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🏳️‍🌈💙🇺🇦 Mariana Watts 🇺🇦💙🏳️‍🌈

@marianaunderthe.bsky.social

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Love reading, value knowledge and reason, stand for democracy, Married to wonderful @simonwatts.bsky.social. Multilingual, multicultural. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 EUropean 🇪🇺

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(((Tendar))) @tendar.bsky.social · 13h

After refusing to learn the Latvian language, Latvia has ordered 841 Russians to leave the country by October 13, 2025. They also did not pass security and background checks.

Around 30,000 Russian citizens are affected by the new rules. While most managed to comply

Source: Politico

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🐟 Northern Do Gooder @missfairhurst.bsky.social · 14h

We teach our kids British values:
Democracy.
Respect for the law.
Individual liberty.
Mutual respect.
Tolerance of other faiths.

If Farage doesn't like these fundamental values of his own country, maybe he should "go and live abroad" as he promised he'd do if Brexit was a disaster.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 12h

Russians are showing off their new expensive anti-drone electronic warfare system.

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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

They didn’t just NOT give Trump the Nobel Peace Prize, they wrote a citation that reads like an anti-Trump rallying cry.

(He’s gonna extra-tariff Norway now, isn’t he?)

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1d

Marge Greene yesterday, Loomer today.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

We've all heard that there is no free lunch.

Well, guess what?

There is no free 747 either.

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American Learns About Freedom In Germany!😂🇩🇪🇺🇸 #germany #american #german #usa

YouTube video by Zac XCVIII

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 3d

The perfect Kamala vibe check for those who may need a little truth serum for motivation.

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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 3d

Recent updates as of 08.10 👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 3d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d

One of Russia’s main supply routes from China has been shut down. From today, the border with Kazakhstan is fully stopped.. over 5,000 trucks are stuck, inspections are ongoing, and goods are being confiscated. Drones, EW gear, batteries, components, nothing is getting through.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 3d

Now is a good time to sign up for the best daily political news bulletin in the universe 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 5d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 5d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 5d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 5d

Why did China stop buying US soybeans, Kevin?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5d

Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 5d

Nearly half of Russian refineries have been hit, fuel exports are crashing, and the Kremlin can’t stop it. 60% of Ukraine’s deep strikes are carried out by FP-1 drones, and now Kyiv is fielding the FP-5 “Flamingo” cruise missile with a 3,000km range and a 1,150kg warhead.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 5d

Following a drone strike, Crimea’s largest fuel terminal in Feodosia has been burning for over four hours, with fuel tanks now exploding. Local sources report massive fires visible from several kilometers away.

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