Mike Eckel
@mikeeckel.bsky.social
Opponent of Quiet Desperation. Contains Multitudes. In Search Of Meanness Or Sublimity. Former Moscow Correspondent. Vladivostok Fanboy. Chaotic Good. @RFERL
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Mike Eckel
@mikeeckel.bsky.social
· Jan 13
Vladimir Gusinsky was once one of Russia’s most influential oligarchs. In recent years, he’s been tangled in lawsuits, debt disputes, and legal fights. He’s also drawn scrutiny from the FBI for, among other things, his ties to former FBI special agent Charles McGonigal. 🧵👇
Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov says the European "counter-proposal" peace plan is "not constructive and not acceptable to Russia."
November 24, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Kremlin foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov says the European "counter-proposal" peace plan is "not constructive and not acceptable to Russia."
Ukrainian rescuers say they've recovered 3 more bodies -- 2 of them children -- from the rubble of the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile earlier this week. The death toll now stands at 31.
November 21, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Ukrainian rescuers say they've recovered 3 more bodies -- 2 of them children -- from the rubble of the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile earlier this week. The death toll now stands at 31.
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Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
November 20, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Q: What did the president mean when he called a reporter "piggy"?
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
LEAVITT: Look, the president is very frank & honest with everyone in this room. You'll all seen it yourself. You've all experienced it yourselves. And I think it's one of the many reasons the American people reelected this president
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"[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."
"[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."
DOJ, FBI probing top Trump administration officials over investigations of president's adversaries: Sources
The DOJ is probing the conduct of at least two top administration officials for possibly jeopardizing the criminal investigations of Trump's political foes, sources say.
abcnews.go.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Wow
"[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."
"[Ed] Martin is also believed to have shared sensitive grand jury information about the James case with at least one unauthorized individual as well as worked with another person from outside the federal government to examine potential evidence in the Schiff and James probes."
Zelenskiy's office issues a statement confirming it has received the U.S.-drafted peace plan: Zelenskiy "expects to discuss with President Trump in the coming days the available diplomatic opportunities and the main points that are needed for peace."
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Zelenskiy's office issues a statement confirming it has received the U.S.-drafted peace plan: Zelenskiy "expects to discuss with President Trump in the coming days the available diplomatic opportunities and the main points that are needed for peace."
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Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
November 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.
Intense video of the moment when a Russian drone hit a Ukrainian van heading to evacuate civilians near Lyman. By
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy. The driver was injured.
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy. The driver was injured.
November 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Intense video of the moment when a Russian drone hit a Ukrainian van heading to evacuate civilians near Lyman. By
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy. The driver was injured.
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy. The driver was injured.
At least 22 people are still missing in the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile, per @ZelenskyyUa. Death toll now stands at 26, and seems likely will climb (much) higher.
November 20, 2025 at 8:16 AM
At least 22 people are still missing in the Ternopil apartment building that was hit by a Russian cruise missile, per @ZelenskyyUa. Death toll now stands at 26, and seems likely will climb (much) higher.
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll (who arrived in Kyiv yesterday along w/ a handful of top US officers) will meet today with Zelenskiy -- and Zelenskiy's team will find out how set in concrete the 28-point Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan really is. (source: t.me/Denys_Smyhal)
November 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll (who arrived in Kyiv yesterday along w/ a handful of top US officers) will meet today with Zelenskiy -- and Zelenskiy's team will find out how set in concrete the 28-point Witkoff/Dmitriev peace plan really is. (source: t.me/Denys_Smyhal)
Another Russian robot on display today, with more success (and with Kremlin endorsement, it would seem).
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Another Russian robot on display today, with more success (and with Kremlin endorsement, it would seem).
Death toll from Russian strikes on Ternopil now stands at 25, per Ukrainian emergency services; more 70 people wounded, including 15 children.
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Ukrainian rescuers searching for bodies in the rubble of a Ternopil apartment building hit by Russian air attacks. Death toll in the city is up to 19, per emergency authorities, dozens wounded.
November 19, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Death toll from Russian strikes on Ternopil now stands at 25, per Ukrainian emergency services; more 70 people wounded, including 15 children.
