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Victor Lane

@vhliv.bsky.social
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Historian of Eastern Europe, The Habsburg Empire, Galicia— Poland and Ukraine, Nationalism. A Quaker. Mostly here to learn from others.

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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Every time Trump goes on about how successful the US are I picture John Cleese throwing back examples of the many failures at Trump.
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 23/09/2026
I hope you're sitting down, ma'am, because I have some shocking news about your royal family
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John Light @johnalight.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Trump's polls are so bad that one election-denying Republican candidate now admits Biden won in 2020.
talkingpointsmemo.com
GOP Candidates Find Creative New Ways to Distance Themselves From Trump
Pay No Attention to That Man Inside the White House Florida gubernatorial...
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The incoherence of Trump foreign policy boiled down to its essence. Trump and co. worry intensely about the Russian threat where it is minimal but shrug their shoulders about Russian aggression in Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Republican Party may not like Trump but they are happy with carrying on supporting plutocrats, even as Trump is making plain to all but the true believers that plutocrats are the problem.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Through the end of August 2026, the House was in session for roughly 383 hours total. That’s an average of about 48 hours per month. Their average monthly floor time is well below the 80-hour monthly threshold the same Congress imposed on Medicaid recipients.
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loreleikelly @loreleikelly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Be ready to protect your democracy. "In less than a year, ICE has stockpiled military-grade materiel and more than doubled its ranks, including by hiring recruits rejected by other police and military forces." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Cops won’t fight federal election interference—so citizens will have to
How democracy protection groups are preparing for Trump's worst.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
This 100 times this 👇👇👇
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
@jamestalarico.bsky.social I know you are doing your best and under tremendous pressure, but the next time you get asked about trans issues you might try what El-Sayed does here. None are safe if we sacrifice the security of a minority.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The Trump regime’s communication to Russia on the war in Ukraine is, and has always been, “we’ll make it easier for you, so keep going, you can win.” Whatever words come out of Trump, Kushner, and Witkoff’s mouths, that’s the message their actions send, and that is how the Kremlin has received it.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Trump here reminds me of the sea captain in Blackadder part the Second, who opines that there are two schools of thought about the need for a crew. Our president has such strong opinions regarding things about which he knows nothing.
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Frank Amari @frankamari.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
On this date in 2016, San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneels in protest during the US national anthem before pre-season game against the Chargers at San Diego's Qualcomm Stadium, objecting to racial injustice and police brutality in the US.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Or I’ve spent my career supporting policies that increased the equity in people’s homes, but now I endorse nasty policies I falsely claim are caused by dark-skinned people mostly I just want to keep getting elected rather than solve the problems people care about.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reading this it occurs to me that to a certain extent when the GOP rallied around Trump in ‘24 it was like Germans rallying around the Nazis after Stalingrad and then Hitler winning the Battle of Kursk before the inexorable losses began. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/does-...
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Does Trump Have a Third Act?
Over the last week, there have been a number of examples popping...
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This is a lesson that people On Here would be well to understand, bc it will be an uphill fight to get even the subpoena compliance Trump refused in 2019. www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Companies expect that the Trump administration won’t cooperate with congressional requests for information and therefore Congress will focus its efforts on businesses—which have less flexibility about complying with demands from lawmakers.
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250 to 250 @250to250.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ken Lincoln is president of the Thompson Ice House Preservation Corporation, which operates an onsite museum and sponsors an annual ice harvest. Lincoln chronicles America's forgotten ice trade, which revolutionized how the nation ate and drank before mechanical refrigeration. #WeAreAmerica250
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
i want to invest in securitized subprime mortgages ... for data centers
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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Listening to median voters is a good reminder to hot take slingers--leftist and moderate alike--who are certain that their perfect message will unlock unprecedented victories.
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Daniel Radosh @radosh.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Coverage of the Canada trade war seems to be underselling an important point: Trump tore up NAFTA and made everyone sign a new agreement more to his liking in 2020 with a 16-year renewable term. Now he's tearing up that agreement. If his signature is meaningless why would Canada agree to anything?
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Blaming Biden two years in only works if you messaged that and took action from the start, like maybe waiting to make tax cuts permanent or start immediately with rearmament procurement. This is GOP politics as usual and we are fed up with it.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Seriously, this shows where the Administration’s priorities lie ….
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This👇👇👇
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Well this is to the point.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Cassidy is pathetic. He is both a victim and perpetuator of GOP bully culture that took over the GOP after Reagan. Every day men like Cassidy pretend to be the successors to Barry Goldwater while while wiping their feet on Goldwater’s principles.
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Sanho Tree @sanho.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Make Clacton Great Again.
Count Binface on Mount Rushmore.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 11/08/2026
Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
For thousands of years, a solar eclipse has been a prophetic harbinger of a spectacular, epoch-making event. Just saying. #VoteBinface #Clacton
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Elon is thinking Jamestown. Perhaps the rest of us should think Roanoke without contact with natives.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Seems like a good time to interview Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins and find out why this is all somehow Joe Biden's fault.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Elon is thinking Jamestown. Perhaps the rest of us should think Roanoke without contact with natives.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Bauhaus Milhaus
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 09/08/2026
Not to beat up on Douthat even more, but I'll just say: it has never, in all of post-war American history, been more crystal clear exactly who your enemy should be. Never. If it's not obvious to you, you are morally & intellectually defective.
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Remember, this is happening at the same time that MAGA trolls are going to WNBA games and throwing dildoes at the players. All this chatter about dick and balls is just the same old sexual harassment that comes at any woman who threatens insecure men.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
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Greenland issues ‘strong warning’ as Trump-linked oil firm prepares to drill
Island’s government says no approval given after Greenland Energy brings kit ashore for exploratory drilling
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Critical Bill. @criticalbill76.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
You could have voted to impeach in January 2000. Instead, you voted for no witnesses and no documents to be allowed at trial. You are a failed person, Cornyn.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
This! Find a common front and fight!
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Cornyn (1952) and Tillis (1960) members of the weakest generation. A entire political party consumed by bully culture and hence unaware that they are among the victims of pervasive bully culture. Not a hero left among them, because those that had the guts already left in 2016.
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Stephen F. Knott @stephenknott.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this is the kind of obstreperousness, don't tell me what to do-ness, i got rightsness that is the sheet anchor of American liberties.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Compassion not fear should be our guide. We will not heal until we recover our historic readiness to care for each other and the stranger.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
At this rate please don’t tell Me X demonstrates the superiority of private enterprise.
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Rude Law Dog @esghound.com · 14/07/2026
An unfathomable clean air act violation. I worked in this exact field for years, including in oil and gas, and i still can't get over how wanton and obvious this crime is. Just stunning
xAI's unpermitted turbine emissions would dwarf federal permit thresholds
Potential annual emissions, in short tons, from 30 unpermitted turbines at xAI's Southaven, MS facility

