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Yeah, so, I work for an organization with federal government contracts and, the White House is not actually joking about this

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 2h

This is a critical victory for Ukraine, and should once again prove that Russian victory in the war is not inevitable and Ukraine can win. Слава Україні!

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Aidan O’Brien @aidanobrien.bsky.social · 4h

This US administration has already spent between $55-200 million funding think tanks and lobbyists in Europe to promote its “values and goals”. We have little to no idea where most of this money is being spent. It’s a dark money campaign to undermine European democracy

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 4h

But when you add them together, you arrive at a situation when the Americans are dictating policy across a range of vital areas. And at the end of the day, if we're changing policy every time the Americans express irritation, we've essentially lost our sovereignty anyway.

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🎃🎃🎃Michael Scare-anicolas🎃🎃🎃 @karanicolas.bsky.social · 16h

So this is now confirmed. Canada, as well as the EU and Lithuania, withdrew due to American pressure. Just complete cowardice, and an unwillingness to accept the threat staring us in the face.

theguardian.com

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Isabel, booonyavirus wonk @isabelott.bsky.social · 4h

Hey, this is that “study” that was previously cancelled after outcry at how monstrously unethical it was. It’s sentencing the poorest kids on earth to die of completely preventable liver cancer for white antivaxxers’ curiosity. How a medical doctor could co-sign this atrocity is beyond me.

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 3h

More huge personnel losses (1,830) for Russia in the last 24 hours. Many invaders continue to fall around Lyman, but also sacrifice hundreds for minimal forward movement around Kostiantynivka. Also note 667 logistical vehicles destroyed + 2 air defence systems.

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Nathalie Van Raemdonck @nathalievanraemdonck.com · 21h

props to France for standing firm where the EEAS, Lithuania and Canada buckled “We stick to supporting civil society. It’s not just principled, it’s operational" #disinfo2026

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 07/10/2026

Two panels at the #Disinfo2026 conference seem to have particularly upset the MAGA people. It would be a shame if people weren’t aware of them.

Day 1, October 7, 11:45 - 12:30
Under attack: How the counter-disinformation community is dealing with US government pressure
#solutions
room: Zeta
Panel
On 23 December 2025, the US government (USG) imposed travel bans and deportation orders on five European figures - former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton, Imran Ahmed, Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von
Hodenberg, and Josephine Ballon - accusing them of censoring US social media platforms.
The use of legal intimidation to wage personal attacks raises its own free-speech concerns as well as questions about the appropriate use of legal punishment in a policy debate. The United States Government's attacks to intimidate individuals and organisations are an unprecedented escalation in defense of US corporations seeking to avoid regulation and criticism. This panel will examine the chilling effect these tactics can potentially have on the community of researchers, journalists, and former government officials who fight disinformation, propaganda and hate speech online. The panel will also discuss how some are fighting back against these tactics.
Speakers:
Claire Pershan, Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Josephine Ballon, HateAid
Chair:
Gregory Rohde, EU DisinfoLab

$Day 1, October 7, 10:45 - 11:45 USA as a FIMI threat: acknowledge, adapt, push back #infospaces room: Alfa Presentations This session addresses one of the most uncomfortable questions in the counter-disinformation field today: how did the United States become a FIMI threat for Europe? The session will explore how the counters disinformation community rebuilds resilience without Washington, what solidarity looks like in a fractured transatlantic environment, and how to push back against on these operations. Speakers: Adam Fivenson, Center for Security, Innovation & New Technology at American University Alex Finley, Former officer of CIA's Directorate of Operations, Centre for Strategic Advantage Emerson Brooking, Nonresident Senior Fellow, DFRLab Chair: Carlos Hernández-Echevarría, Fundación Maldita.es$

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 12h

Apparently I was wrong to think all those movie scenes where a fighter jet/starfighter blows up an enemy and flies through the debris were over the top or inaccurate.

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Inside Ukraine 🇺🇦 @insideukraine.bsky.social · 14h

A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighter destroys a “Geran-4” drone with point-blank cannon fire, flying through a cloud of flames.

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 13h

Five children are among the 22 people confirmed dead after the russian strike on Pryluky. Another 54 people were injured, including seven children. Rescuers spent the entire night searching through the rubble. Their work continues. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 21h

average bluesky politics-knower: horseshoe theory isn’t really a thing german political parties: we would like to announce the horseshoe initiative

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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 21h

Fuuuuuuck all of them to hell.

