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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 9h

Qualified people get the inspiring jobs like astronaut or medical scientist.

Unqualified people will have to make do with jobs like the US Presidency.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 21h

Today the free press ceases to exist at the Pentagon, and the American public will no longer be able to monitor what their government is doing militarily.

Tom Bowman has been at the Pentagon for 28 years bringing insight to the American people.

Now it is over.

www.npr.org/2025/10/14/g...

Opinion: Why I'm handing in my Pentagon press pass

Tom Bowman has held his Pentagon press pass for 28 years. He says the Pentagon's new media policy makes it impossible to be a journalist, which means finding out what's really going on behind the scen...

www.npr.org

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 23h

If you are in the US, mark your calendar for Saturday, because that is where the NO KINGS protests are happening.

Find your local event here:

www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

No Kings

As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

www.nokings.org

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 1d

The Kremlin is now claiming they will see any Ukrainian Tomahawk missile attack as a nuclear attack, because these missiles *can* carry nuclear warheads.

But can they even recognize these missiles from other weapons like the ATACMS
@anderspucknielsen.dk? Are radar signatures that precise? 🤔

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 1d

Brave Russian resistance fighter films many hours of video about Putin's school propaganda, and manages to smuggle the recordings out of Russia to create a documentary.

He is in Copenhagen, and his film is shown on Danish national tv.

(In Danish but use auto translate:)

www.dr.dk/nyheder/udla...

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 1d

Even Kermit is out fighting fascists in Portland, Oregon.

This is golden! 😄

youtu.be/bw5zxdSObso?...

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 3d

While Nigel Farage talked trash about Europe and secured the Brexit, his party colleague Nathan Gill took money from Putin's agent Oleg Voloshyn.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Nigel Farage 'stunned' ex-Wales Reform leader Nathan Gill took bribes - BBC News

Nathan Gill has admitted taking money for pro-Russian statements as a European Parliament member.

www.bbc.com

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Donald

I know someone else got the Nobel Peace Prize, but don't cry — you can still win the 2025 Darwin Award.

😘

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 6d

Russian Parliament member of the socialist party Sergey Mironov believes that countries which bomb other countries have no right to exist.

Who is going to tell him?

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 6d

Has Trump stopped believing in The Deep State?

His administration has launched a webpage explaining that contrails from aircraft are not the Government spreading mind control chemicals.

I applaud that… but I thought Trump promised voters to investigate The Deep State?

www.epa.gov/regulations-...

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 7d

South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein, who ruled against Trump, comes home to find her house burned to the ground.

I seriously hope, the local police leaves no stone unturned.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A judge’s $1.5M beachfront home burned to the ground. This is what we have learned

Judge Diane Goodstein, 69, was walking her dogs on the beach when the fire broke out

www.independent.co.uk

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 7d

People criticise Trump for not spending any resources on defeating Putin’s expanding empire. But obviously, Trump needed those resources to fly Black Hawk Helicopters into Chicago to win The Battle of Walmart against…

[Checks notes]

Ordinary American families shopping for groceries.

a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair

ALT: a man in a suit and tie sitting in a chair

media.tenor.com

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 8d

Every time I see the human transport drones, I get excited. We have so much mind-blowing technology coming our way — everything sci-fi movies ever showed us, someone is trying to build.

youtu.be/Dwadyhqmnqw?...

Jetson ONE - Dancing In The Sky dynamic airshow at the UPSummit

YouTube video by Jetson

youtu.be

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 10d

… the same. He is now in custody of The International Criminal Court.

Pete Hegseth knows this, and I can assure you, the phrase "on President Trump's orders" was chosen carefully here.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 10d

Trump's "Secretary of War" proudly shares video of US military forces executing four suspected criminals in international waters.

This is the fourth time the Trump administration deliberately kills suspects of a crime without due process.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte did…

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 10d

US tourist arrivals in August 2024: 7.51 million
US tourist arrivals in August 2025: 5.6 million

Make layoffs great again! 🤡

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 11d

On October 14 the EU will vote on a law that forces encrypted messaging apps to facilitate mass surveillance.

President of Signal Foundation says, they will pull their app from the EU.

@stinebosse.bsky.social How am I supposed to talk to Russian sources without it?

netzpolitik.org/2025/anlassl...

Anlasslose Massenüberwachung: Messenger Signal wird Deutschland verlassen, wenn Chatkontrolle kommt

In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sich...

netzpolitik.org

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 12d

It is my understanding that it would be illegal to board ships without probable cause.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 12d

I think the Danish navy would like to. I suspect they just couldn't, because they did not have their evidence ready before the ship had sailed.

An upside: Now the ship is boarded in France, where it is hard for Russia to send fighter jets to threaten the operation (as we have seen in the Baltics).

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 12d

Not exactly. They boarded the vessel, investigated, took two people into custody, and let the vessel continue.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 13d

Someone found a kid's cartoon on Netflix, where a robot insists on being called "they" instead of "you", so now Elon Musk tells 227 million followers to quit Netflix.

It will be interesting to see if the anti-woke can mobilize, like good people mobilized against Disney's firing of Jimmy Kimmel.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 13d

Russian shadow fleet tanker Pushpa has been boarded off the coast of Saint-Nazaire in France by French military, on suspected involvement in the drone attacks in Denmark, which closed down multiple airports.

Two crew members now in custody.

www.leparisien.fr/internationa...

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 14d

Battleground Denmark: Putin sent drones. Zelenskyy sends drone hunters.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 14d

and he now wants to attack Venezuela with the risk of getting the US bogged down in a wider South American war.

If that happens, I fear China moves on Taiwan, knowing they will never get a better chance.

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Randahl Fink @randahl.bsky.social · 14d

In my lifetime, China has not dared to attack Taiwan.

But in 2022 Putin invaded Ukraine — a war for which the EU countries have reserved a considerable part of their budgets and attention.

Then voters of the US elected an incompetent president who has zero understanding of military strategy;

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