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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 1d

Tykva Harbuzivna says hi.

Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 1d

Dear @en.rfi.fr journalists, I think it's safe to skip the "alleged" in a story about how HE'S REPORTING TO PRISON. Come on.

Christian Thiels @christianthiels.bsky.social · 1d

"Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will begin serving a five-year prison sentence on 21 October for criminal conspiracy over alleged illegal funding of his 2007 election campaign by Libya, French media reported on Monday."
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Sarkozy to begin five-year jail term on 21 October in Paris prison

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy will begin serving a five-year prison sentence on 21 October for criminal conspiracy over alleged illegal funding of his 2007 election campaign by Libya, French...

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 2d

The folks in frog costumes seem to be learning from the Orange Alternative in 1980s Poland, whose founder once said: "Can you treat a police officer seriously when he is asking you the question: 'Why did you participate in an illegal meeting of dwarfs?'"
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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 4d

First they came for the insufferable.

Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 4d

MSNBC is reporting that the DOJ is seeking an indictment of John Bolton.

I can’t stand that guy, and still: THIS IS SO WRONG.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 6d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 10d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 12d

/2 I mean what Chappelle is doing is like inviting Jared Fogle on your podcast to talk about parents being too strict

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Shaun Pinner @olddogua.bsky.social · 14d

We have mums in Ukraine running Air Defence, some decorated by Zelensky himself. A few probably wouldn’t pass Hegseth’s ‘standards.’ Yet his army would be shredded by 19-year-old girls here who can drop Shaheds with the skill of a PlayStation controller. He’s stuck in the past.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 15d

I don't like court packing, it's not my preferred thing to do, I wouldn't do it for just about anything else, and I'd take other ways to get to the same result, but their presidential immunity diktat must be firmly established as anti-canon, null and void, bogus from the day it was issued.

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 16d

Monday Night Rehabilitation!

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Josiah Hawthorne @josiahhawthorne.bsky.social · 18d

This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I am against the shepherds and will hold them accountable for my flock. I will remove them from tending the flock so that the shepherds can no longer feed themselves. I will rescue my flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 21d

It's a force component, relax!

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 21d

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 21d

"If someone is suspected of a crime, officers should be allowed to question them and leave them with a small and reasonable kiss on the mouth."

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 23d

I get just as much out of the relationship as she does, or more. She's Tykva Harbuzivna on Instagram if you want to see more of her ;))

Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 24d

This is Tykva. She's originally from Kyiv. Friends of mine moved to the UK after the full-scale invasion and couldn't take her, so she lives with me in Warsaw now. Photo from a daily haircare session, with one of her three brushes (quite the diva).

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Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 26d

Ah yes, who can forget Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus when God demanded “Saul, Saul, why don’t you persecute black people”?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Fox & Friends on Charlie Kirk: "This guy is a modern day St Paul. He was a missionary, he's an evangelist, he's a hero. He's one I think that knows what Jesus meant when he said 'the truth will set you free.'"

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 26d

that's why you bring the US flag to protests, folks

Bebo, Chicago Rat Czar 🐀 @bebopott.bsky.social · 26d

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

Curtis Evans, of Evanston, a military veteran USMC intelligence during President Reagan’s era, carries a U.S. Flag through gas deployed by federal officers as they clear protesters from the entrance of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Broadview on Sept. 19, 2025. (Stacey Wescott/Chicago Tribune)

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 26d

And congratulations to Lyudmyla Yanukovych on her new gig writing talking points for Trump.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 26d

MacCALLUM: Your critics say this crackdown is a crackdown on free speech.

TRUMP: I watch your show and I watch others and I see people saying things -- they're crazy. These people are crazed lunatics. Maybe they're drugged out.

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 28d

"The smalll space rock" @secondmentions.bsky.social

CNN @cnn.com · 28d

Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out near our planet unseen by telescopes for about 60 years, according to new research: https://cnn.it/4mfKOfr

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · 28d

Not a great time to be an English teacher in Seoul with an iffy visa situation.

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 28d

This is quickly mushrooming into a real international incident

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Chinasaur Jr. @chinasaurjr.bsky.social · Sep 13

Try to live your life in such a way that when you die people don't have to be threatened and bullied into pretending they're sad about it.

Old White Nepo Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social · Sep 12

"Don't mock or you'll be deported" is the mark of a weak, decadent nation, a petty and insecure failure unworthy of respect.

Olivia Messer @oliviamesser.bsky.social · Sep 11

pretty wild that it so quickly became normalized that immigrants don’t have even basic free speech rights

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · Sep 11

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Sep 10

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported.

Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad.

We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

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Nathaniel Espino @espino.bsky.social · Sep 10

Wait, and Lithuania? Wow.

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