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@thechemist.bsky.social
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Hater of boy-astrology word gore. If you say things like “a high value man deserves X,” or “high IQ is a force multiplier,” please know that you are a practitioner of it.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 7h
This is clearly a lie aimed at making Trump and Putin look good. Russia can't cover even its own needs in the middle of its genocidal invasion of Ukraine, let alone sell diesel on the global market. At the beginning of October Putin extended the diesel export ban until the end of the month.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7h
Vaxxed? www.nytimes.com/2026/10/09/s...
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Mike Ditka, Fiery Coach of the Chicago Bears, Has Died
He and the Bears won the Super Bowl in 1986, and after coaching he became one of the sport’s most visible and enduring talking heads. He was 86.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h
Russia is escalating its campaign of sabotage in NATO countries, trying to break European support for Kyiv. Internally, the debate among European officials, they said, is whether and how to retaliate by taking the fight to Russia.
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As Putin Wages Shadow War, Europe Looks for a Way to Hit Back
Moscow has used tactics of fear and ambiguity to try to divide NATO and limit support for Ukraine. But how should Europe retaliate? And how hard?
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 7h
Theatre of the absurd! Trump announces US will buy diesel from russia even though he signed a law mandating sanctions for any country buying russian energy. Meanwhile russia actually has a diesel export ban because they can’t meet domestic demand.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 7h
Zelensky accused Trump of reaching agreements with Putin “behind Ukraine’s back” while Kyiv’s delegation is in Florida. He said the US is giving Russia “additional money to wage war” and called Ukraine’s team a “smokescreen” for a decision that is “unfair” and “not partner-like.” #Ukraine
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Eugene Finkel @efinkel.bsky.social · 7h
Once we are done with the ICC, we will be livestreaming the execution of Ukraine and paying Russia so that gas prices go down. It's crucial to buy from Russia so it could give more to Iran to target US troops when we restart the war, for which we need the gas prices go down. Stable genius.
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6h
essentially becoming sponsors of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Just a day after a horrific terrorist attack by Russia that killed so many, and just before the winter when the Russian government screams from all the rooftops that they are going to create a humanitarian catastrophe in Ukraine
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 6h
So let's get this straight: Russia just murdered over 65 people in Ukraine in less than 48 hours. Crushed a building on top of sleeping families to celebrate Putin's birthday. And today, the U.S. announces that they are lifting sanctions on Russian diesel and planning to buy some,
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The City Reporter @thecityreporter.nyc · 6h
The ICE agent at the center of the shooting in Marble Hill on Thursday is a familiar face to those closely following the Trump administration’s ICE crackdown in NYC. The City Reporter wrote about Brenden Cuni in May. 🧵
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Susan McPherson @susanmcp.bsky.social · 16h
Woah! "Through the end of June 2026, Trump meme coin investors have lost $3.81 billion." Poor folks fell for the grifter's scams. Via @snipy.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's PN:
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Trump’s meme coin grift hits a new low
Buyers have lost almost everything. He keeps pumping them anyway.
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 13h
So a bunch of guys in plainclothes surrounded a man in a car and shot him, then the government disappeared him and refuses to release any information about his condition or whereabouts
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 13h
Again, you (& I) live in a country where there are concentration camps & people are being disappeared. We can argue about what exactly to call this particular form of partially autocratic political regime, but it’s not a full democracy.
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 13h
Later, he claimed Mamdani never commented about the recent stabbing of an NYPD detective. Mamdani talked about the stabbing several times, including the below statement where the mayor notes he visited the injured officer:
Earlier today, an off-duty NYPD detective was stabbed several times in the Bronx during what preliminary information indicates was an attempted robbery. 

I visited the detective and his family at Jacobi Hospital with Police Commissioner Tisch. 

He is thankfully in stable condition, and I am hoping for his quick and complete recovery. I am confident that the NYPD will identify and apprehend the suspects and that the people responsible will be held to account.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Many, many more people associated with Trump have been doing this for quite some time. It’s an industry. And it should be investigated.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Pete Hegseth says there needs to be serious consequences for people who commit crimes, just jotting that down for future reference.
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 07/10/2026
“Honey please I need you to get this done for me.” How Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a MAGA ally to transfer $100,000 to her Amex account. on.wsj.com/4i9gzYx
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Exclusive | ‘Honey Please’: Kimberly Guilfoyle Pushed Donor to Wire $100,000 to Her Amex Account
Text messages with a MAGA ally show Guilfoyle seeking funds and offering access to top administration officials before becoming ambassador to Greece.
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Whether it's Barack Obama asking for dijon mustard or Donald Trump admitting to a series of sexual assaults, there have been embarrassing moments for presidents on both sides of the aisle.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026
Trump suggests he wants to cut off almost all trade: "We're gonna very very self-sufficient very soon"
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“I can do whatever I want” says the guy who denies dozens of sexual assault allegations.
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BBC: Eight US sailors assigned to USS Abraham Lincoln attempted suicide, Navy says
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
And in classic abuser form, he is getting MORE dangerous and unhinged because he knows the country wants to dump his ass and leave him. I just—shit's bad, ok. It's really, really, REALLY bad.
