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Aram Shabanian

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Perhaps the real watch list was the friends we made along the way. Keyboard Inghimasi. Sic semper tyrannosaurus rex. --Dire Straits Appreciation Zone-- #Flowers4Qanon

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · Nov 14

Well shoot. I recognize a lot of names here, but many are brand new to me. Hello to all my new Bluesky followers! Thank you for placing your trust in my hands and choosing to not unfollow me already. I promise to maintain a steady fuel-air mixture of shitposts and tragedy-posts. Keeps it fresh.

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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 10h

World Naked Bike Ride organizers and other local groups are getting on bikes in the buff to protest the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in South Portland. The demonstration is planned for Sunday Oct 12 at 2:30 pm; now we know the starting spot is Oregon Convention Center Plaza.

Portland's Emergency World Naked Bike Ride Organizers Confirm Time and Location

Suzette Smith

www.portlandmercury.com

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 13h

EXCLUSIVE — DHS Acting General Counsel sent out a memo Wednesday to all Federal Protective Service staff (the sub-agency that guards federal buildings) letting officers know they could take any action necessary "in the vicinity" federal property to protect themselves.

The Handbasket reports:

DHS top lawyer says 'no legal barrier' to actions officers can take to defend federal property

In a memo obtained exclusively by The Handbasket, Federal Protective Service (FPS) officers were given free rein.

www.thehandbasket.co

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pony pony huckabuck @spindlypete.bsky.social · 1d

i think as soon as the sun goes down the protest frogs should don oversized sleeping gowns and tassle caps ala ebeneezer scrooge. no reason. just think it would look cute if they were sleepy frogs

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

*Frantically searching Vice News videos to find out what weird subculture this is*

Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Additional frogs have arrived at the ICE building, this is not a drill.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

Air raid sirens howling in a completely dark city is some kind of cinematic horror. It’s mornings like this when it’s remarkably hard to believe in any possible better future, I just feel like we’re alone and this is it

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

100%. And that nationalism was actually exacerbated greatly by the coalition war with Iraq in 1991. Russian politicians travelled to Iraq in like 1992 and came back fired up and madder at Yeltsin than before.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

The ensuing international response, led by the US, not only tied directly to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, but to the attacks on 9/11 as well. And the 2003 invasion of Iraq is what told Vladimir Putin that the rule of law was out the door as far as international relations went.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

To distract his army, and to stabilize his financial situation with some new territorial holdings (which would come with great amounts of buried energy wealth), Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

But when his now-massive army grew restless, and there was no longer an external foe to distract them, they began agitating against the economic poverty their leader had left them saddled with.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Even though that dictator, Saddam Hussein, ended his war with nothing more than the restoration of the pre-war border, he still spun it as a victory to his people.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Putin's army is larger than it was prewar. History provides a recent example of another strongman who, over a years-long struggle against a neighboring state, built one of the world's largest armies and provided it with plentiful combat experience.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

If you genuinely think that a ceasefire in Ukraine that comes before a full territorial restoration of Kyiv's lands and the collapse of the Russian military and government of Vladimir Putin will bring lasting peace, you're sorely mistaken.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds like DHS is staging some flights out of Hillsboro Airport rather than PDX

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Victoria Barlow @vickybarlow.bsky.social · 2d

My ex- neighbour had a sticker that said “Sadiq Khan is not my mayor “. And he was right because we lived in Kent.

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Enduring Freedom: Perseverance and Survival in the War on Terror

Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

They literally harassed my mother until she wanted to die because of the burden she felt she was placing on the family by needing a dialysis machine when we travelled, and I still hate the rest of DHS more.

Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

It's profoundly funny to me that in 2025 the least evil part of DHS is the Transportation Security Administration.

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Mac Fox @macfox.bsky.social · 2d

Anyway, if you saw this video today: I filmed it, and it was just as much fun as it looks

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

That's not the full documentary. The full thing is 54 minutes long.

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disc horse bot @horsedisc.bsky.social · 2d

i saw a tiktok about how learning to code in childhood is a sign of cyberbullying and i can't stop thinking about it

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Aram Shabanian @aramshabanian.bsky.social · 1d

Sorta weird that the PBS @frontlinepbs.bsky.social episode "Revolution in Cairo" from 2011 has been removed from every PBS affiliate website. It's still indexed, but the video is gone.

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