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Matt Short 💙

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · 1d

Follow Marika and #freegeorgia 🇬🇪

Marika Mikiashvili 🇬🇪🇺🇦🇪🇺 @marikamikiashvili.bsky.social · 1d

Friends, I want to apologize for not having posted here during these crucial days for Georgia, which saw rapidly worsening repressions.

I had serious trouble accessing Bluesky :(

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · 1d

Bastards!

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · 8d

Can we get #freegeorgia trending?

Like and share if you support a free Georgia 🇬🇪

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · 8d

Can we get #freegeorgia trending?

Like and share if you support a free Georgia 🇬🇪

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 17

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 16

These were some yummy ruZZian TACOs mmmmhh

Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 15

ruSSian TACOs will be served today! Nothing meaningful will come out of today's meeting between the psychopath murderer and the traitor.

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 15

ruSSian TACOs will be served today! Nothing meaningful will come out of today's meeting between the psychopath murderer and the traitor.

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 14

New hats now available #MARA

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Aug 11

We are witnessing the beginning of the American Kristallnacht

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Kristallnacht - Wikipedia

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · Aug 2

💥Russian Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery attacked by drones early this morning. 1000km from the frontline.

Oil refining capacity at Novokuibyshevsk is 7.9 million tons.

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🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦 @specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · Aug 2

Another POV of the morning’s attack on the Russian Novokuibyshevsk oil refinery

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jul 20

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 22

Aged like milk

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 22

JD Vance claims the US is not at war with Iran. What are we supposed to call it then? Maybe "Special Military Operation"?

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 23

Don't forget about Ukraine

I Went To The Towns Russia Tried To Erase

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 23

Did Nethanyahu say thank you?

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 23

Did Nethanyahu say thank you?

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 23

Don't forget about Ukraine

I Went To The Towns Russia Tried To Erase

YouTube video by JeremyXplores

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 22

JD Vance claims the US is not at war with Iran. What are we supposed to call it then? Maybe "Special Military Operation"?

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 22

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Matt Short 💙 @mattshort.bsky.social · Jun 22

US Iran Military Power Comparison 2025

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · Jun 22

"Trump has spent the last five months vowing that the Ukraine-Russia war would never have happened if he was president, vowing that the Israel-Gaza war would never have happened if he was president. And yet the reality is that not only has he not avoided war, but he’s plunged us into a new one."