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Ukrainian rescuers searching for bodies in the rubble of a Ternopil apartment building hit by Russian air attacks. Death toll in the city is up to 19, per emergency authorities, dozens wounded.
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Ukrainian rescuers searching for bodies in the rubble of a Ternopil apartment building hit by Russian air attacks. Death toll in the city is up to 19, per emergency authorities, dozens wounded.
Death toll from Russian overnight strikes on Ternopil is now up to 16, per Ukrainian police, dozens wounded.
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At least 9 killed in early Russian air strikes on western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, emergency officials say. Zelenskiy says Russia launched more than 470 drones, 48 cruise/ballistic missiles, in the attack; Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk also targeted.
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November 19, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Death toll from Russian overnight strikes on Ternopil is now up to 16, per Ukrainian police, dozens wounded.
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NEW: A majority of voters, 55%, said they would rather elect a Democratic candidate if the midterms were held today, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-voters-favor-democrats-by-double-digits-if-midterms-were-today
www.pbs.org
November 19, 2025 at 10:10 AM
NEW: A majority of voters, 55%, said they would rather elect a Democratic candidate if the midterms were held today, according to the latest PBS News/NPR/Marist poll. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/poll-voters-favor-democrats-by-double-digits-if-midterms-were-today
At least 9 killed in early Russian air strikes on western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, emergency officials say. Zelenskiy says Russia launched more than 470 drones, 48 cruise/ballistic missiles, in the attack; Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk also targeted.
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November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
At least 9 killed in early Russian air strikes on western Ukrainian city of Ternopil, emergency officials say. Zelenskiy says Russia launched more than 470 drones, 48 cruise/ballistic missiles, in the attack; Kharkiv, Ivano-Frankivsk also targeted.
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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
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I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination
Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.
www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...
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JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
JUST IN: A federal appeals court panel (with 2/3 Trump appointees) calls his lawsuit against CNN — over use of the term Big Lie — "meritless" and affirms the decision by a lower court to throw it out. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
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Cloudflare ia having some issues, taking down lots of websites and services, including X (yay) and Bellingcat (boo).
November 18, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Cloudflare ia having some issues, taking down lots of websites and services, including X (yay) and Bellingcat (boo).
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NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
NEW: The White House intervened in a DHS investigation.
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
The target? Sex offender Andrew Tate.
The WH person? Paul “Nazi Streak” Ingrassia.
Who was previously also Tate’s lawyer.
A banger from @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Shapiro
www.propublica.org/article/andr...
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Print dictionaries: the original large language models
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November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Print dictionaries: the original large language models
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Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
November 17, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Like it or not this technology is here to stay and if you don’t use it you’ll fall behind in your industry
Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv now 6, as emergency workers pull more bodies from rubble.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Death toll from Russian strikes on Kyiv now 6, as emergency workers pull more bodies from rubble.
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Kyiv death toll from Russian strikes up to 4, per local authorities; more than 30 wounded. Video by
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy
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November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Kyiv death toll from Russian strikes up to 4, per local authorities; more than 30 wounded. Video by
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy
@radiosvoboda.org.web.brid.gy
Major Russian strikes overnight on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. At least 3 killed in Kyiv, per Mayor Klitshcko; more than 2 dozen wounded. More than 430 drones and 18 missiles fired by Russia, per Zelenskiy.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Major Russian strikes overnight on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities. At least 3 killed in Kyiv, per Mayor Klitshcko; more than 2 dozen wounded. More than 430 drones and 18 missiles fired by Russia, per Zelenskiy.
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"Graft was the glue with which the Kremlin had held [Ukraine] in check since the 1991 Soviet collapse, infiltrated its security services, manipulated its leaders and gutted its military."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Why Do Ukrainians Fight? A $100 Million Graft Case Shows Why
There are at least two legitimate responses to allegations that a group of highly placed Ukrainian officials have skimmed $100 million from contracts to repair and protect their nation’s critical ener...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
"Graft was the glue with which the Kremlin had held [Ukraine] in check since the 1991 Soviet collapse, infiltrated its security services, manipulated its leaders and gutted its military."
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...