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Alan Elrod @aselrod.bsky.social · 21h

This is just a relentlessly horrific story. It’s hard to adequately contextualize the moral desolation of this unfolding in the midst of a midterms against a ruling party helmed by inveterate rapists and rape apologists. www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/congres...

phoenixnewtimes.com

Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 22h

Elon also retweeted Ezra Levant this morning. Feels significant.

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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

So for Americans wondering why this is true, basically every single province has to sign onto removing the monarchy *as well* as the House of Commons and Canadian Senate

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 22h

The richest man in the world wants to destroy Canada. He's clearly a threat to national security, and I would see no reason not to ban the operations of all his companies in Canada.

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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Perfect example though of how corrupting tariffs are. Every town & business becomes dependent on little tariff carve outs, meaning that buying influence with Senators becomes mandatory to stay in business. The tariff is the mother of trusts!!!

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 22h

It's Putin's birthday so the russian military celebrated by massacring over 20 people, including 5 children, by launching a cruise missile directly into an apartment building. Yet global media seems increasingly uninterested in Ukraine, while air defence is scarce kyivindependent.com/russia-slams...

kyivindependent.com

Russia slams Ukraine with missiles, drones on Putin's 74th birthday, at least 28 dead including 5 children

Chernihiv Oblast Governor Viacheslav Chaus said that on Putin's birthday, he hopes "the Russian dictator ends up in custody in The Hague or in hell."

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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 07/10/2026

Skywatch got another email from Shellenberger. He’s a crank yes, but Canada, Lithuania, and the EEAS pulling their sponsorship definitely speaks to some some sort of political pressure campaign targeting #Disinfo2026 and now I’m worried about if I’ll be able to get home without harassment.

I wrote to you on October 3 about #Disinfo2026 and have not had a reply.
Since then the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs wrote to me: "Upon becoming aware of the above-mentioned discussion topics, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania withdrew from any participation in the conference. The Ministry has also formally dissociated itself from the conference content and requested that the organisers remove all references to the Ministry from conference materials, communications, and promotional activitiesiỊại
Andrius Katinas of the Radio and Television
Commission of Lithuania wrote to me that he has withdrawn as a speaker "in light of the differences of opinion that have arisen with the organisers of the
'Disinfo 2026' conference regarding the assessment of the role of the United States."
The conference's sponsors page no longer lists the Lithuanian ministry, Global Affairs Canada or the European External Action Service.
Do you still plan to take part, and what is your response to the ministry's statement and to Mr.
Katinas's?
What have the organizers told you about these withdrawals?
The questions in my October 3 letter stand. I would be glad to talk by phone at 415-710-1042. Please reply by 11 am Eastern today, Tuesday, October 6.

A poster with withdrawn sponsors covered up by printer paper

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

In Pryluky today, Russia killed three baby boys - Oleksandr, Kyrylo, and Serhiy. All three were just one year old. They also killed 8-year-old Maksym. Among the victims of the attack are the mother and grandmother of one-year-old Oleksandr. In total, the death toll in Pryluky has now reached 19.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 07/10/2026

⚡️Russia carried out sabotage against Danish defense firms, intelligence says Josefine Christensen, an analyst at the Danish national security and intelligence service (PET), said Russia was increasingly focusing on targets directly connected to Western military support for Ukraine.

kyivindependent.com

Russia carried out sabotage against Danish defense firms, intelligence says

Josefine Christensen, an analyst at the Danish national security and intelligence service (PET), said Russia was increasingly focusing on targets directly connected to Western military support for Ukr...

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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Wow is this something that comes up for scholars of conflict and of military technology. There are sadly quite a few on the antiwar left, including some profs who vote on hiring and tenure, who think if only academics stopped studying war and weapons, war and weapons would stop happening

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

You can be an expert on things you are opposed to. Just because you have knowledge of something and can explain it in detail, it does not necessarily follow that you are a proponent of them

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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 06/10/2026

Our language has been completely warped by Big Tech's algorithms, from a generation that's grown up saying "unalive", to the way everyone's censored themselves talking about the Cornell rapists. It's time to fight back against billionaire control of free speech. www.anildash.com/2026/10/06/k...

anildash.com

We are going to kill “unalive” - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A rescuer carried a child out of a missile-hit apartment block in Pryluky Russia struck Ukrainian cities overnight. Here, two died and seven were injured. 📹 Suspilne Chernihiv

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Defence Scheme Enjoyer 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱🇲🇽🇵🇸 @maxp94.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I think the continual awareness that we are all subject to a panopticon for the benefit of malignant, unknown and unseen forces damages the sense of fairness and society that is required to make people feel any sense of obligation beyond that which is extracted from them in a given moment.

