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Everything’s ungodly @diffusedwavelength.bsky.social · 1d

Came here to mention Nixon 👇 bsky.app/profile/diff...

Everything’s ungodly @diffusedwavelength.bsky.social · Mar 27

This was decades in the making. We’re just the unlucky ones who get to live through it. I mean, LBJ let Nixon get away with treason to protect his own political agenda. Nixon gave us Paul Manafort and Roger Stone, who gave us Trump.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 1d

OTD in 1906 Hannah Arendt was born.

"The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact & fiction and the distinction between true & false no longer exist".

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 1d

When all is said and done, trump knows deep down that he’s a POS.

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Elderest Millennial @ebwell.bsky.social · 1d

This fascist power display is coming to a neighborhood near you. The whole point is to normalize this. Eventually this will come to small town America.

StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 1d

Federal Secret Police and plainclothes ICE agents kidnap multiple people from a neighborhood in Chicago. They then deploy teargas and brutally beat neighbors who come out to express their concern.

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Early fall, Donetsk region: an M777 artillery crew cooks underground under threat of drones.

Field kitchens are lifelines: hot meals restore strength, boost morale, and bring a taste of home.

On the front line, food is as vital as ammunition.

Photo: Ground Forces of Ukraine

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 3d

So they’re sending the russian agent far away.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23d

Sergio Gor (actually Сергей Гороховский, born Tashkent, USSR, raised in Saratov, Russia, then Malta), described by an FBI agent who did a background check as having a curriculum vitae consistent in every respect with the practices of SVR in planting a sleeper agent.

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 3d

Good point!

Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 3d

“Attacking journalists is considered a grave violation of the laws and customs of war. Yet since the beginning of the full-scale invasion, at least 19 media workers have been killed by Russian forces while on assignment”

russia is a failed genocidal state.

The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 3d

Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, journalists have faced routine attacks by Moscow's forces — a threat now compounded by the spread of advanced drone technology that makes front-line reporting even more dangerous.

‘It flew straight at them’ – how Russian drone attack on Ukrainian and French journalists unfolded

Throughout Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, journalists have faced routine attacks by Moscow's forces — a threat now compounded by the spread of advanced drone technology that makes front-line...

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Business Ukraine magazine @businessukraine.bsky.social · 3d

Looks like Russia may be in even deeper trouble than many imagined. Putin’s actions in recent days speak volumes:

- apologising to Azerbaijan
- begging Cuba for soldiers
- importing fuel from China
- cancelling summit with Arab leaders

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 3d

So they’re sending the russian agent far away.
bsky.app/profile/robe...

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 23d

Sergio Gor (actually Сергей Гороховский, born Tashkent, USSR, raised in Saratov, Russia, then Malta), described by an FBI agent who did a background check as having a curriculum vitae consistent in every respect with the practices of SVR in planting a sleeper agent.

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

Good riddance!

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Michael O’Grady 🇨🇦 @mog7546.bsky.social · 4d

Those ugly windmills?

#MOG8

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

If only that were the case. Instead we all know she’s an opportunist positioning herself for 2028.

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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 4d

To summarize. If Trump wanted to send Ukraine Tomahawks, he could right now. If Trump wanted to sanction Russia, he could right now. If Trump
wanted to seriously bolster Ukrainian air defense against Russia drones/missiles, he could right now. But he’s not, so he doesn’t want to.

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

FAFO. Make them pay for their felon president’s supremely offensive threats to our sovereignty.

Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 4d

American spirit exports to #Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group

Distilled Spirits Council of the United States CEO urges 'lasting return to tariff-free trade'

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American spirit exports to Canada 'plummeted' 85%, says U.S. trade group | CBC News

American spirit exports to Canada "plummeted" 85 per cent in the second quarter of 2025, with the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States calling the situation "very troubling" as consumers in ...

www.cbc.ca

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

Trump is so easily manipulated. Such a child!

Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

Love watching russian kit blow up!

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 4d

russia targets civilians every day for close to 4 years. russia commits genocide every effing day! All russians are responsible. Make all russians pay.

Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 4d

At 10:39 a.m., Russian forces dropped a guided FAB-250 bomb on a church in Kostiantynivka where civilians were gathered.

2 men were killed and several others were injured. Police rescued a 2-year-old boy whose mother died last week.

A second strike followed minutes later.

Photo: National Police

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 4d

When Putin talks to a Russians he consistently says that they invade Ukraine to destroy the state and nation and correct the path of history. NATO and similar framings are just for the useful foreigners.

Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 14d

Pu spells out Ru's imperialist motivations for the war. He calls the conquest a long-held dream and historical destiny.

He beclowns those who insist NATO expansion caused the war. Let's see if anyone from the Mearsheimer fan club admits the claim has been falsified.
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Обращение по случаю Дня воссоединения ДНР, ЛНР, Запорожской и Херсонской областей с Россией

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 5d

In that case someone should nominate Gavin Newsom next time around.

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 6d

Our authoritarianism is run on clichés borrowed from the Eastern Europe of twenty years ago. Paid protestors, disloyal cities, evil Soros, vast conspiracies — it was all tiresome then and there, and now it’s pathetic.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Trump: "They're, like, insurrectionists, they're terrible people. But you really wonder why. Why are they doing it? What are they gaining? Other than they're obviously paid. They're paid a lot of money."

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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 7d

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
www.help99.co/patches/timo...

Timothy Snyder: Freedom is Action

Professor Timothy Snyder – a prominent voice of freedom, teams up with NAFO to fundraise for ten trucks and ten cargo buses with anti-drone jamming systems. These will transport and protect those who ...

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Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 7d

A direct result of trump insulting India.

Patricia 🇺🇦🇨🇦⚜️ @pbossy.bsky.social · 7d

Only naive or ignorant people ever thought that russia was open to ending the war or that the Alaska meeting would actually help toward that end.

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 8d

OTD in 2006 journalist & activist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead. Whoever is responsible for having her killed is still at large. And turns 73 today.

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