Marty Yorton
@martyyorton.bsky.social
Parent, Veteran, Coach; avid possessor of soap boxes
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The Holodomor was a series of artificial famines by the soviet regime in 1921–1923, 1932–1933, and 1946–1947. The most devastating (1932–1933) was a genocide of Ukrainians, taking millions of lives.
Remember those who died of hunger on their own land.
Remember those responsible for it.
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Remember those who died of hunger on their own land.
Remember those responsible for it.
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Putin would like to finish wiping the Ukrainian identity from the face of the earth. Absolute evil
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December 1, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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🚨NEW AD LAUNCH🚨
It’s my birthday, so we’re launching our final ad for the campaign called “Shake Up.”
We’ve got 8 days to make history and to shake up Washington! Donate today to keep our ad on air through the election!
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It’s my birthday, so we’re launching our final ad for the campaign called “Shake Up.”
We’ve got 8 days to make history and to shake up Washington! Donate today to keep our ad on air through the election!
secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
November 24, 2025 at 1:17 PM
🚨NEW AD LAUNCH🚨
It’s my birthday, so we’re launching our final ad for the campaign called “Shake Up.”
We’ve got 8 days to make history and to shake up Washington! Donate today to keep our ad on air through the election!
secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
It’s my birthday, so we’re launching our final ad for the campaign called “Shake Up.”
We’ve got 8 days to make history and to shake up Washington! Donate today to keep our ad on air through the election!
secure.actblue.com/donate/aftyn...
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WATCH: “What makes you say the 2nd strike was lawful? Did Hegseth say everyone should be killed? Does pardoning the drug trafficking Honduran ex-president undercut the message?”
Leavitt now admits a follow-up bombing took place to kill the survivors, insists it was “lawful”
Leavitt now admits a follow-up bombing took place to kill the survivors, insists it was “lawful”
December 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
WATCH: “What makes you say the 2nd strike was lawful? Did Hegseth say everyone should be killed? Does pardoning the drug trafficking Honduran ex-president undercut the message?”
Leavitt now admits a follow-up bombing took place to kill the survivors, insists it was “lawful”
Leavitt now admits a follow-up bombing took place to kill the survivors, insists it was “lawful”
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WATCH: @MarshaBlackburn knows the #TN7 race is close, and hilariously claims even Dems support Trump’s agenda 🤔— which is historically unpopular.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
WATCH: @MarshaBlackburn knows the #TN7 race is close, and hilariously claims even Dems support Trump’s agenda 🤔— which is historically unpopular.
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Also can we talk about how thirsty it is for Speaker Johnson to be wearing Trump-Vance campaign gear around Tennessee today? In November 2025?
Someone really doesn’t seem to understand this separate branches of government thing. #AmericanDuma #SpinelessSpeaker
Someone really doesn’t seem to understand this separate branches of government thing. #AmericanDuma #SpinelessSpeaker
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Also can we talk about how thirsty it is for Speaker Johnson to be wearing Trump-Vance campaign gear around Tennessee today? In November 2025?
Someone really doesn’t seem to understand this separate branches of government thing. #AmericanDuma #SpinelessSpeaker
Someone really doesn’t seem to understand this separate branches of government thing. #AmericanDuma #SpinelessSpeaker
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👀 Russia has declared a wanted man for a soldier returned from Ukrainian captivity who shot 7 of his colleagues, - Militarnyi
Having recently returned from captivity, where he had been since December 16, 2023, the soldier signed a contract and was sent to location of 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment.
Having recently returned from captivity, where he had been since December 16, 2023, the soldier signed a contract and was sent to location of 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment.
November 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
👀 Russia has declared a wanted man for a soldier returned from Ukrainian captivity who shot 7 of his colleagues, - Militarnyi
Having recently returned from captivity, where he had been since December 16, 2023, the soldier signed a contract and was sent to location of 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment.
Having recently returned from captivity, where he had been since December 16, 2023, the soldier signed a contract and was sent to location of 83rd Motorized Rifle Regiment.
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it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
War Crime...or Murder?
Killing shipwreck survivors is patently illegal and morally abhorrent
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:23 PM
it is impossible to imagine any Pentagon lawyer blessing this action. The concept of hors de combat—literally, out of combat—is a fundamental aspect of the law of war that prevents harming those disabled from combat.
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Can somebody please just leak the Epstein files in their entirety already?
November 30, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Can somebody please just leak the Epstein files in their entirety already?
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Ukrainian band Elba wowed Germany’s “Voice” with a powerful cover of Ukraine’s 2021 Eurovision hit “SHUM.”
December 1, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Ukrainian band Elba wowed Germany’s “Voice” with a powerful cover of Ukraine’s 2021 Eurovision hit “SHUM.”
