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🪩 Brutus ⚔️

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Sci & Spec Fi Ukraine is a nation by the sea. 🦩 Tech, Peace and Culture. CoD: Washington D.C.

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🪩 Brutus ⚔️ @culturesurfer.bsky.social · 10d

DCminx 🕊🌍🔥🌱 @dcminx.bsky.social · 10d

🚨 "It is especially important that the sanctions hit Russia's energy trade & entire infrastructure of the Russian tanker fleet painfully. This is further evidence that the Baltic Sea & other seas should be closed to Russian tankers, at least for the shadow fleet"
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Russia using 'shadow fleet' tankers to launch drones towards European cities, Zelensky says

Russia's so-called "shadow fleet" of oil tankers are being used to "launch and control" Russian drones over European cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sept. 28, citing intelligence reports.

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Leah Greenberg ❌👑 @leahgreenberg.bsky.social · 3h

It's the classic authoritarian playbook: smear your opponents with baseless lies so that you can try to shut down peaceful, organized dissent.

We won't be intimidated. We won't be cowed. We won't bow down.

No Kings.

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Bob @denbelblack.bsky.social · 4h

Zelensky: If Putin wants to seize eastern Ukraine, he has to bury million of his soldiers

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The Ukrainian Review @theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 5h

🤬 The Russian commander who gave the order to shoot three civilians in Kupyansk has been identified

This is Andrey Syrotyuk, commander of the 121st Regiment of the 68th Motorized Rifle Division of the 6th Combined Arms Army of the Russian Federation.

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🪩 Brutus ⚔️ @culturesurfer.bsky.social · 4h

Gute Idee:

dertim21.bsky.social @dertim21.bsky.social · 5h

Es ist übrigens ein Gerücht, dass "Fordern und Fördern" künftig soweit geht, dass man den Jobwunsch "Korrupter und menschenverachtender Politiker" äußern kann und das Jobcenter dann versuchen muss, eine (Praktikums-)Stelle bei CDU, CSU oder SPD zu organisieren! 🙂🤷‍♂️

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4h

A Russian Shahed drone was shot down at close range by a Ukrainian helicopter. Rare and daring engagement.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 9h

Anyone else remember that old SNL sketch in which Jon Lovitz is playing Michael Dukakis and Dana Carvey is playing George H.W. Bush and they're debating and in mid-debate Dukakis turns to the camera and says, "I can't believe I'm losing to this guy"?

Yeah, *that*

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mweinstock.bsky.social @mweinstock.bsky.social · 4h

Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich weighs in on Trump’s Herculean effort to inflate the danger of Antifa as a pretext to send troops into Democratic-run cities.

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The Kyiv Independent @kyivindependent.com · 10h

⚡️ Russian strikes reportedly destroy over half of Ukraine's gas output before winter.

Ukraine's gas network, which met the country's needs before the full-scale war, has been repeatedly hit by missiles and drones, endangering millions of households that depend on gas for heating in winter.

Russian strikes reportedly destroy over half of Ukraine's gas output before winter

Ukraine's gas network, which met the country's needs before the full-scale war, has been repeatedly hit by missiles and drones, endangering millions of households that depend on gas for heating in win...

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

So the people causing the shutdown are getting paid. The people keeping the country running don’t.

And Speaker Mike Johnson won’t let the House come back to work. So basically they’re on a paid vacation while Americans miss paychecks.

Did I get that right?

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🪩 Brutus ⚔️ @culturesurfer.bsky.social · 4h

dirty liars

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RELEASE EPSTEIN FILES Fella 🇺🇦 🇺🇸📎 @thehillshaveayes.bsky.social · 4h

Lmao

Sue Stone @knittingknots.bsky.social · 5h

Donald Trump and White House Busted Using Florida DHS Palm Tree Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Trump and White House Busted Using Florida Palm Tree Footage to Show ‘Chaos’ in Chicago

The president posted the deceptive high-octane ICE raid video to his own social media account.

www.thedailybeast.com

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🪩 Brutus ⚔️ @culturesurfer.bsky.social · 4h

this is how you AD small drones:

NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 4h

Ukraine’s 413th “RAID” UAV Regiment is actively detecting, identifying, and striking Russian drones and assets. In September alone, the unit destroyed 5 UAVs, 14 drone launch points, 10 artillery systems, 5 armored vehicles, 2 MLRS/air defense units, 55 personnel, and 250 shelters.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5h

They did this with this dude more than twice too

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 4h

Trump on a coin? When Julius Caesar tried that, the Roman republic crumbled soon after

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Trump on a coin? When Julius Caesar tried that, the Roman republic crumbled soon after

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Tim White @twmcltd.bsky.social · 9h

Day 1324 of Russia's three-day plan to capture Kyiv.

1,321 days behind schedule, Moscow's imperialist army is still stuck in the mud of Donetsk oblast, a region they first invaded 11.5 years ago.

#EATP for master-strategist Putin.
Here (without fail) is Thursday's daily thread

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22h

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 13h

TPUSA is still struggling with the MAGA conspiracy ecosystem they helped fuel

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 5h

ICE getting tailed like it’s a heist movie. Chicago is turning the tables.

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Melissa @melissa1968.bsky.social · 2d

This is what Miller deems domestic terrorism. I deem it comedy.

Protesters in Portland with donuts and fishing poles and calling it “Ice Fishing”.

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onefinekitty.bsky.social @onefinekitty.bsky.social · 14h

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Federal agents taunted Chicago woman to ‘do something’ before shooting her, attorney claims — Guardian US

Officers say woman was in chase ending in ramming border patrol vehicle during Trump’s immigration crackdown

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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14h

Russia took less than 1% of Ukraine since Nov 2023. Only cost them at least half a million soldiers.

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 14h

Here it goes. Air raid alert in Kharkiv. 4:43 in the morning.
Good freaking morning, I guess, and fuck russia!

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EV Curve Futurist @evcurvefuturist.com · 1d

China’s no longer just exporting goods — it’s exporting energy independence. From panels, EVs & batteries to full cleantech ecosystems, it’s overtaking the U.S. fossil model built on extraction—ashes to dust. The Petro Age is ending; the Electron Age has begun.⚡ #EnergyTransition #EV #Lithium #Solar

China's Cleantech Exports Overtake US Fossil Fuel Energy Dominance with Lasting Implications - CleanTechnica

Recent reports out of thinktank Ember on China’s record-breaking $20 Billion in August clean technology exports and the underlying data have stimulated discussion online. Electrek focused on the EV ex...

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Force Ghost™ @fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · 1d

I'm nobody's prophet.

But I did see this coming.

Force Ghost™ @fieldmontgomery.bsky.social · Nov 12

My legal life followed my Army life, but I can tell you that every JAG officer in every service needs to get themselves fully up to speed on UoF, lawful vs unlawful orders, and the effect of federalizing Guard units.

And they better watch this clip:
youtu.be/kC0C2icZ28g?...

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Anthony's Spinning Circles here too! @circlesspinning.bsky.social · 15h

👊🏾👊🏾

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