Chart: Potential emissions at 80% load
Nitrogen oxide: 2,474
Carbon monoxide: 4,065
A vertical dotted line indicates the Federal permit threshold.

Note: Federal permit threshold of 100 short tons/year is based on emissions at 100% capacity. Emissions shown at 80% capacity reflect the lower end of typical operating levels for gas turbines, according to the EPA.

He said the facility would be on par with the top 25 U.S. gas plants for nitrogen oxide emissions, citing EPA data for actual emissions.

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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Very good point
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Christina Proenza-Coles @proenzacoles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
James Forten heard the 1st public reading of the Declaration of Independence in 1776; he participated in the American Revolution & fought for its ideals long after the war. A skilled entrepreneur & ardent abolitionist, his wife & daughters founded the 1st interracial antislavery society for women.
Watercolor portrait of James Forten in profile wearing coat & tie painted around 1818. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I study the end of the Polish-Lihuanian Commonwealth falling apart as we tried to forge a more perfect Union. This guy is the embodiment of why Franklin was worried about keeping our republic.
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
45 years ago today. Buried on page 20 on a holiday Friday just like this one, news that changed the world. www.nytimes.com/1981/07/03/u...
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RARE CANCER SEEN IN 41 HOMOSEXUALS (Published 1981)
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Victor Lane @vhliv.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
One thing about Trump he knows how to throw a party that no one wants to go to.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "Those who led through exclusion & isolation have tried to win power & enrich themselves by turning us against one another ... today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted, but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum"
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