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🏳️‍🌈💙🇺🇦 Mariana Watts 🇺🇦💙🏳️‍🌈

@marianaunderthe.bsky.social

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Love reading, value knowledge and reason, stand for democracy, Married to wonderful @simonwatts.bsky.social. Multilingual, multicultural. 🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 EUropean 🇪🇺

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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 1d

The perfect Kamala vibe check for those who may need a little truth serum for motivation.

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UkraineWorld @ukraineworld.bsky.social · 1d

Recent updates as of 08.10 👇

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 1d

Make America Great Again…

GTF Out!

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 1d

One of Russia’s main supply routes from China has been shut down. From today, the border with Kazakhstan is fully stopped.. over 5,000 trucks are stuck, inspections are ongoing, and goods are being confiscated. Drones, EW gear, batteries, components, nothing is getting through.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 1d

Now is a good time to sign up for the best daily political news bulletin in the universe 👉 www.meidasplus.com/p/today-in-p...

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

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

Healthcare should be guaranteed as a human right #MedicareForAll @salaambhattiva.bsky.social

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.

This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 2d

Same.

#AlsoTiredOfWaitingForTheEPSTEIN_Files

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 2d

Why did China stop buying US soybeans, Kevin?

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Hassett: "China has stopped buying US soybeans. The silos are full and there are soybeans sitting on the ground w/tarps over them. That's unacceptable to POTUS. We're calling up our soybean customers around the world as part of our trade negotiations & we'll strong policies to support our farmers"

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d

Nearly half of Russian refineries have been hit, fuel exports are crashing, and the Kremlin can’t stop it. 60% of Ukraine’s deep strikes are carried out by FP-1 drones, and now Kyiv is fielding the FP-5 “Flamingo” cruise missile with a 3,000km range and a 1,150kg warhead.

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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 3d

Following a drone strike, Crimea’s largest fuel terminal in Feodosia has been burning for over four hours, with fuel tanks now exploding. Local sources report massive fires visible from several kilometers away.

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 3d

Chicago priest Father Michael Pfleger: "The state of emergency is in AMERICA, not Chicago. It's birthed from this president and his admin's reign of terror."

( ht: @mikenellis.bsky.social )

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Nicolas Tenzer @nicolastenzer.bsky.social · 4d

If you read only one thing today, read this letter written from prison, where she has been languishing for several months, by the awesome Georgian journalist Mzia Amaghobeli.
She dared to speak the truth to the Moscow's puppets.
EU leaders don't have her courage.
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From my prison cell in Georgia, I implore Europe not to abandon us to Russia | Mzia Amaglobeli

My fellow journalists are putting their lives in danger every day, but we refuse to surrender to a regime that threatens Europe’s own security, says imprisoned Georgian journalist Mzia Amaglobeli

www.theguardian.com

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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 4d

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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 5d

We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity.

We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous.

It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it.

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Now That Fascism is Here...

Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com

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