Romeo Kokriatski
@vagrantjourno.bsky.social
Ukrainian news editor, podcaster, and journalist
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'Kash Patel, ICE raids, and State-sanctioned murder' with SK Media
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Your newspapers are lying to you. This week, we discuss the lies, lies, and dirty lies present in a WaPo piece on Kash Patel, among others. Give us a listen
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The majority of the public believes lots of insane things, and at different points in history it’s been significantly worse. If our standard is “If most people believe it, it must be true, and bare minimum we must act like it’s true,” it locks us into many delusions and some outright horrors
Well… considering our entire culture and governmental framework is based on public opinion that seems to be the operating condition. Correct? Starts to go down to arguments we are rehashing today in some ways…
I will say it’s exceedingly clear you’ll never be a successful politician. Good thing.
I will say it’s exceedingly clear you’ll never be a successful politician. Good thing.
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The majority of the public believes lots of insane things, and at different points in history it’s been significantly worse. If our standard is “If most people believe it, it must be true, and bare minimum we must act like it’s true,” it locks us into many delusions and some outright horrors
Whoever staged and is recording this year's Macy's parade (looking at you AP) SO FUCKING BAD HOLY SHIT
November 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Whoever staged and is recording this year's Macy's parade (looking at you AP) SO FUCKING BAD HOLY SHIT
Auto text generation is worthless and has hit a quality cap, autoimage gen has eradicated the concept of photographic truth, and autovideogen is likely going to be the fascist's best friend.
Guys, I'm thinking that generative AI is bad for human civilization on the whole tbh
Guys, I'm thinking that generative AI is bad for human civilization on the whole tbh
November 27, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Auto text generation is worthless and has hit a quality cap, autoimage gen has eradicated the concept of photographic truth, and autovideogen is likely going to be the fascist's best friend.
Guys, I'm thinking that generative AI is bad for human civilization on the whole tbh
Guys, I'm thinking that generative AI is bad for human civilization on the whole tbh
Hey y'all, happy Thanksgiving.
November 27, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Hey y'all, happy Thanksgiving.
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Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Wow. BBC journalists are now not even allowed to report the censored line from my Reith Lecture, that Trump is “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
You can hear how carefully they’re forced to tiptoe around it. So chilling...
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I actually beg journalists to stop acting like Trump is an intelligent human being instead of an old man with a clearly barely functioning brain.
November 27, 2025 at 10:48 AM
I actually beg journalists to stop acting like Trump is an intelligent human being instead of an old man with a clearly barely functioning brain.
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Btw guys the transcript of the Witkoff phone call really is much worse than you think and I do think you should share it with literally everyone you know
November 27, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Btw guys the transcript of the Witkoff phone call really is much worse than you think and I do think you should share it with literally everyone you know
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yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
November 27, 2025 at 3:15 AM
yep. also really can't overstate how much nuzzi is very much the product of an environment that rewards amoral ambition and frowns on people who sincerely believe anything
The biggest developments in Ukraine, at your fingertips! Read: english.nv.ua/nation/putin...
Putin convinced Trump to withhold Tomahawks; Witkoff in hot water over phone leaks
In continuing fallout from Bloomberg’s reporting
on exactly how U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff weaved Russian policy goals
into an ostensibly U.S. peace plan for Ukraine, it looks like Russian dicta...
english.nv.ua
November 27, 2025 at 9:05 AM
The biggest developments in Ukraine, at your fingertips! Read: english.nv.ua/nation/putin...
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A #friendsgiving message from Alden Nowlan
November 26, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A #friendsgiving message from Alden Nowlan
Why are all my moots pretty and smart while their detractors are illiterate ogres whose base impulses fully rule their actions? Should look into this
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Why are all my moots pretty and smart while their detractors are illiterate ogres whose base impulses fully rule their actions? Should look into this
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If only there were precedent for Russia targeting undersea cables. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Or carrying out ops in Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Or brazenly assassinating people on foreign soil.
Or violating the boarders of peaceful countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or carrying out ops in Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Or brazenly assassinating people on foreign soil.
Or violating the boarders of peaceful countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Ireland is a ‘playground’ for Russian intelligence, says former army chief
Comment follows claim Kremlin recruited member of parliament to damage UK-Irish relations during Brexit talks
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:11 AM
If only there were precedent for Russia targeting undersea cables. www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Or carrying out ops in Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Or brazenly assassinating people on foreign soil.
Or violating the boarders of peaceful countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Or carrying out ops in Ireland www.theguardian.com/world/2024/o...
Or brazenly assassinating people on foreign soil.
Or violating the boarders of peaceful countries. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
"A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts."
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
![REVERE, Mass. —
A woman with a family connection to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt has been arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Revere, Massachusetts.
The woman, Bruna Ferreira, has an 11-year-old son with Michael Leavitt, Karoline Leavitt's brother.
Ferreira migrated with her family to the United States from Brazil as a child and is currently in custody at an ICE facility in southern Louisiana.
Michael Leavitt released a statement, saying that his "only concern has always been the safety, well-being, and privacy of [his] son."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x4qyokjtdzgl7gmqhsw4ajqj/bafkreiacyzixchgacpjse7wyra342opgjsvdxzqdrkxq55zzqah65zyeae@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This article heavily implies that ICE is being used in a custody dispute to help Karoline Leavitt's brother get his son and have the mother locked up in ICE detention
Mara Jade standalone film to launch a new Star Wars trilogy, but we just ignore everything Disney has made and only do strict EU
If you were a despotic president, what movie would you force Hollywood to make? I want to see Quentin's Star Trek movie or maybe Kill Bill Vol 3.
November 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Mara Jade standalone film to launch a new Star Wars trilogy, but we just ignore everything Disney has made and only do strict EU
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As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
November 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.
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alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
Over many interviews, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Michael Scherer about how he plans to remake America’s public-health system. Can he lead the scientific establishment he’s spent much of his life crusading against?
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November 24, 2025 at 4:39 PM
alas, there's a lot of sanewashing in this piece - even as it expresses frustration in RFK, it treats him as a legitimate, good faith actor in a way that's just not true.
I've said this before, but any legal system that forces children to make life-changing decisions is one that has lost any moral or ethical valance, and should be ignored and mocked.
8/ So why are children being left to languish in federal shelters?
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
Advocates for immigrant kids believe it's to pressure them to self-deport. Last week, lawyers obtained a document the government provides to kids in the shelter system:
November 25, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I've said this before, but any legal system that forces children to make life-changing decisions is one that has lost any moral or ethical valance, and should be ignored and mocked.
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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The amount of internet users that have been revealed to be the product of botfarms and astroturfing campaigns is depressing but not surprising, but also I find this weirdly freeing?
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
The amount of internet users that have been revealed to be the product of botfarms and astroturfing campaigns is depressing but not surprising, but also I find this weirdly freeing?
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
There's no point in engaging with anyone who isn't here in good faith anyway, but that it's likely a bot defangs them
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First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
First Secretary of Defense you could defeat by painting a tunnel on the side of a boulder.
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These convicted violent criminals are currently in the running for top ten most proactive members of the Russian opposition
Nine Russian “volunteers” killed their escort after deciding not to go fight in Ukraine. Taken straight from prison to the front under contract, they murdered the convoy driver en route and are now on the run in Leningrad region. Russian police are actively searching the outskirts of Kudrovo.
November 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
These convicted violent criminals are currently in the running for top ten most proactive members of the Russian opposition
