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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · Jul 22

Come Back Alive's Project 61 has unlocked on-the-go servicing, re-arming, and mission planning for the F-16 with minimal staff.

Nobody's pulled this off before.

CBA is indispensable to Ukraine. They deliver equipment, training, and logistics to back it all up.
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 20h

Semiotics is the study of signs and how you interpret them—whether it’s a protest sign, a symptom of a disease, or Pete Hegseth sending “LIVE WEAPONS OVER FREEWAY.”

I wrote about the many signs of No Kings.
www.mind-war.com/p/its-a-sign...

It’s a Sign! — The Semiotics of Firing Artillery Over Protests

How Pete Hegseth couldn’t make a better sign than No Kings.

www.mind-war.com

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 8h

NEWS: Trump lashes out at Colombian President Gustavo Petro after Petro accused the U.S. of killing a Colombian fisherman in a military strike in the Caribbean. Trump calls Petro “an illegal drug leader” and threatens Colombia.

Screenshot of a Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump). The post reads:

“President Gustavo Petro, of Colombia, is an illegal drug leader strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs, in big and small fields, all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia, by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it, despite large scale payments and subsidies from the USA that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. AS OF TODAY, THESE PAYMENTS, OR ANY OTHER FORM OF PAYMENT, OR SUBSIDIES, WILL NO LONGER BE MADE TO COLOMBIA. The purpose of this drug production is the sale of massive amounts of product into the United States, causing death, destruction, and havoc. Petro, a low rated and very unpopular leader, with a fresh mouth toward America, better close up these killing fields immediately, or the United States will close them up for him, and it won’t be done nicely. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President Donald J. Trump”

Below the post, it shows: 520 ReTruths and 1.76k Likes, dated 10/19/25, 6:58 AM.

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UNITED24 Media @united24media.com · 1d

Mariupol before and after Russia.

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 22h

My favorite sign today:

"They want to keep you doomscrolling."

Remember that. We gather news here, but the future belongs to people who show up.

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 22h

They've been raised this way. In that world, might makes right, lies are flexes, breaking one's word proves one has status to get away with it. That's why so much that the country looks like shit.

And that's why every decent person should not want their country to turn into anything like russia.

Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 1d

"A Prince, whose Character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the Ruler of a free People."

- USA's Declaration of Independence

Marching to make sure America keeps its promises to all its people and to freedom's allies worldwide is the most patriotic thing.

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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 1d

States Newsroom's @chatlanis.bsky.social interviewed @nyccomptroller.bsky.social @bradlander.bsky.social at the #NoKings protest in New York City.

Listen to his thoughts on what he believes lawmakers should be focusing on right now.

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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 1d

Thinking of this tonight. Worth watching to the end.

The Declaration of Independence | Journey to American Democracy

YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson

www.youtube.com

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 1d

Because this comes with a lot of nifty source citations:

The 27 Grievances of the Declaration of Independence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grievan...

Grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence - Wikipedia

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 1d

👉 "suspending our legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with Power to legislate for us in all Cases whatsoever"
👉 "abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us"

No Kings protests are definitively American. The Declaration makes it clear.

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 2d

👉 "altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments"
👉 "quartering large Bodies of Armed Troops among us
👉 "protecting them, by a mock trial, from Punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of the states"

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 2d

This is America's Declaration of Independence! These grievances sound familiar?

👉 "cutting off our Trade with all Parts of the World"
👉 "obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners"
👉 "abolishing our most valuable Laws"
👉 "excited domestic Insurrections amongst us"

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 2d

Він підпорядковується Малюку, чи Буданов підпорядковується йому? Блядь, звідки нам це знати!?

...У нього є банка Monobank, яка йому підпорядковується!

Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 2d

They're cranky since Ukraine hit the oil depot in Feodosia. These things happen, you know? 🤷‍♂️😆

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 2d

Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women
khpg.org/en/1608815183

Courageous protest and disturbing silence over terrifying Russian attack on Crimean Tatar women

International protest is vital with Russia clearly sending a message that nobody is safe from being seized in armed raids and imprisoned for decades without any crime

khpg.org

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 3d

⚡️Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities in massive morning attack.

Explosions have been reported in Kharkiv, Ilium, Kropyvnytskyi, and Poltava. Earlier, the Air Force issued a nationwide missile warning after Russia launched MiG-31 bombers.

Russian missiles pound Ukrainian cities in massive morning attack

Explosions have been reported in Kharkiv, Ilium, Kropyvnytskyi, and Poltava. Earlier, the Air Force issued a nationwide missile warning after Russia launched MiG-31 bombers.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Governor Newsom has issued a response on social media:

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 4d

All of this smacks of:
oligarchy 🤝 tsarism 🤝 neo-confederate white supremacy

It's an agreement between imperialists for how to carve up the world. Not enough people are standing up to it. I'm certain the majority in the US don't want this, but we need to remember how to make the gov't work for us.

Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 4d

Update: this bailout for Argentina is now $40 billion. But, it's a bailout particularly for Trump crony Rob Citrone, and with strings attached on the outcome of political elections in Argentina. They want mafia state rule locked in for the hemisphere.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Trump’s Argentina bailout enriches one well-connected US billionaire

A $20 billion US rescue package is a gift for a hedge fund manager with ties to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

www.motherjones.com

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 5d

Interesting. Very interesting. His tendency to stiff his associates had to have an upside eventually, I suppose.

Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 5d

I'm glad you're writing that book! ✊

Bad-names and short-form tweets needbooks to back them up. It's about recognizing how the systems work. I owe reading about colonization and cultural erasure on multiple continents for being able to quickly recognize RIA Novosti in 2022 as peak nazism.

Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 5d

russia is the 19th century colonial empire that didn't fall, but turned directly into a fascist state. Hitler and Stalin started WW2 as allies, and russia didn't face a Nuremberg.

russia as it is now will treat torture like a flex, until it is held accountable.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 5d

"Russia’s exit from the anti-torture convention is a stark declaration: the Russian state will act as it pleases and reject the oversight that might restrain its worst impulses," writes lawyer and serviceman Nestor Barchuk in his recent op-ed.

Russia has tortured Ukrainian POWs for years. Now they're even more vulnerable

On Sept. 29, 2025, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, symbolically making Russia the first country in history to aban...

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Dzyga's Paw @dzygaspaw.com · 6d

We delivered 3 Antenna amplifier boosters and 5 inverter generators to our heroes in the 80th Air Assault Brigade. The total cost of the delivered equipment is $6,258.

Thank you so much for your support!

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Daniel Asher in solidarity @abstractedaway.bsky.social · 6d

So is there a make-out sesh for Putin saying something about a Nobel, or are they fighting out front while something's going out the back? 🐸💥🐍

How loose cannon is this?!