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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 6h

Where do these people come from? God

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 12h

Since September, talk has been growing about whether the U.S. might finally supply Ukraine with the long-requested Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Experts say these long-range weapons, if approved, would allow Ukraine to strike military targets deep inside Russia.

Why Tomahawks for Ukraine would be a 'real headache for Russia'

Since September, talk has been growing about whether the U.S. might finally supply Ukraine with the long-requested Tomahawk cruise missiles — and on Oct. 6, Donald Trump said he had "kind of made the ...

kyivindependent.com

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 17h

That's better than Romania at least!

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18h

Just do it for God's sake

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 20h

Russia has struck the factory of Ukraine’s largest hummus producer, forcing the company to suspend deliveries to stores, according to an official statement.

Don't ask me what the logic behind it was. It's just as stupid as everything else they do.

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18h

Sorry that's pathetic. You don't need permission to do the right thing

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18h

I could share this with my friends on Instagram and Facebook but they still wouldn't do shit for Ukraine 😭

UNITED24 @u24.gov.ua · 18h

The mother of this baby, Tetyana Sakiian, was killed in a russian strike on a Kyiv apartment on Sept 7 — she suffered burns to 90% of her body and fought for life for 2 weeks. Her baby, Nazar, miraculously survived emergency delivery and brain surgery.

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Toomas Hendrik Ilves @ilvestoomas.bsky.social · 18h

kyivinsider.com/channeling-i...

Channeling its Nazi past, Austria aims to lick Putin’s boots for cash

Austria is once again standing apart from Europe — this time not out of neutrality, but out of greed. In a move that has stunned diplomats across the European Union, Vienna has threatened to block the...

kyivinsider.com

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 18h

Oh right I forgot about that 🙏 thank you!

Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 19h

We need the same for authors

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 21h

They've already ripped off authors and photographers and artists the bastards

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 21h

They really are that pink! And they are large, the size of a hummingbird

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 1d

How cheap can you be?

JustBec @pickedthebear.bsky.social · 1d

@altnps.bsky.social @alt-irs.altgov.info @altssa.altgov.info @altspaceforce.altgov.info @altusda.altgov.info

This needs to be amplified. They are planning to not pay furloughed workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance

An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

www.govexec.com

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Hendrik Klaassens #FBPE #FBR #NAFO @aurorablogspot.bsky.social · 1d

Please share this list of reliable sources about the protests in Georgia, where the majority of the population fights the brutal oppression by the government of "Russian Dream" - a party that follows the Russian playbook and uses the Russian threat to maintain authoritarian power.

#GeorgiaProtests

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 1d

Here's a stock photo of a pretty Pink-spotted Hawkmoth that just showed up in my yard. Beautiful moth lifer!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Turning the military on citizens.

Attempting to rig elections.

Toying with the idea of declaring martial law.

Attacking political enemies and punishing those who speak out.

If this were happening in another country, what would you call it?

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Love this. Superbly done. Please send this far and wide. @donwinslow.bsky.social

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 1d

Rest in peace, the original penguin

Niels de Winter @nielsjdewinter.bsky.social · 1d

Such a sad story, but good that it can be told in full in museums now.
doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Fate of the last female great auk is finally solved

DNA and historical sleuthing have traced the extinct bird’s remains to a museum in Ohio

doi.org

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Human☮ @4humanunity.bsky.social · 2d

You want to fix the ACA? Easy.

Strip Congress of their diamond public health plans and pay them the median American income: $41,400 a year.

No insider trading, no perks, and dock every vacation day after seven.

Watch how fast they fix healthcare then.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 1d

Vadym meets his son for the first time -the boy who was born during a massive Russian attack that killed his mom&badly injured dad

On September 7,during a Russian strike on #Kyiv, Vadym&Tetiana Sakiian were injured.Tetiana was pregnant,doctors had to perform an emergency delivery of her son, Nazar.

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 2d

I appreciate that very much. Honestly the tariff power belongs to Congress. It's absurd the way Trump is using it

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Birding Fella 🇺🇸🇺🇦🐦 @birdingfella.bsky.social · 2d

Congress had so badly failed us. Correction the idiot Republicans in Congress who gave away their powers for nothing

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Jake Broe @realjakebroe.bsky.social · 2d

Why is Donald Trump's CIA trying to overthrow the government of Georgia?

Hundreds of thousands of Georgians are protesting their pro-Russian government and I have been told for years this only happens because the CIA is behind every revolution in Russia's backyard.

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Frode #Fella @frodehommedal.bsky.social · 2d

For the sake of humanity, russia must be defeated. They are almost as much if a cancer in the Middle East and Africa as they are in Europe.

Olena Halushka @halushka.bsky.social · 2d

For the sake of lasting peace in Europe, russia must be defeated.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

CHICAGO (AP) — Storming an apartment complex by helicopter as families slept. Deploying chemical agents near a public school. Handcuffing a Chicago City Council member at a hospital.

apnews.com/article/chic...

Using helicopters and chemical agents, immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

apnews.com

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