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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Only one thing could top the honor of speaking at the No Kings rally, and that's the honor of speaking at No Kings 2. See you October 18th!

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

NEW: The British politician, his Russian intelligence handler & a Kremlin plot against the US & Ukraine.

My new piece about Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage for @thenerve_news in which we ask:

Why, even now, is no-one asking questions?

t.co/BUTtpK9C4S

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1h

The man who bribed Gill - Oleh Voloshyn - is part of a much wider network of pro-Russian actors.

He worked with this guy, an FSB agent, who I've been fascinated by for years,

My investigation for @thenerve.news shows how Gill was a pawn in a Kremlin operation that spanned both Europe & US
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1h

Ukraine has received a Dutch Alkmaar-class minehunter, Navy commander Neizhpapa confirmed. Another is expected by the end of the year, with crew training already underway. The vessel is equipped with underwater drones, remote-controlled mine disposal systems, an automatic cannon, and machine guns.

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Meanwhile in Ukraine @meanwhileua.bsky.social · 2h

Crimea is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Donetsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Luhansk is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Mariupol is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Bakhmut is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Toretsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Pokrovsk is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Chasiv Yar is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Kherson is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Kharkiv is Ukraine 🇺🇦
Zaporizhzhia is Ukraine 🇺🇦

Is that clear enough?

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Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 2h

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 2h

👏➖A court in #Italy has handed the migrant rescue NGO community a symbolic but potentially consequential win by lifting a detention order on a rescue ship that had refused to divert to a distant port for disembarkation. The judge censured Italy's interior ministry for imposing an excessive penalty.

Migrant Rescue NGO Wins a Legal Battle Over Italian Port Calls

A court in Trapani, Italy has handed the migrant rescue NGO community a symbolic but potentially consequential win. In a ruling this week, the presid...

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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 4h

*this* is how to legally and humanly deal with suspected drug smuggling vessels

UK Defence Journal @ukdefencejournal.org.uk · 6h

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.
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Royal Marines sniper halts £35m drug boat in Gulf of Oman

Royal Marine snipers aboard a Wildcat fired a precision shot to stop a high-speed drugs boat in the Gulf of Oman, as HMS Lancaster seized £35 million worth of illegal narcotics.

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Sarah Kirchberger @sarahkirchberger.bsky.social · 3h

For context of what China’s Coast Guard is doing in the footage posted by @maks23.bsky.social in the linked 🧵below, see the “China’s Maritime Gray Zone Tactics Playbook” Database by Ray Powell & colleagues at Sealight ➡️ www.sealight.live/posts/introd...
This would be ‘ramming’ and ‘water cannoning’

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 4h

THE LEFT HOOK
with Wajahat Ali, Oct 11, 2025⤵️
The America First agenda is on sale to the highest foreign bidder. Qatar receives an air force facility in Idaho, Israel continues its genocide, Trump's son in law gets billions, and Putin laughs.

Trump Sells Out MAGA and His America First Agenda

The America First agenda is on sale to the highest foreign bidder. Qatar receives an air force facility in Idaho, Israel continues its genocide, Trump's son in law gets billions, and Putin laughs.

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 4h

Half of Barents Observer's journalists are now 'foreign agents'
Denis Zagore is the third journalist working for the small Russian-English online newspaper to be put on the notorious ‘foreign agent’ list, which the Kremlin uses to intimidate journalists and others into silence.

With Denis listed on Friday, half of Barents Observer's journalists are now 'foreign agents'

Denis Zagore is the third journalist working for the small Russian-English online newspaper to be put on the notorious ‘foreign agent’ list, which the Kremlin uses to intimidate journalists and others...

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 4h

Handys vom Tisch! - So verhält man sich im Restaurant

Auch in der gehobenen Gastronomie ist das Publikum vielfältiger geworden. Mitunter herrscht Unsicherheit: Welche Benimmregeln gelten hier?

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 4h

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Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 4h

The regime gets more deranged every day. A rightwing conspiracy theorist assassinated a Democratic lawmaker - which the attorney general presents as an example of leftwing political violence in order to justify an authoritarian crackdown on the opposition…

We’re in incredibly dangerous territory.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi: "We've been living through a horrific cycle of political violence in this country ... night after night antifa wrecks havoc on the streets of our cities. In Minnesota, a gunman murdered a state lawmaker and her husband."