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
I wish I was being hyperbolic. This is Gilead shit. Congress (which I realize is in recess to campaign) is utterly derelict in letting this man continue to be president. He is putting ALL OF US in immense danger. Our SecDef is monstrously stupid. The polycrisis alarms are all sounding SOS
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
It's a rape-ocracy from the top down
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 07/10/2026
This is sexual violence as a form of terrorism. It is political violence and it is chilling and horrific, and AOC was absolutely right to be terrified that the goons (now pardoned) laying siege to the capital would rape her if they found her. Small changes won't fix this. FLIP THE TABLE NOW
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
There is a term for this -> "Incestuous amplification". That's when leaders of a movement come to mistake their movement's propaganda for truth.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This segment is about DHS's claim that they have identified and arrested over 2,000 "terrorists," a claim laughable on its face. This is largely because the admin has reclassified multiple criminal gangs as "foreign terrorist organizations," and ICE's gang identification is notorious sloppy.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 07/10/2026
The Samara oil pumping station in Russia’s Samara Oblast was struck again today. A large fire erupted at the facility, an important hub for receiving, storing and transporting oil with one of Europe’s largest tank farms. #Russia
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Mona Burns @monaburns.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The utter absurdity of all of this 👇 Including that someone would write a book entitled, 'Why Fauci Must Rot in Prison', and expect anyone to buy it Really and truly speaks to where we are And why we're the laughingstock of the world these days So deeply embarrassing ..
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Tillis is a coward who, even as his political career draws to an end, cannot bring himself to say Trump is bad. He still says the worst problem with Trump is advice he gets from *other people*
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Al Swearengen @al-swearengen.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s the “Good czar, bad boyars” thing that Russians use to excuse Putin. It’s not the tyrant’s fault, it’s the fault of the advice the tyrant gets. It’s so stupid. Also, so is Tillis, and everyone pretending like he’s anything but a gutless coward when it matters.
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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
SBU drones struck a Su-35 and a Su-34 fighter jet, along with an ammunition depot, at a Russian military airfield in Adygea overnight. Both aircraft carry guided bombs that Russia uses against the frontline and Ukrainian cities.
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 04/10/2026
Eight crew members were killed when a Russian Tu-95MS strategic bomber crashed in Amur region on September 29. The crew included two lieutenant colonels and two majors, with at least three linked to planning, organizing or executing missile strikes on Ukraine. #Russia
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Germany and Ukraine are allies. This is how it supposed to be.
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Believe it or not the Senator with brain damage was not the dumbest Senator nor was he the one who played football It’s like the Silmarillion keeping all the stupid people straight
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Putin apologists want you to buy that: -An alleged off-the-books 1991 verbal promise outweighs a signed 1994 treaty -Democratic countries formerly occupied by Russia asked to join an anti-Russia alliance for no reason -Ukrainians don't want freedom, an American tricked them into it with cookies
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Make of it what you want but a journalist from a French leftist media outlet contacted me to talk about the theory that the deaths on Maidan were a false flag and when I told her Im happy to explain why this stupid conspiracy theory needs to die, she never got back to me to schedule the interview.
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Germany's security also depends on the outcome of this war. That is why we are helping out of our own self-interest as well.“
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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
German chancellor Merz has arrived in Kyiv, Ukraine this morning. At his arrival he made following statement: „Ukraine is facing decisive weeks. That is why I traveled to Kyiv today with the message: You can rely on us.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
GOP ads right now are all about attacking trans people. Over, and over, and over. I was a gay teen in 2004 watching the Bush campaign try to win on attacking gay marriage, but the resort to this hate drive in campaign ads feels so dialed up now. I can’t imagine being an lgbt kid watching tv today.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 03/10/2026
Canada is not actually 'battling for survival' in the context of secession, because in both Alberta and Quebec secession has relatively small amounts of public support. What we're battling is dipshit far-right populist politicians enabling/pushing for this destructive bullshit.
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Fun fact. It took Russia just 68 days after the collapse of the USSR to invade a non NATO European country. Further proof the west created Putin - the first Russian leader in 550 years to make Russia bigger than God himself created.
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David Ryan Miller @davidryanmiller.com · 03/10/2026
Trump II is about many things, but one of the major recurring themes is that Donald Trump is intent on using his office--a public trust--to enrich himself and his allies Rank corruption beneath the office of the presidency and clear grounds for impeachment, conviction, and removal
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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
JUST POSTED: Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff have pushed a multibillion oil deal with Russia as part of peace talks that will bring profits to their family business partners. A new front for Trump-era conflicts of interest. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies (Gift Article)
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He’s making poor Ken bleed dignity hard for the support. And the more Trump thinks he’s going to lose the more dignity he’s going to demand
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Matt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This transition was incredible - like it reads as if "loved experience" *literally* means "what I saw on TikTok".
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
it’s this weird thing where she keeps referring to “lived experience” and, as often get brought up in various vibesession debates, what are economic data but accumulations of lived experience? (not to mention that under biden, ppl *self-reported* doing well, but often believed *others* were not)
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
My BEARD (Botched Executions Above Replacement Device) model ranks lethal injection slightly below the electric chair. And I tell you the best place in Bonne Terre to get a chicken-fried steak. All that and more in the next Silver Bulletin.
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