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Zanello

@zanello.bsky.social
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Flâneur, photographer, Los Angeleno, Berliner, Heterodoxist "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Even the Editorial Board of the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal knows what Trump is trying to do with the Federal Reserve is wrong and urges Republicans in Congress to say no to the President.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Hi All, I have had technical issues sending out my weekend update on substack today. I do not know what is happening—but hope it gets fixed soon. What I can do is edit old posts. So I have cut a pasted this weeks update and put it at the start of last weeks. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
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Weekend Update #141 and 142
The Bombardment of Ukrainian Cities—How Trump Has Already Helped Russia; The New York Times Embeds With The Waffen SS?
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
It’s easy for people To grasp the popular narrative. To grasp what is actually happening and to have insight about it is not so easy.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
A guy who actually knows how this stuff works.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
But, wait, where are the tanks and missiles?
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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Woman Buttoning Her Shoes (recto); Study for Reclining Nude with Arms Raised (verso), 1915 botfrens.com/collections/88/content…
Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
This is well worth your time. @chrismurphyct.bsky.social is one of our country's most effective and important leaders at this critical moment.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Making America great again by reshoring those great factory jobs.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Liberation Day
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Machine Pun Kelly @kellyscaletta.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 01/03/2025
NEW: Senator Marshall (R-KS) RUNS AWAY, fleeing his own town hall after being asked about DOGE firing Veterans. MAKE HIM GO VIRAL.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
There's an opportunity here that's about to be missed. The narrative on today's fiasco at the White House should be that JD Vance embarrassed the President and should resign. JD may have also spoken out of turn at the joint press conference with PM Starmer. Weaken them from within.
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I talked to the Black residents of Altadena who say they’ve lost everything but hope. “When you escape tragedy, you say, ‘it could have got me.’ It didn’t. So I’m going to keep on going,” said 83-year-old Walt Butler.
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Black residents mourn lost homes, history as wildfires scorch Altadena
“All that stuff that you thought was so important can be gone in five minutes.”
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
I have no idea what to make of this.
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2Tone4Real @2tone4real.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This is Hokkaido beach in Japan where snow, sand and sea meet each other timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/desti...
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Slight change in the sky but the wind is still blowing like a gale. Not what the firefighters are hoping for.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Not a good day to inhale.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Truly an occasion to party.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
I know if I were elected President of the United States my top priorities would be jars that are easier to open and ziplock bags that are easier to close.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
x X has ~18m daily USA users. @bsky.app, ~1.5m. Is it worth 20 MINS a day to proactively recruit and bring your friends, neighbors,relatives, businesses, anyone who is or could be a user, to @bsky.app? If Bluesky ends up with more users than the others, you destabilize musk, zuck, trump.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Berlin Hauptbahnhof
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Can Elon Musk be prosecuted for official acts he committed while president? This Supreme Court Justice says “no.”
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
This is how I would deal with the huge problem of Chinese companies knocking off American companies. Curious what everyone thinks
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
NYC
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Yoon Suk-yeol’s biggest mistake? Not going on Joe Rogan.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Looking forward to taking this train later this year with no expectations that it will run on schedule.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Some say fewer people on the planet is a good thing, but once population decline starts can it be stopped?
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Happy New Year! ("Party Hat" Jeff Koons)
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Ben Hodges @general-ben.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Hard to imagine a worse idea for a negotiated outcome than what Sam Charap has proposed. It is a surrender document for Ukraine to Russia and does nothing for the strategic interests of the US or our Allies, let alone Ukraine. The Chinese will certainly note our lack of resolve.
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 30/12/2024
That is only ONE OF but not the sole reason that law enforcement biffed it before J6, to be clear. They stepped on a lot of different rakes. Laid out some of them here: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Five Reasons the FBI Failed to Prepare for January 6
Trump did his part in inciting the insurrection, but the nation’s law-enforcement institutions shouldn’t escape scrutiny for their missteps.
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Karen Dalton Beninato @kbeninato.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Elon / Vivek MAGA backlash is in full swing. They should have remembered the old saying: Beware of geeks bearing grifts.
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Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
My 2024 reading list is now available. It has resources (not just books) from the classics of antiquity through to speculation about future conflict. You can see it here at Futura Doctrina. Merry Christmas! mickryan.substack.com/p/my-2024-re...
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My 2024 Reading List
A reading list with resources (not just books) from the classics of antiquity through to speculation about future conflict.
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Benjamin Tallis @bctallis.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
“When it comes to Europe's security it's always worth listening to Benjamin Tallis” Honoured to have Anton Hofreiter (Greens), one of Germany’s strongest advocates for Ukraine, European defence & renewal endorse my book Turning Point Get it here 👇 www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/aw/d...
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Ian Kearns @ianpkearns.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Terrific film about the very brave Gareth Jones, who brought the story of the #Holodomor (the famine imposed on Ukraine by Stalin’s Soviet Union), to the world, in 1933. He was killed by the Soviet secret police, it seems, in 1935, at the age of 29. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
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1933. Suspicious of Russia’s miraculous resurgence under Stalin, journalist Gareth Jones escapes Moscow’s decadence and discovers Ukraine’s desperation.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
can’t wait for Elon to change the country’s name to UXA
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Sarah Wood @sarahwood.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Elon Musk sounds like a cologne for incels. A mix of stale generic cheese puffs and piss left on the seat of a gas station urinal.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
They used to warn of the dangers of "regulatory capture" by big business. We seem to have blown right past that and gone straight to "entire-government capture" by just one rich guy. Much simpler this way.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
It's had to be fake, right? Elon Musk would never endorse Germany's neo-Nazi party, the AfD. Impossible. But he did endorse the AfD and then posted the thank you video from Alice Weidel, the head of AfD.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
That's not correct. Musk won't be inaugurated until January 20th.
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Illia Ponomarenko @ioponomarenko.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Good old Kyiv just tonight
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Prescient.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Agree 1000% The surest way to lose is not focus on where chances are best for meaningful victories.
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Side Altar - Lisbon
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Leveling down.
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
FT: "Just under half of Britain’s very highest paying jobs were located in London 30 years ago. Today that figure is almost 75 per cent. Is London the cause of the UK's Dutch disease? www.ft.com/content/eb02... via @ft
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The London problem is holding young Brits back
Americans and Europeans have a choice of places to prosper
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
A fool's English Breakfast (London)
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Kensington Gardens
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The view from the Bahnsteig (Berlin, Friedrichstraße)
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Zanello @zanello.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Look like there is room for reform, but not even close to a justification for murder.
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