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I post about politics, mostly on TikTok 🏛️🌹 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇫🇰
My focus is the EU, UK, US and Far Right politics (I'm not far right)
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Then members of the Trump Board of Peace are: Egypt, Argentina, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Belarus, Hungary, Indonesia, Israel, Jordan, Kosovo, Kuwait, Morocco, Pakistan, Paraguay, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam.

I also made a video explaining the BoP:
The Board of Peace: or the Plot to Replace the UN
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also the beatles and the rolling stones would absolutely not exist without the genius of lots of African-American people whose culture Rubio is insisting does not exist or matter. 1
Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.
February 15, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio giving a speech that is basically an extended version of the ethnonationalist Proud Boys oath: “I'm a proud Western chauvinist, I refuse to apologize for creating the modern world.”
The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should.

www.state.gov/releases/off...
February 15, 2026 at 2:16 AM
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I've read my grandfather's diaries, written in the 1960's, and I can assure you that his generation of conservatives did not see the Beatles as part of western civilization. The phrase "jungle rhythm" appeared several times.
Reading Marco Rubio’s speech about how “western civilization” is about embracing God, rejecting the foolish ideal of cosmopolitanism, and celebrating the genius of bands like The Beatles who were founded by the guy who wrote that song about a world with no countries or the concept of heaven & hell.
February 15, 2026 at 4:45 AM
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France correctly approaching the exposure of an international pedophile ring as a prosecutorial problem; not taking the American route of doing damage control for the elite.
February 15, 2026 at 4:51 AM
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Just gonna say there are plenty of insurgent, anti-establishment candidates WITHOUT Nazi tattoos that the New Republic could have featured instead of Platner.

You could ABSOLUTELY make the point that Ds are mad at the centrist leaders of the party WITHOUT helping rehabilitate this particular guy.
February 15, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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“The imminent return of trains to northern Ontario and the Gaspé Peninsula is great news. But we need to make sure it’s only the beginning of a long-lasting national passenger rail revival.”

@taras-grescoe.com makes the case for Canada’s trains.
Opinion: Canada’s passenger rail lines are getting revived after decades of vanishing service
Across North America, there is a grassroots clamouring for the return of railway lines that once provided a reliable and affordable alternative to cars and planes
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 15, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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Rep. Jason Crow on Rubio's Munich speech: "Not only did he say things I found disturbing, what was also important was what he did not say. He never mentioned Russia once. He never mentioned China once. There was historically revisionism."
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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Multiply that by dozens of marginalized communities and you see why Cuomo got crushed.

"Centrists" are depending on the money of billionaires and the lukewarm support of a bunch of "okay i guess" voters.

Candidates who defend EVERYBODY get PASSIONATE, DEDICATED volunteers who win elections.
February 14, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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One example, on an anecdotal basis: you know who I see disproportionately devoting HUNDREDS of hours to practical organizing with local groups to fight fascism?

Parents & relatives of trans kids.

Candidates like Newsom will NEVER get that kind of passionate, priceless work from them.
February 14, 2026 at 4:56 PM
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Masses of regular people and habitual non-voters don't trust "centrist" Democrats because they see them siding with billionaires and bigots all the time.

If you're a marginal voter who's not a bigot, why would you get excited about fighting for Newsom when he does podcasts with MAGA freaks?
February 14, 2026 at 4:52 PM
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Worth noting: literally any US born politician could get some of that Mamdani glow by siding with people over billionaires every single time.

Just love your neighbors more than money and fight for them relentlessly!

(And have years of coalition building and great communication skills, etc.)
If Mamdani was native born he would be the 2028 front runner right now, practicality be damned
February 14, 2026 at 4:49 PM
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Government is nothing more or less than people serving people. It's so refreshing to see a politician who gets that - and embraces it with joy.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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From the Chair of DA, Martha McDevitt-Pugh: “The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone. It retains the most extreme provisions of the original proposal and goes even further.”

www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

#SAVEAct
The SAVE America Act would disenfranchise Americans living abroad
The “SAVE America Act” is a rebranded version of the anti-voter SAVE Act, and its new name should not fool anyone.
www.democracydocket.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:30 PM
As a big fan of residential voting: INJECT THIS INTO ME
My most radical position is that everyone living in the United States is a citizen unless they themselves say otherwise.
February 14, 2026 at 4:41 PM
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My most radical position is that everyone living in the United States is a citizen unless they themselves say otherwise.
February 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A reminder that turning the military MAGA is a core priority for Trump 2. This is why he appointed Charlie Kirk and Bannon’s Daughter to the boards of the military academies.

Not having the officers is why Jan 6 didn’t work the first time.
February 14, 2026 at 4:39 PM
There is something so refreshing that Zohran just loves being Mayor and doing all the random bits and bobs of it.

Municipal work is the work of making people’s days better in ways big and small.
Everyone in the world comes to get married at the NYC Marriage Bureau. Last week, the Mayor stopped by to officiate a few of those ceremonies. 
 
Thank you to all the couples who shared their joy with us. Happy Valentine's Day, New York. 
 
 Watch the full video at Youtube.com/nycmayorsoffice
February 14, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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Every day it becomes clearer that capitulation (Columbia, Perkins Coie, etc) was the wrong strategy
This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence.

The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:
Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement
The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...
www.latimes.com
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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Billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigns as DP World CEO after being named in Epstein files.
Dubai CEO Resigns After Released Email Showed Epstein Thanking Him For ‘Torture Video’
Billionaire Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem resigns as DP World CEO after being named in Epstein files.
www.forbes.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM
I forget how cooked the American Far Left is sometimes.

NAFO Fash is such a profoundly stupid thing to call someone. Like of course I support Ukraine, there is a massive invasion by Russia just a 16 hour drive from my house and has been for years.

I drove further to visit my sister in uni.
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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New response to any criticism of my podcasts just dropped
February 14, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Fundamentally by responding to MAGA Republican moral panics by trying to emulate their policies they created the illusion the moral panic was real. A case of elite projection. Just like the entire anti-trans movement, especially around sports.
Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 3:57 PM
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Remarkable: Majority of working class voters oppose deportations of undocumented immigrants with jobs/no criminal records, per new Marquette data.

Remember how pundits said 2024 meant Dems must become restrictionist to win back working class? I challenge that here:

newrepublic.com/article/2059...
February 14, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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This NYT column by @polgreen.bsky.social is the truest thing I've ever seen about the REAL reason public trust in the media collapsed
February 14, 2026 at 2:31 PM
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It is purely anecdotal but AOC got like five hundred times the coverage for her appearance at Munich than Newsom has so far
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 PM