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I just thought I'd let you guys know that I made this same exact post on X and it got a ton of likes which triggered it to get barraged - literally barraged - by pro-billionaire bots and trolls. More than I've seen before except maybe once or twice. Clearly this is Elon's pet issue.
December 1, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I just thought I'd let you guys know that I made this same exact post on X and it got a ton of likes which triggered it to get barraged - literally barraged - by pro-billionaire bots and trolls. More than I've seen before except maybe once or twice. Clearly this is Elon's pet issue.
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It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
November 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.
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Somebody in Japan chose Monday morning violence and I am here for it.
December 1, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Somebody in Japan chose Monday morning violence and I am here for it.
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Tomorrow Hegseth will likely claim he has no idea who the actual Secretary of Defense is, and Trump will probably try to say it’s Biden.
Also, a good reminder that, while badly damaged, rule of law norms still keep popping up to bite the would-be autocrats, contrary to what doomers keep saying.
Also, a good reminder that, while badly damaged, rule of law norms still keep popping up to bite the would-be autocrats, contrary to what doomers keep saying.
This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Tomorrow Hegseth will likely claim he has no idea who the actual Secretary of Defense is, and Trump will probably try to say it’s Biden.
Also, a good reminder that, while badly damaged, rule of law norms still keep popping up to bite the would-be autocrats, contrary to what doomers keep saying.
Also, a good reminder that, while badly damaged, rule of law norms still keep popping up to bite the would-be autocrats, contrary to what doomers keep saying.
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Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.
Reporter: If there were a second strike that killed wounded people, would that be legal?
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
Trump: I don’t know that happened and Pete said he did not even know what people were talking about. I wouldn’t have wanted a second strike. The first strike was very lethal. It was fine.
November 30, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Translation: Pete may well go down for this. But I’m not going with him.
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issuing correction on previous orders of mine, regarding an alleged narco boat. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta “kill everybody"
This is great, now Team Trump is acknowledging that illegal orders were given to kill survivors of the initial strike, the only question is who gave them? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Pete Hegseth denies he gave orders to ‘kill everybody’ on alleged ‘narco-boat’
Defense secretary called reports about his role in strike as ‘fake news’ intended to discredit US military
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:27 PM
issuing correction on previous orders of mine, regarding an alleged narco boat. you do not, under any circumstances, gotta “kill everybody"
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Translation: There is no reasonable explanation.
December 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Translation: There is no reasonable explanation.
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If this were your dad, you’d be texting the siblings: “We need to talk.”
December 1, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If this were your dad, you’d be texting the siblings: “We need to talk.”
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Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
November 29, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Bookmark this for the investigations to come: the Trump team’s boat bombings trace back to at least 2018. That’s when White House officials asked me & others about whether they could do something like this.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
We said it was illegal then. Now they’ve done it anyway.
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📌⚖️🇺🇸👇🏾 Denaturalization has a horrible history in the United States. It has been used against women who married to foreign men for sexist reasons and it’s been used against people of color for racist reasons.
Reporter: You said that you might denaturalize American citizens?
Trump: If we have criminals that came in and were naturalized through Biden or somebody that didn’t’ know what they were doing—if I have the power to do it… I would denaturalize
Trump: If we have criminals that came in and were naturalized through Biden or somebody that didn’t’ know what they were doing—if I have the power to do it… I would denaturalize
December 1, 2025 at 3:39 AM
📌⚖️🇺🇸👇🏾 Denaturalization has a horrible history in the United States. It has been used against women who married to foreign men for sexist reasons and it’s been used against people of color for racist reasons.
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Schedule for Monday
December 1, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Schedule for Monday
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Walz on calling for Trump to release MRI results: "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, ate, played Yahtzee. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. It's not normal behavior. It's not healthy. Has anyone in history ever had an MRI & had no idea what it was for?"
November 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Walz on calling for Trump to release MRI results: "Here we got a guy on Thanksgiving where we spent time with our families, ate, played Yahtzee. This guy is apparently in a room ranting. It's not normal behavior. It's not healthy. Has anyone in history ever had an MRI & had no idea what it was for?"
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Before Sunday & November are done, here's today's thread once more. Please share widely to get all this great public scholarship to all the folks, & thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books. So let’s end the holiday weekend with my 252nd! Add more below, share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️
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#ScholarSunday Thread 252 (11/30/25) – Black and White and Read All Over
I’m so thankful for the chance to compile & share #ScholarSunday threads of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. So let’s end the holiday weeke...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Before Sunday & November are done, here's today's thread once more. Please share widely to get all this great public scholarship to all the folks, & thanks! @hcrichardson.bsky.social 🗃️
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November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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Why would a professional architect disgrace himself by participating in this outrageous and illegal project, whether or not it complies with norms of design?
November 30, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Why would a professional architect disgrace himself by participating in this outrageous and illegal project, whether or not it complies with norms of design?