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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦

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I'm a teacher, writer, consultant, and academic researcher. Doctorate in International Relations from the University of Kent. I mute creeps and weirdos.

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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦 @collinfisherphd.bsky.social · Mar 28

What most people don't know is that Denmark has been a staunch supporter of the US and our ill-advised military adventures after 9/11. It's almost comically absurd the administration is treating them like this. You'd think someone in the military would raise that point...

Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto.bsky.social · Mar 28

Me: Can you envision a scenario where U.S. and Danish forces somehow come face to face over Greenland?

Rasmus Jarlov,
Chmn of Denmark’s Defense Cmte:
“I certainly hope not, but that's up to the American government. We're not going to back down. We're not going to hand over Greenland regardless.”

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 2d

Whether it’s Joe Biden attending weekly mass or Donald Trump’s ICE agents shooting a priest in the face with a pepper ball, presidents of both sides have directly engaged with the Catholic faith.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 12h

NEW: Russian forces launched a large, combined drone and missile strike against Ukraine on the night of October 9 to 10, primarily targeting energy infrastructure and civilian targets.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 10, 2025: isw.pub/UkrWar101025 (1/5)

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 7h

Imagine being this lame

The Telegraph saying that an activist dancing dressed as a frog is a terrorist (in coward quotes), and for some reason they’ve added that the person is non-binary

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Michael Ian Black @michaelianblack.bsky.social · 10h

Laura Ingraham literally wrote a book called "Shut Up and Sing" castigating performers to their mouths shut about politics. Some people might say it's a stretch to call Kid Rock a musician, but I disagree!

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14h

Kid Rock: Do you know what is stupid… these chicks running around on campuses with blue hair, five nose rings.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 11h

I don't know if there's such a thing as a "world cyberwar" but I think we are in one? and the US is determined to lose it. 🧵

Today the admin is mass-firing the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the nation's cybersecurity protection across all levels of government.

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Pacific Northwest Seismic Network @pnsn1.bsky.social · 9h

You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment

Seismogram showing ground motion at T-Mobile Park for game-winning single by Seattle Mariner Jorge Polanco, JP Crawford scores!

MLB poster for PostSEAson 2025 that reads Seis the Moment with a small seismogram between the Seis and the The. Has website for PNSN seismograms of the game. mariners.pnsn.org

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Gillian Brockell @gbrockell.bsky.social · 17h

NEW: The private jet that flew 10 shackled migrants to an Eswatini prison last weekend is owned by Israeli-American billionaires with close ties to Trump.

It’s oligarchs all the way down.

My first for @zeteo.com:

zeteo.com/p/this-famil...

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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 11h

“I’ve got no problem with gruel.” Under orders from Trump, officials seek to make the life sentences of 37 convicted killers more like a living hell. The men were spared the death penalty by Biden.

Biden Spared 37 Killers From Execution. Trump Ordered Up a Lifetime of Torment.

Even America’s harshest federal prison, where inmates spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement, was too good, one official said. “I’ve got no problem with gruel.”

on.wsj.com

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Mike Stabile @mikestabile.bsky.social · 17h

JFC. Ron DeHaas, founder of the Christian antiporn app Covenant Eyes, has stepped down from NCOSE after his 38-year old son was charged with sexual abuse of a child.

Covenant Eyes is the app used by House Speaker Mike Johnson and his son to monitor each other's internet behavior.

Covenant Eyes Cofounder Helps Post Bond for Adult Stepson, Who Is Charged With Felony Child Sex Abuse

In August, Thomas Wideman, an adult stepson of Covenant Eyes cofounder Ron DeHaas, was arrested during a CSAM sting operation.

churchleaders.com

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Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social · 1d

Matt Taibbi's co-host, Walter Kirn, compares Democrats who oppose Trump's immigration crackdowns to Southern politicians who opposed school integration in the 1960s, and equates the National Guard protecting the Little Rock 9 to the National Guard abducting immigrants now.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 11h

Terrorism. There’s no other word to describe what we’re witnessing.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 12h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 12h

Inventive People of Portland Dressing as Animals:

Please don't dress as dogs. Your life will not be safe with psychopath Kristi Noem on the rooftops.

Jason❌ @gizmosspace.bsky.social · 22h

This is awesome.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 21h

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 12h

Seen on LinkedIn: “Staff at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention across multiple programs being fired tonight, including all current (civilian) Epidemic Intelligence Service, and several people working on the Ebola response.”

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 12h

It’s fun and not at all disturbing that the fascists and tech oligarchs who control this country are all absolutely marinated and cooked in brain rotting conspiracy theories and pseudo-ideological drivel.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 12h

You would think maybe one media outlet could not only assert that this isn't true, but also make a big, multi-day story out of the fact the U.S. president believes a perfectly fine, major American city is a burning, dystopian hellscape

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Jay W. Farley @nerdiestviking.bsky.social · 9d

It was something like two or three weeks ago I had to explain to an adult convert TradCath brother of a friend that Catholics don't believe in the Rapture.

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arr @arr.bsky.social · 15d

One of the smartest things Costco does is assigning every shopper a “Costco Enemy,”who stays in front of them putting carts in stupid places and blocking the aisle and going really slowly. This gives the shopper 30% more browsing time and creates a memorable, provocative experience

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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦 @collinfisherphd.bsky.social · 12h

I just saw Jon Gabrus in a Wayfair commercial. I love it when my favorite improv people get a nice little payday.

Collin Fisher 🇺🇦 @collinfisherphd.bsky.social · 12h

Occidental Petroleum CEO Vicki Hollub hosted a Trump fundraiser in 2024, gave $1M to Trump's inaugration, and openly praised the "Gulf of America" name change. Then, Trump cancelled a "woke" $500M Energy Dept. grant to Oxy's Corpus Christi, Tex. "King Ranch" carbon capture project.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 22h

1/ Russian Railways is reported to have faked a Ukrainian attack to cover up its own culpability for a fatal derailment in the Leningrad region in September 2025, caused when a locomotive was ordered to be driven at over twice the permitted line speed. ⬇️

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Andrew Kurjata @akurjata.ca · 14h

A 66 year old residential school survivor was invited to be the first to start tearing down the remains of his former residential school near Tofino, B.C. this week. He says he was scared to return but ultimately it helped heal his soul www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Survivors hope for healing as former residential school near Tofino is demolished | CBC News

The last remaining buildings of the Christie Residential School on Meares Island near Tofino, B.C., were demolished in a ceremony Thursday, attended by survivors who said they hoped the destruction of...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 3d

☄️ 🔭 #3I/ATLAS comet update!

On 3 October, our ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) turned its eyes towards interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS as it passed close to Mars.

Read more: esa.int/Science_Expl...

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Collin Fisher 🇺🇦 @collinfisherphd.bsky.social · 13h

President of the roof cacti?