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International security.News and info fan.West Coast born.🇫🇷Giants baseball.At least I’ve been in NATO headquarters. Artworks. Ukraine. I swear in person but not in print. StephHead.
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BlueSky is in its infancy and we're here for it. 🦋
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Merry Christmas, New York City 🎄🗽

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December 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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One person who has benefited from AquaBounty coming to Pioneer, Ohio is the town’s mayor.

His company bought land for $600K before the deal was publicly announced, then flipped that property to AquaBounty for ~$2.1M.

(Published Feb.)
The One That Got Away: This Small Town Is Left in Limbo After Betting Big on GMO Salmon
AquaBounty GMO salmon was going to be the future of fish — and the future for one Ohio village that offered incentives to make a new facility happen. But years after breaking ground, there are no fanc...
www.propublica.org
December 25, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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You don’t reform this. You prosecute it. And you raze the agency to the ground.
An ICE agent in Minneapolis pinned a pregnant woman’s face into the snow and knelt on her body.

She was also dragged across the pavement by her wrist.
December 17, 2025 at 4:40 AM
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Every major news organization should be writing about how insane this is and how, if he takes this country to war (tomorrow?), it is the act of a madman.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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This is a photo from the Vanity Fair article. Notice how they have to arrange it so Stephen Miller is on the end, so it isn’t obvious that there is no reflection of him on the mirrored table.🧛
December 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: “Let’s look at Russia’s history since 1991. From then until today, Russia has changed: it has been poor and rich, and it has gone from oligarchy to dictatorship. But one thing has remained the same, it keeps bringing war and hatred.”
December 16, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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🇪🇺🇺🇦 Kallas: We have to remember that countries want to be in NATO because they don't want Russia to attack or invade them.

And that's why, you know, Sweden and Finland joined NATO. That's why the Baltic states joined NATO, to have this "security umbrella".
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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After Marcelo Gomes da Silva was arrested by ICE on his way to volleyball practice in Milford, he made a promise to the men he shared a cell with: He’d be a voice for immigrants unfairly detained.

He's one of Boston Globe Magazine’s Bostonians of the Year.
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December 12, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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ICYMI: Kristi Noem caught lying under oath to Congress about deporting veterans.
December 11, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Why is this guy so desperately begging for immunity ? It's almost as if he knows he's committing atrocious crimes.
Reuters: Trump wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate him and his top officials, a Trump official said, threatening new US sanctions on the court if it did not.
#ProudBlue #Pinks #TrumpIsUnfitForOffice
December 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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This week, Senate Republicans gave LIFETIME judicial appointments to more anti-abortion fanatics who support fetal personhood—the dangerous idea that a fetus should have the same rights as a pregnant woman.

They're hoping you don't notice. I won’t let this fly under the radar.
December 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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"We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
~ Elie Wiesel
December 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
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🇯🇵🇪🇺🇺🇸 Japan has rejected EU proposal to support a plan to use frozen Russian state assets for the benefit of Ukraine. Tokyo does not want to go against the US position and with this step destroyed Brussels' hopes for global support for the initiative — Politico.
December 9, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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That is quite the statement
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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❗️Decision to unfreeze Russia's frozen assets within the current or next week, — The Times

Sources of the publication believe that "the deal is very close". The issue was discussed yesterday in London at a meeting of the leaders of the UK, France, Germany and Ukraine.
December 9, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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December 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I’m a U.S. citizen, please help me!" she cries. "Why are you doing this to me?"

Woman was dragged out of car, tackled to ground & handcuffed.
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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NEW: “I am closer to yes than I am no.” Rep Jasmine Crockett

I would absolutely support her. But if Crockett jumps in, someone has to step out. Dems can’t afford three powerhouse candidates running against each other in a state like Texas, let alone four. There aren’t enough Democratic resources.
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.
November 30, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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He’s a pedophile who always puts himself first.

Burn in hell, bitch.
November 28, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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HE IS ABOUT TO GO TO WAR WITH VENEZUELA FOR IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA AND NOW HE PARDONS A DRUG KINGPIN CONVICTED IN 2024 OF IMPORTING COCAINE TO AMERICA

WHAT THE ACTUAL F*CK
Trump plans to pardon former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez
Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was convicted for drug trafficking and weapons charges and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
www.npr.org
November 29, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Why does the Trump White House keep trying to protect men who abuse women?
November 18, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Trump is ranting barely coherently to McDonald's franchise owners: "The one pilot said, 'skedaddle!' And that thing just turned on its side -- pppph. And it's so unbelievable. And that knocked out Iran nuclear capability."
November 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM