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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 4h

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen substantially, even as Russia’s aggression has not.

That hard fact, not any “change of tone” or “expression of frustration” or “consideration of sending more advanced equipment” is what matters most on the ground. Moscow surely knows that, and sees encouragement.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 4h

⚡️Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says.

Military aid to Ukraine has fallen dramatically in recent months, a report by the Kiel Institute published on Oct. 14 has found.

Military aid to Ukraine declines sharply in recent months, report says

In July and August, total military aid to Ukraine fell 43% lower than the amount received in the first half of the year, a report by the Kiel Institute finds.

kyivindependent.com

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Max’s Dad @djwyszynski.bsky.social · 5h

And China is leading it. We could do a Solar Moonshot but we’re too busy destroying our way of life.

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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 9h

Toldya, 2A folks.

They’ll let you keep your arms until they gotten rid of enough POC, 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 & liberals.

Then they’ll come for yours.
No authoritarian regime can tolerate an armed population.

TiggsCupcake @tiggsisacupcake.bsky.social · 15h

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 7h

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 7h

I want to thank ICE for handling any of the questions raised by my “This is a Coup” t-shirt

Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 7h

Dodgers/Mariners to alienate three quarters of country

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Meatball Rob @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 10h

Just a few years ago I was more on the libertarian side of things like gambling and drugs. If people want to harm themselves, so be it! Adults can make their own decisions, right?

I can freely admit I was wrong. We really should be regulating this shit way more than we currently do

There's Now a Casino in Everyone's Pocket. For Some Young Men, It's a Near-Fatal Gamble

The rise of mobile sports-bet operators like FanDuel and DraftKings has coincided with a spike in problem gambling among young men in America.

www.rollingstone.com

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House Agriculture Committee Democrats @houseagdems.bsky.social · 3d

Treasury finalized the $20B Argentina deal yesterday — exactly as proposed.

They heard farm country's concerns about bailing out a competitor stealing our soybean markets.

Then they doubled down anyway. No changes. No second thoughts.

Your feedback was noted. Just ignored.

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

The whole system neefs “continuing story” sections in front of news but it is surpassingly hard to get news editors to try new things

I suppose they wouldn’t be in newspaper/mags if they could

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

Is it not possible to hire a news crew to do this stuff for them on the regular

I suppose spending on reelection polls would be money better spent lol 😢

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

You couldn’t find anyone to produce this

Terrible script no motivation but most of all it would not play as believable

Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 18h

In Portland, an ambulance was summoned to the ICE office to treat an injured protester (not clear how he was injured). But when the patient was loaded inside, ICE officers refused to let the ambulance leave and threatened to shoot the ambulance driver: www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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Waldo Jaquith, but Spooky @waldo.net · 1d

The Supreme Court is so illegitimate that cases are often about fictional matters with plaintiffs who have been harmed in no way, now to the point where they are not aware that they are plaintiffs in a Supreme Court case.

Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · 1d

“One of them, Albert ‘Skip’ Caissie Jr., 78, said in a phone interview that he wasn’t aware that he was involved in a Supreme Court case.”

Who Are the Louisiana Voters Behind a Major Supreme Court Challenge?

www.nytimes.com

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

Queue up Taps for our republic

We couldn’t keep it so it seems

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

My surprised face is broken

All i have is this aghast mask

Must the show still go on?

When does the fat dumb guy sing?

Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

Felt very of the moment to see three Athletic articles the next morning about how everyone but Boone & Cashman are guilty

Like the narrative Boone & Cashman can only ever be failed never the source of the failure

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 9h

Beenbag is my cat’s Tempurpedic

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 13h

While some of is screamed bloody murder

That was the last of me reading Brian Buetler

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that pretty much the entire American press corps missed that scene in Almost Famous when Lester Bangs/PS Hoffman tells protagonist: “Never forget: You are not their friend.”

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 1d

It’s telling that most of @theatlantic.com’s writers don’t have accounts here: We are not the audience for their act.

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 14h

Apparently @indeed.com has no customer service just leave message at beep email

will just not send your applications & not tell you except with hidden note in your profile

So they think you’re fake & week of job apps didn’t go thru and i wasnt notified?

Can we go back to the old way now? PLZ

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 20h

Police officers who publicly declare that they’ll quit if a mayoral candidate they dislike wins the election are (1) usually bluffing—sure buddy, toss away that paycheck and pension—and (2) exactly the sort of cops cities would be better off without, ones who don’t see themselves as public servants.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 20h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 1d

Calling Ezra!

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 1d

Feel like this was pretty prescient for almost 40 yrs old only screens replaced TV

Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, the - Television, The Drug Of The Nation [full official video]

YouTube video by Sonny Beech

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Compassion Reigns Supreme @crs1.bsky.social · 1d

Weird that pretty much the entire American press corps missed that scene in Almost Famous when Lester Bangs/PS Hoffman tells protagonist: “Never forget: You are not their friend.”

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