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vesselspotter.bsky.social @vesselspotter.bsky.social · 4h

Another sanctioned #Shadowfleet #tanker #Deneb IMO 9301524 #IMO9301524 taking the scenic Irish route to #GulfOfFinland

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Christian Eymery @christianeymery.bsky.social · 6h

Heute vor 82 Jahren wurde Willi Graf, Mitglied der Weißen Rose, nach 8 Mo. Haft von den Nazis ermordet. Während seiner Haft schwieg er trotz fortwährender Verhöre durch die Gestapo. Er rettete damit vielen Gleichgesinnten das Leben.
In ehrenvollem Gedenken.

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 5h

Update:
Greek crude oil tanker AMALTHEA (IMO 9298650) now en route from Vysotsk/RU to Suez Canal, currently off Gibraltar.

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 5h

Update:
Crude oil tanker CELT (IMO 9299692) is now back to RU, moored in Primorsk. Acc. to MarineTraffic, she had departed on her current voyage from Port Said on 19/07/25.
Sanctions & Bans: EU, UK (OFSI), US (OFAC)
Flag: Oman (since 07/25)

Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 16d

Sanctioned* crude oil tanker CELT (IMO 9299692) left Ust-Luga/RU westbound on Sept 17, but barely made it to the main shipping route in the eastern Baltic Sea. At anchor at the same spot since days. Destination "Baltic for order".
*Sanctions & Bans: EU, UK (OFSI), US (OFAC)

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 6h

Sanctioned* EVERDINE (IMO 9382073) aka ANTARES I was anchored in the #BayofFinland since the beginning of Aug, but is now in Ust-Luga/RU. She recently changed flag from #Liberia to #Aruba, which is not recognized as maintaining international flag registries.
*US (OFAC), EU sanc. in prep (19th round)

Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 8d

The vessels mentioned⤵️:

Adonia
Apate
Apus
Aquilla II
Bolu
Briont
Ethera
Everdine
Leona
Manaslu
Myra
Nemrut
Evali / Omni
Samos
Tagor
Tassos

Additions to the 19th EU sanctions list suggested by Ukraine:

Anlan (Panama)
Ionian Sailor (Panama)
Oceanid (Panama)
New Pride (Liberia)

euobserver — EU news that matters @euobserver.com · 8d

The EU is laying legal grounds to halt at least 16 dodgy oil tankers if they go into the Baltic Sea, as drone threats add to oil-spill and cable-cutting risks from Russia's shadow fleet.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 8h

Trump's Justice Department is firing the people who prosecute terrorists, Jake Tapper argues. The president's politically motivated personnel decisions make "the United States and the world less safe":

Trump’s Purge of Terrorism Prosecutors

The politicization of the Justice Department is making Americans less safe.

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Kerstin @kerstin10785berlin.bsky.social · 6h

19th sanctions package: The EU is proposing to include 3 companies that have organized false flags in #SaintMaarten, #Aruba, and #Curaçao for at least 8 tankers.
All 3 states are not registered with the Paris MOU and, as such, are not recognized as maintaining international flag registries.

Report: EU to Include Issuers of False Flags in Shadow Fleet Sanctions

False flags and the companies supplying them are reported to be the latest target in the efforts to rein in the shadow fleet of tankers supporting Ru...

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Nerdic Defence @nerdicdefence.bsky.social · 7h

Swedish DM claims Russia behind GPS disturbances.

Krigsplacerad @krigsplacerad.bsky.social · 8h

Försvarsministern slår fast: Ryssland bakom gps-störningarna!

www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/fors...

Försvarsministern slår fast: Ryssland bakom gps-störningarna - P4 Kalmar

Det är Ryssland som ligger bakom gps-störningarna, som ambulanser i Kalmar län drabbats av, det säger Försvarsminister Pål Jonson.I kartsystemet kan det ...

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 7h

(🚨) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump No Longer Remembers That He Was President and Controlled the FBI on January 6, 2021, Confirming Americans' Worst Fears About His Advanced Dementia

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BeSeriousUSA 🐝 @beserioususa.bsky.social · 7h

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🇺🇦 Toshiba Fella @toshibafella.bsky.social · 7h

11.10.2025: LNG tanker Clean Ocean is currently delivering 162,000 m³ of LNG from Sabetta (Yamal LNG), shitnya, to Dunkirk, France 🇫🇷.
#BloodGas
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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🇺🇦 Toshiba Fella @toshibafella.bsky.social · 7h

12.10.2025: LNG tanker Nikolay Urvantsev is currently delivering 172,000 m³ of LNG from Sabetta (Yamal LNG), shitnya, to Montoir, France 🇫🇷.
#BloodGas
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

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