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

*so important*: if you’re voting by mail, assume the USPS will delay because it’s its policy. You can: —put it in drop box —go to counter to watch them postmark in front of you —if you’re dropping it in a mailbox, do it VERY EARLY.

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

This only makes me further suspect that Stelco's management is intentionally harming its business in Canada to support the trade war on the US side.

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Tereza Hendl @terezahendl.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

“Reports of civilians eating weeds draw harrowing parallels with the sieges of Yarmouk and Mariupol, both used by Russia to refine its use of starvation as a weapon of war. Following in their genocidal Holodomor in the 1930s, Russia is again using starvation to punish, terrorize, and humiliate…”

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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.

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Dustin Johnson 🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇱🇵🇸 @warandcoffee.eurosky.social · 07/10/2026

And this is precisely why US allies are going to continue hedging and diversifying away from the US no matter who wins next month and in 2028. There's no trust that MAGA won't come back.

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WarTranslated (Dmitri) @wartranslated.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Residents of Kyiv, bringing their pets, mattresses, and folding cots, have been gathering in the metro station since evening. Russia continues to terrorize the civilian population of Ukraine.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ukraine is expecting another large-scale Russian attack tonight. Their planes are reported to be in the air already and on their way to bomb Ukraine. We are going to spend another night hoping that Russian missiles don't strike our home. It's a deadly lottery,

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Kevin Rothrock @kevinrothrock.me · 06/10/2026

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

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Elizabeth (Bit) Meehan, PhD @elizabethbitmeehan.com · 06/10/2026

Dan has been *the* reporter for all things NSF, and especially for SBE. We are losing a generation of scholars and scholarship.

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Aaron Wherry @aaronwherry.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Interesting as a point of reference for public opinion in Canada. Support for secession is running around 31% in Quebec. Latest poll in Alberta puts support for a referendum at 23%.

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Motria Oleksiyivna, PhD @motria.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

France and now Turkey are sending troops to protect our precious oil supply, while slow-walking help to Ukraine to stop Russian war crimes. Demoralizing. Immoral.

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Brad Duplessis @bradduplessis.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Always read Stephen Biddle. He and his co-authors discuss the assumption that war ends in mil victory — and its implications for strategic decision-making, employment of the force, force design, and mob. of the industrial base to support protracted conflict. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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A. Cosmographer @acosmographer.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

we know how the tech bros feel about women because, all the awful outlined labour issues aside, the question "how would women feel about having directions to their private residence recorded" didn't occur to anyone involved

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It’s the beginning of October, and emergency power cuts are already returning to parts of Ukraine. Starting tomorrow, they will be introduced in several regions following russian attacks on the country’s energy infrastructure. #Ukraine #Ukrainianview

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Grumpy Philosopher @stevecooke.org · 06/10/2026

It’s not just ‘we believe other people’s suffering is a price worth paying for our product succeeding’, it’s that they think it’s worth paying regardless of what anyone else thinks & without asking. We should just accept what they want, even if we suffer, for no reason other than that they want it.

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Marcel Dirsus @marceldirsus.com · 06/10/2026

The former boss of Germany's most important intelligence agency, the BND, has been arrested on suspicion of treason.

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Minna Ålander 🌻 @alanderminna.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

It seems that Sweden is sending Patriots to Poland to secure NATO logistics to Ukraine. Why not just send them to Ukraine directly…

regeringen.se

Svenskt luftvärnsförband till Natoinsats i Polen

Regeringen planerar för att Sverige, med start i december, ska bidra med ett luftvärnsförband för att skydda Natos logistiknod i Polen, som används

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

all the "RESPECT THE TROOPS HONOR THE TROOPS STAND FOR THEM AND SUPPORT THE TROOPS" stuff the media pushed since 9/11 was a joke. A laugh to them. Every time it collided with whatever it was that Republicans want to do, the troops lose. Trump goes to soldiers' graves and laughs at them!

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