Baņuta Rubess
@banuta.bsky.social
Writer, theatre artist, hyphenated, traveler
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Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
It's all about the oil. Also oil reserves discovered in nearby Guyana.
The worst part about the boat strikes - regardless of who ordered what and besides the ultimate tragedy of lives lost - is they’re forever a stain on the dignity of the United States military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
That's why the military has the right to refuse illegal orders. Illegal orders could ruin the military.
December 3, 2025 at 1:30 AM
It's all about the oil. Also oil reserves discovered in nearby Guyana.
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Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
December 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Trump dozes while Marco Rubio speaks to him directly next to him. Just insane optics.
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My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
Rep. Kat Cammarck: "Today, one in six people in the US is foreign born. That quite frankly is not sustainable to maintain a culture that we are known for here in the United States."
December 2, 2025 at 5:18 PM
My great-uncle was born in the Russian Empire and wrote God Bless America
You're not the only one making a bad decision. My latest: Eliot, Bernhard, Mitchell, Carter, Cayley. England, Austria, New York, The World, Toronto. Love and debt, death and destruction, obsession, John Maynard Keynes, love and cruelty.
open.substack.com/pub/bnrbooki...
#readers #writers #debt
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#readers #writers #debt
Big mistakes
don't try this at home
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:12 AM
You're not the only one making a bad decision. My latest: Eliot, Bernhard, Mitchell, Carter, Cayley. England, Austria, New York, The World, Toronto. Love and debt, death and destruction, obsession, John Maynard Keynes, love and cruelty.
open.substack.com/pub/bnrbooki...
#readers #writers #debt
open.substack.com/pub/bnrbooki...
#readers #writers #debt
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🤔🇺🇸🇪🇺 The US is no longer an ally of Europe, but a potential “opponent” or “threat,” — El País
Europe is too dependent on America in the military, technological and economic spheres, and this limits its autonomy. To change the situation, the EU has two ways:
Europe is too dependent on America in the military, technological and economic spheres, and this limits its autonomy. To change the situation, the EU has two ways:
November 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
🤔🇺🇸🇪🇺 The US is no longer an ally of Europe, but a potential “opponent” or “threat,” — El País
Europe is too dependent on America in the military, technological and economic spheres, and this limits its autonomy. To change the situation, the EU has two ways:
Europe is too dependent on America in the military, technological and economic spheres, and this limits its autonomy. To change the situation, the EU has two ways:
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Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
November 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Thou shalt not pretend that you're at war with drug traffickers while pardoning drug traffickers.
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Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
November 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.
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Also prompts the question: Would replacing the C Suite and the upper management doing that 57% with LLM driven chat bots actually cause any harm? And would the harm it causes be cheaper than the salaries?
A study by Dayforce shows 87% of executives use AI for work, compared to 57% of managers and just 27% of employees.
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
I think this explains the massive disconnect we see in how CEOs talk about AI versus everyone else. It also raises the question of how useful it truly is for frontline work?
Execs are embracing AI more than their employees are, new research suggests
Research from HR software company Dayforce suggests that executives are leaning into AI far more than their employees.
www.businessinsider.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Also prompts the question: Would replacing the C Suite and the upper management doing that 57% with LLM driven chat bots actually cause any harm? And would the harm it causes be cheaper than the salaries?
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The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
The US government is totally audience-captured by a tiny faction of internet fascists, and spends huge amounts of time trying to impress them, dedicating official communications channels to barely-concealed in-group references, and making horrific, murderous policy decisions to thrill this group
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"Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
The week Europe realised it stands alone against Russian expansionism
Washington’s Putin-appeasing plan for peace in Ukraine has failed, but many heard death knell sounded for European reliance on US protection
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"Kaja Kallas, the European Union foreign policy chief, asked her officials this week to dig up the number of times Russia had – in its various guises – invaded other states in the 20th and 21st centuries. The answer that came back was 19 states, on 33 occasions."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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Rejected cover sketch
November 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Rejected cover sketch
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Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
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Russia’s Gen Z Uprising Might Accomplish What the West Can’t
A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
Russia’s Gen Z Uprising Might Accomplish What the West Can’t
A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.
www.vanityfair.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Russia’s Gen Z Uprising Might Accomplish What the West Can’t
A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
A new generation of dissident artists is inspiring a wave of solidarity against Putin’s war—recalling the Soviet people who ultimately defeated the Soviet Union.
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
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This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This is the first Thanksgiving for Sophie & Colin Hortman without their parents, Minnesota state Rep. Melissa Hortman and Mark Hortman who were assassinated along with the family dog in an act of political murder. National guards troops were not deployed to the state in response.
Vērtīgs kopsavilkums.
Gatavojot ārvalstniekiem kontekstuālu juridisku ieskatu pretvardarbības konvencijas denonsēšanas mēģinājumā, man no debatēm Saeimas sēdē acīs krīt divi citāti, kas liek domāt par tālejošiem mērķiem transformēt ne tikai Latviju, bet visu Eiropu. Abi no šķietami populārākā spēka Latvijā - LPV.
November 27, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Vērtīgs kopsavilkums.
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It’s not that complicated, people.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It’s not that complicated, people.
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The Situation, Nov. 23, 2025: On Shame
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
November 24, 2025 at 12:03 AM
The Situation, Nov. 23, 2025: On Shame
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...
Six years ago you could still criticize.
I’ve been looking back at my old Russian newspaper reviews. They highlight how much Russia has changed - and signs of what lay ahead. #ReadingRussia
What the Russian papers used to write about: re-watching my old paper reviews.
YouTube video by Steve Rosenberg
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November 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Six years ago you could still criticize.
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Europe and Canada, stand firm with Ukraine.
November 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Europe and Canada, stand firm with Ukraine.
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I’ve said this every month for a year.
November 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I’ve said this every month for a year.