Island. #australia
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Tanner Chaiken @tanner099.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Where The Hell Am I?: Living, Walking, Talking, Eating, Drinking and Not Smoking in Armenia a.co/d/g9VXytM My book about journeying Armenia.
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Where The Hell Am I?: Living, Walking, Talking, Eating, Drinking and Not Smoking in Armenia
Where The Hell Am I?: Living, Walking, Talking, Eating, Drinking and Not Smoking in Armenia [Chaiken, Tanner] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Where The Hell Am I?: Living, Walking, Talking, Eating, Drinking and Not Smoking in Armenia
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