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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine

@svecrumba.bsky.social

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Blissfully married, dog nut, Latvian, bibliophile. Opinions, based on facts; typos, mine. Stand with Ukraine; Putin is a terrorist. Vote blue💙 #resist, never Trump. NO DM's unless I know you or OK; will block. VA girl now🐦 Latvians.com

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · Dec 23

If I don't follow you back, it's most likely because:

No to few posts
No bio; tell us something about you

And of course, if you're MAGA, that's a big no😁

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 7m

In "let’s laugh at the sad loser who didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize" @jefftiedrich.bsky.social gives us those laughs with his unique coverage of Trump not winning the Peace prize, and the White House's snarky reaction.
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let’s laugh at the sad loser who didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize

and let’s congratulate the woman who did.

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 13m

MIT rejects Trump administration deal for priority federal funding, the first university to publicly turn down the offer.
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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 16m

Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups
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Stephen Miller Has ‘Central Role’ Probing Liberal Groups

INSIDE: Letitia James ... Zia Faruqui ... Paul Ingrassia

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 16m

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 262
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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 262

October 8, 2025

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 43m

This is too funny.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 1h

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 45m

Class A prick. What he did to the families of Sandy Hook victims is unforgivable.

Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 1h

apnews.com/article/main... Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine Gov. Mills will announce challenge to Sen. Collins in key 2026 Senate contest, AP sources say

Maine’s two-term Democratic Gov. Janet Mills will run for the U.S. Senate seat held by veteran Republican Sen. Susan Collins next year.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 2h

PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying”

(#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 1h

Boo hoo; conspiracy theorist, liar, and all around creep Alex Jones doesn't want his Info Wars to be sold to The Onion, so is asking SCOTUS to put on pause his having to pay $1.5 billion from his Sandy Hook case.
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InfoWars' Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to block $1.4bn defamation ruling

He petitioned the court to put the judgment on pause and consider his appeal as he works to keep Infowars from being sold to The Onion.

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

THIS!! 👇👇

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 1h

I wish more news organizations would address the issue this way.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 2h

Ha! I love this headline in TIME.

Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 1h

Dead on.

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 1h

Cartoon by @claytoonz.bsky.social.

#ICE

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 1h

Oh, at least ten!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Independent C-SPAN caller to Rep. Mark Alford: "You're taking credit for $50b that you just gave to the hospital industry. That's after you took away $150b. You don't take credit for just giving back a little bit of money after taking away so much. So quit lying. It just makes you look horrible."

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 15h

All to cover up the Epstein files.

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 2h

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“I Don’t Want to Be Here Anymore”: They Tried to Self-Deport, Then Got Stranded in Trump’s America

Venezuelan immigrants signed up for a Trump-promoted app called CBP Home, which promised a safe and easy way to leave the country, and prepared to leave on their given departure dates. Those dates hav...

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 2h

María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize. Poor Trump is going to be so sad.😁
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Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won the Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel committee praised her as a key unifying figure in the opposition, advocating for free elections and...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 9h

Post this everywhere‼️
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RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

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Andrew Weissmann @weissmann.substack.com · 8h

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Trump and The Nobel Peace Prize: relentlessly and needlessly calling up the military domestically is not absolved by assisting peace abroad.

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 10h

We can all use a cute bear timeline cleanse :-)

Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 12h

The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.😎🤣💙☺️

Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 12h

There's no way I will believe Trump passes a cognitive test.

Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 14h

You know who takes a cognitive test? People whose family members suspect their loved one is suffering from dementia. If he kept getting “perfect” scores…they wouldn’t keep administering them. My take? He blew the first one he ever took. Now, they’re tracking the decline. I’d bet my hot coffee on it.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

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Kristi Noem Secretly Took a Cut of Political Donations

A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem’s personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirem...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 13h

Koh: This is an AG who is taking orders via dm and is trying to save her job because Trump’s upset about what's happening with the Epstein files. That's what this is all about.

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 13h

Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261
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Trump Tyranny Tracker: Day 261

October 7, 2025

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Silvija (still) stands with Ukraine @svecrumba.bsky.social · 13h

Burying heads in the sand accomplishes nothing.

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 13h

Sometimes we need a moment, but if you tune out completely, they win. Fascism doesn’t need your support, just your silence.